Puns in band names - can you think of any?

Cafe Society
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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

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Actually, you might want to re-read the OP…

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Beasts of Bourbon
James Blast Orchestra (now JBO after legal trouble)
Joint Venture

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OK, that one was in the OP… but well, that was eleven years ago!

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Rose Royce
Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes

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There’s an aging boomer rock band in a local retirement area (Sun City), called One Foot in the Grave.

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While Mägo de Oz (wïzard of oz) isn’t a pun per se, the umlaut is.

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Hey, eleven years is a long time. :slight_smile:

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It also refers to an electric light. This is made clear by the cover of their first album. So it’s both “Electric Light” Orchestra and Electric “Light Orchestra.”

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Yes, that was certainly the idea they wanted to get across…but the “pun” aspect is the obscure reference I mentioned.

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I haven’t seen The Ted Dancin Machine mentioned yet.

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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.

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I was going to mention The Motherfolkers, and then I saw that I already did… a long, long time ago.

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There’s also Judith Priest, I imagine you can guess who they’re a tribute to.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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One of my favorite ficticious names: Billy Rocca and the Rockabillies.

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Stryper? :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t know how I forgot this local RI Metal band from the late 80’s Wargasm.

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Thank you. It’s based on an old tongue twister.