Music to Your Ears

"Nick Popetone & The Tits"

The Bittersweetness

or

The Filthysweetness

But I like the first one better...

Matt

Nick Popetone and The Tits. I don't know why, but it's truly fantastic. Although it's still a little long so maybe just Noelan's Tits. Wait, Noelan's Nipples. Wait, Noelans' Big Brown Nipples. Wait Noelan and the 3rd Nipples. ok I'll stop.

Cursed Cars

Ball of Kisses

Lead Lipstick

The Microwaves

The Pigment Parade

The Fademarks

Empire Eyes

Assassination Radio

* THE DAVID LYNCH MOB

* Catastrophe Casserole

* Lateral Cow

* Gland

* Hopscotch with Pedophiles

* Giblet

* The Butch Wears the Strap-On

* The Toadstool Legionnaires

* Nero and the Psychopathic Fiddlers

* Edward Popcorn

* Christian Barbecue

* Castrate Castro

* The Boneless and the Skinless

* The Macular Generation

* The Clavicles

* Don Diego del Griego and the Fervent Latin Lovemakers

* Dollbaby and Daddy Bob

* Ambrosiac

* Portraits of Stanwyck

* Pen 15

* Twenty Five Minutes to Go

* Death by Algebra

* Miles Standish and The Pilgrims

* The Few the Dry the Canadian

* The Dwayne Rutger Band

* Aragornication

* Loathe Thy Neighbour

* Red or Green?

* Assembly Line Strike

* Snakevomit

* The Incriminators

* Out of Myrtle's Reach

* Masturbatory Frenzy

* The First Mohicans

* The Biohazardous Boys

* The Hairy Down There Acoustic Trio

* Abby Normal

* Bird of Prey

* Egg Foo Yung

* The Super Duper Pooper Scoopers

* Entrail Sandwich

* Chickenshit Jones

* Gepetto and the Pederastic Puppeteer Reunion Squad

* Knockin' Boots

* The Upside-Down Wizards

* The Blue Star Brigade

* Landfill

* The Soup Kitchen Volunteers

* Mother Theresa and the Soon-to-be Saints

* Gibbet

* Glock

* Monsieur Guillotine

* The Black Stripe Chain Gang

* The Dirty Bluejean Boys

* Intestincide

* Antibionic

* Renew Your Vows

* Lucifer Hoover

* Northeast Heights

* Raw Pork

* Preemie

* The Pregnant Cheerleader Squadron

* Distressed Nun

* The Clocks

* Shotgun Abortion

* Hard Rock Cafe and the Too-Big Tee Shirts

* The Top Asshats

* Sentient

* Catholic Boys with Blue Tails

* Colonel O'Connell

* Planetary Security Strike Force

* Neitzche and the Nothings

* Epic Void

* DJ Smellgood

* Raspberry Massacre

* Z-Tronix

* Speedrabble

* The Bob Montgomery Twenty-Year Reunion

* Going Steady

* The Eugenics

* Heavy G's Petting Zoo

* Eff Plus and the Dee Minuses

* Soccer Mom and the Bad Haircuts

* The Bullies

* Don Con and the Artists

* Thinly Veiled

* Goose Toenail

* Lance Headstrong

* Half Empty

* XG

* The Webcam Kids

* Tin Can Sally

* Puffball

* The Boxes

* Get Belayed

* The Silhouette Squad

* Memories of Jenna

* The Slip-On Shoes

* Chubby Kitten

* Conglomeration 816

* The Crayolas

* Johnny Pencil and the Sharp Shooters

* Jedediah 4:23

* Skullbitten

* Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

* Bootleg Straightleg

* Animal Vegetable Mineral

* Pussywhipped

* Scrunch

* Eva Braun

* Hard Knight's Day

* Jimmy Butterfinger

* The Pickpockets

* WTF

* The Rosie O'Donnells

* The Trump Combovers

* Dr. One and the Nightstands

* THE ANASTASIA BULLET

* Quavering Sky

* Pike's Peak

* Elderberry Wine

* Neurotica

* General Mills and the Boxtop Gang

* The Enola Gays

* Glamorous Glennis

* The Windmills

* Nozark

* Our Potluck Gang

* Moulin Rouge Against the Machine

* The Outer Banks

* Petey Attrition

* The Church Suppers

* Uncle Owl

* Smooth J.

* Foreign Lesion

* Crosstimber

* Bjorn's Pancake Haus

* Croix de Guerre

* Pigs in a Blanket

* The Zoloft Bubbles

* Stepping on Fortune Cookies

* No Room at the Inn

* Quinine

* Jury Duty

* Seventy One Minus Two

* The Fort Jefferson Glee Club

* Sparkplug Maintenance 1455

* Prince Albert in a Can

* Dr. Perky

* Throbbing Cockroach

* Skeletor

* Frozen Walt

* Unstuck

* The Moms

* 667

Bullets In Mind

The schismatics

..but if there aren't already a dozen bands named "The Misunderestimated" scattered across the continent, then something is terribly wrong with the world.

1!2!3!4!

or

More! More! More!

or

Exclamation Points!

I kind of like CupcakePharoah's suggestions, too.

...I'm in! Here's my list (categorized, even):

"The" Bands:

--The Makeout Session

--The Lucy Lawless

--The Parker Poseurs

--The Red Wet

Romeo-Related:

--Not Another Montague

--If Only Juliet

--O Happy Daggar!

Random:

--Red Wet Poseurs

--DieNasty

--Schrader's Loin

There's more where that came from, sukkah!!

so: we still can't agree on a band name. Everyone has a few they like, but almost none of them overlap. I wittled away most all the ones band members said they HATED. Many, many hundreds other good ones are taken (the reject/taken list is almost to 700 now). Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! Here's the short list as of right now:

Volume volume

Assassination Radio

Violent device

heart crime

Hot violence

Danger heart

Signal plan

Brand New Volume

Epic Volume

Epic secret

Post machina

Post volume

Radio array

Steel lips

radio silence

project volume

what do you think? also, here is an expanded list of words I like, found mostly from suggestions that are used (I'm especially into wire, secret, empty, and volume, but can't seem to find a match):

Faction – party - clique

Union – unit - mutual

Project - operation

Collection - collective

Arrangement - Assembly - council

Affair

Meet

Term - session

Youth – teens - new

Squad – team - Patrol – militia - watch

Order - set

Elite - superior

Gang - group

Job - office

Process

Empire

Array

Version

​

Factory - Institute

Test

Control

Station

Acade​my – league – school - class

Section - sector

Home

Salon

Proposal – plan – strategy plot

Company - corporation

international

Location – zone – position

Game

List - rank

Hall

span – reach – distance

deal - plot

Epic - colossus

Void - empty

dynamic

official

machina

escap​e

nemesis

Date

Versus

Vanity

Panthe​r

Diazepam

Crush

Waste

Guillotine

F​ear

Silk

Plastic – metal - vinyl

Jumpstart

Phoenix

Scientific

L​unar

Felony

Fatale

Vile

Vacuum

Wild​

Skull

Static

Tyrant

Hush

crime

Se​cret

Hot - burning - cool - wet

Heart - love

Radio – broadcast - signal - transmission

Tonight – midnight - night

Spook – ghost - Blood – grave - murder

Electric – Shock – Voltage - explosion

New – nouveau - Now - fresh

Dead – death – doom - Suicide

Number (or a number)

Color - Black – red – dark – noir - shade

Fashion – trend – vogue - modern

Rapid – quick – swift – fast – Zoom - motion

mobile – move - velocity

Stellar – cosmic – power – star - astro

Violence – violenta – fight - riot – strike - pain

Fury – rage – anger – uproar – hate - wrath

Total – very – so - such

Teeth – fang – bite - lips

Volume – noise - loud

Sick – injury – Damage – cut – wound - break

Sharp – point - cuts

Thrust - push

Machine – engine – motor - Circuit - dial

Danger – crisis – risk – threat – hazard - peril

Auditorium

Accident – tragedy – disaster – epidemic - Disease

Action - active

Silence - quiet

Wire - Needle

Ray – gun – weapon - laser

Truth – lies – facts – theory – trick – hoax – fake - wrong

Fortune – rich – millionaire

Ex – post – over

Stranger – intruder

Rocket – missle - bullet

piece - part

I don't know. I just like it. Don't missiles have names?

We did like empire eyes. This short list isn't our first list (we've also been taking suggestions on myspace, rocksquawk, by email and in person). Once I eliminted things that were taken, we started to narrow down from a still hundreds long list. I don't remember the specific reason, since I didn't sort rejects by reasons. On the current short list, all those only got one vote each, except the first four, which got two votes and at least one hard no from another member (there are four of us).

For the record, names were rejected for the following reasons:

1. personally references a specific band member. We aren't "so-and-so and the so-and-sos." We are a band, and are uncomfortable singling anyone out. Also, any proper name feels limiting somehow?

2. Swear words/ offensive terms. We aren’t easily offended, but anything that would stop radio play or make us out to be a shock band/overshadow the band itself was decided against.

3. Too long. We need to be able to fit it on merch, fliers and stuff, and we didn't want a domain name so long that people messed it up.

4. taken or so close to something taken (not always just by bands), especially locally taken, including many variations we tried on taken ones that we liked (adding or removing “the,” “new,” combining parts, etc). The vast majority of names fall into this category.

5. Joke or insult suggestions (although we don’t mind them, we won’t use them).

6. Doesn’t fit the band/sound: although we aren’t that narrow, we clearly aren’t, say, a country or metal band.

7. Some sort of unpleasant association for some band member. You know how some people hate certain words, like "moist?"

8. Too easily confused or misspelled. We want people to be able to find us online without doing research, ending up someplace else, no media reference/ad mistakes, etc. Since you can't have spaces in domain names, sometimes things read differently when you push them together.

9. References some recent news or something that could be dated quickly. We won't be "anna nicole's baby," for example.

10. Too close to the old name. Ultimately, we decided that if we were going to change to go all the way.

11. Sucked. I don't want to single these out, but yeah, some suggestions we got sucked.

12. We just liked other ones better.

I was also suprised at what is taken and what isn't. Some cooler ones are free, while some of the lamest names ever are used. Also, some unused domain names for some reason cost more? BLOODDIET.COM, Price: $1,250.00 (not that I like that one).

I like project a lot, but people tell me they think of "project runway."

I also like rocket x... but do you think it's too close to "static x?" Because I hate that band.

that's what comes to mind for me, but I doubt anyone remembers that band.

Dillard's

here's what i'm thinking: I'm gonna make packs of all the button mock-ups I made for the top ten, plus a few more I personally liked, and then a few for "worst suggestion" that kinda thing. Also some buttons with our old and new name, and the top three will also get a shirt, our old disc, and a thank you on our new disc? that sound cool? Between 15 and 20 "winners" I'm guessing, if I can track them all down (some suggestions were anonymous). I'll post the list of winners with their suggestions, as well as a full list of rejected names for laughs and bitterness.

I guess we could get them out a few different ways. Mail em? have them pick up at a show or the Alibi? I dunno. It'll be a week-ish till I can get the prizes together, match names to people, etc. so I'll think about it... any suggestions?

"every single word in this language has been used"

That's what made-up words like "Rexxless" are for.

it's trademarked.