Terry - Its all in the Name john. John - you're ****ing spot on there Terry

Raggamuffin

Good Bands with Crap names.....
hmmmmmmmmm

i don't really know any...

i guess the name IS really important.

nation of ulysses is my favvourite band name.
sonic youth is great.
The Replacements!! classic

oh dudley corporation is a good name...
warlords of pez..... etc.

crap names.....
the frames...never liked it..
the chalets
the hives
the vines (hmmmm how long did it take to think of that)
the music (just plain awful)

sorry if i've singled anybody out i'm tired here.

i'm just puzzled as to how some names make it onto covers.
London SS = the clash right? and the 101'ers or sumthin

thedrowner

hmmm....i dunno ragamuffin. i think admitting i think they have a bad name would just be too much of an insult to MOR me.

id hold a grudge against you, but im too MOR


im trying to think....welll fiona apple
apple is a stupid sirname
i apologise to all people who have fruit sirnames but come on!

supergrass is a bit thick too

and gorky's zygotic minci

Raggamuffin

But like Starsailor are s.hit.... and starsailor is a s.hit name
does the s.hitness stem from the name sometimes.

M.O.R is a great song though

Amz

All's im sayin is! A little originality never hurt nobody!

T-Pott 7 is the name of my brothers band....

He's eleven...

I dunno...

Things can only get better i suppose...

Raggamuffin

Malaria - "prepare to be INFECTED"

or

"Fred astaire presents me"

the66electric

Originally posted by Amz
He's eleven...

Does anyone else think thats a ****ing great name for a band?

Raggamuffin

well it's better than 66electric.
BOOYA

sorry a very rare joke on my part.

Amz

Originally posted by Raggamuffin
Sorry I'm a very rare joke!!!

Dum di dum....

the66electric

Its true though. If i could change it i would.

How about my jazz fusion experimental side project called
'The Bobby Pegg Suggestion'.

the66electric

And for the last time, its 'THE 66 ELECTRIC'!!!

Nail em up, i say.

Raggamuffin

how about a "non THE name"

ya know!

like

Murder scene

Police Line

Un resolutions

Bang you're dead

Amz

Ah what's "rare" is wonderful!

Raggamuffin you're an inspiration to us all you know that!

o sleep

i always liked 'the chalets' (both as a name and as a band). It's kind of like those 'The Whatevers' sort of bands, who always have harsh sounds (strokes, vines etc) but the chalets is very fey and effeminate. or something.

sonic youth is a great name for a band, but when the band members are pushing 40+, it just becomes ironic. and yes, i too hate when journalists point this out (hey! they're not young anymore but check out their name!') but it's still a valid point. and hey, they've become a great band again, so who gives a ****.

nirvana: great band, pretentious name.

i quite like the red house painters, but come on! the name is kind of ... pointless, or something.

Yo La Tengo are a great band with a great name. I'm still not sure as to what their name means. i have it on good authority that it means 'i got it' (from some baseball player in Cuba in the sixties, or something, who caught the ball when nobody thought he was, hence his surprise - and the subsequent exclamation remark - when he cried: yo la tengo! however, the exclamation mark got lost in the transition to a band). also: extra mayo, please. i did her (sex, like).

oh wait, good bands but crap names. well, i can't think of any.

Amz

Originally posted by Shorty
Yeah, all those "THE" name bands, like The Misfits. What a load of ****

Raggamuffin, you know it's been postponed til the Summer, May maybe, and that's not even for certain.

Shorty are you studying perception in college? Coz you're very perceptive!! I admire how quick you were off the mark in relation to this matter....

I would have been waiting outside the TBMC with my big white face and black clobber and it all would have been for nothing....

(then wouldnt i be happy that i hadnt dressed up and put on misfit-esque face paint etc)

Toodle piip mne hartty!!!

Space Coyote

I must admit that I hate the band-name
Joan of Arse. It's trying to be humorous in a childish way. No offense Arse people but change the name.

I have many excellent suggestions in my cranium...

Amz

Experience would suggest to me that generally when a band has a good, clever, original name their music is almost always quite decent! I think it comes from the fact that if the band are imaginative or clever enough to come up with a good name it will follows through into their music.

Shorty

Originally posted by Amz
Shorty are you studying perception in college? Coz you're very perceptive!! I admire how quick you were off the mark in relation to this matter....

Fine! Be like that! I deleted it, are you happy now!?! Crushing youthful dreams with a quick wave of your keyboard! Just leave me alone! *hmph* Aaaarrrrrghhhhhhh!

spoiltbrat

Surely Pearl Jam is one of the worst names of all time and they sold a lot of records. And if I'm honest they weren't ****, as cool as it might be to say so now. Soundgarden - another **** hippy name - "Wow my gardens full of sound... man!". What the hell does "System of a Down" mean. A good band can have the ****test name and it will sound brilliant because the band are good - Nirvana?

o sleep

Originally posted by spoiltbrat
Surely Pearl Jam is one of the worst names of all time and they sold a lot of records.

and so raggamuffin's and amz' point is proven: perhaps good bands really do = good music (if as spoiltbrat shows, **** names = **** bands), pearl jam, soundgarden, system of a ****ing down???

(also, and yes i'm being kind of obvious here, but just because pearl jam sold lots of records doesn't mean that they were a good band).

so, i guess it's all about good bands with good names: godspeed you black emperor (pretentious? yes, but a great name nonetheless), cat power. oh i have a crap name for a good band: the dirty three. which is odd, because their song titles are generally very original...

Sir

Why was Amz trying to make a point?

Pigman II

Stupid names , good music
==========================
Sleater Kinny
dashboard confessional
Joy Zipper
Lali Puna
notwist
Rollerskate Skinny
The Helen Lundy Trio
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's
Echo and the Bunnymen
Smashing Pumpkins
Ladytron

I would like to have listed Joan of Arse for having the most pureile and stupid bandname ever ... but then they're not a good band.

o sleep

Originally posted by Sir
Why was Amz trying to make a point?

um. i don't know. you'd have to ask her/him.

Sir

Well you should know you made that remark

Kali

more stupid names but good music:

Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
Amorphous Androgynous

o sleep

Originally posted by Amz
Experience would suggest to me that generally when a band has a good, clever, original name their music is almost always quite decent!

this is amz' point, which was proven by the pearl jam reference.

that wasn't so hard, now, was it?

karma kabbage

has it ever been noted just how unbelievably cheezey black metal band names are!?! you take the colour black, the word angel, corpse or decapitation out of the language and you have gotten rid of every black metal band name ever. they always make me chortle lots

ASTROBOY

Zwan is a terrible name IMO.

Amz

Originally posted by o sleep
this is amz' point, which was proven by the pearl jam reference.

that wasn't so hard, now, was it?

How can you profess to know what point I was making??!!

That's a bit presumptuous of you o sleep!

Now you've made me hungry...

o sleep

not really. you wrote that, in your opinion, if a band has an original name, then it follows that the music will also be original. therefore, it would follow that if a band has a **** name (say ... pearl jam) then chances are they will be a **** band too.

and it works. some of the time.

not presumptious of me at all! Amz (capitals are overrated)

Amz

I never referred to Pearl Jam once in my statement.

I think this is the first time I've ever mentioned Pearl Jam in a post i have made on this or any message board.

O Sleep if i choose to spell my name with a capital A then that's my own personal decision...

o sleep

hmmright. and if i spell mine without capitals, you'd do the same, right? you didn't mention pearl jam in your post, that's why i put a 'therefore, it follows'. these simple three words indicate that it is my opinion, following on from something you yourself suggested.

sheesh.