Wang Chung
Band names I’ve considered…
Orthodox Taramites
Amorphous Mushroom Men
Pangean Goat Lords
The artist was just called Lucas.
IIRC, the song and the album was called “Lucas with the Lid Off”.
Gaye Bikers used to have an alter-ego band, where all the band members would wear drag.
This band was known as “Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds”
Its probably more to do with the fact I hate them, and other bands that spell their names in a wacky way. Except hiphop bands. for shizzle.
OK. I must be a moron. What is the pun in The Beatles?
The Right? No, but if you knew anything about the Punk movement, you’d know that extreme irreverence was paramount to the whole thing. “The Dead Kennedys”? Doesn’t get much more irreverent than that.
If it pisses you off, then they’ve accomplished exactly what they intended.
Here’re a couple of local band names I like:
Oklahomos
Dung Beatles
Here’s a real conversation I had with someone once:
Him: You’re going to see Who tonight?
Me: No. Yes.
Him: Who?
Me: Yes.
Him: Oh. Yes.
Arrrrgh!
The SXSW music festivalis starting up soon, and the site (http://www.sxsw.com) has the band listings up. Haven’t heard of most of them myself, but get the giggles reading some of the names.
Actually I kind of like “The Presidents Of The United States Of America” for a name.
But for some stupid names:
All those 70’s bands that sounded like science fiction movies, e.g. “The Alan Parsons Project”.
Or like law firms: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Hall and Oates
Names that don’t seem to mean anything at all. There was, may still be, a local band in Santa Monica called “Monkafust”. At first I thought it was “Monkeyfist”, at least that made a weird sort of sense. But “Monkafust”? What’s that?
I honestly didn’t notice it until I was almost 30, but the pun surrounds the fact that the correct spelling for the insect is “beetle”. They just replaced the “beet” with “beat”.
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA ha ha…ha…ahem.
Buddy Holly had the Crickets. The lads punned that to the Beetles, but with a rock and roll beat. Hence, The Beatles.
This reminds me of an episode of Eight is Enough (yes, I’m old) where the father (Dick Van Patten) and the youngest son were doing a skit that paralleled the old “Who’s on first?” bit. The two characters in the skit were attending a concert with three stages. On stage one was The Who, on stage two was Yes, and on stage three was The Band.
Hilarity ensued.
Much like the term ‘rock-n-roll’, the popular term at the time for The Beatles style of music was beat music. They were a beat group - hence “The Beatles”
Howyadoin,
There’s a local act called something like “The Paul Richman Duo”…
Kinda sucks to be the other guy, eh? I’ll betcha he thinks his band’s name is really stupid 
-Rav
Way before Eight is Enough, in the late 60s or early 70s, one of the classic comedy groups of the time did a parody using “Who” “Guess Who” and “Yes”.
I want to say the Ace Trucking Company, which featured a very young Fred Willard, but I can’t find confirmation of that.
What, no Pearl Jam?
Five for Fighting is pretty stupid. Especially for such a pussy band.
Although the name of my band is Sex Power, so I am not really one to talk.
Only glimpsed it briefly about fifteen years ago…
but it’s (shudder) never left me…
a local band advertising itself on a xeroxed poster stuck on a utility pole in Lakewood, Washington…
Give it up, ladies and gentlemen, for the Defecated Corpses!
What if one could make jam out of pearls. What do you think it would look like?
coff coff sperm coff coff
!!!
Yea, that is right, !!!.
I do not even know how to say it, but there you go!!!
Prefab Sprout
Men without Hats
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Inspiral Carpets
Living in a Box
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
They Must be Russians
The Pop Group
The Band