# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/122 "2016-12-15T07:15:53Z")
And … Louis Tillet’s band - The Aspersion Cast Seminal punk band The Saints spawned a splinter group that didn’t invite the lead singer - toured as The Aints. Vulgar Beat Men ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/123 "2016-12-15T07:30:56Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Did I miss a mention of The Beatles? > [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Nope, but you beat me to it. Actually, you might want to re-read the OP… ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/124 "2016-12-15T07:56:06Z")
Beasts of Bourbon James Blast Orchestra (now JBO after legal trouble) Joint Venture ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/125 "2016-12-15T07:57:28Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Beasts of Bourbon OK, that one was in the OP… but well, that was eleven years ago! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/126 "2016-12-15T11:19:31Z")
Rose Royce Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/127 "2016-12-15T12:28:22Z")
There’s an aging boomer rock band in a local retirement area (Sun City), called **One Foot in the Grave.** ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/128 "2016-12-15T13:14:42Z")
While Mägo de Oz (wïzard of oz) isn’t a pun per se, the umlaut is. ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/129 "2016-12-15T13:52:43Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Aye; [you mentioned that](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6557951&postcount=27). > > Are you and [**Northern Piper**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813700) feeling okay? 😛 Hey, eleven years is a long time. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 15, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/130 "2016-12-15T13:55:44Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Electric Light Orchestra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Light_Orchestra#Name) is a pun / reference to “light orchestras”, which were popular in England up through the 1960s, playing “[light music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_music).” It also refers to an electric light. This is made clear by [the cover of their first album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Light_Orchestra_(album)#/media/File:ElectricLightOrchestranoanswer.jpg). So it’s both “Electric Light” Orchestra and Electric “Light Orchestra.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/131 "2016-12-15T14:05:01Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I always thought that “Average White Band” was along the lines of “Five Man Electrical Band.” Just kind of a “truth in advertising” name. Yes, that was certainly the idea they wanted to get across…but the “pun” aspect is the obscure reference I mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/132 "2016-12-15T14:32:16Z")
I haven’t seen The Ted Dancin Machine mentioned yet. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/133 "2016-12-15T17:06:45Z")
My band is called The Smart Fellers. Not a pun, but a spoonerism. We call our pianist Carrie Hunt. (Not really- she’d kill us.) Amazing how many people don’t get it. We get called The Smart Fellas, The Smart Fellows, etc. It’s funny when folks DO get it. The look of dawning comprehension is priceless. I’ve been thinking of taking the stage name Charlie Foxtrot. There used to be a band around here called The Uncalled Four. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/134 "2016-12-15T18:41:37Z")
I was going to mention The Motherfolkers, and then I saw that I already did… a long, _long_ time ago. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/135 "2016-12-15T18:54:43Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > The all-female Iron Maiden tribute band is The Iron Maidens There’s also Judith Priest, I imagine you can guess who they’re a tribute to. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/136 "2016-12-15T20:03:29Z")
> [@Jumpbass](#): > > My band is called The Smart Fellers. Not a pun, but a spoonerism. We call our pianist Carrie Hunt. (Not really- she’d kill us.) Amazing how many people don’t get it. We get called The Smart Fellas, The Smart Fellows, etc. It’s funny when folks DO get it. The look of dawning comprehension is priceless. I was in a spoonerism “band,” for a month or so in high school – Dain Bramage. Yours was much better, since it still has meaning either way. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/137 "2016-12-15T20:05:59Z")
As for Average White Band…there’s also their _visual_ pun (of sorts) – the “W” on their album covers stylized to resemble a curvaceous woman’s derriere. Even as an eight-year-old, I could tell that was titillating and rather naughty. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/138 "2016-12-15T22:39:07Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I was in a spoonerism “band,” for a month or so in high school – Dain Bramage. Yours was much better, since it still has meaning either way. Yeah, I would never in a million years have recognized Smart Fellers as a purposeful spoonerism for “Fart Smellers.” I mean, it is, but it works the regular way that if it was ever pointed out to me, I would have thought it accidental/coincidence. Well played. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/139 "2016-12-16T02:42:06Z")
One of my favorite ficticious names: Billy Rocca and the Rockabillies. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/140 "2016-12-16T03:28:26Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > There’s also Judith Priest, I imagine you can guess who they’re a tribute to. Stryper? 😛 I don’t know how I forgot this local RI Metal band from the late 80’s Wargasm. ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613/141 "2016-12-16T16:34:22Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I was in a spoonerism “band,” for a month or so in high school – Dain Bramage. Yours was much better, since it still has meaning either way. > [@](#): > > **pulkamell** sez: Yeah, I would never in a million years have recognized Smart Fellers as a purposeful spoonerism for “Fart Smellers.” I mean, it is, but it works the regular way that if it was ever pointed out to me, I would have thought it accidental/coincidence. Well played. Thank you. It’s based on an old tongue twister. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puns-in-band-names-can-you-think-of-any/320613.md?page=8)