Lenny's (and others') Names for Bands
'free beer' was already taken
- ARMY OF NUTRIA
- - misheard on KEXP 5/8/2009
- BIG BOOM ROAD
- - an actual road in New York State
- BIG OL' GOB O' SNOT
- BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL
- BRAIN SPAWN
- - Lenny Bruce
- THE BUCKETHEADS
- - First album: Palace
not the same as the real band "Buckethead," although probably too close for comfort
- CARCINOMA CULTURE
- The CASHTONES
- - First album: Jingle
- CHOIR ZERO
- - from email, taken out of context 9/15/2004
- CONSTRUCTED SENTIMENTS
- CONVOCATION OF MALCONTENTS
- - 12/21/1999
- CROWDPLEASER
- CYNICAL BIPEDS
- - Don't even think of using this one - it's all mine!
- DIXIE PRICKS
- - Mike Maynard, 10/6/2000
- DRAINING THE JUJU
- - 5/3/2000. Might just be an album title.
- DRUNKEN UNCLE
- - 1/13/2000
- FLESH PHANTOMS
- FLUNKMONKEY
- - 9/28/2004
- GOD'S SEQUEL
- - Digable Planets.
Update Jan. 26, 2003 - this one's now taken by a band in Perth, Scotland... here's hoping they get famous!
- GUN BARREL CITY
- - a town in Texas
- HEADLESS BARBIES
- - oops, this one really exists - at least it appears on a list of "Head Bands"
- HERPES HANCOCK
- - 9/22/2001
- JOYFUL NOISE
- - Christian rock, and too, too obvious; several real groups have taken this one on, independently of my having come up with it.
- LEAGUE OF HUMAN DRUMMERS
- LURID PURPLE ECLAIR
- - the Coffee Crew at Handy Andy's, 9/7/2000.
- MAKE MINE KALASHNIKOV
- - possibly-misheard Shriekback lyric, 3/3/2004.
- MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE AND RINGO
- METH DETH
- MILLYUN CIVILLYUNS
- MORBID FASCINATION
- - Tony LaSoya
- MURKY DEPTHS
- NAKED MOLE RATS
- NEUTRON WRANGLERS
- - misheard while listening to a Guided By Voices video, 5/13/2005.
- NOISEMAKING FACES
- - 3/5/2009
- OPEN DOOR POLICY
- PASSIONATE FAILURES
- - Lucius Shepard
- PRODIGAL SUNDAYS
- - 12/11/2000
- RENDEZJAVU
- - 3/12/2004. Put "rendezvous" and "deja vu" together, it's Ron de Javu! Alternate spellings abound...
- RUSTY SPUTUM
- SECRET SOUND SYSTEM
- SHITFACED
- - First album: Get Shitfaced
- THE SIBILANTS
- SKULLBREW
- - 11/27/2000. Umlaut optional. I was actually amazed that this one wasn't already taken... it seems so obvious.
Update February 24, 2003 - Austin Kannapel of Carthage, Tennessee has called dibs on this one!
- SLUM SPARROWS
- - Richard Brautigan
- SOUL TO BE SOLD
- - Susan Brunsdon
- SPENDTHRIFT DAYS
- THREE BEERS IN
- - 5/28/2010. First album: A Moment of Deluded Clarity
(band name in conversation with Sean and Joel, though the album title actually came first, via "philip-random" on Metafilter)
- THRILL HAMMER
- - Lenny Bruce
- VELCRO BED SYNDROME
- - "Abbie Rhodes," a dj at WRVU in Nashville, TN
- VICIOUS CIRCLE
- WEEKEND IN NIRVANA
- WICKED WISH
- - Update March 12, 2004 - Patsy Carrington says that Josh Hines and Joe Clough from Culleoka, Tennessee are using this one.
- WHATEVER
- - First album: You Say, We Say
- YOU WERE BORN
- ZEN VENDETTA
- - 4/18/2003. Evocative and ahh, the assonance!
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