Great White Expectations

Here’s a fun game to play. Take a band’s name and do a mash up with a book’s name. Coudal Partners calls it “Booking Bands”. Here are some of my favorites:

  • Great White Expectations (Anything with 80s hair bands works for me)
  • Horton Hears a Hoobastank (This just sounds nasty)
  • A Tale of Two Bay City Rollers (“Turn off the soccer game and put on the Bay City Rollers” – So I married an Axe Murderer)
  • Mein Camper Van Beethoven (Good punk band name)
  • Corey Hart of Darkness (This works on so many levels…”I wear my sunglasses at night so I can…”)
  • Slaughterhouse Jackson Five (Disturbing)

View the full list.

Here are some of my own.

  • The Lord of the Sex Pistols
  • The Handmaid’s Black Sabbath
  • A Farewell to .38 Special
  • The World According to Molly Hatch
  • The Satanic Fat Boys
  • A Room with a Foreigner
  • Gloria Estefan and the Art of Miami Sound Maintenance
  • Naked Hair Cut 100
  • The Cult of Innocence
  • The Call of Los Lobos

Some good ones from Matt…

  • Into Thin Air Supply (Genius)
  • The Velveteen Revolver (Soft, plush and deadly)
  • Oliver Twisted Sister (We’re not gonna take it! Anymore!)
  • Booker T-Factor Diet (Unexpected use of popular diet book. Good work.)
  1. Matt says:

    Into Thin Air Supply

  2. Matt says:

    Booker T-Factor Diet

  3. Matt says:

    The Velveteen Revolver

  4. Matt says:

    Oliver Twisted Sister

  5. Tim Letscher says:

    I saw Coudal give a great talk at this year’s SXSW in Austin and he required any followup questions to be preceded by a booking band. Needless to say, I’m hooked. After a weekend camping trip with some other music geeks, we put together a hefty list that’s still growing: http://www.timletscher.com/blog/2008/06/16/booking-bands-campfires/#comments

    Cheers,
    Tim

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