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    Posted: June 06 2018 at 01:46
Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Spock's Beard??
May as well have called themselves Kirk's Girdle or The Neutral Zone.

Beat me to it, man. I don't think it's a bad band name as such, but when I first heard it many years ago I thought `Man, I bet those guys are serious trippers and are a sh*t-hot psychedelic band'....in reality, you'd probably be pretty hard-pressed to find a more `straight' prog band! (and that's coming from a fan! )
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I like quite a few of those listed, but I agree: the naming is very suspect. Another new Italian band with an odd name is Non Newtonian Band. Good music though.
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Not to single out one country, but I have often found many Italian band names to be extremely silly:

Cellar Noise

Dropshard

Dynamic Lights

Empty Tremor

Farther Paint

Flashback Of Anger

Hidden Lapse

Hollow Haze

Icycore

Mindfar

Pathosray

Secret Sphere

Solid Vision

Soul Doubt

Wandering Vagrant

... and a few others who's names escape me right now.



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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Genesis-Not many biblical themes in their music at all.


maybe they thought of beginning, origin, birth and so on
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Genesis-Not many biblical themes in their music at all.
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Originally posted by REXFORD REXFORD wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by REXFORD REXFORD wrote:

Not prog but; the beatles

what about them? Is the name band lame and the music good or the other way around? :)
I think the band name isn't very creative, but their music is considered very influential, But personally i'm not a big fan of them, most of their discography is 2 minute 60s pop songs, which isn't very musically innovative for my taste. The albums; magical mystery tour, the white album, and revolver are cool though.

add Abbey Road and Rubber Soul to that list :)

Actually a lot of their shorter songs are quite creative, especially starting Help/Rubber Soul 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by REXFORD REXFORD wrote:

Not prog but; the beatles

what about them? Is the name band lame and the music good or the other way around? :)
I think the band name isn't very creative, but their music is considered very influential, But personally i'm not a big fan of them, most of their discography is 2 minute 60s pop songs, which isn't very musically innovative for my taste. The albums; magical mystery tour, the white album, and revolver are cool though.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

 I find the name Big Big Train really annoying.

Same here. It's sounds like a toddler came up with the name.
Maybe a toddler did come up with it?
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

 I find the name Big Big Train really annoying.

Same here. It's sounds like a toddler came up with the name.
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I once saw a band called "Trekkellian Skyway". They were excellent but only demo tapes exist...
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Originally posted by REXFORD REXFORD wrote:

Not prog but; the beatles

what about them? Is the name band lame and the music good or the other way around? :)
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Not prog but; the beatles
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 I find the name Big Big Train really annoying.
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Spock's Beard??
May as well have called themselves Kirk's Girdle or The Neutral Zone.
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The String Cheese IncidentNeo-psychedelia, Progressive bluegrass, Jam band
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I always find the name King Crimson a bit corny
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Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

You can throw Gandalf's Fist on the sh*t pile too.
But they would only fit on this thread if the music was good Wink

They are good mate!   Evil Smile
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Originally posted by twseel twseel wrote:

How about Yes?
Or for a good name with mediocre music, Estradasphere maybe?


I've always thought Yes was a great name; short, catchy and fits the music well - maybe not so great for Googling, but that wasn't really a concern at the time. It's a pity that short names like that are getting used up and bands have to start coming up with weirder, more complex names; I've never been a huge fan of longer band names.
My prog band - Boreal Kinship
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The Swans are not very nice. Schoolhouse/Bent Knee are 2 others that pop in the head. 
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