# 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:** 45
**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 12, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/881 "2006-02-12T20:20:36Z")
The **O** ther Ones ---
**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 12, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/882 "2006-02-12T20:23:26Z")
Premiata Forneria Marconi (aka P.F.M.) – Italy’s greatest rock group. ---
**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 12, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/883 "2006-02-12T23:44:48Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Premiata Forneria Marconi (aka P.F.M.) – Italy’s greatest rock group. Ooh, good one–though I personally might give that title to Banco or Deus Ex Machina (whose “Exordium” is one of the most mind-blowing songs I’ve ever heard in my life). **Q** uiver (made two albums under that name before they became “Sutherland Brothers and Quiver”) ---
**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 13, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/884 "2006-02-13T00:37:02Z")
Rhinoceros Well, I meant that PFM was the only Italian group to have success outside of Italy. BTW, they’re named for a bakery that originally sponsored them. ---
**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 13, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/885 "2006-02-13T01:00:53Z")
Social Distortion ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/886 "2006-02-13T02:39:30Z")
The Troggs ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/887 "2006-02-13T02:58:48Z")
USA for Africa ---
**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 13, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/888 "2006-02-13T03:05:58Z")
[The Violettes.](http://tinyurl.com/blmhg) ---
**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 13, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/889 "2006-02-13T04:50:01Z")
**W** apassou ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/890 "2006-02-13T06:30:43Z")
X-Clan ---
**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 13, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/891 "2006-02-13T15:26:43Z")
[Yellow Swans](http://tinyurl.com/7o2h5) ---
**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 13, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/892 "2006-02-13T16:08:20Z")
[**Z** appatistas](http://www.johnetheridge.com/zappa/) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/893 "2006-02-13T16:15:28Z")
Average White Band (AWB) ---
**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 13, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/894 "2006-02-13T16:41:10Z")
[Blue Nile](http://tinyurl.com/d4u8w) ---
**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:** [February 13, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/895 "2006-02-13T19:13:26Z")
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen ---
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Downhere ---
**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 13, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/897 "2006-02-13T20:11:30Z")
Every Mother’s Son ---
**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 13, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/898 "2006-02-13T21:10:12Z")
Flesh for Lulu Gaye Bykers on Acid ---
**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 13, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/899 "2006-02-13T21:40:42Z")
**H** orslips ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/900 "2006-02-13T21:57:57Z")
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