# Band Name Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 23, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399 "2012-08-23T18:05:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/1 "2012-08-23T18:05:54Z")
I came up with a game (that’s probably been invented before) where you try to concatenate band names to make the longest string possible. For example - I came up with Soul Wax Tailor Swift, which is a combination of Soulwax, Wax Tailor, and Taylor Swift. After a bit of googling I expanded it to Jagged Edge of Paradise Lost Soul Wax Tailor Swift, but I haven’t actually heard of Jagged Edge, Edge of Paradise, or Paradise Lost pre-googling. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/2 "2012-08-24T04:38:41Z")
I’m having trouble coming up with more than two at a time at the moment. U2 Live Crew. Mercury Rev Horton Heat. (Thats a bit of cheating with no period after Rev for Reverend.) I’ll have to keep thinking. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/3 "2012-08-24T04:47:01Z")
Beastie Boys Against Girls. Lifehouse of Love And Rockets. (Lifehouse, House of Love, Love And Rockets.) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/4 "2012-08-24T04:57:13Z")
OK, it’s “The” House of Love. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/5 "2012-08-24T05:07:36Z")
The Blind Boys of Alabama Shakes. (The Blind Boys of Alabama , Alabama, Alabama Shakes.) The Blind Boys of Alabama Three Dog Night. (The Blind Boys of Alabama, Alabama, Alabama Three, Three Dog Night.) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/6 "2012-08-24T05:17:15Z")
NickelBackstreet Boyz II Men Without Hats (Nickelback, Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, Men Without Hats). Does that count? If this mooted “supergroup” ever got together, their music would surely reach new levels of suck. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/7 "2012-08-24T05:20:09Z")
Ten Years After The Burial Hex On Wheels Of Fire & Salt-N-Pepa Knight Action League of Pain of Salvation Street to Nowhere Man or Astro-man? Ten Years After After The Burial Burial Hex Hex On Wheels Wheels Of Fire Fire & Salt Salt-N-Pepa Pepa Knight Knight Action Action League League of Pain Pain of Salvation Salvation Street Street to Nowhere Nowhere Man Man or Astro-man? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/8 "2012-08-24T05:55:27Z")
> [@JessMagic](#): > > NickelBackstreet Boyz II Men Without Hats (Nickelback, Backstreet Boys, Boyz II Men, Men Without Hats). > > Does that count? > > If this mooted “supergroup” ever got together, their music would surely reach new levels of suck. What’s wrong with the “Safety Dance”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/9 "2012-08-24T06:27:15Z")
The Flying Burrito Brothers Johnson, Robert (I’m asking the judges to waive the comma) GWAR.E.M. Elvis Costello! No, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/10 "2012-08-24T07:23:17Z")
Tried to stick to well-known bands. I wouldn’t mind hearing actual mashups of some of the shorter ones. 1+1 combos: The Grateful Dead Kennedys Eagle Eye Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Warren G. Love and Special Sauce Seven Mary Three Dog Night Widespread Panic! At the Disco Blind Faith Hill Grant Lee Buffalo Springfield Tony! Toni! Toné! Bennett 1+1+1: Living Colour Me Badd Company 1+1+1+1: The Crystal Method Man or Astro-Man?fred Mann’s Earth Band The Crystal Method Method Man Man or Astro-Man? (borrowed from Snowboarder Bo) MMEB ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/11 "2012-08-24T11:53:10Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > What’s wrong with the “Safety Dance”? 😉 [Nothing… nothing at all…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aGFrVSTAY) ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/12 "2012-08-24T12:00:06Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > The Crystal Method Man or Astro-Man?fred Mann’s Earth Band > > The Crystal Method > Method Man > Man or Astro-Man? (borrowed from Snowboarder Bo) > MMEB The The Crystal Method Man or Astro-Man?fred Mann’s Earth Band The The is a freebie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/13 "2012-08-24T12:04:13Z")
Dupe ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/14 "2012-08-24T13:56:19Z")
The Negro Prob Lemmy Chemical Romance ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/15 "2012-08-24T14:16:23Z")
Mr. Mister Big Country Joe and the Fish ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/16 "2012-08-24T15:36:55Z")
1+1: Sly and the Family Stone Temple Pilots String of 8: Living Colo(u)r Me Bad(d)ly Drawn Boy George Michael Jackson Five Stairsteps Living Colour Colo(u)r Me Badd Bad(d)ly Drawn Boy Boy George George Michael Michael Jackson Jackson Five [Five Stairsteps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHRGrIqmb0) I had to recycle some earlier stuff, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/17 "2012-08-24T15:57:24Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Mr. Mister Big Country Joe and the Fish Mr. Mister Big Country Joe and the Fishbone Thugs-n-Harmony No, I don’t have work today. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/18 "2012-08-24T16:17:05Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > Mr. Mister Big Country Joe and the Fishbone Thugs-n-Harmony > > No, I don’t have work today. Why do you ask? Mr. Mister Big Country Joe and the Fishbone Thugs-n-Harmo-NY Dolls. (The first page for “Dolls of” band returns Dolls of Disaster, Dolls of Ink, and Dolls of Pain, but that’s really cheating since I’ve never heard of them. And I also don’t feel like stretching for Dollsy Parton) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/19 "2012-08-24T16:42:59Z")
> [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](#): > > GWAR.E.M. I’d pay to see that! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399/20 "2012-08-24T17:55:09Z")
Rand McNally: Boston+Kansas+Chicago+Alabama. What? 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-name-game/632399.md?page=2)