Comments on There Ought to be a Band - page 1

Voodoo Handbag could be the band, and Dance of the Voodoo Handbag could be their greatest hits album.

Miriam, it's got to be said, you are one swell gel and a game dame. New to the charts this week is Soul Music by Pterry and the Pratchelettes.

Miriam wrote: "Voodoo Handbag could be the band, and Dance of the Voodoo Handbag could be their greatest hits album."

There was at least three months between this Greatest Hits and the following album 'Best Of'. There is excitement growing that there may be a 'Very Best of' in the Very Near Future.

"Wonder Smith" would work without the "the" and "son".

The Silver Pigs are heavily into Metal

So is Just Measure of Pain.

Here, unfortunately, the brother was absent due to a brief groupie encounter of the dangerous kind.

Ritual sex while being initiated into a mystery cult?

Miriam wrote: "Ritual sex while being initiated into a mystery cult?"

He was hoping but was left stripped-nekkid in

Miriam wrote: ""Wonder Smith" would work without the "the" and "son"."

Have put up a bunch of titles assuming people will know to leave out "The" where best to.

Miriam wrote: "Ritual sex while being initiated into a mystery cult?"

Hot dog, Where ? When ? Never mind why.

Bettie wrote: "Miriam wrote: "Ritual sex while being initiated into a mystery cult?"

He was hoping but was left stripped-nekkid in "

"Nekkid" ? I'm guessing in Tennessee or Kentucky.

Googlemaps says Hobo Alley is in Woodland, California.
That would be balmy weather for being left naked in the alley.

I figure Cannery Row is a "hair band."

love this list. Really fun and I so want to buy an album by ' Flotsametrics and the Floating world '

Mark wrote: "love this list. Really fun and I so want to buy an album by ' Flotsametrics and the Floating world '"

There is also a list of Most Poetic Titles....not sure how listed.

Bettie wrote: "Miriam wrote: "Voodoo Handbag could be the band, and Dance of the Voodoo Handbag could be their greatest hits album."

There was at least three months between this Greatest Hits and the following..."

Are they a Wall of Voodoo cover band?

If there is such a thing as a Wall of Voodoo cover band, they should totally use that band name.

Agreed!

Wow, this is a great list!

Thanks, Lynne! Feel free to add to it.

Thanks Miriam. I try to come up with new titles, but it will be hard to top the ones already on this list.

If only some authors would read this thread and tailor their titles accordingly.

good list. but White Noise were a band nearly twenty years before the book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyoElD...

From the Dust Returned would be a perfect title for the album by the band called The Church Of Dead Girls

Nice call, Hanna.

Lol - love this list and some of the books added to it. :)

Where has this list been all my life?! :-P

Keith wrote: "Where has this list been all my life?! :-P"

You were probably busy listening to music.

My band would be The Outsiders, most definitely.
I'd probably change my name to Tex, since i'd be the lead vocalist.

There are already at least two bands that have been called The Outsiders, but you could be Tex and the Outsiders.

Haha, what a great list!

Some of my choices and my notions of what sorts of bands/albums the names might represent:

Slaine: Warrior's Dawn - A Celtic black metal band and their debut album.
Surface Detail - 80s prog rock band.
Children of the Lens - Retro "flower power" band made up of the children of photographers and movie stars.
The Hydrogen Sonata - Prog rock concept album.
Power of Three - All-female Celtic rock band.
Off Armageddon Reef - Gloriously over-the-top speed metal album.

Nice. I especially like Hydrogen Sonata. Feel free to add these to the list, if you haven't already (the link to do so is at the top of the list under the description).

Miriam wrote: "Voodoo Handbag could be the band, and Dance of the Voodoo Handbag could be their greatest hits album."

haha that's brilliant

I already added those and more, I just posted the comment in case people found my musical genre choices amusing. :-)

Good job, Keith. I'm picturing Hydrogen Sonata as a hobby band composed of science professors.

Some suggestions for the genres of some of the top choices on the list:

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse - Parody metal band
White Noise - Highly experimental electronic band/album with music based on natural electronic signals
The Night Circus - Debut album of a somewhat gothic rock band (cf. My Chemical Romance's Welcome To The Black Parade)
Dead Bitch Society - All-female punk band specializing in protest songs and stunts aimed against misogyny and sexual violence
The Outsiders - Poseur wannabe rebellious rock band whose members all turn out to be filthy rich public schoolboys
The Human Stain - Controversial punk album

Hanna wrote: "From the Dust Returned would be a perfect title for the album by the band called The Church Of Dead Girls"

Children of the Dust

Already used by folk musician Pete Arnold! But yes, good title.

Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

You add books to the list at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads wrote: "You add books to the list at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes.""

Was it to me? I know and I have already added the book. I just wanted to share because I like it and I thought it might get lost.

Sorry, Hanna - I see people trying to vote in the comments section so often it's my reflexive post.

Great Expectations is actually already the name of a song

there is a band called Airborne Toxic Event which is from #5 on this list, White Noise.

Airborne Toxic Event is an excellent band.

Genres to some of my suggestions - inspired by Keith.

Sankta Psyko would be deathrock/horror punk band, loud, dirty sounding and with a bit of dark humour.

Watching for Mermaids would be dreamy, cinematic and strongly influenced by Cocteau Twins.

Shadowmarch could play dark, epic doom metal, something like Candlemass.

Angels and Insects would be a goth band.

Hanna wrote: "Genres to some of my suggestions - inspired by Keith.

Sankta Psyko would be deathrock/horror punk band, loud, dirty sounding and with a bit of dark humour.

[book:Watching for Merm..."

Nice! Swedish Death Metal band with lyrics about insanity and doom?

The albums you describe sounds better than the books, to be honest.

Morgaine wrote: "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse is Voltaire's next album."

Aurelio Voltaire or Cabaret Voltaire? Oddly, I can see either fitting...