Prog Rock Band Names HELP!!!
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Topic: Prog Rock Band Names HELP!!!
Posted By: moongatemc
Subject: Prog Rock Band Names HELP!!!
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 20:17
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Need help with a good prog band name!!! well, we are a teenage non
cheesy prog band, with metal influences, jazz influence, and just good
old classic prog influences... we have a unique style i.e. clean jazzy
guitar chords over blastbeats, bass w/guitar harmonies, and wakeman
influenced keyboards , i dont know how accurate my description is , but
i would like some prog fan suggestions/votes on this list of
names i came up with |
Replies:
Posted By: raindance
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 21:11
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Mirage was Peter Barden's band! Anyway, I voted for liquid sunshine but don't know why |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 21:57
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I like fragment of time. Liquid Sunshine is also good. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: moongatemc
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 22:09
| oops sorry about Mirage!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 22:46
| Personally I think you could come up with better. Out of that list I'd go with Suntower asking |
Posted By: KeyserSoze
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 22:49
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Hi, I know it won't help if you get votes for different names but I'm not a native english speaker and "Plethora" sounds nice to me |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 02:01
| Cloudburst sounds nice (many others are a bit pretentious in their fantasy; I prefer one-word names), and especially if it would have Tangerine Dream influences... I recently imagined a band and named it Daylight - but I found there have been band(s) of that name. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 05:51
| What kind of Prog is it? |
Posted By: abyssyinfinity
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 07:25
Abyssi Infinity.... 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 11:29
| I voted for sunstone and Plethora is my second choice |
Posted By: outdoor miner
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:10
All those names are a bit on the cheesy side of things. I got images of
mullets, poney tails, beards and leather coats stuck in my head when I
was reading through the list. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 18:17
I think you should call yourself something interesting like "Benjamin
Disraeli's Engimatic Trumpet" or "The Ocelot Experience". Well...
s'what I'd call my band if I had one anyway. 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 18:21
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I voted for Sunstone, but Mourning Rain is OK How about "Flying Colours" ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: MustShaveBeard
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 20:14
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"Peter's Flight of the Dancing Gnomes Featuring Mr. Hobbertopp with his Magical Glockenspiel and Other Assorted Objects a.k.a. One Mustache Too Many" Whatever you do, for God's sake don't go with "Moongate Climber." ------------- Your life or your lupins!!! |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 23:29
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"to ponder existence" and we wonder why people view prog as uber-pretentious!
sorry I'm not much help here ------------- 
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 12:17
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How about Dog Slobber?
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"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: Fantômas
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 12:27
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For Tits and Beers.
------------- And above all, is punk 
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Posted By: dalt99
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 13:47
| I like Plethora that is cool. How about something like "Abstract" or "Quagmire"? |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: May 27 2005 at 15:09
| Plethora rolls off the tongue quite nicely. It splits down into three fairly harsh sounding syllables which a lot of good prog bands have. - harsh sounding that is. Some bands consist of one, some of two, some of.......................................................... ...... |
Posted By: moongatemc
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 22:45
| i need some more support?!?!?!?! hahahaha |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 29 2005 at 23:09
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Liquid Sunshine is cool -------------  |
Posted By: kirklott
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 23:33
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Dude, whatever you're smoking, I'll have some too! http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pipes.org/Ephemeris/ea73/ea73a18.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.pipes.org/Ephemeris/ea73/&h=186&w=153&sz=2&tbnid=P_-BRcxfvaUJ:&tbnh=97&tbnw=79&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcartoon%2Bmushroom%26svnum%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2004-34,GGLD:en%26sa%3DG"> ------------- "Progressive rock is the key to the continuance of human evolution." - Charles Darwin |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 01 2005 at 23:40
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"Fragment of Time" is an awesome name. If I was in that band, that name would inspire me to write a mind-bending prog rock epic. Go for it. That's the one. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: sstarless
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 14:21
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I chose Plethora. But I think most of these are names for album rather then band. Nice to have a certain idea, explanation for the name, something mithical, philosophical or play of words etc. Also its good if it is unique word or combination of words, so its easy to search it in internet ------------- Io sono nato libero |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 14:36
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How about band names like "The Beethoven Conspiracy" or "Anything but Washing Up on Friday Nights"? Another good one would but pretty raunchy would be "The Shaved Genitals". -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: sstarless
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 14:46
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"The Shaved Genitals". - Thats pretty unique! ------------- Io sono nato libero |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: June 06 2005 at 14:56
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I think you need to first listen to your music and let it inspire a name. Your name should in some way express who you are collectively. I'm mean, if you're writing music designed to inspire or take listeners on cosmic trips, then the name "The Shaved Genitals" would be a disserice to your band. On the other hand, if your music was some sort of degenerate, debauched, cabaret-style, post-modern, quasi-performance art/exhibitionist act, then "The Shaved Genitals" would probably bring in the "right" crowd. And I probably would be in it! ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: lynton samuel
Date Posted: June 07 2005 at 04:45
I vote for Cloudburst. 
Don't like any of the others. |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: June 07 2005 at 05:32
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Cloudburst is good what about "Citrus Galaxy"? ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: June 07 2005 at 06:07
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I used to play drums in a punk band named X-Prep in my teens. We never made an album but had a small local hit, "Ich bin häßlich" ("I am ugly"). X-Prep is a very strong laxative, by the way. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: June 09 2005 at 01:58
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I picked cloudburst, since you said you have blastbeats, but reinforced
with "jazz" chords, which gives justice to the cloud part of the name.
Either way my band name is Fawns Fear Artemis....I think it may sound
too much like a song title, we'll just try it on for a bit. ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |