Please please suggest me some band names or i'll end up in a band called 'The Barbershop Quartet"

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also, there's only three people in this band.

we play pretty unoffensive indie-rock, which i litter with as many ridiculous lyrics as i can.

the best idea i had was 'The Bad Saints'. And that's terrible.

please...

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

based on your description, i think you should call yourself "litter."

fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

or if everybody else is infatuated with barbershops, you can be the barbershoplifters.

and your first album can be "barbershoplifters of the world, unite."

fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

Killer Studmuffins

57 7th (calstars), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

Barbershop 2: Electric Bugaloo

jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

Naming things: Classic or dud?

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

Naming things: Classic or dud?

it makes it a hell of a lot easier to find them in a record store, or in your ipod!

fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:31 (twenty years ago) link

nameless child wouldn't work on a school register.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

( )

57 7th (calstars), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

Gven Stefani

jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

Sven Goran Erikkson

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

Desperado!
The Eminant Window Opening
Strength of Feats

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:47 (twenty years ago) link

The Eminant Window Opening is great.

we could call our first album "The Obvious Breeze"

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

call your band Stereo Speakers. I think that's a great name. I'd use it if I needed a band name.

Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to take this list of names to band practise and by that time we'll be called Soggy Biscuit Barbershop and we'll be playing our instruments upside down and dribbling nonsense words.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

i'm going to take this list of names to band practise and by that time we'll be called Soggy Biscuit Barbershop and we'll be playing our instruments upside down and dribbling nonsense words.

OMG WERE CAN I ORDER YR ALBUM !>!?

n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

Semtex Toad

The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

I recorded an album in an hour for a website on sunday. It was one of the strangest things i've done so far.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

the levee breaks

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

Massive Ordnance Penetrator

jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

Penile Juvenile

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

The Stank Engine

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

Think Finger

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

RodBender

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

BodTrembler

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

Hava Nephelem

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

I'll keep dusting this one off until someone actually takes it:

Oedipus & the Motherfuckers

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

McLeroy to Mercurio

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

Hemmed Veins

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

i have a cat called Oedipuss.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Harmonicks

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

Stinkypinkyfinger

57 7th (calstars), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

Nabob

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago) link

Jason Jazz and the Argonauts

The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

Mended Levee

The Barbershoplifters is great.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

The Barbershopshifters
or
The Barbershapeshifters

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

The Barberwindowshoppers

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:45 (twenty years ago) link

Wind Down Jones

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

The Barbarabushlifters.

n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

Felchcake

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

Jolene

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

The Magic of Crumbs

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

The Barberwirekisses

Asthmatic Cajun (Asthmatic Cajun), Monday, 8 November 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

Pixel Dust

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

I think Felchcake has to be the winner.

The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

Hoagie Vs. Grinder

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

Felchcake and The Magic Of Crumbs are amazing.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

Fey Ray

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe 'Felchcake & The Magic Of Crumbs' should be the winner.

The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, do we get a prize if you pick our suggestion? A copy of your first 7"? A tour tshirt? What do I win?!

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'll drain a pint of sweat from the drummer and mail it to you.

Can you mail sweat? is it illegal?

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link

I think you've got it -- Mailed sweat.

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

Chainmailed Sweat.

like....sweat that cannot be penetrated by sword nor dagger.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

The Lazy
The Joke
The Randoms

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 8 November 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

You are going to post a follow-up once you have come back from your band meeting and chosen a name, right?

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

Bringing it back to your first thought...

Random Saints

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Bland Saint

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Bloated Saints

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

St.Blotto

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah i'll tell you whatever retarded name the other two choose.

their last bands were called 'The Social Hermits' and 'The Seven Cent Solution'.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

Here's a good one - Dumberer

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

Melted Ghost

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

Paraffin Soldiers

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

Dark Orange Service

Indie Schmindie

Equilibrium

Bug Cunt

The Turnip Is The End

Galoshes

&&&

Equal Opportunity Playas

Affirmative HaXortion

Jub Jub & The Bab Babs

Jar Jar Fucks

Lyte Funky Ones

Lingbert, Monday, 8 November 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

LOLocaust.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

Don't use that one

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

Judging from 1st choice "The Bad Saints", sounds like someone in the band likes oxymorons:

Satan's Halo
The Kosher Hams
Crew-Cut Jesus
Femme In Em

Thea (Thea), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

I always suggest this and I always will until someone takes it or I form the best mid-life-crisis band ever:

Pants

Mike Salmo (salmo), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

Wait a minute -- My sister and I have an imaginary band called: Pants!

She insisted on the exclamation point, which I'm not sold on.

Thea (Thea), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

I'll keep dusting this one off until someone actually takes it:
Oedipus & the Motherfuckers

-- Johnny Fever (--...), November 8th, 2004.

I call you on that, and raise you...

SEVERED HEAD AND THE NECK-FUCKERS

Sasha (sgh), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link

there's already a band called "Severed Head"

Thea (Thea), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

i say pants ALL THE TIME.

right now i'm saying it. over and over.

pants

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

it's my favorite beg-to-differ-type exclamation of all time - PANTS

Actually, the band's called "Severed HEADS" with an "S"

Thea (Thea), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

Severe Head

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

Bettie Se(r)veert Head

Thea (Thea), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link

Slivered Heads

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

Jones Falls Expressway

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

Expressed Head

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

Slept On

ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

how about some kind of equation?

Guitars + Drums + Voice = Band.

Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link

Mooning Eunuchs

"Eunuch" is hard to google, though

Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

levee + motherfucker = barbershop

m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

The Jigga Who

ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

...and everyone would hear "Moving Units", instead of "Mooning Eunuchs", so you'd would get a good buzz + audience turnout right away and probably not encounter litigation

Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

Preemtive Strike

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago) link

Bloke-a-cola

Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

Forksclovetofu was always my answer for what I'd call my band.
Try it, you'll like it!

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link

When I was in a What Shall We Call Our Vaguely-Folkish Alterna-Rock Band? conversation, I could only contribute bad names which amused only me. These included:
  • Top Drawer
  • Small Talk
  • Secret Affair
  • The Silly Billies
  • A Different Country
  • Another Country
  • Special Agent
  • Brian Dead
  • DJ Spasm
  • The Monged Collective
  • I'm still considering using the last three for some project or other.

    Why not do the whole "take some words from a song you all like" thing? Some goodies have come out of that.

    Acme (acme), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:38 (twenty years ago) link

    Half-decent argument against being called The Barbershop Quartet:

    It is ungooglable, so chicks and labels will never find you and fuck you.

    Acme (acme), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

    yeah Godhead should've been called "Good Head" and they'd have gotten more chicks

    Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

    The Sexually Active Senior Citizens


    reggie, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

    moist owl drag mom

    m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:41 (twenty years ago) link

    De-Pants

    Album: Get Down!

    reggie, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link

    The World, Briefly

    or: Internet Crime

    Ryan Pitchfork, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago) link

    The Black Guys

    Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:06 (twenty years ago) link

    Sexy Lingerie, a la that episode of Facts of Life where the girls win a contest and get to sing with El Debarge

    http://www.80schild.com/foldw10.jpg

    Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago) link

    Litter has it, surely?

    jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:55 (twenty years ago) link

    hootie and the blowjobs
    rectum factor
    rich pickins
    clit ring
    strangely brown
    trieste
    wolfwitz

    lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

    My two imaginary bands with my girlfriend are The Metatarsals and Purgatorial Sofa. You can't use those, though.

    Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

    The Black Guys would be a good one, theres a very very small black population in the town where i live.

    downside: people might bring pitchforks to our gigs.

    Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

    I know of a guy who actually is black who's band is called "The Negro Problem". He has to book shows in person so they know it's not a white supremacist band.

    Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

    - Sophisticated Tripe
    - The Sioux Chefs
    - Chalk & Cheese
    - Hurtigo
    - Bjornography
    - The Bacon
    - Placenta Feast
    - Y2Gay
    - The Credibility Gap
    - The Dungoloids
    - Complicatedly Red

    Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

    I think "The Big Red One" would be a cool band name.

    Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

    I'm actually quite proud of "The Sioux Chefs," myself.

    Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

    Scritti Vanilli

    dan (dan), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

    Cough Cough.

    n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

    DEAD MAGGOTS IN THE SPINE

    ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

    Hurting, you know Stew!?!

    Okay, before somebody beats me to it: "Hurting You Know Stew"

    Or: Battling Green Eyeshades

    briania (briania), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

    Litter wins in my book. double-entendre idea: the lead singer could be carried out on a you-know-what on the shoulders of six lackeys.

    Stew is just called "Stew" now, sadly. The Negro Problem is a brilliant name but wouldn't make them the top sellers at Virgin, that's fo' sho'

    Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

    A good friend of mine is friends with "The negro problem" guy.

    choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

    Well.

    A good friend of mine went to HIGH-SCHOOL with Stew, nyah nyah.

    Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:58 (twenty years ago) link

    I knew someone would come back with something like that :)

    choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago) link

    oh and:


    ".....well my dad's a policeman"

    choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link

    The Sinner Saints

    daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

    HA.

    wellll...my Dad's a criminologist so maybe they know each other.

    Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago) link

    I misread this thread title as the The Barbarossa Quartet, so that should be the name.

    jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

    Or the "Barba" Quartet and the band could all wear beards.

    Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

    Well, I'm not like "friends" with Stew, but I have played shows with him and talked to him once or twice.

    Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

    "Rump Steak"

    Nancy Boy (scottkundla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

    Shiverer

    ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

    The Sioux Chefs is great

    Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

    How about The Icicles?

    Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

    Urethra Franklins

    latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

    Stoma

    mrat, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

    Urethra Franklins

    Hahaha

    Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

    Barbapaparappatharappashoppaz

    Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

    barbatrick shoppers

    m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

    I just came from the Cars thread where I was inspired to come up with

    The Rick Okaysections.

    I hope I'm not too late with this.

    Henry A Blacktune, Monday, 15 November 2004 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

    one year passes...
    What did you call your band???

    ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

    Utah Saints II

    M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

    What did Hari name his band?

    ianinportland (ianinportland), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

    lol @ Utah Saints II

    And, what about "Nameless?"

    schwantz, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link

    Racist Belt

    walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

    I saw an all-girl band from Bryn Mawr called "Pants" a couple weeks ago.

    This band should be called Shoegazi.

    A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link

    one year passes...
    Shoegazi is genius

    Jorge 4 Time, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

    Minor Fret

    NickB, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

    Aaaah! Wildebeests! is clearly the best name for an inoffensive indie-rock group.

    Dimension 5ive, Monday, 26 March 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

    three weeks pass...
    Hot Automatic Beverages

    the next grozart, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

    White Sabbath

    sexyDancer, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

    White Sabbath? Wasn't their lead singer Nazi Osbourne?

    kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

    I like a band called the Despots--I mean they don't exist.
    The Grandees always struck me as a good name for a band. Sexington Green is funny. Clem Destine; Oleo Negroes; Feral Clits; Effington and the Fucking Ten-ton Skeletons (horn band)

    whisperineddhurt, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

    Drunks with Loud Microphones

    leavethecapital, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link

    Hari, I know I'm not the only one to regret that you quit senses fail to pursue your own musical direction. Anyway...

    Alex the Seal
    The Get Fucked
    Todger
    Casualties of GWAR
    Alien Orifice
    Hari's Krishnas
    Go Mental (you could position yourself as Nu-Rave with a name like that)
    Jerk of the Week
    The Nerve (but you'd need to be an early 80's post punk band for that name)

    moley, Friday, 20 April 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

    eleven months pass...

    Those Certain Undertakers at Lloyd's London

    Hurting 2, Thursday, 10 April 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link

    The Violence

    bamcquern, Thursday, 10 April 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link

    Why Front

    bendy, Thursday, 10 April 2008 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link

    The Black Guys would be a good one, theres a very very small black population in the town where i live.

    downside: people might bring pitchforks to our gigs.

    -- Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:45 (3 years ago) Link

    turns out if you woulda taken this name, pitchfork would have brought people to your gigs

    sleepingbag, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link

    Well played.

    jaymc, Friday, 11 April 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link

    peace through commerce

    Z S, Friday, 11 April 2008 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link

    thread for missing luriqua

    gff, Friday, 11 April 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link

    Guarding the Swedish Fish

    Inspired by this story:
    http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080410/NEWS01/304110012

    Jazzbo, Friday, 11 April 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link

    The Spanking Onions

    Bimble, Thursday, 24 April 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link


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