From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #125 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 1 2003 Volume 12 : Number 125 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Operation Octopussy [Aaron Mandel ] Re: your mail [gshell@metronet.com] faces and names [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: Band of bad band names [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Good band with a bad name? ["Marc Holden" ] Great band names ["Marc Holden" ] Johnny & The (fill in meteorological phenomenon of choice) [crowbar.joe@b] A request to all ["Charlotte Tupman" ] Re: A request to all n(RH content: 1%) ["Matt Sewell" ] April go fish ["If I Were Mad" ] Fw: Band of bad band names ["Mike Wells" ] Re: bad band names [Ken Weingold ] Re: Band of bad band names [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Band of bad band names [Perry Amberson ] Re: Band of bad band names [Perry Amberson ] Syestm Pussydown [The Great Quail ] Re: Band of bad band names [Jeff Dwarf ] [none] ["If I Were Mad" ] Go Google Alice, I Think She'll Know ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: Good band with a bad name? ["Terrence Marks" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:09:11 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: RE: Operation Octopussy On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > > http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1995/sieminsk.htm > > What's really interesting about this (I've only skimmed it so far) is > that it seems to utterly ignore the fact that the perceptions engendered > among a significant proportion of the population by names such as > "Operation Just Cause" is exactly the opposite of what's intended: Yeah, but that Churchill knew what was up; the line about how he didn't want a military operation codenamed "Bunnyhug" still has relevance for certain members of the indiepop scene who have forgotten history's lessons. (Though I don't know if I'd be any more positively inclined toward Bunnygrunt if they changed their name to Overlord.) aaron ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:34:04 -0600 (CST) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: your mail On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Okay, this is obviously Greg Shell in disguise - I mean the 'religious > figure/anal rape" obsession is here in all its, uh, glory. you ain't lucky enough to have two of me. why the hell would i write something i didn't? and you said this once before too, didn't you? it takes a couple good notes before i'll go anal. and i would never use a jesus/hitler sex hook. i try to keep it at least reasonable. gSs np - moonlight, bob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:04:43 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: faces and names >> Which reminds me of yet another thing that bugs me about US military >> operations: their obnoxiously self-congratulatory naming system. When >did >> that change...from spy-novel obliquity to Successories-level gag- >> inducement? >I think Panama was the first time it was so calculated. >Before that they were still using spy novel sounding names like >Operation Praying Mantis and Operation Golden Pheasant. If they still had bird and insect names, I'd vote for Operation Blue-Faced Booby for this one. Actually, I always felt the same about British warships: all seem to have names like HMS Intrepid, HMS Spectacular and HMS Absolutely Spiffing. - --- >What amazes me is that there actually is now a real band named the Warlocks, >a name discarded by both the Velvets and the Grateful Dead, if memory >serves. a better name than Masters of Reality, whom I'd have mentioned earlier, if we hadn't been discussing bands which produced good music. >> perhaps the flipside of The Pastels or the Softies, who are SOL if they >> decide to do a grindcore record. But if your whole band-concept is >> self-limiting anyway, no big deal. > >And then there's Kindercore Records, who decided that they would just go >ahead and change the type of music they put out and it would be okay as >long as they changed their logo (which is now white-on-black and involves >a skull). It's where the sound of the band are completely at odds with what the name makes you think that gets me, like the gentle and twee Chainsaw Masochist, for example. - --- >is this where we >move onto Paltrow-bashing? ) don't you dare bash the gorgeous Gwyneth! James :) James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= .-=-.-=-.-=-.- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= You talk to me as if from a distance =-.-=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:26:12 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Band of bad band names Tom Clark wrote: > BLATZMAN@aol.com wrote: > > I came up with There Goes Bill while reading Alice > > in Wonderland, and I thought it was funny when Bill the > > lizard got kicked up through the Chimney... all the > > characters out on the grass pointed up at the > > sky and exclaimed "There Goes Bill"... > > > I thought it might have been a response to the Camper Van > Beethoven song. Now there is a truly excellent band name! Other great ones I haven't seen mentioned yet AFAIC: Galaxie 500 XTC The Smiths Lush The The Talking Heads Elastica Split Enz Garbage Red Hot Chili Peppers (even though I don't really like them all that much) Public Image Ltd. Never had a band, but I've frequently entertained the fantasy of being part of an industrial folk duo called Smegma & Galoshes. My inability to quite figure out what industrial folk music would/could sound like is only one of the millions of reasons why this hasn't and undoubted won't come to pass. ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:32:11 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Re: Good band with a bad name? > Two bands I couldn't see going too >far because of their names are Anal Cunt and Snatches of Pink. Oh, >and the Ass Ponies. AC I never heard, but I guess it was a good move >to start going by "AC" instead. That's funny. I was friends with Chuck Cleaver from the Ass Ponys for a while--we used to both deal records when I was living on the east coast, and I got some of my earlier Hitchcock/Soft Boys picture sleeves from him. But additionally, I was out in California last Halloween for the Soft Boys and Residents shows, and spent some time with a friend from several previous Residents shows. We went to see the Cramps on a night when we had nothing else planned, and I noticed he was really checking out all the guitars used that evening. I mentioned that he seemed to know a lot about guitars and asked if he played. He said he was in a band for a while but only occasionally joins in on their studio stuff now. Turns out that I had been driving around with one of the guitarists from Anal Cunt, Paul Kraynak, for about a week. Their stuff is a bit abrasive, but might be more listenable than Metal Machine Music. Later, Marc There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Frank Zappa btw Re: Good band with a bad name? Soft Boys & Young Fresh Fellows What a great pair of names to have on the marquee together. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:57:10 -0700 From: "Marc Holden" Subject: Great band names X The Kinks The Residents The Cramps Kraftwerk The Mothers Roky Erickson & the Aliens Gwar DEVO Big Star Iggy and the Stooges The Damned the 13th Floor Elevators the Slits Brian Jonestown Massacre Bongwater Neu! Shonen Knife Spinal Tap (damn, I'm not sure how to get the umlaut on there) the Clash Buzzcocks the Chocolate Watchband Plan 9 Violent Femmes Screaming Trees, etc... Later, Marc If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. Jack Handy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:14:35 +0100 (BST) From: crowbar.joe@btopenworld.com Subject: Johnny & The (fill in meteorological phenomenon of choice) I've done time in The Moneymakers The Acadimics (dreadful, but I was 17...!) The People's Army Rhythm Aces The Locomotives (then changed to the Loco Motives...oh dear...) Matt Backer & The Matt Backer Backers (one of my fave band names of all time...we were thinking of doing another stint as Matt Backer and The Front-men) Hoodoo Meatbucket Schizoid Must second James on Screaming Blue Messiahs. Probably my favourite ever. As you might be able to tell I'm a bit of a Johnny & The Hurricanes man. That was when band names were band names, not over-earnest, overly self-conscious rubbish produced by people with too much time on their hands ;-) Other personal favourites from the golden age include The Kinks and The Small Faces. Least favourite...Oasis...How about Stagnant Pond. The Grateful Dead niffs a bit as well, IMHO. Crowbar Joe - Wishing that The Beatles had stuck with that 'Silver'.... PS. War Showing Up A Band Name Special - George Thorogood & The Destroyers have cancelled their London dates because of the war. His new album is called Ride Til I Die. Shouldn't that be 'Hide', George? PPS Desert Storm. Pseudo-poetry. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:01:30 +0100 From: "Charlotte Tupman" Subject: A request to all I notice that a number of people have left the list due to the huge amount of emails (I went away for a couple of days and came back to find over 200 emails)! While I love the various discussions that make up fegmaniax, I was wondering whether there could be put in place some sort of list policy so that if there IS any Robyn/Soft Boys content, the subject heading could be prefixed by 'RH'. This would at least mean that those who want to would be able to filter out some of the other discussions. Please!! Charlotte 'All that you need is around you' - Robyn Hitchcock _________________________________________________________________ Worried what your kids see online? Protect them better with MSN 8 http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=186&DI=1059 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:26:48 +0100 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: A request to all n(RH content: 1%) I thought we did that already..? there's always the digest for the feglist in more swallowable chunks... but yes, there has been a great deal of posting going on with nary a mention of the list's chosen subject, the war in Iraq... er... I mean Robyn Hitchcock... Cheers Matt >From: "Charlotte Tupman" >Reply-To: "Charlotte Tupman" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: A request to all >Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:01:30 +0100 > >I notice that a number of people have left the list due to the huge >amount of emails (I went away for a couple of days and came back to >find over 200 emails)! While I love the various discussions that >make up fegmaniax, I was wondering whether there could be put in >place some sort of list policy so that if there IS any Robyn/Soft >Boys content, the subject heading could be prefixed by 'RH'. This >would at least mean that those who want to would be able to filter >out some of the other discussions. Please!! > >Charlotte > >'All that you need is around you' - Robyn Hitchcock > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Worried what your kids see online? Protect them better with MSN 8 >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/parental&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=186&DI=1059 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Express yourself with cool emoticons. Get MSN Messenger today. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:11:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: Operation Octopussy I think the sarcastic asses that name these operations also work peacetime on naming housing developments such things as "Pheasant Run," "Fox Creek," "Woody Grove," "Pleasant Fields,"etc. Maybe if you say "Iraqi Freedom" enough times really loud, it comes true. Jon Orwell On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:54:36 -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote : > Quoting Mike Wells : > > > http://tinyurl.com/8jdd > > > > Personally I can't wait to hear them say "and now over to Christiane > > Amonpour > > in Iraq, embedded with the 101st Airborne on Operation Goodhead." The > > mind > > boggles. > > Which reminds me of yet another thing that bugs me about US military > operations: their obnoxiously self-congratulatory naming system. When did > that change...from spy-novel obliquity to Successories-level gag- inducement? > The first I remember of this was the US invasion of Panama - "Operation Just > Cause," it was called, as if to reassure doubters. Since then, it's been one > forcefed spoonful of treacle after another... > > ..Jeff, veteran of Operation Save the Fluffy Kitties > > J e f f r e y N o r m a n > The Architectural Dance Society > www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html > :: we make everything you need, and you need everything we make ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:31:27 +0300 From: "If I Were Mad" Subject: April go fish "Gotham was a legendary town of fools located in Nottinghamshire. In the thirteenth-century, any road on which the Queen travelled became public property. The Gotham citizens spread a false story to stop the Queen from travelling through heir town. The Queen, learning about the deception, sent a messenger to Gotham and demanded an explanation. When the messenger arrived in Gotham he noticed that the town was full of lunatics who were engaged in foolish activities, such as drowning fish, attempting to cage birds in roofless fences, etc. The Queen was so amused by the ruse she declared the town too foolish to warrant punishment. She declared for them a special feast day and holiday. So ever since, April Fool's Day has commemorated their prank." Heres an errand for you all, to solve this riddle: What do I know that you don't know I know, who told me and what was their proof? Hints that lead towards, but are not the answers themselves: Hitchhiking, an eagle, a castle of ghouls, Sigourney Weaver and cigars. Pythia, introduction to follow _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 08:54:09 -0600 From: "Mike Wells" Subject: Fw: Band of bad band names Jeff: > Other great ones I haven't seen mentioned yet AFAIC: Nice list. I'll toss in: Molly Hatchet (Robyn Hitchcock &) the Egyptians (Dave Alvin &) the Guilty Men Rush Nazareth Iron Maiden Kraftwerk The Rolling Stones (Mojo Nixon &) the Toadliquors (Commander Cody &) the Lost Planet Airmen Grant Lee Buffalo The Beat Farmers Ministry Van Halen (I know it's their name, but it fits the music) Concrete Blonde The Amboy Dukes And I'll second votes for Echo & the Bunnymen, X, and Public Image, Ltd. Great names, all. On the negative side, I've always found these a bit grating: Hoodoo Gurus The Feelies The Bay City Rollers (sorry Stewart, I know they're faves of yours) Goo Goo Dolls The Babys (though I loved 'Union Jacks') Gamma Michael "the unnamed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:02:25 -0500 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: bad band names On Tue, Apr 1, 2003, James Dignan wrote: > >Ass Ponies I never heard, but if the Afghan Whigs' cover of Mt. > >Superlove is any indication, I would like them a lot as well. > > their album "Electric rock music" isn't bad - not earthshattering, > but definitely worth the bargain bin price I paid for it. Sort of > late Pere Ubu meets the Meat Puppets, with some REM influence thrown > in for good measure. Lead vocalist's voice is somewhat high, thin > and annoying, but it suits the music, mostly. Well if I can put up with Alice Donut, I am sure I can put up with the Ass Ponys. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:22:02 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Band of bad band names Quoting Jeff Dwarf : > The The I've always hated this one - esp. since Matt Johnson always pronounced it "THIH-thuh" (accent on first syllable) unlike what it would be were it a "real" name ("the [BLANK]"). It's always struck me as one of those clever- for-five-seconds-then-dumb names... But what I love about this thread is its utter subjectivity - no one's even pretending they're doing anything but opinionizing. > Red Hot Chili Peppers (even though I don't really like them all > that much) It's not that great a name - and derivative as well (wasn't there a '70s act called either the Hot Chilies, Red Hot Peppers, or something similar?) - no surprise, given its utter obviousness. > Never had a band, but I've frequently entertained the fantasy of > being part of an industrial folk duo called Smegma & Galoshes. My > inability to quite figure out what industrial folk music > would/could sound like is only one of the millions of reasons why > this hasn't and undoubted won't come to pass. I'd say "industrial folk music" would simply be folk-music -like tunes, about the daily lives and tribulations of, well, folk, performed on various everyday domestic hardware: hammers, saws, etc., with a probable emphasis on factory situations as well. Less sure about the name though... I kinda think sexual/scatalogical names are pretty well played-out by this point, inevitably seeming Beavis-and- Butt-Head-esque... ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: When the only tool you have is an interociter, you tend to treat :: everything as if it were a fourth-order nanodimensional sub-quantum :: temporo-spatial anomaly. :: --Crow T. Maslow np: my copy of the mix CD I'm sending Mike Wells...post yr lists! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:28:25 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Band of bad band names 2 F'ed Jerry say >>> >>> Red Hot Chili Peppers (even though I don't really like them all that much) <<< It's not that great a name - and derivative as well (wasn't there a '70s act called either the Hot Chilies, Red Hot Peppers, or something similar?) no surprise, given its utter obviousness. <<< Right. It was Philip Charles "Snakefinger" Lithman's early-mid-70's "pub rock" band, Chilli Willi & the Red Hot Peppers. - --Perry ___________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:32:44 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Amberson Subject: Re: Band of bad band names "2 F'ed Jerry," which is Typing Error-ese for "2 F'ed Jeffrey." - --P __________________________________________ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 10:43:00 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Syestm Pussydown Jeffrey, > Well, certainly "Desert Storm" isn't so obvious in the way that "Operation > Just Cause" is (although I like to think of that one as "Operation Just > 'Cause We Can") - but it's certainly very Simpson/Bruckheimer - I mean, > wasn't Arnold Schwarzenegger in that one? Well, that's one way of looking at it, but I still think it has a certain poetic ring to it, something with Arabic overtones... But then again, I've read the "Dune" series several times over. > System of a Down The reason I like it is because it makes little sense, but still maintains correct syntax, which gives you the illusions that it does "mean" something. Mind you, I am not a fan of the music, but I do like the name. One I forgot to add to my list: Black Sabbath. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 07:49:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Band of bad band names Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > Quoting Jeff Dwarf : > > > The The > > I've always hated this one - esp. since Matt Johnson always > pronounced it "THIH-thuh" (accent on first syllable) unlike > what it would be were it a "real" name ("the [BLANK]"). It's > always struck me as one of those clever-for-five-seconds-then- > dumb names... Never had to hear Johnson say it; it I had, I might be tempted to start agreeing. > But what I love about this thread is its utter subjectivity - > no one's even pretending they're doing anything but > opinionizing. > > > Red Hot Chili Peppers (even though I don't really like them > > all that much) > > It's not that great a name - and derivative as well (wasn't > there a '70s > act called either the Hot Chilies, Red Hot Peppers, or > something similar?) - > no surprise, given its utter obviousness. Chili Willie and the Red Hot Peppers I think. No it's not terribly original, but I think it has a nice ring to it. and it's an apt name for how the band sounds. > > Never had a band, but I've frequently entertained the fantasy > of > > being part of an industrial folk duo called Smegma & > Galoshes. My > > inability to quite figure out what industrial folk music > > would/could sound like is only one of the millions of reasons > why > > this hasn't and undoubted won't come to pass. > > I'd say "industrial folk music" would simply be folk-music > -like tunes, > about the daily lives and tribulations of, well, folk, > performed on various > everyday domestic hardware: hammers, saws, etc., with a > probable emphasis on factory situations as well. Maybe. SOmething in the family of Woody Guthrie meets Einsturzende Neubauten for sure, but I could never quite figure out how the marriage would work. > Less sure about the name though... I kinda think > sexual/scatalogical names are pretty well played-out by this > point, inevitably seeming Beavis-and-Butt-Head-esque... True, but in 1988 when I first thought of it.... The marraige of bad hygiene and keeping your feet dry (not to mention that galoshes, like condoms can be called rubbers, well) and I just like the sound of the words together -- they are two words that even though they aren't onomatpoetic they sound like they could be. But at this point, it certainly could be too B&B. Either that or we've gone so far overboard culturally it's practically The Ronettes! ===== "Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies." -- F.M. Cornford "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt . Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:44:36 +0300 From: "If I Were Mad" Subject: [none] The Castle of Ghouls writes: >>>I mean the 'religious >>>figure/anal rape" obsession is here in all its, uh, glory. Oh dear, you sticky, silly wickeds. Go back 3 spaces. How could/would Jesus rape Hitler? Thiiinnnnkkkkk. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:27:31 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Go Google Alice, I Think She'll Know Blatz-Daddy: >>I have forever vowed to never be in a situation where more than 2 people need >>to name a "band" Hey, Dave, we learned exactly the same lesson from being in the same band. Missing Time is great. I'm jealous of that one. >>By the way Rex, remember, I came up with There Goes Bill while reading >>Alice in Wonderland Yep. Anyone doing a Google search on our ex-band will be treated to endless pages of "Alice" transcripts. Tom C: >>I thought it might have been a response to the Camper Van Beethoven song. We got that a lot, and it made me happy to pretend it was true. - -Rex "Called Rex Because I Am the KING of Intelligent Debate" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:24:57 -0600 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: A request to all Quoting Charlotte Tupman : > I notice that a number of people have left the list due to the huge > amount > of emails (I went away for a couple of days and came back to find over > 200 > emails)! While I love the various discussions that make up fegmaniax, I > was > wondering whether there could be put in place some sort of list policy so > > that if there IS any Robyn/Soft Boys content, the subject heading could > be > prefixed by 'RH'. This would at least mean that those who want to would > be > able to filter out some of the other discussions. Please!! No, let's have a discussion about whether we do/don't do this, whether we should, and how mailing lists always have these discussions. ..Jeff, trying to out-meta himself J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:18:34 -0500 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: RE: Good band with a bad name? > > Ben Folds Five > > I don't think this is particularly bad - except for the "ha-ha very funny" > factor that (get this!) there were only three of them. How many > bands are in that category? There's the Jurassic 5, of course. And my band, the Modern Lizard Quartet, which usually had two members*. I auditioned for a band called The Marksmen once. The other guy's first name was Mark (and my last name, of course, is Marks), so we figured it'd be one of those cool synergy kind of things. Or it would've been if he let me join the band. And the Grateful Dead also considered calling themselves Mythical Ethical Icicle Tricicle. I think that's a great name, but not for a band. I think that band names aren't usually good, so much as evocative. I mean, Earth Opera may be a so-so name, but you know what you're getting when you buy an Earth Opera album. But as someone who frequents rummage sales for comics and records, names are a selling point. I think "Madness" is a bad name *: We'd had a rhythm guitarist quit. Then his replacement quit a few months later. At that point, we decided that we saw a pattern. I'm proud of the name, mind you. Nicked it from a Daniel Pinkwater book. I had a really good name thought up for my solo stuff, but I forgot it. It's just as well since I don't really play anywhere besides home. Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:51:28 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Names: The Good, The Bad, and the UK Quail's new can of worms: >>Favorite album titles Mine, pretty much hands down: Mekons, "The Quality of Mercy is Not Strnen" I mean, damn. That's just awesome. I agree with Jeff, though... System of a Down is a horrible name. But it's a horrible band, so they're welcome to it. Pylon is such a great name that a whole new band has started using it-- apparently a young enough band not to know they need to stick "UK" after it. One name that I don't want for my own band but I wish to god somebody would use it: Pamplemousse. And I really want to put out an album called "Frampton Comes Alive". I dunno why. _____ And I forgot two key names of bands I've been in: Thunderhill: my dad's band, originally named The Thunder Hill Singers eight years before I was born, shortened to Thunderhill within my lifetime but well before I started playing in the band, and... Broome & Broome, or Broome & Son. Or The Two Jim Broomes. We never decided which, but this was me and my dad as a one-off duo at my brother's wedding. Wish we'd thought of an imaginary Russell... Hey Blatzy, whatever happened to Johnny Bravo and the Beautiful Wild? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 09:49:33 -0800 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: A request to all At 11:24 AM 4/1/2003 -0600, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: >While I love the various discussions that make up fegmaniax, I > > was > > wondering whether there could be put in place some sort of list policy so > > > > that if there IS any Robyn/Soft Boys content, the subject heading could > > be > > prefixed by 'RH'. This would at least mean that those who want to would > > be > > able to filter out some of the other discussions. Please!! > >No, let's have a discussion about whether we do/don't do this, whether we >should, and how mailing lists always have these discussions. According to existing list policy, "RH" is already designated for the subject lines of messages concerned with the topic of "Raping Hitler." On-topic gush- mails should be prefixed with the letters "WAR," standing for "We Adore Robyn." On-topic gig announcements or reviews should contain "COCK" (Concerts Or Concert Kick-arounds) in the header. Suggestions regarding list policy should by labelled "SPAM" (Suggestions: Policy, Administration, Mail-list). Everybody, let's remember the rules, and let's all work to make this forum more user-friendly for everybody!!!! Hugs and kisses! - --Jason PS: Who placed those pictures of Robyn in his underwear on the list website? They're adorable!!! What a man! "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #125 ********************************