@kdemo A few days ago I realized all the videos in this thread were probably a mistake since it was becoming impossible to load. I then continued posting more videos.
@kdemo@metaphore We had crossed the point of no return at that point… I shudder to hit “Say it”, because that will restart the long process to reload the page…
@kdemo - you starred this - does that mean you know the answer?
If so, please share!
This is one of the ones I’ve been wracking my brain over…
Something to do with October?
Best I can come up with.
@DennisG2014 I downloaded one of their albums years ago when I had a membership to emusic, back when all they did was indie stuff. They seem to be lost to obscurity at this point. I tried looking for them on youtube, and all I see is a bunch of Lord of the Rings stuff… But I still have their album in my music collection, amongst the 50-odd thousand tracks I’ve bought or ripped over the years. This is the first time I’ve thought about Evenstar in 15 years…
@DennisG2014 I think you’re posting this as a bit of a hint, but at this point I think you and I are the only ones left who can actually still load this thread… Maybe we should fill in the remaining emoji bands and then move on…
@shahnm Meh.
There’s still a couple of others besides us who are punishing their motherboards to play.
I’m out of ideas for new bands to post… although there are still a couple in my head that I’m still trying to think of a way to emojify.
As far as the ones still left unanswered, I’d at least like to know if they’re a band I’ve likely heard of or not.
Like that next one down… the angry face over the A…
I feel like I should be able to use my puzzle solving skills to work it out, and I give it a bit of thought every time I come to the thread, but if it’s someone I’ve never heard of, it may not be possible.
The page actually loads fine for me if I don’t expand the hidden posts, but my obsessive/compulsive tendencies make me expand it anyway to see if I’ve missed anything.
Too bad the forum doesn’t break threads up into pages (does it?) - that would help a lot.
Speaking of which, I read somewhere that Megalodon and Dinosaur Jr. are going to tour together, which I think is kind of cute…
I hope they come up with some clever name for the tour.
@kdemo Well done! Technically, just Frank Zappa & the Mothers as I couldn’t come up with anything for “Invention”.
Looked for a wheel emoji, considered the loaf of bread emoji (sliced bread). lol
@DennisG2014@Ignorant A great guess, and probably what I would have done if I had any clue about the existence of that band. So full credit, but not what I was going for. Think about what a medication would be used for…
@DennisG2014@shahnm I don’t think devo being short for devolution is common knowledge so I was a little worried with this one, but then @DennisG2014 got it almost instantly, so I was happy.
@shahnm You’ve come up w/ some really good ones, but you’ve also posted a bunch of bands I’ve never heard of, so I’m not sure if I should keep flogging my brain over the ones of yours that are still unanswered…
Ditto, @metaphore
I have a fairly monster desktop computer, 32 Gb of RAM, i7 processor, high-end SSD drive, SLI video cards, physical high-speed network connection. This thread is bringing my computer to its knees…
That one’s pretty easy, so I’ll give you another one I came up with that’s a bit more of a challenge:
(On FB, it doesn’t show you the text names of the emojis, as it does here… so no cheating!)
@DennisG2014 Sly and the Family Stone
@shahnm
@djslack
P.S. comment if you know the answer.
I know @djslack’s, but only because it was played in the thread on FB, so I’ll keep it to myself.
too easy?
@mfladd Blind Melon!
@mike808
@lichme Our Lady Peace
@lichme John Mellencamp
@lichme three doors down
@medz - Beatles
@medz Eagle Eye Cherry
@medz - I’ll leave this for the next person.
@kdemo @medz
The cake is a lie!
@medz I’d like to guess the birthday party, but actually guess is cake.
@medz
@medz - Blue Oyster Cult
@kdemo nice work. I thought I did a crap job picking emojis on that one
@medz - No, it was good; blue was a good start.
@kdemo Oh… Chuck Berry.
@kdemo @shahnm Good one!
@kdemo The Who?
@shahnm - That was one. There’s a second, more obscure answer.
@kdemo
@kdemo Question Mark & the Mysterians?
@DennisG2014 -
@DennisG2014 @kdemo I believe it’s spelled:
@DennisG2014 @PocketBrain
@kdemo @PocketBrain
@kdemo KISS
@shahnm the doors
@Ignorant
@shahnm guns and roses
@Ignorant
@Ignorant
@shahnm Pixies?
@shahnm @DennesG2014 4 Non Blondes
@mfladd That’s it!
@shahnm 38 Special
@mfladd Well technically it’s **.**38 Special, but yes…
@shahnm Oops - I think I grabbed the wrong flag emoji… Let’s try this one:
@shahnm I thought that might be what you were getting at…
@shahnm Wrong flag emoji. Here’s what this one should have been:
@shahnm Another in the same vein:
@shahnm Apples in Stereo
@metaphore
@shahnm arcade fire
@Ignorant
@Ignorant Dead Milkmen!
@shahnm
@shahnm Babyface
@medz
@Ignorant - Bikini Kill
@kdemo
@shahnm beach boys
@Ignorant
@shahnm black crowes
@Ignorant
@shahnm It’s an indie band. The emoji is pretty literal to the band name…
@shahnm Never heard of them, but apparently The Bird and The Bee are a band.
@metaphore
@shahnm black keys
@Ignorant
@shahnm blackberry smoke
@Ignorant
@shahnm bad religion?
@Ignorant Nope. But great guess!
@shahnm Blind Faith
@shahnm Blind Faith!
@lichme Hah - beat me to it.
@DennisG2014 @lichme
@Ignorant Jack White?
@DennisG2014
@Ignorant
(or maybe 
)
@DennisG2014 @Ignorant
White Stripes
@shahnm blues traveler?
@shahnm Blues Brothers
@DennisG2014
@DennisG2014 @shahnm I get a half point
@shahnm blue man group
@medz
@Ignorant Butt Hole Surfers
@shahnm
@shahnm It’s an indie band. The emoji is pretty literal to the band name…
@shahnm Boy & Bear
@shahnm bread
@Ignorant
@shahnm the birds?
@Ignorant
@shahnm cat power
@Ignorant
@Ignorant - Nine Inch Nails
@kdemo
@djslack World Party
@djslack dinosaur jr
@djslack - Alice in Chains
Oops, duplicate. Keep in mind it’s past 2:00 am.
And it’s obvious.
@kdemo queen
@kdemo Phish
@kdemo Ok, after looking at this several times and coming up with nothing, it just occurred to me:
Green Day?
@DennisG2014
@DennisG2014 @kdemo SOMBITCH!!
@Ignorant
@DennisG2014
@Ignorant red hot chili peppers
@Ignorant The pixies
@metaphore Night wish
@LazyZombie
@metaphore The Aquabats!
@shahnm
one of the symbols is literal, probably the most obscure band I’ve done.
@metaphore
Lollipop Lust Kill
@kdemo You’re really good at the puzzle part of this, cuz I’m pretty sure you’ve never heard of this band before.
@metaphore - Ha, true never heard of them.
Thanks.
Would like to keep the game going but the videos have killed it for my computer.
@kdemo A few days ago I realized all the videos in this thread were probably a mistake since it was becoming impossible to load. I then continued posting more videos.
@kdemo @metaphore We had crossed the point of no return at that point… I shudder to hit “Say it”, because that will restart the long process to reload the page…
@metaphore - Oh no! I didn’t mean you - it’s the whole thread.
@metaphore Men at Work?
@DennisG2014 I realized when the only sign was the construction one that was the answer I was probably gonna get, but that’s not what I was going for.
This should be a little better, don’t know why I couldn’t find the right emoji before.
@metaphore Fallout Boy?
@shahnm Nope. Maybe they are more obscure than I realized… maybe if I add in their biggest hit?
@metaphore @shahnm Flagpole Sitta! Harvey Danger!
@LazyZombie
@metaphore
/youtube deathklok
The emojis aren’t specific enough, and no one listens to ska.
@metaphore - Streetlight Manifesto
@kdemo
@kdemo - you starred this - does that mean you know the answer?
If so, please share!
This is one of the ones I’ve been wracking my brain over…
Something to do with October?
Best I can come up with.
@DennisG2014 - A little research reveals there’s a band called “10 Years” - Maybe that’s it?
@kdemo Ah, you must be right. Heard of 10 Years After, but not this one.
@DennisG2014 - I have seen 10 Years After in concert. Incredible!
@DennisG2014 @kdemo
Apparently I listen to a lot of bands no one else has heard of.
@metaphore third eye blind
@medz
@metaphore They Might Be Giants?
@LazyZombie Are those guys as big as that building? Maybe.
@medz Good one.
Sex Pistols
@medz ok go
Told you it was fun.
@DennisG2014 stone temple pilots
@Ignorant Modest Mouse?
@shahnm no. It’s not a real band, but a TV show band.
@Ignorant Mouse Rat!
@shahnm death cab for cutie
@shahnm death cab for cutie
@Ignorant @medz
This may be a rerun…
@shahnm flock of seagulls
@shahnm eagles
@Ignorant
@shahnm Earth wind and fire
@Ignorant
@shahnm scorpions
@Ignorant
@shahnm styx
@shahnm Styx
@DennisG2014 @Ignorant
@medz hootie and the blowfish
@medz I love this one, btw.
Stole it and posted it to the thread on FB and no one’s gotten it yet.
@DennisG2014 could have just used one blowfish I suppose
@DennisG2014 @medz Never use just one blowfish when two will do, son.
@DennisG2014 eagles of death metal
@shahnm foreigner
@Ignorant Try again. More specific…
@shahnm journey?
@shahnm Europe!
@shahnm
@DennisG2014 @shahnm I wasn’t sure how journey was more specific but I went with it any way.
@DennisG2014 That looks like foreigner. Mine is… more specific.
@shahnm Nope, mine is exactly as specific as yours.
edit: assuming I got yours correct, that is…
@DennisG2014 Yours is Asia!
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Ok, I’ve never heard of them, but apparently there is a band called Evenstar.
I was thinking Root Star or Cheer Star…
(2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate…)
@DennisG2014 I downloaded one of their albums years ago when I had a membership to emusic, back when all they did was indie stuff. They seem to be lost to obscurity at this point. I tried looking for them on youtube, and all I see is a bunch of Lord of the Rings stuff… But I still have their album in my music collection, amongst the 50-odd thousand tracks I’ve bought or ripped over the years. This is the first time I’ve thought about Evenstar in 15 years…
@shahnm I’m going to name my band Root Star…
As soon as I get a band.
@shahnm The Faces?
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Faith No More! Love it!
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Shipstreeburger, they’re my favorite!
@DennisG2014 Think of the tree as more of a product derived thereof…
@shahnm fleetwood mac
@metaphore @shahnm Ah, good one!
@metaphore
@shahnm Just the green lights…
@shahnm The go-go’s?
@metaphore
@shahnm highwaymen
@Ignorant
@shahnm Imagine Dragons
@DennisG2014
@shahnm The color is a very deep blue. Almost purple…
@shahnm indigo girls
@metaphore
@shahnm John(ny) Cash
@shahnm Johnny cash
@DennisG2014 @Ignorant
@shahnm The second emoji is there for the sound it might make…
@shahnm Lady Goo?
Now that’d be a good band name.
@DennisG2014 I think you’re posting this as a bit of a hint, but at this point I think you and I are the only ones left who can actually still load this thread… Maybe we should fill in the remaining emoji bands and then move on…
@shahnm Meh.
There’s still a couple of others besides us who are punishing their motherboards to play.
I’m out of ideas for new bands to post… although there are still a couple in my head that I’m still trying to think of a way to emojify.
As far as the ones still left unanswered, I’d at least like to know if they’re a band I’ve likely heard of or not.
Like that next one down… the angry face over the A…
I feel like I should be able to use my puzzle solving skills to work it out, and I give it a bit of thought every time I come to the thread, but if it’s someone I’ve never heard of, it may not be possible.
The page actually loads fine for me if I don’t expand the hidden posts, but my obsessive/compulsive tendencies make me expand it anyway to see if I’ve missed anything.
Too bad the forum doesn’t break threads up into pages (does it?) - that would help a lot.
@DennisG2014 @shahnm In the forum settings there is a Pagination setting that will let you break this into pages.
@shahnm Everyone has heard of this individual. This emoji representation is a stretch, but it kinda works. It’s um… borderline…
@shahnm The Wailers?
@DennisG2014 Guess that applies, too. Not where I was headed, though…
@shahnm I’m looking for a cetaceous name…
@shahnm Is Megalodon a cetaceous? (cetacean?)
Speaking of which, I read somewhere that Megalodon and Dinosaur Jr. are going to tour together, which I think is kind of cute…
I hope they come up with some clever name for the tour.
@DennisG2014 Not cRetaceous… cEtaceous. It’s spelled that way for a reason…
@shahnm the mountain goats
@Ignorant
Captain Beefheart
related to the one above it…
Frank Zappa - Mothers of Invention?
@kdemo wow
@Ignorant - The clue . . .
@kdemo Well done! Technically, just Frank Zappa & the Mothers as I couldn’t come up with anything for “Invention”.
Looked for a wheel emoji, considered the loaf of bread emoji (sliced bread). lol
@DennisG2014 @kdemo As I see it, a mother breastfeeding her infant is absolutely a mother’s invention. That applies to the food as well as the feeder…
@shahnm
@shahnm Even though I know nothing about that band, I got it.
in front of it. 
Should put a
@shahnm plain white t’s
@Ignorant
@shahnm the police
@Ignorant
Radiohead
@kdemo
@shahnm Ok, the only thing I can think of when I look at this is ABBA.
@DennisG2014 But they seem to be in such a hurry…
@shahnm Rush?
@metaphore
@shahnm
@metaphore Nice guess. You’re correct, of course, but believe it or not, that’s not what I had intended…
@shahnm I felt like that might have been a little too obvious…
@metaphore It’s still pretty obvious…
@shahnm smash mouth
@Ignorant
@shahnm smashing pumpkins
@Ignorant
@shahnm spoon
@Ignorant
Tears for Fears
@kdemo
Three Dog Night
@kdemo
@shahnm cars
@RiotDemon Good guess, but not quite where I was going with this one…
@shahnm Traffic
@DennisG2014
@shahnm This one is pretty literal…
@shahnm Train?
@metaphore
@shahnm twisted sister
@therealjrn
@shahnm The last emoji is of girls… The first four in aggregate are an adjective…
@shahnm
@shahnm Surprised no one’s got this one…
I know it, but I’m not saying.
@Ignorant Adam Ant
@shahnm foreigner?
@Ignorant Nope.
@Ignorant Someone had a different version of this band emoji earlier in the thread somewhere…
@Ignorant All of these have one feature in common…
White Stripes
@kdemo
@shahnm White snake
@RiotDemon
@DennisG2014
/youtube Five finger death punch bad company
@RiotDemon
Soundgarden
@RiotDemon your wedding night?
☪
@RiotDemon This one has been bugging me for days. Is this an obscure band, or one that it’s likely most people have heard of?
Grateful Dead?? (Out on a limb here)
@kdemo nope
@kdemo
@kdemo Rolling Stones
@kdemo Blondie?
@kdemo Meatloaf
@shahnm Def Leopard
@therealjrn
This one is a stretch…
@shahnm He’s giving us good vibrations…
@shahnm lol I get it.
@shahnm bauhaus
@Ignorant
@shahnm A pioneer of American rock music… His hits date back to the 50s, but his music is timeless.
@shahnm public image ltd
@Ignorant ??
@Ignorant @shahnm AKA “P.I.L.” It’s what I would’ve guessed too.
@DennisG2014 @Ignorant A great guess, and probably what I would have done if I had any clue about the existence of that band. So full credit, but not what I was going for. Think about what a medication would be used for…
@shahnm The Cure!
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Flaming Lips
@DennisG2014
@shahnm John Coltrane - Good one!
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Joy Division
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Sonic Youth. You’re coming up with some good ones!
@DennisG2014
Ok - this is one of my all time favorite bands, and I didn’t think there was a way to say it in emoji, but then it occurred to me…
Really not a stretch, but requires some creative thinking.
@DennisG2014 They’re a garage band…
They come from garage land…
@DennisG2014 The Clash. Brilliant!!
I stole this one from FB, but no one else has posted it and it’s one of my favorites, so:
@DennisG2014 crazy horse
@Ignorant FB’s “crazy” face emoji is funnier than this one.
@metaphore Gin Blossoms
@DennisG2014
@metaphore Barenaked Ladies!
I tried to come up with one for that and failed. Bravo!!
this one is a bit of a stretch
@metaphore - Shotgun Wedding?
The first part is what’s inside of it.
@metaphore From their website: “Bullet for My Valentine, often abbreviated as BFMV, are a Welsh heavy metal band from Bridgend, formed in 1998.”
@shahnm
@metaphore Battle of Mice
@LazyZombie You only know all of these cuz you listen to the same music as me. At the same time.
@metaphore Jimmy eat world
@Ignorant
@metaphore THIS IS A JOKE BAND NO ONE’S HEARD OF.
@medz
@metaphore Devo! lol!
@DennisG2014
@DennisG2014 @metaphore Took me a while to figure this one out even after @DennisG2014 posted the answer. Nice one!!
@metaphore @shahnm I love it. You kinda have to be a fan or at least know what the name means.
@DennisG2014 @shahnm I don’t think devo being short for devolution is common knowledge so I was a little worried with this one, but then @DennisG2014 got it almost instantly, so I was happy.
@metaphore @shahnm Like I said, you’d have to be a fan…
Q: Are we not men?
This is my favorite of all the emoji band names I’ve seen.
Brilliantly simple, simply brilliant.
Kudos to you, sir!
@shahnm It’s an acronym. Think early 90s…
@shahnm I believe they are from the east, and related to Boyz ii men and bell biv devoe.
@shahnm counting crows?
@metaphore Yep. But I hate that band and I’m not posting a youtube song. That’s my passive aggressive moment of the day…
@metaphore Garbage
@shahnm
@shahnm Their only mainstream hit inquired about the perpetrator of a quadruped egress…
Baha Men
@kdemo
@shahnm Please keep adding lots more videos. People love that.
@kdemo Sarcasm will just get you more videos…
@metaphore Black Light Burns
@shahnm
@metaphore Crystal Castles
@shahnm
Been avoiding this one, b/c it’s so obvious, but it hasn’t come up in either thread so…
@DennisG2014 Wow. We had Frank Zappa and the Mothers… But somehow this one got overlooked…
@shahnm I’m missing the connection.
@shahnm Here’s one that’s related and might be hard to get without the context:
@DennisG2014 I think I know the answer.
@DennisG2014 No connection - just opposite ends of the how-obviously-can-an-emoji-reflect-a-band-name spectrum…
@shahnm Ah, gotcha. True dat.
@shahnm You’ve come up w/ some really good ones, but you’ve also posted a bunch of bands I’ve never heard of, so I’m not sure if I should keep flogging my brain over the ones of yours that are still unanswered…
Ditto, @metaphore
@DennisG2014 I’ll post some hints later…
This one’s kinda clumsy, but I just couldn’t leave this band out:
@DennisG2014 Black Sabbath. Well done!
@DennisG2014 panic at the disco!
@shahnm Fallout Boy
@DennisG2014
@shahnm Five for Fighting
@DennisG2014
BTW - I’m guessing you all got the one in the OP?
Also, my laptop and my browser hate this thread. lol
Fans spin up and Safari tells me, “This webpage is using significant memory.” lol
@DennisG2014 Definitely got the OP one.
I have a fairly monster desktop computer, 32 Gb of RAM, i7 processor, high-end SSD drive, SLI video cards, physical high-speed network connection. This thread is bringing my computer to its knees…
@DennisG2014 Talking heads
@metaphore somehow got this thread to load.
Anti-flag
100% It can’t get any better
@metaphore Tool
@shahnm
@metaphore Minus the Bear
@metaphore Ramones – another good one!!
Ok, I’ll try the one I’ve been thinking of, but I think it needs a hint up front…
The hint is, what is a mermaid?
I could’ve also used a unicorn or a pixie, etc.
By the way, is it too late to stop posting youtube videos?
Didn’t think so…