Name my dad's band!

March 31, 2008 12:39 AM

Band-name-filter: It's been done before, do it again -- suggest band names...

My father (mid-fifties) and his muso mates want to form a band, and they're stuck for a name. He's been pestering me to come up with name ideas (being creative and all that), so I come to the hivemind.

They are all in their 40s and 50s, in my experience they seldom actually play songs, rather they just jam - but if they ever do songs, I suspect it'll be covers of stuff.

Previously I know my father was in a band called 'Viagra Falls', so maybe that provides some insight?

A million times I've seen a phrase on the net or in a news story and thought "that would be a great band name" but I can't remember any of them now.

posted by sycophant to media & arts (35 comments total)

in my experience they seldom actually play songs, rather they just jam - but if they ever do songs, I suspect it'll be covers of stuff.

So are you saying that they're a jam band in the tradition of the Dead or Phish, or is that taking too narrow a view of what it is to be a band that jams? Is it psychedelic countrified bluegrass rock? Shout it matter?

If context really doesn't matter, I think the last time I had a "band name!" moment (yesterday) it was "Black Australorp."
posted by mumkin at 12:52 AM on March 31

I really don't quite know what they play...

I'm really not much of a music aficionado. "It's all just noise!"
posted by sycophant at 1:04 AM on March 31

Aspercreme Toejam
Dr. Jules Bengué
Internet Predators
Ossification
Slam with the Best or Jam with the Rest
No Country for Old Men
Country for Old Men
posted by ignignokt at 1:11 AM on March 31

Men 'o Pause

Get Off My Lawn

Doddering Pops

Cat Scanners

Heart Attack Machine (thanks Joe Strummer)

Hyper Hoary Hipsters

Not Dead Yet

Rusty Rockers
posted by artdrectr at 1:26 AM on March 31

ignignokt's No Country for Old Men is pretty brilliant. Not sure if it's made better if they don't play country, or if they do.
posted by roombythelake at 1:45 AM on March 31 [1 favorite]

I'm still said no one took "Frankie Leaves Hollywood and Moves Back Into His Parents' Basement" but what can you do.

"Deee-mentia."
"The Crusts"
"The Clarks"
"The Kevins"
"Nessie Loves Bigfoot"
"Father Knows Shit"
"Lee Majors and the Staleness"
"The Slide Rulers"
"Wonderpants"
"The Sorta Jerks"
"The Jerries"
"Pluto"
"The Forgetmenauts"
"The Palpitones"
"Grey Noise"
"Geezer"
posted by fleacircus at 2:18 AM on March 31 [1 favorite]

'slide rulers,' heh. I like that one, fleacircus. Could be made a bit more obscure, in-jokey, and vaguely suggestive by changing it to 'slipstick jockeys.'
posted by ctmf at 2:49 AM on March 31

Jack and the Offbeats
posted by chillmost at 3:32 AM on March 31 [1 favorite]

The Snarks
posted by mattoxic at 3:35 AM on March 31

My love and I often come up with what we think would be good band names. Our latest:

I See Box Turtles
posted by amtho at 4:40 AM on March 31 [1 favorite]

The Dead Horse Investigation Community was one that stuck in my mind. You might want to check that The Card Cheat isn't seriously planning to use it though!
posted by tomcooke at 4:41 AM on March 31

Nattering Codgers?
The House Cats?
Old Dogs, New Tricks?
The Meat Hammers? (I have always liked this as a band name)
The Segways?
Shuffleboard Kings
The Deep Ends (get it? 'Depends'? Oof)
posted by Pecinpah at 5:12 AM on March 31

Seconding "nattering codgers."

Limp Brisket, Ollie & the Otters, Neon Mustache, Bald On Top, Youthful Exuberance, Older than Dirt, Lawnmower Races all work too.
posted by Emperor SnooKloze at 5:36 AM on March 31

Zealand Man Zoo
posted by cashman at 5:38 AM on March 31

If it's a jazz band the easiest method is to think on an airport. Any component of an airport is a great jazz band name. (Can work for Jazz Rock/Fusion too)

Runway
Check-in desk
Control Tower
Valet Parking
Short Term Parking
Long Term Parking
Gels, Liquids and Spays
Duty Free
Convener Belt
Luggage Carousel
Departure Lounge
Lost Baggage
Baggage Claim
Yellow Lines
No Fly List
Arrivals/Departure Board

I could go on.
posted by mattoxic at 5:38 AM on March 31

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names
posted by Mach5 at 5:45 AM on March 31

Shooting Blanks.
Mid-Wife Crisis.
The Sansabelts.
Daddy Sandwich.
Grecian and the Formulas.
The Fogies.
Al Zee and the Heimers.
The Early Birds.
The Beltone Feedback Hotness Review.
posted by Dizzy at 6:03 AM on March 31

Orange Marmalade (cuz of the jam........)
Sticky Fingers
Peanut Butter's Friend
posted by iconomy at 6:12 AM on March 31

Tussle
Pop Rundown
Rogue Comet
Poodle Position
Silver Surface
Legal Irish
Cloud of Evil
The Dejected
Yellow Snow Angels
Special Guest
posted by breezeway at 6:15 AM on March 31

Just Happy to be Here
Not the Dead Yet
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:39 AM on March 31

Inspired by this comment:

Shout It Matter
posted by jejune at 6:49 AM on March 31

Cialissassins
posted by cashman at 6:59 AM on March 31

The Beat Bozos
posted by mamaraks at 7:00 AM on March 31

Spread Eagle Squad car
Heave-Ho Heimlich Maneuver
Hamburger Handkerchief
Goody-Goody Government
Druggie Duct Tape (or Ducktape)
Morons in Motion
Nut Case Nymphomaniacs
Nympho Neanderthal
Impossible Pickle
Pocket Pickle
Salty Sandwich
Science Fiction Scotsmen
Tattling Teapot
Turbulent Tube Sock
Zombie Zipper


Viagra Viewfinder is one of my favorites, but I doubt they'd like to re use the word Viagra in their name. A guy at work and I open up the dictionary and take the top word on two back to back pages and throw them together, and it seems to work well. I'd say Spread Eagle Squad Car and Impossible Pickle are my favorites.
posted by whiskey point at 7:11 AM on March 31

Bubble Gum Time Machine. but you can't have it, it's mine!!!!
posted by saxamo at 7:30 AM on March 31

Colonel Angus
posted by Joseph Gurl at 8:05 AM on March 31

STIMULUS PACKAGE
posted by ludwig_van at 8:19 AM on March 31 [1 favorite]

The Midlife Crises or Magnificent Catastrophe.
posted by pdb at 8:49 AM on March 31

Grätuitöus Ümläüts
posted by felix at 9:07 AM on March 31

Grätuitöus Ümläüts is awesome.

Adjective Noun
Crotchety Rockers
posted by iconomy at 10:12 AM on March 31

Since "Not Dead Yet" has been mentioned twice, I'm posting a song by that title to http://music.metafilter.com/

You have been warned.
posted by lothar at 10:21 AM on March 31

The Sonnys
posted by amtho at 10:23 AM on March 31

I always thought Astronaut Love Triangle was a badass band name.
posted by thebellafonte at 11:50 AM on March 31

"Who're We Kidding"
"Male Pattern Awesomeness"
"I'm Rockin' and I Can't Get It Up"
"Jeff Spicoli"
"AARPcore"


My girlfriend suggests:
"Oldplay"
"The Love Handles"
"The Arthrythmics"
"Cane and Disabled"

I think we'd better stop before things get ugly.
posted by fleacircus at 7:29 PM on March 31

Well, he's been presented with the suggestions... Hopefully he likes one (or more).. But personally I think he's probably totally forgotten who he even was going make the band with, or that he asked me about names...

Thanks Mefites.
posted by sycophant at 4:41 AM on April 2