sighhhhhh another band name thread

[fenderx55]

My band has been through many incarnations. We started as an 80s metal cover band (don't ask), then as we grew we started covering other stuff and doing some rudimentary writing. Now, 4 years later, we're writing music that's pretty different than anything in our area, we have a new singer, and we changed our name for the 5th time at some point last year.

Right now we're called CharlieDontSurf. Not from the clash song, but from apacolypse now. It isn't racist, I just really liked that line (and hey, our guitarist's gf is chinese). But now we're thinking of going back to One Night Stand. We're kind of afraid of being too serious and being one of those douchebaggy bands that I make fun of, but want our name to reflect our music but at the same time capture our weird personalities. I like both names equally so it isn't that, and we don't really have a fan base yet becaues we're only just starting self-promotion now (getting out of the garage so to speak). We played a few well-recieved shows last summer and we're starting to really push ourselves. So because we don't have "fans' that aren't acquaintances of ours, are we risking anything by switching again (besides having to redesign our website)? And what do you think about the names? check out our website in my sig.

thanks,
Chris

[Bard2dbone]

I give Charlie Don't Surf a 'C'. It's okay. It's not amazing. I don't like the other at all.

So I would post a negative vote for One Night Stand. Take away the first vote somebody gives to that one. But leave Charlie Don't Surf as-is. I don't like it so much that I want to give it a vote. But I don't DISlike it enough to take one away either.

[fenderx55]

thank you for the incredibly moderate post.

[Dkerwood]

Call yourself "Chef Saladiers" and be done with it... lol...

[jammadave]

I like charliedontsurf, but like the bard above, i dont LOVE it. I did like it enough to hit it with a vote, though.

thing about "charlie don't surf" is that it's ancient history in lingo terms... I think it's cool because it still sounds interesting, but on the other hand it'd almost be like naming a band "got milk?" 20-30 years from now =0)

[Matt Till]

One night stand is awful, it screams generic. I'm sure there have been 300 cover bands named "One night stand"

I'm with everyone, except charliedontsurf gets a D+

[Dkerwood]

Originally Posted by Matt Till

One night stand is awful, it screams generic. I'm sure there have been 300 cover bands named "One night stand"

I'm with everyone, except charliedontsurf gets a D+

Thank you Google!

1 Night Stand - UK

One Night Stand - a chick band featured in CosmoGIRL!

There's a Charlie Don't SHAKE in Chicago...

Another British band - Charlie Don't Surf

How about Charlie Don't Surf in Indiana? Or their myspace...

Maybe a Charlie Don't Surf in Utah will be more the ticket!

Anyway, these are both fairly common names. I might keep looking if I were you. Perhaps "Chunky Toasterbean and the Knick-Knacks"?

[Thursday]

There is a ska band I was once with One Night Stand, there from canada.

[Guiseppe]

How about "Mama HooHoo and the Syncophants"?

[Bard2dbone]

I guess since this IS a band name thread I should make my traditional post.:

Originally Posted by Bard2dbone in another thread

Okay, everybody. Brace yourselves. I found the list again. This thing goes for several pages. And the really funny thing is somebody was serious on all these suggestions. I am not going to post all of them. Like I said it goes for pages and pages. But I will post the ones that catch my eye.

Ready?

Tell It To The Priest
Blind Without a Dog
Talk To Your Daughter
Surfers From Iowa
Grubby Paws
Glass Eye Marbles
Needless Controversy
Inside Joke ( I actually like this one.)
Mars Needs Women and So Does Wayne (I'm Wayne)
Nerds On the Edge
Welfare Bound
Cartoon Characters
Bad Idea
Raised By Wolves Only To Be Killed By Science (I used this for an instrumental title)
Fools And Little Children
Lassie Loves Garfield (This ought to have been a title, but I never used it.)
Potential Cultists
Bee Movies
People With Instruments
No Sense Of Shame
Shameless (Oh look. A pattern forming.)
Black Market Teddy Bears
Irrelevant Flashbacks
Gypsies From Vegas
I Forget
Art of Vanishing (I like this one too)
Mental Radio
Golden Apples and Poisoned Pears (I used that for an instrumental title too)
Local Wildlife
Tiny Box of Fear ( I actually liked this one too.)
Gumby and Pokey
Brief Momens of Clarity
Bitten By Bruno (Bruno was a chihuahua)
The Plan
Rocket Science
All In Disguise
No Vacancy
Lost Cause
Sounds Like
Vicious Attack Snail Trainers
Professor Stupendous
Struck By Lightning Bugs
Brain Fade
Above Average
Just The Facts Ma'am
S. O. Teric
B. Tsar (Oh look. Another pattern forming.)
Wishful Thinking
Fuzzy Logic (The one we actually used for the next several years, This is just where it was in relation to the rest of the suggestions on the list.)
Carnival of Souls
Identity Crisis
Son of Lassie in 3-D
Formerly Something Else
Rhythmic Confusion
Rhythmic Confucius (I liked that better than the previous one.)
Wise But Wierd
Sane Asylum
Wisdom From The High Chair
Glass Hammer ( I like this one too.)
Touch Me There
Daisy's a Babe
Social Darwinists
Doctor Tongues 3-D House of Stewardesses (I think this was from a SCTV skit)


What I want you to grasp here is that this is a severely abridged list. There are four to five times this many names. And as bad as some of the ones I posted are, these are the good ones. I have kept the notebook because it has other things in it that are actually useful to me. But every once in a while I remember that, elsewhere in that notebook is THE LIST .

Enjoy.

Band names are easy to come up with. Good band names are less easy.

[pklima]

Weird and artistic? Name yourselves after a Fu****susha songtitle (Keiji Haino's band which apparently trips the obscenity filter here, hehehe). That would be too pretentious and serious, though, so add "in my pants" afterwards. Here are a couple of good'uns: I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense In My Pants or perhaps Hasn't Something Like This Happened Before In My Pants? Or, my traditional suggestion: Steamgoat.

[Woodchuck]

Stank Stankington and the Stankaliers. Man, that just screams "Class!". You'll thank me later. Now, get out there and conquer the world, you nutty bassist you!

[fenderx55]

Well, we've basically all decided that we need a change, and everyone's enumerated all the bad name. What makes a good name?

[pklima]

A good name is good for marketing - memorable and attracts the kind of people you'd want to listen to you.

I'd start by writing down some existing band names that made you go "I wish I thought of that one first". See if there are any common threads. Try to come up with something inspired by those.

[Chazzz]

Geesh, goood names are hard to come up with... what a fun challenge:
(1) Clandestine Funk Society, (2) What Yo Momma Said, (3) Bela Fleck and the Flecktones... (oh wait, I think that one's taken), (4) Deaf Mutes, (5) Flack and Jasper, (6) Billy Bodine and the Flapjacks, (7) Shark Attack, (8) The Fuzzy Naval Officers, (9) Wish We Were You, (10) Three Musicians and a Drummer (or just TMD), (11) Twin Prime Conjecture (or just TPC), (12) Phase Transition Anomaly (or just PTA ), (13) Skip Chute and the Acrophobic Skydivers, (14) Chilled Fruit Cup, (15) Shaul Paefer and the SBC Orchestra, (16) The Stay-Puft Marshmellow Band

[Woodchuck]

Hot Buttered Elves.
The Fairy Wore Boots! It's a song title, but it still tickles me!

[nappingcracker]

I dig CDS more than the rest, but if you dig the apocalypse now thing, have a few beers with the band and watch the flick again with a notepad - plenty 'o great lines, or, skim through the transcript and see which line jump out. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[fenderx55]

Originally Posted by nappingcracker

I dig CDS more than the rest, but if you dig the apocalypse now thing, have a few beers with the band and watch the flick again with a notepad - plenty 'o great lines, or, skim through the transcript and see which line jump out. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That sir, is a great idea. I think i Know what i'm doing tonight.

[The Golden Boy]

Originally Posted by Bard2dbone

I guess since this IS a band name thread I should make my traditional post.:

Pink Unicorn Horsey.

[Bard2dbone]

Originally Posted by The Golden Boy

Pink Unicorn Horsey.

Took you long enough.