M3FB.

My three favorite bands (or recording artists).

I can’t name them. I just can’t.

Okay, three names leap into my mind whenever I think about M3FB…

The Clash… Guns’n’Roses… Oasis…

But just because they leap doesn’t mean they really are M3FB. I mean, they are among my favorite bands, yes, obviously, or they wouldn’t leap in the first place.

But as soon as they’ve leapt, my brain starts clamoring: “What about Tupac? Sunn O)))? Iron Maiden? Bruce Springsteen? Prince? Huh? Not to mention [blah blah blah]”

So I just can’t do it.

I can’t name M3FB.

But.

M3FBN?

My three favorite band names?

Now you’re talking.

I can name M3FBN in an instant. And all my brain does is nod twice and say nowt.

So here they are, from simplest (and maybe cleverest) to poetickest:

• The The
• Photographed by Lightning
• Rosa Voragine Submersa

Unfortunately, only one of the bands lives up to the cleverness and strangeness of its name. But in a way that’s good too. In some ways, it’s better to imagine what this album might sound like than hear music that in any way lived up to the words:

Renaissance D’Un Pétale Séché by Rosa Voragine Submersa

1. Renaissance D’Un Pétale Séché 06:46
2. Souviens-Toi Des Temps Anciens 04:03
3. Un Endroit Pour Eternel Repos 06:02
4. La Lune Esseulée 07:22
5. Les Meurtrissures D’Un Eté 03:42
6. Le Conte De La Muse Endormie 06:38
7. Par Delà Le Miroir, De L’Autre Côté Des Songes 08:52
8. La Valse Du Chloroforme 04:46
9. La Nébuleuse De L’Hiver – La Compagnie D’Un Prince Fantasmagorique 06:40
10. La Pantomime De L’Affliction 06:19
11. Un Endroit Pour Eternel Repos (version piano) 06:03
12. La Valse Du Chloroforme (version originale) 03:06
13. Renaissance D’Un Pétale Séché (version originale) 07:03

• Renaissance D’Un Pétale Séché (free at Bandcamp)