I always thought it would be funny to make up a band that doesn't really exist, but make a website so it appears that they're huge!
[quote:c9d7cd2dc2="Maljonic"]but make a website so it appears that they're huge![/quote:c9d7cd2dc2] They might be giants!
They might be giants have had 2 songs of note. Firstly, the ever excellent "birdhouse in my soul" which is wackily excellent. Secondly, the theme tune to TV's Malcolm in the middle. Personally, I always thought "Aqua Chicken" was a great name for a band
TMBG have more than those two songs of note. "Istanbul" and "Particle Man" are better known than "Birdhouse in My Soul". Not to mention such other great songs like "Whistling in the Dark", and "Mammal".
Better known by who? [i:84a622c9de]Birdhouse in My Soul[/i:84a622c9de] is THE song that springs to mind for me when They Might Be Giants is mentioned, speaking as someone who isn't a follower of their work.
i love they might be giants lots. and they have many many quite cool and awesome songs. my sister got to see them in concert once and i was very jealous. birdhouse in your soul is my very favourite tmbg song, though. ella was listening to it earlier and i almost opened a conversation with her by saying 'i love that song' but then it switched so i couldn't really and ... yeah.
[quote:bdde7fae41="Maljonic"]Better known by who? [i:bdde7fae41]Birdhouse in My Soul[/i:bdde7fae41] is THE song that springs to mind for me when They Might Be Giants is mentioned, speaking as someone who isn't a follower of their work.[/quote:bdde7fae41] Indeed. Other than the other song i mentioned, I couldnt actually name a single other one. So naturally, if I don't know about it, it's not really of note
Can you actually name the other one you did mention? Or do you just know it as the theme tune from Malcolm in the Middle? I don't know what it's called either, but a safe bet would be something like "you're not the boss of me" or something. I've never heard it all the way through. Birdhouse In Your Soul is a very cool song. Very catchy. I know nothing else about them. I may ask someone for one of their other songs. *looks beseechingly at plaid* I would start a band called The Dinnerlady Snafu Association. They would have a song called The Themometer Blues, about overheating chip fat. An educational fire saftey message and nutritional warning all wrapped up with some nice plonky bass and quavering saxophone. In fact, i like this idea so much I am going to patent it. Perhaps.
i have always, ever since i saw it scribbled on somebody's whiteboard somewhere, thought Emotional Dandruff would make a cool band name. yeah.
i like The Dinnerlady Snafu Association. i'd be intrigued enough to buy their album. I think Emotional Dandruff would make a better album title than a band name though.
I always wanted to start a band called 'Anonymabadkar' or as you would say in English 'Anonymous bathtubs'
Dave Barry often used the aside, (Incidentally, _____ would be a great name for a band), where _____ was a phrase he'd used during the course of that particular column.
[quote:1dc3775533="Mynona"]I always wanted to start a band called 'Anonymabadkar' or as you would say in English 'Anonymous bathtubs'[/quote:1dc3775533] No space?
There was an old guy named Wally that had been sober for 40 years, when I first came into AA he said in a meeting once "It's bad enough we got all the fucking homeless people and reprobates in here, but now we have to put up with drunken Hindu's" and he looked at me and everyone laughed. After I got over my embarassment, I thought, The Drunken Hindu's would be a fantastic name for a band.
There's an acapella group at my Uni called the Bathtub Dogs. That name always makes me smile. My friend from High school and I also said that if we were ever to start a really bad post-hardcore band we would call it 'Dirty Little Emo Babies'. How that name came about I cannot say.
I came up with a name that Hermia and I use all the time for our hypothetical indie rock band - Sourpussy.
I always figured that a band called 'To Be Announced' or TBA would get lots of free publicity at gigs everywhere... ALthough my favourite was The Drugs, an Aussie band who put on their t-shirt some reviewers comment "Noisy fucking nonsense"... Above this however, was Mr Noisy bum humping Mr Nonsense. I love that shirt.
We have a band around here that is named Free Beer, I'm sure there have been some disappointed people showing up at their concerts. One of my co-workers is in a band called RockBottom, I haven't gone to see them yet but another friend from work has gone and bought their t-shirt, it always makes me smile when he wears it, he is retiring in a week or so and he is about the last person you would think would be that into rock music.
No, no space. Mostly because the rythm becomes diffrent when you say it and I like it that way. We have a political party called 'Cheaper Beer'
I've always wanted to make a film called [i:ce502a7288]Coming soon[/i:ce502a7288], just to confuse people during the trailers...
[quote:26b8d0a550="Katcal"]I've always wanted to make a film called [i:26b8d0a550]Coming soon[/i:26b8d0a550], just to confuse people during the trailers...[/quote:26b8d0a550]Yes, I like that idea, play with their minds. I'd like to make a band called New that becomes so massively well-known that every time you hear the word 'New' you think of them, that way just about every commercial in the world would be advertising my band in their own language. Eventually 'New' would become yesterday's news and the word will be ruined forever!
there is a band called Brand New, which i enjoy muchly. i don't think they've had that big of an impact on the english language as a whole though. which perhaps is a pity. ah well.
