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Gandalff 
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 Topic: Weirdest name of Prog band/solo artist
Posted: August 15 2010 at 03:19 |
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I think that RIO/Avant Prog, Post/Math Rock or Cantenbury Scene are certainly hotbed of various weirdest names. Who´s your favourite one?
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 07:01 |
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Now I'm used to it, but when I first saw Godspeed You! Black Emperor as a band name, I thought it was pretty dubious.
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Bellringer
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 07:28 |
Algarnas Tradgard was an old Swedish band and while their name, which means "moose garden," is pretty odd in itself, they are probably best known for a quite spacey album that features what must be the most fantastic title of all time. Translated, it means "the future is a hovering ship, anchored in the past." There's a title track.
On a more related note, they may not be prog, but I always thought the strangest name for ANY band was And They Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.
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Psalm 69:6
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 07:29 |
Uncle Dirtytoes
Sparifankal
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic
Fresh Maggots
Sindelfingen
GYGAFO
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus
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Gandalff
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 07:36 |
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Samla Mammas Manna (Zamla Mammas Manna)
Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start (difficult to remember!)
Giraffes? Giraffes!
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia
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Dunn Khan
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 08:27 |
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Madame Blavatsky Overdrive and Master Musicians of Bukkake are the only two that came up to my mind that weren't listed yet.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 08:33 |
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I don't have any but Ziltoid cracks me up.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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presdoug
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 11:01 |
do not know what type of rock they are,but -
Gay Bikers On Acid
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Xanatos
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 11:43 |
for me is:
Ahleuchatistas and my favorite chilean band Akineton Retard
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richardh
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 17:57 |
Blodwyn Pig
sometimes referred to as 'The Blods'
Rat Scabies (drummer for The Damned) .Like that as well.
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Chris S
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 18:03 |
 Bellringer wrote:
Algarnas Tradgard was an old Swedish band and while their name, which means "moose garden," is pretty odd in itself, they are probably best known for a quite spacey album that features what must be the most fantastic title of all time. Translated, it means "the future is a hovering ship, anchored in the past." There's a title track.
On a more related note, they may not be prog, but I always thought the strangest name for ANY band was And They Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.
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I agree re Alganars gobbledegook, man i can never remember how to say it.
Popol Vuh another odd one
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<font color=Brown>Music - The Sound Librarian
...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 18:06 |
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Satan Alfa Beel Atem
They're prog, right?
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J-Man
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 18:16 |
Not prog, or worth listening to, but Anal C**t is a pretty odd name! 
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presdoug
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 18:55 |
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gotta mention a band an old friend of mine had in the mid-eighties
Uncle Dangly
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Noak
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 20:42 |
Bellringer wrote:
Algarnas Tradgard was an old Swedish band and while their name, which means "moose garden," is pretty odd in itself, they are probably best known for a quite spacey album that features what must be the most fantastic title of all time. Translated, it means "the future is a hovering ship, anchored in the past." There's a title track.
On a more related note, they may not be prog, but I always thought the strangest name for ANY band was And They Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.
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It's spelled Älgarnas Trädgård and translates to: The Garden of the Mooses or The Mooses Garden. Moose Garden would be more like this: Älgträdgården.
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 21:35 |
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Incredible Expanding Mindf**k is pretty weird.
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Chris S
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Posted: August 15 2010 at 23:22 |
^ I dig that one
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<font color=Brown>Music - The Sound Librarian
...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
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Gandalff
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Posted: August 16 2010 at 03:26 |
Xanatos wrote:
for me is:
Ahleuchatistas
and my favorite chilean band Akineton Retard |
Can you translate these names, please? My simple net translator didn´t find it...
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ten years after
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Posted: August 16 2010 at 08:21 |
richardh wrote:
Blodwyn Pig
sometimes referred to as 'The Blods'
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Great name, Great band, two Great albums - severely underated. Surprisingly they are not in the Prog Archives.
Edited by ten years after - August 16 2010 at 08:21
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ten years after
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Posted: August 16 2010 at 08:34 |
Some weird names -
"Public Foot The Roman"
"The Spriguns of Tolgus"
"The Holy Modal Rounders"
"Wynder K Frog"
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