Band Name: Yerykla(Spin the globe, and the finger stuck here)
Album: Mac Sweeney *(Yep, I’m gonna make a political statement!)
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Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Going to my Irish roots…this one’s for you, Grandpa)
John W. Peterson (Gettin’ religious now)
Gondwana (musical group) (Chilean reggae! What a niche!)
Morgan, Missouri (Yeah, those were my tough and lean years…paying my dues)
Subcostal arteries (Everyone’s got 'em, but mine failed me when I needed them the most)
Kent Derricott (Just another Morman cruising Japan…gotta get back to my globetrotting ways)
Little River (Lamprey River) (Where my friend from Morgan, Missouri is now buried after his death from a drug overdose back in 1983)
Zdeněk Veselovský (a tribute to my mentor and role model)
DAP Helicopteros (Chilean helicopter airline that plays Gondwana musak while you wait…they are also my sponsors who gave me my big break)
Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (My Magnum Opus of intertwined observations, questions and what ifs rolled up into a rousing 23 minutes and 56 second xylophone solo)
Cooper County, Missouri (where I met my true love, Sara Lynn Evans at a honky tonk bar)
Glenn H. Mullin (Free Tibet!)
Elizabeth Township, Lawrence County, Ohio (Sara and I got engaged on the banks of the Ohio, just before a freak accident that involved a coal barge and Evel Knievel [who was coaxed out of retirement with free knee replacement surgeries] that took her life in 1994)
Byron Nuclear Generating Station (Putting my life back together after ongoing tragedies, only to find…catastrophe)
None of the Above Party of BC (well, this just sums up my life and will also be the title of my autobiography)
Album name: Hypnotherapy in the United Kingdom
1.Robert J. Stevens
2.Dolores Della Penna
3.Hey, Pop!
4.Acute monocytic leukemia
5.Medical Implant Communication Service
6.Pevkoton
7.Bernabe Gonzalez Garcia
8.Villavieja, Huila
9.1951 Australian Championships (tennis)
10.Matthieu Marais
11.The Battle of the Books
12.Lake Letas
13.NetBSD
14.Edna Friedman
15.Levonantradol
I was all happy at first thinking I’d get to be a British rap group but I ended up being a Trance or Ambient sound group. Bleh.
tracks:
1)A43 autoroute
2)Crescent Lake State Airport
3)Pacific Coastal Plain
4)Edward Soja
5)Wolff’s law
6)Lockerby
7)Chancellor of Germany
8)Eloxochitlán
9)Ramkumar Ganesan
10)Aathreya
11)Suffrage
12)Vladimir Correa
13)Martial arts timeline
14)A Flight to Remember
15)Coonawarra
Band name: Precision Weighted Portfolio
Album title: Diaporthe phaseolorum var. caulivora
Tracks:
Puzz Loop 2
Kurt Jooss
Rauni
Prairie State College
Isaac Begbie
FC Dosta Bystrc-Kníničky
(this sounds like an album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Bellevue, Michigan
Scps
Obhausen
Jackson Nicolau
Čajkov
USS Carroll (DE-171)
1904 in Norwegian football
Hideo Yamamoto
The Polite Force (band)
Tracks:
1- Limla (Lots of melisma and techno harmonica in this song)
2- 8 mm (Guns! Women with guns!..strapped to their thighs!)
3- Disodium guanylate ( a song about stalking a highschool Chemistry teacher)
4- 17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment (A heartbreaking, yet confrontational ballad about the guy who stood me up to go to war)
5- John Edward Kelly (That rat f’ing bastard!)
6- Schriever, Louisiana (Where I left him on the side of the road, on my way back from New Orleans)
7- Radiosónica (What Pepper Spray is all about)
8- SFR Yugoslav pop and rock scene (About the lameness of wannabees)
9- Faustus Cornelius Sulla (A try at some sort of deep historical context. The video is super cool)
10- Muscle Tussle (This is a love song)
11- Sixteen-segment display (An ode to tentacle porn)
12- List of Russian serial killers (and why I hate my ex)
13- Cornelis den Held (he changed my life)
14- West End Bridge (a song about suicidal tendancies)
15- Highcliffe (This is like, our freedom anthem, man…)
Fear us…I think we’re Femme-Punk-Emo…or something.
Íñigo Melchor de Velasco, 7th Duke of Frias
Uh. Apparently we’re a cross between punk rock, Japanese rock, thrash, death metal, emo, French lyrics, the B.C. Tourism board, and the soundtrack to Borat.
Band Name: Secret du Roi (French for ‘King’s Secret’)
Album: Heckler & Koch SL8 - (Death metal? Social commentary?)
Roboman - (Yeah, I’m thinking some kind of synthed up social commentary about brainwashed masses.)
Telmac TMC-600 - (No clue. It’s a rare Finnish microcomputer from the '80s…)
Eagle Eye Mysteries - (Kinda cool. Probably harping on US politics.)
Criticality Accident - (Sounds like an awesome song title.)
Haradrim - (An homage to Tolkein? Why not? Lots of bands do it.)
Obernheim - (Some town in Germany, kind of a nice sounding name though.)
Bentendo - (Let’s worship the goddess!)
MacQuarium - (Haha! This is awesome. Fishtank/Mac computer, I can see where the lyrics are going already.)
Intermission (Stratovarius album) - (Tribute to Stratovarius, I guess. We must like Finnish stuff.)
Conference of the Birds - (So much potential for symbolism here!)
Henri Chapu - (A tribute to a great period of art.)
Tractatus Coislinianus - (Can you imagine trying to sing this term out loud???)
Electronic Music - (LOL!)
Frampton’s Camel - (A tribute to Peter Frampton, I guess.)
Powerpuff Girls: Relish Rampage - (Definitely the signature song on this album!)
I have to say that I really like the titles I got. The name is kind of catchy, and the track names are wonderful. That album name doesn’t seem to have much to do with anything, though.
I see a lot of potential for tracks 1, 4, 8, 10, and 15.
Band name: Quick Step-Innergetic
Album name: Tobias Matthew
Album cover art (found by getting another random article and putting it into google image search) : http://members.tripod.com/~Ieeehcu/uhseal.gif
Route 772 (Washington Metro) all right, a song about hanging out on public transportation
International airport now a song about hanging out on airplanes and visiting other countries
Asad Abdul-Khaliq one of us must have thought it sounded like a cool name
Ottavio Vannini this song is a bit of a Decemberists ripoff
ProCare
terrible song title
Gregers Birgersson a song about a knight. It’s about five minutes long, with two guitar solos
L’Inconnue de la Seine this is a Dead Can Dance style song
Deoxythymidine monophosphate an electronic song with lots of synths
Cruiser Squadron a shanty with accordions
Tropical Storm Winnie a song about Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day
1938 British Home Championship an English drinking song
Wastebasket taxon I like the sound of this one. It has kind of a Tom Waits junkyard thing
Rosario Oeste Station back to the transportation theme of the first two songs. I like it
Vera Gafron a song about the woman we’re all in love with
Syncarpia glomulifera we close the album with a short but fun song about trees in Australia
So the first couple of songs are power-pop. Then we get in a bit of an identity crisis, with tracks 3-8 trying out lots of different styles but mostly failing and coming off as pretentious. Then for the rest of the album we’re mostly imitating The Pogues.
Yes, that’s our first album. I don’t know why the critics are calling us pretentious, we just like things to be challenging intellectually. Why yes, we’re graduate students, why do you ask?
