# Best band names ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587 "2009-01-29T18:20:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/1 "2009-01-29T18:20:10Z")
I love you but I’ve chosen darkness Planes mistaken for stars ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/2 "2009-01-29T18:49:48Z")
Now appearing at Cleveland Auditorium … Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! With special guests … Color Me Confused. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/3 "2009-01-29T18:55:44Z")
Do these have to be real names? Years ago, during the internet’s infancy, found two huge lists of potential band names on the web. The best name on the list? Oedipus & The Motherfuckers ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/4 "2009-01-29T19:02:50Z")
Wink wink & the Youbetchas! ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/5 "2009-01-29T19:13:16Z")
Jehovah Witness Protection Program That one’s mine… ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/6 "2009-01-29T19:15:19Z")
Real band: Fuckpriest Fantastic. That rulez on so many levels… ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/7 "2009-01-29T19:25:24Z")
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/8 "2009-01-29T19:27:28Z")
Black Tape For A Blue Girl Tonto’s Expanding Headband Trespassers William ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/9 "2009-01-29T19:30:11Z")
> [@SuntanTigerTamer](#): > > Jehovah Witness Protection Program > That one’s mine… I think if you want to be proper it would be ‘Jehovah’s’. I’ve always been partial to, “Chainsaw Kittens”. ‘Trophy Husbands’. **silenus** ‘Black Tape for a Blue Girl’ is definitely a great band name. I saw them live once. Just as the name sounds it’s great music to slit your wrists to. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/10 "2009-01-29T19:33:46Z")
From a \*National Lampoon \*article entilted “What to Name Your Band” (see if you can guess where I came up with my user name): Cowboy Bob and the Jackbatties. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/11 "2009-01-29T19:36:05Z")
I have yet to find one to top **ME, MOM and MORGENTALER** It’s a Canadian band. It’s also a Canadian thing. Dr. Henry Morgentaler operated one of the first known abortion clinics in Quebec. Which makes the whole thing kind of ironic. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/12 "2009-01-29T19:38:08Z")
real band now defunct : Uncle Daddy ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/13 "2009-01-29T19:38:22Z")
One band I was in decided to follow the “Love Tractor” route - that’s the name of an actual band - basically take two words that make no sense together, but sound like they should with a vaguely sexual connotation. We came up with **Parallel Mayonnaise** Another non-muso friend of mine desperately wanted to be in a band growing up and so he, his brother and some friends made up a fictional band and filled in their own made-up history. That band was **Pornstar Mustache** ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/14 "2009-01-29T19:47:37Z")
**Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives** has my vote. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/15 "2009-01-29T19:51:04Z")
**Big Monster Love** \* \*That’s my own stage name. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/16 "2009-01-29T19:53:46Z")
Urban Lunchmeat. That was the name of my team one summer at soccer camp. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/17 "2009-01-29T19:58:49Z")
Real band: Sexecutioner Potential names: Mother and the Tuckers Tom Snot and the Vomits ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/18 "2009-01-29T20:00:39Z")
The Dead Gay Poet Soldiers Of World War One. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/19 "2009-01-29T20:03:43Z")
Made up just now: Gonnorhea and the Clappers. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587/20 "2009-01-29T20:05:36Z")
_Some imaginary_ The Psycho Babies. Patio Decor The Post-Mortem Lovers Dick Rot And The Syphalitics _Some real_ The Stone Roses You’ve Got Foetus On Your Breath The Dead Kennedy’s The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names-ever/483587.md?page=2)