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]

I won't post my answers yet, not least because I suspect they're quite obvious and someone else might get them.

However, I shall just pause for an honourable mention of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, which doesn't qualify but is such a great name I was almost willing to count "Dinosaurs" as two words. I may even go and investigate (http://totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs.tumblr.com/) what they sound like.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

I have a vague recollection there was a student band there were posters for (early 80s) 'Dead Men Don't Chew Blu-Tack', also one called 'Janet And John Go Shopping'.

But of course, there is our very own http://spaceheroes.net/ Space Heroes Of The People

[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?

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Also 'Bang On A Can All-Stars' (who are on in Amsterdam, at the Barbican and in Glasgow shortly)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Christians in search of filth.
A place to bury strangers.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch; And They Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead; Get Cape Wear Cape Fly.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Does Two Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet have enough words pre-'and' to count?

[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 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).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good call on Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly!, I hadn't thought of them.

Or, rather, him.

[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 :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I wish you'd written that as

Christians In Search of Filth and A Place to Bury Strangers

:)

[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.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Darkest of the Hillside Thickets?

They seem to quite often be given an initial 'The', but I don't think it's officially in their name...

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're allowed bands with a leading 'the', you just don't get to count it as one of the five words :)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Mr & Mrs No Smoking Sign.

[zotz]

Apparently it's a reference to Golgotha, so actually they'd already found it.

[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.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

They do have an excellent name. The music doesn't quite live up to it IMO.

[zotz]

Let's not lose Mars to the Commies.
My life with the thrill kill kult.
The pains of being pure at heart.
When people were shorter and lived near the water.
A kiss could be deadly.
Black tape for a blue girl.
The men who will not be blamed for nothing.
Scraping foetus off the wheel, You've got foetus on your breath (etc).
The not very good interval band.

[zotz]

Touring soon, too.

[zotz]

. . . which makes it a shame that And Also The Trees isn't long enough.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm listening on myspace (I know, I know, I'm so three years ago). It's... fine. OK. Very backgroundy, though. Substep, maybe.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

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

[venta.livejournal.com]

I am increasingly distressed that I only managed to come up with four :(