Devastatin’ Dave, the Turntable Slave.
OK, I guess one guy doesn’t count as a band.
In college, some CS buddies had a trance outfit called Syntactic Sugar. They woulda made it big if they could ever figure out how to use Logic Pro.
I’d go with The Flaming Lips.
Not as strange as some of the ones in here, but as for a name that evokes musical cool with a fiery heart, it’s hard to top.
Here’s a list of funny band names.
Sound neat/weird images:
Shadowy Men From a Shadowy Planet
The Dead Milkmen
Oingo Boingo
Confusing:
Alice Cooper (back when it was the band, not the guy, thus making it no longer particularly confusing - still amusing, though)
Jethro Tull
The Band
The Who
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
Fläsket Brinner.
Tasvalainen Presidentii.
Just a little holiday keepin’-ever’body-up-to-speed…
“You don’ have ta be a Gang… stah… You got Skills!
You don’ have ta be a Gang… stah… The kind that pay Bills!”
And the CLASSIC Zip Zap Rap!
I DARE you to listen to all of it.
“Zip dip zap, a zip wit a wabbit,
Zippy dippa wippa… got a cocaine habit,
Scooby dooby bip a zip bop blam,
It started with a quarter, now it is a gram…”
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Wasn't their schtick that they were the sons of Dean Martin, Desi Arnaz... and uh.... Billy Senior?
It was fun being a fan in the early days, when they were a lesser-known bluesy band, and we could manipulate some know-it-all into saying “I’ve got all his albums!” We even got Marky Radditz to say “Yeah, well, I hitched to Chicago and saw him playing in a blues club”.
And another link:
The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History
http://www.cracked.com/article_15118_25-most-ridiculous-band-names-in-rock-history.html
Opposite of the OP, but fun nonetheless.Right on the first two, but Billy was just plain Billy Hinsche, although he was once a Beach Boy’s brother-in-law.
And until their last album, Panic! at the Disco (which dropped the bang, unfortunately.)
But for minimalism, I’d have to go with “Therapy?”
**Black Tape For A Blue Girl
Trespassers William**
Great names, and I actually know several of the members.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
For whatever reason, I really like Codeine as a band name too.
Out of Dallas, Texas in the 80’s…The Butthole Surfers!!!
On second thought, I’d also like to vote for the band Fuck. By virtue of their name they will not only never get played on the radio, but they will be very difficult to be torrented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_Eleven
The winner is… Finger Eleven used to be called The Rainbow Butt Monkeys!
I only heard of this band earlier this year, but it tops my all-time favourite band name list:
The song ‘Closer To You’ lives up to the name, too.
Every year the Onion AV Club does a list of horrible band names. Most of them are pretty amusing.
One of the most amusing band names I’ve found online is Yo! Kenneth Lamar Noid, which is amsuing even if you don’t get the multiple references in the name.
Who trivia: there was a band meeting to decide on a name, the two choices being “The Hair” and "The Who". Pete lobbied for combining the two names, but “*The Hair and The Who” * didn’t go over well with the other band members.
On a similar note, I’ve heard Holy Fuck get played a few times on Sirius radio.
The genre of surf rock alone has contributed many fine band names, including Insect Surfers, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Man or Astro-Man? and Don’s Mobile Barbers (who of course recorded “Baby Snakes”).