Band Names

I never learned how to play the bass guitar, but there is still time for that. I could totally rock it out and start a band. Cinn and I always said we'd start a band, and would think of funny band names. Our favorite was "Dyslexic Atheists" and we didn't believe in dog.

Ever since then, when we hear a phrase we say it would make a good band name. In chat the other night we came up with a funny name and now I don't remember it. I have decided to start this thread to prevent that from happening again. I hope others will share their band names.

Magical Cleavage. I think that might have been it.

 

One of the worst bands I've ever heard was "VO2 Max and the Fartleks". Decent runners but baaaaaad musicians. Any band that describes themselves as "Heavy Death Jazz-Pop" is going to be awful, but the band name was good runner humor.

I always wanted my friends to form an all-female band called "Playground Harlots". And in middle school, my wanna-be band that was really just me drawing on my notebook was "St. Bic" with a Bic lighter wearing a Santa beard.

 

I've done Fartleks for rugby. Not a fan and I doubt I'd be a fan of this band.

St. Bic? Wow. You were a weird kid. Good to know you haven't really changed.

 

I'm still a weird kid. The difference is that for someone reason folks insist on thinking of me as "mature".

 

Who are these "folks"? They are obviously delusional because we all know better.

 

I always wanted to start a band called "The Gothic Surfin' Cowboys" as a fusion of country, surf and Goth. We'd have awesome songs such as "Yee-ha! My Surfboard will be My Tombstone!" and "On the Beach With an Undead Cowgirl"

The crowds at our concerts would make the cantina scene in Star Wars seem homogeneous by comparison.

 

Yeah, it always makes me giggle.

 

In another life, I'll be on lead guitar for "Grundlefunk."

 

My virtual Rawk band is 'Bigfoot and the Buttkickers'

 

I have a guy I work with.... his band is "Mother and Father Issues" they play Folk Hip Hop.... and its an amazing thing to behold....

 

In one of my stories in progress I have a fictional band called "Edward J Hamilton the IV" or something to that effect. It is a bunch of slacker type of kids (17-20 years old) that sound worse than the band name. Of course I kill all but one of them off in fairly short order.

 

Oedipus and "The Mothers"

 

My flatmates and I used to play a drunken game where one made up a band name, and the others had to say what genre it was.

For example "walpurgisnacht" is clearly a heavy doom goth metal crossover act.

 

Alannah Currie from the Thompson Twins played in a band called the Unfuckables...I've always thought that was an awesome band name.

Dyslexic Atheists is the best band name ever, obviously.

A couple friends and I talked about starting a trio my...freshman? year of high school. Never happened, but we loved to toss band names around. The only one I really remember, though, was "A Hint of Something Red." Which I believe got vetoed because someone thought it was too close to "Simply Red." Hmmm.

I like the sound of "Joan and the Jetts"...but I guess that would really only work for a cover band.

 

Bachmann Palin Overdrive

 

Winter is Coming. Knights of Summer. Sand Snakes. The Bear and the Maiden Fair.

I'm a geek. Also, I wonder what copyright laws have to say about naming your band after characters/phrases in a recent bestseller. I don't suppose Veruca Salt had any trouble...

 

Is the book from which that comes really considered recent?

 

Bangalore Grommet and the Oh!-Rings is pretty catchy.

 

Very true. I was also thinking of the Boo Radleys, but there was a significant space of time there, too. Hmmmm. To the Research Cave!