# Best band names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2013, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498 "2013-05-27T23:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/41 "2013-05-30T08:35:19Z")
Oh! Oh! - and my reply in the Redskins thread reminds me of another favorite band names: Foreskin 500 I think I still have the t-shirt… ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/42 "2013-05-30T14:54:07Z")
Sheep On Drugs Voodoo Glow Skulls For older people like me: Girls Together Outrageously And my friends and great guys to go drinking with: The Electric Amish ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/43 "2013-05-30T15:04:47Z")
Before James Hunter had any success in the States, he played blues on the London pub circuit as Howlin’ Wilf. Also on the London pub circuit a few years ago, there was a boozy little country/bluegrass outfit who called themselves Banjovi. I was also once rather partial to Grab Grab The Haddock - but that’s another story. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/44 "2013-05-30T15:07:53Z")
Monsters on Vacation Believe it or not that was my band’s name back in the 80’s. (That was the NINETEEN eighties, you young whippersnappers). ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/45 "2013-05-30T15:35:22Z")
Local Indianapolis bands: A Pack of Chihuahuas Atomic Stick Figure Award Winning Suicide Craigslust Generation of the Refined Harmony Goldfish Don’t Bounce Lazy Piranha Magical Attraction of Booty Pancake Rescue Squad Whiskey Ninjas ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/46 "2013-05-30T16:22:53Z")
> [@Shamozzle](#): > > Sorry About Dresden I laughed. I don’t like the great majority of these bands, but their names are cool: Timbuk3 Burgerkill Electric Light Orchestra Jehovah’s Waitresses Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky Eternal Tears of Sorrow Armoured Angel Selfish Cunt The Strapping Fieldhands Everything, Now! Necrophagia Circle of Dead Children Fleshgod Apocalypse Bestial Warlust Cradle of Filth The Project Hate MCMXCIX Ribspreader Eyeless in Gaza John Cougar Concentration Camp Metallica Acheron Devour the Day Lynyrd Skynyrd Electic Love Hogs Darkthrone Spear of Longinus Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult Megadeth Jane’s Addiction Fine Young Cannibals Toad the Wet Sprocket - originally mentioned in passing in a _Monty Python_ sketch I once met a woman named Daphne Threat Medley, which I thought would make a great… you know. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/47 "2013-05-30T16:23:10Z")
I do like **Sorry About Dresden**. My friends played as ‘Buster Hymen and the Penetrators’ once, many years ago. That’s worth a chuckle. In terms of real bands, I like: I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness Black Moth Super Rainbow (and related side project Tobacco) Slowdive The xx Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Sneaker Pimps ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/48 "2013-05-30T21:38:09Z")
Haiku D’etat ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/49 "2013-06-01T05:08:48Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > Haiku D’etat Punny band names almost always get me. ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/50 "2013-06-01T05:40:48Z")
Godspeed You Black Emperor ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/51 "2013-06-01T22:46:18Z")
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/52 "2013-06-01T23:47:47Z")
REM played a secret gig in a very tiny London venue under the name Bingo Hand Job. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498/53 "2013-06-02T01:49:07Z")
Due to the inspiration from a scolding the guitarist got from the father of some girl whose lawn he got caught driving over, I ended up playing in a band called “The Gutterbums”. For the last band I was in, I liked the name “Half Fast”, so we could say “We don’t really play fast, but we don’t really play slow either. We play sorta half fast.” The rest of the band didn’t like that. Or “Four Jacks and a Jill”. Those guys had NO sense of humor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-band-names/659498.md?page=2)