# Most obvious/straightforward rock band name that does not have a notable representative. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299 "2010-03-12T21:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/61 "2010-03-14T19:43:44Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Toad the Wet Sprocket was originally the name of an imaginary band in a Monty Python “rock news” bit, so it was probably inevitable that someone would name their real band after it. I wouldn’t be surprised if there had been other Toad the Wet Sprockets who just never made it past the garage band level. The first time I heard the name “Toad the Wet Sprocket”, I was reminded of the story of what happened when Coca Cola was first marketed in China. They (allegedly) chose Chinese characters that phonetically represented the syllables Co-ca-co-la. Unfortunately, those characters also happened to represent the nonsensical phrase, “bite the wax tadpole”. I sort of assumed “Toad the Wet Sprocket” was the same kind of thing - a bad, literal translation of some language into English, such as you sometimes get when pasting Asian text into a machine-translation site. Let’s see… we have (or had) a local cover band called Salmon Dave. My old band’s name was pretty obvious, I thought, though I don’t think anybody else has used it: Ponophobic 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/62 "2010-03-14T19:50:39Z")
Is The Exploding Iron Penises taken? That one’s pretty obvious. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/63 "2010-03-14T20:31:23Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > The first time I heard the name “Toad the Wet Sprocket”, I was reminded of the story of what happened when Coca Cola was first marketed in China. They (allegedly) chose Chinese characters that phonetically represented the syllables Co-ca-co-la. Unfortunately, those characters also happened to represent the nonsensical phrase, “bite the wax tadpole”. [hijack] Not quite - I thought the same thing, too - even learned it at a top business school - but [Snopes set me straight](http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tadpole.asp)… [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/64 "2010-03-15T18:02:50Z")
I’ve thought that “Medical Waste” would be fine name for a Seattle based post-neo-grunge-metal band. No such group listed at AllMusic. (They do list a “Municipal Waste” though. Don’t ever mess with a band in waste management, if you know what I mean.) ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/65 "2010-03-16T00:17:02Z")
I think Skankbait would be a great name for a band. My brother-in-law was in a group called Three Orange Whips, which, I guess, means that one has been used. I was once in a band with a guy who had been prevented from joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints because the elders believed he was just joining to meet spend time with a girl who was already in the church (he was, in fact.) We named the band Excommunicated Mormons. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/66 "2010-03-16T02:18:48Z")
No one’s done “Token Sane Man” or “The Jewish Space Lizards” so far, so I’m taking them. Not that I’m likely to be starting a rock band, but if I do I want you to remember that I called it first. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299/67 "2010-03-16T02:23:30Z")
AFAIK, there has never been a band named “The Musicians.” If there were, the bass drum should have a UPC barcode on it. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-obvious-straightforward-rock-band-name-that-does-not-have-a-notable-representative/532299.md?page=3)