My brother has just named his band The Good Doctor, which I think's a brilliant name (even if they did reject my Raleigh St Claire suggestion).

For anyone who doesn't get the reference, it's not a Doctor Who thing...

They're very good, a bit like Graham Coxon.

A Neil Simon reference?

A Mark Kermode reference.

It's all things to all people.

The Mark Kermode Reference. That's a good band name.

Bit proggy, don't you think?

Prog is back. Look at Muse. All that's missing are capes.

Bellamy wore a cloak at Glastonbury 2003, that's close enough, surely?

Close to the Prog threshold....a few feet over the Wanker threshold.

Have you heard their third album? They leapt over the Wanker threshold long before Bellamy started dressing like a Dungeons and Dragons character.

You mean the "lost" Depeche Mode album. Which was backed by the "rejected" Depeche Mode stage show. Still, better than their "wannabe" Suede period.

Isn't that their fourth album? Their third album is the ''lost'' guy fretwanking in a guitar shop album.

My mistake. The third album was the "Queen minus the humour" album.

Can I gather Ed, because your mind didn't leap immediately to it, that you don't listen to the 5 Live Kermode podcast? You should, he's brilliant.

I do occasionally catch his appearances on the radio but I've not listened to the podcasts. I shall remedy this.

It's a weekly treat Edwin, it really is.

There's also a full archive on the 5 Live site.

He's wrong about 'Transformers' though...

I am NOT getting into the Muse hating club, I like them, I like their music, I like their live sets and thats it and if Bellamy wants to wear a cloak then good for him. However if he steps into Christmas single territory then he is on his own.

I don't like them, I don't hate them, I just plain don't get them! I cannot see what there is for people to get so excited about them for. They leave me cold. It's all very meh. First they wanted to be Radiohead, now the want to be in the 70s; I fully expect some kind of Wakeman-esque synth odyssey for their next album.

I don't hate Muse.

Actually that's not strictly true, I love them and hate them equally. I love them for being silly and completely stupid but sort of hate them for the same reason. It's complex.

All I know for certain is that I don't think they are anything special but they do have some decent songs and put on a good show.

I, hate them not as well. In fact I quite enjoy their records. It's just that ever since I first saw them in their humble beginnings they have not had an ounce of originality about them. But they do seem to be pressing the right buttons.

They just make it so easy for us to make fun of them.

I absolutely hate the word "muse" for some reason, and so I've declared them to have the worst band name ever. The band themselves are just meh.

Wanker Threshold. More of a front man's name than a band.

I only own one album of theirs, and I love it, and I would welcome a Wakeman-esque synth odyssey with open arms, and if I had gas money and a car that would make it that far, I'd drive up to Quebec next week and catch Wakeman's solo concert.

Evil Lemonade
Liquid Lawnmower

Some high school bands a friend of mine was in.

i've been listening to a lot of lightspeed champion, which is devonte hynes' new project since the test icicles split. they're a really good band, have a bitching name and do a cover of fleewood mac's 'gypsy'. what's not to like?

There are band names on my Guitar Hero memory card:

Zoidberg! (which Mel and I came up with)
Melted Fist (which is mine)
Moody Negro (which is Adam's)

At school I was in these bands:
The Khaki Penguins
Inspara
The Phantoms of Death (which became)
The Phantoms (which became)
Tyrant's Epitaph (which became)
The Tyrants (after I had left)

Ah, glory days.

Imhotep is a good name for a band. Hopefully it will be like the Egyptian era Earth Wind and Fire look as worn by Don Cheadle in Boogie Nights. I live in hope.

If only. But I have a feeling it would be adopted by some generic metal death/dark/goth metal band.

Yeah - probably. They would kill the funk. Apparently there is a french rapper called this, which is acceptable.

My idea is better though. Thutmose and Amenhotep are also choices if, Sostie, we were to find this band and make it happen.

Thutmose and the Sarcophogus

Although Sarcophogus is certainly a good one for the death metal fans.

You think like a metaller


http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,7712.sm...362B19ABFFEFF65

Yeah. This means I am hard like a 70s sitcom rock cake.

Harder than a steel girder forged in a Nordic volcano



Nordic Volcano. That's a good metal name.

Or a ship. They have double barrelled names like that.

What about a death metal band called Odin's Raven.

*makes Daisy Chainsaw style cranking geetar noises*

Well there is a Imhotep

http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,46682.sm


There is an Odin's Court & an Odin's Forest

As for Nordic Volcano. The closest I could find

NORDIC BLOOD FRANCE ( Black Metal )
NORDIC MIST USA ( Black Metal )
NORDIC MIST Skövde, SWEDEN ( Metal )
NORDIC NECROPOLIS Tornio, FINLAND ( Death Metal )
NORDIC NETHEREN USA ( Black Metal )
NORDIC TERROR Hannover, GERMANY ( Thrash Metal )

Jesus. The metal scene is so predictable

Isn't it. Nordic Mist sounds like a lovely cruiseship to me.

Looks like archaeology and rock (haha) go hand in hand. I thought Tumulus sounded a bit dark and edgy but looks like it's been done more than once.
http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,33981.sm

This site is great fun, Sost!

Eleven bands with "Thor" in the title

DAMIEN LEE THOR USA ( Heavy Metal )
HORDE THOR COLOMBIA ( Viking Metal )
LEGION OF THOR GERMANY ( Death Metal )
MIGHTY THOR MEXICO ( Heavy Metal )
THOR ARGENTINA ( Heavy Metal )
THOR BRAZIL ( Black Metal )
THOR SPAIN ( Heavy Metal )
THOR Vancouver, BC, CANADA ( Heavy Metal )
THOR THRONE FRANCE ( Black Metal )
THRONE OF THOR Fjellhamar, NORWAY ( Viking Metal )

and of course

THOR'S HAMMER Wrocław, POLAND ( Black Metal )


But only 5 with Zeus. Pah!

CARMINE APPICE'S GUITAR ZEUS Los Angeles, CA, USA ( Guitar Virtuoso )
POWER OF ZEUS USA
ZEUS Bolton, LANCASHIRE, UK ( Dark Metal )
ZEUS Cataluña, SPAIN ( Hard Rock )
ZEUS CZECH REPUBLIC


Metallers obviously have no respect for authority, hence the lack of bands featuring the name of the daddy of all gods

Thor is the hardest name known to man but that is taking things to far. What not have 'Thor's Nail' or 'Thor's Workbench' too.



Funniest thing I've heard all day. I want Thor Argentina to be an actual person.

Anglo-Saxon literature fans would be perhaps interested in this lot:
http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,53605.sm

Grendel's mother setting fire to the place and all.

He's expected to score at least 20 goals this season!



I think I have exposed Metal as a Genre of Wuss


32 Bands with "Satan" in the title...but 95 with "God"

1 with "Weeds"...but 8 with "Flowers"

55 with "Rain"...66 with "Sun"

yeah. Wusses. 261 with the word 'dead'. That is just inventive. Come on, rock, think on!

Not as inventive as 509 with the word "black"



Hello and welcome to Let's Laugh At Metal

This could go on and on. In a good way!

Oooh look, they are swearing...

FUCK SHIT UP RUSSIA
IRON SHIT SNAKES SWEDEN ( Metalcore )
OPERATION EAT SHIT FRANCE ( Hardcore )
REAL BIG SHIT BRAZIL ( Punk ) *
SHIT CITY Oslo, NORWAY ( Hard Rock )
SHIT DEATH TURKEY ( Alternative Rock )
SHIT FOR BRAINS Alsbach, GERMANY ( Thrash Metal )
SHIT GOAT Millville, NJ, USA ( Thrash Metal )
SHIT SCREAMS CZECH REPUBLIC ( Grindcore )

9 with "Shit" in the title....too many to list that are.





*this is what I call Real Big Fish

Wasn't that the Soviet Union's motto at one point?

*golf claps*



Really rubbish.

Reminds me of flooring:
http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,69328.sm

....bunch of planks!



Vagina 1:

CARNIVOROUS VAGINA ITALY ( Death Metal )

Penis 3:

GOAT PENIS Blumenau, SC, BRAZIL ( Black Metal ) *
PENIS FLYTRAP Los Angeles, CA, USA ( Gothic )
SATAN'S ALMIGHTY PENIS Cedar Rapids, IA, USA ( Black Metal )

Men RAWK!!


*It seems goats are metallers farmyard animal of choice...I'll check

It's the Farm Animals In Metal Band Titles League

Goat 38
Horse 20
Pig 12
Ram 11
Sheep 6
Chicken 3
Cow 2
Duck 2

Hey, they're local. Wonder if they're good.

Ah, but it could be the Greekness that puts them off. All that oiled-up wrestling 'n' stuff.

I had a look and there are 55 with the word love, but none with the words jazz or fornicators.

I may start a band called THE JAZZ FORNICATORS.


EDIT:


Some more:

Cat 12
Hedgehog 1
Weasel 1
Ferret 0
Marmot 0

Easy with the inaccurate stereotypes. You do know I am half Greek don't you?



It's the Turks that do the oiled up stuff.

My point was that when it comes to scathing and inaccurate generalisations, rockers do it the most.