Well, my favorite band in the whole world is…The Mr.T Experience.
They are on Lookout Records, along with some other strangly named favorites, like:
The Gaza Strippers
Auntie Christ
Cleveland Bound Death Sentence
The Winona Riders
The Potatomen
Screeching Weasel
Furious George
The Couch of Eureka
Raooul
And many, many more strangly named bands. Ahhh, wonderful glorious lookout records.
And we can’t forget Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children McNuggets!
Oh yeah, my obligatory bad high school band that never really happened was named (or at least we agreed the most over the name) “Lousewart”, picked from the random page of the dictionary method. Apparently it is some sort of strange plant that has “Terminal Spikes”, which became our second choice for a name.
Boy Kicks Girl. Doesn’t that sound romantic? I also saw a band at some little in-store performance called God Hates Computers. It’s too bad they weren’t a synthesizer/sequencer band – they would have gotten bonus points for irony.
Back the my new wave days…
Bow Wow Wow
Haircut 100
3 Teens Kill 4
A Million Dead Cops
and
The Squirrel Nut Zippers
Dead Men on Holiday (a former college band in Worcester, MA)
GWAR
Butthole Surfers
As all you Python fans know, this is from Monty Python’s skit called “Rock Bits” where the author Eric Idle tried to think of a band name so weird that no one would ever consider it. Of course, Python fans do weird things too.
Man or Astroman?
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
and my all-time favorite nasty, wierd, icky band name… The Yeastie Girls.
Here are some bands I was really into back in the 1980’s:
The Crucifucks: From East Lansing, MI. These guys ruled.
The Dayglo Abortions: Very funny punk/metal band from Canada. Great tunes, kinda reminds you of Black Sabbath. And funny (but sick!) lyrics. I believe they’re still around.
The Dead Milkmen: These guys were great. I used to sit at home for hours on end trying to figure out all the bass lines on “Big Lizard in My Backyard.”
Guyana Punch Line
Dead Kennedys (can’t believe someone hasn’t said it yet!)
Atom and His Package (a guy named Adam with a synthesizer)
Cattle Decapitation
I always liked Seven Year Bitch. Used to go see the Cows once in a while. Liquor Bike. Ditch Witch. The Meerkats. I’ve got a cd I paid a dollar for by a band called Spot 1019 (“This World Owes Me a Buzz”, I’m sure we’ve all heard of it), which had guest musicians from The Worms and The Wannabe Texans. Also was lucky enough to see Janitor Joe once, and snagged an autographed copy of their single “Boyfriend” b/w “Yellow Car” by drinking beer with them. Their bass player was a quite impressive young lady named Kristin Pfaff, who went on shortly thereafter to play with Courtney Love before she was found dead in a bathtub. Sad thing to hear; she was really cool.
I totally forgot about these guys. They did rock…
“the kitchen counter has canisters on it. Save that pencil…I’ve got one at home JUST LIKE IT”
(or something to that effect)
While I’m here:
**Revolting Cocks
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Captian Beefheart
Nurse With Wound
The Soft Boys
The BBQ Killers
**
My cousin in law is in a band called Butz. They’re good!
I’m in an a capella group called the AKA Fellas. ha ha ha.
If you’re counting bands that me and my friends have made up but never put together:
SIDS
Captain Galaxy and the Showdowns
And one from Dave Barry: Six Italic Squirrels
A friend of mine used to be in a band called Cuckoo Malloy.
I’m in a fake band called Jesusfish. We’re working on a project with Bob Dylan called “Whiny Metaphors about Jesus.”
Mr. Bungle is rather odd too.
Their first two albums (only two albums!) are on CD.
I’ve tried to describe The Crucifucks to people who haven’t heard them, but you can’t; they need to be heard to be believed.
I wonder what the members are up to nowadays? I know their lead singer, Doc Dart, put out a solo album. And I believe the drummer, Steve Shelley, went on to play for Sonic Youth.
Here’s some more information about them:
just heard this one last night…
The Swinging Johnsons
Lesbian Dopeheads On Mopeds
For the obvious, there’s The The, Strawberry Alarm Clock and Throbbing Gristle, but I once saw albums by a band called Fearless Iranians From Hell.
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, after writing a series of strips in which Dilbert packed his clothing in Pringles tube-style containers, suggested “Tubular Luggage”. I don’t know if anybody ever used it.
Personally, I always thought Squad Brutus and the Support Weapons would be cool.
Pete
Long time RGMWer and ardent AOLer
The Harlan Ellisons
From the 99cent CD “D.U.M.B. Rock - The Hollywood Tapes”:
Iron Prostate
Functional Idiots
Fly Ashtray
Acidental Potato Chip (no, that’s not a misspelling)
Dogbowl
Youth Gone Mad
Rats of Unusual Size (they do a respectable cover of “LA Woman”)
Mine are all local bands:
Bob’s Day Off
The Flying Buttresses
Sneaky Midget
The Toss Offs
Mr. Yuk Is Green
Derelict 80
Archers of Loaf
If memory serves, the Archers of Loaf are North Carolinian, and I thought you were based in Rhode Island (for the moment, anyway).
“Thugs and scum and punks and freaks
They’re harnessed in slums but they want to be free”