If Landslide Victory Dave had not chosen to name the band as "The Fall," what name would you have chosen for them. To focus your thinking, you may want to consider Fall song titles and lyrics.

For example, I think The Fall would be just as well-named if they were named:

Industrial Estate

or

Stop Mithering.

Industrial Estate does it for me :lol: good one
For alternatives, people may want to visit the song name link thread where a dozen or more alternatives are listed in the last few pages.

Mark E. Smith & The Gruppe

I believe they were almost called the outsiders ,but another band had taken that name. Would've been fitting.
Maybe they could have named themselves after a Sartre book instead. I propose "Nausea", "No exit" or "a criticique of dialectical reasoning"

Mark E and the revolving door players.
50,000 group changes cant be wrong.
Mark E and the Bongo Lady,s grandkids.

City Hobgoblins

I guess that was aonther Camus reference. Speaking of whom, maybe they could have chosen The Plague, The Misunderstanding, or Victims and Exectutioners. On the whole I think they made a good choice.

The Beatles.

aye.

The Boring Canadians?

The Smiths?

Well, MES and TF were working their way through Camus titles, weren't they? And had found out there was already a band called The Strangers, so...

The Silent Men
The Guests
The Plague
The Artists At Work
The First Man/Men
The Possessed
The Just Assassins
The Misunderstanding
The Rebels
A Happy Death
Betwixt And Between
The Crisis Of Man
The Renegade - No, best save the last one til you write yer memoirs...

funny. all the suggestions would be for a group that would be flash-in-the-pan footnotes to punk history. I doubt any incarnation of the group would be around today if they had named themselves "industrial estate". THE FALL, as a name, is so perfect...general, universal, mysterious and subtlely ominous.

La Chute

I always thought the camus association was not quite right for The Fall. It is a good name, but not perfect largely for that reason.

Didn't MES say that people thought of England as "flat caps and flat beer?" The Flat Beer might not have been that bad. The Mushy Peas would have been too, errr, corny.

"Much discussion in boiled beef and carrots..."

The Big "Fish" and chips off the Block.

The Great musician purge 1976 and onwards

Granny And The Bongos?

Wings? :mellow:

Get Back To General Chat Where You Belong?

Psychic Nose and the Flat Caps.

Bee in bonnet about sumat today for sure, HPAF

Enjoy yer weekend.


:beer:

The Laff.

Heh.

What about Sisyphus, as in "The Myth of..." Why exclude that?

The Mark E Street Band
Mark EMF
Mark ELO
Mark E Smith & Mighty
Mark E-Zee Possee
Mark E17
Mark Elastica
Mark Erasure


I'm in the wrong thread, aren't I?

The Plague. Good one

How about The Just Assassins?

Mark E Smith & The Fellows (He Met Down The Pub)

Von Südenfed

My Bloody Group

The Fall's

Re The Song Name Game thread:

Prince Markus Of Old Prestwich & His Synchopated Bongo Fusiliers.

Or collaberation wise:

Mark E Shmidt Und Das Deutcher Technomusik Gruppe.

:D

There are some very appropriate alternative names given here, but this one takes the prize so far, imho. :applaud:

Cheers Fred - Virtus Laudata Crescit an' all that.

You're Fired!

What's It To Yer?

(question mark integral)

Bongo Bashing Granny & Her Wayward Grandson's Beat Band

The Time Gentlemen (Please).

(The) Monokuros..

..A classic name for any band really

The Myth of Smithyphus

The After Hours
The Chasers
The Invaders
The Static
The Prime Movers
The Graves
The Fugitives
Persons Unknown
Black Leather Jackets
The Masks

(Bonus points if someone spots where these come from) ;)