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

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





I disagree on some of those like Pain of Salvation, Fate's Warning (which I think is a pretty cool band name), Redemption.... not so sure on Unexpect or Green Carnation. Especially Green Carnation, because it sounds like a bad pun on "re-incarnation".
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

"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 Geerald 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


So they picked a band name that makes no sense to people who aren't Bavarian? Wow, talk about creator provincialism.... LOL
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Porcupine Tree is a pretty stupid name, when you think about it.

Every time I mention that band to someone unaware of them, they chuckle and go, "What?"
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^definitely....

Another bad one is Epignosis. Man, how can someone come up with that?ConfusedLOLWink

Now seriously, I think Camel, isn't a very inventive name.
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Yes (maybe something that doesn't get said more than daily by English speaking people)
Spock's Beard (a tad too much on the nerd-scale)
The Flower Kings (I consider myself to be a die-hard fan but when I mention this band to people for the first time I always feel a bit uncomfortable)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (You have an exclamation mark in your name. I can't respect you)
5uu's (I don't know where to begin with this)
5ive (a "5" looks nothing like an "f")
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Originally posted by TheCaptain TheCaptain wrote:


The Flower Kings (I consider myself to be a die-hard fan but when I mention this band to people for the first



As do I. Confused
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I never liked Art Bears as a name, for some reason. Stormy Six is a bit naff, too.
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Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start is probably the stupidest band name I've ever heard (except for Grandpa's Become a Fungus, which was definitely not a prog band).
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We actually played a gig calling ourselves Leprechaun Sauce (little green guys in a blender? I don't know coming up with band names is something you do over beers and it seems like a good idea at the time)
 
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