Band names that are complete sentences.

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His name is alive.
God is my co-pilot.
Jimmy eat world.

― k good, Saturday, 3 April 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

We've got a fuzzbox and we're going to use it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the teardrop explodes!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the moon lay hidden beneath a cloud

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Rage against the machine. (understood you)
And you will know us by the trail of dead.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty girls make graves.
My dad is dead.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Dogs die in hot cars

(STILL the worst band name ever)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Ima Robot
Frankie Goes To Hollywood

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucy loves Schroeder.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Gene Loves Jezebel

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Volcano I'm Still Excited!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I Am the World Trade Center

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

... I hope against hope that they are now called I Was The World Trade Center

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny hates jazz.
They came from the stars, I saw them.

― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Saturday, 3 April 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Man or Astroman?
Godspeed You Black Emperor

― DougD, Saturday, 3 April 2004 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yo la tengo
au revoir borealis
set fire to flames

― reo, Saturday, 3 April 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Planes mistaken for stars

(played Newport a month or so ago, I know nothing about them but I think the name is fantastic)

― Rob M (Rob M), Saturday, 3 April 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The USA is a Monster.
There is a Light that Never Goes Out.
This Bike is a Pipe Bomb.
What's it Like to Be a Bat?
Your Halo is a Radar.
This Machine Kills.
Alex is My Bro.
America is Waiting.
A Kite is a Victim.
That Nothing is Known.
I Live the Life of a Movie Star Secret Hideout.
Leave My Wife Alone.
Modern Life is War.
We are Going to Eat You.
Thunderbirds Are Now!
You are Here.
Return to the Source
Return to Forever.
Crack: We are Rock.

...And you will know us by the trail of dead. (not quite)

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Saturday, 3 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am Robot and Proud.
This Robot Kills.
This Computer Kills.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Saturday, 3 April 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Americans are better than others on sentences in bandnames. esp. during the 90-00s

― Jens (brighter), Saturday, 3 April 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

let's active

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 3 April 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

they eat their own.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 April 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

nope they're still I Am The World Trade Center, and they've got a new album coming out I think in May...can't believe I forgot a hometown Athens band.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 3 April 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I am kloot.
Crack the sky.

― briania, Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I Am the Fun Blame Monster
They Walk Among Us

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

An End Is Also a Beginning
This One Makes a Sound

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone the Crows.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Dylan

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 3 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

pop will eat itself

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

No, don't be.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

you am i

(if'n ungrammatical sentences count)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)

not as in "sorry about pwei." as in "sorry" the band. who were a complete sentence. though they themselves might've been sorry about pwei.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If "Sorry" the band counts as a complete sentence, you've got to give me Aha

― DougD, Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, N.E.R.D. stands for "No-one Ever Really Dies"...

― DougD, Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

when people were shorter and lived near the water

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

aha totally works.

as does yes.

but i don't know about n.e.r.d. if you want to be a band name that are complete sentence, you need to have the conviction to spell it out.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"when people were shorter..." is more like a sentence fragment, isn't it?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

husker du (i think)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Right Said Fred

― DougD, Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Can Dance
You've Got Foetus on Your Breath
Lullaby for the Working Class
My Dying Bride

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Die, Trip Computer, Die!

― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither Lullaby for the Working Class nor My Dying Bride are complete sentences... :-( They're just nouns with discriptions...

― DougD, Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I once remember hearing of a band called Congratulations on Your Decision to Become a Pilot.

― Zach Ayres (Z_Ayres), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

the inalienable right to eat fred astaire's asshole.... i think this was the butthole surfers first name... or something to that effect

― ken taylrr, Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Texas is the Reason

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

They might be giants

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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But the title sez distinctly "complete sentences."

Where are you from?
Portishead

What's your name?
Sarah McLachlan

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Sunday, 4 April 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy Mother's Day, I Can't Read

― bangor, Sunday, 4 April 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a current Toronto band called I Can Put My Arm Back On You Can't.

(Nobody said "good" complete sentences.)

― carl w, Sunday, 4 April 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wham!

I Live in L.A.

... and then ...

I Love L.A.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Sunday, 4 April 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Y Kant Tori Read!

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 4 April 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Eat

― I'm a Shadow, Sunday, 4 April 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Erase Errata

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Sunday, 4 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Waits

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 4 April 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bettie Serveert

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Sunday, 4 April 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Treat Her Right.

― nick ring (nick ring), Monday, 5 April 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Come

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 5 April 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

And there should be a band called Jesus Wept.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 5 April 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The argument over grammar is the best thing about this thread, although the rest of it is pretty good.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 5 April 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The argument over grammar is the best thing about this thread, although the rest of it is pretty good.

Don't know them. Are they like Frasier Chorus?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 April 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Lynne Truss to thread!

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 5 April 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Poguemahone

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Monday, 5 April 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben Folds Five

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Live in L.A.

... and then ...

I Love L.A."

Actually, To Live and Shave in L.A. formed in 1990. They went on hiatus in 2000. Two seperate, discrete units called To Live and Shave in L.A. 2 then formed. (One was helmed by Weasel Walter; the other, by Jared Klauder, a very cynical vehicle expressly designed to attack Walter's comedic take on TLASILA 2). In the following weeks, To Live and Shave in L.A. 3 began (featuring members from both editions of TLASILA 2!). Then the dam burst - at least for a few months... There was Born in East L.A., To Live and Shave in L.A. 1975, I Love in L.A. (the first of all the spin-off groups to actually perform live; they're now quite well known under the moniker - wait for it - Hair Police!), and I Love L.A., which was formed by Wolf Eyes' Aaron Dilloway(!). Then the trend abated... The original TLASILA re-formed in 2004. Thus, the circle of life continues...

― inglorious (rat) bastard, Monday, 5 April 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, didn't mean that "then" chronologically, but then I shouldn't have used "then" then.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

For a long time I used to go to bed early; Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between François I and Charles V. This impression would persist for some moments after I was awake; it did not disturb my mind, but it lay like scales upon my eyes and prevented them from registering the fact that the candle was no longer burning.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I get the same thing, jed. I find getting hopelessly drunk helps.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

a bunch of kiwi bands:

a handful of dust
the centre will hold (depending on the context..)
drowning is easy
drugs vs. grandchildren
i spit on your gravy
look blue, go purple
massive stereo sellout
not really anything
out of the compost
say yes to apes
they were expendable
this is heaven
this sporting life

and the greatest of all.....:
wreck small speakers on expensive stereos

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

rhythm of black lines

i made up a band called "this city will eat you alive" but i dont think this would count.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

So the thing is, except for interjections, a complete sentence in English needs a verb (and usually, but not always, a subject; but always a verb). Without a verb you have a phrase.

So "not really anything," "massive stereo sellout," "a handful of dust," "out of the compost," "rhythm of black lines," you get the drift, are not complete sentences.

― no opinion, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jamesbrief.com/s/52.jpg

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

looks like most NZ bands are named after movies that are complete sentences-new thread!

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure there was a band called 'Look out Desmond, There's a Dog Behind You' but I can find no reference on the interwebnet.

― bloke (bloke), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

* Get the Hell out of the Way of the Volcano (on K Records)

* I was also a fan of a great, now-defunct Portland, OR hardcore band called: They Found My Naked Corpse Face Down in the Snow

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a Beautiful Day

Marry Me Jane

― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Things Explode. LA band.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant, they are an LA band.

― Thea (Thea), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

God... I can't believe I forgot It's a Beautiful Day!

― nick ring (nick ring), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Maroon 5 (if only)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Boy Meets Girl
Boy Sets Fire
Boys Don't Cry
Save Ferris

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a sentence if there's not a verb in there, muhfukkas! It's as simple as that, if you bother to check your old grammar books.

Paint The Walls With Blood
Eat My Own Hair

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Five go down to the Sea

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

They came from the stars, I saw them.

Dude, you're playing with fire, mentioning them round these parts...

(not a band name obv, although perhaps it ought to be)

God Is My Co-Pilot.
My Head's Going to Blow Up

You can't have "This Is Serious Mum" I'm afraid - I'm invoking the N.E.R.D. clause.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Somebody Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

It Bites
We Are Scientists
He Said

― LC (Damian), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sweep the Leg Johnny
CYHSY (x2?)
Test Icicles
whomadewho

― le hague (le hague), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Gay Dad

― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her.

― Orange (Orange), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Who The Hell Does Janes Smith Think She Is?

(Yes, there was a band with that name, apparently)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Man, a LOT of people don't know what a sentence is...

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Maroon 5 (if only)

Haha!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Rush

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Be your own PET

― Andie B (andie b), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

She Wants Revenge

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 6 July 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

Goodbye Mr McKenzie

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 6 July 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

2 Many DJs?

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

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