Band Name Generator

[Martyn R]

Some belters in there 🤣

[redbandit599]

Skirt Tunnel, Lovers Plums and Groaning Toss....all memorable suggestions 🤣

Almost as addictive as the Sandberg configurator! 

Edited March 9 by redbandit599

[Downunderwonder]

Shook Swizzle was the pick of 3 goes

[bass_dinger]

On 04/03/2025 at 08:26, KingBollock said:

Thinking of using paint names

 

Pop into B&Q and pick up a few paint sample cards. The "white" names tend to lend themselves to acoustic folk bands, so Dulux white gives us Rock Salt, Timeless, Porcelain Doll, Summer Linen, Vintage Chandelier, Letters Unread, Feather Flock, Celtic Cream.

   

Green is more varied.  Try prog Rock band Sophisticated Sage, girl-punk-band Overtly Olive, Bardcore covers band Antique Map,  High School band Valley Rock.

 

The variety is very wide - and I am amused by the idea that there are people who are professional Paint Namers.

 

 

[prowla]

As an aside, I watched Mortimer & Whitehouse; they were discussing some random topic and Bob Mortimer came up with the comment "water isn't sentient".

[Stub Mandrel]

It's asking me for a logon?

[LowB_FTW]

46 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

It's asking me for a logon?

Same. It's been working previously but now just says 'Coming Soon' and a login box underneath.

 

Mark

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Its offline at the moment while I'm tidying up the code and editing down the word lists. It should be back up & running within a few days.

[prowla]

8 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Its offline at the moment while I'm tidying up the code and editing down the word lists. It should be back up & running within a few days.

"Offline!"

[Stub Mandrel]

12 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Its offline at the moment while I'm tidying up the code and editing down the word lists. It should be back up & running within a few days.

 

The Moment (Dr Who fans?)

 

Up and Running would be a good name, albeit four syllables.

[paulbuzz]

On 04/03/2025 at 08:21, Rosie C said:

 

I'm going with "The Switchblade Dog Experience"  👍

Weirdly, there are a few unanticipated gems here and there amongst the intentionally cliched and generic pub-rock dross.

http://greenwax.co.uk/pubrock_bandname_generator/

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The pub rock band name generator has a total of 118 words in its source lists so all names it generates will be a combination of these words:

 

Whisky, No#, Love, Risky#, Loose, Dream, Bad, Rebel, Poison, The~Last, Last, Swamp, Easy, Dirty, Rough, The~Usual, Dodgy, Funky, Strange, Heavy, Mighty, Main, Missing, Bar, Groovy, Reckless, Lost, Last, Special, Royal, Real, Secret, Second, Fabulous, Double, Red, Black, White, Raging, Wild, Shady, Slippery, Lazy, Dangerous, Dark, Repeat, Twisted, Hot, Final, Highway, Smoking, Switchblade, Fatal, Stiletto, Renegade, Backroom, Diesel, Silver, Lone, Rattlesnake, Random, Manic, Critical

 

Exit, Wind, Riders, Rider, Business, Vigilantes, Rebels, Assassin, Assassins, Money, Suspect, Suspects, Justice, Practice, Bullets, Stranger, Freak, Freaks, Street, Fever, Rain, Brothers, Fire, Offender, Offenders, Endeavour, Angel, Angels, Gods, Deal, Cat, Cats, Dog, Dogs, Spirit, Shot, Monkey, Monkeys, Fever, Rat, Rats, 45, 66, Horizon, Affair, Fate, Satellites, Highway, Haze, Street, Snakes, Poison, Chance, Change, Elevators

[paulbuzz]

4 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

The pub rock band name generator has a total of 118 words in its source lists so all names it generates will be a combination of these words:

 

Whisky, No#, Love, Risky#, Loose, Dream, Bad, Rebel, Poison, The~Last, Last, Swamp, Easy, Dirty, Rough, The~Usual, Dodgy, Funky, Strange, Heavy, Mighty, Main, Missing, Bar, Groovy, Reckless, Lost, Last, Special, Royal, Real, Secret, Second, Fabulous, Double, Red, Black, White, Raging, Wild, Shady, Slippery, Lazy, Dangerous, Dark, Repeat, Twisted, Hot, Final, Highway, Smoking, Switchblade, Fatal, Stiletto, Renegade, Backroom, Diesel, Silver, Lone, Rattlesnake, Random, Manic, Critical

 

Exit, Wind, Riders, Rider, Business, Vigilantes, Rebels, Assassin, Assassins, Money, Suspect, Suspects, Justice, Practice, Bullets, Stranger, Freak, Freaks, Street, Fever, Rain, Brothers, Fire, Offender, Offenders, Endeavour, Angel, Angels, Gods, Deal, Cat, Cats, Dog, Dogs, Spirit, Shot, Monkey, Monkeys, Fever, Rat, Rats, 45, 66, Horizon, Affair, Fate, Satellites, Highway, Haze, Street, Snakes, Poison, Chance, Change, Elevators

 

Alright, Buzz Killington 😁 I know this since I made it - some time around 2003 I think 😯 

My frog is dissected! The repetition and endless recycling is supposed to be in the spirit of dreary pub-rock bands and is kinda the whole point - its purpose is very different to your generator, which could potentially actually be useful! 😁

Edited March 16 by paulbuzz

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Apologies, I wasn't intending to do a downer on it, I thought the list of source words was very interesting, and you seem to have collected all the pub rock cliche words.

[Stub Mandrel]

The easiest Band Name Generator is for Southern Rock. The basic algorithm is "Black" + <noun>.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

My 'Band Name Generator' is now up & running on its own domain: https://bandname.uk

 

My two source lists currently have just over 17000 words in total, with a theoretical 130 million combinations.

 

The original lists were just under double the current size and It is likely that I'll reduce the number of words further in the future to improve the quality of the generated names.

[LowB_FTW]

6 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

My 'Band Name Generator' is now up & running on its own domain: https://bandname.uk

 

I keep getting an error after the first page generated and I'm clicking to generate more …

'Safari can't open the page https://bandname.uk. The error is : "cannot parse response" (NSURLErrorDomain-1017)

 

Mark

[paulbuzz]

27 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

The easiest Band Name Generator is for Southern Rock. The basic algorithm is "Black" + <noun>.

Ya, as long as the noun isn't 'rights' or 'representation'... (looking at you, the modern-day travesty that calls itself Lynyrd Skynyrd...)

IN BEFORE THE LOCK!

(Retires to safe distance)
 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

38 minutes ago, LowB_FTW said:

I keep getting an error after the first page generated and I'm clicking to generate more …

'Safari can't open the page https://bandname.uk. The error is : "cannot parse response" (NSURLErrorDomain-1017)

 

Mark

Thanks for the heads-up. I've not been able to reproduce this on Safari MacOS 18.3.1, or whatever versions are on my phone & iPad, but I have added some additional header info into the page which might help.

 

Can you do a hard reload of the page and see whether it is any better now?

 

 

Edited March 16 by Jean-Luc Pickguard

[paulbuzz]

38 minutes ago, LowB_FTW said:

I keep getting an error after the first page generated and I'm clicking to generate more …

'Safari can't open the page https://bandname.uk. The error is : "cannot parse response" (NSURLErrorDomain-1017)

 

Mark

All good for me (Windows/Firefox).
Nice one J-LP

[LowB_FTW]

It still errors on Safari (it is an old version though) I have just tried in the latest Firefox and it worked as expected, so I'd likely put this down to my version of Safari on this Mac - which itself is old, I'll try my iMac later, I'm not expecting any issues there TBH.

 

Mark

Edited March 16 by LowB_FTW
Too Many Typos

[Stub Mandrel]

Certainly good for a laugh!

Satins Pores (which I read as Satan's Pores..) would make an interesting pairing with Bitch Biblist.

I can anticipate some controversial combinations, rearranging some of the examples I was given! Perhaps remove the odd word from the list (e.g. 'migrant' could get paired with various words to upset people on all shades of the political spectrum!)

 

Finally, "Greek Ajax" - quite an accurate pairing!

 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Thanks, I've kept several *unsavoury* words in for comic effect, but I've zapped 'migrant' now as can carry a bit of 'daily express' baggage. I'll probably do another sweep of the word lists at some point to tighten them up further

[paulbuzz]

30 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Thanks, I've kept several *unsavoury* words in for comic effect, but I've zapped 'migrant' now as can carry a bit of 'daily express' baggage. I'll probably do another sweep of the word lists at some point to tighten them up further

Haha! It's an unavoidable feature of random generators, I think. After all, unexpectedly striking combinations are pretty much the goal.

Even with the super-limited wordlist in the pubrock band name generator, a few questionable suggestions do pop up occasionally.
Safe to say I don't think I'll be auditioning for The White Vigilantes any time soon. 😮

Jean-Luc, how have you been weeding the word lists for your generator? Surely not by hand?

Edited March 16 by paulbuzz

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I made an edit page that lists the words contained in the txt file in a huge form on the screen with a delete button next to each, plus a floating bit at the top with controls - a dropdown to select the txt file to edit, a dropdown to instantly jump to the words with a specific initial letter, an undo button (to reverse accidental deletions) and a save button to commmit the changes. It was designed to work best on my iPhone and anytime I'm half watching TV or listening to music I can go through a bit of one of the lists very easily. Its a bit like Macro Data Refinement — sometimes a word just 'feels' like it should be removed or kept.

 

 

Edited March 17 by Jean-Luc Pickguard