Why is picking a band name so bloody hard?

[Teebs]

3 hours ago, Si600 said:

My current band, ...it's a German band, in Germany...

Best sort of German band, I find

[Si600]

You know exactly what I meant Young Teebs!

[Barking Spiders]

S' easy . Two words,  second word, name of a small to medium mammal or insect (just small, unless you've seen a medium or large one).  First word, pretty much any adjective of your choice.  Job done.

[Twigman]

1 minute ago, Barking Spiders said:

S' easy . Two words,  second word, name of a small to medium mammal or insect (just small, unless you've seen a medium or large one).  First word, pretty much any adjective of your choice.  Job done.

"Tasty Vole"

"Sexy Cockroach"

"Murderous Shrew"

 

 

no - it's not working

 

[Ant1972]

11 minutes ago, Twigman said:

"Murderous Shrew"

I'm not naming a band after my wife!

[Crusoe]

2 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Don't worry @Newfoundfreedom, this is not just a band thing. Even with something far less important, and no copyright worries people have problems coming up with names. I run a few charity pub quizzes and asking people (not regular quizzers) for a team name is like swimming through mud. The worst is when someone thinks of something stunningly original (like Norfolk n' Chance) 😒

"Hello Cleveland! We are Swimming Through Mud!" Any glam covers band looking a name, you can have that one on me (us)

[Twigman]

"Mundane Mouse"

"Boring Caterpillar"

"Doubtful Wasp"

 

 

Still not working

[Newfoundfreedom]

56 minutes ago, Teebs said:

What was your band called?

They called it Anarchy. It still makes me cringe. It was the late 80's and we were all into heavy metal. But even then the whole Anarchy thing, and name, had been beaten to death. 

[Monkey Steve]

@Barking Spiders is completely correct

best name of any band I was ever in:

Exploding Monkey

[Newfoundfreedom]

Sexy Badger

[toneknob]

Yes got their name because one of them thought short name = bigger letters on billboard outside gig

It's than Mabel Greer's Toyshop anyway

 

[Teebs]

Dissolute llama (jama)

[toneknob]

And my best advice is decide on the name before forming the band, so it doesn't get done by committee.

Proof - my last band was called Velcro Pelmet (by committee and approx 1 million emails)

[Twigman]

"Dry Sloth"

[Twigman]

"Optimistic Mayfly"

[stewblack]

Take a book of the shelf (randomly) open it. I just did it first thing that caught my eye ... Heyday. great band name. It actually doesn't matter because a crap name in the end becomes associated with the band never the other way around. Look at Oasis. Before they chose that name only dreadful cheesy low rent Crème brûlée types would call themselves Oasis, but pretty soon the name was associated with the coolest band in the country.

Yes, they were, for a while.

[Si600]

Vertiginous Mongoose

[FinnDave]

7 hours ago, visog said:

 I like 'Elbow' but their name is ridiculous...

I've never heard of them, but you'd thing they might pick a better part of the anatomy.

Personally, I'd recommend picking Nose.

Edited November 28, 2019 by FinnDave

[stewblack]

I have always been brilliant at coming up with band names but have been hamstrung but idiot bandmates who can't see how great I am.

Here's some I recently had rejected which i'm offering in a Black Friday fire sale at just £10 each:

Voodoo Baboon

Human Angle

The Natural

Black swan

Death Threat

Road Of Bones

 

[Twigman]

1 minute ago, stewblack said:

 

Here's some I recently had rejected which i'm offering in a Black Friday fire sale at just £10 each:

 

 

Bob Mortimer knocks his out for £8 a go even when it's not Black Friday

[stewblack]

1 minute ago, Twigman said:

Bob Mortimer knocks his out for £8 a go even when it's not Black Friday

Yes but they aren't premium though. Mine are premium.

[redbandit599]

10 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Yes but they aren't premium though. Mine are premium.

'Premium Slice' - that's pretty good and only £9 with a discount code.

[stewblack]

I have some economy £5 names as well

Munich Widow 

Big Pharma

Hollow Marsh

Proof 

Favorina

Humble Crumb

and of course Black Friday. 

[stewblack]

and it's two for one on the following £6.99 

Drive By Clive 

Catalyst 

Boner

Best Dress Bessy

Bang Bang Orangutan 

Gulag Gladrags 

Mushroom Kaboom 

Sweet tooth 

[stewblack]

I can throw in 'e' which was left when The Weeknd couldn't afford the full name.