# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Aleq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Aleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aleq)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/81 "2002-03-18T20:23:07Z")
The Fabulous Poodles (actually had that album, eek!) Bi-Curious George, heh heh… King Black Acid and my favorite: Fuckpriest Fantastic Squeezy Weasel would be a good one too… ---
**Author:** ![sandalfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@sandalfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandalfeet)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/82 "2002-03-18T21:07:48Z")
The String Cheese Incident. they are also one of my favorite bands ---
**Author:** ![electrokungfu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e57/32.png) [@electrokungfu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electrokungfu)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/83 "2002-03-19T01:28:59Z")
Honkey Kong Alien Sex Fiend Butthole Surfers My old band The Elderly Sluts ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/84 "2002-03-19T05:58:38Z")
My favourite - **Machine Gun Fellatio**. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/85 "2002-03-19T06:09:06Z")
The Plastic People Of The Universe The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Drive-By Truckers Songs:Ohia some local ones: Pine Hill Haints Natchez Shakers Prom Needles The Fiddleworms The Holly Carbines Rollin’ In The Hay Karmorha Refill 88 ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/86 "2002-03-19T06:14:49Z")
**Mostly Fiction Names for Bands From Jello Biafra & Other DK fans** The Avant Gardeners The Paedophilic Priests Hunter-Gatherers Inc. Turgid The Irrationalists Racket Doom N Gloom Protection Racket Prolapse Kookypop Ism Ism Ism The Anarchist Travelling Circus Ultraviolence Beergut Whoregrinder Czolgosz Analingus Hitler’s Right Testicle Zerzan Psychobabble The Earthlings Kenneth Williams’ Nostrils Heart Disease on a Plate Snake Oil For Sale Reagan’s Colon Radioactive Vomit The pit of penultimate darkness Progress? Where? Bonehead No, YOU’RE a fucking moron Death of a car salesman Anal face Frat boys in power Apathy Radioactive Armpit Chainsaw Enema Foreskin Handbags Brittany’s Charred Remains Forensic Light Show Doomsday Police In Skank Strom Thurman Won’t Die CIA Death Squad The Newtzis Spooge Swallowers Rikki Martin Explosion Madona Heresy Supreme Court Gunfight The Bodybags Absolutely Talentless (actually, a real band) Baptist Orgy The Texas Republican Massacre God is Dead We Have a Fuzz Box and We’re Going to Use It The Sideshow Bishops Catholic Death Pope Nike Death Squad Laser Eye Surgery Gone Wrong Bleeding Sphincter Myocardio Infarction (a.k.a. heart attack) Saratonin Surplus Vestigial Brain Phlegm Machine 50,000 Acres A Day Prozac Party Games Attention Deficit Disorder The Judges of Dread Censored in Britain The Hindenboobs Blue Slave Labor Shoes Split up Artistic differences Our singer is a wanker Toilet tour Signing On Sleeping on floors £200 Guarantee 5-Minute sound check Can we borrow your snare? Half a PA Drunk Driver Where can we get some speed? More of the same We sound like Nirvana No meat on the rider Taxi to the tour bus Witch Penis Young Youth Redundant Youth \*\* From Dave Marsh’s “Book of Rock Lists” “You can’t say we didn’t warn you. 40 of the Most Absurd Group Names of the Psychedelic Era”\*\* 1. Africa Creeps Up and Up 2. Autosalvage 3. Aum 4. Ball Point Pen 5. Bubble Puppy 6. Clear Light 7. The Charging Tyrannosaurus of Despair (The name was later changed to Detroit Edison White Light Co., because the drummer refused to have anything to do with despair.) 8. Chocolate Watchband 9. Truman Coyote 10. The Crab Cometh Forth 11. Daisy Overkill 12. Dr. Zoom and His Sonic Boom 13. The Electric Rectum 14. The Electric Prunes 15. Everpresent Fullness 16. Everything is Everything 17. The Fifty Foot Hose 18. Frosted Suede 19. Frumious Bandersnatch 20. The Grateful Dead 21. Hmmm 22. The Holy Modal Rounders 23. It’s a Beautiful Day 24. The Jefferson Airplane 25. Jesus Christ and the Nailknockers 26. Lothar and the Hand People 27. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 28. The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities [I think this is my favorite, though #7 above comes close. – jmb] 29. The Peanut Butter Conspiracy 30. Ph Factor Jug Band 31. Purple Earthquake 32. Recurring Love Habit 33. The Strawberry Alarm Clock 34. 13th Floor Elevator 35. Thorsten Veblen Blues Band 36. The Time Being 37. Tiny Hearing Aid Company 38. Transatlantic Chicken Wicken No. 5 39. Ultimate Spinach 40. Uncut Balloon ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/87 "2002-03-19T12:23:45Z")
Some bands I have played on the same bill as (with my band, I am Spartacus ) Clouded Mouse Calling Walter Cracker Muff Bands I have seen with cool names : Moses Kicks the Shrine Rad Hott and his Chilly Pepper Mr. Ed’s Langer (yes, Langer does mean that.) Pork will Eat Itself. Baby’s Arm. We Hate John Wayne. ---
**Author:** ![mikehardware](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mikehardware](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikehardware)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/88 "2002-03-19T16:30:25Z")
Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band [http://members.aol.com/geekox3/root3.htm](http://members.aol.com/geekox3/root3.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Amidar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Amidar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amidar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/89 "2002-03-19T18:50:05Z")
A few more: **When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water** **Afghanistan Banana Stand** (timely, no?) **Dick Duck and the Dorks** And my favorite: **The Dancing French Liberals of 1848** How in the world do bands come up with these names? ---
**Author:** ![tigergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@tigergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tigergirl)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2002, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074/90 "2002-03-19T23:17:57Z")
home town bands include: Clumpy Bog Frog in a sock (this one give me all kinds of funny mental images!!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-band-names/44074.md?page=4)