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Help me name my new band!

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Pretend for a moment that I'm not a soloist doing multitrack recording in my apartment and that I have an actual band. Pretend that I'm working on a new album, which is way the hell better than anything I've publicly released in the past. Pretend that I want a band name which actually works well for jazz and folky pop which isn't already taken by a one-hit wonder in the 80s. And pretend that it should also reflect my personality, while also not sounding silly when a concert announcer says, "And now, give it up for [insert band name]."

Pretend that only one of the preceding hypotheticals is untrue (feel free to speculate on which one).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I was kind of thinking "Fuchsia Plaid" (OMG, capital letters!) but that still seems a bit not-quite-it.

It doesn't have to involve the words "fluff" or "plaid," those are just the things which came to mind right away.
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Porcuplaid
Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Berkeley Social Scene - Tiny Robots - Seamus Collective - Semolina Pilchards - Cutie Pies - Explino! - Bravo Bros. - 2 from 14 - and more!

i would just like to remind everyone that Ken eats kittens - blue lang
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No more porcupines. There's a reason I stopped submitting stuff as 'fluffy porcupine,' let trikuare.cx expire, etc.
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Pumpkin Muffies
blippity blop ya don’t stop heyyyyyyyyy
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Well seeing how I dont know much if anything about you but I do have 5min to kill before a meeting - howz about:

acujazz yakuza,
Dorian Phrygian
or
Doc arpanaught
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Don't worry, I don't know anything about you either.
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Plaidtypus
Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Berkeley Social Scene - Tiny Robots - Seamus Collective - Semolina Pilchards - Cutie Pies - Explino! - Bravo Bros. - 2 from 14 - and more!

i would just like to remind everyone that Ken eats kittens - blue lang
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marshmellow fluff.
(yes, i know it's not spelled as usual)
-bill
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MC Fluffnstuff
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Fuchsia Fusion

(FnF...EFINEF)

Orange Bass

Glass Root

Rhubarb Pi (no, not Pie)

Wooden Mathmatics

Dusty Horn

Crystal Coffee

Jazz Mittens
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Plaidypus?

[edit] <a href="http://www.garageband.com/artist/qPlaid ... vermind</a>
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Jeeze, I didn't even notice that Ken had already suggested a similar thing to 'plaidypus' anyway. I must not be very creative.
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Ken is on it...Plaidtypus, or your version. Pay him for that brilliant corporate identity work.
roymond.com | songfights | covers
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But Plaidypus is taken. granted, it's taken by a former mp3.com bandwhich hasn't got an actual website anymore, but there's still a shell of their mediocre emo crap at garageband.
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fluffy wrote:But Plaidypus is taken. granted, it's taken by a former mp3.com bandwhich hasn't got an actual website anymore, but there's still a shell of their mediocre emo crap at garageband.
Didn't you say something about it not sounding 'stupid' when announced on stage?
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All band names are stupid. It's just a matter of what KIND of stupid.
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Insert Band Name
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http://www.pats-lies.com/das_band.shtml

Sample output:
Dystopic Almost Perfect Flyin' Harmony
Agent Nodes
Infinite Moon
Blue Suede Reversals Of Fortune
Lost in the Midst (of) Humus
Satanic Matrix

A lot of the names it generates are silly, obscene, or nonsensical, but then it is my monster after all. :twisted:

/pimpery
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Be my friend? --- Song of the Day
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There's <a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Musi ... /">lots</a> <a href="http://www.bandnamemaker.com/d/index.html">of</a> <a href="http://www.leonatkinson.com/random/inde ... >random</a> <a href="http://www.bandnamemaker.com/d/">bandname</a> <a href="http://www.techism.com/cgi-bin/band_nam ... erators</a> out there. I'm not impressed with any of them.
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pegor wrote:acujazz yakuza
Strange how this just happens to be a combination of my username and my roommate's former username on SF.
Let cake eat them.
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Jack Cough
I'm back.
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