# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/21 "2001-01-25T05:05:59Z")
I always thought using the name “Fine Upstanding College Kids” would be good. Of course, the name is so long you could only fit the first letters of each word of the name on the drum’s face. That wouldn’t be a problem, would it? ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/22 "2001-01-25T06:04:37Z")
I’ll say it again (even though some people are probably about to strangle me), if I had a band it would be either: **Funk Pudding** , **The String Samurais** , or **Blood of Heroes**. Some other names I like: **The Saint-Sinners** , **Boondock Saints** , **Berserker** , **Begbie’s Mates** , and **Girth Mobile**. Some cool _real_ band names: **Satanic Surfers** **No Use For A Name** **Dick Delicious & the Tasty Testicles** ---
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/23 "2001-01-25T06:17:49Z")
Sleeping with Jesus The Pigeon Ho Principle Christrocket Pumping Lemma ---
**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, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/24 "2001-01-25T06:20:08Z")
There’s a Dutch band with a pretty cool name: BZN (pronounced Bay-Sed-En) which stands for: Bande Zonde Naam ( **Coldfire** can correct the spelling) which means: Band Without a Name My folks listened to them when they were teenagers, and I actually inherited an interest in them and saw them when I was on my honeymoon in Holland ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/25 "2001-01-25T06:20:11Z")
Kentucky Fried Children Alcoholics Unanimous Slut Launcher The Glorious April 29th People’s Uprising All-Star Orchestra The Secretions ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/26 "2001-01-25T07:23:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wytehawk \* > \*\*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. > \*\* I thought of this book the moment I saw the topic and, as luck would have it, I _do_ happen to have a copy sitting on my desk at work. Some selections: :clears throat: Bugs Bunny and His Fourteen Carrots Frodo Baggins and His Ring The Broad Jumpers The Pubic Heirs The Thalidomide Babies Poor Richard and His Rosicrucian Secrets Strangers in a Strange Land The Seven Types of Ambiguity The Bank Burners The Domino Theory Maxwell and His Demons The Noisy Minority The Birth of a Nation The Second Law of Thermodynamics The Head of a Dead Cat The Blue Moonies General Indefinite Wobble The Other Cheek The Goose in the Bottle MC Squared (could be a rap artist now) Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex The Rand Scenario Gorilla Warfare Acceptable Radiation Solution Unsatisfactory Deep Quote –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/27 "2001-01-25T07:35:43Z")
Favorite real band name: Street Pajama ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/28 "2001-01-25T07:49:24Z")
Underage Sexual Deviants was the name of a band I used to be in. I think it has a nice ring to it. Crouching Wombat Sand-filled garden gnomes Whistler’s stepmother ---
**Author:** ![Meleemancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Meleemancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meleemancer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/29 "2001-01-25T12:23:28Z")
I really like “Random English Words”. Bonus points if your band is in a non-English speaking country. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/30 "2001-01-25T13:25:48Z")
Doug Stroud and the Technical Coordinators. (From a business card I had from a person that was neither). ---
**Author:** ![Devorzhum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Devorzhum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Devorzhum)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/31 "2001-01-25T13:33:28Z")
Real: ``` Strap On Halo Vaginal Jesus Latex Sex Patrol Cream ``` Fake: ``` One Brown Eye Winking Sigmund Freud and the Slips Charles Darwin and the Natural Selections Sticky Load Exchange Genital Giants The Cornhole Cowboys The Rectal Thermometers ``` ---
**Author:** ![Agentakbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Agentakbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agentakbar)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/32 "2001-01-25T13:37:32Z")
How about “clitoral asylum?” 🙂 Bri ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/33 "2001-01-25T23:29:23Z")
Some friends of mine have a band called Middle Finger. They are pretty good, imho. There is also a band call Anal cunt which another guy I know likes. He has their albums and stuff. I have heard of a Band call Alabama Thunderpussy, I dunno if it is the same one that Mjollnir mentioned. Other band names: Raging Speedhorn And you will know us by the trail of dead Boy hits car And, apparently, there is a rock label called “I used to fuck people like you in prison” It was mentioned on a radio show a while ago as signing a rock act (can’t remember the name. Rick ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/34 "2001-01-26T00:02:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by St. Attila \* > \*\*There’s a Dutch band with a pretty cool name: > > BZN (pronounced Bay-Sed-En) > > which stands for: > > Bande Zonde Naam ( **Coldfire** can correct the spelling) > > which means: > > Band Without a Name > > My folks listened to them when they were teenagers, and I actually inherited an interest in them and saw them when I was on my honeymoon in Holland ten years ago. \*\* _Band Zonder Naam_. We’re a fun bunch, we also have the _Zangeres Zonder Naam_. I’m sure you’ll figure it out. BZN are from Volendam (that’s the town where the huge bar-fire was on new years eve, remember that?). Volendam is a harbour city on the _IJselmeer_, or “Yssel Lake”. Large fishing industry. Bands from Volendam are referred to as _Paling Pop_, or “Eal Pop”. And it’s _hideous_, I tell you. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/35 "2001-01-26T00:23:40Z")
Artz+Pfusch Scraping Foetus of the Wheel You’ve got Foetus on your Breath Nurse with a Wound Einsturzende Neubatuen NON(is he or isn’t he?) Anal Cunt Biting Wax Tadpole Neuroticfish Brighter Death Now God Module Love is colder then Death ---
**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 26, 2001, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/36 "2001-01-26T01:04:11Z")
Hey, **HalberMensch242** , like Industrial Noise much? BTW, IIRC it’s “Scraping Foetus From the Wheel,” “Nurse With Wound,” and “Einsturzende Neubauten.” I’d figure you’d get the last right, at least 🙂 ---
**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 26, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/37 "2001-01-26T01:13:43Z")
\*Originally posted by **Coldfire** \* > [@](#): > > \*\*Bands from Volendam are referred to as _Paling Pop_, or “Eal Pop”. And it’s _hideous_, I tell you. Ugh. \*\* 🙂 Well, yeah, but as they’re the only “Eel Pop” band I know, I find them unique and… interesting, and… uhhm… actually, kinda fun, in small doses. ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/38 "2001-01-26T04:07:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by St. Attila \* > \*\*Hey, **HalberMensch242** , like Industrial Noise much? > > BTW, IIRC it’s “Scraping Foetus From the Wheel,” “Nurse With Wound,” and “Einsturzende Neubauten.” I’d figure you’d get the last right, at least 🙂 > \*\* Son of a…i really should proof read my posts before posting…i’m such an idget! ---
**Author:** ![FEotU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@FEotU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FEotU)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/39 "2001-01-26T04:49:36Z")
couple of local band names (bands no longer exist): Puke and the Chunky Bits (from the height of the punk rock era) Chocolate Bunnies from Hell ---
**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 26, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530/40 "2001-01-26T04:56:04Z")
\*Originally posted by FEotU \* > [@](#): > > \*\*Chocolate Bunnies from Hell \*\* Hey, I remember them! You say they were local: where’s that, out of curiosity? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-some-cool-band-names/51530.md?page=3)