# If you ever called, "band name," I wanna hear it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534 "2014-01-11T19:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/21 "2014-01-13T01:50:46Z")
The band name “Avatar” has been taken a couple times, but I always thought it should a name of a really popular power metal band. But then again it could be like “Incubus” which sounds like a name of a really hardcore Goth band but instead is taken by a decidedly more innocuous band. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/22 "2014-01-13T17:46:21Z")
Just read a great one on a luthier website: “Seducing the Innocent” **Elbows** it would help if we knew what kind of band this is: Fuzzy White Kittens would not make a great death metal band name…although come to think of it, maybe it would… ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/23 "2014-01-13T21:15:32Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > My favorite candy is “Squirrel Nut Zippers” and I’ve always thought that would make a great band name, then someone told me it already was. Yep, there from right here near Durham, NC. “Was” is the operative word, though. I think I’ve posted it here before, but I’d root for Wingtip Eddy and the Elevators, a schlock band of pilots and shoe salesmen, playing airport lounges and mall gigs. (But, which one’s Eddy?) They’d open for the Sultans of Swing. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/24 "2014-01-14T16:06:27Z")
John Scalzi (you know, the author) [has a Tumblr devoted specifically to these](http://nextbandname.tumblr.com/). Some notable examples: > [@](#): > > Glistening Muttonchops > Jesus Throws the Horns > The Mimes of Moria > Disaffected Flounce ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/25 "2014-01-14T17:49:14Z")
Bermuda Mohawk An actual highway exit in Metro Detroit [http://www.okroads.com/052203/i696miexit17.JPG](http://www.okroads.com/052203/i696miexit17.JPG) While probably an overused meme by now. This would be a good band also. (Another Metro Detroit classic) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtdphotography/3202672494/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/rtdphotography/3202672494/) ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/26 "2014-01-14T17:50:42Z")
I was in a band several years ago called “The Swinging Richards.” None our names were “Richard.”😃 The current band is called the “Turbo Kings” and the name is taken from a West African beer brewed in Kinshasa that is notable for having much less formaldehyde than it’s competitors… ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/27 "2014-01-14T18:03:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Just did a search through my posts that had the phrase “band name” in it. I tried, and the engine said no. Looks like it works without the “”, though. Nope. Oh, well. The one I know must be there somewhere is **Piercing, Sucking Mouth Parts**. I like it because it’s both disgusting and pedantic. To an entomologist, an insect is not a true bug unles it has piercing, sucking mouth parts. ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/28 "2014-01-14T18:25:14Z")
Two that my kids found while perusing the index words at the top of an old Yellow Pages: Overhead-Potato Stereo-Trauma ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/29 "2014-01-14T19:22:34Z")
A band name I have long wished I had an opportunity to use is _P.H. Nowell-Smith and the Bananas_. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/30 "2014-01-14T19:24:59Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I tried, and the engine said no. Looks like it works without the “”, though. Nope. Oh, well. > > The one I know must be there somewhere is **Piercing, Sucking Mouth Parts**. I like it because it’s both disgusting and pedantic. To an entomologist, an insect is not a true bug unles it has piercing, sucking mouth parts. That’s not a bug, its a feature. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Los\_Anconfused](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@Los\_Anconfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Los_Anconfused)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/31 "2014-01-14T20:02:31Z")
I recall reading the following passage from a self-described radical feminist who was arguing that any and all PIV (penis in vagina) is rape, and I thought, “Damn, _ **Within the Heterocage** _ would be a good band or album name.” \*Lastly, from a structural point of view, as a class oppressed by men, we are not in any position of freedom to negotiate what men do to us collectively and individually within the heterocage. Men, by whom we are possessed, colonised and held captive, are the sole agents and organisers of PIV. Men dominate us precisely so we can’t opt out of sexual abuse by them; intercourse is the very means through which men subordinate us, the very purpose of their domination, to control human reproduction. \* > **[PIV is always rape, ok?](https://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/)** > > Just to recall a basic fact: Intercourse/PIV is always rape, plain and simple. This is a developed recap from what I’ve been saying in various comments here and there in the last two years or… ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/32 "2014-01-14T20:12:32Z")
I’ve always wanted to have a band called The Chekhov Rifles. After every show we’d shot a hipster. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/33 "2014-01-14T21:14:17Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > I tried, and the engine said no. Looks like it works without the “”, though. Nope. Oh, well. > > The one I know must be there somewhere is **Piercing, Sucking Mouth Parts**. I like it because it’s both disgusting and pedantic. To an entomologist, an insect is not a true bug unles it has piercing, sucking mouth parts. Well, building on that, if there’s not, there needs to be a band called Sucking Chest Wound. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/34 "2014-01-15T00:52:27Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > That’s not a bug, its a feature. 🙂 Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/35 "2014-01-15T02:18:18Z")
I was discussing distressing medical conditions with my wife the other day and we decided that **The Mumps** would be a great name for a folk trio. ---
**Author:** ![boyhowdy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@boyhowdy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boyhowdy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/36 "2014-01-16T05:50:04Z")
We play this at work when an unusual medical term or diagnosis crops up. Our favorites thus far: Tingle and Fizz Toxic Megacolon Residual Limbs ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/37 "2014-01-16T15:52:40Z")
> [@boyhowdy](#): > > We play this at work when an unusual medical term or diagnosis crops up. Our favorites thus far: > Tingle and Fizz > Toxic Megacolon > Residual Limbs Now playing: Hammer, with Anvil & the Stirrups ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/38 "2014-01-16T16:17:51Z")
I can do band names all day long. Now I just need a band… Greymatter Reclamation Pippa Smack and the Suavetones The Homofascist Imperative Smile Assassins Forkful of Eyes The Squidbunny Five Filbert Fool AntiChris Farm of Famine Oatmale Shooty McBangBang Nice Nice Clingspace Fester Fister Harshmellow … Actually, what kind of bands are we talking about here? You probably wouldn’t want to name your cutesie indie girl band “The Kittenstompers” unless they’re going for the goth crowd, while naming your death metal band “The Happy Fluffy Sunshine Gang”, although novel, is unlikely to sell many t-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/39 "2014-01-17T01:53:01Z")
Stoned Jackson Fire Sperm Death Scream ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-ever-called-band-name-i-wanna-hear-it/678534/40 "2014-01-17T04:14:53Z")
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