# Crazy Band Names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 5, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074 "2000-12-05T03:27:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Feet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@Happy\_Feet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Feet)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/21 "2000-12-06T02:56:01Z")
Another local one is a high school band called Powerbutt. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/22 "2000-12-06T03:04:00Z")
There’s a sort-of-MIT band called **Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives**. ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/23 "2000-12-06T06:26:34Z")
The (international) noise conspiracy The Dillinger Escape Plan Nine Inch Nails Ten Foot Pole Boy Sets Fire Prong ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/24 "2000-12-06T08:11:37Z")
Toad the Wet Sprocket Johnny Hates Jazz Was Not Was Wang Chung ---
**Author:** ![blastfurnace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@blastfurnace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blastfurnace)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/25 "2000-12-06T10:54:41Z")
Kathaleen Turner Overdrive Chickasaw Mudpuppies Bad Livers The Sea and Cake Megatard (shameless plug…this is my band) ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/26 "2000-12-06T11:48:55Z")
Kathleen Turner Overdrive? **HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!** ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/27 "2000-12-06T15:07:33Z")
I nominate **Cheap Trick**. When they started out, people thought that they were a magic act. Also: Led Zepplin Big Head Todd and the Monsters Weezer Third Eye Blind TV50 (Just because I could never figure out what it meant) The Sex Pistols (Just because that took a lot of guts way back in the 70’s to name a band that) ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/28 "2000-12-06T15:18:55Z")
Ahh, kids today (shakes head in amazement). Gather round the fireplace, young’uns, and let a boomer geezer remind you which genration _invented_ weird band names: Bubble Puppy Electric Prunes Big Brother & The Holding Company The Ultimate Spinach The Velvet Underground Pink Floyd The Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane Moby Grape Quicksilver Messenger Service Chocolate Watch Band The Zombies Soft Machine Such fun! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/29 "2000-12-06T16:02:42Z")
Some of my favorite bands of the 1920s and '30s: Miff Mole and His Little Molars Red Nichols and His Five Pennies Six Hits and a Miss Louise Hegamin and Her Red-Hot Syncopators ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/30 "2000-12-06T16:19:07Z")
Come on folks, **Jethro Tull**! How brilliant was it to name a band after an 18th century agriculturist? My favorite is the band which named itself **The Band.** ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/31 "2000-12-06T21:30:41Z")
Some one’s I’ve run across: Windy Austin and the Hothouse Tomato Boys The Gun Bunnys Ellery Celery and the Vegetones Los Piejos Viejos ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/32 "2000-12-06T23:44:56Z")
The Strawberry Alarm Clocks The Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band The Smoking Popes The Goo Goo Dolls Blue Oyster Cult ? and the Mysterians ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/33 "2000-12-07T00:52:20Z")
The Butthole Surfers ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/34 "2000-12-07T01:59:02Z")
Jesus and the Nail Knockers Frumious Bandersnatch The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities Soft White Underbelly (later Blue Oyster Cult) Shonen Knife ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/35 "2000-12-07T02:16:48Z")
In the city we’ve got the lovely **Ubiquitous Midgets** , and **The Wheat Monkeys**. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/36 "2000-12-07T02:43:24Z")
Mwahahahahha!!! I did it, I really did it! There’s a band here that makes Backstreet Boys covers. Lame, I know. They dub BSB songs and dances, and generally make fool of themselves in front of everybody. Well, they were looking for a name. Since they don’t know SHIT about english, I suggested ‘Backdoor Boys’, and convinced em that this ‘Backdoor’ means “The Guys Next Door”. The bought it. Now, they’re touring the neighbouhood calling themselves “Backdoor Boys”. Am I evil? Yes, I am! ---
**Author:** ![rockstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockstar)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/37 "2000-12-07T03:19:42Z")
Some of my favorites: Fountains of Wayne Tripmaster Monkey Elf Power The Flaming Lips And they will know us by the trail of dead(?) Bobby Jeffress and the Closet Homosexuals ---
**Author:** ![CyberHippy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@CyberHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberHippy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/38 "2000-12-07T03:41:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\* > The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities > > \*\* I know some of them - Phil of: Phil’s Harmonic Orchestra played bass with TOAaHOP:D I just did a gig with: El Kabong! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Feet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c77e96/32.png) [@Happy\_Feet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Feet)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/39 "2000-12-08T01:59:03Z")
Thanks alot guys, those are really funny. I mean like absorbent undergarment funny! Haha, Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/40 "2000-12-08T08:15:37Z")
I knew a guy who tried to put a band together, but their only pride was having a name for their band, which included (but was not limited to): The Surplus Boyfriends We Have A Name! Captain Foofoo and the Poodle Brigade [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074.md?page=3)