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Band Names (opinions and ideas)

MuragoMurago Registered User regular
edited October 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So my current band is called Scarborough. Check the link at the bottom.

I say current and that's kinda silly. Me and my friend have been at the music scene for 6 years now, and have been in and out and in and out of bands...but have always remained together. Past incarnations have been:

Iscariot
Roman Holidy
Pre School Prostitutes
Saint Cloud
The Everlasting
Stoneblazed

We are going to continue our quest to becoming full time musicians, and feel that our current name just doesn't cut it. So i turn to the anonymous honesty of the PA H/A forum for either your ideas or thoughts on this name.

The Near and Now

Question

(The)Now

Star Stuff

What do you hate, what do you love? Lemme have it!

Check out www.myspace.com/scarborough -- tell me what you think!
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  • AtomBombAtomBomb Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Just visualizing a poster I would say that all of those are worse than Scarborough. Just my opinion though.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Scarborough sounds a lot better then all of them to be honest.

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Blood fart... it will get people talking.

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  • meekermeeker Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Tav wrote: »
    Scarborough sounds a lot better then all of them to be honest.

    This is what I thought.

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  • NakedZerglingNakedZergling A more apocalyptic post apocalypse Portland OregonRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    holy shit! blood fart is the best band name ever...another good name my friends and i came up with is

    R.O.T (robs one testicle)


    but i guess it helps if you know rob.

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  • AtomBombAtomBomb Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I always thought if I had a band I would name it Suck Puppet.

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  • ArikadoArikado Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Whatever you do, don't add any punctuation to the name.

    Scarborough...I'm guessing you guys must be out in New England. Either way, Scarborough sounds memorable especially since I relate it to the city.

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  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I know crap about music, but yeah, I'd stick with Scarborough. It's short, but still distinctive.

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  • locomotivemanlocomotiveman Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Constipated Testicle.

    Just what sort of band is this?

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  • VisionOfClarityVisionOfClarity Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The listed names are awful. What kind of music do you play anyway?

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  • BerserkisBerserkis Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    The list of names were really lame and bad. You need something catchy, that will stick in someones mind immediately. Scarborough at least has the pleasure of sharing the name of an inner suburb in Toronto

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    For what it's worth: I like your music. But yeah, the suggestions you had up there are pretty bad. Though "(The)Now" isn't too bad.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    What does your band sound/look like?

    I can't say I'm a fan of either of the mentioned names.

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  • MuragoMurago Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Wow, does no one read my sig? Thanks for the thoughts though.

    I'm gonna have to tell him about what you guys think. We take critique well, so this thread will be considered.

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  • RNEMESiS42RNEMESiS42 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    He even said you can hear his music by clicking the link in his sig...

    Scarborough sounds the best out of what you listed.

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  • LerageLerage Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Though Scarborough is also the name of an okish British seaside town...you'd be laughed at if you came to the UK with a name like that!

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Yeah Scarborough is some real shithole up in the Grim North. All those other names suck too.

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  • Toxin01Toxin01 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Scarborough Fair.

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  • AlexanderAlexander Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Are you going to.

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Scarborough sounds good.

    But if you want to pick one of the names up there, I would pick The Now.

    ... But then when you became oldschool you'd be The Then.

    Teehee.

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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Does anyone in the band have an interesting middle name?

    I find this is actually a pretty good method of naming a band.

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  • BlackbeardonGuitarBlackbeardonGuitar regular
    edited October 2008
    I feel like they're all trying way to hard.

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  • An-DAn-D Enthusiast AshevilleRegistered User regular
    edited October 2008
    One of the best band names I've ever heard came from my middle school teacher's band (both my middle school teachers were in rock bands...it was awesome). The band was: "Sorry About Dresden." Good stuff.


    But yeah, the names you put up in that list seem a bit...pretentious? Most of them would turn me off a band before I even listened to it (I am horribly shallow). I'd stick with Scarborough. Maybe throw in some other random word to make it exciting but still remind people of suburbs and small towns. Scarborough Death Squad, would be pretty classy.

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  • DemerdarDemerdar Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Change your genre and make it "ska - borough"

    man I am witty.

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  • Arch Guru XXArch Guru XX Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
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    This should probably be metal.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    "piping crows"

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  • shutzshutz Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Do you know what makes a good band name?

    Whatever name a successful band uses. Seriously, apart from extremely bad names, no band was particularly hindered or helped by their name, any more than they were hindered or helped by their actual talent.

    That said, one band name that came up at one point in The Writer's Block which most posters seemed to like was "Chevrolet Jackson". I will not claim credit for coming up with it (I didn't) but I'm feeling too lazy to check who it was that put it up first.

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  • Richard_DastardlyRichard_Dastardly Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    30 Inches of Guppy

    A friend and I had a running joke for about 3 weeks. We named our band after Asimov's "Robots of Dawn." Abbreviated to ROD. So, like, people would all be like, "I like ROD." or, "Dude, you just sat on my ROD!" etc. etc.

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  • MuragoMurago Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    I dunno man. MUSE is a pretty wicked name. I think that a lot of people hear and and say "wow, why the fuck didn't I think of that?" at least that's what I do. I agree that name doesn't really mean much, but lets face it, if its the first thing you know about a band, it should be striking.

    After that point, it all comes down to the music. But I digress.

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  • BlackbeardonGuitarBlackbeardonGuitar regular
    edited October 2008
    Wow the more I look at those names the more angry they make me. Roman Holidy. FUCK! Sweet Jesus, just flip open a dictionary and choose some fucking words. Then get back to playing music and hopefully being less douchetastic while playing then picking band names. God damn it, I can picture the shitty looking Hot Topic Tee for every one of those names. FUCK.

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Scarborough Massacre sounds awesome, but it doesn't "fit" his sound. If he was a metal band it would.

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  • Seaborn111Seaborn111 Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Mercy Flush.

    make it happen

    Or maybe stick with Scarborough. It's sufficient

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  • cytorakcytorak Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Small-Town Devils?

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    urahonky wrote: »
    Scarborough Massacre sounds awesome, but it doesn't "fit" his sound. If he was a metal band it would.

    The Scarborough Massacre sounds like a post-rock band to me.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2008
    I like Lip Glossary

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited October 2008
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Scarborough Massacre sounds awesome, but it doesn't "fit" his sound. If he was a metal band it would.

    The Scarborough Massacre sounds like a post-rock band to me.

    Your username sounds like a post rock band. (Not knocking it, love your username)

    Scarborough Massacre is all about blood and yelling.

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2008
    I'd suggest keeping it short, and limited to words people can spell easily.

    Also Scarborough is a place and if you're not from there I don't know I think that's just kinda silly.

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