You know what's a good band name? Eeekbeat.
'Moral theory lab' would actually be an awesome band name.
Actually, there are a couple of good band names in post titles just on this page:
"The Dream Life of Me"
"Arf Arf Arf"
"Use Your Batphone"
and of course...
"Somewhere Ogged is Feeling Smug"
SF/J's next band will be called "Tedious Angry Liberals".
pronounced like "metal-licker"? I don't know, one long word is kind of an unwieldy format.
Armsmasher, what happened to your blog? I was looking for it today.
Radovan Karadzic.
Bad taste for a band name. On the other hand, is there a band called "The Bad Tastes"?
One Hundred and Twenty Children of Bodom
Why, are you into Finnish metal?
Here's a good name for an all-girl band: Broadband
St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (Well, Annie Clark gets partway there...)
Ben, how does one do the pause/play sign?
Just email me and I'll post it for you, ari.
25: My e-mail seems to be down. But thanks anyway.
Eekbeat Anapesto.
Made me laugh out loud. But eekbeat's asleep, so she'll have to laugh tomorrow.
I'll never be Miriam Magdelirium.
Spearman's Rho
Bregma
Calyx of Held
Ordinary Rendition might work for a political punk band*. Do those exist anymore?
37: Whoa, hey, Becks-style. Time for bed soon.
how does one do the pause/play sign?
Two pipe chars (over the backslash char near/over/around the enter/return key) which looks like: || . Pipe chars can be invoked on any machine since they are 7-bit/low half of 8-bit/ASCII chars and thus available everywhere except EDBDIC. The greater than char is invoked in HTML comment boxes as an HTML character entity by entering > so the string you would enter is ||> although it seems to me that >| or >/|| or maybe just > is actually the symbol on the button one hits to resume play. Excepting that, if I recall correctly, |> is meant to represent a filled in triangle... but unfortunately it is neither a triangle nor filled in. How sad. (You can also create > by entering > in case you can't remember which one is greater than and which one less than or you're just feeling contrary or cranky or need the extra exercise or something! And you also could get a true double-pipe using ǁ [ǁ] instead of using the ASCII broken pipe or ¦ [¦].)
Of course, since this is a blog and not a CD player/iPod I'd get all modern and experimental and shit and use ∃ [∃] or ∋ [∋] or ∏ [∏] or θ [θ] or ⊥ [⊥] for PAUSE and ⇒ [⇒] or → [→] for GO and also because I just like saying ARR ARR.
On the other hand, to get with the whole 'comments above are interrupted' and then 'comments continue below' thing working for you you could even use ∇ [∇] for GO but then you might want to use Ξ [Ξ] or ≡ [≡] or just = for PAUSE.
Regardless of all that, if you're trapped in the desert without food and water, you can always scrawl out the universal symbols for unfogged
→ε
or
ϖ
⇑
to get help, unless you want W-lfs-n for some reason and then you should use ƣ.
max
['Where's B1FF when you need him?']
What about ‖ U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE and ▷ WHITE RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE?
B1FF is boycotting the blog until the <pre> tag is supported. (And he'd like a font with a less faggy '1' as well.)
Collapsing Whitespace
McQuary Limit
Ban-lon Shirt
The Dickishness of PZ Meyers
Javelina Ocarina
Then, at your merch table, you could sell ocarinas in the shape of javelinas! Profit!
Troglodykes
Fisted Mister
The Manson-Dixon Line
Orange Julius Cesarean Rhythm Section
Your moment of Wikipedia wisdom:
"Jonah Goldberg of the National Review referenced the [Stay Puft] Marshmallow man as a popular culture symbol that people assume is harmless, but can be turned to evil in the right circumstances."
Guaranteed Swahili (from an ad poster on the T when I was in college in Boston).
During a C++ course a friend and I thought it would be neat to form a band called "Operator Overload", and have an album named "Syntactic Sugar" (the lecturer kept on repeating the two terms until they stuck in our heads for a week). Or vice versa. Make of it what you will (the dorkishness can be offset by pronouncing the names in a Death Metal voice).
I have a virtual band (as in they exist only in my head) called Pernicious Varmint. It's modeled on white power metal bands, only for Mammalian Nationalists (mammals uber alles, biatches!). Pernicious Q. Varmint is also the leader of the Mammalian Nationalist Front (motto: No Nipples, No Rights).
Jimmy Crack Whore And I Don't Care*
* My wife and I believe that our 3-year-old was taught this version at day care, although the ambiguities of toddler diction allowed for less interesting possibilities.
49 wins the thread. It'd have to be a funk band, though.
Every 18-year-old student of Ancient Greek decides it would be a good idea to name a sort of moody gothy band Future Less Vivid.* (There's also the synth pop alternative: Future More Vivid.*)
*These are particular kinds of conditional sentences.
iMac Daddy
More for an individual than a band, though.
Central Limit Theorum
Pigs in Blankets
Water Boredom
LD50 (for a metal band)
Improvised Explosive Delight
Texas Debutante Massacre
The thing is, oudemia, those 18-year-olds are right.
Some other ideas:
Auto-Mocking Hipsters
Trooperbait Van
Margins of the Labor Market
Too Proud for Weddings
The Music Store Droolers
The Time Clock Refugees
Net Dollars After Gas
Home Grown Smoke
God, I Must Have Been Drunk
Actually I Rather Like Football
Mister Rogers Overdrive
The Emphasis
Pretentious Diaeresis Overuse
Surely someone's said Superman on a Hotdog before?
Pretentious Diaeresis Overuse
No such thing.
Actual name of a polka band: We're Late and Smell Like Beer
Organic Grain-Fed Eggheads
Nalgene Logo
Goretex Dress Code
Reusable Fabric Bagladies
On Rock Band, one of the cover bands is called "Honest Bob And The Factory-To-Dealer Incentives." (Nathan Williams informed me that this is a real band local to Boston.)
I would like to be in a band called "Pine Tree and The Conettes."
Dora the Exploiter (possibly a roller derby name as well)
Rubber Duchy
I Love Thrash
Tom & the Jury
Surely someone's said Superman on a Hotdog before?
Yeah, this little kid on Youtube. Why do you ask?
The thing is, oudemia, those 18-year-olds are right.
Well, of course. I was once one of them. Helpy-chalk, too.
68: No such thing.
But of course band names need not correspond to true statements when read as sentences.
Gone to Texas
(Explanation for the Yankees & other foreigners.)
I think Heebie's past posts and comments would be an almost inexhaustible source of band names. She's probably better when she isn't even trying for them.
For example, from a previous Heebie post on this page, we have "Requestysaurus".
Good name, particularly ideal for a heavy metal cover band.
81: Definitely.
Or "Fucking Quandaries" from this morning.
(possibly a roller derby name as well)
Scary Schiavo.
Fucking Quandaries
That's a best-selling title from the niche porn series "Anal-ytical Philosophers Exposed"
Synagouge of Satan
though it's probably been done.
85: They're opening for the new overtly antisemitic hip-hop group "Kristal Knocked"
Sorry, I also forgot this band.
An old friend and former house-mate of mine was a great admirer of their early albums Everyone Should Be Killed and I Like It When You Die.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, nothing says "great rock group names" -- especially for white-trashy Nickelback rawk -- like brands of livestock semen:
Red Basin Sensation
Slugger
Now You See Me
Special K
Bolivar
Cornhusker
Full Count
Bucky Badger
Pure Nil
It's truly the gunk that keeps on giving. There'd be even more possibilities if the "random word, random number" style of band-naming were still in fashion (Messiah 992, Sumo 61).