Sunday, March 30, 2008

Fake Band Names I Have Known


If you're anything like me, and I pray you're not because you'd be writing a ten page paper right now, you spend a lot of your time coming up with fake band names. I don't have the dedication, or the musical talent, or even the blinding egotism necessary to get a real band off the ground. What else can I say, but tell you that I spend more time coming up with hypothetical album covers than coming up with possible songs?

Whiskey Clandestino
Where it came from: A Jack Chick tract, by way of another forum. There was a topic dedicated to discussing those creepy little pamphlets, and in one strip that, no lie, involved bootleggers, moonshine was translated to "whiskey clandestino" in Spanish. Someone on the board mentioned that would make an awesome band name. I agreed so strongly, I stole the idea myself.
Description: The only all-cover band with a balalaika.
White Man's Pants
Where it came from: A recent favourite, it came from the self-published novel of some wackaloon linked on the Really.Bad.Novels topic at Snarkfest. Contains what might be the greatest two lines in the English canon: "Take back your white-man's pants. I will not wear them." And thus, a new fake band name was born.
Description: Mostly funk, a little klezmer, always drunk.
The Tsarinas
Where it came from: Who doesn't like the monarchs of Russia? Besides Pugachev. Or Alexander II's assassin. Or the Bolsheviks who executed Nicholas II and his family. Alright, so historically they haven't been a popular group, but their titles are pretty damn cool.
Description: All-girl band who's bubblegum pop hides a darker electronic edge.
Fine Yearling Ass
Where it came from: This hilarious Onion article, "Peasant Wedding Gets Out of Hand."
Delirious from the increasing mayhem, wedding patrons urinated out the windows of their thatched hovels, smashed earthenware jugs and whacked blind beggars with gourds.

The already-explosive situation soon deteriorated when a brawl broke out between members of the bride's and groom's families over the ownership of a pheasant.

Description: Alt-country with a lute and a sackbut.



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