Daft Prog Band Names

Not so much prog bands, but there were two NWOBHM bands with utterly woeful names- Toad The Wet Sprocket and Ethel The Frog. It's not just their names that are crap either!

Magic Pie anybody?

zappaholic wrote: WOBBLER.   I mean, WTF mate?

Rocktopus wrote: Awful band names: 2 Symphony X 3 Pain of Salvation

are donk know whats wrong with thisv two

Gog/Magog wrote: crimson thing wrote: Hmm.....tricky one..........do I gleefully give the answer, but in the process "out" myself as a geeky trekkie, or feign ignorance?   There's an episode where Enterprise finds itself in a parallel universe, where, broadly speaking, the goodies are baddies, and the baddies even worse. There, the evil Mr Spock has a beard.......or so I'm told   Personally, I think Spock's Beard is one of the classier prog names.....but not such a great band........     I did wonder if that was the case, one of those episodes where Spock developed a  sense of humour or fell in love (or both). We could widen the remit to prog bands with plain awful names (I'll stick with Spocks Beard for this too) & Matching Mole.

"Matching Mole" is in fact a wordplay with "Soft Machine" (Robert Wyatt, the drummer of Matching Mole, had been a member of Soft Machine). "Soft Machine" is "Machine Moll" in French.
What about the Deep Freeze Mice (a band that should be in the archives)? Even their albums have silly names, like "My Geraniums Are Bulletproof", "Teenage Head in My Refrigerator", "Rain Is when the Earth Is Television" or "War, Famine, Death, Pestilence and Miss Timberlake".


Edited by BaldJean - May 31 2006 at 07:24

martinprog77 wrote: Rocktopus wrote: Awful band names: 2 Symphony X 3 Pain of Salvation are donk know whats wrong with thisv two

With a name like Symphony X you just know you're gonna get some oveblown metal with keyboards and over the top lyrics, so it's defenatly consumer/user friendly. I stay away, while others buy.

I remember a norwegian band (Red Harvest) titled one of their records 'There is Beauty in the Purity of sadness'. Can it get any less subtle? That title reminds me of the POS name.

Adagio, Beyond twilight, Beyond the Labyrinth, Time Requiem, Tomorrow's Eve, Canvas Solaris (!) etc... all these beautiful, mysteruous words used by not so mysterious progmetal acts. The words become meaningless and empty, like something they found in a dictionary, but don't know what means.

Out of context of the book, that's how meaningless Shadow Gallery becomes to me as well, Snowdog.

Dream Theater might work on some artsy black and white film from the 1920's, but not on one of the most pompous rock bands on the planet.






Edited by Rocktopus - May 31 2006 at 11:16