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ForeverAutumn
12-04-2007, 11:11 AM
My mom told me that she wanted one of those resistance exercise bands for Christmas. They come in difference weightings and she wants a light one. So I wrote on my list "light resistance band". As I'm purusing my list I came across that and thought that it would be a great name for a band...The Light Resistance Band. Or just, Light Resistance.

On another note, my brother and I share an affinity towards a specific guitar pick which happens to be purple. Every store in the city was sold out of these picks and had them on back order and it became quite a quest for us to find them. In discussing the pick shortage one day I misunderstood purple guitar picks to be Purple Guitar Pigs and thought that would be another good name, probably more so for an album than for a band.

Perhaps Light Resitance's first album can be called Purple Guitar Pigs. :cornut:

JohnMichael
12-04-2007, 11:24 AM
One day a squirrel ran out in front of my car and I thought it might be a suicidal squirrel. Then I thought that would be a strange name for a strange band "The Suicide Squirrels".

dean_martin
12-04-2007, 11:46 AM
one of many unfinished artsy-fartsy projects:

You Can Kiss My Broke Ass Goodbye
to be released in high fidelity stereo on No Signs of Lameness Records

Kind of a low-fi Southern (US) roots music album in the same vein as Beck's One Foot in the Grave. The production/record company name came from an article in a local small town newspaper. A not-so-bright fellow was trying to coax an uncooperative mule or jackass down the road using his pickup truck and a rope. The poor beast of burden wound up being dragged for quite a distance. Upon examination, the vet was quoted as saying there were "no signs of lameness." My record company logo is a cartoon jackass standing on his hind legs with one front leg in a sling, a bandage around his head, in sunglasses and with a cigarette resting on his bottom lip.

Troy
12-04-2007, 01:16 PM
You might like this:

http://www.tonylevin.com/bandname.htm

ForeverAutumn
12-04-2007, 01:21 PM
You might like this:

http://www.tonylevin.com/bandname.htm

Of all those, Mad Carrot Disease is the one that tickled my fancy.

Swish
12-04-2007, 03:35 PM
The band would be Swish Baby and the album Princess Nora, both for obvious reasons.

Swish

RoyY51
12-04-2007, 06:13 PM
For a short time I was in a group called "Papa Chub". I always thought that was pretty clever.

unleasHell
12-04-2007, 10:33 PM
Band Name: Fecal
Album Title: What's the Matter?

They would have to be a punk band, I suppose...

nobody
12-05-2007, 11:29 AM
I've tried to get every arab guy I know to start a punk rock band called Jihad just to get attention and piss everyone off. Still, no takers.

Olivertmc
12-05-2007, 12:02 PM
I used to play this game with a co-worker of mine. Not actually great names, but amusing. A few favorites:

Funky Ass Dumptruck
Nacho Mama
The Briefs (a band comprised of attorneys)
Tropical Depression
Prometheus

kexodusc
12-05-2007, 12:16 PM
One of my old bands was called "Liberal Propaganda"...we had an album called "The Divine Right of Kings" which I also thought would be a cool band name.

We came up with all sorts of cheese-ball names like this for songs - "The Invisible Hand", "The Marxist Fallacy", "Supply the Demand", "Intelligent Design" etc - None of us are terribly good poets or lyricists so we just decided as a gag to pretend to be hard core conservatives as our shtick...we wrote songs about capitalism, the inevitable failure of communism, the anti-WTO protests where dairy farmers marched along side vegetarians -typical agitator stuff. It was awesome being onstage while our singer would be insulting the political beliefs of the majority of our crowds. Got most of the song lyrics from random conservative-activist web pages or just taking the counter-argument to a lot of other anti-war, anti-globalization, anti-WTO songs we found, etc. Wore suits with authentic Regan-era power-ties on stage for awhile until our drummer ruined a $800 suit and his fiance put an end to that.

There's hundreds of bands that write political music, but they all seemed to be leaning the other way for some reason so we hoped this would help us stand out.

Couldn't have been that good at it though, I'm still a slave to the man in my day-job and Stephen Colbert has since gone on to make millions applying a similar gimmick to a TV talk-show personality.

GMichael
12-05-2007, 12:26 PM
The Roadkill Raders 1st CD is called, "You Kill it.. We Grill it...:17:
1st track: Chunk Of Skunk
2nd: Smidgen Of Pigeon
3rd: Flat Cat (served as a single, or in a stack)
4th: Rigor Mortis Tortise
5th: Whippoorwill On a Grill
6th: Swirl of Squirrel
7th: The Chicken (that didn't cross the road)

2nd CD: Canine Cuisine
1st track: Slab of Lab
2nd: Pit Bull Pot Pie
3rd: Cocker Cutlets
4th: Shar-Pei Filet
5th: Poodles 'N Noodles
6th: German Shepherd Pie
7th: Collie Hit by a Trolley
8th: Round of Hound

3rd CD: Late Night Delight (served fresh each night after dark)
1st track: Rack of Raccoon
2nd: Smear of Deer
3rd: Awesome Possum
4th: Cheap Sheep

Latest single: Guess that Mess (if you can guess what it is, you eat for free)

OK OK, so I didn't make these up myself. But they're still d'm funny.:idea:

Eating food is more fun, when you know it was hit on the run!:yikes:

ForeverAutumn
12-05-2007, 02:10 PM
3rd CD: Late Night Delight (served fresh each night after dark)
1st track: Rack of Raccoon
2nd: Smear of Deer
3rd: Awesome Possum
4th: Cheap Sheep

Only four songs on the third disk? Must be Prog. :cornut:

Slosh
12-05-2007, 04:06 PM
Busy Balls, for obvious reasons.

bobsticks
12-05-2007, 04:27 PM
Off the top of my head, Dead Baby Ducks, Foetid Monkey Dumplings, and the granddaddy of 'em all Blindy Blind MacBlind and the Unrehearsed Scumbags ( that one stuck with me Swish)

bobsticks
12-05-2007, 04:42 PM
Screamin' Blue Llamas!!!!

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Luvin Da Blues
12-05-2007, 04:54 PM
[B]Blindy Blind MacBlind

Not fallin for this again:ihih:

ForeverAutumn
12-05-2007, 06:03 PM
Screamin' Blue Llamas!!!!

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Ahhhhhhhhh! Make it stop!!!! :eek:

GMichael
12-06-2007, 02:55 PM
Only four songs on the third disk? Must be Prog. :cornut:

Mostly punk, but they tried to go a little prog.

jonnyhambone
12-06-2007, 10:21 PM
my funk band...The Get Down Syndrome!

PeruvianSkies
12-06-2007, 10:28 PM
Taken from the Peter Weir film I always thought a cool band name would be ...

The Year of Living Dangerously

Although that might make a better album name.

I used to be in a band that was called The NYVZ "Knives", which I am thinking about restarting at some point.

jim goulding
12-07-2007, 09:28 AM
I don't know but back in the 80's there was an all girl punk trio from Britian with a pretty cool name . . The Slits. So, how about a male equivalent called Wood or Randy, maybe.

RoyY51
12-07-2007, 10:16 AM
I don't know but back in the 80's there was an all girl punk trio from Britian with a pretty cool name . . The Slits. So, how about a male equivalent called Wood or Randy, maybe.
Please see my previous post on this thread...

johnny p
12-07-2007, 12:06 PM
The Wet Spots.

Finch Platte
12-07-2007, 12:25 PM
Nacho Mama

:cornut:

PeruvianSkies
12-07-2007, 01:02 PM
How about....

HISTORY OF THE WORLD Pt 2.

RoyY51
12-07-2007, 04:55 PM
...that played for many years at the Cannery Restaurant in Newport Beach CA. called "Nobody" They got a kick out of the fact that every time someone called to ask who was playing that night, the hostess would respond: "Nobody!" When the manager, fearing a potential loss of business, insisted that they change their name, they did...to "Yo Mama". Shortly thereafter, they were encouraged to change it back.

True story!

Finch Platte
12-10-2007, 12:31 PM
Howzabout Liongravy? :confused5:

:cornut:

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