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Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
F ew people know that before Steely Dan became Steely Dan, the boys performed and toured under 7,566 other names as part of a test marketing research investigation. In 1973, aided by the Windsor Unimax 5000 computer system, a test market research investigation was initiated by Jack Tafoya, a prominent record company executive with a penthouse apartment in the Brill building. As a result, the computer came up with 9,087 of the best names for the burgeoning group. Here is a list of the top fifty leading to the final selection: Penis Whip
Ocular Fillibrator
Oceans of Chocolate
Marsupial Soup
Thorax
Hard Donut
Slime Unit
Chucky Upchuck
Thigh Patties
Cold Stone Sea Monkey
Virginia Mastic Wiener Whistle
"The"
Conniption and Connivin'
The Blabberworks People
False Intelligence
Nabokov
The Pewterberg Faction
Shunt
The Lipstick Lizards
Sucktion
The Rambling Whippoorwills
Hi Jinx on Ice
Small Doses
Saliva, the Movie
Luvburst
Pennsylvania 911
Don and Greg
The Cuticles
Boric Acid
Shredded Brain Compote
Carolina num nums
The Don't ****s
Sliding Curve
Bleckfast at Tiffany's
Road Hummer
Radical Pattycake
Thunderhurl
Iron Jaundice
The Bloody Stumps
Hard-as-steel Man
Strong Man
Steel Men
Steel-eye Pan
Steely Bob
Steely Robert
Steely Shiela
Sheedy, Allie
Sheedy Dan
Shelly Mann
and finally....
Steely Dan
Source: Arnold Jeevis Never Heard of 'Em: Musical Groups' Original Band Names, Putnam and Rowes, Berlin, 1981. * from this site: http://www.steelydan.com/schiller1.html
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 12:41:22
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no rusty bollocks?.. very disappointed :(
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 12:57:43
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Great story, but not sure it's true..in the biog of the group I have ('Reelin' in the Years' by Brian Sweet) it says '...many suggestions were made, some patently less serious than others - including Big Nardo and The Eight Grade - and they eventually settled on Steely Dan..'' 'Steely Dan' is, err, something of a personal nature  in the William Burroughs book 'The Naked Lunch', a favourite book of Becker & Fagen apparently. the boys performed and toured under 7,566 other names At a rate of one gig a day, that would take nearly 21 years... 
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 13:41:40
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Well, what else could they do? Thin Lizzy was already taken.
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 13:51:00
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craigb
Well, what else could they do? Thin Lizzy was already taken.
BUT not the coffee house band... that was a pearl ripe for plunder...
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 14:03:28
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craigb
Well, what else could they do? Thin Lizzy was already taken.
BUT not the coffee house band...
that was a pearl ripe for plunder...
DUH!!!!!!
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 14:04:12
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The Coffee House Band
A name so good they wrote a song about it.
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 14:04:30
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Oh I shudda linked to it, no?
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 14:29:11
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bapu
musicman100
craigb
Well, what else could they do? Thin Lizzy was already taken.
BUT not the coffee house band...
that was a pearl ripe for plunder...
DUH!!!!!!
I fell for it  ..................and clicked on that link. 
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 14:45:37
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Shelly Manne ... great jazz drummer.
Sounds like something that couldn't be true but it wouldn't surprise me. I've never really liked Steely Dan. Obviously great musicianship but I always got the feeling the song were contrived almost as if they used focus groups to write their material so ... test marketing a name would not surprise me.
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 15:24:51
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 15:33:22
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"Duh" might be another good name for a band, ya?
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2013/10/10 15:50:52
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 16:02:45
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quantumeffect
I've never really liked Steely Dan. Obviously great musicianship but I always got the feeling the song were contrived almost as if they used focus groups to write their material so ... test marketing a name would not surprise me.
I liked Pretzel Logic a lot. After that they somehow turned duller and duller. Their skills, IMO, are undeniable, though.
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 18:47:30
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2013/10/10 18:55:18
I didn't see The Dangling Bapus on the list.
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 19:01:04
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Was Monkey Arse considered?
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/10 19:53:35
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MONKEY ACCORDIONS  !!!
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/11 01:07:52
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Is that a grinder of organs?
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/11 09:32:13
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Old55
I didn't see The Dangling Bapus on the list.
That list is only the top 50......
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2013/10/11 09:35:47
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Old55
Is that a grinder of organs?
IT WAS A BAND NAME SUGGESTION
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2013/10/11 09:43:53
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/11 09:57:50
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Old55
Very well, then.
ewe dont tink dat wood bea a gud name 4 a bann?? yes?
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2013/10/11 10:48:53
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Organ Grinder or Accordian Monkey's?
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/11 11:30:21
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The official FSF band: Bapu and his X3eme Monkey's?
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/11 11:34:38
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Think of the names we could come up with today on an ipad.
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2013/10/11 12:01:09
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Think of the names we could come up with today on an ipad.
?!?!?! iBapu and his X3eme Twerking Monkey's
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Re: Top 50 Rejected Band Names For Steely Dan
2013/10/11 12:39:20
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Disclaimer: Not all monkey's can twerk........well.
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2013/10/11 12:52:17
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I think it's more about trying to project an image. You don't necessarily need to be a twerker.
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