Simply Saucer - "Bullet Proof Nothing"
If I knew anything of context, if I even read the papers, I'd tell you about it. But I'm just standing at the bottom of an empty bowl of cereal, tossin' up the hits. Catch this one with your bare hands, it's soft like melty ice cream. And throw your lower jaw forward when you sing along.
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You might remember that I asked people to send me a song if they wanted me to name their band. It was a casual remark, I didn't even think I'd get one submission. But within a day I had got five requests for names, so I decided to make a thing of it. Not only is it very fun to think up names for stuff (I will call that "benomenclating"), it became an interesting sample of the kinds of readers that StG gets. First of all, everyone reading right now writes, plays, and records music (send me your song). Second, some of you aren't bad (note: I am terrible at writing music). So here are the five bands I named:
Turquoise - "Adrienne" My favourite of the submissions, albeit a little lengthy. Other possible names included Two-Day Weekend and Tin. I also named their album: so this is now a song from The Gore of the Summer.
Numbers Add Up - "They Searched My Car" I titled the song as well (the original was called "Jackoff Geod 03". so, I changed).
Nödé - "All I Do" Totally needed a one-word, heavily accented name.
French Request - "7.28" Their title, which I like. It starts out great, but the dreamy bridge comes too soon, too often. Also, your sell-tickets-with-the-name-alone name would be Adulterer-Guardians.
Break Lamps - "Garbage Day" I can barely hear what's going on here, but I think these are the proper names for what I do hear. Alternate, more jokey, names include The Butt Mission or Butt Mansion.
So there it is, thank you all for submitting, and I hope you like the names I picked for you. Here's to everyone having a mind, here's to doing something instead of nothing.
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Elsewhere: You almost definitely have by now, but if you haven't, go right now to read Matthew P.'s review and listen to the song from the new Fiery Furnaces thing. I hope one day I get it together enough to write an entire post in crazy FF-style alliterative, hyper-rhyming, stream-of-thought super-story.