Results: Weird Music... That Can't Yet Be Heard... Wednesday: These Bands Don't Yet Exist. What Would They Sound Like If They Did?
I checked my go-to record etc. collectors website to make certain the following band names haven't been used yet by any act who has recorded anything listed there. And the music selections are approximations or contain elements of some of my suggestions Enjoy?!
1.
1.
Wastrel
A collision of pre-1990's grunge and post-1970's progressive/art rock
13%
•
188 votes
Eurasian folk-rock fusion
18%
•
273 votes
A chamber string quartet with their instruments retuned/detuned like those of a doom metal band
24%
•
366 votes
Something else I'll describe in a comment.
45%
•
673 votes
2.
2.
Into Onto
Generally danceable post-punk, but with brass players like a jazz rock band
12%
•
177 votes
Dub-heavy reggae/trip-home alchemizing, abetted by occasional yodeling and/or Tuvan-style throat singing
17%
•
260 votes
Amerindian pow wow drumming ensemble and didgeridoo player with squeezebox and vuvuzela, probably among other instruments, responsible for melodies
27%
•
406 votes
Something else I'll describe in a comment.
44%
•
657 votes
3.
3.
The Redundancies
A band specializing in funny-punk remakes, though, perhaps, sung in Esperanto
23%
•
351 votes
Trio of turntablists, but led by a male and female vocal duo
14%
•
213 votes
Kazoo/washboard/Jew's harp/cajon/ukulele--but all electrified as possible--skiffle combo
17%
•
253 votes
Something else I'll describe in a comment.
46%
•
683 votes
4.
4.
Larj Terd
Extreme metal band with two drummers, one playing to blast beats and thrash tempos, the other pounding glacially slow rhythms...and some playing an organ that could pass for one from an medieval church
13%
•
192 votes
Often dissonant, hypnotically tuneful jam band (whose songs could be easily edited for radio singles), multi-culti and co-ed in membership, all rearing robes making them look like monks &/or choral singers
19%
•
289 votes
Mystery-shrouded--possibly one-member--electronic/industrial/power noise band regularly incorporating sound effects otherwise most regularly heard in bathrooms ad on toilets
21%
•
320 votes
Something else I'll describe in a comment.
47%
•
699 votes
5.
5.
Ate An Entire Ostrich
Acoustic ensemble incorporating sub-Saharan African and Baltic folk music styles, but with comedic lyrics
14%
•
204 votes
Bagpiper, contrabassoonist and tuba player with piccolo and, congas, glockenspiel and multilingual rapper
28%
•
422 votes
What you're going to name the next group of buskers you see, regardless the music they're playing
15%
•
227 votes
Something else I'll describe in a comment.
43%
•
647 votes
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