tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56206066911759264592011-04-21T14:23:02.031-07:00What's in name? If it's a rock band, alot... Band names are great indicators of what kind of music they play, and, often, when they would have played. These are names of bands that are--probably--not real; however, if they were, they would be great.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-21045555124991820152008-05-28T09:00:00.000-07:002008-05-28T09:00:04.700-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">37 Cherry St. </span>Originally a funk band in the early 70s that had little success, they hit the charts later that decade when they rewrote an earlier song into a disco blockbuster.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-2104555512499182015?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-86910462467386166172008-05-27T08:12:00.000-07:002008-05-27T08:14:47.257-07:00and only the kids understand what we're saying... <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Logical Jargon! </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(the exclamation point is necessary).</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-8691046246738616617?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-27651898255683205592008-05-16T09:50:00.000-07:002008-05-16T09:54:06.255-07:00After posting the song name <a href="http://plasticsongs.blogspot.com/2008/05/from-world-of-acid-jazz.html">here</a>, I thought that <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Soultune</span>, or <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">The Soultunes</span> would work...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Soultune </span>is a contemporary jazz-hip hop group that creates songs of political and social commentary.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">The Soultunes</span> started as a 50's Doo Wop group that also had a few small hits with Motown in the 60's.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-2765189825568320559?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-69801596506133847912008-05-14T12:47:00.000-07:002008-05-14T13:29:40.706-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Ocelots</span> would corner the very sizable children's music market with songs like <span style="font-style: italic;">Rock-a-lot with The Ocelots</span>, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Ocelot Rock</span> (as posted on the <a href="http://plasticsongs.blogspot.com/">Song Name's blog</a>). Courtesy of my son.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-6980159650613384791?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-17807961278427480872008-05-06T11:20:00.000-07:002008-05-14T14:09:43.790-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Controller 12</span>: acid jazz at its finest... Courtesy of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/planetamyjo">Amy.</a><br /><br />Their best known song would be <a href="http://plasticsongs.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Soultune of Swing</span></a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-1780796127842748087?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-71943996477648805882008-05-06T11:00:00.000-07:002008-05-14T14:10:00.646-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Republican Car Wash</span>... coming soon to a club near you. What kind of music would they play?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-7194399647764880588?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-22186393352282623692008-05-05T11:30:00.000-07:002008-05-14T14:10:26.874-07:00or not, but <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Chicklet</span> </span>would rock college radio...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-2218639335228262369?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-91626338735511481222008-05-02T14:27:00.000-07:002008-05-14T14:10:42.979-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Mayo</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">...</span> </span>probably would have opened for <a href="http://www.weezer.com/default.aspx">Weezer </a>a couple of times...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-9162633873551148122?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-12672955153394925472008-05-01T13:44:00.000-07:002008-05-01T13:52:26.693-07:00As I have been posting band names, I realize that they have to sing something... hence, <a href="http://plasticsongs.blogspot.com/">Song Names that Aren't... Or Are They?</a><br /><br />My first post was a song that I am positive <a href="http://plasticingredient.blogspot.com/2008/04/folk-or-speed-metal-either-way.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Donkey Cart</span></a> (the 60s version, not the Speed Metal version) would have sung--<a href="http://plasticsongs.blogspot.com/2008/05/maybe-pete-seeger-wrote-it.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">John and I Went to Boston</span></a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-1267295515339492547?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-74332070091783724762008-04-30T12:24:00.000-07:002008-05-05T11:50:12.820-07:00Why not <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Man</span>? Sixties protest band...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-7433207009178372476?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-60312107670183983162008-04-28T10:14:00.001-07:002008-05-05T11:50:38.031-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Donkey Cart</span> </span>would dominate... just saying the name makes me want to buy albums and see them live.<br /><br />Heard on a story at <a href="http://www.npr.org/">NPR</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-6031210767018398316?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-88843215694988427452008-04-26T20:10:00.000-07:002008-05-05T11:51:08.051-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Pure Hi-Fi</span> is a band that would deliver the sound... maybe in the same scene as the Strokes, but a little more experimental.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-8884321569498842745?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-38153016307525808552008-04-24T07:30:00.000-07:002008-04-24T15:44:13.815-07:00<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >In an <a href="http://plasticingredient.blogspot.com/2008/04/three-in-one.html">earlier post</a>, I suggested that <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Canada Likely</span> would be a good name for a band, but I couldn't figure out when they might have played.<br /><br />As I was coming to work, I heard a song by </span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.fountainsofwayne.com/">Fountains of Wayne</a></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >, and it clicked--this is the sort of band that <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Canada Likely</span> would be.<br /><br />I also thought that this particular <a href="http://www.fountainsofwayne.com/">Fountains of Wayne</a> song <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Hey Julie</span> would be a good name for a band... they would have been playing around the same time as either the <a href="http://www.thelemonheads.net/">Lemonheads </a>or </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.tiltuesday.net/">'Til Tuesday</a> (with </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.aimeemann.com/archive/bio/">Aimee Mann</a><span style="font-family:georgia;">)--completely different times and styles, but they would both work.</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-3815301630752580855?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-14263053330329322492008-04-23T20:42:00.000-07:002008-04-24T07:30:22.850-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Super Potty Mouth</span>... My son's birthday, and this came up... almost, but not quite, as good a name as Hellbilly (an actual Pittsburgh band).<br /><br />Think <strong style="font-weight: normal;">Dinosaur Jr. and the like... <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Super Potty Mouth</span> almost made it to the top... now, that's my band name.<br /></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-1426305333032932249?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-8464350174726085612008-04-23T15:16:00.000-07:002008-04-23T15:21:49.630-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Daughters of Robert</span><br /><br />Heavy metal, all girl, all with dads whose name is Robert... Courtesy of <a href="http://www.myspace.com/planetamyjo">Amy</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-846435017472608561?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-82694273015377323352008-04-22T07:51:00.000-07:002008-04-22T07:55:01.369-07:00I always thought <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sold Out</span> would be a good name... <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Sell Out</span> would be good as an 80/90s punk band puttin' it to the man.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-8269427301537732335?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-52346477923644717952008-04-18T09:13:00.000-07:002008-04-28T10:04:55.095-07:00I'm not sure when <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Canada Likely</span> would have played, but <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Plastic Ingredient </span>would have been inspired by the Velvet Underground, and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Likely to Label </span>would be an 80s New Wave band.<br /><br />Courtesy of this <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/business/worldbusiness/16plastic.html?em&amp;ex=1208664000&amp;en=a4259a73829703d9&amp;ei=5087%0A">headline</a> in an NYT story: "Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient ‘Toxic’."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-5234647792364471795?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-17505335073043563472008-04-18T09:10:00.000-07:002008-04-18T10:24:20.390-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Photo Detectives </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/arts/design/17phot.html?ex=1366257600&amp;en=781894dfff29293c&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>(Courtesy of...)</a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-1750533507304356347?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-49962253825035269922008-04-18T09:06:00.000-07:002008-04-18T10:24:55.450-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Getaways</span><br /><br />from an ad at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-4996225382503526992?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-32229209217958087722008-04-18T08:33:00.000-07:002008-04-18T10:25:15.282-07:00Talking about the presidential race, this comes up often:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The Nominations<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />Harmony in the band, but not in the race...<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-3222920921795808772?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-44257627147663752522008-04-17T10:42:00.000-07:002008-04-18T10:25:31.837-07:00<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Pizza Ticket</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-4425762714766375252?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5620606691175926459.post-90030331592798628892008-04-17T10:23:00.000-07:002008-04-23T15:44:23.884-07:00<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Drunk Astronaut </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/27/spaceexploration.usa">(Courtesy of...)</a><br /><br />They might have been a part of the Athens, Georgia scene with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://remhq.com/">REM</a> , or toured with (perhaps one of my favorite band names) <a href="http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/band.php?id=50">Killdozer</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5620606691175926459-9003033159279862889?l=plasticingredient.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andrewnoreply@blogger.com0