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Poll Question: Which prog band do you think has the best name?
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3 [2.31%]
28 [21.54%]
10 [7.69%]
4 [3.08%]
14 [10.77%]
4 [3.08%]
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3 [2.31%]
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9 [6.92%]
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Porcupine Tree really fits prog as a name I think... ever listened to the 20 min titletrack on their Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape album? (the song that's a combination with the song The Cross) On that track a 'narrator' presents the band halfway through... now the way he says the name... it's just typical prog .
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Originally posted by Rockin' Chair Rockin' Chair wrote:

Pink & Floyd were just the name by two bluesmen. So "Pink Floyd" does not mean much for me. But "King Crimson" is very majestic, poetic, surrealistic, so I love it.



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Rush because I get one when I listen to the music
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Oh, and No-man had a very impractical but great and funny bandname in the early days:

"No Man Is An Island Except The Isle Of Man"

I love that one. Great bandname 
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My favourite band names:

Spock's Beard

Renaissance

National Health (called after Dave Stewart's spectacles  )

Van der Graaf Generator

Pendragon (much better then Zeus Pendragon, their original name)

(Sil)Marillion

Jethro Tull

And I voted for:

Hatfield and the North (called after a signpost)

 
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Originally posted by tardis tardis wrote:

Does anyone know how Spock's Beard got their name?

This is from SB's official website:

Where does the name "Spock's Beard" come from?
From a 1999 Music Street Journal interview
Neal: "Al and I were having this really weird night out one night, just one of those bizarro David Lynch type evenings. Al said "wow, it's like we're in a parallel universe. It's like Spock has a beard. Wouldn't that be a funny name for a band, Spock's Beard." That was about 89 or 90. Then when we were choosing names, around 92, Al made this list, like 2 pages of names. We all voted on them. He snuck Spock's Beard in as a joke, and it won. Then we were all like, are we going to commit to being known as Spock's Beard for all eternity, hopefully? Especially our first album, The Light, is kind of like music from a parallel universe. It's pretty out there, so that was part of it, too."

So it's not from dr. Spock, the famous child expert. He did have a beard though:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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i remember a band from my college days (1986 –
88, yeovil college/UK, in case you were there...)
called "roddy rhino and the camping holidays" –
musical genres aside, that band name is simply
UNBEATABLE.
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Dream Theater is the best of those... although Psychotic Waltz is totally awesome... Shadow Gallery is also kinda mysterious & cool... I like the name Frameshift also... but I never heard the music
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Does anyone know how Spock's Beard got their name?
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Mothers of Invention

It just about sums them up.

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Originally posted by M. B. Zapelini M. B. Zapelini wrote:

Originally posted by Persona Persona wrote:

THE SOFT MACHINE

Better than this: "Matching Mole" - which is "machine mole" (Soft Machine in French) with a Brittish accent.

My vote goes to Procol Harum, which was a cat's name, and I love cats!

machine mole is still machime mole with a british  accent!
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Originally posted by Persona Persona wrote:

THE SOFT MACHINE

Better than this: "Matching Mole" - which is "machine mole" (Soft Machine in French) with a Brittish accent.

My vote goes to Procol Harum, which was a cat's name, and I love cats!

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Hello, my first post. Why I chose this thread is
anyone's guess.

I always liked the way the words "Emerson, Lake
and Palmer" rolled off the tongue but there's no
imagination in using the last names.

I came so close to voting King Crimson but...

I have to go with Tangerine Dream.

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I like "Spock's Beard" - it is hard to go past that name when you are a Star Trek fan.

Other greats are: King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and some not mentioned in the list - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Gravy Train, Uriah Heep, Glass Hammer, Radiohead, Pavlov's Dog, Egg, Gong and Hawkwind - just for starters.

( Some interesting NZ band names: "Tall Dwarfs"; "Look Blue, Go Purple"; "Straitjacket Fits"; "Split Enz" and "Crowded House" - the latter two many of you would have heard their music.)

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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Pain Of Salvation

I would have never guest that!...

 

For me its Jethro Tull...and Pink Floyd is also pretty cool. Genesisi I like, Dream Theater is kinda mushy...but it works
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What about
Aphrodite's Child!
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I think The Who have a pretty good name though not a prog band.
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Yes is such a simple name, and it describes their positive outlook on life.  Pink Floyd is great too, and the reason I got into Spock's Beard was because I love Mirror, Mirror (my favorite Star Trek episode!).  But the name Jethro Tull does not compare with Ian's Bag O' Blues.  Talk about a great name!

The name Yes can be troublesome, though, because I was once reading a book about rock and roll, and I looked in the index for Yes, and it listed about 20 different page numbers.  Excited, I looked at every page, but, alas, for some reason the index had listed every single instance the word "Yes" appeared at the beginning of a sentence!  It had nothing to do with the band!



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Points: 99 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2005 at 16:49

IMO, Opeth got a terrific and unique name!

Plus, their logo is the best!!!

Among that list, i love Dream theater



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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 31 2005 at 16:46
Originally posted by Persona Persona wrote:

THE SOFT MACHINE


Tis a good one indeed
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