My Son Rufus Needs The Perfect Band Name

Sun, You Are Bright and The Vibration Of A Hundred Times A Million are both great but in the end my heart said Buttons You Are Circle

The Truckems !!!!!!

POLE THE WAD

Buttons You Are Circle!

the coins who eat dust is great

The Coins Who Eat Dust

haha xpost

MPLS/STPL consensus

haha demographics at work!

meh typical midwestern provincialism

The Vibration Of A Hundred Times A Million

If this doesn't win (I voted for it) can I have it

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Buttons You Are Circle

I'm torn between Pole The Wad and Sun, You Are Bright.

Buttons You Are Circle sounds too much like a emo band

Talking of Martians!!

oops, that's ian.

The Pencil Of Honor

TCWED for the win

The Doors of Shatter!

That's a good one, but maybe sounds like Flipper tribute band.

Yeah, that was the association it had for me. Five-year olds can do convincing Flipper imitations!

I like The Triangle of Triangular Stuff the more I think about what it means.

vibration

maserati poop! yessssss

Buttons You Are Circle it is. The federal govt. should pass a law that Rufus MUST name all bands in America.

We should also try to rename already existing bands with these fine choices. Suggestions:

Hairs On Feet - King Kong
The Truckems - BTO
The Mailboxes Of Doom - The Doors
The Rock-Eating Trees - 10,000 Maniacs
The Grown-Ups Of Villains - Gentle Giant
The Math Gear Superfines - Tortoise
Wood Of Ovens - Black Sabbath
The Book Of Madness - The Skatalites
Trashbag, You Are Stinky - Pussy Galore
Sun, You Are Bright - The Beach Boys
The Team Of Microwaves - Kraftwerk
The Vibration Of A Hundred Times A Million - AR Kane

pole the wad made me smile

Wow, so many of these are so great. I really like "The Vibration Of A Hundred Times A Million."

oh man i liked rock-eating trees until it involved natalie merchant

Talking Of Martians

I really really like The Vibration Of A Hundred Times A Million but it sounds too much like an Austin post-rock band.

The Metal Detector Supremes

pick this one for cookie monster vocal covers of diana ross!

Buttons You Are Circle

Talking of Martians has a nice double meaning ("talking"), similar to Smashing Pumpkins ("smashing").

I also like the double in sun, you are bright -- sounds like son and I think fondly of someone saying this to barney fife or something

Buttons You Are Circle.

And there's definitely a few Stereolab track titles in that list too..

They all sound like they ought to be on Kranky records.

Other than Pole The Wad which reminds me of Toad the Wet Sprocket

The Pencil Of Honor

hahaha

Coin toss between The Grown-Ups Of Villains and Maserati Poop

scott your son is the man

also will hate the internet in 10 yrs

this kind of behavior didn't turn out well for Robert Pollard

I like Randy Newman's son's band name: Smashed Infant.

Rufus featuring Skot Seward

I can almost hear what these bands sound like:

The Truckems - A blues/county boogie band. All the members have beards like Billy Gibbons and huge beer guts. Every song will mention beer, truck driving, or getting out of rehab.

Wood of Ovens - Free folk. The band will be extremely hairy and only play midnight gigs in abandoned warehouses.

The Pledge of Wisdom - An emo name if there ever was one.

The Pledge of Wisdom might also suit a medieval-themed heavy metal band, as long as it was super-serious. The Doors of Madness for a band playing Madness songs in the style of The Doors. Buttons You Are Circle for a mad Japanese punk band. The Truckems for something like ZZ Top only by kids.

Yeah, it has gotta be Pole The Wad.
Short, rolls off the tounge, makes no sense, fantastic.

Buttons You Are Circle

The Book of Madness!

Skot, that kid is a genuine original. Best to keep him on that island and away from mainstream society for as long as you can.

Pole the Wad reminds me a bit of Toad the Wet Sprocket

mainstreamland

my ex's little cousins got musical instruments for xmas. they were jamming and pretending they were in a band, and she asked Lois, a 7-year old girl who was playing drums, what her rockstar name was. she said that her name was "Saturday Morning."

I really should post up my daughter's electo effort, 'Aliens Are COming to Attack Us Yeah', which she recorded when she was six. It contains the line 'Make yourselves invisible with your invisibility sticks!!'

These kids would make great nieces/nephews!

all y'all know it should be dreamboat gorilla.

Pole the Wad! Pole the Wad!

i just like saying it.

Well, The Coins Who Eat Dust is nearly as nonsensical as Pole The Wad, but I think it conveys more power. You just know a band called that means business.

^^bimble knows what's up

You could parse it as Money Pwns Death if you wanted to- of course, you might not want to.

I guess Microsoft is not a possible one any more. (

I'm sad nobody's repped for the Picture of Eyeball. I wish I had thought of it.

Guys. Stop the presses: RUFUS PEOPLE.

Truckems!

The Running Wild Superators is awesome too. And I think maybe Pole the Wad is more an album/song title.

"The Metal Detector Supremes" is pretty chilling and dystopian. Sad, actually. Damn.

If he's taking suggestions, let me point out that the sequel to Seaguy, "Slaves of Mickey Eye" was just announced.

These are great. I think I'll go for Buttons.

My 3-y-o described Pan Sonic (one of the quieter tracks on Kesto) as "music for monsters" and said "I think someone is singing...the letter 'R'".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

This honestly has had the highest concentration of good options to choose from of any poll ever on ILX.

Rufus says:

"I vote for The Truckems, even though most people voted for Buttons You Are Circle. I just want them to know that my name is Rufus and I am a kid who is five years old and I was born in 2002 on December 2nd. Thank you, internet people."

There must be something to this Coins Who Eat Dust / MN thing---gets my vote...if I had seen this thread in time.

"I am five, so no spam, please."

This is like a better version of the Life In Hell strip where Matt Groening's kid comes up with all these rad horror film titles!

Yeah, let's do this again sometime eh? I was thinking of this poll yesterday and suddenly felt bad that Truckems didn't get more love. I'm glad that's the one Rufus apparently liked best.

Thank you, internet people.

<3

This was so good. Kudos, Rufus.

Rufus is a hit, man!

scott might u suggest to rufus that his preferred band name could be improved by eliminating the "the" - just: truckems!

but then it sounds like some corny indie band

like battles

isn't there already a Mother Truckers band or something?

Drive By Truckems, yeah

mehlt OTM: best poll ever. Rufus rules, just like his parents!

he's been on the lookout for a new band name for awhile! i will have to show him this thread. haha!

he's been going by *Rufus Cesspool* for years now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb76n8sjEcs