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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 [livejournal.com profile] d_floorlandmine liking them...)

Date: 2012-03-09 03:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com
Hmm. Does Two Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet have enough words pre-'and' to count?

Date: 2012-03-09 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
I hereby abritrarily and capriciosuly say that that use of 'and' is ok and may count.Though it is dangerously close to being a descriptive name (unless it's actually three guys with a Hammond organ).

Date: 2012-03-09 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com
It's pretty much what it says on the tin, though I'm fairly sure they had a keyboard or something too.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow.
Edited Date: 2012-03-09 03:26 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-03-09 03:47 pm (UTC)
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. . . which makes it a shame that And Also The Trees isn't long enough.

Date: 2012-03-09 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com
Between The Buried And Me (pretty sure that 'and' is permissible)
Is 'of the' controversial?
Space Heroes of the People
Queens of the Stone Age

Date: 2012-03-09 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
'of the' isn't controversial, but I can't help feeling that the best answers to the question don't involve it :)

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