h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Of if you want to fiddle more with diacritical marks...use Turkish ones. If you put cedillas under the g and s and miss the dots of the I's altogether, you get (something like) Zayutzhayusht. (zh = as in the j sound of the French je)

I saw something in my dictionary the other day: Paradigm Shift. It means "a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions" according to my OED.

Any good?

No! Awful!

Think of some good bands. Do any of them have a name even remotely like 'Paradigm Shift'? Or 'Shitegeist'?

We've been leaning towards something Germanic, for some reason. Three of us had this two-hour-long conversation online last night, where we ran through phrases in German, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Old English, etc. Nothing has grabbed me as yet, though. The guys every once in a while will say, "That's cool!" or "I like that one!" but nothing that we've run through has really grabbed me.

Plus, the guys keep proposing names with shock value ("Men Having Sex" was briefly bandied about) but if we ever want to play at school (or have to explain anything to our parents) the name will have to be school-appropriate. For some reason, the guys just don't understand this. (Maybe cause they're guys?)

Forget all this pseudo-intellectual reference cr@p - just go with something like The Showerheads and let everyone else work it out.


az

>>We've been leaning towards something Germanic, for some reason

One of the best band names ever is already taken, I'm afraid: 'Freiselige Selbstkontrolle'.

az is right. You're overthinking. Rock n' Roll (*never* forget the 'n' Roll) is fundamentally an anti-intellectual artform. Forget 'clever' Rock n' Roll. That way lies Radiohead and Coldplay...and even Yes.

Examples of great band names:
The Clash
The Kinks
The Smiths

How many band members are there? 'The Four'? 'The Five'?

Alternately...go the other way with post-modern ironic pomp and a gratuitous literary reference:
'The Sirens of Titan'.

I kind of liked Paradigm Shift, actually, but when I suggested it to the two guitarists one liked it and the other didn't. That seems to be the fate of pretty much any name we come up with, whether overanalysing or ridiculously simple.

What about 'Four Guys and a Girl', 'Four Guys and a Chick', something like that? Not that I want to draw unnecessary attention to myself or anything, but I am rather proud of being the only female member of the band.

Did I mention that I wrote a song? It's quite cool, if I do say so myself. And we're going to play it. *beams with pride*

"touch the button" perhaps?? works as a dare, a protest and is suitably ambiguous for a variety of ages, n'est pas?

Four Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place

The Five would be way er

Congrats, EMR that's great! Any chance of posting an MP3?

I like band names like Avenged Sevenfold, Matchbox 20, Dashboard Confessional. Maybe just stick some words together like that!

Yes...those work.

The Green Hubcaps
Trees Above
Solitary Wombat

But the best one so far is still Scandinavian Six.

Oh, it hardly matters anymore does it???

Just call yourselves *something already* and be done with it!

Even if you just end up calling yourselves Something Already.


az

The Old One Two?

Won-ton Super ?

I dunno az, I really want to see if we can find a cool name that everybody likes. Pity 'The Band' is already taken, eh?

Elentari, if we record it with our singer singing I will post an mp3, but it would be cruel and unusual for me to foist my singing off on the lot of you.

I have a few more ideas:
Resident Alien (though this one was vetoed)
Sour Cream (though too much like actual Cream, perhaps)
Trains from the North (sounds a bit like a Gordon Lightfoot album)
H2SO4 (with correct subscripts)

I think we're going to try to make a final decision at next Saturday's practice. We'll see if that happens, though.

I'm all in favour of H2SO4, good name, rolls right off the tongue - well figuratively 'cos if it was literally you'd be deaded.

Or even h2g2. . .

az

If there weren't already something called h2g2 I'd go for it. But then again, if there weren't already something called h2g2 no one would ever think of the name. I guess that might have made sense.