# Band Names
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 28, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855 "2000-06-28T13:10:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@horowitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horowitz)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/1 "2000-06-28T13:10:20Z")
I have heard mentioned in many threads lately, “Hey that would make a great band name.” So what do you think would make a clever or funny band name? A couple that comes to mind:
Skin Pickle and the Kosher Trio
Fisting Aristocrats
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### Author:  [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/2 "2000-06-28T13:15:35Z")
Zebra’s Breath
Kenny and the Carports
Adolph and the Aryans
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/3 "2000-06-28T13:31:49Z")
I believe “Queer Type Dog” was mentioned recently in the Pit.
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### Author:  [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/4 "2000-06-28T13:58:39Z")
I told a co-worker yesterday that I was going to steal a phrase from an e-mail she sent me for a future band name: “The Kim Klish Virus.”
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### Author:  [@spark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spark)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/5 "2000-06-28T14:15:54Z")
I humbly submit the name of a now-defunct band I was in:
The Strobe Gophers
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### Author:  [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/6 "2000-06-28T14:53:05Z")
I’m the sax player for a death-metal band called “Porn Authority”. The cleverness of the name might only be known to people from the NY/NJ area, though.
During college, I was also in a band called “Pentapus”. Everyone thought we were 5 women, but it was 2 women, 2 men. Go figure.
A friend of mine wanted to name her band “Jerry McPoodle and the Back-to-School Haircuts”. I love that.
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### Author:  [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/7 "2000-06-28T14:55:51Z")
Crappy “bands” I played with in college:
-Cook and the Caucasians
-Rectal Burp
In the St. Paul Pioneer press, there is a section called Bulletin Board. Every day they pull a phrase from the section as “Best Band Name.”
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/8 "2000-06-28T14:59:46Z")
And it’s probably Dave Barry’s most irritating running joke. And that’s saying a lot.
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### Author:  [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/9 "2000-06-28T15:05:17Z")
In college is was in two bands:
**Clusterfunk** and
**Wacky Funhat**.
We were watching the Croc Hunter the other night and I heard what I thought would be a great name:
**Death Roll of Freedom**
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### Author:  [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/10 "2000-06-28T15:06:16Z")
Big Huge Pete and the Pidgeon Porno Allstars
This arose after watching two pidgeons…well…I believe the term the kids are using these days is “Getting jiggy wid it?” It used to be Great Big Pete, but it was pointed out how similar this was to the band Great Big Sea, so we ditched that idea.
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### Author:  [@Linney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linney)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/11 "2000-06-28T15:28:12Z")
The Muddy Puddles
Plain White T-Shirt
Those are just a few I’ve thought of…
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### Author:  [@Me\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Joe)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/12 "2000-06-28T15:49:11Z")
Actually, this was the name of a gay/lesbian college advocacy group a friend of mine belonged to.
While this was never the name of band (to my knowledge) I always thought it should be.
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### Author:  [@Ozone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ozone)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/13 "2000-06-28T16:08:16Z")
Bands I’ve played in…
**Shag Monster**
**Trouser Mouse**
Other names that would be cool…
**Sperm of the Moment**
**Humble Pride** - a little too much like “Humble Pie” though.
**Crotch Rocket**
**Fuzzy Bunny**
**Bearded Clam**
**Snail Trax**
----Hell, I don’t know, I’m just making these up as I go… 😉
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/14 "2000-06-28T16:19:54Z")
> [@](#):
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> The Muddy Puddles
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> Plain White T-Shirt
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Just don’t let them tour together. Imagine the laundry.
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### Author:  [@Ozone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ozone)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/15 "2000-06-28T16:26:36Z")
Oh, I thought of another one I’ve always liked.
**Dr. Feltersnatch** 😃
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### Author:  [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/16 "2000-06-28T16:32:31Z")
My favorite “real” band name is Butt Trumpet. It’s a real band…
If _I_ had a band, i always had two names in mind, depending on what the band played. My punk Band would be called Woody and the Stiffs. My prog-rock band would be called Dead Precedence.
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### Author:  [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/17 "2000-06-28T16:43:38Z")
A good friend of mine and I used to sit and make up band names…I can only rememeber two of them:
Sheep Vibrato
Indentured Hookers
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### Author:  [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/18 "2000-06-28T17:05:28Z")
My sister and two of her girlfriends formed a band called The Festering Wenches. It was quite popular even though none of them played an instrument. (Think Wyld Stallyns to understand how this could occur).
My friend’s high school band was called Naked Crisco Twister.
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### Author:  [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/19 "2000-06-28T17:46:20Z")
jayron, I remember Butt Trumpet. The only song of theirs I really recall, though, is “Ugly.” I remember the chorus started, “Because you’re ugly! What the hell gave birth to you?”
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### Author:  [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names/23855/20 "2000-06-28T19:55:31Z")
How about “Dippymonger”?
Oh, I thought you said BANNED names!
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