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This Saturday I will be participating in the sixth annual Boston Area Puzzle Hunt League, an all-afternoon scavenger hunt of puzzles around my hometown. This year’s event is supposedly built around some sort of fictional battle of the bands, and presumably every team is a band. Well, my “band” is comprised of the wunderkinds at Brown University (regulars to the site may remember one of them, Ms. Aimee Lucido). There were threats to name our “band” Brendan & The Brownies, which wasn’t going to happen on my watch. So out came my list of Band Names in Search of a Band, and from that, TUFTS was chosen. Crisis averted. Coolness achieved. Go TUFTS. Pictures/wrap-up of BAPHL coming on Monday.

Coming up with band names and/or working titles for songs has always been one of my favorite music-related activities. Sometimes, the working titles became the final titles, mostly because the titles were deemed better than whatever lyrics might have appeared in said songs: “Robert Duvall (David Duval),” “We Are a Well-Oiled Machine,” and “French Math” for instance. Other times, friends would come to ask us to name their bands. These suggestions were never taken, however, but both Windows 76, and Thanksgiving were briefly, even strongly, considered. After years of this dada-esque twaddle, a whole overly-complicated drinking game was constructed for the sole purpose of naming fictional bands. (I don’t have the time to write all the rules, so bug Mike if you really must know.) That album cover I’ve posted up above? Those are just a small handful of (mostly) Band Names in Search of a Band that have been compiled over the years. You’ll notice T.U.F.T.S. in the 16th row. Good times.

Why’m I bringing this up? Today’s puzzle is a Sporcle-like quiz of working titles of famous albums.

Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.

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