gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Music - iLuminati)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2007-12-08 03:33 pm
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Makes about much sense as most names in music.

from [livejournal.com profile] bruceb

Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.


The Band: William Dauber (Named for the notorious Chicago gangster.)

The Album: Rose chafer (We have a thing for beetles.)


The Tracks:

1. n-Butyllithium (This metal dance track features my strong bass lines.)

2. Cold spot (A BÖC-inspired track about a haunted building)

3. Giovanni Battista Brostoloni (Our weird keyboardist wrote this. An eleven minute tribute to 18th century art and engraving.)

4. 992 (Ripping metal track about an early apocalypse prediction.)

5. Cheeburger Cheeburger (We needed a good radio-ready single. This song is more addictive than crack.)

6. East Hodge, Louisiana (Zydeco-flavored metal riff with strong blues influence.)

7. Spoons (Features percussion break with musical spoons.)

8. Chancellor of the Exchequer (Obligatory Iron Maiden-ish epic about UK financial matters.)

9. The Young Werewolves (Every metal band needs to do a song about wolves or werewolves. It's the law.)

10. Little Miss Star (Management said we needed a love song. So we wrote one about a burned out, drug-addicted pop star.)

11. Plasmodium telfordi (Instrumental, about 42 seconds long, and it leads into...)

12. Dynaset (Complex lyrics that no one will listen to due to the amazing guitar work.)

13. Anarchy Online (My love song to Usenet and LiveJournal.)

14. Gutkeled (Written by our drummer. Has nothing to do with the title, but can rip paint off walls.)

15. County Route 666 (Country-metal song about a biker and the devil. Listen for the thrashing pedal steel and the cowbell!)

HIDDEN TRACK!

16. Tasmanian Cricket Association (We manage to tie Cricket, Rangarok, and the Holy Bloodline Mystery in 9/8 time!)

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2007-12-09 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Have I mentioned lately that your creativity is an awesome thing?

[identity profile] grimmwire.livejournal.com 2007-12-09 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
A brilliant technique for naming bands, albums, anything really. With only the slight problem that your band ends up sounding slightly They Might Be Giantish because of the frequent references to historical figures such as (say) President Taft. But then TMBG is awesome and more bands should be as creative with their song titles and lyrical content.

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2007-12-09 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Going the other way, I've always liked naming navy starships after heavy metal songs.

HMS Harvester of Sorrow and her sister ship Symphony of Destruction, escorted by a Heavy Cruiser squadron led by HMS War Is My Shepard.

[identity profile] cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com 2007-12-09 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
How very Banksian. :)

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2007-12-10 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
No, the troop carrier HMS Disposable Heroes escorted by the light cruiser HMS Am I Evil? gets Banksian. Grab a metal album, build a squadron!

HMS I Remember Now
HMS Anarchy-X
HMS Revolution Calling
HMS Operation: Mindcrime
HMS Speak
HMS Spreading The Disease
HMS The Mission
HMS Suite Sister Mary
HMS The Needle Lies
HMS Electric Requiem
HMS Breaking The Silence
HMS I Don't Believe In Love
HMS Waiting For 22
HMS My Empty Room
HMS Eyes Of A Stranger