I miss when I was in an indie band in my adolescence and every cool-sounding, esoteric noun I discovered felt like a perfect band name, song title or lyric. 

Like, I would have gotten a lot of mileage out of “Laramidia”

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i was never in a band but that didn't stop me from starting a prospective list of band names in late 2013 that probably now numbers in the hundreds 😆

it's fun to go back from time to time and scroll through them — often there are clusters of several where i clearly was riffing on, say, places i lived, or people i admired, or books/movies i loved.

mostly, though, i think it's just been a fun ongoing wordplay exercise — lots of puns and portmanteaus.

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the very first one was Chris Farley and the Squealers, obviously riffing on a favorite comedic actor and iconic reggae band 😆

some others:

The Tough Break
Bipedal to the Metal
Turn and Cough
Freakshowoffs
Valhallelujah
Dear Mr. Fallacy
Wonkamobile
Force of Hobbit
The Samuel L. Jackson 5
Sugar Cereal
Sympathetic Villains
Frozen in Carbonite
The Distant Relatives
The Dirt Worshipers
Chump Change
Crux of the Matter
Falken's Maze
Rocket Science
Last-Ditch Effort
The Blunt Instruments
Whistler's Mothers
More's the Pity
Knuckle Sandwich
The Probable Cause
Major Award
Death or Serious Injury
Pretty Fucking Good Milkshake

I love that. What are some of your favorites?