And Now, With the Advent of the New Year, I Can Finally Reveal My Most Recent Secret Project
Posted on January 1, 2012 Posted by John Scalzi 49 Comments
What is it? Click here to find out.
Note: It’s even better when you hit the “random” link over there. Over and over and over.
And yes, it will be updated. Almost constantly.
Holy crap, that’s amaaaazing!
My attempt produced ‘Rocket Powered Laser Truck’, absolutely a winner.
I think Venn Diagraphm is the one to beat. Although I do love Countless Screaming Argonauts, with or without context :)
Granny Dommes makes me shake my head vigorously trying to clear my Mental Etch-A-Sketch.
I love it! Adding it to my RSS feed… now!
As does ‘Jagger Moobs’ for me! And I *really* shrink from trying to imagine the band members & their music.
‘strategic pork reserves’ – ok, that one HAS to be the winner :)
Well done, sir!
Love it, when I open it in Chrome. Completely fails under the latest version of IE (yes I know, I’m the rare person that uses it by choice and not technical inability to change).
Interesting — it wasn’t working for me using IE 9, but it does under Chrome — *very* nice! And let me know if I can borrow Asymmetrical Nostrils!!
Giving Dave Barry a run for his money, I think.
My favourite is “Flying Saucers for Everybody!” – that’s a winner. Then again, these are all worthy of the AV Club’s year-end retrospective of awful band names.
I had stop with TheExploding Churros! Gotta love it!
Damn you (and your evidently abundant free time), Scalzi! I’ve been tossing out next band names for slightly less time as you have, and crediting you whenever anyone asked what I was on about. Now, everyone is just going to sneer at me with “Oh, you just stole that from that website by that one guy.” Damn you, I say. Fie!
I think you’ll be surprised by how many ACTUAL bands you end up naming because of this. :) Awesome.
Happy New Year!
BTW – I call dibs on “Cheesecake Coated Silence.” That could be my band name and also describe my teen years. :)
Holy Crap, I hit the random button until my sides hurt I was laughing so hard. I think so far my favorites are Bacon Tuxedo and Ravenous Mustelids.
These are some excellent band names, well done. If I find that the world I’m building needs some good musical acts, I know where to go…
Lincoln Continental Breakfast
Jeopardy, Before and After. “Alex, what get’s six miles per gallon and every hotel offers for free?”
And how soon will it be before you have another book based on this project?
For added fun, copy the band name into the Google window and see where it takes you.
I got “Bears in East Anglia,” which led me to teddy bear shops.
Oh, this is too funny! Not only can Bacon Tuxedo be a band, but apparently they have ready-made band outfits!!!! http://www.mcphee.com/shop/pages/Bacon-Tuxedo.html
May I suggest “Cavity Search Engine”, “Beer Batter Muktuk”, and “Post-Modern Armaggedon”?
And have any of these been linked to a movie contract yet?
Cavity Search Engine should already be in there.
Somehow I misread “Chicken Rapture” as “Chicken Rupture.” But that makes a pretty good band name also.
These are all fantastic, but “Disaffected Flounce” made me giggle. Also, “Mullet In A Camaro” should be a B-52’s song.
A few years ago on Diggnation, Alex and Kevin were discussing a story about some drug experimenters gave to rats. Somehow the conversation turned to unpleasant side effects, and Kevin opined that the drug may cause the rats’ penises to burn and we’d never know it. Since then, I’ve vowed that one day I’d create a punk band and name it “Burning Penis Rats.”
Swedish Meatball Massage. I can tell this is going to be a huge time sink and I love it.
“Divide By Coke Zero” is a winner in my book.
For the mathematically inclined, might I suggest “Bacon-Tarski Paradox”.
My favorite so far is “Hate Shark.” I’m seeing them and Dethklok on tour together… :-)
Have we, your deveot readership, your blessing o use these as actual band names? Or song titles…I can easily see “Bears in East Anglia” as the name of an English fiddle tune.
Sigh. And when I say deveot I mean devout. Or devoted. Or devotedly devout, or devoutly devoted.
I think it’s a hint about my lack of a social life that random sent me to “Appalling Cuddle” three times in a row..
It also brings back memories of album titles for Spinal Tap.
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I love Superfluuous U
Third season of Big Bang Theory?
Dad Voice.
I’ve just got this wonderful image of a whole heap of goth rockers being told to take off the makeup, stop wearing black and get a job or they’ll be grounded for the rest of their lives.
Well, that was cool.
Actually, the Band Name of the Year award goes to my buddies, The Damn Quails, who are a real band (quite up-and-coming in the Red Dirt/Alt-Country world), and no, they didn’t get the name from the politician. But if everyone wants to think they did, well, that’s fine.
`Too Much Laughing` is the name of my next band.
I also love Superfluuous U
Yeah? Well, “Almost Constantly” is the name of MY next band. So, nyer!
Conjugate the Subjunctive
Unfortunately, the Baby Canon here is not quite the Baby Cannon there…
(The difference one letter makes…;-)
You are a strange and amazing man. If my housemate, who actually owns the house, would let me have a bunch of ferrets, I would totally nickname the Ravenous Mustelids! (Never fear, I would feed them well, but still, that’s just too funny.)
Awesome!!! I love it.
I liked Chicken Rapture. I’d go see those guys…
I own a 1967 Camaro and always thought it’d be hilarious to drive around in cop glasses and a mullet wig, so I fully support the name ‘Mullet in a Camaro’. :) There are a lot of better ones though…
If you play classic rock – Mullet in a Camero
If you are a chick band – Hooker Socks
I am officially noting that this is my next band name, BEFORE it pops up on the site and someone thinks i stole it
Ten Pound Baby
That is the name of my band. We will be on tour soon (well, as soon as I learn to play and instrument, recruit other musicians, and write some songs). We will be supporting our first three albums
Passing the Giant Cranium
Poop in the Tub
Diapers and Sunglasses
Look for us soon at a venue near you, assuming I ever do any of those things i need to do.
Do you take suggestions? Reading over my fiance’s shoulder the other day I saw this section heading in the chemistry paper he was reading: Loss of Hydrophobicity due to Teflon Creep.