How to name your indy band:

[quazark]

If any of you play in an indy band and you need a name use this tried and true method to help you out. Keep in mind to only use words that have no meaning to you whatsoever, cause we all know you're not really "indy" unless you're totally random :P.

1) Pick a random progressive verb.
2) Pick a random noun.
3) Pick a random adjective or adverb. (Optional)

Example: 1) Moving 2) California 3) Quickly
= Quickly Moving California

Now put the three together and you have a name. Make sure when people ask you how you got your name that you say something really random and then laugh about how clever and indy you are.

On a side note, I think these days Indy is just another word for "we suck **** and won't ever get signed". IMO Indy is just used as an excuse for lack of talent.

[gottajibboo]

isn't everyone "indie(independent)" until they get signed?

my indie band name:

run fart now

[thetikiman]

Fast Budding Tennis

[j_stashko]

Mine would be, Fast Climbing Towers, actually I kind of like it. I won't use it though.

[Rock A My Soul]

damn. i thought that The Walking Sexies was a good band name until i discovered that it fits the formula.

[Persona]

Mine is "Dance with wolves". :p

[Dusty]

F@ck! My band is changing our name because we lost our drummer and he came up with the name so it just wouldn't be right. But our name was "Hangman Come Quickly" I guess that fits the formula. But we're not Indy. I swear! I'm a loser, argh. We play rock, roocckkk!

[boyecho]

'chasing the dharma butterfly'

hahahahaa

quazark! you are from an indie place. look at the bands that have come from auburn!

not to mention. the birthplace of the astro-men, right?

[quazark]

yea yea yea...I'm a hater tho ;)

[skyneverclaimed]

Slowly spinning Nancy :cool:

[TheGrinnan]

Wow, my old band's name fits that formula perfectly.

Slow Children Playing

(Then again, we took it from a road sign.)

[sorre]

Fishing wonderful trucks...
it's funny because you can't say if i'm fishing trucks or if the trucks are simply fishing... :p
oh my god, i should go to sleep... (it's 6.35 am here...)
sorre

[joeinthebox1980]

Originally posted by gururyan
I want my band name back, Barefoot Revolution. It was stolen from some dudes at a bar that were listening to our conversation. So uncool. They tarnished the name, the sucked so bad......I can never have that name back.

just steal it back! :)

are they known outside your town/region?

[thetikiman]

Originally posted by gururyan
I want my band name back, Barefoot Revolution. It was stolen from some dudes at a bar that were listening to our conversation. So uncool. They tarnished the name, the sucked so bad......I can never have that name back.

I was thinking more of a one word band...like The Beatles, The Strokes, The Who, Travis, Ride, Blur, U2, The Music, etc.

Somethign that fits well on stickers :p

[Rock A My Soul]

i really wanted to name my latest band The Village Bicycle but they were against it. which is odd, because the names they all came up were all ****-related, like The Fluffers.

[jacobhimself]

Pocketlove.... its my heavey band that i get to go off in.... all my solo **** is mellow and chillin, but in pocketlove we rock out and kick ass....

[j_stashko]

Originally posted by Rock A My Soul
i really wanted to name my latest band The Village Bicycle but they were against it. which is odd, because the names they all came up were all ****-related, like The Fluffers.

I like that name alot, I won't take it though. It was kind of depressing for me when I first read it, I don't know why, I am not a depressed person. But now it isn't. Ah well.

[blankspace6]

a friend of mine was tossing around the idea of calling his new band dirtbike mannequins.

as for the whole indie thing, too many people are throwing the term around no matter what kind of music they're making. and as for indie standing for "we suck s***", i think it's really just for bands that don't necessarily want to be played on modern rock radio. "true" indie bands would rather make good albums and have good songs, than be accepted by people and radio stations that also like/play limp bizkit and creed.

[Silent Rob]

Old FW about band names:

Time: The 1930's and 40's - Blues is Born

Method: Take name of artist (preferably a fruit or a president's name). Add a physical disability.

Sounds: Like their pain is real and unbearable. Man.

Examples: Lame Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson.



Time: The 1950's - Rock and Roll is born:

Method: Take singers name. Add "And His Band".

Sounds: Totally real and hip in the new Rock and Roll age

Examples: Gerry Lee and his Band, Eddie Cochran and his Band, Little Richard and his Band


Time: Late 1950's - The Party Continues

Method: Take Singers Name. Add an exciting dancin' name for the band.

Sounds : The band has a name! How exciting! Hip and fun and definitely where the party's at.

Examples: Freddie and the Dreamers, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cliff Richard and the Shadows


Time: 1960's Pop Music Revolution

Method: Take the name of an animal or something else suitably wacky to be your band name. Add "The".

Sounds: Youthful, joyful and independent from boring & stuffy adult life. But totally safe for the kids at the same time.

Examples: The Monkees, The Beatles, The Turtles, 1910 Fruitgum Family.


Time: late 1960's Acid Rock

Method: Take everyday yet slightly odd but totally unconnected words. Put them together.

Sounds: Slightly odd and unconventional. We take drugs man.

Examples: Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind.


Time: Early 1970's Birth of Heavy Metal

Method: Take two ALMOST unconnected words and put them together

Sounds: Totally hairy and unglamorous. But really heavy and dangerous.

Examples: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jefferson Airplane, Ultimate Spinach, Vanilla Fudge


Time: Late 1970's Punk Explosion

Method: Take a Nasty Word with connotations of extreme violence. Add "The"

Sounds: Like it could kick off at any time. Stay Well Back. Anarchy is here and it's NASTY.

Examples: The Clash, The Rutts, The Damned, The Exploited, The Vibrators.


Time: Early 1980's New Romantics

Method: Take two words, Preferably including one French Word.

Sounds: Sophisticated, for the new international age we live in.

Examples: Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Spandeu Ballet, Aha, Ultra Vox


Time: Mid 1980's Birth of Indie

Method: Take the most little and ordinary word that you can think of. Add "The"

Sounds: Real and stripped down. Not like those meaningless stadium fools. Bit depressing but at least it's real. Real music for ordinary people to express how the world really is.

Examples: The Smiths, The Shop Assistants, The Pastels, The Housemartins.


Time: Late 80's Acid House

Method: Take a normal word and spell it in a funny way. Adding numbers or unsubtle references to the drugs is very good and should be encouraged.

Sounds: Sorted! Aciiiiid!

Examples: Altern-8, Smart E's, 808 State, Opus 3,



Time: Early 1990's Shoegazers

Method: Take one syllable word. That's it.

Sounds: A bit blank and druggy for the blank society we live in. But still totally real and indie.

Examples: Blur, Lush, Ride, Curve, Moose.


Time: Mid 1990's Britpop

Method: Take the first word that comes into your head.

Sounds: Like something Noel would say and therefore totally real and definitely where the party's at.

Examples: Sussed, Smaller, Cast, Heavy Stereo.


Early 00's Emo

Method: (obscure despcriptive noun) + (noun referring to an idea, or plan, or obsure name). Often in lower case - it gives drama to the music.

Sounds: Dramatic!

Examples: joan of arc, Jimmy Eat World, appleseed cast, christie front drive

[quazark]

Originally posted by blankspace6
as for the whole indie thing, too many people are throwing the term around no matter what kind of music they're making.

exactly! I'm the music director at a college radio station and I'm seriously fed the **** up with today's indy hype. There are so many bands that suck complete **** but they pass themselves off as "indy" so people will come see them play. The whole indy dress-code/uniform thing is a big joke too...ChuckTaylors, black-rimmed glasses, catcher in the rye, wear a scarf inside out...God its annoying seeing armies of "indy" clones running around ranting about how commercial radio sucks and the Yea yea yea's and moving units are so amazing (which they aren't). There are some good indy bands (i.e. the flaming lips) but the plethora of wanna-be's is giving the genre a bad name. I believe it's just another shift in musical taste like Grunge was in the early 90s which is shortly there after followed by every tom, ****, and harry that wants to jump on-board.

[Rock A My Soul]

Originally posted by quazark
exactly! I'm the music director at a college radio station and I'm seriously fed the **** up with today's indy hype. There are so many bands that suck complete **** but they pass themselves off as "indy" so people will come see them play. The whole indy dress-code/uniform thing is a big joke too...ChuckTaylors, black-rimmed glasses, catcher in the rye, wear a scarf inside out...God its annoying seeing armies of "indy" clones running around ranting about how commercial radio sucks and the Yea yea yea's and moving units are so amazing (which they aren't). There are some good indy bands (i.e. the flaming lips) but the plethora of wanna-be's is giving the genre a bad name. I believe it's just another shift in musical taste like Grunge was in the early 90s which is shortly there after followed by every tom, ****, and harry that wants to jump on-board.

oh definitely. emo is today's grunge, and chris carrabarra is a bizarro-world kurt.

[axis_records]

Emo is a totally overused (not to mention improperly) used term these days. Emo is short for emotional, which most music is. Basically, I call the supposed "emo" these days "***** punk", but that's just me and I don't like it.

[skip tracer]

no, emo is short for emotional hardcore, and there's nothing hardcore about any of the bands described as "emo" today.

[State]

I think Emo's taken on a new meaning. Emo and Emo-Hardcore are two totally different things, for example: Emo = Dashboard Confessional, Emo-Hardcore = Glassjaw. The word Emo gets thrown around a lot these days but everyone has their own interpretation, kind of like Punk, which is almost the same way.

[Alecto]

I think the most time-honoured way to name your band is from a song from your fave band. Examples:

Muddy Waters- Rolling Stone = The Rolling Stones

Alice in Chains - Godsmack

Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip

The list goes on . . .

Hell, most of the bands that are called "emo" hate the name!:rolleyes:

[VillageIdiot]

Originally posted by Alecto
I think the most time-honoured way to name your band is from a song from your fave band. Examples:

Muddy Waters- Rolling Stone = The Rolling Stones

Alice in Chains - Godsmack

Sonic Youth - Eric's Trip


Talking Heads - Radiohead.


Its true. :D

[flipperbaby]

i dont undertsand why people automatically think "indie" is a whole different genre.....it basically means underground ...and its not a genre its the state your in with you band.....there could be indie/underground rock,rap,funk,guitar swing,folk,jazz...etc....

so its not a genre itself

i also think it has to do with the music you play in a genre....like taking dinosaur jr for instance there called "the best indis band of all time"......but they were just rock with alot of effects....it made them not like rock as in led zeppelin and the beatles but thats what made them..."indie"

[scratched_acid]

The same can be said for emo. Emo is sposed to satnd for 'emotional' music. I personally cant stand most emo around at the moment. At the drive in did it the best even though they weren't really emo if your going by the whole "emotionl" music thing.

[Kid_BS]

Emo bands to me are: Rites of Spring, Jawbreaker, early Samiam... not the **** that is out these days. Bands that are classified as "emo" these days tend to be pop-punk bands. Real emo tends to be somewhat dark and depressing with a melancholy sound.

[rocknroll321]

Originally posted by quazark
exactly! I'm the music director at a college radio station and I'm seriously fed the **** up with today's indy hype. There are so many bands that suck complete **** but they pass themselves off as "indy" so people will come see them play. The whole indy dress-code/uniform thing is a big joke too...ChuckTaylors, black-rimmed glasses, catcher in the rye, wear a scarf inside out...God its annoying seeing armies of "indy" clones running around ranting about how commercial radio sucks and the Yea yea yea's and moving units are so amazing (which they aren't). There are some good indy bands (i.e. the flaming lips) but the plethora of wanna-be's is giving the genre a bad name. I believe it's just another shift in musical taste like Grunge was in the early 90s which is shortly there after followed by every tom, ****, and harry that wants to jump on-board.

That applies to about 90% of todays music. Ever since there was the rock is back fiasco, bands that want to sound like the Strokes, Vines or White Stripes and look like they were brought from the 70's with a time machine are everywhere.

[thunda-berd]

does "Mors" count? doesnt mean anything... until I found out in danish class that it means "moms" in danish but whatever

[fretboardmaster]

blindly crawling butterfly

nice

[::charlie::]

[Alecto]

"Dracula Was Gay".

I got that off Jello Biafra.:D