Band Names Made Easy

Because I have no original thoughts, I thought I'd try a fun activity that I saw on the web: making up band names. The article that gave me the idea was a Wired article by Lore Sjoberg on the making of his MySpace page. He has some great made-up band names on his profile like Noun, Lern 2 Spel, Found White Cat, and Futile Gestures in a World Devoted to Ignorance Feat. Jizbom. This inspired me.

Sure, the guy writes comedy pieces for a magazine and makes webcomics for a living, but it seems like he effortlessly made up dozens of band names. Whenever hanging out with friends and joking about funny names, I always encounter a mental block when I try to offer some spontaneous examples of my own. If I do think of anything, it's always The Golgi Bodies, cD Galaxy, or some similarly nerdy name. After thinking for a second, I decided that my thinking had become very uptight, to paraphrase The Dude. It's actually incredibly easy. Here are some band names that are all inspired by my office in the astro department. I've also listed possible bands/groups that they could be applied to and their first albums:

1. Brian and the Stars (50s doo-wop, first album: "Iowa Memories")
   
2. MultiSync LCD (crunk hip-hop group; first album: "Progressive Scan")
   
3. Sharpie (80s hair metal band that does lots of shitty ballads; first album: "Permanent")
   
4. 1000 mL (post-punk, Blink 182-rip-off, commercial drivel; first album: "Nalgene")
   
5. Ice T (rapper who appears on Law and Order: SVU)
   
6. Guide to the Good Life (70s funk party band; first album: "In Berkeley")
   
7. Sea Salt and Vinegar (female singer-songwriter; first album: "Kettle")
   
8. DietCoke with Lime (ethereal, waifish female vocalist and back-up band, Lime; First album: "Aspartame")
   
9. Discarded Red Sweater (emo/sad bastard band; first album: "Forgetful Student")
   
10. Numerical Recipes (art-electronica group a la Brian Eno; first album: "Runge-Kutta")
11. Tomb on the Roof (socially-conscious hip-hop group; first album: "No Windows")
    
12. Our Star the Sun (indie band with lots of electronica and clapping; first album: "Magnetic Reconnection")
    
13. Sun Blade (goth metal; first album: "Obsolete and Useless")
    
14. Two Red Bricks (post-post-punk trio with classic rock sensibilities; first album: "Poor Man's Doorstop")
    
15. Surge Protector (Chrstian rock band; first album: "JC Adaptor")
    
16. LaTeX Graphix (creepy, satanist band that performs disturbing sex acts and cattle mutilations on stage; first album: "\begin{freakshow}")
    
17. Fire Door (stadium rock band; first album: "Keep Closed at All Times")
18. 4 Grad Students in a Confined Space (never a good band name)
19. Dead Plant Society (vegan activist band from San Francisco; first album: "Eat Rocks, Too")
20. Koob Scisyhp (indie band from Luxembourg with guitarists who use violin bows and a vocalist who sings in a mixture of Sanskrit and Basque; first album: "...drawkcab")
    

There you go. I did all that in the space of 20 minutes. Figuring out the correct match of band to name took most of that time.