# Gimme some cool band names! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 24, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530 "2001-01-24T09:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/1 "2001-01-24T09:22:32Z")
Every so often, some random expression here will inspire the response, “That’d be an awesome band name!”. For example, “The Kinsey Five” on the Kinsey scale thread. So what are some other awesome band names you’ve seen on here or have heard in real life? Here’s one to start off, from the book sitting right in front of me: **The Federalist Papers** : I think Jay was definitely the Ringo of this group! What else? ---
**Author:** ![JCThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@JCThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/2 "2001-01-24T10:27:30Z")
I’m in the process of writing a screenplay called, ‘Audio Head’ (which is the name of the band in the movie). ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/3 "2001-01-24T10:52:48Z")
‘2% Homo’ or ‘Blynd Tyger’. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/4 "2001-01-24T11:44:00Z")
Spy on the Fire The Unholy Lesbian Vampire Army of the Night ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/5 "2001-01-24T11:45:51Z")
Shiny Gay Republican ---
**Author:** ![Wytehawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Wytehawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wytehawk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/6 "2001-01-24T12:13:13Z")
I don’t have it handy at the moment, but if you can get hold of a copy of the book “The Illuminatus Trilogy” by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, towards the end there is a scene involving a rock concert. There are a couple of hundred bands there from all over the world and every single one is mentioned. The list goes on for a couple of pages (it’s a weird book, be warned), and there are some really cool names in there. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Don](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e95f7d/32.png) [@Engineer\_Don](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Don)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/7 "2001-01-24T19:11:21Z")
“The Dimpled Chads”, or “The Dangling Chads”. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/8 "2001-01-24T19:15:00Z")
Real Bands from Chicago and L.A. tiger lard tabasco douche star spangled boners elder feces mary tyler morphine flock of steven segals inflatable boy clams half man half biscuit jizbuckets lung mustard the band formerly known as sausage don knotts overdrive bulimia banquet bean fiddlers don’t laugh, we did your mom roy rogers and the whirlin’ butt cherries smorgasborgnine crushed vanilla ice hitler’s other testicle anne frank and the beans My favorite Fake Band Names that you’re free to steal: Hot Buttered Nuts Cat Pants Jenny Jones As Much As Killed That Guy Cremated Entrepreneurs jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/9 "2001-01-24T19:39:03Z")
Goddamn and the door slams or Aspartame and rats or Chunk Love sloth ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/10 "2001-01-24T19:59:39Z")
Just some that I thought of while watching the old 1960’s “rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” a couple months ago: Charlie in the Box Jelly Pistol The Misfit Toys Elf Choir It’s amazing what you can get out of kid’s movies… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/11 "2001-01-24T20:05:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Just A Girl \* > Jelly Pistol Jelly Pistol…Jelly Pistol. I CAN’T STOP SAYING IT. JELLY PISTOL! It’s my favorite! jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Elkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Elkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elkman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2001, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/12 "2001-01-24T23:56:26Z")
A band I was in during high school called ourselves “Bite the Wax Tadpole”. We read in a Dave Barry column that this is what Coca Cola translates to in Chinese, and thought it sounded cool. Another cool name that came to me in a dream is “Electric Zombie Sweat”. Don’t know what deeper meaning is there, but sounds neat. ---
**Author:** ![BickByro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BickByro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BickByro)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/13 "2001-01-25T00:12:37Z")
at last, a thread for me! i’ve been accumulating potential band names for several years. my favorites: Jesus Tank (this is an actual PLACE in Arizona) Flowhose (just sounds nice, plus it’s got a dirty-mind factor) Luftwaffle (i sat around laughing for hours when i came up with this one… perhaps others will not be as amused) and the Latest and Greatest of my band-name inventions (please nobody steal this one, i might need it!): Jack Shit and the Toilettes ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/14 "2001-01-25T00:18:01Z")
Visual Purple Groping Blindly Dick the Dark Lord and the Virgin Princesses Bic Slick and the Ball-Point Pens Razor Ribbon the Enclave ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/15 "2001-01-25T00:45:09Z")
Weeping Beef Lazy Nihilists Sergeant Fury and The Fightin’ Fairies Narcoleptic Ninjas Sea Of Flesh Stinkbots ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/16 "2001-01-25T02:09:04Z")
At one local club one night, there was a featured band named “Thunderpussy.” ---
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/17 "2001-01-25T02:28:52Z")
For _Matrix_ fans, Spoon Boy and the Potentials ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/18 "2001-01-25T03:14:01Z")
Grammar in my Latin Class turned up: ``` *The Passive Periphrastics* ``` Its screaming to be announced to hordes of teenagers smoking pot, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/19 "2001-01-25T04:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \*At one local club one night, there was a featured band named “Thunderpussy.” Don’t tell me, let me guess… The opening band was “Octoball.” Oh my. ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/20 "2001-01-25T04:16:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SNenc \* > **I think Jay was definitely the Ringo of this group!** I resemble that remark. Some band names I always liked but could never convince my bandmates to use: Royal Chronic (in honor of the best weed I’ve ever had) Red October (in honor of the best acid I’ve ever had; do you see a pattern developing here?) The Automobiles The Stoned Unturned [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530.md?page=2)