Re: If I Had a Band, I'd Name It...
 

I'm now actually in a band. No name yet, but among the names I've thought up insofar these stick out:

- The Iotacists
- Sylvan Screen
- Dream Police
- Generic

An iotacist is someone who is entirely self-absorbed (hence using "I" a lot). "Sylvan Screen" is a fine song by the Olivia Tremor Control, an obscure neo-psychedelic pop group, about watching your neighbours like ants from your window. I found myself contemplating the third phrase around 3:00 AM, although why I know not; I think it was a mental mix-up with "thought police", but considering the suggestions the term makes it is at least as unnerving an idea. The fourth, well...

I should note that I am the "arty" member. When suggesting cover ideas, the first three that came to mind were "Sister Ray", "Roman P.", and "Death Disco".

Apropos of Clarke: Finally someone mentioned that story on this forum! Has a great weird cosmic element to it that really is pretty horrific.

Re: If I Had a Band, I'd Name It...
 

I saw a guy in a t-shirt with what was probably a band name on it, and I thought it was an excellent one: "The Weakerthans."

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TSO, "Dream Police" was a hit song for Cheap Trick many years ago. They say that great minds think alike...

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Damned hit-makers! I knew in my subconscious state that someone had come up with that name before... But on the same token, is any thought original?

I think one of the better ones I came up with was Kllosar, which from I think Albanian loosely translates to "loser". Speaking of which, it's unbelievably fun to say the name Enver Hoxha. Unpleasant fellow, but...

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Hey, I wondered that first! ;)

(It simplifies things... sort of... if you believe all consciousness is interconnected. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.)

"The Weakerthans" is a good band name, and I haven't heard their music, but their fanbase appears to consist largely of wankers!

That Onion article is great, too. Ever since the plague of new rock bands with "The" names a few years ago (not to mention emo/hardcore bands, which always have the worst names,) a friend and I have a joke about running out of band names and having to reset all of them. Maybe we need an official decree from the Department of Band Names (a little-known part of our new homeland security dept....)

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Please explain "wankers." No, you 'splain it, man...I ain't a-gonna look in the dickshunary. ;)


"A Silver Mt. Zion." I'm listening to them right now, and I always worry some anti-Israeli dude/dudette is gonna jump down my throat if I speaketh the name...

Re: If I Had a Band, I'd Name It...
 

Well, I'm actually in two bands and I like the names of both:

Violets Dyed (from Joyce's Finnegans Wake)
Collusion of Souls

alec...

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Wankers in the indie/emo kid sense... wannabe punk rockers with English BA's, etc. Not that everyone who I'm painting with that stroke is by any means bad, of course. I'm not too different, myself. :rolleyes:

Doesn't A Silver Mt. Zion have a song with the refrain, "Musicians are cowards?" I like the sentiment.

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Would you believe I still don't know what emo is?
I don't know if they have that lyric, maybe they do. I mainly get into the music, and the vocals regardless of the words. Thanks.

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I always thought of emo as kind of a radioheady whininess with lugubrious ponderous pretentious music behind it. I believe (my knowledge is weak as well) that Dashboard Confessional is the epitome of emo-y goodness.

Sorta goth-lite from what I understand.

alec...