# Puns in band names - can you think of any? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613 "2005-09-08T02:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marky33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@marky33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marky33)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/1 "2005-09-08T02:56:16Z")
Discussing the rockumentary Dig the other day, we wondered at how both bands featured - Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dandy Warhols - had puns as names when there were so few others that do. The only others we managed to think of were The Beatles and Beasts of Bourbon – but there must be others. What are they? btw, we discounted U2 because it could just be the name of a spy plane, which just happens to sound like “you too”. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/2 "2005-09-08T03:00:49Z")
Dread Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/3 "2005-09-08T03:06:03Z")
You Too? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/4 "2005-09-08T03:07:05Z")
Dam!! Missed that discounted thing :o ---
**Author:** ![marky33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@marky33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marky33)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/5 "2005-09-08T03:12:44Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Dread Zeppelin … other than tribute bands. (Dread Zepp is a tribute band, isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/6 "2005-09-08T03:22:33Z")
Lipps, Inc. Timbuk 3 The Newlydeads Kathleen Turner Overdrive and my favorite: Shitty Shitty Band Band ---
**Author:** ![Flipstrip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f6c823/32.png) [@Flipstrip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipstrip)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/7 "2005-09-08T03:29:47Z")
The Ditty Twisters. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/8 "2005-09-08T03:36:21Z")
Extreme might qualify. As I recall, the some of the members were from a group called ‘Dream.’ Extreme = Ex-Dream. Yes? No? Maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/9 "2005-09-08T03:38:53Z")
The Band? ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/10 "2005-09-08T03:40:13Z")
Sinomatic (Cinematic, Sin-o-matic…eh, either way, they were FAR better than Buckcherry when I saw them at the House of Blues). ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/11 "2005-09-08T03:46:30Z")
There was once a band named “Thunderpussy” that played at a local club. Maybe there’s another somewhere called “Octaball.” ---
**Author:** ![marky33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@marky33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marky33)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/12 "2005-09-08T03:48:30Z")
> [@Hung Mung](#): > > Sinomatic . For some reason that reminded me of another: Sunscreem. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/13 "2005-09-08T03:51:33Z")
Not a pun, _per se_, but the Ben Folds Five had only three members. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/14 "2005-09-08T03:58:07Z")
Has anybody read _A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_? It has a whole bunch of them. I remember JFKFC and Scott Beowulf. I think there was a Robert Downey Jr. Mint in there, or something like it. A bunch of good ones. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/15 "2005-09-08T03:59:17Z")
I meant to add that those aren’t _real_ band names, but someone may have appropriated them since then. They’re good ideas, anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/16 "2005-09-08T04:09:56Z")
_Contraband_ _Sniff and the Tears_ ---
**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/17 "2005-09-08T04:14:59Z")
Mary Tyler Morphine Apocalypstick Apocalypso Trepanned Nation Jehovah’s Waitresses Jehovah’s Witness Protection Program Jesus Chrysler Supercar And my personal favorite: Jim Jones and the Kool Aid Kids. I actually lived with their lead singer for a couple years in college. This was after they had broken up. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/18 "2005-09-08T04:27:59Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Lipps, Inc. Dude. I never got that until now. Am I the only one who totally didn’t get the joke? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/19 "2005-09-08T05:11:52Z")
Isn’t there a band called the Goblin Cocks? ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/20 "2005-09-08T05:31:26Z")
A certain member of this message board was in bands called **Pornado** and **The Diarrhea of Anne Frank**. (It wasn’t me. I’m not that clever.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613.md?page=2)