Comments on: Favorite band names of 2008

By: sarahana

sarahana — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:57:41 +0000

coma 2 |?ko?m?| |?k??m?|
noun ( pl. comae |?k?m?| |-mi?|) Astronomy
a diffuse cloud of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
• Optics aberration that causes the image of an off-axis point to be flared like a comet.

love it!

By: clouds that hung like upsidedown castles in the sky.

clouds that hung like upsidedown castles in the sky. — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:11:23 +0000

i’m quite taken with ’stars in coma’. i don’t really get that down to the twee swede’s jams, but the fact that it’s stars, plural, in coma, singular, actually makes me think about it at length. if it was stars in comas, that would be totally lame. but it’s not. so it’s not.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:00:20 +0000

Excellent list!

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:11:03 +0000

None of these top the best band name of 2007: Fuck Buttons.

By: earle

earle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:14 +0000

great idea — i love it!