# 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:** 21
**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 27, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/401 "2006-01-27T14:26:58Z")
**S** ilver Apples ---
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**T** --The The ---
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**U** nited States of America ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/404 "2006-01-27T19:31:39Z")
V - **The Vengaboys** Don’t hurt me! I know they aren’t very good, and are cliche as all get out. They ARE a band, and it does fill the “v” spot though. It’d been long enough I figured no one could bring up a band that started with “v”. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/405 "2006-01-27T20:27:32Z")
West, Bruce and Laing ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/406 "2006-01-27T21:42:40Z")
[X Factor X](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/6919/XFactorX.html) ---
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yeP! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/408 "2006-01-27T23:54:52Z")
[Zoetrope](http://www.bnrmetal.com/groups/zoet.htm) Now it gets easier again… ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/409 "2006-01-28T00:42:55Z")
A little closer to the top of the page Updated alphabetical list: Abba Abba (duplicate, but neither caught, nor replaced) ABC Abraxas Pool AC/DC Ace Of Base Air Supply Alice in Chains Allman Brothers Band Alphaville America Amon Duul Asia Atahualpa Atlanta Rhythm Section Audioslave B. B. King (who, being a solo act, shouldn’t count!) Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bananarama Barenaked Ladies Big Country Black Eyed Peas Blackmore’s Rainbow Black Sabbath Blondie Blue Oyster Cult Blue Suede Blur Bonzo Dog Band Brainticket Buffalo Springfield Byrds, the Can Candidate Cantabile Cap’n Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters Captain Beefheart Carmel Charlatans, the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Chicago Clash, the Commodores, the Country Joe and The Fish Creedence Clearwater Revival Crowded House Cure, the Dandy Warhols, the dBs, the Dead Can Dance Dead Kennedys, the Deaf School Death Cab for Cutie del Amitri Depeche Mode Derek & the Dominoes Devo Digable Planets Dio Dire Straits Dirt Band, the Dr. Strangely Strange Doobie Brothers, the Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Echo & the Bunnymen Ekoostic Hookah Elbow Electric Bonsai Band Electric Light Orchestra Electric Prunes, the Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Emotions, the Endangered Species Erasure Everly Brothers, the Everything But The Girl Fear Feelies, the Ferrante and Teicher Firm, the Flying Burrito Brothers Foghat Ford and the Fanatics, Neal Foreigner Fotheringay Fountains of Wayne Freddy Fender Fruup Fugazi Fugs, the Garbage / Goldfrapp Genesis Gentle Giant Geronimo Jackson Gin Blossoms Godsmack Go-Go’s , the (duplicate, but replaced) Go-Gos, the Golden Earring Gong Gov’t Mule Grand Funk Railroad Grass Roots, the Grateful Dead Gryphon Guess Who, the Happy the Man Hatfield and the North Harvey Danger Hawkwind Hayseed Dixie Head East Heart Hendrix Experience, the Jimi Hi-Fives, the Hollies, the Hot Tuna Housemartins Hues Corporation Humble Pie Icicle Works Ides Of March Idle Race If Ike & Tina Turner Revue Impressions, the Incubus Indigo Girls Ink Spots, the Interpol INXS Iron & Wine Iron Butterfly Isley Brothers, the It’s a Beautiful Day It’s a Beautiful Day (duplicate, but replaced) J. Geils Band Jackson Five, the Jackson, Joe (another solo not caught or replaced) Jacob Fred Jazz Oddysey James Gang Jason and the Scorchers Jayhawks, the Jefferson Aircraft (Airplane and/or Starship) Jethro Tull Jets, the Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Jo Jo Gunne 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 Kayak Killing Joke King Crimson Kingsmen, the King’s X Kinks, the Kinks, the (uncaught duplicate) Klaatu Korn Kraftwerk L7 Laibach La’s, the Led Zepplin Little River Band Live Living Colour Looking Glass Los Lobos Lothar and the Hand People Loverboy Lunasa Luscious Jackson Lynyrd Skynyrd Machines (of Loving Grace), the Magma Marcy Playground Max Webster Meat Puppets, the Meco Metallica Midnight Oil moe. 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 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band North Mississippi All-Stars NRBQ Nylons, the OAR Ohio Players, the Oingo Boingo Ojos de Brujo Old and In The Way Old 97’s Oleander One Bad Pig Orb, the Orgy Orleans Osibisa Osmonds, the Outlaws, the Outlaws, the (duplicate, but replaced) Oysterhead Ozric Tentacles Parliament Parsons Project, the Alan Particle Partridge Family, the Pentangle Pet Shop Boys Phish Pink Floyd Pink Martini Pixies Planet P Project Plasmatics, the Poi Dog Pondering Police, the Procol Harum Q Qkumba Zoo Quarrymen, the Quarter After, the Quarterflash Quartermass Queen Queens of the Stone Age Queensrÿche Quicksilver Messenger Service Quiet Riot Quiet Sun Quintana and Speer Quitter R.E.M. Radiohead Rammstein Randy & the Rainbows Real Mackenzies, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Renaissance Replacements, the Ride Rocket From The Crypt Rolling Stones, the Ronettes, the Roxy Music Rubicon Rutles, the Sha Na Na Shot In The Dark Silver Apples Silver Jews, the Skatalites, the Sly and the Family Stone Soft Machine, the 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 The The (or would that be The, the) Thievery Corporation Thompson Twins Thousand Foot Krutch Throbbing Gristle ‘Til Tuesday Tin Machine Traffic Travellling Wilburys Tremolos, the Trucks Band, Derek Tycoon U2 U2 (duplicate not caught due to not being listed in the first recap) Ub40 Ugly Americans Ugly Kid Joe Ultravox Uncanny X-Men Uncle Bonsai UnderOath Undisputed Truth United States of America Univers Zero Urge Overkill Uriah Heep Utfo Vacant Fear Centre Van der Graaf Generator Van Halen Velvet Underground Vengaboys, the Ventures, the (duplicate, but replaced) Ventures, the Veruca Salt Verve, the Verve Pipe Village People Violent Femmes, the Vipers, the Vogues, the Vultures Wallenstein Wall of Voodoo War Weather Report Weavers, the Ween Weezer West, Bruce and Laing Whiskeytown Who, the Widespread Panic Wilco Willie and the Poor Boys Wolftone Woodentops, the X X (duplicate, but replaced) Xeno Xentrix XfactorX Xhol Xinlisupreme Xiu Xiu X-legged Sally 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 Y&T Yardbirds, the Yaz Yell County Yellow Balloon Yellowbelly Yellowcard yeP! Yes Yin Yang Twins Yog Sothoth Yo La Tengo Yonder Mountain String Band Youngbloods, the Zager & Evans Zebra Zebra (duplicate, neither caught nor replaced) Zebrahead Zen Tricksters, the Zephyr Zero Zig Zig Sputnik Zoetrope Zombies, the Zombies, the (duplicate, but replaced) Zwan Zydeco Dots Zydeco Flames ZZ Top ---
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The Ass Ponys ---
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B - **[Basque](http://www.basquemusic.com/)** ---
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**C** urved Air ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/413 "2006-01-28T02:46:17Z")
The **D** rifters ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/414 "2006-01-28T05:49:56Z")
Eurythmics ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/415 "2006-01-28T05:56:20Z")
Five for Fighting ---
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Grinderswitch ---
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**H** enry Cow ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/418 "2006-01-28T10:00:41Z")
Innocent Criminals, the (Ben Harper’s old band) ---
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**J** –Jean Loves Jezebel ---
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