Why do some bands choose names that don’t seem to have any relevance?
A lot of bands choose names that might give you an indication of what they sound like—so that people know what to expect. A metal band probably have something dark and scary—you don’t want to be called “Carla and the Parsnips” and come out on stage in full-on corpse make-up—the difference between the name and the bands style can make the band seem less serious, or like an ironic joke. Now, because of 60 years of choosing band names that indicate what kind of rebelliousness or pop-sweetness their band has to offer, you have a lot of clichéd names. It’s more common now for a band to choose a name that doesn’t have any particular connotation or meaning. For a better explanation of this, see page 58-59 of The Girls’ Guide to Rocking. How many bands have you been in? When I was 21 I made a list of every band I had played with/in for more than one practice, and it was somewhere around 30. I have been probably seven “serious” bands, where we practiced every week and played shows and had goals
