Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Good Bad Names...

So it turns out that real life doesn't appear to be for me, so I'm going to use rock music as my escape pod from my all too ordinary life. Fight the man and what not. Which basically means I need to create a rock band. I've got the basic ingredients:
- a guitar (with 2 years of self-taught experience)
- 9 years of classical piano lessons which maybe I can stretch to create rocking piano greatness
- a singing voice which can carry a tune although perhaps a bit shrill and nasal sometimes. I need to work on making it more like a rocker.

I need to establish some sort of identity though. I have such eclectic music tastes that I don't know which way to go. Should I be slightly patronizing but melancholic Radiohead style? Should I be enraged and rebellious like Metallica? Should I be a more pleasant, "chronicler of life" type like Springsteen?

I think I need to explore the girl-rock genre. I'm just talking lead vocals, not an exclusively girl-band. I don't particularly care for the Donnas. But Shirley Manson, has a career to aspire to. Or Fiona Apple, oh how I love her. Oooh or Chrissie Hyde; she exudes coolness.

Honestly though, the most important element of a band is a band name I think. If I just find the perfect band name, then everything else will fall into place. In my opinion a reliable formula for rock band names is Descriptive Adjective + Noun, where either word has a sort of badass-ness to it. Unfortunately, I'm not blessed with a cool name like Fiona Apple. Actually Garbage is a terrible band name, in my opinion. "The Pretenders" is pretty ingenius but now everyone has a band name of the form "The ." Anyway, I'm just going to throw a bunch of these names out there in no particular order. Admittedly, they aren't very good; some were made on the fly. Comments and suggestions are desperately needed:

Fightin' Fetus
Feed the Fetus (I like alliteration)
Raging Calamari
BAM!
Obsession
Obsessive Calamari
Calamari Obsession
Priscilla and the Squealers!!! (must include exclamation marks)
The The's
Random Kingdom
Hyperbole

I think I like Random Kingdom the best but Feed the Fetus is pretty fun. Anyway, send me your suggestions!

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