*Names for Bands*

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[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I am tired of lame band names like Pearl Jam, Night Ranger, and The L.A. Guns (among others.) In College, My friend Phil and I came up with a list of better band names. Here for the first time on the freerepublic is our list of band names.

THE TIPPER GORE DREAM BAND
CULTURE GONE WRONG
THE RENO RANGERS
KENNY G IS DEAD
EVEN SERIAL KILLERS GET THE BLUES
THAT FUNKY CADEVAR
EAPENCIDE
NPR SLUT
FISHHEAD CHEESE
MY DYSLEXIC SLAP
SILBER SURFER
BETRAYL OF THE FLESH
SPIDER DROOL
GAY RAMBO
FRIENDLY FIRE
YOU'RE FIRED
THE AL SHARPTON EXPERIENCE
COBAIN'S BRAINS
BORGMARIGME
THE MEANDERS
FORGET-ME-KNOTS
CLEVER PUN NAME
WINDUP WORKERBEE
INSERT NAME HERE
TIANAMEN SQUAREDANCE
SAVANTE
ONLY A TREND
CRYPTOFASCHIST
INTERN-AL AFFRAIRS
LESBIAN CARPETBAGGER
POP INDIAN
STICKY WICKET
PLAGURISTIC URGE
NOBODY CARES
BARNUN
WE COULDN'T THINK OF A NAME
THROBBING DOMINATRIX
MY MOTHER THE CRACKWHORE
BASTARDLOVECHILD
C*CKSMOOCH
NAMBLA RANGERS
STINKY FINGER
COCO HOBO
WRONG NUMBER
THOSE TRANSVESTITE SENATORS
FRANKLY BARNEY
SNOTPUPPETS
GERBIL HERBALS
THAT FAT LESBIAN BLUES BAND
LUNGY
FOLLOW ME
SHEEP IN WOLVES' CLOTHING
TOYBOAT
RUBBER BABY BUMPER CAR
CHURCH OF ATHEISM
WHAT ARE THESE STRINGS FOR?
ARTIFICAL RESUCISATION
DRUNK BUSDRIVER
GIVE US YOUR MONEY
POSITIVELY NEATO
NEW CLICHE
SUBREFERENCE
KIDS ON FIRE
BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE
CREEPER'S JOE
EAST ME
MUSICIAN ANONYMOUS
SLEEPYTOWN GANG WAR
NIGHTMARY
ILLITERATE BOOKSTORE
TWISTED BY FATE
SARCOMA
SARCASTIC DISCIPLINE
BOY, DON'T YOU WISH YOU WERE US?
ADOBE ALBATROSS STEW
WACKALOONEY
MEEP
DEAD BOYS DON'T CRY
MORMONMANIA
IMAGINARY PLAYMATE
AIR GUITAR!
FAKED ORGANISM
WE'RE SO COOL
BUTTERMEAT
COMPULSARY
EWWWWWWWWW . . .
BETTER THAN CATS
RUBBER BALS AND LIQUOR
PING PONG BALLS
SUPPLIES
SIT. SIT. SIT. GOOD DOG.
SPINDLE
SLAUGHTERHOUSE 4 1/2
SLIPPERY EEL
REDUNANT REDUNDANT
TOOL & DIE
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL PARTY
CHOMP CHOMP BACHEWY CHOMP
ALGORELOSERAMA

[willyboyishere]

Walker, Taliban Ranger. (the 20 year old just captured fighting for the Taliban is thinking about this one....)

[BluesDuke]

I named my college trio Sinema. (We were kind of a hybrid between the blues and what was then called the New Wave style. I still like to play one of the songs I wrote for that band, which I've since rearranged considerably, a blues I called "I Ain't Complainin'".)

To be honest, I like the name Pearl Jam. I also thought Stone Temple Pilots a good name, not to mention such names as Nirvana, U2, and Icicle Works. I also thought names like Cream, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Brownsville Station, Vanilla Fudge (remember - I'm talking about just the band names, not the music!), King Crimson and Roxy Music were great band names, to say nothing of the Beatles. I'd like to put my own blues group together one more time; I'm tempted to call it something like Blue Snow...

[BluesDuke]

Come to think of it, I also like the name Insane Clown Posse. (I haven't heard the music, though...)

[gonzo]

Actually, Willa, I gave my nephew my favorite-name for a R&R band, simply because the albums named themselves!

The band-name was "Phallus", and the albums would be 'HARD', 'Coming-Strong', and 'Straight-Up', and for the re-hab album, 'Softly as I Leave You'!

I know - I'm a sick person - and I enjoy it! Smootches, sweetie! Give Joe a feel......FRegards

[BluesDuke]

You have just reminded me that an album in my library long ago (it was stolen during my college years) was Phallus Dei, by the German electronic experimenters known as Amon Duul II...(it was an import-only set; some of their stuff was released in the U.S., the best of which was the double-album set Dance of the Lemmings)...

[Tex-Con-Man]

The Oneders.

[NYCVirago]

Many, many years ago, I was up late one Friday night watching the show "Night Flight" on USA network. My mother walked into the room and asked who in the world that was on the TV. I said, "The Dead Kennedys". She got so furious; started yelling at me why ANYONE would name a band that?!?

That was a great show! They used to run the uncut version of Golden Earring's "When the Lady Smiles", with the lobotomy scene intact.

[BluesDuke]

An abbreviated version of the Won Hit Oneders? ;)

[F16Fighter]

Toast "Unplugged" -- Yeah, gets us there ;-)

BTW, like your quote of Tyler...

[NYCVirago]

Doctors' Mob (based on the first riot in colonial America)

I used to have one of their t-shirts! It had some slogan about "show up late, show up drunk, or don't show up at all."

[NYCVirago]

To be honest, I like the name Pearl Jam.

Weren't they originally called Mookie Blaylock? I briefly picked up that guy in my fantasy basketball team just because of that connection!

[rockfish59]

i never really liked steely dan.

[WackyKat]

Don't forget Kelly Bundy's favorite band: Burned Beyond Recognition.

[rockfish59]

i've got a lot of B&B on video. i fast forward the mostly SUCK videos that they show. i think judge had a group who found the worst videos made just to revolt us. lol! it works! my favorite characters are:

'mr. anderson' (the cops'll get the little bastards)
'buzzcut' (YOU ARE DISGUSTING MUTANTS!)
'tod' (i'll kick the crap out of you, you little schoolgirls)
'mc vicker', the principal (SHUT UP, SHUT THE HELL UP!)

uhhhh....huuh huh

[BluesDuke]

Weren't they originally called Mookie Blaylock? I briefly picked up that guy in my fantasy basketball team just because of that connection!

They might have been; I'm not entirely sure. I've known of crazier things than bands to be named for professional athletes. Once there was a racehorse named Rod Kanehl, in honour of a particularly daring-on-the-bases original New York Met outfielder. Babe Ruth was once said to have given his roommate, pitcher Wilcy Moore, a pair of donkeys as a prank, and Moore named one "Babe" and the other "Ruth". (Then again, turning a team's nickname on them can end up backfiring - just ask the Boston Red Sox pitcher who referred to Cincinnati's Big Red Machine as the Little Red Tinkertoy shortly before the 1975 World Series...)

[Centurion2000]

Right Wing Extremists - that should care the h#ll out of the soccer moms.
Gun toting, meat eating, Angry Christians - The true counterculture in America
Militiamen - Instant controversy
Death to Liberal Pukes - Definately a hard-rock band I would check out.

[Timesink]

Adolf Schicklgruber and the Rootless Cosmopolitans

That'd be a great name for a punk band.

[One4Indictment]

THE UGLY ESTRICH'S

[lavrenti]

Doctors' Mob started out as a neo-mod concoction until they opened for The Replacements. Their lives were changed from the experience.

The drummer was one of the funniest people I ever met. He had a tendency to walk on to the stage during their opening acts and just stand there like an idiot, next to the lead vocalist.

At a party for REM in 1985 he creeped Peter Buck out in a masterful barrage of put-downs. I had never seen—before or since—such a dressing-down.