# Let's play the 'the ABC band name" game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726 "2006-01-19T21:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/321 "2006-01-25T07:16:17Z")
Xinlisupreme ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/322 "2006-01-25T12:44:30Z")
**Y** og Sothoth ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/323 "2006-01-25T19:38:49Z")
Zephyr ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/324 "2006-01-25T19:44:33Z")
Leading off the nexst round is the Atlanta Rhythm Section. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/325 "2006-01-25T19:45:56Z")
**A** mon Düül 2 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/326 "2006-01-25T19:47:01Z")
Foiled by the extra time it took me to get those umlauts. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/327 "2006-01-25T19:47:03Z")
Black Sabbath ---
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**C** an ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/329 "2006-01-25T20:07:37Z")
Updated alphabetical list: Abba Abba (duplicate, but neither caught, nor replaced) ABC AC/DC Ace Of Base Air Supply Alice in Chains Allman Brothers Band Alphaville America Asia Atlanta Rhythm Section Audioslave B. B. King (who, being a solo act, shouldn’t count!) Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bananarama Barenaked Ladies Black Eyed Peas Blackmore’s Rainbow Black Sabbath Blondie Blue Oyster Cult Blue Suede Blur Bonzo Dog Band Buffalo Springfield Byrds, the Can Candidate Cantabile Cap’n Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters Captain Beefheart Carmel Charlatans, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Clash, the Commodores, the Country Joe and The Fish Creedence Clearwater Revival Crowded House Dandy Warhols, the dBs, the Dead Can Dance Dead Kennedys, the Deaf School Death Cab for Cutie Depeche Mode Derek & the Dominoes Devo Digable Planets Dio Dire Straits Dirt Band, the Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Echo & the Bunnymen Elbow Electric Bonsai Band Electric Light Orchestra Electric Prunes, the Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Emotions, the Erasure Everything But The Girl Fear Feelies, the Ferrante and Teicher Flying Burrito Brothers Foghat Ford and the Fanatics, Neal Foreigner Fountains of Wayne Freddy Fender Fugazi Fugs, the Garbage / Goldfrapp Genesis Gentle Giant Gin Blossoms Go-Go’s , the (duplicate, but replaced) Go-Gos, the Golden Earring Gov’t Mule Grand Funk Railroad Grass Roots, the Grateful Dead Gryphon Guess Who, the Happy the Man Harvey Danger Hawkwind Hayseed Dixie Heart Hendrix Experience, the Jimi Hi-Fives, the Hot Tuna Housemartins Hues Corporation Humble Pie Icicle Works Ides Of March Idle Race If Ike & Tina Turner Revue Impressions, the Indigo Girls Ink Spots, the Interpol Iron & Wine Iron Butterfly It’s a Beautiful Day It’s a Beautiful Day (duplicate, but replaced) J. Geils Band Jackson Five, the James Gang Jayhawks, the Jefferson Aircraft (Airplane and/or Starship) Jethro Tull Jets, the Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Jo Jo Gun Joan Jett (Uhhhh, I give up) John Entwistle Band, the (which should have been under _E_, but oh well…) Journey Joy Of Cooking Kansas Kassabian King Crimson King’s X Kinks, the Kinks, the (uncaught duplicate) Klaatu Korn Kraftwerk L7 La’s, the Led Zepplin Little River Band Live Living Colour Looking Glass Los Lobos Loverboy Luscious Jackson Lynyrd Skynyrd Marcy Playground Max Webster Meat Puppets, the Meco Metallica Midnight Oil Morcheeba Mott The Hoople Move, the Mudvayne My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Nazareth Nazz, the Neil Young (okay, NO MORE SOLO ACTS) Nektar New Order New Riders of the Purple Sage New Seekers, the Nice, the Nine Inch Nails Nirvana Nylons, the OAR Ohio Players, the Oingo Boingo Old and In The Way Old 97’s Oleander One Bad Pig Orgy Orleans Osmonds, the Outlaws, the Oysterhead Ozric Tentacles Parliament Parsons Project, the Alan Particle Partridge Family, the Pentangle Pet Shop Boys Phish Pink Floyd Pixies Poi Dog Pondering Police, the Procol Harum Q Qkumba Zoo Quarrymen, the Quarterflash Quartermass Queen Queens of the Stone Age Queensrÿche Quicksilver Messenger Service Quiet Riot Quintana and Speer R.E.M. Radiohead Rammstein Randy & the Rainbows Real Mackenzies, the Renaissance Replacements, the Ride Rocket From The Crypt Rolling Stones, the Roxy Music Rutles, the Sha Na Na Silver Jews, the Skatalites, the Sly and the Family Stone Sonic Youth Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes Sparks Stealers Wheel Steeleye Span Steely Dan String Cheese Incident Strokes, the Sugarloaf Talking Heads Tangerine Dream Temptations Thievery Corporation Thompson Twins Thousand Foot Krutch Throbbing Gristle ‘Til Tuesday Traffic Travellling Wilburys Tremolos, the Tycoon U2 U2 (duplicate not caught due to not being listed in the first recap) Ub40 Ugly Americans Ultravox Uncanny X-Men Uncle Bonsai UnderOath Undisputed Truth Urge Overkill Uriah Heep Utfo Vacant Fear Centre Van der Graaf Generator Van Halen Velvet Underground Ventures, the (duplicate, but replaced) Ventures, the Veruca Salt Verve, the Village People Violent Femmes, the Vogues, the Vultures Wall of Voodoo War Weather Report Weavers, the Ween Weezer Whiskeytown Who, the Widespread Panic Wilco Wolftone Woodentops, the X X (duplicate, but replaced) Xeno Xentrix Xinlisupreme Xiu Xiu X-Pensive Winos (Keith Richards’ other band) X-Ray Spex Xscape XTC XTC (duplicate, but used because of 2 "X"s in round 1) Xymox Xzibit Yardbirds, the Yaz Yellow Balloon Yellowbelly Yellowcard Yes Yin Yang Twins Yog Sothoth Yo La Tengo Yonder Mountain String Band Youngbloods, the Zager & Evans Zebra Zebra (duplicate, neither caught nor replaced) Zephyr Zero Zig Zig Sputnik Zombies, the Zombies, the (duplicate, but replaced) Zwan Zydeco Dots Zydeco Flames ZZ Top ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/330 "2006-01-25T20:13:12Z")
Doobie Brothers ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/331 "2006-01-25T21:11:27Z")
Ekoostik Hookah ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/332 "2006-01-25T21:31:32Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Ekoostik Hookah I thought they spelled it 3koostik Hookah. 🙂 Firm, the ---
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**G** ong ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/334 "2006-01-25T22:56:45Z")
Head East ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/335 "2006-01-25T22:59:15Z")
the **I** sley Brothers ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/336 "2006-01-25T23:05:40Z")
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/337 "2006-01-25T23:17:48Z")
**K** ayak ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/338 "2006-01-25T23:22:19Z")
Lothar and the Hand People ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/339 "2006-01-26T00:09:45Z")
(the) Machines formerly Machines of Loving Grace ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/340 "2006-01-26T00:14:29Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Lothar and the Hand People :eek: 😃 North Mississippi All-Stars [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726.md?page=18)