How did you name your band?

[veggie 3.14]

Ok, this isn't a thread asking for band names, I was just curious as to how your band got it's name, how long it took etc. (Assuming you're in one.)

Fire away! :)

[j0s1ah]

i had a pool and a poolhouse.
so we called it poolhouse.
:thumb:

[moaner]

pff, my band split up...

So I don't have a band anymore.

[j0s1ah]

yeah, i moved to brazil...and we never really got too serious. lol.

[Nightvision]

Well, my current band isn't yet named, but my last band was called 'Shed Fulla Eejits' - mainly because we practiced in the lead guitarist's dad's giant shed - and the lead singer's mum called us a bunch of eejits... so we put two and two together.

[Oli_m]

My band is called Bleed The Ink.

Legend has it that our singer used one of those random name generators on the net, then our rather intellegent bass player said "its kinda like we're putting a lot of emotion into the songs we write"

putting in emotion = bleeding
Songs written = ink

bleed the ink

[Mardy]

First I used 'Avaler', french for to swallow (sexually pun intended) but I found something in a Mr. Bungle song which gave us our name today.
To good to be said here.

[KKKKKocaine]

I needed a new email address.

[RushHourSoul]

We just sat around and thought of names..

[g3goddess]

Ok, this isn't a thread asking for band names, I was just curious as to how your band got it's name, how long it took etc. (Assuming you're in one.)

Fire away! :)

ok, ours was seriously easy to do - chris, chris and bry......
Chris' And Bry IN A 3........CABINA3....was CABINA3SOME for a while - but my bf wasn't best pleased with what that entailed and the band 'bonding' sessions either. so there you go...and i know it souds rather unfortunately like that **** cursed kev brand 'cabrini'...but wat can ya do? love y'all xxx :naughty:

[IOWNU200]

well we actually ended up naming our band after a good joke about a kids mom

[mudvayne15923]

Pains Shadow

[KissMeIamSh*tFaced]

well i just added "the" infront of everything i saw... the speakers, the coke, the Patchcords... didn't work out. Now we have a pointless name with no meaning...

[veggie 3.14]

I needed a new email address.
WTF?

[IAJP]

"Innapropriatley Retro"
It was a saying for freinds of mine,
when we saw someone wearing some kind of lime green tracksuit or other mis-fitting fashion item, we would say "woah, how innapropriatley retro is that bastard wearing that suit?!"
:)the end.

[Drazinus]

First we tried many methods of thinking up names, all writing down a word, and seeing what combos we could come up with or something, then grabbing a book, turn to a page, first word on that, then keep doing it until something either funny or good would happen (when we got "finger grandma" we stopped that method) but none of it seemed to match our style of music until later that night I was expressing to my bassist that I wanted something about how my life had been like, totally ****ed up socially(lets just say I"m a tad overweight and when I was a few years younger had bad people skills) and how when you figure out there's no way you can possibly leave it, you jsut stand your ground and eventualyl good stuff will happen, and that seemed to be how it had gone with him and another person in our band and he came up with Tormented Reality, and it really seems to fit our music.

[-Draz-]

[RushHourSoul]

well i just added "the" infront of everything i saw... the speakers, the coke, the Patchcords... didn't work out. Now we have a pointless name with no meaning...

that does work sometimes, the patchcords sounds cool.

[Puzzle]

I played a comedy gig with my neighbors bnand, we were steve and the electric boogalloos.

[XemoXmoshXpitX]

just sat down and thought about it

[KKKKKocaine]

WTF?

I needed a new email address because my old one was full of spam, then I thought "lets make it really cool", so I did, then I decided it would be cool to make a band.

[Spectrum]

Our band was originally going to be called "Deaper Meanings", where everything we played had a deeper meaning of some kind. Our first CD was planned to be called "Spectrum" such that we would play a little bit of everything. Then we thought, why not just go with Spectrum, as opposed to limit ourselves simply by name? Besides, with a band name like Spectrum, we can play literally anything and everything we want simply as the nature of the band. Then we could pick and choose from there.

-Mike

[moaner]

Our band was originally going to be called "Deaper Meanings", where everything we played had a deeper meaning of some kind. Our first CD was planned to be called "Spectrum" such that we would play a little bit of everything. Then we thought, why not just go with Spectrum, as opposed to limit ourselves simply by name? Besides, with a band name like Spectrum, we can play literally anything and everything we want simply as the nature of the band. Then we could pick and choose from there.

-Mike

I don't think I'd ever go and see a Death metal band called spectrum, so you couldn't exactly be ANYTHING

[shadedlife]

i doubt i'd go see a band named spectrum if i had never heard their music. it sounds soo....blah.

[Trooper]

We stole it from the name of the Switchfoot album Beautiful Letdown.

[guitar_babe]

we just thought of weird catchy names... thats how we got miqtoast

[jopkins the monkey]

I was playing some random guitar riffs...and I messed up this one part...and I screwed up this one part, so I stopped and said "Oh ****, I just screwed that up,"...but my friend said "It wasn't what you were supposed to play...but it sounded awesome...the perfect mistake."

We screwed around with that for a little and came up with our wonderfully cliched name, "The Perfect Flaw"

[fender boy]

one day our bassist just came to us with the name tomorrows tragedy and we liked it so we used it

[Cort2003]

My band is concidering Counted Shadows. There really isn't a story behind it, but we want to make music that people can relate to. Some people have the feeling that they are excluded from society, like no one cares about them, things they've done, or their goals. But there is someone out there that cares deeply about them, and their shadow is counted. It's kind-of inspirational, to help people who feel this way, feel better about themselves.

[bloodclotsandblackholes]

umm well my main band: we were all just sitting around making fun or rap and wiggers, and we made up the first part "straight-up". then there was this old doll on top of a piano in my living room that we were sitting in so that came the second part, "dollies". so we are The Straight-Up Dollies.

secondary band: me and the guitarist were sitting in math class scribbling words on a piece of paper and matching them for something to do. we wrote down names and stuff like that too. anyways, by the end of that class, we had a name: Examining Julie.

[veggie 3.14]

Well, as me and some friends thought we'd like to start a band, but don't all currently have the instruments/ equipment necassary, (like I don't currently have an electric guitar, I'm stuck with an acoustic etc.). We were walking down to the tennis courts to play some tennis, and we just started bouncing ideas around, and eventually looked at a friends epi-pen, and saw the name Auto- Injector, we thought we could use that. It seems to be good.

/ Answers own question.

[UntoldProphecy]

Well the original band members (only one of whom remains except me) were in the pub, quite pissed and we began ending every scentence with "In accordance with the prophecy" then we started to take out scrolls, and read them as we talked. (imaginary scrolls) Thus we called them Invisible Prophecies. Later, we decided that would be a good band name. Then we changed it to Untold Prophecies cos we thought it sounded better. And thats the story as they say

[Osse]

Well... I was sitting in Geometry, staring at the word "One"... I liked it, I suggested to the rest, it stuck.

[metaliq]

Well... our name is Hollywood Death Robots.

Robots are cool, and robots who kill people are cooler, and robots who kill people from hollywood are even the coolerest then the other coolness.

HDR looks cool too. Our bassist likes the acronym better then the name. :lol:

[AHHHHHH its that tree again...]

http://www.freewebs.com/cky_mad_asha/index.htm :thumb:

EDIT :: we're not called cky_mad_asha

[veggie 3.14]

Ah, wait, we came up with a better one... Blue Demon seems to be the one that we all prefer.

[tanner4105]

My Spanish 1 teacher told us to think of 2 words and put them together and then figure out how to say it in spanish. And that's how we got Cowsponge. I forgot how to say it in spanish. :(

[KKinsane]

picked up a dictionary, used band name gens on the net, talked to band mate connal, started using anagrams, abreviations ect.

F.a.T.e : Failing All The Expectations

pretty much sums up how life is on our end, so it stuck

just try EVERYTHING, we did :)

[pig]

Not in a band but when my mates and me get together and play we call our selves electric lobster (if anyone wants to see my ideas for a cd cover email me). The name came from a hot sunny day at the beach spear fishing, stole some lobsters from a lobster trap thing, and tried to cook it by electrocuting it.

[imbay]

it was my sister's birthday, her friends came and one of them had to use the rest room to poop!! she forgot to flush it. when our lead guitarist came in to poop poo, he found this big green poo on the bowl, so we named the band green poo... :lol:

[luciferchrist]

Last Simple Days is the name of my band.

Can you guess what the name is derived from?

[BassMan182]

my band was called according to jim. our drummer was jim and a certain america sitcom had the same name. it fitted.

[Dubblebassdrum89]

we got ours because when i drum i go crazy and i look like monkey according to my band mates (lol) and "monkey" has always stuck

[BassMan182]

monkey is quite a cool name actually, i might steal it :)

[SkaRabbit]

i just randomly came out with the statement 'im scared of stop signs' then the name 'stop sign fear' came about. we used to be federal reserve which is on an american dollar i think

[Taiter]

<-- The best names are in the Bible. :thumb:

Not the taiter, the one below it. :D

[Trigger_003]

we got ours because when i drum i go crazy and i look like monkey according to my band mates (lol) and "monkey" has always stuckA bit close to the monkeys for me lol.

In one of my bands, we spent ages too long trying to decide and nobody really liked the others' suggestions, the others just weren't being serious about it, or there was a dead-lock... so I just dropped a dictionary spine-down on the table and grabbed the first word I saw... but I'm not saying it until we copyright it or something coz it's cool by us lol. :thumb:

[imbay]

i'd love to hear a band called the diapers!!
the ugly ****ty diapers!

[TheMetalWorks]

My current band's name is Helvetica.

And yes, we did get it from the computer font. It wasn't taken or anything, and the only thing musical that had taken from it was this country album 'Helvetica Bold'. Since we're a metal band, no-one would make the connection with the aforementioned country album, plus it was just cool sounding in general (And the only name we could all agree on).

[Spectrum]

I don't think I'd ever go and see a Death metal band called spectrum, so you couldn't exactly be ANYTHING
...
Good point.
...

i doubt i'd go see a band named spectrum if i had never heard their music. it sounds soo....blah.
Well, I'm thinking of changing the name to the Spectrum Project. Our band is really more of a project than a band anyway, with no necessarily set line-up, where we call on people when we need them.

-Mike

[metal master32]

I was watchin an anime(IM A DORK AND PROUD) called metropolis that kept referring to the tower of Babylon and we sat around and talked about babylon's a cool weord and thought of words that sopunded cool w/ it when we came across Black Babylon we said holy **** thats cool lets name our band that

[Griffin_Page]

It started with GJ Tunes in the elementary days, standing for me (Griffin) and my long-time friend Jesse. When we got guitars and such, we went through lame no-meaning names such as Twist of Fate and Anxiety.

Since I've been on the one-man-band thing, I've stuck with "Mithryl". Basically, mithril is the strongest metal in middle-earth, and I like how it looks with the y written in medieval fonts. Therefore, I kept it.

[Knifeboy]

Babylons boobs would be a cool band name.. hmm

[KKKKKocaine]

Babylons boobs would be a cool band name.. hmm

I will drum for you.

[veggie 3.14]

I got lead guitar!

[Knifeboy]

Now all we need is a bassist!

[veggie 3.14]

*Bump*

[UntoldProphecy]

Dibs on bass then

[WEBUILTTHISCITYONROCKANDROLL]

The Mack daddy Macks of Poon land

because we are the best at mackin on chicks.

[Myee]

Me: Hey, we should make a band
Soon to be drummer: Yes, but we'd be n00bs at it
Me: UBER n00bs!

Hence, The Uber N00bs :P (No we don't take ourselves very seriously)

[Jezen]

We screwed around with that for a little and came up with our wonderfully cliched name, "The Perfect Flaw"

OMFG JESUS ****ING CHRIST YOU KNOBHEAD YOU DIDNT COME UP WITH THAT NAME! I DID! ME! AT FIRST I WANTED "THE PERFECT ERROR", THEN MY FRIENDS SUGGESTED THAT "THE PERFECT PROBLEM" SOUNDED BETTER, AND THEN I CAME UP WITH THE SONG "THE PERFECT FLAW". YOU ARE THE BIGGEST BULL**** ARTIST EVER! YOU WANT SOME PROOF??? HERE YOU GO! FOR ALL THE PUBLIC TO SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES!
http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253402
AND THIS IS WHERE THAT SONG ORIGINATED FROM:
http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145437&page=79&pp=25

TAKE THAT YOU STUPID BULL**** ARTIST!

P.S. My band is now called 'Pendulum'

[Jezen]

The way I first came up with 'The Perfect Error' was, I was trying to think of a band name, and at the time I was heavily interested in irony and contradictions, as you can see from songs I wrote such as 'Relativity', which can be found in the songwriting and lyrics forum. Anyway I was trying to think of phrases that would make people think because it sounded out of place. I was thinking about something you would never find somewhere. Devil in Heaven, Blinding Flash of Black, etc etc etc. (I cant remember all the exact ones I thought of, I know there was one about a rainbow). My main idea was finding a problem in something perfect, but the thing is, perfect things, NEVER have problems, thus the irony and contradiction.
If you want more proof that jopkins the monkey is a thief, I can send you (whoever wants it) the conversation over MSN Messenger with 'LiZZySkYnRd7^' (A registered user of mx forums). At that time, her and myself were discussing band names, because I didn't have one, and she is an experienced writer, and had been in bands in the past.
Take that 'Jopkins the Thieving Monkey'!
Anyway, on how I came up with the name 'Pendulum', My guitarist and I were still after another band name (This was after "Perfect Error/Problem/Flaw" and "New World Order") because NWO was already taken by some dudes in the U.S. So I started rummaging the dictionary for random cool words, as I do for songwriting inspiration, and I came across 'Pendulum'. I was throwing heaps of names at Dhani (My guitarist) and he was saying no to all of them and suggesting queer names like 'Shadow Legion', but then as I mentioned the word pendulum he said "Hold that thought"
"Hold onto what?" (Humour)
"Hold that thought!"

So he comes back online and says "But how would it represent us?" and I said "Well there are plenty of great bands with meaningless names. Pendulum is just a cool word"
And so we became "Pendulum".
I am still working on the bands website:
www.pendulum.12345.com.au

TY for reading my ranting and raving.

[jools_morrissyswan]

yeah, i moved to brazil...and we never really got too serious. lol.

i'm brazilian... :wave:

[ColdFire]

We talked about having our music be the opposite of the norm. We talked about haveing an oxymoronic name.

We are an unnormal sounding band. So to be oxymoronic we are "The Norm."

[wussrocker]

OMFG JESUS ****ING CHRIST YOU KNOBHEAD YOU DIDNT COME UP WITH THAT NAME! I DID! ME! AT FIRST I WANTED "THE PERFECT ERROR", THEN MY FRIENDS SUGGESTED THAT "THE PERFECT PROBLEM" SOUNDED BETTER, AND THEN I CAME UP WITH THE SONG "THE PERFECT FLAW". YOU ARE THE BIGGEST BULL**** ARTIST EVER! YOU WANT SOME PROOF??? HERE YOU GO! FOR ALL THE PUBLIC TO SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES!
http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=253402
AND THIS IS WHERE THAT SONG ORIGINATED FROM:
http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145437&page=79&pp=25

TAKE THAT YOU STUPID BULL**** ARTIST!

P.S. My band is now called 'Pendulum'

ROFL LMFAO U PoS :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Aberrationbass]

me and my drummer went through a very large version of "the oxford english dictionary" and just looked for names................with Aberration you can see how far we got.

[Jezen]

I use a pocket maquarie. Its not small enough to fit in my pocket, but its small.

[Kirk's Puppet]

I was studying in school for my Biology mid-year exam. I had a hard time remembering words, like Anaemia, so I thought, why not make it my band's name. I called my band Critical Anaemia and went telling my bandmates. I immediately remembered the word after that.

Anaemia = disease caused by the lack of iron.

</nerd>

[Jezen]

ROFL LMFAO U PoS

Im sorry im a what?

[threemoresteps]

Three More Steps......... obviously

[hitman418]

TIP!!!!

NEVER name it after a certain member, if they quit ur sunk


THE THORNS just sounded good, i prefer "the" bands (the ramones, the vines, the clash ect)

[Spectrum]

I think that the Thorns already exist...

But I might be wrong.

[cashay350]

I think that the Thorns already exist...

But I might be wrong.

Yeah, thats definitely already taken.

[drumfreak]

Ok this is a weird way to get a band name but, my friends sister was driving us in a speed limit 30 area and she was going 31. She said ha im going 31 im so bad. Then im like that should be are band name then my friend said it sounded to much like sum 41. So it came out GO 32.

[the_uber_penguin]

A documentry a seabrids which live on the top of stacks. When it's time for the chicks to leave the nest the mother flies down and chicks...

...well...they try...

bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce...battered bruised, and still walking...(well...waddling) they follow mum to safety.
Half die on the way down...


But the images were so funny (little featherballs bouncing off rocks) I had to call the band that.

[chefbubble]

Our first name was Memory Hole, from Orwell's 1984, for no reason other than that it sounded cool. We then were Contra, because we liked being against something, until we realized that we were'nt very against anything, especially not the typical flow of music, as we hoped to be. So we matured a lot more musically and now we're Detour, but still thinking of a name (we needed one for a gig so we just thought of one). We're hopefully going to be The Aftermath, if we can convince our bassist (he doesn't like it).

[Jezen]

Well aftermath would of been a cool word until that swine eminem used it.

[The Spatula]

Our band started out as Smoked Fish, then we got rid of that and had nothing for months, then our singer left and we changed drummers, so we had to come up with a new name. Our rhythm guitarist thought of Orange 9 mm, which we all thought was too punky, as was Hit and Miss. Finally we thought of Ambrosia, which we all liked, but it turned out it's already a band. So now we're holding a meeting on what it should be... possibly Rapid Sigma

[TheMetalWorks]

We're hopefully going to be The Aftermath, if we can convince our bassist (he doesn't like it). http://www.purevolume.com/TheAftermath

These guys got it first. They're disbanded now, though, but they have an independently recorded EP (I happen to own it).

[FunknPunk]

Our band started out as Smoked Fish, then we got rid of that and had nothing for months, then our singer left and we changed drummers, so we had to come up with a new name. Our rhythm guitarist thought of Orange 9 mm, which we all thought was too punky, as was Hit and Miss. Finally we thought of Ambrosia, which we all liked, but it turned out it's already a band. So now we're holding a meeting on what it should be... possibly Rapid Sigma
I like both of those...

Orange Nine Millimeter (O.N.M.)
Hit and Miss (ham? :p)

Ours is presently Wanted Expectations, but I want to change it. Too... emo :lol:

[session9]

Ours is "Session Nine", after some spooky film our guitarist saw (well, if naming a band after a spooky film is good enough for Tony Iommi, it's good enough for us). There's a few other bands out there with the same name, but we were there first and we put out a CD which none of the others did as far as I am aware, so we've probably got trading rights to the name as a band or something. Unless the film studios tell us we can't use it.

[lowrider5]

looked at a book and put words together, but i quit

[MustkillLois6712]

we brainstormed names taht we thought sounded good 2 us. We picked "Third World Heros"

[xfreedomxfighterx]

Hey Well try think of 2 random words, I no a band called POssom fodder, thats just random words. or "the" some thing is always good, it could be anything, "the Last Sumit etc etc.et.c

[bassistlikeflea]

The lead singer and guitarist of our band liked Disturbed. One day the topic of conversation turned to the name Disturbed and to "what would really be disturbing" and somehow in the course of the conversation up came the name "Bathroom Intrusions"

[Mardy]

we just thought of weird catchy names... thats how we got miqtoast
I like your avatar

[Interstate]

i'm yet to decide on a name for my solo stuff aside from my semi-serious band with two of my mates. I'm thinking of State Street Residential (named after a Death Cab For Cutie song) or Interstate.

[Pesmerga616]

one day our lead singer/guitarist suggested Euphoria..we all kinda liked it but ended up not goin w/ it, and i was talkin to our bassist one day and somethin came up about a "moment of clarity" so i tossed out the band name Euphoric Clarity and we went w/ that

[Shady Ultima]

We couldn't decide so I'm like, well we could just be a NOTHING band. The drummer looks at me and laughs, and now... we're nothing.

[Jezen]

^^^
LoL Nice one.

[CofDdrums12]

Well, my band was tryin' to think of something...
I on my own thought of Pointless Irony because i liked the acronym (PI, I'm good at math and it's cool) and I loved ironies and I feel much of life is pointless, and ironic, and you get the point.
However... my band didn't like it :( but if you steal it I will kick your @$$ :D
...not kidding, because we haven't decided on a name yet.

But, we're going with Cost of Desire for the time being b/c our guitarist was inspired by the lyrics of a R.A.T.M. song... yeah.

We had tried looking at Dictionarie's and such, but nothin' came out good.
Just think of stuff and let it come to ya.
Later for you.