Fall, Glimmer, Sparkle and Fade

:: Friday, October 07, 2005 ::

The Name Game

The latest lucky list contributor is Phoe:
Your mission, if you choose to accept it:
Top 5 band names that you wish you had thought up.

If anyone would like to jump into the list suggestion rotation, just throw any ideas into the comment box. This is another solid one, if only because there are so many just plain stupid band names. However, if I had been so lucky to be as stupid as them, I might be a millionaire and they would be here writing about how stupid I am. You get that?

Good.

With the millions of band names out there, here are the few I wish I had thought of first.

1. The Manic Street Preachers
- Not only is this a fantastic name, but the Manic Street Preachers have gone through everything a band could possibly go through. If you aren't familiar with their story, I highly recommend clicking the link and reading up. Unlike the other 4 names on this list, I probably couldn't have ever done this name justice. The manic part? Sure. But certainly not the music behind it.

2. The New Pornographers
- Simply calling your band the Pornographers just wouldn't do it and you obviously aren't going anywhere near the Old Pornographers as that is just super creepy.

3. Butthole Surfers
- Not because I enjoy butthole surfing, because I don't (not that there's anything wrong with that), but because you won't find a more memorable name. The one drawback is that you have are known as the guy from the Butthole Surfers for the rest of your life. You take the good with the bad I suppose. Just ask Gibby Haynes.

4. Weezer
- Just so Rivers Cuomo would have to come up with something else, hopefully as embarrassing as Butthole Surfers.

5. The Smiths
- If only because it would have then allowed me to call my next band The Jones'.

:: Ryan 4:09 PM [+] ::
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