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does the band have to be signed to qualify?

if not, then i have possibly the worst, and it's my own band's name

T.E.S

which is short for Tragic Elephant Suicide

danfeeneyuk | 23 Mar '04, 22:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I like that name! Its quite moving in a way.

Heres some others ive thought of:
Shed 7
Sum 41
Blink 182 (Where did this thing with adding numbers to the end come from??)
Oasis
The Stands
Sweatmaster
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit
From autumn to ashes
Funeral for a friend
Further seems forever
(Uhh how i hate these post-hardcore bands with their "emotionally charged" band names with too many F's)

ultraglideinblack | 23 Mar '04, 23:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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linkin park is cool! and whats with names: puddle of mud, brand new, hoobastank, shortie, grade 8, blink 182, 50 cent, and kid rock?

MyMeTaLMuLiShA | 2 Apr '04, 01:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh come on! They just took the name "Lincoln Park" from outside some shithole and dumbed it down for the text messaging generation. Twats.

ultraglideinblack | 2 Apr '04, 01:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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well excuse me! big shot 19 year old! geeze! take a chill pill dude. im just say'n.

MyMeTaLMuLiShA | 2 Apr '04, 02:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Sorry mate, just venting some steam over this Glasto mess.

ultraglideinblack | 2 Apr '04, 09:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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whatever, i wont take it that personal then.

MyMeTaLMuLiShA | 2 Apr '04, 18:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm gonna have to say Funeral For a Friend is the ultimate in shit band names. When I was first told about them it took the person in question several minutes to convince me they were actually real.

Honourable mentions:
All-American Rejects
Mike and the Mechanics
Eagles of Death Metal
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

and probably a few others...

Smileadelic | 25 Mar '04, 15:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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New Rhodes

great band, but the name is pants. it can't possibly mean anything, surely?!

timothyspanner | 25 Mar '04, 15:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think The Beatles is pretty crap. It's like The Beetles except with a Beat! How COOL!

And Oasis. How fucking poignant/ironic. Beauty found in the midsts of such horror. Yeah right.

Yeah, basically you can say that every band name is crap.
Which makes this the thread for fun fun fun people!

-Raz- | 25 Mar '04, 15:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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mogwai. it's a baby fucking gremlin.

timothyspanner | 25 Mar '04, 16:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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btw i think james said that they were called the rhodes but found out that it was taken. their old name Governor Fuzz was ten times worse.

fullerov | 18 Apr '04, 20:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Some more crimes against band naming:

The Lanes - feeble!
The Stills - pathetic!
Chikinki - repulsive!
Brand new - boooring!
The Used - fucking post-hardcore bands!
Span - great band but thats a rubbish name.
3 doors down - uuhhh awful!
Barenaked ladies - hahahaha, how amusing.
Ben folds five - how ironic, a 3-piece band but it says 5 in the name, genius!!!
Fear Factory - ooooo..
Travis - clearly not a metal band.
Metallica - was that a joke?
Puddle of Mudd - if i remember correctly, they acquired this utter travesty of a name when they needed to come up with one quickly before a gig and saw a puddle of mud on the floor. Thats what i call a moment of inspiration!! Why the fuck did they spell it wrong anyway? to appeal to "the kids" i presume - wankers.

ultraglideinblack | 25 Mar '04, 16:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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im just say'n that i think Metallica is a pretty sick name. its cool.

MyMeTaLMuLiShA | 2 Apr '04, 02:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Black Rebel Motorcycle club is a cool band name. The Wild One is one of Brando's seminal films and a cult classic. If you haven't seen it already make a point of it, then you'll be able to appreciate better why BRMC called themselves that. However, if you're already familiar with the film career of the great Marlon and you still think it's a crap band name then boo hoo...

Jared | 25 Mar '04, 17:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yes, Brando is one of my all-time favourite actors. Yes, I have seen "The Wild One". Yes, I still think it's a crap name. I'm sorry, I just find it poseur-ish to the point of being plain silly. I mean, surely even The Black Rebels would have been okay-ish? They just had to go one better and bung "Motorcycle Club" on the end of it just so everyone knows how cool, underground and outlaw-ish they are. It's like, "Look at us! We referenced a '50s biker movie in our name! Aren't we cool?? Like us, pleeeeeaaase!!".

So yeah, boo hoo indeed :)

Smileadelic | 25 Mar '04, 18:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Youcodenameis:milo

your bandnameisfucking:pretentious more like

Bjcm | 25 Mar '04, 20:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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your bandnameisfucking:pretentious - ahahah that made me laugh

Shit Band Names:

Nightmares on Wax - sure the name sounds amazing, but when you listen to the music it's just so fucking unsuitable. Thanks again NoW, for ripping me off 7 quid to buy your shit album.

Massive - when one of the best bands ever have to change their amazing name due to some shit war... censorship is annoying (Massive Attack)

The Thrills - Not very thrilling

Other honourable mentions...

Stereophonics
Shed 7
etc.

Brr

death1david | 7 Apr '04, 20:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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We'll have to agree to disagree then (the band are pretty piss poor though, my mate went to see them in Sheffield and they were both in the same late nite bar after the gig, when the bar closed at two they went back to my mates house and partied til about 5 (rawk n' rol, man). One of the band went through my mate's mainly indie based CD collection and the only one he was interested in was fuckin' Ultravox! Ultravox? Pretentious cunt!).

Truly shit band names include 'the Darkness' ( mainly because there's nothing fuckin' "dark" about them, bunch of inbred wimps) and Budapest (ripping of Joy Division, who used to be called Warsaw, isn't original and isn't clever. What next? Bands called Stalingrad? Minsk? Kiev? Why do they think Warsaw changed their name? Cos it was shit. Inane references to Eastern Europe are so bourgeois!).

Incidently whatever happenned to 'em (Budapest, I mean, not those Norfolk nobs)? Anyone know?

Jared | 25 Mar '04, 21:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Elastic bands are crap.

FcNikney_Man | 25 Mar '04, 21:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Apparently the Darkness chose their name in attempt to be deeply ironic as there was nothing at all dark about them. I think the Goodness would have been more suitable.

ultraglideinblack | 25 Mar '04, 22:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think I read that the guitarist from Budapest hanged himself. Suddenly 'ripping off Joy Division' doesn't seem so funny...

tommymack | 26 Mar '04, 13:10 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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all the greebo bands, like cater unstoppable sex machine, jesus jones, neds atomic dustbin, new fast automatic daffodils, the soup dragons, ethyl meatplow....shit music, shit image, shit names. would have to be up their in the pointless music genre stakes...

haveyouforgotten | 26 Mar '04, 10:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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LoL, thats a excellent list. ethyl meatplow?? Kinda straddles the line between fucking awful and downright genius. Bet they thought they were shrouding themselves in mystery by choosing a name like that - bit like biffy clyro. I thought it was some old Scottish hero at first but didn't they get it when they found a biro with cliff written on it? Deary me..

ultraglideinblack | 26 Mar '04, 12:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh no yyoure not suggesting *shudder to think*

Sponerism names

ahhhhh - please no anything but....

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 10:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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gosh im dyspraxic

spOOnerism

argh.

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 10:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hmm spoonerism. is it good or bad?
"Shit name" would become "Nit Shame"...intriguing.
I wonder if other bands have tried this approach - the possibilities are endless!

ultraglideinblack | 2 Apr '04, 11:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"Cunning Stunts" would therefore become "Stunning Cunts".....

I bet that one's been used before......

waterwings | 9 Apr '04, 17:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'm in a ska band and I think our names licks hairy balls...

"Jodie Rocks"

Jodie is a real person and can be found at most of our gigs. She is an awesome friend of our band - however, perhaps we could have thought up a better name. (In my oppinion!)

I'm up against 4 blokes who think the name is the best god-damn band name they'r eever heard, though... It's hard to bring about change when faced with a situation like this...

Ezra | 27 Mar '04, 07:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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surferosa is the worst band name i've ever heard. They surely nicked it off the Pixies album. And theyre shite.

CaviarAndCigarets | 27 Mar '04, 22:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah surferosa has to be up there with the truly bad names. Its like calling your band "inutero" or "okcomputer" or something! Sucking the cock of a band thats sure to remain much better than you is just plain nauseating.

ultraglideinblack | 28 Mar '04, 19:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ive recently discovered this great band only problem is there name: Trap 2 it's like a 'nu metal' band name.

deeleytempleclause | 28 Mar '04, 19:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I saw a band called Forgotten Road, they were about sixteen, I think they've changed it to Evolution now. Others of note include:

Mesd
Creed
The Bandits
Staind
Live
Montrose Avenue
McFUCKINGKinney

Argel | 29 Mar '04, 16:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Did you mean Mest? i.e the head-fuckingly shit pop-punk fools that sound like they aspire to Good Charlotte? Oh yea and Good Charlotte has to be up there with the wimpiest band names in existance, possibly along with *yawn* Brand New. did anyone hear about Simple Plan - they got their name because, you know, they have a simple plan (to play pop-punk at a below-average standard). Whatever happened to band names like Cannibal Corpse you fucking pansies?

ultraglideinblack | 29 Mar '04, 16:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Incidently, that last comment was aimed at the bands, not you guys!

ultraglideinblack | 29 Mar '04, 16:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I think McKinney is a genius name. They're named after Joyce McKinney, the first woman to ever be convicted of rape.

FcNikney_Man | 29 Mar '04, 22:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It'd be nice if it wasn't always possible to deduce a band's sound from their name.

If only, say, decapitated were a synth pop group, and ladytron were some form of death metal band (and so-on), discovering new music could be some much more interesting!

polko | 29 Mar '04, 23:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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*so much more interesting

polko | 29 Mar '04, 23:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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How about Longview? Did anyone else think that was a Green Day tribute band? Bland indie toss more like.

ultraglideinblack | 30 Mar '04, 16:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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how bout the rasmus thats a pretty shit name lol :P

slipknot_mm | 29 Mar '04, 17:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i don't really go for dul names, that's why i like saying things like 'Half Man Half Biscuit' and 'Hideous Wheel Invention' and so on...

but i must say i am very bemused by:

CRISPY AMBULANCE

thommo | 29 Mar '04, 22:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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crispy ambulance was so funny i almost lost bladder control but onwards to crap names :

- Swinging Blue Jeans (album covers often emblazoned with said garments swinging on a washing line...)
- Chumbawumba (fuck me that's terrible, also has albums with graphic depiction of childbirth, *shudder* any worst album cover thread should surely have aforementioned things in to be complete)
- A (i wonder how many things they struck off their list and that was the best)
- Orgy (oooo they must be good 0_o)

- and as already mentioned anything like 'Live', 'The Music' , or 'Brand New' because it just causes confusion and difficulty in record stores etc.

pinkrubberduck | 17 Apr '04, 03:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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apparantly Chumbawumba was a word that a chimpanzee wrote on a typewriter in an scientific experiment about probability. You know, the infinite number of monkeys theory? That if you place them in front of an infinite number of typewriters they'll end up writing Hamlet and Wuthering Heights and Trout Mask Replica, or something.

i wonder if that's where Burning Love Jumpsuit got their name from...

thommo | 17 Apr '04, 18:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i am aware of the infinite monkeys at typewriters theory .. 'it was the best of times...it was the blurst of times' *smacks monkeys in head* etc :D

chumbawumba, terrible band, terrible name still, despite there being monkeys involved (i never thought there would come a day where i would hate something that involved that marsupial)

pinkrubberduck | 17 Apr '04, 18:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"It is the East, and Juliet is the a;ourszyfym;hga\t78chumbawumba..."
*screeches*

thommo | 17 Apr '04, 20:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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muahhahha :D

pinkrubberduck | 17 Apr '04, 20:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Can't believe Sahara Hotnights haven't been mentioned in this thread. I quite like them but its a god awful name.

And nights in the Sahara are reportedly cold or is that part of the point?

crosbysleftear | 30 Mar '04, 00:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I guess that was the point. I think its quite a clever name because you have to know that Sahara nights are cold for it to make sense. If the band can warm up Sahara nights, they can warm up anything!

ultraglideinblack | 30 Mar '04, 10:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Atombombpocketknife

Wow, deep and meaningful maaan..

ultraglideinblack | 30 Mar '04, 00:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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This is far too bloody easy. Why don't some of you be brave and give us some GOOD band names? Or would that be sticking your necks out too far? I'll get the ball rolling.

What about Anal Cunt? That has a ring to it (guffaw, chortle, snigger)

Youdontknow | 30 Mar '04, 14:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I love the name "Neutral Milk Hotel", although most people would probably have that in their "worst name" list. They're actually disappointingly boring considering they have such an interesting name. I expected Mogwai meets DJ Shadow (God knows why!) but got some bland acoustic nonsense. Good thing I only downloaded... ;-)

JonathanD | 31 Mar '04, 21:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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NMH? "bland acoustic nonsense"? Really? One man's Travis is another man's Love I suppose...

Mogwai meets DJ Shadow needs to be done though :)

Smileadelic | 31 Mar '04, 22:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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childplant?? oh dear...

franz ferdinand..

No_One | 2 Apr '04, 00:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Someone was saying about naming bands after other peoples albums and gave the example of a band calling themselves OKcomputer...Ironic in that Radiohead took their name from someone elses song/album. As did Starsailor ha ha.

As for shite names I'd say Gay bikers on Acid and Butthole Surfers are up there!

senses | 2 Apr '04, 07:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i should like to contribute my ex-bands name...

(not that im bitter or anything they only support crap like million dead...)

Spoken Seen

AHHHH HOW FKN PRETENTIOUS CAN YOU GET!!?>??

oh and before that they were called

ARDENT GAZE

(ahhhh surely that racks up like a billion shit name bonus points...)

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 10:41 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ok then, some one come up with a really good band name, im under the impression that no such thing exsists unless you like the music, in which case the name automaticly becomes cool.

onionmike | 2 Apr '04, 13:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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also, i'm gunna list a load of my local bands names, i one find out which one is the the crappest! and maybe even the best. oh, and heres fun, i wonder if anyone can work out wot style of music they play from the name! here goes!

kill your heroes
kody
Awkward Silence
hentai babies
day of the fight
neglected youth
goat fister
trauma science

that'll do.

onionmike | 2 Apr '04, 13:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Pixies is a classic name, its just simple and cool, some guys are waaaay too pretentious, lost prophets? I'm not gonna say anything!

Bjcm | 2 Apr '04, 14:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Xiu Xiu

i think thats great - simple and effective... pah

and phonetically it sounds like shoe shoe...

meanwhile back in communist russia, however....

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 14:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oooh ohhh

i think Calexico is a good band name

ok so its california vs. mexico
it does go with what they sound like...

but its better than MEXIFORNIA

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 14:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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blink 182 added the numbers to the end of their band name 'coz there woz already a band called blink.

i think fightstar is a pretty crap name along with limpbicuitz, and the really stuiped 1's like steps, s club and atomic kitten who aren't around ne more (thank god)

charlies_gfriend1 | 2 Apr '04, 16:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Apparently the 182 is the number of times Al Pachino says fuck in Scarface.

Mikeyproduct | 4 Apr '04, 05:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Or Mark's ideal weight...

Or One dollar Eighty-Two is enough to get you a beer and a lap dance in Hong Kong.

Or...

Every time they get asked what it means they change it.

Ezra | 18 Apr '04, 04:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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awww come on Gay Bikers on Acid were geniuses, chaning their name to Lesbian Dopeheads on Moped's was one of the funniest things ever!

james_delve | 1 May '04, 21:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Lets keep to crap band names people. Theres a whole thread for the goodies.

Anyone got any favourites from the whole thread so far? Ethyl meatplow and crispy ambulance get my vote! So bad theyre almost genius...but not quite.

ultraglideinblack | 2 Apr '04, 17:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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When I was in college I worked in our student radio station, we used to get all sorts of rum crap sent in, but no-one topped the band called NEVERMIND who counted Ocean Colour Scene and Bon Jovi among their influences.

tommymack | 2 Apr '04, 17:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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college and uni radio stations are the worst for getting sent shit stuff
tho i dont doubt sean gets sent his share of desperate crap...

on my radio show theres a slot where we play some of the said crap we get sent for like 5 seconds
and then point all the cardiod mics toward the wall before throwing the cd's in their cases at the wall

makes a great sound

its even more fun if you pan all the mic's...

ahh i really do spoil my listeners (of which there are 14...)

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 17:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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have to say, the copperpop journals is probably the worst band name ive ever heard, and because of it i just cant bring myself to like them in any way

jimmio_jim_jim | 2 Apr '04, 17:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i hate the trend of having 'the' something or other as a band name. how unoriginal to stick the before a random word. really, u can do it with any word and u get a meaningless name thats NME friendly. the concretes, the keyboards, the postboxes, the tv's............ try it.....

blue | 2 Apr '04, 17:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i think it was to accompany the surge in punk (+circa that era) rivials...

johnny marr's 'the the' - 'corse being the favourite - what do you do if youve just exited a band named in rebellion to the 1st generation of 'the' suffixes to band names...

Neshy | 2 Apr '04, 18:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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carter the unstoppable sex machine
men without hats

i can't quite decide whether Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her is a great name or not.
For now i'll play the 'The' game:

the sounds
the tables
the purples
the mackerels
the peters
the coathangers
the ands
the shambolics
the miseries
the binmen

i like this game. i feel a thread coming on...

thommo | 3 Apr '04, 00:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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