Name ideas for 90s rock covers band

[Git]

I'm in a 90s rock covers band that hasn't gigged yet but will shortly be ready to. Our set list contains mainly British and North American upbeat rock covers, from the likes of REM, Reef, RHCP, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Cranberries, Alanis Morrisette, Skunk Anansie, Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, Blur, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Republica, Elastica, Alice in Chains, Lenny Kravitz, Suede and some others.

We haven't agreed on a name and I am totally lacking in inspiration. The guitarist wants to call the band 'The Coverheads' but I'm not keen on having the word 'covers' in the name.

Any ideas people?

 

[el murdoque]

I don't have an Idea per se, but I'd toy around with the word Grunge for a band specializing in that particular era.

 

[JohnNash]

Ok, here are my 3 picks:
Pendulum.
The Eiffel Towers.
The New Ninetees.

 

[two fingers]

Just pick a 90s slang term/catch phrase and go with that. The 90s term that sticks out to me is "Whatever". Weirdos in flannel shirts stuck their hands in their pockets and acted as if they were too cool for... anything really. A briefcase full of cash could have landed at their feet and they would keep that dead stare and say "Whatever".

"TMI" (as in "Too Much Information") was big.

"As If!" was pretty common.

I think "Booyah!" started in sports and then became part of the culture.

"Hella" or "Helluh" or however you spell it came along then. "Scrubs" was big. Maybe you could be "Hella Scrubs".

 

[Discount Bassy]

'The Turns' (as in "turn of the century")
'Nevermind'
'Lords of Flannel'
'Ten Years After (the Eighties)'
'Pepper Jam'
'Zeitgeist'
'No Frills'
'Then'

 

[hrodbert696]

One easy way to do it is to use a song title or key lyric from one of the bands you're covering. For instance, not a band name, but I have a friend who uses "Beautiful Garbage" as a social media handle (from Hole's "Celebrity Skin"). Or, a little different, when I started a 2000s cover band I called it "Six Cowards," which was the title of an imaginary film that appeared in a Cold War Kids music video.

 

[mstillman]

Grunge Box comes to mind.

 

[Swerve]

The Slackers
Alternative Nation

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Flyin' The Flannel

 

[Medicine Man]

FlannelMan
James Addiction
The Lazer Discs

 

[ahbradot]

Nineties Noise Boyz

 

[vinylphile]

I also play in a cover band. Not gonna tell you what our name is LOL!

I will suggest that as the band’s bassist, you should suggest playing In The Meantime by Spacehog…

 

[WG Plum]

Stabbing Hootie
Pocket Full of Chili Peppers
Alice In Pumpkins

 

[H K]

The Unoriginals

 

[P-Belly Evans]

'Mad for it'.

 

[FronTowardEnemy]

Ninety Ninety Nine

as in covers from 1990-1999

 

[Matthijs]

'The Turns' (as in "turn of the century")
'Nevermind'
'Lords of Flannel'
'Ten Years After (the Eighties)'
'Pepper Jam'
'Zeitgeist'
'No Frills'
'Then'

quoted to endorse ‘Nevermind’

 

[RichardW]

Smashing Cranberries

 

[MartinzeBassman]

The Ironists, or the Ironic Club . Why? In Sweden, the 90's is called "the Ironic 90's" because ironic humour were very big then. That sense of comedy and alternative rock is so defining for the 90's in my opinion.

 

[Mannyinnewyork]

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