The Voodoo Glow Skulls (no, seriously, I’m not just saying that to be different, they’re really great)
A local band I liked a lot in high school:
Fat Tortoise Butcher
The band name my friend and I picked out of This Book Sucks in jr. high and we still joke about:
Poison War Rats
Of course, everyone should know that, with the aforementioned Anal Cunt, the humor of their song titles vastly surpases that of their name. I believe they have a song called “You like Hootie and the Blowfish”
heh. A while back, SNL did a commercial parody for the soundtrack from the movie Valentine that had some really weird band names. Most of them are fake, but some of them are quite good and should be band names. Behold:
The Entire Population Of China (UK late seventies)
Peanut Butter Conspiracy & Ultimate Spinach (both US sixties psych)
‘Freur’, not the actual name but a the usual approximation of a band who named themselves with a squiggle long before TAFKAP did…
had a minor UK hit ‘Doot Doot’ in 1983.
Return Of The Living Acid (UK Techno early nineties)
Desperate Bicycles (UK Punk late seventies)
Engelbert Humperdinck (OK… not a band but…)
Ya Ya Littleman (named by band members who were imitating Arnold Schwarzenegger)
PooPoo PeePee Pants
JoJo and the Sixteen Screaming Niggers (My apologies if this offends. This one was mentioned in a column by fantasy writer Harlan Ellison)
Cocteau Twins
Tones on Tail
Dead Can Dance
Crunt
Steely Dan I’ll give ya, but Pink Floyd? I always heard Syd Barrett named the band after his favorite blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
There is a local band called The Rubber Band. Others that come to mind are:
** Bed and Breakfast
Cutting Crew
Mr.Mister
Counting Crows
The Outfield
Thompson Twins (The inspiration were the charaters from Tin Tin comics)**
