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I always thought a good name for a band would be Free Drinks.
I mean, who is going to walk past a venue with a sign out the front that says “Tonight - Free Drinks!”?? Sure, you may get a few riots, but think of the publicity.
Thumper and the Plaid Rabbits
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
The Cramps
The Dickies
a technically skilled, yet pretentious & gloomy band?
I always get a chuckle seeing bumper stickers for Sorry About Your Daughter
Elvis Hitler
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
Greedy Charity
Jesusfish and the Gunpoint Converts.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood was something that took a little getting used to…
But for this thread? My vote goes for
Bruno Gerruci’s Medallion!
(The Canadians can chuckle with me on that one)
MC 900 Ft Jesus
Dick Delicious & The Tasty Testicles
Lawnmower Deth
Belching Beet
The Rocking Dildos
Warlock Pinchers
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction
Split Enz.
Crowded House.
Actually, before they were Crowded House they were the Mullanes (Neil finn’s middle name). One of the proposed names was Barbara Stanwyk’s Chest.
Wow, bumped that one back from the dead threads, didn’t you, ninevah? But since we’re both up early (or very late), I’ll play, too. One of my brother’s HS bands was called Half Fast. Say it quickly, as in, “Good evening, everybody, we’re the Half Fast Band.” The bass drum even had “1/2 Fast” painted on it. The band sucked (true to their name), but I always thought they should register or copyright it, or whatever you do to lock in a band’s name.
The Flaccid Ashbacks
Big Electric Cat
Johnny and the Self Abusers -forerunner to the great Simple Minds, and speaking of which…
Simple Minds
The Barking Spiders
The Fargone Beauties
Died Pretty
Hunters & Collectors
Hard Ons
The Bushwhackers
And a special category for tribute bands
UB42
Bjorn Again (ABBA)
Elvis Herselvis, and El Vez (respectively, female and Latino Elvis impersonators)
Blind Melon
Iggy Pop (that’s not a person’s name, is it?
Limp Bizkit
Moist
Temple of the Dog
Smashing Pumpkins
The Shins
Barenaked Ladies
The Basically Jude (my brother’s band…from “Hey Jude” which was one of his/their favourite songs for a while)
In fact, MOST band names are weird…is this some kind of competition to see who can come up with the weirdest name? Like surrealist painters? Geez.
But I agree with whoever says that “sig line!” is the new equivalent for “band name!”
Favourite proposed band name:
Clam Shrapnel (from a joke email about Y2K, involving explosion of stored foodstuffs…I heard the phrase and said…)
I’ll add two, Neutral Milk Hotel and Jimmy Eat World.
Meat Beat Manifesto
Mussolini Headkick
1000 Homo DJs
Lard
Sister Machine Gun
(I’m mad that someone beat me to My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and the Bomb Gang Girlz, and Revolting Cocks)
I was in a blues band called The Original Dr. Roachclip.
If I’d had the balls, I might have thought of The Dayglo Abortions.
Those knowing something about Jello Biafra’s spoken word recordings might be happy to know that there’s really a band called Mondales.
There’s an article about them somewhere on the Web. Sadly, I’ve lost it.
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That’s nothing, Wisest Novel! How about… Schnell Fenster (ex members of Split Enz) and Noel’s Cowards (also featuring ex-Enzers)
Another one (this time, not Enz related): the Derr Brains. And there’s also another Melbourne band called the ‘Fck fcks’. (replacing the * with a U, obviously)
A couple of local bands from back home:
“Big Red Orange” and an all-girl band named “Blame Adam”