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

[venta.livejournal.com]

Dammit, is it really?

<googles>

Humph. Not my fault if bands can't tell the difference between a noun and a verb, mutter, mutter. grumble.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I suppose they're trying to stay distinct from the film, which is five words.

Looking up their wikipedia page I find Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra exists as a sort-of related thing, but it's more commonly abbreviated to Silver Mt. Zion so probably doesn't count.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. It is a well-known fact that I am immune to film references (and in this case had no idea there even was one).

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Nor me! Although now I look it up, it sounds great.

This does rather prompt the question of where the film got its name from, though. I find it hard to believe that 1970s Japanese biker gangs expressed their approbation in archaic English phraseology.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

...and tra-la-la band?