# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/161 "2006-01-20T23:27:07Z")
Old 97’s ---
**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 20, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/162 "2006-01-20T23:27:12Z")
The Outlaws ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/163 "2006-01-20T23:39:57Z")
**P** oi Dog Pondering ---
**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 20, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/164 "2006-01-20T23:56:56Z")
'Kay, since we’re a few pages in and it’s getting a bit hard to scroll through every post, and duplicates are happening more often, let’s take a moment to summarize the band names thus far: Alphaville Blur (the) Clash Depeche Mode Eagles Flying Burrito Brothers Gov’t Mule Housemartins Indigo Girls Jo Jo Gun Journey (the) Kinks (the) La’s Max Webster Nirvana Orleans (the) Police Quarterflash (the) Rolling Stones (the) Rutles Sha-Na-Na Sugarloaf Sly and the Family Stone Temptations Uriah Heep (the) Ventures Widespread Panic X XTC Yo La Tengo ZZ Top Allman Brothers Band Blondie Captain Beefheart Dio Electric Light Orchestra Foghat Genesis Heart It’s a Beautiful Day Idle Race Jimmie’s Chicken Shack Kansas Lynyrd Skynyrd (the) Move (the) Nazz Orgy Pixies Queen Radiohead Sparks Travellling Wilburys Ub40 Weezer Xzibit Yes (the) Zombies Abba Barkenaked Ladies Candidate Earth, Wind & Fire (the) Fugs the Go-Gos Garbage / Goldfrapp (the) Hi-Fives It’s a Beautiful Day (again – but replaced with…) Icicle Works (the) Jets Klaatu Los Lobos Mudvayne (the) Nylons (the) Ohio Players Pentagle Quicksilver Messenger Service Ride Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes Thievery Corporation Velvet Underground Whiskeytown X (again but replaced with… Xscape Yellowbelly (the) Yardbirds Zebra Asia Air Supply Black Eyed Peas (the) Commodores the dBs (the) Electric Prunes (the) Feelies (the) Guess Who Hayseed Dixie Interpol Jethro Tull B. B. King (who, being s a solo act, shouldn’t count!) Little River Band Metallica New Riders of the Purple Sage Oleander Phish Qkumba Zoo (the) Real Mackenzies (the) Strokes Thompson Twins (the) Ventures (‘nother duplicate – replaced by… Vacant Fear Centre Wilco Xiu Xiu Neil Young (okay, NO MORE SOLO ACTS) Zig Zig Sputnki Audioslave Bananarama Carmel (the) Dead Kennedys (the) John Entwistle Band (Neal) Ford and the Fanatics Grateful Dead Happy the Man If Joan Jett (Uhhhh, I give up) Kassabian Lucscious Jackson Meco New Order One Bad Pig Particle (the) Quarrymen R.E.M. (the) Skatalites Traffic Ultravox (the) Violent Femmes Wall of Voodoo Wolftone Xymox (the) Youngbloods (the) Zombies (‘nother duplicate – replaced by…) Zydeco Flames Abba (‘nother duplicate, no one caught it though) Blackmore’s Rainbow Cantabile Deaf School Elbow Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Fountains of Wayne (the) Go-Go’s (duplicate – replaced by… Gin Blossoms Harvey Danger Iron Butterfly (the) Jackson Five King Crimson Live Morcheeba (the) New Seekers (the) Outlaws Poi Dog Pondering and let me just add… **Quartermass** ---
**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 21, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/165 "2006-01-21T00:00:02Z")
The Replacements ---
**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 21, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/166 "2006-01-21T00:04:44Z")
Talking Heads ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/167 "2006-01-21T00:06:48Z")
The **S** ilver Jews ---
**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:** [January 21, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/168 "2006-01-21T00:11:05Z")
Tycoon ---
**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 21, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/169 "2006-01-21T00:15:58Z")
Ooops. My bad! I just realized I skipped ‘S’. ---
**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 21, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/170 "2006-01-21T00:18:02Z")
Uncanny X-Men (Australian punk band) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/171 "2006-01-21T00:18:17Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Ooops. My bad! I just realized I skipped ‘S’. :smack: This made me post a “T” group. Anyways: Undisputed Truth ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/172 "2006-01-21T00:19:02Z")
**Art V.** – Hey now, pull up there! I’m not saying you’ve got to make tentative decisions, but… are you on drugs? 'S’Okay, I don’t really mind, and it’s not like I have no compassion. People like us music freaks can’t wait to post, 'cause memories can’t wait, and it’s like electricity, even if we catch a warning sign, risk an overload on the servers, or start acting like psycho killers. So let’s just call it a clean break (we all deserve one once in a lifetime), and start over, big daddy, at the letter “U,” okay? 😃 This post was obviously made by another Talking Heads fan, under the influence of caffeine. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/173 "2006-01-21T00:19:18Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Uncanny X-Men (Australian punk band) Dammit! Village People ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/174 "2006-01-21T00:21:47Z")
The **W** oodentops ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/175 "2006-01-21T00:26:08Z")
I’m gonna plug in XTC here, because it was a double-post in the first round – so I think we should still be allowed to use it. XTC ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/176 "2006-01-21T00:40:07Z")
**Y** ellowcard ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/177 "2006-01-21T01:46:26Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Abba (‘nother duplicate, no one caught it though) Just so you know - I did a “search this forum” first, and it told me there were no matching occurances. nyah. I got an “M” and a “U” waiting. wake me up when it’s that turn. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/178 "2006-01-21T03:14:36Z")
[Zwan](http://www.mtv.com/music/#/music/artist/zwan/artist.jhtml) ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/179 "2006-01-21T03:20:48Z")
Ace Of Base ---
**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:** [January 21, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-the-the-abc-band-name-game/340726/180 "2006-01-21T03:22:19Z")
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