I like Fine Young Cannibals.
My husband’s band names have included Raconteur, Carnaby Street, and Skillethead. I kept trying to get him to use Guatemalan Insanity Peppers, but he hasn’t been persuaded yet.
Animaniacs, maybe?
You are right; your husband is wrong.
It’s a Monty Python reference. That makes it great in my book. 
Heh. Sorry. 
I strongly second that. Maybe I just don’t get it, but it just makes me groan a little whenever I hear it.
I’m willing to bet you like Ned’s Atomic Dustbin then.
Except for the band that originated that meme, surely? The amagrammatic origin of their name turns out to be a UL, much to my disappointment.
To the OP, I never saw them play but posters for local ephemeral punk band The Snivelling Shits always got a smile out of me.
Good:
Grandaddy
Kings of Convenience
The Peppersons
Weaselsmith
Anhydrous Ammonia
The Slavedrivers
Greco-Roman
Bad:
Arctic Monkeys (I’m a little sick of people cashing in on the word “monkey” for its inherent “random humor” value.)
Infected Mushroom - their music is kind of cool but I hate the name
Yeah, Happy Rhodes has that problem too. She’s a serious artist who belongs on the shelf next to Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, and it’s her real name, but people mistake her for a novelty act and won’t even listen to her. She probably would have been famous 15 years ago if she’d gone by her middle name, Tyler Rhodes, but she has a stubborn, independent streak and told labels who said they’d sign her if she’d change her name to stuff it.
Some of my favorite band names:
Bel Canto
17 Pygmies
Babble
Curve
Dark Orange
Fourwaycross
Madder Rose
Rose Chronicles
Over the Rhine
The Raincoats
Single Gun Theory
Stereolab
This Mortal Coil
Vaya Con Dios
Charlie Chan
The Innocence Mission
Mediaeval Baebes
Sahara Hotnights
Big Hat
My Scarlet Life
Switchblade Symphony
Two Loons for Tea
Azure Ray
Amazulu
Grace Darling
The Heart Throbs
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Pooka
The Ringling Sisters
Deux Filles
Love Spirals Downward
Fetchin Bones
Figgy Duff
Hugo Largo
Some favorite solo artist names
Ella Blame
Heather Nova
Annie Anxiety Bandez
Judie Tzuke (the T is silent)
Kimberly M’Carver
Tricky
Emiliana Torrini
April March
Googoosh
Shivaree
Sophie Zelmani
Zarah Leander
Jah Wobble
Hector Zazou
Danielle Dax
Diamanda Galas
Lene Lovich
Katell Keineg
Kirsty MacColl
Loreena McKennitt
Milla (pronounced meeelah)
Noe Venable
Akiko Yano
…among others.
My all-time record label name is Aural Gratification!
And yeah, Hoobastank is truly wretched. (the name…I don’t know what the band sounds like).
Odd that these two bands both feature David Lowery.
They’re pretty generic. Like, a more generic version of Incubus, circa Make Yourself or Morning View. In fact, their singer sounds a good deal like the lead singer of Incubus.
**Hoobastank ** is absolutely horrible. Because they bring nothing musically new to the table. This is how I judge whether a band is good or not, and this band is definitely not good, by these standards.
Please explain
Blue Öyster Cult originated the umlaut/heavy metal connection.
The band used to explain their name as being an anagram of “Cully Stout Beer”, which they were drinking at the time they were looking for a bandname (having played as Soft White Underbelly up til that point). However I discovered recently this was a joke; like much of their early material the name BOC was concocted by Sandy Pearlman, taken from his Imaginos poetry cycle.
If I remember correctly, even Chris Cornell isn’t the hugest fan of it.
Good:
The Dregs
King Crimson
The Verve
Forgot to add: I love the Dregs/Dixie Dregs for the same reason as I love the Who: they could (and did) make album after album with a title that puns on their name. “Night of the Living Dregs”, “Dregs of the Earth”, “Sects, Dregs and Rock ‘n’ Roll”…
So bad they’re funny:
Rancid Vat
Throbbing Gristle
Butthole Surfers
Dead Kennedys
Noxious Fumes
Ram Jam
Bad and irritating:
Creed
Gene(sp?) Loves Jezebel
KISS
The Guess Who
Tragically Hip (though they’re pretty good)
Good:
Faith No More
The Who
Mothers of Invention
Black Flag
Pink Floyd
Rolling Stones
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Soundgarden
Rush
Led Zeppelin