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20 Jan 2012, 1:52 am

i believe we'll run out of musicologically sensible melodies before we run out of possible band names.



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20 Jan 2012, 2:49 am

Band names repeat anyways.

My band is called Sins Of A Saint, we played with another band of the same name once (that have since broken up) :lol:


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20 Jan 2012, 3:28 am

So in the future we will have:

Spruce Stringbean

The Descendants of the Pioneers

The New New New New Christy Minstrels

Hank Williams the 23rd.

Johnny Chargecard

u3, and UB41.

And youll will have to change your name if your surname is Jackson to be allowed in a recording studio
because we will have run out premutations that end with Jackson. We are already well on our way thanks to: Wanda, Bullmoose, Stonewall, Millie, Luscious, Alan, the Five, Janet, LaToya, Tito, Micheal, Joe (the father of the last five), and Joe ( of 'Breaking Us in Two", and "Steppin Out" fame)!



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20 Jan 2012, 8:09 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:
Well there are always names of songs that can be used as band names.

I agree with this.


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20 Jan 2012, 8:14 pm

Bun wrote:
discuss.

As long as you can name a band after yourself, there won't by a problem.

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20 Jan 2012, 9:12 pm

I decided a band named 'Bun' would make experimental prog-rock. 8)

Not sure what I'm basing this assumption on. :?


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20 Jan 2012, 9:42 pm

Sounds a bit like Gong?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKvglDzBU4[/youtube]


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20 Jan 2012, 10:51 pm

Maybe, thank you for the link! :)


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16 Feb 2012, 1:26 pm

I want to have my own band, I'm this is the problem I'm worried about. I think of a really good name, and it's taken. I hope that doesn't happen.



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16 Feb 2012, 1:28 pm

I formed a band the other day and wanted to call it Celine Dione but I see that name is already taken.


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16 Feb 2012, 1:49 pm

I'm not likely to form a band until I go to college, but I got some name ideas. I won't share them, though.



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16 Feb 2012, 8:23 pm

Burzum wrote:
This excludes band names that are made up (e.g. Metallica)


Lars seems to have taken the name from a friend of his who was trying to come up with a title for a heavy metal fanzine. I'm not sure if either of them were aware of this at the time, but "Metallica" isn't really made up, in the strict sense of the term-- it's just in another language. "Metallica" means "metallic" or "of metal" in Latin. There was a book on mining published in 1556 called De re metallica ("On the Nature of Metal"), and there's an entire genus of beetles called Metallica also (presumably because of their metallic appearance).

But this does bring up another good point regarding the idea that band names will "run out". There's no reason to assume, just because the members of a band are anglophone, that they won't choose a name derived from another language. Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic took their band name from a Sanskrit word, and it worked just fine for them. If you expand the range of possibilities to include words and phrases from every language, plus names that are made up, plus given names as Sweetleaf pointed out-- the more cliché ones might get taken first, but the options are astronomical.


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16 Feb 2012, 9:11 pm

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17 Feb 2012, 12:09 am

Moog wrote:
I formed a band the other day and wanted to call it Celine Dione but I see that name is already taken.


Saline Dione?


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17 Feb 2012, 2:29 am

no, we won't.



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17 Feb 2012, 3:44 pm

You can use this:

bandnamemaker.com

or if you are a blues musician:

outliermusic.com