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The Greatest Names
Posted by ChaosandMorphine on 30 July 2010 - 5:02pm.
I realised during the World Cup that the best ever name of a footballer is without doubt Johnny Rep. But what are the other greatest names?
Here is my list, cobbled together to pad out this blog entry and largely the first ones that came to mind. Please disagree and post your own choices. [Also, feel free to add new categories.]
01. Band Name - Roxy Music
02. Artist Name - David Bowie
03. Film - The Big Lebowski
04. Footballer - Johnny Rep
05. Album - Dark Side of The Moon
06. Song - Psycho Killer
07. Actor - Steve McQueen
08. Lady Actor - Marilyn Monroe
09. Author - Truman Capote
10. Engineer - Isambard Kingdom Brunel [also the All Time Greatest Name EVER]
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Cricketer
Farokh Engineer
Engineer
Farokh Cricketer
Number 8
Now, now; let's not be scared of the word 'actress'.
Number 8:
Merv "The Swerve" Davies
Well Did You Evah?
01. Band Name - Buffalo Springfield
02. Artist Name - Lee Hazelwood
03. Film - Smashing Time!
04. Footballer - Frank Worthington
05. Album - Cilla Sings A Rainbow
06. Song - Sour Milk Sea
07. Actor - Henry Luxembourg
08. Lady Actor - Tuesday Weld
09. Author - Iris Murdoch
10. Engineer - Er...
11. Book - We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea
Engineer?
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette
apparently
his favourite ditty was Down In The Sewer by The Stranglers
Let's see...
Band Name - The Band
Musician Name - Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste
Photographer Name - George Hoyningen-Huene
Artist Name - Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Sculptor Name - Constantin Brancusi
Footballer Name - Jimmy Rimmer
Film Name - Black Narcissus
Marvel Comics Character Name - The Dread Dormammu
Doctor Who Villain Name - Zygon
For ideological reasons
I'd prefer no 10 to be Isambard Republic Brunel, but I have to admit that yours is - to my mind -rhythmically more pleasing.
NB Amazed and delighted to find (handy tip: always preview comment) that HTML within HTML works. (Still a novice...)
Best of
Footballer´s name: Willy Van Der Kerkhof
Actress: Morgan Fairchild
Metal band name
Destroyer 666 (with an umlaut above the "o", natch)
Footballer
George Best, surely?
I don't disagree but my alternatives are:
01. Band Name - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
02. Artist Name - Roy Orbison
03. Film - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
04. Footballer - Malcolm Macdonald
05. Album - Damn The Torpedoes
06. Song - Sultans of Swing
07. Actor - Sam Wanamaker
08. Lady Actor - Madeleine Kahn
09. Author - Italo Calvino
10. Engineer - Richard Trevithick
All quite euphonious. If that's the right word.
Best name for a laconic slide guitarist
Ry Cooder.
Captain Beefheart's other guitarists included Zoot Horn Rollo and Winged Eel Fingerling. If you didn't know, it would be difficult to guess which of the three was a real name.
Actor
Dudley Manlove (Plan 9 From Outer Space)
Cricketer
S.C.G McGill
Song Titles
Bird on a Wire
Bridge Over Troubled Water
(tied)
Here we go
01. Band Name - Sex Pistols
02. Artist Name - Johnny Rotten
03. Film - Jaws
04. Footballer - Pele
05. Album - Nevermind the bollocks
06. Song - God save the queen
07. Actor - Anthony Hopkins
08. Lady Actor - Uma Thurman
09. Author - John Steinbeck
10. Engineer - Thomas Telford
These just sound right
Or 'euphonious' to borrow Beezer's lovely word.
01. Band Name - The Flaming Lips
02. Artist Name - Howlin' Wolf
03. Film - High Noon
04. Footballer - Dixie Dean
05. Album - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
06. Song - Helter Skelter
07. Actor - Clark Gable
08. Lady Actor - Tippi Hedren
09. Author - Aldous Huxley
10. Engineer - I agree with Chaos, Isambard Kingdom Brunel is in a league all of his own.
Ooh..
Weightlifter - Precious McKenzie
Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch. Look, I know it's trendy at the moment but it is a GREAT name.
Golfer - Park Jae Bum
Skijumper - Andreas Wank
Skier - Harti Weirarther, which isn't rude but does roll off the tongue.
Rather than reply to each one
[as tempting as it is - don't want to become a self-pleasurer. 'those who keep their own threads afloat by responding to every comment on their blog']
Can I just say that you've all done very well!
Oh, and if I were starting again I would change artist category to Musician & my choice to Lux Interior.
Best *real*name?
Singer: Ambrosia Parsley - singer with Shivaree, who made:
Best album title: I Oughta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump
Agree about Precious Mackenzie - I remember him, very shot and very stocky, picked up Harry Carpenter as if he were a carton of milk.
Actor name - Efrem Zimbalist Jr
- (son of opera singers EZ Sr and Alma Gluck - great names all round)
Best footballer's dad name - Neville Neville
Guitarist name - Earl Slick or Carlos Alomar or Django Reinhardt
Book - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or The Heart is a Lonely Hunter or Darkness at Noon
Film - One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
Song title - If You Don't Want To Fuck Me Baby, Fuck Off
Assasin - Sirhan Sirhan or Lee Harvey Oswald or Gavrilo Princip
Okedokeley
All good so far - some alternatives:
01. Band Name - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
02. Artist Name - Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno
03. Film - Get Carter
04. Footballer - Sir Stanley Mathews
05. Album - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
06. Song - If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
07. Actor - Rip Torn
08. Lady Actor -Isabella Rossellini
09. Author - Mervyn Peake
10. Engineer - Sir Benjamin Baker
My turn...
01. Band Name - Woven Hand
02. Artist Name - Burning Spear
03. Film Name - The Wicker Man
04. Footballer - George Best
05. Album - More Songs About Buildings And Food
06. Song - The Queen is Dead
07. Actor - Orson Welles
08. Lady Actor - Myrna Loy
09. Author - Franz Kafka
Unfamiliar with engineers. I do like the way that Isambard Kingdom Brunel's name sounded like it probably had to be built.
President - Goodluck Jonathan
Vice President - Spiro Agnew
Singer - Black Francis
Song - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
Alpine Skier - Lasse Kjus
Cross Country Skier - Juha Mieto
Skijumper - Kari Ylianttila
Footballer - Sócrates (Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira)
Philosopher - Immanuel Kant
Guitar - Gretsch Country Gentleman
Hee hee this is fun
TV Editor: Mykola Pawluk
Cricketer: Kepler Wessels
African Politician: Hastings Banda
Pop Artist: Pal Waktaar (although all of A-ha have wonderful names)
Racing Driver: Rubens Barrichello
TV Chef: Galton Blackiston
Band Name: Afghan Whigs
Actress: Tempany Deckert (once of Home and Away)
Actor: Robert Stack
Artist: Hieronymous Bosch
Mr Bosch even has a great name in Spain - El Bosco
a-ha names in full:
Pål Waaktaar (now Paul Waaktaar-Savoy)
Morten Harket
Magne Furuholmen
Racing Driver: Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi
Have an arrer.
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All the good names have been used. However...
01. Band Name - The Mothers
02. Artist Name - Frank Zappa
03. Film - A Clockwork Orange
04. Footballer - Nobby Stiles
05. Album - Revolver
06. Song - Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea
07. Actor - Rip Torn
08. Actress - Charlotte Rampling
09. Author - Roald Dahl
10. Car - Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
11. Guitar - Gretsch "Billy-Bo" Jupiter Thunderbird
12. Poet - Hilaire Belloc
13. Town - Westward Ho!
14. Diplomat - Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Fictional American Law Enforcement Officer
Has to be a tie between:-
1. Sheriff J W Pepper
2. Roscoe P Coltrane
Engineers
Let's not go off the rails here. How to choose between
George Jackson Churchward
and
Sir Nigel Gresley
Best Footballer's name
Barnsley have just signed Jeronimo Morales Neumann.
Ding, and indeed, dong....
Seeing as you're twisting my arm.
1)Band Name - Half Man Half Biscuit.
2)Artist - Man Ray.
3)Film - Angels with Dirty Faces.
4)Footballer - Danny Invincibile.
5)Album - Ummagumma.
6)Song - Hoots Mon.
7)Actor - Chill Wills.
8)Actress - Fanny Ardant.
9)Biscuit - Hob Nob.
10)Bourbon - Old Pogue.
Ah, good old Lenny
Best footballers name for me has to be Kenny Lunt.
Speaking of footballers
I rather like Francesco Totti
Lotta Totti in Footie
according to Mrs Wayfarer.
OK
Footballer - a tie between Gianluca Pagliuca and Papa Bupa Diof
Actor - Monty Woolley
Actress - Fay Wray or Mary Stuart Masterson
Movie - The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit
Song - How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life
Album - When I Was Born For The 7th Time
Band - Counting Crows ( or A Flock Of Seagulls )
Artist - Björk
Author - Shusha Guppy
Drink - Volga Boatman
Oh, can I just change my best song ?
Going through a CD box of fantastic funk I found some outstanding ones. I quite like these;
Devil With A Bus - Sound Experience, and
Willie Pass The Water - Ripple,
but I think the winner has to be;
Annie Got Hot Pants Power - Syl Johnson...
Composer
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Are you sure you want that one?
I have always imagined the face of a parent who's child has just asked for a shirt printed with "Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink". The letters must cost as much as the shirt...
Actor - Rip Torn
Singer - Elvis
Album - more songs about chocolate and girls
Song - the myth of fingerprints
Rip me corsets off
Composer - Rimsky-Korsakov
Singer - Randy Vanwarmer
Band - Blodwyn Pig, also Throbbing Gristle
Musician - (from TG) Cosey Fanny Tutti
Book title - Worstward Ho!
UN Secretary General - Boutros Boutros Ghali
Pole-vaulter - Sergey Bupka
Not forgetting
the best name for a Republican Senator who also gave his name to a Frank Zappa guitar solo:
Orrin Hatch
Best name for a former second lady of the USA who was keen on the labelling of record covers of releases featuring profane language, especially in the heavy metal and rap genres:
Tipper Gore
Best First Lady - Lady Bird Johnson
Best Governor - Rod Blagojevich
Best name
Angus McSporran, used to play footie with him at school
TT
Irish group.
1967.
Never recorded.
Tara Telephone.
How could they not have been wonderful?
Best long-lost folkie
Vashti Bunyan
Best underground cartoonist: Robert Crumb
Best band name line-up
Best band name: Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
Whose personnel included: Zodiac Mindwarp, Cobalt Stargazer, Slam Thunderhide, Kid Chaos & Trash D Garbage.
Let me think......
Band: The Clash
Artist: Howlin' Wolf
Film: Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Footballer: Jasper Olsen
Album: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Song: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Actor: Benicio Del Toro
Lady Actor: Penelope Cruz
Author: John Steinbeck
Engineer: Barnes Wallace
Band: Selfish Cunt Artist:
Band: Selfish Cunt
Artist: Sugarcane Harris
Footballer: Didier Drogba
Album: Weasels ripped my flesh
Song: Zippedy Doo Dah
Actress: Lauren Bacall
Author: Myles na Gopaleen
Engineer: Paul Buckminster Fuller
Comic character: George Murkoid (Crumb)
Country: "Qazaqstan"
Wot?
No Crispy Ambulance?
Bird - Nightjar
Band Name - Tindersticks
Artist Name – Polly Jean Harvey
Film – Alice in the Cities
F1 driver – Alberto Ascari
Album – Born Sandy Devotional
Song – Streets of Kenny
Marine Biologist – Eugenie Clark
Species of Spider – The Pirate Spider
Type of Dagger – The Bollock Dagger
Woodworking Joint – Mortise And Tenon
Blood Test – D Dimer
Pub Name – The Sociable Plover
Name of Character played by Nic Cage - Randall "Memphis" Raines
Thank you
I had not heard of the Bollock Dagger before today, you have caused me to learn something new.
the coolest jazz cat name
Billy Strayhorn
Spanky DeBrest
Billy Strayhorn is, I admit, a fairly cool jazz cat name.
But he's got competition from Spanky DeBrest, a bassist who played with Lee Morgan and Jackie McLean in the late 50s.
How about...
Porky Cohen (used to play with Roomful of Blues)
Nine from me...
Band: Camera Obscura
Musician: Rebop Kwaku Baah
Film: Leningrad Cowboys Go America
Racing Driver: Jean-Luc Maury-Laribiére
Album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Song: Meditative Music From The Third O Before The producers
Actress: Stockard Channing
Author: François de La Rochefoucauld
Artist: Tamara de Lempicka
Off the subject of music a
Off the subject of music a bit - too much competition. But here goes:
Car: Jensen Interceptor
Taxonomist: Carolus Linnaeus
Beetle: Devil's coachman
Beatle: George Harrison
Bird - Troglodytes troglodytes troglodytes
Quizmaster: Magnus Magnusson
Actor (F) - Tilda Swinton
Author - Paul Auster
A Few More...
Basketball player: Meadowlark Lemon
Ancient Inca Site: Sacsayhuaman
DJ: Emperor Rosko
Novel: Ham On Rye
Band: Stars Of Heaven
Football Club: Eleven Men In Flight
Autobiography: Me Moir by Vic Reeves
Another autobiography
Clement Freud: "Freud Ego"
Two from one
Best Nebraska college football players:
I. M. Hipp and Jarvis Redwine
Worst Named Band
I am sure that some time ago, Q magazine did one of their periodical best albums lists,& I am sure that in a little side article they did worst names of bands/ albums, & I think both were won by the self titled album by Anal C*nt.
The best name
for a doubtless unpleasant yet franky bizarre medical condition:
Munchausen syndrome by proxy
Hey ho let's go
01. Band Name - The Fucking Champs
02. Artist Name - Devendra Banhart (don't like him, but GREAT name)
03. Film - I Spit On Your Grave
04. Footballer - Bongo Christ
05. Album - Turn On The Bright Lights
06. Song - Deus Ibi Est (although they mispronounce it on the record. Properly pronounced (i.e. "EST" not "AY") it's a perfect song title)
07. Actor - Peter Capaldi
08. Actress - Ida Lupino
09. Author - Conor Cruise O'Brien
Best ever footballer's name...
... surely it's Papa Bouba Diop?
Very nice...
...but is it REALLY better than Bongo Christ? ;-)
You're kidding?
Bongo Christ is the most amazing name for anyone let alone a footballer - You sure it's not made up? It's too good.
Edit - I have just done a search and came up with this beauty - Creedence Clearwater Couto [Brazilian Striker]
I kid not.
Although, disappointingly, it turns out he's really Christ Bongo. Which is nearly, but not quite, as good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Bongo
Best American politician
David Minge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Minge
As immortalised by Mundo Jazz.
Currently sitting in a quiet office
and have just brayed like a donkey on reading David Minge.
A fine start to the day. Thank you.
Best virus?
O'nyong-nyong
Go tell your doctor you're suffering from it.
Athlete's name
Jesus Espana!
I've also remembered there was an album by a band whose name I've long forgotten; I'll never forget the album's name though: Is That A Fish On Your Shoulder Or Are You Just Pleased To See Me?
Humphrey Goldenbollocks
Did I really hear the presenter of the BBC's programme about the Domesday Book the other night say this was the name of one of the landowners it mentions?
(Edit: It's here at 41.07
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj8fc/Domesday/)
Best Ballooners
The Montgolfier Brothers
Mike Harding songs
featuring characters with great names
Foo Foo Shufflewick
Beaky Knucklewart
Rambling Sid Rumpo still makes me snigger.
Footballer Names
Hartlepool in the '60s were blessed with the two best names ever
Wilson Hepplewhite and
Amby Fogarty