How to Name Your Musical Group
The simplest and most direct way to arrive at a winning musical group name is to merely hijack a common everyday word and then imbue it with your own personality. Just make sure it’s the right word; how many CDs do you think Yes would have sold if their name was No? Would the Doors have made it as big as they did if they had been named the Windows? It’s even better if the word you choose conveys an attitude, a fitting attribute or a skewed view of the world. Some real-world examples such names are Oasis, Hole, Warrant, Kiss, Rush, Free, Wings, Chic, Sissy, Badlands, Chairlift, Moist, Sausage, Keel, Soho, Accept, Placebo, Outlaws, Scatterbrain, Firehose and Undercover. If yours is a headbanger or heavy metal group, be sure to pick a suitable dark or sinister word, as in Anthrax, Carcass, Prong, Drown, Pavement, Styx, Mastodon, Blitzen, Judas Priest, Slayer, Poison, and Overkill.
A second tried-and-true method is to name your group after an animal or a collection of animals. (To lend an extra air of distinction, you might use a quirky unconventional spelling.) Some successful examples are The Beatles, The Byrds, The Turtles, Jellyfish, The Eagles, The Monkees, T. Rex, The Crickets, Skinny Puppy, The Hawks, Flock of Seagulls, Riverdogs, Three Dog Night, The Bird and the Bee, The Creatures, Whitesnake, Stray Cats, Spiderfoot, Jackal, Crazy Horse, Shark Island, The Scorpions, Rhino Bucket, Seal, The Crows, and The Black Crowes. You can even go anti-animal, as with Chickenfoot or Deerhunter.
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