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23 August 2007

This has nothing to do with anything, but I noticed something cool the other night. A project I'm working on requires me to come up with an assload of fake band names. And out of the blue, it hit me one night that MeFi/MeCha handles often sound like very serviceable band names...→[More:]

Consider:
Interrobang
Stavros and the Wonderchickens
Cortex
The Pink Superheroes
The Scodies
The Blazecock Pileons
The Birdherders
the Unixrats
Cookiebastard
Weapons-Grade Pandemonium
The Specklets
the Boring Postcards
the Small Ruminants

It's a bottomless treasure trove!

post by: cobra! at: 13:46 | 27 comments

I've got to say that I would totally go see a band called Cobra! if I saw that name on a telephone pole....

posted by dersins 23 August | 13:48

Where I'm from there actually was a band named Cobra! The coolest thing they ever did was play a "secret" show in an abandoned lot.

posted by drezdn 23 August | 13:53

Cobra!'s a pretty exclusive band. We only play heavy metal bar mitzvahs.

posted by cobra! 23 August | 14:02

Was Destro there?

posted by dersins 23 August | 14:04

What kind of project is this? I want to work on this kind of project.

Also, I am SO good at naming lipstick colors, if anyone's interested.

posted by iconomy 23 August | 14:08

yay! I'm a band!

posted by small_ruminant 23 August | 14:12

What kind of project is this? I want to work on this kind of project.

It's this; I'll be giving it the full MeFi Projects/General Internet Trumpetry in a few weeks, when I've got more installments up.

posted by cobra! 23 August | 14:13

Ooo that's going to be good. I laughed out loud. The Awesome Boys...hee. And...Jim Russo reminds me of cortex for some reason.

So if they ever decides to start wearing lipstick and you need color names, you know who to come to ;)

posted by iconomy 23 August | 14:26

I'd go see a band called "My Goth Laundry"--it would either be the best show ever or a glorious disaster.

posted by crush-onastick 23 August | 14:31

Weretable and the Undead Chairs
Four Panels
Turtles All the Way Down
the Hama 7
Armitage Shanks
WolfDaddy (and the Wolfdogs ?)
the Cold Chefs
the Ambrosia Voyeurs
Poolio
Homuncuus
Flapjax at Midnite
Pot and Kettle

and from the MonkeyFilter...
the Tracicles
the Pete Bests
the Hawthorne Wingos
Kitfistos
Blue Horses
Beeswacky
Kokos
Some Wander by Mistake

and a 10 point bonus if you use
It's Raining Florence Henderson

posted by wendell 23 August | 14:32

as for ME, you're probably better off with an anagram:
the End Wells
the New Dells
the Nell Weds

and my 'alternate' identity, One Swell Foop, somebody already named a band in real life...

posted by wendell 23 August | 14:39

The amp detail is great.

posted by ethylene 23 August | 14:43

Ooo that's going to be good. I laughed out loud. The Awesome Boys...hee. And...Jim Russo reminds me of cortex for some reason.

Thanks! The Rosso panel is the most autobiographical; I really did have a guy give me that monologue once at a tryout, and it brought on instant and total horror.

The amp detail is great.
And also thanks (thanks also?)! I put way, way too much thought into exactly what equipment every character would have, and it was fun. Like going gear shopping without having to spend any money.

the Hama 7
You know they'd bring out an ornate, well-put-together show and people would either love 'em or hate 'em.

posted by cobra! 23 August | 14:49

Dee and the Hartungs. It's a sixties girl group, doing goth music.

posted by dhartung 23 August | 15:25

That's GREAT, cobra! Heh heh.

posted by BoringPostcards 23 August | 15:47

the best show ever or a glorious disaster.

Story of my life! Especially the last part!

posted by mygothlaundry 23 August | 15:57

Can I be an all-girl Japanese pop trio?

posted by Miko 23 August | 15:57

Damn straight you can.

posted by cobra! 23 August | 16:14

Whee! I am a power pop quartet with mod undertones, featuring jangly guitars and lyrics with obscure references to early 20th-century European design movements!

posted by scody 23 August | 16:44

That does it. I'm changing my nick to Andrew and the Flaring Nostrils.

posted by chewatadistance 23 August | 19:20

What's your project? I'm into fake band T-shirts, myself. I've got a list, too.

posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 23 August | 20:29

brainrabies? Courtsey Eid.

posted by rainbaby 23 August | 22:56

It's a bottomless treasure trove!

I demand a topless treasure trove!

posted by trondant 23 August | 23:41

Topless Treasure Trove would be a good name for a band.

Or, at least their video should be interesting.

posted by taz 24 August | 00:10

Never mind. I take it back. It's really more like the result of Hooters buying out Red Lobster, which is the opposite of a band. Unless it's a band of topless pirates. Arrrrgh.

posted by taz 24 August | 00:12

What's your project? I'm into fake band T-shirts, myself. I've got a list, too.

It's a comic about a band; first part's here.

Speaking of topless and bottomless treasure troves, I suddenly remembered that I went through a streaking phase in college and turned a couple of parties into bottomless treasure troves, and it was decidedly Not A Good Thing.

posted by cobra! 24 August | 08:56

I'd like my band to be Ico and the Nominals. They play raw underground house fused with minimal Japanese trance.

I have no idea what that means, but it fits the name.

posted by iconomy 24 August | 11:44

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