As you all know, today bands get funny names. No more the simple "Beatles", "Queen', "A-Ha", "Metallica" and similar ones. Today you get more sophisticated (or simply longer and harder to say) names. For instance, Evanescence - what's the name for?
Now come the good names. Post as many funny ones as you can:
1) If Pigs Could Fly (Talk?) Would You Still Eat Them?
Note: I'm Jewish.
2) HIV and the Positives
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Real names or ones we come up with?
Posted by ginette (Member # 852) on :
I heard a nice name for a yacht that was obviously bought with illegal money, it was called FishKiss.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I always like the NoFX spinoff/cover-parody group Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
-Bok
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
In the '60s, there was a band called "Strawberry Alarm Clock". Beat that, you modern indie whiners! Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but a song xisted in the 60s: "Yackety yack, blah blah blah blah; yackety yack, blah blah blah blah. That's all I hear from you: Yackety yack, blah blah blah blah..."
Band, name of song?
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I've always had a special place in my heart for the name "The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band."
*goes off humming "Urban Spaceman"*
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
I was in a band briefly called "Sprouting Athena." That was funny.
There was a band here in Minnesota for a long time called the Wet Spots. Sick and wrong, but funny.
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
In my high school, I seem to remember there briefly existed a band called the Breast Strokers. They tried to get around the disapproval of the administration by claiming it was a swimming reference, but it didn't work.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
The The.
Toad the Wet Sproket.
William Hung.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Donna the Buffalo
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
A group from my town as the Rainbow Butt Monkeys before they changed their name to Finger 11.
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
I always liked Skabba the Hutt and Mephiskapholes. Though Nerf Herder is a good one, too.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Evanescence is the ability to evanesce (disappear, fade, vanish...)
My Dad used to be in a band called "Mixed Nuts".
Recently some friends of mine decided to start a band. After their first practice they considered calling it "Hopeless".
I also think "Barenaked Ladies" is a funny name for a band. Especially considering they are four fully clothed men.
[ November 11, 2004, 12:06 PM: Message edited by: Eruve Nandiriel ]
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
kinda like Violent Femmes - not women and not particularly violent....
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
In high school, I had a friend who really wanted to start a band called Kick Axe. He was heartbroken when we were looking in the $1 bin at a store and found the tape of band already called that.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
A roommate of mine once went to a concert by a local band that called themselves the Scrotum Poles. Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
I always wanted to start an Irish music band called "Drunker Than You," so we could come out on stage and say, "Good evening, we're Drunker Than You."
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
We had a band here in the late 80's called Schnell Fenster (German for Fast Window!) Real good band too.
[ November 11, 2004, 01:26 PM: Message edited by: Cashew ]
Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
Some greats:
Tonto's Expanding Headband The Flying Burrito Brothers Juicy Bananas The Dead Kennedys Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Snake Oil Medicine Show ? and the Mysterians The Trogs
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
A great one I heard recently is Scary Kids Scaring Kids. I haven't heard their music yet but I need to listen to them just based on that name.
Posted by keepsmilin (Member # 6607) on :
well i like the band "no use for a name" i think the name "death cab for cutie" is a pretty entertaining band name too, although they're great.
Posted by Johnny Lee Wombat (Member # 7021) on :
Best band name ever is 'MC 900 foot Jesus'.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Fully Clothed Men Dirty Sweat Socks Hairy Palms Bad Toupe
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Lost Ashes!! You know Snake Oil??
Another band name: The Butthole Surfers. Cute one.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I like "HaDag Nachash," which translates to "The Fish Snake," or "The Fish is a Snake." I never understood that one... Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
[ November 11, 2004, 04:30 PM: Message edited by: James Tiberius Kirk ]
Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
"HaDag Nachash" should actually be "Dag HaNachash", according to proper Hebrew; not that anyone cares these days. The translation would be: The Serpent's Fish. But I never liked rap. It has a silent "c"...
Edit: and a Pirate Name Generator that was listed on a napkin (don't know the restaurant - a friend gave it to me)
[ November 11, 2004, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: Brian_Berlin ]
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
ACDC Goo Goo Dolls Flogging Molly Fat Boy Slim The Ataris and my favorite: Reel Big Fish
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
I don't like rap either.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
>[ a ] >Albino Toilet Boys >Alcoholocaust >Alcoholics Unanimous >Apocalypse Hoboken >Armageddon Dildos > >[ b ] >Biff Hitler and the Violent Mood Swings >The Band Formerly Known As Sausage >Band Over >Band That Shot Liberty Valence >Barbara's Bush >Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits >The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir >The Boxing Ghandis >Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre >Breakfast in Beruit >Bulimia Banquet >Buster Hymen & the Penetrators > >[ c ] >Caltransvestites >Cap'n Crunch and the Cereal Killers >Carnage Asada >Cindy Brady's Lisp >Cortizone 5 >Cottage Cheese from the Lips of Death > >[ d ] >The Dancing French Liberals of 1848 >The Dead Sea Squirrels >The Dead Kennedys >The Dick Clarks >The Dick Nixons >Dicky Retardo >Drunks With Guns > >[ e ] >e. coli >Edith Head >Electric Prostates >Elvis Hitler >Ethyl Merman > >[ f ] >Fearless Iranians From Hell >Fields of Shit >'57 Lesbian >The 4-Skins >Four Nurses of the Apocalypse >The French are from Hell >Fromage d'Amour > >[ g ] >Gefilte Joe and the Fish >Gonoreagan > >[ h ] >Headless Marines >Hell Camino >Herpes Cineplex >Hindu Garage Sale >Hitler's Bikini >HIV and the Positives >Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives >Hornets Attack Victor Mature > >[ i ] >Impaled Nazarenes >Inhale Mary > >[ j ] >Janitors Against Apartheid >Jehovah's Waitresses >Jehovah's Wetness >Jehovah's Witness Protection Program >Jesus Christ Super Fly >Jesus Chrysler Supercar >Jesus Manson and the Starvation Army >JFKFC >Jonestown Punch > >[ k ] >Kathleen Turner Overdrive >Kerrigan's Knees > >[ l ] >Lack of Afro >Lawn Piranhas >The Leave It To Beaver Conehead Immolation >Lee Harvey Keitel >Lesbian Ninjas >Louder Than God > >[ m ] >Mao Tse Helen >Mary Kay and the Cosmetics >Max Roach and the Holders >Minnie Pearl's Jam >Mr. Happy and the Genocides >Mussolini Headkick >My Dog Has Hitler's Brain > >[ n ] >Nate Nocturnal and the Nightly Emissions >Nervous Christians and the Lions >Norman Bates and the Shower Heads >Not Drowning, Waving > >[ p ] >Pabst Smear >Pearl Harbor and the Explosions >Penis DeMilo >Pepto Dismal >Phenobarbidols >Phlegm Fatale >Poultry in Motion >Pretentious Flamedogs >The Pro-Midget Mafia >Psychic Buddhist Gorillas >Psycho Sluts from Hell >Pungent Frustration >Purple Headed Love Warriors > >[ r ] >Raging Pimps of Doom >Rectal Nightmare >Reluctant Stereotypes >Reserectum >Results of Inbreeding >Retarted Elf >Roid Rogers and the Whirling Butt Cherries > >[ q ] >Quasimodo and the Eunuchs > >[ s ] >Sandy Duncan's Eye >Screaming Headless Torsos >Screaming Iguanas of Love >Screaming Moist Accountants >Septic Death >Seven Year Bitch >The Shamu Afterbirth Orchestra >Shirley Temple of Doom >Shirley Temple Pilots >Simulated Orgasms [Simulerte Orgasmer] >Skeptic Tank >Smegma & the Nuns >Smorgasborgnine >Solosex >The Sound of Munich >Spastic Colon >The Sphinctones >Stiff Richards >Stukas Over Bedrock >Swingin' Johnsons > >[ t ] >Ted Bundy's Volkswagen >The Telephony Bandits of Doom >Temporary Darkening of the Stool >Testostertones >The Texas Nazis >Thank God We're Immortal >They Tried To Frame OJ >To Live and Shave in LA >Toxic Shock and the Tampons >Tracy & the Hindenburg Ground Crew >Tragic Mulatto >Transsexual Hitler >Trotsky Icepick > >[ u ] >Uncle Dickie's Shameless Quickies >Unstoppable Kamikaze Iditos > >[ v ] >Vaginal Davis >The Velcro Pygmies >Vic Morrow's Head > >[ w ] >The Well Hungarians >Willie Nelson Mandela > >[ y ] >Yoko Homo > >[ z ] >Zip Code Rapists >Zombies Under Stress >Zulu Leprechauns
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
And the name of my band, if I ever have one:
The Bury 'em Enigmas
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
One of my very good friends has a band called "ADD."
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
There's the semi-instrumentalist surf-rock concept band called "Man, or Astro-man?"
There's a pretty funny "back story" behind the name. Good music too.
-Bok
Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
There's always:
Captain Beefheart Mojo Nixon (solo artist there)
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
My son;s band, with his best friend(they are 8) is: The Lame Excuses.
Posted by peterh (Member # 5208) on :
I always loved the name of this actual band: Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
My roomate's brother is in a band that was formerly known as Therapist Off. Now, they're the Rodents Of Unusual Size.
I have a friend named Scott Frisby, and I kept trying to get him to name his backup band The Rats of NIMH. Actually, I think I'm so good at this, I'm going to go into band name consulting. My own personal creations:
Bobo and the Bourgeoisie Phospholipid Bilayer Elysian Sandbox Schrödinger's Catapult
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
My list above is real band names. Some of them you'll recognise. Some of them I've looked up. I haven't looked up all of them, but I haven't found one yet that isn't real.
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
How could we have forgotten Squirrel Nut Zippers?
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
You know, "The Beatles" is actually a funny name.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I've always thought so too.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I think it's "clever", not "funny".
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
A name I find funny: The Hot Club of Cow Town.
Oh, and the Austin Lounge Lizards.
[ November 12, 2004, 04:19 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
NERD
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but a song xisted in the 60s: "Yackety yack, blah blah blah blah; yackety yack, blah blah blah blah. That's all I hear from you: Yackety yack, blah blah blah blah..."
You mean Yakety Yak, Don't Talk Back by the The Coasters? Jonathan?
FG
edit: and P.S., that was the 50's, not the 60's, for that group. Yakety Yak was #1 in 1958
[ November 12, 2004, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by Mr.Gumby (Member # 6303) on :
I heard that a woodwind quortet(or quintet, I don't remember) called themselves "Morning Wood"
Another band name, more for a Jazz Band, could be "Randy Daniels and the Brass Erection"
p.s. I didn't think of that, my friend did
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
I always thought Ghost of the Robot was a funny name for a band.
They recently broke up though Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
My old band from high school's name: 7 Tables 4 One
My new band in college's name: Catharsis
Frankly I think the name Catharsis is awesome, and I'm not just saying that because I was the one out of us who thought it up. It's a name that commands a lot of respect, and it's perfect for a band name, considering it means "the purging of emotion, usually fear and sadness"
Posted by Turgan (Member # 6697) on :
I'm surprised no one mentioned it. My home town band homies....
THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS.
and you can't forget.. the band called simply
WE SUCK 1000 raging homos
Then, my personal favorite DON'T BUY OUR CD
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I did mention Butthole Surfers, Turgan, and am offended that you did not notice! (oops, wrong thread again)
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Funny Bunnies!
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Catharsis is also the name of a fiddle tune by Amy Cann, on Natalie McMaster's "No Boundaries" album.
It's an awesome tune.
Posted by ae (Member # 3291) on :
British Sea Power is my favourite cleverfunny band name, though maybe it's the title of their first album that really makes it (The Decline of British Sea Power).
Posted by Turgan (Member # 6697) on :
sorry, Elizabeth... i read certain posts and skimmed the rest... heh... But i'm still cooler than you. so HA!
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