New band name suggestions for Anthrax?

bluecrayola · October 19, 2001, 3:13pm

Any suggestions? Even though their music sucks, I hope they have a good PR agent. Don’t say “Cipro” either.

mouthbreather · October 19, 2001, 3:16pm

How about “Basket Full Of Puppies” ?
From their website:

10/10/01, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

In light of current events, we are changing the name of the band to something more friendly, “Basket Full Of Puppies”. Actually, just the fact that we are making jokes about our name sucks.

In the twenty years we’ve been known as “Anthrax”, we never thought the day would come that our name would actually mean what it really means. When I learned about anthrax in my senior year biology class, I thought the name sounded “metal”. Everyone in my neighborhood had a band with an “er” name, like “Ripper” or “Deceiver” or “Killers” and I wanted to be different. “Anthrax” sounded cool, aggressive, and nobody knew what it was. Until a few years ago most people thought we’d made it up. Even our 1985 album, “Spreading The Disease” was just a play on the name. We were spreading our music to the masses.

Before the tragedy of September 11th the only thing scary about Anthrax was our bad hair in the 80’s and the “Fistful Of Metal” album cover. Most people associated the name Anthrax with the band, not the germ. Now in the wake of those events, our name symbolizes fear, paranoia and death. Suddenly our name is not so cool. To be associated with these things we are against is a strange and stressful situation. To us, and to millions of people, it is just a name. We don’t want to change the name of the band, not because it would be a pain in the ass, but because we hope that no further negative events will happen and it won’t be necessary. We hope and pray that this problem goes away quietly and we all grow old and fat together.

Be safe,
Scott, Charlie, Frank and John

Edward_The_Head · October 19, 2001, 3:37pm

Actually they are not planning on changing their name, the Basket of Puppies was a joke.

pezpunk · October 19, 2001, 3:38pm

How about The Taliband?

mouthbreather · October 19, 2001, 3:42pm

I was kidding too, EtH.

Mangetout · October 19, 2001, 3:45pm

Maybe they should change their name to Handwriting Analysis

blackthought · October 19, 2001, 4:06pm

How about

** The Common Cold **

Revtim · October 19, 2001, 4:50pm

Yeast Infection

Umbriel · October 19, 2001, 4:54pm

Definitely Mad Cow

Ellen_Cherry · October 19, 2001, 5:01pm

Healthy Pink Tissue

jk1245 · October 19, 2001, 5:07pm

Oozing red sores

lieu · October 19, 2001, 5:16pm

Herpes Slurpees
Aroma
Genitalia
or Streptococcus might be in keeping with the trend.

LocalLoop · October 19, 2001, 9:57pm

Anthraxbutnottheinhaledkindthekindyougetonyourskinthatiseasilytreatable.

Simple yet effective.

Agrippina · October 19, 2001, 10:02pm

Black Plague

ShrekLookAlike · October 19, 2001, 10:44pm

They should come up with some fearsome looking symbol and become “The metal band formerly known as Anthrax”.

Gatopescado · October 19, 2001, 10:59pm

Charles Monroe?

KP235 · October 19, 2001, 11:32pm

Here’s one…

How’s about Chlamydia?

jmonster · October 19, 2001, 11:44pm

Scrapie

Zenster · October 20, 2001, 3:29am

This, I cannot resist,

Too perfect!
Reciprocity is a good thing!

(Teach a man to drink for a lifetime… The nerve…!)

Creaky · October 20, 2001, 3:41am

Filovirus?

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