Today’s New York Post has a story about some little kid with some horrible disease or other. But the front page headline is, “TINY TOMMY’S TORMENT!”
Wouldn’t that be a corking good name for a rock band? Can’t you just see Tiny Tommy’s Torment opening at CBGB’s for The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black?
I also saw a sign tacked to a tree reading, “TREE DANGER” that I thought might make a good rock band name.
I know this has been done before, but anyone have any new suggestions?
The other day when I was helping my daughter dress for bed one came to me: “Flamingo Pajamas”. (That’s what she is wearing this season.)
I thought it would make a great name for one of those trippy 60’s bands, a la “Strawberry Alarm Clock.”
The doorframe of a friend’s basement bedroom was so low that she would always say, “Watch your head” whenever we came in. I always thought that would be a cool name. Besides the fact that it’s impossible to do.
I once played bass for a truly wretched garage band call The North American Giant Salamander. The name was my idea
Other band name ideas I’ve come up with (thinking of these things is one of my favorite ways of relieving on-the-job boredom)
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
The Donner Party
Susan DiLucci and the Miracle of Life
Madam Nhu and the Barbecued Monks
They’re Coming to Get You, Barbara
I had a list of about eighty but I lost it and can’t remember most of the band names I came up with
From a thread over in MPSIMS, somebody mentioned that a sixth-grade boy got the idea for Eager for Booty after seeing an educational film from the sixties.
Then there was that guy in college who wanted to have a punk band so he could call it The Sweaty Padendas.
Many bands start out playing in bars. Can you imagine a tavern with a sign that read: Tonight only, Free Beer!
You would pack’em in from miles around!
Of course, you better have a Great f@#$ing band with a name like that or there’s going to be a riot!
I forget exactly what thread this came from, but a while ago, someone in the Pit used the phrase “Butt Jizz Junkies” and someone else commented that that’d be a good band name…
Hmm… I’ve known a couple bands (never been in one… can’t play, don’tcha know). One friends’ band was briefly called “We Have A Name!”… which was then changed to “Surplus Boyfriends” (none of 'em could get a girl)… then it was switched to “Captain Froofroo and the Poodle Brigade”… needless to say, the only thing going for their band was the fact that they had such imagination for names (in other words, they sucked).
Another friend called his band (well… it never grew beyond himself, but he’s damn good… just lazy as fuck) “Sixteen Shades of Gray”. Not especially funny, no, but rather nifty.
Anyway, my own ides are as follows:
Swollen Sweaty Nutsack
Fat Floppy Donkey Dick (my usual chatroom greeting)
The Modal Nodes (Star Wars reference :D)
Your Parents Think We’re Satan