Let's make fun of band names.

My nominations:

Steely Pan
Cheat Prick
Kansas Dept. of Education
The Jugs
Lent Bisquik
Huskrewed Hu?
Clarence Creedwater Revival
(I actually met a guy who thought that was their name!)
The Eagle Beagles
Think Freud
The Strolling Bones
Kitsch

This one’s for real:

Butthole Surfers

I still get a kick out of that band’s name after all these years…

That penultimate one on your list actually existed for a brief time. Former Humble Pie drummer and disgraced former WNCX DJ Jerry Shirley put together a group of Cleveland musicians, and under the name “Strolling Bones,” recorded a version of “Gimme Shelter,” with proceeds benefiting local hunger charities. They also did a few live shows for the same purpose.

You may proceed. :slight_smile:


“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather

Some friends of mine did an all R&B/soul cover band called Urethra Franklin.

Thinking about it makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.

Another real one:

Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys


StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.”
I Spy Ty.

Wynona and Naomi are not known as the Jugs?

This morning I heard the local NPR guy call them “Wynonie and Namoma” before he caught himself and corrected one of the names.


They don’t call me the colonel because I’m some dumb ass army guy.

There was a band called Trulio Disgracias, I think.


  • Boris B, Hellacious Ornithologist

pldennison: Thanks for the info-- I had no idea.

More (certain “faves” may reappear):

*UB40?IB40,2!
Smegmabreth
The Eagle McMuffins
Alice Coholic
The Steamed Millet Band
The Gay Wiles Band
The A Million Pardons Project
The Grave Mattress Band
Kitch’N’ Sink
Greed
The Backwardsmasking Boys
Freebird Shmeebird

I always had a problem with Triangle group Ben Folds Five (Five *What?{/i]) before I found out that the leader was Mrs. Folds’ son Benjamin. And I don’t even want to talk about the Squirrel Nut Zippers!

Polycarp, I was told that “Squirrel Nut Zippers” were candy that was made in the 1940s and 1950s.

Last Summer in Macon, GA, I found a gas station that sold them. I bought a couple of them and tried one, and believed what I was previously told. It tasted like something that is 50 years old should taste. Yuck!

Sorry for the quasi-hijack.

Wierd Al Has been on VH1 alot over the last couple of days. If they are going to have a run of his stuff, they should call if a YANKATHON.

Grateful Fred, live in Deadrock
(“Yabba Grabba Doob”)

My favorite '80s punk band names were:

The Dead Milkmen
The Mommyheads

Some good old-time band names:

Lucille Hegamin and Her Blue-Flame Syncopators
Six Hits and a Miss

I’ve heard of a band called “Huh?” The introductions are always interesting.

If I wanted smoke blown up my ass, I’d be at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose.

They’re not from Knoxville, are they? There used to be a band here called Wh-Wh.
Sorry for hijacking my own thread. C’mon, folks! Be creative!

Weightful Head
The Annoyance Formerly Known As Prince
Bananaramdupya
The Challenger Formerly Known As The Airplane
Crosby Steals Hash from Young

The San Diego, California chapter of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) hosted a teen dance and hired a band called Borracho y Loco. If you don’t get it, ask a latino friend.


TT

“Believe those who seek the truth.
Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide

There’s a Dutch band called “Gratis Bier!”. EVERYONE looks at their posters. I suppose a translation is unnecessary :wink:

Coldfire


“You know how complex women are”

  • Neil Peart, Rush (1993)

There was a Canadian band called Free Beer as well. I can’t recall if they ever toured with Barenaked Ladies.

Now that I’m a middle-aged soul working peripherally in the music biz, it does seem like band names have gotten dumber of late. Barenaked Ladies? Angry Salad? And of course, there are hip-hop names, like Krayzie Bone.

Catrandom (Roxy Music – now that was a name for a band!)