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Points: 10266 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2009 at 07:57
Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

King Crimson. Great band, but still... a really lame name don't you think?

Others would be Mostly Autumn, Porcupine Tree, Psychotic Waltz, Diabolical Masquerade (probably the lamest of them all), Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings... Not taking anything away from the music they make of course, but what were they thinking with those names?

King Crimson is not a lame name at all. It is a metaphor for the devil.


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Yeah, Spock Beard qualifies too. I like King Crimson a lot, though. It reminds me of the ancient beliefs in the magical propertis of colour pigments. There's something demonic about it...
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King Crimson. Great band, but still... a really lame name don't you think?

Others would be Mostly Autumn, Porcupine Tree, Psychotic Waltz, Diabolical Masquerade (probably the lamest of them all), Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings... Not taking anything away from the music they make of course, but what were they thinking with those names?
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"Scheiss die Wand an" comes to my mind. They were more than just a prog band though; their "concerts" were more like spontaneous theatre acts, with action painting and all kinds of unpredictable things happening on stage. They feature Freddy Sedtz and Gerald Luciano Hartwig, who both played with Embryo and the Roman Bunka band. Hartwig also played with Guru Guru and a side project of Roland Schaeffer (of Guru Guru and Brainstorm) which was named Roland und die Dadadogs.
Oh, and the name is a German expression which literally means "sh*t against the Wall". It is, however, used the same way as the English "m*****f*****" is sometimes used, to state that something is extremely good. I had to look up the meaning of the expression though; it is not common in the area of Germany where I live. Since Embryo and Guru Guru are of Bavarian origin I suppose it is a Bavarian expression.
And here a short video of them, from which you can get a slight impression of their stage activities.
http://www.yidio.com/scheiss-die-wand/id/1987418407


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Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Because someone had a "best prog band names" thread. I nominate any band name that's more than 5 words long, because that would be appropriate for a song or album title but as a band name it's just really clumsy and gives off a total "trying too hard to be poetic" feel.  Between the Buried and Me, for example.


^ I agree on your example. Also: Pain of Salvation, Fates Warning, Green Carnation, Unexpect, Disilussion, Sieges Even, Conception, Redemption, etc. All prog-metal! Shocked





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I think "Behold... the Arctopus" is pretty damn stupid. It would even be bad without the ellipsis.
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Originally posted by Rocktopus Rocktopus wrote:


Super String Theory


That must be the single nerdiest band in the history of music, and when compared to the rest of prog metal that's quite an achievement! LOL
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Points: 4202 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2009 at 07:23
Here's some magnetic refrigerator poetry-sounding bandnames:

Spheric Universe Experience
Super String Theory
Liquid Tension Experiment
Luminous Flesh Giants
Brain Heart Infusion

(all taken from the progmetal section. Obviously):
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Because someone had a "best prog band names" thread. I nominate any band name that's more than 5 words long, because that would be appropriate for a song or album title but as a band name it's just really clumsy and gives off a total "trying too hard to be poetic" feel.  Between the Buried and Me, for example.
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