Bands with animals in their name (in the order they came to mind):
-Fleet Foxes
-Grizzly Bear
-Grizzly Bear
-Band of Horses
-New Buffalo
-Animal Collective
-The Bird and the Bee
-Andrew Bird
-The Beatles
-Breathe Owl Breathe
-Cat Power
-Edith Piaf ('sparrow' in French)
-The Unicorns
-Paper Bird
-Horse Feathers
literary and/or musical allegories:
-Noah and the Whale
-Peter and the Wolf
is renaming ourselves with animal pseudonyms resorting to childhood, when we would whimsically and without reservation pretend we were animals?
personification is when we give human characteristics to in(perceptively)animate objects. (we do it to trees, and they grow and breathe, just at a sub-human pace.) but what is it called when we give humans animal characteristics?
Daytrotter tells me there are several more bands. after reviewing these in addition to my list, (see complete list below, added as a comment to keep this post from being any longer), here's are the most common animals that appear (in some form or another) in band names:
Bird: 11
Horse: 7
Tiger: 5
Bear: 4
Deer: 3
Dog: 3
Bug: 3
Fish: 2
Wolf: 2
Fish: 2
Rabbit: 2
Coyote: 2
Wolf: 2
Fox: 1
Cat: 1
Elephant: 1
Monkee: 1
Dinosaur, Unicorn, Monster, Dragon: 4
Buffalo, Octupus, Frog, Goat: 4
[can you think of more animal bands?]
Antenna Shoes, Bear Country, Bear Hands, Birds of Avalon, The Bowerbirds, Cage the Elephant, Catfish Haven, Corto Maltese, Coyote Bones, Dear and the Headlights, Dear Tick, Deerhunter, Department of Eagles, Dinosaur Jr., The Donkeys, Doveman, Dr. Dog, The Dragons of Zynth, Earl Greyhound, Fishboy, Foals, Frightened Rabbit, Frog Eyes, Heligoats, Ladybug Transistor, Miniature Tigers, Minus the Bear, The Monkees (60s), The Octopus Project, The Ponys, The Stone Poneys (60s), Ponytail, The Republic Tigers, Sea Wolf, State Bird, Tiger Saw, Tigercity, Track a Tiger, White Rabbits, Young Coyotes, Zookeeper
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