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In reply to the discussion: Ruin A Band [View all]Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)I started off with some of my very favorites off the top of my head:
Maybe = Yes
Penisis = Genesis
Spirograph Generator = Van der Graaf Generator
Rough 'n' Tumble Giant = Gentle Giant
Sleep Deprived Theater = Dream Theater
Bank of Mutual Suckage = Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (an Italian prog band)
And from there I went to Wikipedia and just started riffing on their list of major prog rock bands, found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_progressive_rock_bands
Half-Life Chicken = Atomic Rooster
Straight Vacuum = Curved Air
Shallow Lavender = Deep Purple
Echo Chamberlain = Echolyn
The Wilted Weed Queens = The Flower Kings
Depressed the Person = Happy the Man
Steve Not Very Easily = Steve Howe (get it? How? Not very easily! *BOOM TISS*)
Court Jester Pink = King Crimson
Kraft Processed Cheese Singles Don't Work = Kraftwerk
Topeka = Kansas
The Uranus Ohma = The Mars Volta
The Surly = The Nice
Healing of Damnation = Pain of Salvation
Walrus Bush = Porcupine Tree
Stereobutt = Radiohead
Slow the Fuck Down = Rush
Mundaneharlot = Supertramp
Chaos of an Up = System of a Down
Citrus Nightmare = Tangerine Dream
Tailbone Vapor = Wishbone Ash