You Get Used To Strange Band Names

At the Restaurant

Well, Holli turned 21 on Sun­day. It was a much antic­i­pated day for her, not so much in that she finally gets to drink, but in that she finally has the option of being able to drink, if she wants. I’ll let her tell you about the day we had, but I think she had a good birth­day, and I did every­thing I could to make it special.

Check out my Holli’s 21st Birth­day pho­to­set.

At Cer­tus, our boss-boss-boss is com­ing to visit, so us guys in the office have been get­ting all dressed up, ready to impress… only to have him can­cel and resched­ule. Then, it hap­pens all over again. It’s like hav­ing a crappy boyfriend. You love him (and he loves you!), so you keep let­ting him do this to you. Hope­fully, Thurs­day. Fin­gers are not crossed nor is breath held.

Strange band names, you say? Can you list some, you ask?

  • +/- : Makes using any search engine to find infor­ma­tion a lit­tle difficult
  • Arcade Fire : Sounds like an 80s video game geek’s worst nightmare
  • Death Cab for Cutie : Death — bad. Cutie — good. Cab — draw. The band does it all
  • The Decem­berists : Are there fan groups for months of the year?
  • Hot Hot Heat : Redun­dant and repet­i­tive much?
  • In Ink Please : It’s a sen­tence; no, it’s a band name! (from North Dakota, at that!)
  • The Long Win­ters : You guys would love The Decemberists
  • Menom­ena : A name was cho­sen for “the way it rolls off the tongue, sex­u­ally, or some­thing”, it really sounds more like a disease
  • OK Go : For those who need a band to tell them what to do, but are tired of Mar­i­lyn Manson
  • The Postal Ser­vice : While not expressly weird, it can be con­fus­ing if you want to mail one of their albums to a friend
  • Rilo Kiley : It sounds like a name, but it’s not one that I’ve ever heard, and it doesn’t seem to belong to any­one in the band
  • The Secret Hand­shake : If you stray too far into Google search results, you’ll enter a world of limp wrists and rainbows
  • The Shins : Per­haps the most over­looked body part in music
  • Snow Patrol : Who are we kid­ding? Snow needs no one to look after it
  • Suf­jan Stevens : It’s actu­ally a name!
  • Sun­set Rub­down : You’re gonna do what to what??
  • Tak­ing Back Sun­day : I know that Tuesday’s Gone, but I hadn’t heard of Sun­day being misplaced
  • They Might Be Giants : Who is? And are they, or aren’t they? And what are we going to do unless they are?
  • Uni­corns : Bryce and Tony have worse names for this band. I’ll let them explain that
  • The Weak­erthans : Noth­ing says “indie” like a self-deprecating name. At least, I think this is self-deprecating
  • Weezer : see above
  • Wolf Parade : A very funny visual image that quickly turns into a very hor­ri­fy­ing visual image
  • YasBM : Is it an acronym or just a des­per­ate grasp at an untaken band name? If the BM means what I think it does, then that explains the qual­ity of the music

If you do like indie music, and you want to see some acoustic con­certs, check out these awe­some Take-Away Shows. Do you guys have any weird band names you want to add?

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