Naming a Band

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:03 pm

slats wrote:Maybe opt for a different mode of transportation and call yourselves the Small Bus Band.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:08 pm

Haha, Short Bus was initially one of the top choices on my list ... but yeah, it's taken by a fairly well-known movie.

Shortbus Chaos was another choice, but the word chaos just seems lame to me now.

slats · Post by **slats** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:12 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:
slats wrote:Maybe opt for a different mode of transportation and call yourselves the Small Bus Band.
Or Short Bus Band

Yeah, that's what I was going for. Swing and a miss.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:43 pm

Reïst wrote:Haha, Short Bus was initially one of the top choices on my list ... but yeah, it's taken by a fairly well-known movie.

There have been many bands (Say Anything comes to mind) that share their names with films. Some of them intentionally so. In fact, the film Shortbus is spelled as a compound word, so you could even use Short Bus without technically being named after the film. Unfortunately, there does exist a band by the name of Short Bus as well.

Reïst then wrote:Shortbus Chaos was another choice, but the word chaos just seems lame to me now.

Calamity Short Bus? Short Bus Havoc? Short Bus Trainwreck? Short Bus to Bedlam? Short Bus Hullabaloo? Short Bus Snafu?

Post by **Spud** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:47 pm

You think bands are hard. You should try naming a race horse.

SPUD

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:56 pm

What about "Harold the Magnificent"? Yeah, okay, that would suck as a horse's, err... name.

Darn you, Spud!

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:51 pm

Spud wrote:You think bands are hard. You should try naming a race horse.

SPUD

How about, Runny?

Post by **Spud** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:19 pm

Taken. See, that's what I'm sayin'.

Billy's Little Trip · Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:03 pm

HaHa! Wow, who would have thunk? I got a chuckle from the name "Runny Babbit" on that list.

"Run Oliver Biscuit" could be a good band name, also from that list.

That might be the hot ticket Andrew. Name your band after a race horse!

Billy's Little Trip · Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:22 pm

Ok, here is the first racehorse name list I found. Good and bad names.

I bolded the ones I like.

Good Racehorse Names:
Affirmed
Afleet Alex
Alydar
Barbaro
Black Gold
Bold Forbes
Bull Lea
Citation
Count Fleet
Dan Patch
Dr. Fager
Easy Goer
Forego
Fourstardave
Gallant Fox
Genuine Risk
Go For Wand
John Henry
Kelso
Nashua
Nasrullah
Native Diver
Nearctic
Niatross
Omaha
Personal Ensign
Rambling Willie
Ruffian
Seattle Slew
Secretariat
Sir Barton
Spectacular Bid
Strike the Gold
Sunday Silence
Swaps
Three Strides Before the Wire
War Admiral
Whirlaway

Bad Racehorse Names:
Badly Bred
Beef-a-Roni
Big Ole Loser
Break A Leg
Chokes At Finish
Cow Pie
Craps
Crybaby
Diaper Boy
Dog Meat << that's just so wrong to name your horse, lol.
Dumb As A Stick
Eeyore
Full Bladder
Francis << isn't that what you were going to name it?
Harry Trotter
Hi Ho Silverfish
Jockey Itch
Lags Behind
Lame Jane
Limp Biscuit << taken
Lucky At Love
Mr. Ed
Mr. Wimpy
Mule Headed
Pokey
Rodeo Queen
Sad Louie
Sam I Am
Sir Cheats Alot
Sir Farts A Lot
Slobber
Slow Moe
Steve
Sucks To Be Me
Take A Dump
Thunder Butt
Trail Mix
Winnie the Pooh

And my favorite Racehorse name that would make a kick ass band name...."Don't Choke The Cat"

More > http://wordie.org/lists/great-race-horse-names

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:03 pm

Jockey Itch for the win!

.//////////////;.8iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiii[12 Goddamned cat...

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:29 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
More > http://wordie.org/lists/great-race-horse-names

I think that site should be renamed - Great-potential-band-names

Ladies and Gentlemen - put your hands together for DUMB AS A STICK!!!!!!!!

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:14 pm

Haha, Shortbus to Bedlam (from Generic) and Sucks to be Me (from BLT) are both pretty solid. I should check out that site for some more classy ones.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:23 am

Reïst wrote: Shortbus to Bedlam

Yes - that is pretty good.

And if you could re-enact the "yoga" bit from the opening scenes of Shortbus on stage at the beginning of every show - Wow! - that would get the punters in!

signboy · Post by **signboy** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:43 am

Can you believe "the short bus" is taken? Crap! How about The Homeless House Band? Or.. heh heh, Reist Rocket.
Cowtown Sound. If all else fails, cheap out and go with Pearl Jam II. Or, if you're stuck on the mode of transportaion thing, Canola MagLev. Don't ask. I don't know. These posts seem to get more retarded the longer I'm sober.

But Reist Rocket is good.

ujnhunter · Post by **ujnhunter** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:48 am

Reïst wrote:I really like the name Van Band. As long as nobody associates it with Van Halen. That could easily result in some unfulfilled expectations.

Or people who would refuse to listen to your music fearing you sounded like them...

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:16 am

Generic wrote: Searchability and domain name aren't correlated as closely as they used to be. I mean, yeah, my great-aunt still plugs in whatever-she's-looking-for.com before going to Yahoo, but if these prospective fans are looking for an indie band, you really think registering .net instead of .com will be a liability?

...Just sayin'.

Maybe not, but definitely still correlated and for the record I'm definitely NOT talking about liability. I'm only talking about marketing. You get a .net when there is already a .com, you might as well forward it to the .com. (Sure I exaggerate but my point is still valid) (Also, I'm not claiming to be end-all be-all on the subject but I read a couple of books and took a class on the subject for a small company I worked for, for a very brief period of time.)

Songfight is great example actually. I'm glad you pointed it out. I can't tell you how many times people have told me that the site was down or asked me what was wrong after I directed them to it because they still went to .com. One of the GOOD things about songfight.org is that the fightmasters are also affiliated with the .net. So that's at least two versions of the domain name to stumble upon and end up in the right place. Songfight was also established before .com 'went away' leaving little choice in the matter since the site itself was continuing. It wasn't a BRAND NEW songfight completely unaffiliated with the old format. Also, there were attempts to obtain .com as well.

*Hoblit puts up dukes and dances around like Wizzard of Oz lion. "c'mon, puttem' up, c'mon"

REIST: USE YOUR PORN NAME

First name = Name of your first pet
Last name = Name of the street you grew up on.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:08 pm

Hoblit wrote:REIST: USE YOUR PORN NAME

First name = Name of your first pet
Last name = Name of the street you grew up on.

Flopsy Deer River Place? That's terrible.

Maybe if I grew up on a street with a short name, it would be better.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:52 pm

I liked "The Homeless House Band"
-bill

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:01 pm

Reïst wrote:
Hoblit wrote:REIST: USE YOUR PORN NAME

First name = Name of your first pet
Last name = Name of the street you grew up on.
Flopsy Deer River Place? That's terrible.

Maybe if I grew up on a street with a short name, it would be better.

Yeah, mine would be Ruby Gen. Haig. Or, if you wanted to get really technical and use the house I moved out of when I was 2, then it'd be Ruby 14th. Bad for a porn star name, only marginally better for a band.

Never really understood that exercise.

signboy · Post by **signboy** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:49 pm

name of first pet + name of street

haha! That's awesome! I'd be "Princess Maple"

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:54 pm

signboy wrote:name of first pet + name of street

haha! That's awesome! I'd be "Princess Maple"

Ha! I'd be Teddy Maple.

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