A Good Name for a Rock Band: Difference between revisions

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* The Gavinners, from ''[[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]''.

** Of course, the band was originally called Garyuu Wave in the Japanese version, ''[[Gyakuten Saiban 4]]''...

* The Weird Sisters, from ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'', said to be one of the most popular wizard bands out there, and booked to play at Hogwarts at the Yule Ball in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and ~~The~~ Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]''. ([[Harry Potter (Film)|The film]] made them punk rockers.) Nymphadora Tonks is a fan.

* The Weird Sisters, from ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'', said to be one of the most popular wizard bands out there, and booked to play at Hogwarts at the Yule Ball in ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]]''. ([[Harry Potter (Film)|The film]] made them punk rockers.) Nymphadora Tonks is a fan.

* The Band With Rocks In, from ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Soul Music]]''. Also The Whom, The Blots and The Surreptitious Fabric, all names briefly used by a wannabe band (and not coincidentally all puns on the names of real bands).

* ''[[The Commitments]]''. Chosen deliberately, and explained in the book & film that "all the great sixties bands were 'the somethings'".

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* ''Mr. Show'' has a skit involving an inspirational band named Indomitable Spirit (whose members pretend to have disabilities ranging from being a disembodied head to being a woman), but a former band member (who is actually missing an arm) reveals their name was originally Flat Top Tony and the Purple Canoes.

* Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem from ''[[The Muppet Show]]''.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined ~~(TV)~~|Battlestar Galactica]]''. When Anders says that Cylon Leoben might have been right about Starbuck having a special destiny, Starbuck replies that "Kara Thrace and Her Special Destiny" sounds like a bad name for a cover band.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]''. When Anders says that Cylon Leoben might have been right about Starbuck having a special destiny, Starbuck replies that "Kara Thrace and Her Special Destiny" sounds like a bad name for a cover band.

* Alvin and The Chipmunks

* [[Barbie]] and the Rockers; this line inspired a two part TV special (which predates the modern DVD movies by 14 years), where in part two they were inexplicably renamed...

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* T.K.O.

* KMD, which (depending on the image they wish to project, at the moment) might stand for "positive Kause in a Much-Damaged society," or "Kausing Much Damage"

* L.E.O. - It doesn't officially stand for anything, but it's meant as a [[Shout Out]] to [[Electric Light Orchestra|ELO]].

* L.E.O. - It doesn't officially stand for anything, but it's meant as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Electric Light Orchestra|ELO]].

* REO Speedwagon, named for [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/ReoSpeedWagon1917-cropped-thumb.jpg an early pickup truck-type vehicle], made by the REO Motor Car Company.

** REO Speedealer, whose name parodied the above band... until REO Speedwagon themselves forced them to drop the "REO" part.

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* For odd punctuation bands, Robert Schneider's band credits themselves alternately as "The Apples in stereo" and "The Apples (In Stereo)".

* ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (though they usually go by just "Trail of Dead")

* There is at least one fictional example: ''[[Discworld|Soul Music]]'' has a band named &U (an obvious [[Shout Out]] to the real-life band U2).

* There is at least one fictional example: ''[[Discworld|Soul Music]]'' has a band named &U (an obvious [[Shout-Out]] to the real-life band U2).

* And And! And from ''[[The Commitments]]''.

* [[WWE (Wrestling)|WWE]] wrestler Jeff Hardy, in his spare time, fronts a band called Peroxwhy?gen.

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* Queen + Paul Rodgers (though, technically done to maintain that the partnership was a collaboration, not Paul Rodgers becoming a band member of Queen.)

** Also, "Queen+" became the default moniker for many of their recent collaborations and remixes (including "Queen + John Farnharm" and "Queen + Vanguard"). Their third ''[[Greatest Hits]]'' album was even titled "Queen+ ''[[Greatest Hits III]]''" because it featured many duets and solo tracks in addition to strictly-Queen songs.

* Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! (Also a [[Shout Out]] to ''[[The Goonies (Film)|The Goonies]]'', of course)

* Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! (Also a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Goonies (Film)|The Goonies]]'', of course)

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What's the most offensive or controversial word you can think of? Well, it would make a great name for a metal band. It's usually quite extreme (often Scandanavian) metal bands that adopt [[Intentionally Awkward Title|Intentionally Awkward Titles]] like Corpse Raper or something that involves violence, death or sexual taboos. However, whether or not these names are selected for shock value or convention is up in the air. It's very common for death metal, black metal and grindcore bands to have "offensive" titles, but fans of those genres are used to or even expect those sorts of names, and so if there is any intended shock value, it's usually lost anyways. Bands from fiction often have names like this, especially if they are formed by teenagers, and the ridiculous name is an indication of the poor quality of their music.

== Grossout/Blasphemy Names ==

* Parodied in the White Wolf Game Studio supplements ''[[Reignof Evil]].com'' and ''Revelations of the Dark Mother''. The former (a satire of the Scandinavian [[~~Black Metal|~~Black Metal]] scene - with [[Darker and Edgier|Satanic supervillians]]!) featured mock album reviews of bands called Painsqualler, Buttcannon, Flesh Blanket (a German band) and Shaken Baby Syndrome. The SBS reference ties back to the earlier ''Revelations''; in that book, the Lilith-cultist poet Patricia de la Forge had gained fame as the founder of Shaken Baby Syndrome. ("Patricia de la Forge," incidentally, sounds and reads like a satiric reference to Punk poet Patti Smith.)

* Parodied in the White Wolf Game Studio supplements ''[[Reignof Evil]].com'' and ''Revelations of the Dark Mother''. The former (a satire of the Scandinavian [[Black Metal]] scene - with [[Darker and Edgier|Satanic supervillians]]!) featured mock album reviews of bands called Painsqualler, Buttcannon, Flesh Blanket (a German band) and Shaken Baby Syndrome. The SBS reference ties back to the earlier ''Revelations''; in that book, the Lilith-cultist poet Patricia de la Forge had gained fame as the founder of Shaken Baby Syndrome. ("Patricia de la Forge," incidentally, sounds and reads like a satiric reference to Punk poet Patti Smith.)

* [[Peep Show|We are not calling our band Free The Paedos!]]

* [[Skins|Misplaced Abortion]], whose third record is apparently so far off the top end of the [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]] that it comes back round again and starts to sound like silence.

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** This is almost certainly a reference to [[wikipedia:Azaria Chamberlain disappearance|this strange case]].

* [http://www.xkcd.com/119/ Everybody put your hands together for... HEDGECLIPPER!]

* Glamdring the Foehammer ("it's from ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', man"), who perform at an Isle of Wight Festival knockoff in the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''[[The Devil Goblins From Neptune]]'' (which is ''also'' a good name for a band...)

* Glamdring the Foehammer ("it's from ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', man"), who perform at an Isle of Wight Festival knockoff in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''[[The Devil Goblins From Neptune]]'' (which is ''also'' a good name for a band...)

* ''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Homestar Runner]]'' had "Sloshy".

** Whose logo was their name, lowercase, upside-down, and with a red "o": ʎɥs{{color|red|o}}ןs

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* ''Cthia'' (a Vulcan word for "truth") in ''[[Undocumented Features (Fanfic)|Undocumented Features]]''

* Geronimo Jackson from ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'' may have been named after Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, who directed the 1951 Disney film ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. The show frequently references the ''Alice'' novels.

* In the movie ''[[Yes Man]]'' with [[Jim Carrey]], the love interest ([[Zooey Deschanel]]) is in a band called ''Munchausen by Proxy'', a psychological disorder.

* In the movie ''[[Yes-Man]]'' with [[Jim Carrey]], the love interest ([[Zooey Deschanel]]) is in a band called ''Munchausen by Proxy'', a psychological disorder.

* In one of the deleted scenes from ''[[Shallow Hal]]'', Walt's band was named "Worst Case Scenario".

* [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] concepts (harhar) can go a long way:

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* The Soup Dragons, who took their name from the TV show ''[[Clangers]]''

* Dalek I Love You, a synthpop group from Liverpool

* Dälek, a rap group from NJ. The [[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~|reference]] is coincidental however (it's pronounced "dialec").

* Dälek, a rap group from NJ. The [[Doctor Who|reference]] is coincidental however (it's pronounced "dialec").

** I thought it was pronounced "exterminate, exterminate".

* As I Lay Dying, a reference to the book of the same name by William Faulkner, though this may be a common misconception.

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* Boss Hog is biker slang for "cool motorcycle". No connection to [[The Dukes of Hazzard|Boss Hogg]].

* Don Caballero named themselves with an obscure [[SCTV]] reference: Don Caballero was a character Joe Flaherty played in an episode-long ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' parody.

* Tiger Trap are named as a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' [[Shout Out]]. It's a common misconception that they're named after the [[Beat Happening (Music)|Beat Happening]] song, but they were formed before that song came out, though their debut album came out after.

* Tiger Trap are named as a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' [[Shout-Out]]. It's a common misconception that they're named after the [[Beat Happening (Music)|Beat Happening]] song, but they were formed before that song came out, though their debut album came out after.

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* Starsailor, after a Tim Buckley album.

* Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, after a lyric from The Silver Jews' "People".

* Celibate Rifles (somewhat oblique [[Shout Out]] to [[Sex Pistols]])

* Celibate Rifles (somewhat oblique [[Shout-Out]] to [[Sex Pistols]])

* Radio 4, after a Public Image Ltd. song. (And so, indirectly, after the BBC radio station.)

* [[Havalina Rail Co]], who sometimes went by just Havalina. "Havalina" was a song by [[The Pixies]].

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* Angelzoom, after a song ''[[Angel Zoom]]'' from the first album of [[I Am the Band|her]] [[X Perience|former band]].

* Man Will Surrender, after the Pailhead song "Man ''Should'' Surrender". They were apparently more certain about it than Pailhead were.

* The Billion Dollar Babies, after the [[Alice Cooper (Music)|Alice Cooper]] song and album. On the borderline of being named after their own song, since most of the lineup consisted of the original Alice Cooper band [[The Band Minus the Face|minus Alice Cooper himself]]. There's another band called Billion Dollar Babies, who are presumably also named as an Alice Cooper [[Shout Out]], but are otherwise unrelated.

* The Billion Dollar Babies, after the [[Alice Cooper (Music)|Alice Cooper]] song and album. On the borderline of being named after their own song, since most of the lineup consisted of the original Alice Cooper band [[The Band Minus the Face|minus Alice Cooper himself]]. There's another band called Billion Dollar Babies, who are presumably also named as an Alice Cooper [[Shout-Out]], but are otherwise unrelated.

* Cherry Ghost ([[Wilco]] lyric)

* Hatebreed, after [[The Misfits]]' "Hatebreeders". They've done a [[Cover Version]] of the song they're named after too.

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== Listing Member Names Examples ==

* [[Ken MacLeod]]'s novel ''Newton's Wake'' had Winter and Calder. A pun, because Calder is pronounced like the Scots for "colder".

* Member listing bands are easy to parody by changing members, such as ''[[Futurama]]'''s "[[Battlestar Galactica Classic ~~(TV)~~|Cylon]] and Garfunkel", or the claim on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)|I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' that pianist Colin Sell was once a member of both "Colin and Garfunkel" and "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, Titch and Colin" (and, oddly, "The Jackson Six").

* Member listing bands are easy to parody by changing members, such as ''[[Futurama]]'''s "[[Battlestar Galactica Classic|Cylon]] and Garfunkel", or the claim on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)|I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' that pianist Colin Sell was once a member of both "Colin and Garfunkel" and "Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, Titch and Colin" (and, oddly, "The Jackson Six").

== [[Real Life]] ==

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* Roughly related is ''[[Brutal Legend (Video Game)|Brutal Legend]]'', a heavy-metal themed game by [[Tim Schafer]].

* Also roughly related is an article from ''[[The Onion]]'': "[http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32404 Ünited Stätes Toughens Image With Ümlauts]".

* When the ''[[~~Pv P~~]]'' guys formed a band, they named it Dj̈ork (the umlaut's over the j)

* When the ''[[PvP]]'' guys formed a band, they named it Dj̈ork (the umlaut's over the j)

* One story arc in ''[[Bloom County]]'' had Steve Dallas form a glam-metal band called Deathtöngue with Opus, Hodge-Podge, and Bill the Cat, who performed songs like "Let's Run Over Lionel Richie With a Tank." After a run in with [[Moral Guardians]], they changed their name to "Billy and the Boingers".

** Before they were known as Deathtöngue, Opus wanted to call the band {{spoiler|The Osmonds}}.

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* [[Blue Oyster Cult (Music)|Blue Oyster Cult]] (the [[Ur Example]])

** Also of note, they got their name when they found Blue Oysters on a menu.

* There's a rap group out of Newark, NJ named Dälek. And no, it's pronounced "dialec" and is not meant to reference [[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~|Daleks]].

* There's a rap group out of Newark, NJ named Dälek. And no, it's pronounced "dialec" and is not meant to reference [[Doctor Who|Daleks]].

* [[Motorhead]]

* Infernäl Mäjesty

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* Ezy Meat

* Witchfynde

* Split Enz (spelled that way specifically as a [[Shout Out]] to their home country of New Zealand. Also, for a few of their earliest singles they went by Split Ends).

* Split Enz (spelled that way specifically as a [[Shout-Out]] to their home country of New Zealand. Also, for a few of their earliest singles they went by Split Ends).

* Mercyful Fate. It may just be misspelt, though.

* Alcatrazz

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