Band Candy
Thursday, October 11th, 2007 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThere was a recent article on (I think) the BBC website and picked up from there, in a number of newspapers -certainly The Times, suggesting that new bands were finding it hard to come up with names after fifty years of pop and rock music. In some cases, obscure, defunct old names were being recycled (Nirvana, anyone?).
I find that hard to believe. Certainly all the easy ones have gone, but surely a band's name is nothing that a little imagination can't sort out? Do we want to listen to the music created by anyone who can't come up with a name for their band, or who can't manage anything better than Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong? I'm not sure I do; if there's no inspiration for the name, or if it's a recycling of someone else's great idea, what does it say about the music?
Personally I'm still waiting for Ten Famous Belgians, who ideally should be a quartet or smaller to trade on the irony.
I find that hard to believe. Certainly all the easy ones have gone, but surely a band's name is nothing that a little imagination can't sort out? Do we want to listen to the music created by anyone who can't come up with a name for their band, or who can't manage anything better than Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong? I'm not sure I do; if there's no inspiration for the name, or if it's a recycling of someone else's great idea, what does it say about the music?
Personally I'm still waiting for Ten Famous Belgians, who ideally should be a quartet or smaller to trade on the irony.