I've been trying to think of names for songs/albums/bands, for some things I've been working on/towards... and I thought what better way to come up with some interesting ideas than putting the word out on this blog!
Please leave me any suggestions in the comments. I will happily give credit where credit is due, but if you leave your suggestion here please know that it may be used irresponsibly!
7 comments:
Can you give us any hints, as to what your working on, so we can have some basis to make the suggestions?
Album name: There's never a basis to make suggestions.
:)
band: Teens for Decency (this is sort of half taken already, though)
album: open-ended silence
Well, I'm working on some songs right now... which may end up becoming an album... and which also may end up being performed live by some kind of band... so the suggestions could be for any of the above.
I'm also half-interested in just hearing interesting names thrown out there by people, just for its own sake. So don't be afraid to be creative!
If you were gonna do something Zappa-esque a good band name might be: The Farting Nuns,or for Goth metal: The Flaming Huns. For a moddish/Devo type group: The Zeros and Ones, and for a emo-core outfit: The Dieing Suns. (Note: some or all of these names may be in use I did not GOOGLE any of them.)
Some band Album names I thought of were:
"Constructive Criticism"
"The Tantrums"
"The Rants"
If I had a band I might vote for a name like "PICA" or "SYNOPHRYS".
=)
But with a name like "SKY" maybe you could utilize this:
Latin may be a dead language, but it lives in the sky in the names of clouds.
"NIMBOSTRATUS"
"ALTOCUMULUS"
"UNDULATUS".
"CIRROCUMULUS".
These words and phrases, compounded of simple Latin nouns and adjectives, describe the shapes and essential characteristics of the masses of water vapor that sail through our atmosphere. Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow from the Mount Washington Observatory and this is The Weather Notebook.
Just three Latin words unlock the meanings of most cloud names: Stratus meaning layer; cumulus, the word for lump or heap; and cirrus, which means wispy or curly. Add to this basic group the word nimbus, which means 'pouring down rain,' alto, the word meaning middle, and fracto for broken and you've got almost the entire sky covered.
Stratocumulus? That's easy - a layer of lumpy clouds. Cirrostratus - a wispy, curly layer of clouds. Cumulo-nimbus - big lumpy clouds that can pour down rain. How about fractostratus - a smooth layer of clouds that looks sort of torn apart.
Our system of cloud names was created by an English pharmacist named Luke Howard back in 1803. Though it has been refined and expanded over the years by various meteorologists, Howard's basic nomenclature remains in use today.
A modest man of science and a dedicated amateur weather observer, Howard was also evidently something of a poet, for the Latin names he proposed for the clouds have proven to be as memorable, as apt, and as seemingly inevitable as some of the great lines of Shakespeare. Luke Howard's latin cloud names. Nearly 200 years old, and unlike the latin names of plants and animals, have not been superceded by a non-latin moniker.
Band names... (in no particular order)
The Minor Relatives
Flea Bite
El Pantalones
Young Caviar
Album names...
Shag It
Good as Grease
Pumpin'
El Pantalones
Spare Luggage
Feet First
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