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Worst (best?) architectural names for fictional rock bands

Rusty!

Surely if this architecture thing doesn't work out, you could always fall back on your true calling in life, which is being a rockstar. After all, you still own an acoustic guitar and you know all the major chords. Arch. dropouts Pink Floyd and Talking Heads did it, so why not you as well?

Back in school we always wanted to start a boyband called SteelStuds, but lack of talent, time and dancing coordination got in the way.

Other names that popped out:

-The Caulk rocks (lots of riffage)
-Dr. Slab and the Penetrations (motown R'nB)
-The flying buttresses (this one actually existed)
-The thin redlines (art rock)
-Bituminous Damproofers (gutter punk)
-Rain Screen and the Principles (Bruce Springsteen cover band)
-The woof scuppers (reggae)
-Lynch 'n' Learn (death metal)
-Deathcad for monkey (indie)
-Mos Def Xref (gangsta)
-The hydraulic lift (whiskey fueled Irish rawk)
-Clouds of revision (christian/spiritual)

How about you my dear superstar? What name do you want future generations to remember you by?

 
Aug 26, 10 5:57 pm
le bossman

The Suprematists

Aug 26, 10 6:02 pm  · 
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dia

Spandrel Ballet

Aug 26, 10 6:14 pm  · 
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mulciber

The International Style Council

Aug 26, 10 6:52 pm  · 
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I never did like Bauhaus

Aug 26, 10 7:24 pm  · 
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binary

hilty and bosch..... ohh wait, thats taken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3OzrnBBlc bananas






Aug 26, 10 7:28 pm  · 
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a mouse

RFI. (emo/punk)

sparkies and the subs' (rockabilly)

Aug 26, 10 7:36 pm  · 
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dia

Phillip and the Johnsons

Aug 26, 10 7:49 pm  · 
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binary

revits and the rivots (funk)

Aug 26, 10 8:40 pm  · 
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ether

The Triangles (folk)
The Consultant (indie)
Addendum (metal)
Centerline (new age)
GPDW (jazz)
The Girders (pop)
Submittals (progressive)
Travertine and the Expansion Joints (gospel)

Aug 26, 10 8:51 pm  · 
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binary

redlines (japanese pop)
the manager of projects (rockabilly)
eye twitches (punk)
optical mouse (hip hop instrumentals)
you S bee's (funk)
the tape of measure (classical)

Aug 26, 10 9:06 pm  · 
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no bauhaus, techno? i feel so betrayed. they're an all-time best for me - along with all of the subsequent incarnations.

also, among real rock bands, i always liked 'crime and the city solution'.

lessee:

parapets [sounds like jazz to me.]
change order request
bearing pressure

Aug 26, 10 9:07 pm  · 
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dorics
schedules
dead programs
party walls
2000 kitchens
5000 tubs
compartments
apartments
dingbat bastards
ramps
garage people
plot planners
bad architects

all of them are bar bands...


Aug 26, 10 9:21 pm  · 
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creativity expert

so this is what archinectors are up to these days oh well if you cant beat them join them.

The blue book group
The Shims
Architecture Sucks
The Revit Chimps
GC's Suck
Blacklisters

Aug 26, 10 9:51 pm  · 
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jmanganelli

approved as noted
friction fit
the orders
Parti crashers
Sketschit

Aug 26, 10 10:07 pm  · 
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dmccarch

Maxwell Render

Aug 26, 10 10:25 pm  · 
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Purpurina

Teeter Deformation (all girls band)

Aug 26, 10 10:29 pm  · 
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Rusty!

these are great! keep them coming...

-Substantial Completionists (conccept band, never finished a single song)
-Kings of Neon Lighting (southern arena rock)
-Arcade Fireproofing (Canadian polite rock)
-Reduced fee and the gimme gimmies (50's doo wop)
-The Shutter (serious emo)
-MEP (german industrial)
-Steven's Hole (special needs band)
-DD on the radio (Brooklyn indie)
-Emerson, Lake, Herzog and DeMeuron (prog-rock super-group)
-Simon & Niemeyer (soon to be over folk duo)
-Gehry and the blobmakers (wedding band)

Aug 26, 10 10:38 pm  · 
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dmccarch

Mansard Roof (hipsters for sure)
Peter and the Eisenmen

Aug 26, 10 10:41 pm  · 
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jmanganelli

steven's hole ------- outstanding!




dee snudtz (lead singer, perhaps)

Aug 26, 10 10:54 pm  · 
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binary

marker and mylar (sort of like chromeo/cool kids)
try-angles (alternative rock)
cup of caff (drum and bass)
hatch and edit (electronic)
sharpie blues (blues)

Aug 26, 10 11:38 pm  · 
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Rusty!

-RFI Speedwagon (yeah!)
- Drafting Broads (riot grrrlz)

Aug 27, 10 12:00 am  · 
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Smokety Mc Smoke Smoke

Ziggurat! (the exclamation point is part of the name ... very important)

Aug 27, 10 12:20 am  · 
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Distant Unicorn

Electric Slide Ruler

The Dick Stern Bandit

Thermal Bridges

Timeface on the Clocktower

Rockafeller's Tower

8-inch Cantilevers

I. M. Dance

Double-D Hadid

Aug 27, 10 12:39 am  · 
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dmccarch

Sidenote

I would like to open up a diner called I.M. Pies

Aug 27, 10 1:10 am  · 
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Rusty!

I'll open up a 'Steven's Pie Holl' right next to your 'IM Pies'.

Aug 27, 10 1:17 am  · 
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Archiceptual

Scupper Dump

Aug 27, 10 8:44 am  · 
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Archiceptual

The Revivals

Aug 27, 10 8:45 am  · 
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I think The Scuppers must be a children's rock band, like the wiggles or whatever.

Travertine and the Expansion Joints is flat out brilliant for a gospel group, ether!

The Rendering might be death metal.

Aug 27, 10 9:25 am  · 
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Where's Vado?

for an experimental new wave romantic synth jazz quartet.

Aug 27, 10 9:30 am  · 
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Purpurina

REMKoolAsz (gangsta)

Aug 27, 10 9:33 am  · 
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brand avenue

zoom extents

Aug 27, 10 10:08 am  · 
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RealLifeLEED

Posted in the wrong place originally... great post...

Revit Up (hard rock covers)
Cradle to Cradle (whiny, indie rock)
Brad Pitt and the Floodlines (too soon?)
Paper Musicians (surfer-core)
'Shopped (experimental a la dirty projectors)
The M.E.Posse (crappy rap by a bunch of posers)
The Downtown Upfits (more motown)
Suburban Blight (whiny hard rock)
Two Tone Studios (ska)
The Charrettes (french indie)
The Paul Petrunia Experience (can't let a name like petrunia go to waste - Straight Pop)

...Humbly submitted

Aug 27, 10 11:10 am  · 
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Archinect Sucks T-Shirt (gay disco strip band)

Aug 27, 10 11:11 am  · 
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RealLifeLEED

Also:

zaHA!

Aug 27, 10 11:14 am  · 
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Emilio

the bumwad crinkles

Aug 27, 10 11:22 am  · 
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Emilio

rapido graaf generator

Aug 27, 10 11:23 am  · 
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AP

Disproportionate Ampersand

Aug 27, 10 12:39 pm  · 
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Cherith Cutestory

oblique perspectives (EMO Goth)

Aug 27, 10 1:09 pm  · 
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Distant Unicorn

Louvres and Shakers

Aug 27, 10 1:12 pm  · 
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nsalgu

my band name would be......

o-snap!

Aug 27, 10 1:13 pm  · 
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Cherith Cutestory

CNC Milling Factory (euro dance)

Aug 27, 10 1:16 pm  · 
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Cherith Cutestory

The New Urbanists (Indie Pop)

Aug 27, 10 1:18 pm  · 
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Cherith Cutestory

IMHOTEP (70's hair metal)

Aug 27, 10 1:19 pm  · 
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Pananorama (80s cover band)
The Guggenheimers (irish folk)
Pan Pan & the Zoom Zooms (japanese surf rock)
Unfinished Symmetry (death metal)
We Shall Raze (emo core)
The Rastarized Vectors (reggae)
De:Core (adolf loos-centered nu metal)

Aug 27, 10 1:38 pm  · 
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toasteroven

IBC (either inane white "gangsta" rap or prog rock)

and I'll get in trouble for this one:

caulk and the butt glazers (deep house)

Aug 27, 10 1:45 pm  · 
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WonderK

How did I not see this thread until now!?!?

The U-Factors
The R-Values
The Air Barriers (These three bands would appear around the same time with similar sounds like The Hives, The Vines, and The Strokes)

Rim Joist (probably sounds like Peaches)

Heat Island (sounds like Daft Punk)

Bio Swale (like Sigur Ros)

Danny Burnham and The Chicago School (like Benny Benassi and The Biz)


...I've definitely got more but I need more time to think! Some of my favorites from above are:

RFI Speedwagon
CNC Milling Factory (LOL!!!)
Kings of Neon Lighting
Steven's Hole (OMG!!)

Aug 27, 10 1:57 pm  · 
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WonderK

Oh, and also, in case it wasn't obvious:

DJ dubK ... I would be a house DJ like Pauly D on Jersey Shore, and get you all to beat the beat down, LOL

Aug 27, 10 1:59 pm  · 
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postal

The Isolators

First Album: low dynamic stiffness

(sorry, it's all i've got on my desk today)

or for the revit indie crowd... "vee vee"

Aug 27, 10 2:40 pm  · 
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Cherith Cutestory

thom's mane

Aug 27, 10 2:49 pm  · 
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Archimus

Flashing the Crickets (indie)

Critical Radiant Flux (metal)

Tuck Point (pop) - with their smash hit "What a Brick Wants"

Common Bond (Tuck Point cover band)

Albedo (fusion)

Aug 27, 10 2:59 pm  · 
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