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Dear friends, help me name my new band, a standard indie-pop (for lack of a better quick description) quartet of drums-bass-guitars-organs that will play primarily my original songs, maybe with the occasional cover tossed in. Some suggestions we've tossed around today include those below, but I don't care. And mostly, I want to get this figured out. I barely care. Have your choice selected and I will give you a cut of all future riches (aka debt) from our shows and recordings.

The Beau Mondes
Bill the Drummer
C. Thomas Pow
The Cat's Pyjamas
The Fire Tapes
Say Dada
Schaedenfreude
See More Glass
The Semantics

Or suggest your own. Whatever.

 

The Beau Mondes (Cool. But hey, I'm French  :-D)
Bill the Drummer (I just don't like it)
C. Thomas Pow (Who?)
The Cat's Pyjamas (Why not... We've seen worse, plus, the idea of a cat wearing pyjamas somehow makes me laugh)
The Fire Tapes (Too "cliché")
Say Dada (You wouldn't be taken seriously!)
Schaedenfreude (Um, no. I can't manage to pronounce it.  :-\)
See More Glass (Cool name idea. Where does that come from?)
The Semantics (I like this one. The best of your list IMO)


I could have suggested a name, but I'm keeping it for my own band  ;D

I hope my selection will be helpful, and good luck!  :)

Joke on the name of C. Thomas Howell, an actor in horrid 80s movies. I don't know why Pow instead of Howell. My friend suggested it. I laughed.

Hardly my biggest concern! But nobody else likes it either, so...

A JD Salinger short story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," in which a little girl mispronounces the name "Seymour Glass" to her mother.

Thanks for the thoughts. I look forward to anyone's, too. I want to get this figured out within a day or so.

The Cat's Pyjamas sounds like a good name for a "standard indie-pop quartet". Lots of those names are pretty annoying, especially Bill the Drummer and The Fire Tapes.

How about the Lutherans?  :lol Sorry...couldn't resist!

I'll give you a real answer later...lemme think for a while...

Stiff Proposition...

I liked (in order):

1) C. Thomas Pow
2) See More Glass
3) The Cat's Pyjamas

I live to annoy. Well, not TO annoy, but I do annoy in the process of living.

By the way, I like the name Bill the Drummer, especially since my drummer's name is Bill, and he's in about thirty-fucking-bazillion bands. He's brilliant. He deserves a band name. He's a goshdarn cartoon character, and the second-best drummer I've ever met (to J.T. Bates, a Minneapolis jazz drummer who is brilliant).

Im a little offended...Thomas C. Howell was a GREAT actor. He did such classics as ET, The Outsiders, Sideout & Soul Man.

So take it back!

I like this one.

hey Luther - here are some names i came up with when i was swimming this morning........

The Cow-Towners
Fetus Car Park Incident
Alanis Was My Mentor
"Man, It's Cold"
Hunting For Swedes
Don't Foda With The Formula
Whatever happened to Ellen Kay
I Prefer Their Earlier Stuff   (that's the name of our pop quiz team many years ago)
Beavis Boxset
Big Lake, Minnesota
Are we missing JB yet?
"Till I Fry
Herman and the Lutherettes
Pot Roast Catastrophe
Bombarding Elephants  (a missheard quote from an old physics lesson -(should be elements of course-  my sister and I were going to call our group this!!!!)

Well that's my list
Cheers
Pete

How about "The Be-Sharps"?

But seriusly, you could do it like R.E.M. did: take a dictionary, close your eyes and point at a random page.

the small faeces

How about: Luther and the fantabulous 3.

Sometimes someone will utter some remark or phrase and I will immediately be struck with the thought.....................What a great name for a band!!  But I never write them down so I soon forget.

Might I suggest.........

Olivia Mutant John

Crankshaft

The Pismires

if you can add two  more people to yoru band you can be

luther and the fantabulous five!

The game is over and we have a winner, based on my thoughts, some friends' thoughts, some of these posts and, quite frankly, name availability based on some Google searches, etc. The band is...

The Beau Mondes

We'll get a myspace page up with some demos, anyway, in the near future. Thanks for all your comments. If you don't like the name, f*** off.

what does that mean

Shouldn't that be beaux mondes if you're going plural with this???? - or should it just be the Beau Monde  (fashionable elite???)
How about "the Pendantics!!!!"

Shut up, Pete.   ;)

And Joe, Pete is right as to the meaning: fashionable elite...which we are anything but on all counts. Well, we're elitists, but undeservingly so. And we're wholly unfashionable. All around, a perfect name. (Although most of my friends hate it. Luckily, I hate them.)

Such terrible band names have been suggested here.  :-D

i think someones jealous they didnt think of 'luther and the fantabulous five' first...

jus sayin! :shrug

Pete, I would combine your suggestionwith mine and name the band

pedantic pismires

or beaux jovi

BEAUX JOVI wins in my book.