Only Great Band Names Need Apply
Standing out in a crowd, to get noticed, sticking out in the “sea of same”. These days you need a bit of luck or cunning to get noticed. Interesting band names is one way. It is one way, but it can be a slippery slope when deciding to label yourself and your music with something that might have nothing to do with the general populace or possibly even your target market.
That being said, often you find a band because of the band name and realize that they are in fact pretty good. Whether a unique name is created on purpose or if the name itself has purpose – it can work. For some, it is simply novelty and for some it is a foot in the door. I have included two bands below that caught my eye due to their band name alone. I actually listened and it worked out…they are both a good listen and unique sounding, not unlike the reason why I found them in the first place – an interesting band name.
Drunken Barn Dance (or Scott Sellwood) is a combination of freak folk, indie singer songwriter and barn burning hoe down (no pun intended) – eclectic to say the least and definitely worth a listen. You have both up and down tempo with “Seagulls” (down tempo) and “The Last Desperate Stand…” (up tempo). A lo-fi winner, and now that I listen more and more, the name may actually be a description of the sound itself.
Drunken Barn Dance
“Seagulls (No Fantasies) (Fading Bones)” (mp3)
“The Last Desperate Stand of the Last Fair Man” (mp3)
from “Drunken Barn Dance”
(Quite Scientific Records)
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More Animals Of The Arctic is more shoegazey and a bit epic in sound. You get a fuller, complete atmosphere with MAOTA – great use of piano, layering sounds – think Sigur Rós if they were English and made music that didn’t require Icelandic rocks and petrified wood to create. A post rock slowcore experience, but with harmonica!
More Animals Of The Arctic
“John The Baptist” (mp3)
“Peacock Dream” (mp3)
from “An Appendix Of Whaling Terms”
(Standard Recording Company)
~Smansmith
hey hey slowcoustic!
i am loving “the last desperate stand of the last fair man” thanks for the intro to Drunken Barn Dance
I’ve stumbled across you’re page a couple times in the past few months, and I have now realized:
a) its about time i add you to my blogroll/rss feed and
b) you’re possibly the only other blogger from Calgary, Alberta I have stumbled upon. (although, i am now living in montreal, i still consider Calgary to be home)
keep up the good posts!
-tamara
Well hello my Canadian Blogger friend! Glad to hear from you, I now will have to be heading out your way to look around. Hope you don’t mind me looking all around the nooks and crannies!! Wow, did that sound bad…
Cheers!
S.