Hy band is called The Home Recording Project..... I was so fucking psyched when we named ourselves that. Basically we were all moving into a house together and we set up this awesome home recording studio - 1" analog, some nice pres and compressors, decent mics. The idea was that we'd record all over the house at any time of day or night and we'd worry about how we'd do the songs live later...... See we lived in a house and that's where we recorded and it was this ongoing project...... it was so obvious and it had this ring and it was the first time I was in a band and really liked the name.

Then one day I googled our name and realized that Home Recording Project is a term that lame ass shitheads call their 'solo' projects that they start so they can play the songs that are too shitty for their bands to play. and that they're too lazy to learn to play out.

Now I have real mixed feelings about it. Every now and then someone will be over at the house and make a call on thier cell and say 'I'm over at the Home Recording Project' house - and that makes me feel good. Like it's the MC5 house or something, but most of the time, I'm just like... shit.

the best band name is and shall always be ... the rodney trotter handjob

I always had though that "Joy Juice" would be good name for the band.

First was Joy Division, Now JOy Juiice

The first band I was ever in was a speed metal band in 1985, and it was called Abyss. I was 14 and played bass. I told the guitarist I thought that name was corny, and he told me to come up with something better. I was kicked out of the band (for being "too punk," among other high school bullshit) before I could.

My other early bands, usually bad knock-off punk crap, seriously waffled on the name issue. One band in the late 80's was called Baby M after a newstory about an abandoned baby. I didn't come up with that - it was a contribution from our rather strange drummer (he loved the Cramps, looked like Ollie North, and eventually ran off to pursue his dream of being Agnostic Front's roadie). At the time, I was too bored to argue.

I completely crapped out after high school with getting a band together. I went into jazz, which made life simpler with the whole name business. "What's our combo's name? It's the So-and-So's Trio." If you put too much effort into your name and you're a jazz group, people just assume you're fusion and that you suck.

In the mid-80's my older brother came up with a fictious punk band (this was a popular hobby back then) called the Acid Catholics, which I always liked. I contributed the title of their fictious debut, Everyday is Good Friday, as well as the album art (a smiley face wearing a crown of thorns). To this day, we are both quite proud of this, which speaks volumes of just how sad we truly are. My brother's since used this fake band in one of his novels.

I've been hoarding some band names I think are good or at least mildly amusing over the years, and occasionally either I'll suggest them to people in bands or I find out a band somewhere else came up with the same idea. A few I have thought up and don't mind sharing...

I think this would be particuarly good for a band hailing from the Texan-Mexican border region:

Drug Runners Union

And a punk band fronted by a Johnny Lydon wannabe:

The Gutter Poet Laureates

Or a punk band fronted by a Jello Biafra wannabe (although this one may have been used already):

The Semi-Literates

[N.B. If you're thinking that's a swipe at ol' Jello, you'd be right.]

And if you were band that wrote a lot of songs about baseball, and wanted a name that's wildly more offensive than "Rapeman" could ever be:

Million Dollar Niggers

[N.B. I am not a racist. I am confident any baseball cognoscente around here will get the joke.]

A band I play in now used to be called Sophisticuffs. When we found out there was already a band using that name we spent most of a practice shooting down names. It was getting late and wanted to go home when our bass player said, "Ah, I have it! Falcon Crest!" We all had a chuckle, agreed to the name and went home because we were tired and didn't want to think about it anymore. So we stuck with Falcon Crest. We recently heard of another band using that name and we just don't care.

I also do a thing called Central Division Champs which I got from an overexcited Twins fan. He was screaming about the Twins in between songs at a show I was playing. I was going to call the band Drum Stupid, but that guy inspired me.

I'm sure someone somewhere is using it, but I like The Boxcutters.

I have always been a fan of Anal ham.

or nothing is cool.

rysie wrote:I have always been a fan of Anal ham.

or nothing is cool.

You could spell it Analham, and it would look like a town in the North of England!

Gramsci wrote:

stipendlax wrote:

Gramsci wrote:
nerd

He is correct.

He is a correct nerd.

Actually, it is the teacher strike episode, Bart whispers something in someone's ear, it's "telephoned" across the crowd, and the utterance is made by Edna Crabopple, and sentence is something like "Skinner says the teachers are gonna crack any minute, purple monkey dishwasher." Nerd or not, if you're gonna name your band after something, it's probably wise to get the story straight. <shrug>

my weird perspective:

due to my job, designing posters for bands, i have acquired a whole new way to judge what is a good band name, and what is bad.

bad band names are usually long and drawn out, so they take up a lot of space. unless you are "and you will know us by the! trail of dead", and you're going to be headlining everywhere you go, it's usally a bad idea to have a name that takes up more than your share of poster space.

for example, i recently did the intonation festival posters.

good band names: "tortoise", "dungen", "deerhoof"

difficult names: "thunder [space] birds are now!", "death from above 1979", etc.

this is my two cents, as this is one way of looking at band names which i don't think people often consider.

I'm starting a band called "Bludhaus." There will be an umlaut over each u.
I'm also kicking around the possibility of calling it "BloodHaus," but that offers less umlaut options, since you can't put umlauts on the back to back o's. That would look silly.
Either way, I'm spelling it "haus."
I'm committed to spending much more time thinking about the name than about the music. No song will be rehearsed more than once.
The lyrics will glorify partying, fighting, and fucking, and there will be copious double entendres.
I might ask waltermalling to sing.

BLUDHAUS! (picture the umlauts)