December 30, 2001

7:47 AM

Band names are out; blog names are in. All of us musical inepts who spent more time thinking up band names than actually learning to play an instrument now have a purpose for our great list of names that rock your world, dude! Here's a really brief list of blog names grabbed from Linkwatcher, any one of which could have been a band name: Virulent Memes, Grouse, The Dome of the Sky, Underduck, Sixth Dev, Ten Reasons Why, Industrial Technology and Witchcraft, Phester, Hopeless Romantics, Next Generation Degeneration, Being Terran, Hit or Miss, Entropy, Wee David, Kitty Kitty, Inexplicable Fancy Trash, etc etc. On the flip side, you could use random band name generators to come up with blog names, too. Some people compile lists of band names. Of course, some sites take band names seriously. What's your best band/blog name ever?
posted by monkey-mind (38 comments total)

I thought of "technical difficulties" one time...kinda liked it.
posted by sean17 at 8:06 AM on December 30, 2001

The Snapdragons

Feline Leukemia

That Last Latte

Golden Retriever
posted by y2karl at 8:35 AM on December 30, 2001

my name for myself is DJ DJ... i like coming up with song names instead though.. look for the upcoming DJ DJ album soon: "Scratches, Cuts, and Bruises." with the brand new single, "Breakin' It Up Is Hard To Do."
posted by lotsofno at 8:38 AM on December 30, 2001

When the "generic grocery" thing hit, back in the early-to-mid-eighties and there were enormous numbers of items all in white packaging with bold, black letters ("BEER", "PIZZA", "POTATO CHIPS" etc., like in Repo Man), I wanted to name my band "BAND", and have everyone wear white T-shirts with black lettering ("DRUMMER", "BASS PLAYER", etc.).

No one liked my idea.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:50 AM on December 30, 2001

I thought of "technical difficulties" one time

I actually wanted to use "Diffical Techniculties" for a musical project once. It'd make a good blog name too, probably.

I happen to own the following domains that might make good blog names: titaniumspork.com, beeflo.com (named after the way a friend's three-year-old says "beautiful"), infopusher.com, quesiton.com (named for the subatomic particle that carries curiosity). And which of those interesting names do I use for my own blog? Um... my name... (sigh)
posted by kindall at 8:54 AM on December 30, 2001

A friend of mine told me she was driving her kids around once and her daughter said " Mom, Nathan keeps calling me Dr. Wienerbutt! Make hm stop!"

I've always favored Dr Wienerbutt ever since...
posted by y2karl at 9:08 AM on December 30, 2001

-Dimmu Borgir (means Dark Castle)

-Soilent Green

-Necrophagia

-Destruct-A-Thon

-Econoline Crush

Thems are some good names. Yaaaar!!!
posted by Dark Messiah at 9:50 AM on December 30, 2001

My two favorite blog names (besides mine) are "Ain't Too Proud To Blog" and "Bunny Does It Better."
posted by RylandDotNet at 10:08 AM on December 30, 2001

Gay Dad
Meat Beat Manifesto
Fountains of Wayne
posted by yerfatma at 10:14 AM on December 30, 2001

The Coleman Francis Experience
posted by ice_cream_motor at 10:24 AM on December 30, 2001

hello bastards
posted by lostbyanecho at 10:27 AM on December 30, 2001

Cheese and Crack Whores
posted by Windigo at 10:51 AM on December 30, 2001

the Rancid Yak Butter Tea Party
(and no, not just cause I'm a member)
posted by zempf at 11:16 AM on December 30, 2001

'rubber truncheon.'
posted by clavdivs at 1:30 PM on December 30, 2001

my last band was fashion & a trifle uncool, and my current one is the iconoclash.
posted by sunexplodes at 1:43 PM on December 30, 2001

Zaftig Zero.
posted by brigita at 1:57 PM on December 30, 2001

Band Names:

The Network Solutions.

The Flammable Lenins.

Cathode Avengers.
posted by fuq at 2:42 PM on December 30, 2001

Hat Caffee

(say it with a Bostonian accent)
posted by Succa at 2:49 PM on December 30, 2001

What about a Dukes of Hazzard theme, as in : The Genital Lee
posted by aaronchristy at 2:52 PM on December 30, 2001

When the "generic grocery" thing hit, back in the early-to-mid-eighties and there were enormous numbers of items all in white packaging with bold, black letters ("BEER", "PIZZA", "POTATO CHIPS" etc., like in Repo Man), I wanted to name my band "BAND", and have everyone wear white T-shirts with black lettering ("DRUMMER", "BASS PLAYER", etc.).

Public Image didn't go quite that far, but they did do something with the "plain wrap" idea.
posted by dogwelder at 2:59 PM on December 30, 2001

Also, I've had a bunch of fake bands. My most real fake band is The Happy Sparkle Funtime Band.
posted by dogwelder at 3:02 PM on December 30, 2001

favorite blog names i've cooked up:

:: evolve you hapless bastards! [now gomi no sensei] self-link ahoy!
:: mental hygiene - actually introduced a girl i was interested in to the wonderful world of blogging and she made me think up a name for her.

band names/concepts:

:: pot luck marty - 80's style power punk. name garnished off a phone message for my dad that read "pot luck, marty (714) XXX-XXXX" when my friend noid said "hey, that'd be a good band name."
:: marilyn hanson - gothic covers of hanson songs. there's really not much more that can be said there.
:: orange tang clan - white boy hip hop parody. we even went so far as to have orange tang clan names. mine was "boogah smalls" aka "The Notorious B.O.O.G.".
:: the tyrones - picture funk covers of ramones tunes. now stop laughing.
posted by boogah at 3:12 PM on December 30, 2001

My favourite band name is from a small, Manitoba-based group: Chocolate Bunnies from Hell. I actually haven't heard any of their music, but one can only assume from the name that they 'rawk'.
posted by jess at 3:19 PM on December 30, 2001

"titwrench" is my favorite band name. they're so indie that you can barely find any useful information on them at google (they are buried in an interview, at least, but only as a passing mention).
posted by moz at 4:06 PM on December 30, 2001

Mental Floss.

For album names, I like I was young and I needed the money.
posted by D at 4:19 PM on December 30, 2001

Ack... early days of guitar-playing resurfacing like a repressed abuse memory... no!!
I was in a band called Reverend Chicken... but I always wanted to do an eighties cover band called 'Cafe 80s'. Why is it all the famous bands have really crappy names?
Oh... and album names? In my flat we've whittled it down to either Mungo Jerry's 'Electronically Tested' or Neil Finn's 'Try Whistling to this' - something the more scatologically-minded amongst you can try announcing next time you're about to break wind. :P
posted by RokkitNite at 4:30 PM on December 30, 2001

My two new favourite phrases which could name domains, blogs or bands are both derived from comments made by two of my cousins at two separate holiday gatherings. The first is "Ghetto (Lemon) Cake" and the second is "Infidel Fruit." Come to think on it, put together, that could be a great band -- "Ghetto (Lemon) Cake and the Infidel Fruit." Hmm. There's a concept. . .
posted by Dreama at 4:42 PM on December 30, 2001

Favorite band name, without question: Underpants Machine.
posted by apollo at 8:12 PM on December 30, 2001

There used to be a decent Cincinnati area swing band called Big Bill Pickle and the Jerkin Gherkins.
posted by krakedhalo at 9:05 PM on December 30, 2001

I want to name my blog "A Boy And His Blog" in tribute to the uberinsane nintendo game A Boy And His Blob... but I don't suppose I'll ever get around to it.
posted by Newbornstranger at 10:14 PM on December 30, 2001

moderately related: great song titles.

prelude to an afternoon of sexually aroused gas mask - frank zappa
eat my dust, you insensitive fuck - the catherine wheel
capitalism stole my virginity - the international noise conspiracy (also a good band name. cough.)
posted by sunexplodes at 11:09 PM on December 30, 2001

Favorite band names:

The Hate Fuck Trio
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System
The Dismemberment Plan
posted by black8 at 11:18 PM on December 30, 2001

There was a solid week there where my `blogg was going to called priapism.


That's right, one whole week.
posted by Hima Otsubusu at 2:45 AM on December 31, 2001

I think we're getting closer to the origin of 'dong_resin' now.
posted by pracowity at 4:22 AM on December 31, 2001

"A Boy And His Blog" in tribute to the uberinsane nintendo game A Boy And His Blob

Most people probably would think it was in tribute to this film.
posted by kindall at 8:31 AM on December 31, 2001

I had a friend in Atlanta several years back who played in a band called "Free Beer". The local alt-weekly made them disclaimer their ads after the first show :D
posted by Sapphireblue at 8:44 AM on December 31, 2001

Title I proposed for my friend's anthology of experimental music: "Promising Compositions / Compromising Positions"
posted by fellorwaspushed at 11:34 AM on December 31, 2001

One day my brother asked me for a good band name and some random firing of synapses caused me to say "What about Second Shooter And The Grassy Knolls"? He didn't get it, but I always thought it sounded really cool.

Others I have enjoyed:

Butt Trumpet
Nashville Pu$$y
Wasted Tape
Toad The Wet Sprocket, RIP (Anyone named after a fake band in a real Monty Python sketch can't be all bad)
posted by verso at 12:45 PM on January 1, 2002