Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, cinco, seis

[venta]

A quick - and perhaps not very good - game for a Friday afternoon. This is a challenge that (for no very good reason) I set myself last night:

Can you think of a band-name which consists of five or more words?

Rules:

- You can't count a leading 'the'.
- Names of the form 'N and the Ms' don't count; names containing 'and' are disallowed if it is used to link two concepts together. Four Poofs And A Piano (disappointingly) don't count.
- It must be a real band, with "proper" evidence of its existence. Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead is a bloody marvellous band-name, but I'm not yet 100% convinced that they ever really existed for any purpose other than having a great name.
- Must be the band's usual name. The more bizarre flights of fancy occasionally used by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band probably don't count.
- Preferably not a descriptive name (eg Royal College of Music Baroque Orchestra). I can't come up with a good rule to cover this, it's... just a bit dull as an answer.
- Probably other constraints which I will make up capriciously on the spur of the moment.

I was surprised to find I could only think of three (though I have come up with a fourth while writing this, although I know nowt about them beyond d_floorlandmine liking them...)

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness.
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark.
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia.
Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine.
The Presidents of the United States of America.

Not sure I'm clear where your "And" rule stands on We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - is it two concepts or merely a statement of intent?

[venta.livejournal.com]

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
and
Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia

were the two I first thought of :)

Not sure I'm clear where your "And" rule stands on We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - is it two concepts or merely a statement of intent?

I think I'm ok with that and. I was finding it quite hard to codify my 'and' rule, but I abritrarily say that one gets through.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've not heard of a couple of those, but it never occurred to me that OMD and Carter USM were really bands with long names :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Title: Pretty Fly (For A White Guy). Which for some reason morphs bizarrely and annoyingly into Tick Tick Boom in my head.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, one kudo to you.

[zotz]

Yesterday on Facebook (not a bandname, but probably should be) someone was saying they'd found a wifi network near their house with the ID "pretty fly for a wifi".

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Be Nice To The Pigeons.
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain.