# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/821 "2006-02-10T01:40:24Z")
O’Jays ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/822 "2006-02-10T01:46:56Z")
Pansy Division ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/823 "2006-02-10T02:56:38Z")
The Quintet of the Hot Club of France (Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli jazz group) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/824 "2006-02-10T03:30:23Z")
Rufus ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/825 "2006-02-10T04:11:23Z")
Screaming Cheetah Wheelies ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/826 "2006-02-10T04:21:02Z")
Tree63 ---
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Unicorn ---
**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:** [February 10, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/828 "2006-02-10T04:51:23Z")
**V** apourspace ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/829 "2006-02-10T05:08:28Z")
Wang Chung ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/830 "2006-02-10T05:08:30Z")
World Leader Pretend ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/831 "2006-02-10T05:52:00Z")
Xasthur ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xasthur](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xasthur)) ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/832 "2006-02-10T05:55:39Z")
Youth Group ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/833 "2006-02-10T08:30:36Z")
Zeno ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/834 "2006-02-10T13:49:04Z")
[Ace](http://tinyurl.com/b36el) (N.B. No, this isn’t Ace of Base – different group) ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/835 "2006-02-10T15:03:35Z")
I’m going to stop playing now. It’s been fun but I have to get on with my life. 🙂 I leave you with this list. It is the unused bands in my library in a spoiler box. Feel free to use them if you wish. (Sorry, none of the tough letters.) Good game!! Thanks, all. Acoustic Alchemy Alien Love Child Allgood Amboy Dukes Animal Logic Assembly Of Dust Automatic Man Babe Ruth Bellaphon (Dickie) Betts Band, the Big Brother And The Holding Company Big Sugar Billy & Liza Black Crowes, the Black Label Society Blind Melon Bloodline Blue Mountain Blue Murder Blues Traveler Boiled In Lead (Robert) Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise Breedlove (Edie) Brickell And The New Bohemians Brother Cane Brute (Jon) Butcher Axis, the Cactus Camel Candlebox Chase (Les) Claypool’s Flying Frog Brigade Climax Blues Band Collective Soul Colonel Claypool’s Bucket Of Bernie’s Brains Concrete Blonde (Chick) Corea’s Elektrik Band Count’s Jam Band Counting Crows Cracker Cream Crusaders, The (Jazz) Cry Of Love dada Dance With A Stranger (Charlie) Daniels Band, the Day By The River Dead, the Deep Banana Blackout (Karl) Denson’s Tiny Universe (Al) DiMeola Project, the Disco Biscuits Double Trouble Dreams Drovers, the (Graeme) Edge Band, the Electric Flag, the Emerson, Lake And Powell Faces Fiji Mariners, the Fishbone Flash (Bela) Fleck And The Flecktones Foxtrot Zulu Frogwings Funkadelic Go God Street Wine Golden Smog Grays, the Grease Band, the Greyboy All-Stars, the H Factor (Bruce) Hornsby And The Range Koerner/Murphy (Habib) Koite And Bamada Leftover Salmon (Phil) Lesh And Friends Leviathan Little Caesar Little Sister Little Village Loggins And Messina Lovemongers Mad Season Malo Mana Manfred Mann’s Earth Band Mannheim Steamroller (Frank) Marino And Mahogany Rush (Dave) Matthews Band, the (Pat) McGee Band, the Medeski, Martin And Wood Mighty Joe Plum (Steve) Miller Band, the Missouri Moby Grape Montrose Moodswings Morphine (Steve) Morse Band, the Mr. Big Nelson Neville Brothers, the New York Rock And Soul Revue, the Page/Plant (Tom) Petty And The Heartbreakers Poco Polyphonic Spree Pride And Glory Primus Project Z (Robert) Randolph And The Family Band Ratdog REO Speedwagon (Chris) Robinson And New Earth Mud Rotary Connection Royal Jelly Rusted Root Sagittarius Scorpions (Tom) Scott And The L.A. Express Sea Level (Bob) Seger And The Silver Bullet Band Seven Mary Three Shadowfax Shakti Simon And Garfunkel Sister 7 Sky Slang Small Faces Solar Circus Sopwith Camel Soulive Soundgarden Spin Doctors Spock’s Beard (Michael) Stanley Band, the Steppenwolf Stone Roses Stone Temple Pilots Storyville (Izzy) Stradlin And The Juju Hounds, Strangefolk Strunz And Farah Stuff Subdudes Taste Three Dog Night Toler Brothers, the Tower Of Power Trans-Siberian Orchestra Triumvirat (Robin) Trower Vaughan Brothers, the (Vince) Welnick And Missing Man Formation Wide Mouth Mason Wind Machine Wings (Johnny) Winter And (Paul) Winter Consort, the (Edgar) Winter’s White Trash ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/836 "2006-02-10T15:40:37Z")
Bangles ---
**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:** [February 10, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/837 "2006-02-10T16:04:02Z")
Course of Empire ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/838 "2006-02-10T16:12:47Z")
DC Talk ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/839 "2006-02-10T16:18:39Z")
[Euclid Beach Band](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll) ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/840 "2006-02-10T16:59:19Z")
**Friend and Lover** 60s band \*Reach Out of the Darkness \* was their hit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726.md?page=43)