CRAAAAP, another taken band name

[madbass6]

Alright so after playing by myself without a band for years and getting to my skill level I all of a sudden thought of a unique band name that I was surprised and thought no one had taken at first. The name was Noise. Weird enough, our vocalist thought of it before I met him so it even felt like fate to choose the name.

I looked it up countless times and found no one, not even in the 70s, 80s, nor 90s took the name. Although later I recently found a band from the UK named it from the 90s. Different country so I thought it'd be alright since they put Noise UK in their name.

However I just found another band named Noi!se and they are alive and active, on Facebook, put out records, have a label, and they are a street punk band. I want to use the name because it describes us exceptionally well as our sound ranges from bad ass riffs, hard rock, punk, metal, even got a hard rock into reggae instrumental going, and whatever else we can come up with and I got a lot of other guitar pieces in the vault.

They are from Tacoma WA and we're from Savannah GA pretty much just starting out. We should probably change the name but I really love the name. Just upset someone had actually thought of it after doing countless searches founding nothing and now to come to find with a ! in their name =/. Haven't even found their domain website but if they got a label, they got to be trademarked. www.noise.com isn't even registered

Hey consider checking if " CRAAAAP " is available who knows it mite not be taken!! Noise / CRAAAAP? !" No difference! "( just a diferent name.) Nice loop hole!
good luck on search..

 

[snyderz]

I like CRAAAAP. Thought that's what you were referring to.

 

[Ellery]

Not yet. I've suggested "Dethspiral" on a few name my metal band threads, yet to see it used. You're welcome.

Like I said...

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

There's a reason "Nose Jelly" isn't taken.

So you wouldn't pick that?

 

[Nephilymbass]

Yeah but do you really want to be the guy playing a local bar show and saying into the mic at the end of your set, "Thanks for coming, we are Noise, find us on facebook... uh... that's Noise with a Y... and uh.. no E at the end... oh and yeah a Z (*looks at drummer for confirmation) yeah a Z, no two Z's... yeah, got all that. Follow us on facebook. Goodnight!"

Never been an issue for us. Easily solved by handing out some free stickers actually.

 

[Jay2U]

It looks like No!ze and No!zy are still available.

 

[bongostealth]

There's your band name right there in the title of this thread: "CRAAAAP"

 

[Joybass]

I'd go for Noice.
Works in NY too. Real Noice.

 

[Coolhandjjl]

Contact them.
Ask them if they are trademarked and see the proof.
Explain your story, you might find they could care less.

Even if they don't care, will you be happy getting all their fan traffic? There is a piano player in NYC who took the name "myname".com pretty much as soon as the internet came out. Even if he retired and gave me the domain, I wouldn't want it as it's been associated with him for way too long and I don't want his followers, his spam, etc....

Pretty much every single name has been taken, probably trademarked, .com'd, etc. Try a unique phrase, obscure literary/cultural reference or play-on-words instead. The Beatles were one of the first great play-on-words band names.

 

[Ellery]

The Beatles or Metallica are two names that come to mind that I don't think are taken yet. Go with one of those. Or both.

Call it The Death Beatles or The Blastles or Deathica

 

[Hahaha]

If you're going to use a generic word for your band name, it has already been taken by a hundred other bands across the world, and you're going to have a hard time anyone ever finding your band on a whim.

An example is Katzenjammer. There are at least six bands using that name now, (one has had it since the early eighties) and two of the current bands with that name are internationally famous. Even *clever* names with more than one word, such as Hit List, Final Notice, Private Parts, etc. are bound to be in use. With the Internet it's easy to find out if a name is in use. Back in the old days we wouldn't know until someone came in and said "Oh, we though you were the other band named Miami Mice".

 

[HaphAsSard]

(it's an obscure part of a church)

It's actually well-lit compared to other parts...

Noisé

, Idaho?

There's a reason "Nose Jelly" isn't taken.

Either way, it' snot.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

It's actually well-lit compared to other parts...

, Idaho?

Either way, it' snot.

We had joy, we had fun,
We ate boogers in the sun,
But the sun got too hot,
And the boogers turned to snot...

 

[-Asdfgh-]

An alternative naming method is to try to reply here on a phone, and then note down the typos before autocorrect fixes them. I can assure you many are not in the duxtionsry

 

[Bard2dbone]

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What was that? Is that a band name thread I see?

Well then there is only one thing to do...

THE LIST

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
Common as Diamonds
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
Ordinary Miracle
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.

 

[Bard2dbone]

I know that some of those have since been used. Before you point that out to me, go back and re-read where I said this list is from 1988.