Another local one is a high school band called Powerbutt.
There’s a sort-of-MIT band called Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives.
The (international) noise conspiracy
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Nine Inch Nails
Ten Foot Pole
Boy Sets Fire
Prong
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Johnny Hates Jazz
Was Not Was
Wang Chung
Kathaleen Turner Overdrive
Chickasaw Mudpuppies
Bad Livers
The Sea and Cake
Megatard (shameless plug…this is my band)
Kathleen Turner Overdrive?
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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)
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!
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
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.
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
The Strawberry Alarm Clocks
The Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band
The Smoking Popes
The Goo Goo Dolls
Blue Oyster Cult
? and the Mysterians
The Butthole Surfers
Jesus and the Nail Knockers
Frumious Bandersnatch
The Only Alternative and His Other Possibilities
Soft White Underbelly (later Blue Oyster Cult)
Shonen Knife
In the city we’ve got the lovely Ubiquitous Midgets, and The Wheat Monkeys.
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!
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
I know some of them - Phil of:
Phil’s Harmonic Orchestra
played bass with TOAaHOP:D
I just did a gig with:
El Kabong! 
Thanks alot guys, those are really funny. I mean like absorbent undergarment funny! Haha, Oh well.
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