Band Name Book- roll thread

Curl Up And Die
(Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
“At first we were trying to start just like this fake, funny band. Stupid, spooky grindcore stuff. We saw a hair place called Curl Up and Dye, like D-Y-E. We thought that was a pretty funny name, and we changed it to D-I-E.”

actually not bad, thanks op. I guess I'd like to roll another one if it's allowed. also, how many fucking pages does that book have?

Sure, have another roll. Glad you liked the first one. The book has 316 pages, so I’ve just been subtracting 316 from the last three digits until it hits a page number

Girl Talk
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Though the name origin may seem straightforward, it’s the stage name of [male] musician Gregg Gillis, who says, “It’s actually a reference to some obscure line in a Jim Morrison poetry book. I don’t even know which one anymore... It kind of sprung up amongst friends as a joke”

Roll

thanks i'm gonna check out this album, looks fun
rateyourmusic.com/release/album/cranes/loved/

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Pluto
(Auckland, New Zealand)
Their song “Long White Cross” was Single of the Year at the NZ Music Awards in 2006, the same year Pluto was declared no longer a planet.

this is a fun idea, roll

Blood Sledge Electric Death Chickens
(Howell, Michigan, USA)
A late 1990s Detroit-area parody punk rock band. Guitarist, drummer and hair stylist Tim Jack is also a visual artist.

rollin'

you are a quality poster
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These Arms Are Snakes
(Seattle, Washington, USA)
A post-hardcore band with some street cred who, according to various bloggery, had their name dissed by famous former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra. Jello allegedly called These Arms Are Snakes a prime example of “bad emo band names”. While Jello’s band name and stage name both represent politically charged punk history, and the name These Arms Are Snakes represents, uh, snake-like arms, surely there are better targets. May I suggest actual emo bands... maybe the Promise Ring, Jejune or Knapsack? Not that I have any opinions about band names.

Thanks user

Grand Buffet
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
Grand Buffet’s often satirical white rap-rock lyrics fill every hole in the steam tray. The duo of Jackson O’Connell-Barlow (aka Iguanadon, Grape-a-Don, Plaps) and Jarrod Weeks (aka Lord Grunge, Viceroy, M-Dog) held a release show for their recent CD, King Vision, at the American Legion Hall in Squirrel Hill, PA, but they have toured with such name acts as Of Montreal, MGMT and Suicide Girls.

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fuck it. rolling

Cold Chisel
(Adelaide, Australia)
The band was formed in 1973 and became a popular heavy metal act with working-class themes. They were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Hall of Fame in 1993.

China Crisis
(Kirkby, UK)
Formed in 1979 in Kirkby, near Liverpool. Their 1985 album, Flaunt the Imperfection, rose to #9 on the UK Album chart.

Thanks user.

Not sure if this is something I'd return to, but I can't deny that it's bouncy and fun and I'm having a good time listening to it now.

No prob, sounds like an interesting listen

Gimme somethin gay.

Alright

Blossom Toes
(London, UK)
Late ‘60s psychedelic pop from a band originally called the Ingoes. Name changed when signed to Marmalade Records. Guitarist Jim Cregan later joined Stud, followed by stints in Family, the Cockney Rebels and Rod Stewart’s band. Brian Godding and Brian Belshaw formed the band B.B. Blunder.

Listened to an EP
Very melodic hardcore punk with an Irish edge. It's ok, not the worst but I can't see myself returning to it.

Gimme another shot.

I got you. I’ll try to give you something with a little more depth this time around.

Crowbar
(Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Having spent most of a year simply known as Ronnie Hawkins’ backup band, they were fired in 1970, with Hawkins saying, “You guys are so crazy you could fuck up a crowbar in three seconds”. So they stayed together as Crowbar. A New Orleans sludge-metal band of the same name started up in 1989.

So that you don’t listen to the wrong Crowbar:
rateyourmusic.com/artist/crowbar_f1

roll for literal who artist

Here you go

Velvet Crush
(Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
Crushed velvet, velvet crush. Formed in 1989 by singer-bassist Paul Chastain and drummer Ric Menck. Their 1994 album, Teenage Symphonies to God, is the AllMusic Guide pick of their seven albums.

the sludge band's awesome. also rollin

rolling

re-rolling, why not

God Lives Underwater
(Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, USA)
Started by David Reilly and Jeff Turzo, and good enough to be produced by Rick Rubin and released on American Recordings subsidiary Onion. Turzo’s previous band was GLU, which they used as an acronym to arrive at God Lives Underwater.

All Systems Go!
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
A standard NASA pre-launch expression. This Canadian punk band is comprised of members from Big Drill Car, the Doughboys and the Carnations. The name is being used simultaneously by about a half dozen other bands.

rollerino

Android Lust
(New York City, New York, USA)
Formed in 1996 as a recording project for Bangladesh-born Shikhee. For live performances, she is joined by three additional vocalist-musicians.

Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies
(Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
From a 1995 RockCircusTV.com interview (vocalist Mike Farris): “There was a [Far Side] cartoon of these cheetahs on the flats, and there was a couple of them up above, looking down on these cheetahs in the flats. The cheetahs in the flats were up on their back legs and they were spinning out. They were heading down this route and they were doing wheelies. I thought, damn, that would be a pretty cool name.”

Interviewer: “What was the name going to be before you saw the comic?”

Mike: “Big Fuckin’ Beltbuckle.”

Rollerino

The Prowlers
(Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
An Oi! band formed in 1998, the Prowlers pay tribute to Montreal bands such as the Discords and Drunken Skinheads.

rollan and bumpan

Trembling Blue Stars
(London, UK)
Mid-90s jangly, introspective (trembling blue?) band formed by Robert Wratten (the Field Mice, Northern Picture Library) and Beth Arzy (Aberdeen).

Rollan

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Pretty the Quick Black Eyes
(Austin, Texas, USA)
Evolved out of the 1990s emo band Mineral. Fueled by “black-and-tans and a lethal dose of pessimism”

I Am the World Trade Center
(Athens, Georgia, USA)
Musician Daniel Geller and singer Amy Dykes decided on the name in 1999 while living in New York City. They liked it as a metaphor for their personal and professional relationships. After September 11, 2001, they took some heat and played for a while under the name “I Am the World...,” but soon went back to their original name.

Now this is more like it. Listening to Stripped & Stitched on her bandcamp now, will probably cop

rollllll

Life Without Buildings
(Glasgow, Scotland)
The band was assembled by Glasgow School of Arts students in 1999 and named after a Japanese B-side. Album: Any Other City.

least obscure band in this thread, havent heard of any other band
this is indie pop / electro pop, just okay, i liked their first album

Rolling again

Rollerino

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I’m going out of my way to pick obscure stuff to change things up.
Apparently the Life Without Buildings album is bolded on RYM. Weird cause I’ve never seen it discussed here or anywhere else before. and China Crisis was pretty big back in the day. Anyway here’s another roll:

Die Mannequin
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Singer-guitarist Care Failure’s (Caroline Kawa) band after the demise of the Bloody Mannequins. Die Mannequin’s two EPs, How to Kill and Slaughter Daughter, are compiled on the disc Unicorn Steak. Canadian director Bruce McDonald made a documentary about the band, The Rawside of Die Mannequin, which premiered in 2008.

Gardening, Not Architecture
(Madison, Wisconsin, USA)
Gardening, Not Architecture started in 2004 as a musical collaboration (in an upstairs apartment hallway) between singer-songwriter Sarah Saturday and producer Beau Sorenson. It is also the title of a song by the Drift off the album Noumena.

H.P. Lovecraft
(Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Late ‘60s psychedelic band named after American fantasy-horror writer H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft.

hard rock, Licensed media music core, just meh

Final roll

Hopefully this roll is better to you

World’s End Girlfriend
(Nagasaki, Japan)
Katsuhiko Maeda started his World’s End Girlfriend band project when he was 13.