That'd be a good name for a band

my fertile yet scary brain | 11/20/01 | Xenalyte

[Xenalyte]

Readers of Dave Barry are familiar with this one. When Barry finds a particularly felicitous turn of phrase, he notes that it'd be a good name for a band. (Some examples that come to mind are the Foliage Eaters, the Radioactive Muskrats, Ruth's Hat, the Ozone-Depleting Troglodytes, and one of my favorites, Pinot Noir and His Nuances of Toast.)

So, fellow FReeper Word Mavens and fans of Mr. Language Person, what have you found (both on FR and in your real lives) that would make a good name for a band? (Feel free to include Barry's contributions, if you know any.)

[-YYZ-]

Spontaneous Human Combustion

[MarkL]

Here are a few bands I've known or been in:

Henschel Skully

Silverleaf

Excaliber

Generic Porno Blondes

and (my favorite)

Phydeaux and the Carcinoma Angels (that's pronounced Fido)

Mark

[MarkL]

"The Meat-Helmets"

There was (or is) a band in the midwest called "The Four Skins."

Mark

[knews_hound]

The Throbbing Members

is an actual band

[Johnny Gage]

A friend had a tape by a band called "Throbbing Gristle"
The first track was narration and military sound effects.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

This list of potential band names (some may actully be bands) comes for the current list of teams registered for the 2002 24 Hours of Snowshoe mountain bike relay race:

Absurd Circus
Advanced Rehab
Bad Idea
Bent Wookies
Big Lead Pipes
Bite Our Shiny Metal Asses
Blood, Sweat, and Beers
Blue Spotted Chickens
Boll Weevil
Burning Spears of Truth
Chicken Cheater Faces
Christmas at Satan's
Conundrum
Creosote
Crime and Punishment
Death Drinks A Pale Ale
Dewey, Crankem & Howe, LLP
Dirty Divas
Dr. Evil & The "Awesome" Powers
Drooling Prune Sucking Geezers
Dung Beetle
Eight Feet Under
Eight Nuts and No Balls
Elvi (The Four Kings)
Enter the Draggin
Evil Bonbons
Fat & Happy
Feeble Four
Fighting Hellfish
Five Dizzy Wombats
Flying Squirrels
Good Karma
Graveyard Shifters
Hammer Heads
Heave
Heavy Duty Lube
Hells Satans
Hugh Jass
Human Speedbumps
Jabberwockies
Jesus Freaks
Kwitcherbitchen
Left My Chubby Hubby
Local Yokels
Mamma I Feel The Ground Shakin'
Maximus
Mental Anguish
Miles Apart
Missing Link
Motrin Marauders
Mud Maidens
Naked Iguanas
Nocturnal Emissions
Not Quite Right
Nuckin' Futs
Numb Jimmys
One Long Member
One Nut Too Many
Original Rock Star
Oxygen Debt
Passed on the Left
Peach Fuzz
Pink Elephants
Pink Flamingo & The Spastic Gastri
Pirate Airways
Plan B
Raging Platypus
Red Headed Step Children
Ribbed for Her Pleasure
Rodents of Unusual Size
Smelly Fish
Soul Chickens
Spam Eatin Monkey Spankers
Stop, Drop 'n Roll
Superfriends
Taint Sore Abit
The Gimp's Sleepin'
The Short Bus
Throttle Twisters
Tribal Fury
Two A.M. & Truckin'
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks
Ugly Coyote
Uncaged
Wilderness Voyeurs
Wood Weasels
Wreckless Intentions

-- Not registered yet this year, but a past team that has always been a crowd favorite:

Botulism

[Palmetto]

My Chemical Engineering college roommate returned from lab one day and announced he had discovered a great name for his band:

Mother Liquor.

I just looked at him and shook my head.

[evolved_rage]

"Removed by Moderator" is a great name for a band

[Xenalyte]

Oh, hell, what'd he remove? I missed it!

[evolved_rage]

"Removed by Moderator" is a great name for a band

Just the numerous removals struck me as the ideal band name. But then again, I think the "Dead Kennedys" is the best name ever...

[Cloud William]

Just the numerous removals struck me as the ideal band name. But then again, I think the "Dead Kennedys" is the best name ever...

Speaking of, there used to be a local band working the New Orleans nightspots whose name always cracked me up:

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

[edwin hubble]

Billed as the "best garage band in Southern California"

Severe Tire Damage

[RobFromGa]

Axis of Evil
Hanoi John
and my favorite, The Disgruntled Swiftboat Crew

[hummingbird]

The Quagmires

[killjoy]

But then again, I think the "Dead Kennedys" is the best name ever...

Dayglow Abortions. Great band.

[Xenalyte]

[lawgirl]

I always thought "my grandmother" would be a great name for 1) a band (My Grandmother ROCKS!) and/or 2) an athletic team (we got our @sses kicked by My Grandmother!)