06-20-2005, 01:12 PM | #41 (permalink) |
Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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I have a Goth import collection called Kiss of the Vampyre and it has some winning groups on it:
Alien Sex fiend Suspiria Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Damned Specimen Creaming Jesus Midnight Configuration Lords of the New Church Flesh for Lulu Scarehead Echo and the Bunnymen Bomb Party Lucyfix Die Lady Di Screaming Dead Christian Death Gaye Bykers on Acid (my favorite verse...... sheep thief sheep thief you're a fucking sheep thief)
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" |
07-07-2005, 08:53 PM | #46 (permalink) |
Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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i know this is an older thread, but i couldn't resist.
cystic dysentery (ow!) nailshitter (OW!) suffocate faster from a second story window if scars could speak big in georgia (you've got to be kidding me!) fear before the march of flames kiss army and hollyweird gutterboy spicoli odoyle rules wounds from a friend mystic dino and the 420 band my all time favorite? rabid pussy. welcome to florida, y'all. kick back and we'll duel you some banjos. |
07-13-2005, 05:28 AM | #50 (permalink) |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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Neutral Milk Hotel
Most indie bands have kind of odd names. Modest Mouse is a prominent indie band (ironically now unpopular with the indie crowd because they went 'mainstream') that's relatively tame compared to a lot of what's out there. I think it has to do with the thoery of indie relativity. In Indie circles the more obscure a band is, the better it is. A strange name protects the band's obscurity. There are those out there searching for the perfect indie band, the one band that has achieved perfection by not being known to anyone. The problem is that it's a quest doomed to failure because as soon as the questor finds the band they're no longer completely unheard of and instantly fall from grace.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said - Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame |
07-14-2005, 04:49 AM | #51 (permalink) |
Talk nerdy to me
Location: Flint, MI
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Was (not Was) A-Ha! Lipps, Inc! Air Supply M Pure Prarie League Climax Blues Band Haircut 100 Men Without Hats 'Til Tuesday Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD) Scritti Politti Bananarama Wang Chung T'Pau Johnny Hates Jazz Milli Vanilli Fine Young Cannibals Iron Butterfly Strawberry Alarm Clock All of those names came from my own personal collection by the way.
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07-14-2005, 10:21 AM | #52 (permalink) | |
"...a face I could bear to look at in the mirror."
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
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Damnit, you beat me to 'em.
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I'll also add Strapping Young Lad, which isn't too strange on its own, but when attatched to a death metal band, seems a bit out of place. ...and: God What an Aweful Racket (GWAR... it's just funnier to me when spelled out in full)
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07-14-2005, 06:42 PM | #55 (permalink) |
Minion of the scaléd ones
Location: Northeast Jesusland
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Blue Öyster Cult is far to cool to be funny, but I'll surely grant you peculiar.
Seconding Porcupine Tree, Flaming Lips, and Anal Cunt. Also They Might Be Giants (Comes from a George C. Scott film) and Archers of Loaf. Jethro Tull was the name of a fellow in 16th (?) century England who invented an improved steel seed drill. May favorites have been local though: Fattie Deluxe and the Jolly Llamas The Tao Jonez Combustibles Aavant Gaardvark Döktör Göatlöad (fratenity brother's short lived metal band. Dead of a surfiet of umlauts) and a med school band I heard of: Rod Bacillus and the Streptones.
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07-15-2005, 05:23 PM | #57 (permalink) |
King Knave
Location: Lancaster
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heh heh
Jew Boy. Rapscallian... :* ................ : ) I can't compete with "SparkleHorse" I give up! (JEEEZUZ Tophat...Doctor Goatload!!!! Hole Lee!!!!!!!!!!
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07-15-2005, 10:11 PM | #58 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Ohio
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Looking through my itunes I've encountered the following which are rather odd to me:
Athenaeum Hey Mercedes Pedro the Lion Tahiti 80 Piebald Minus the Bear Gatsby's American Dream Atreyu all very good bands save tahiti 80
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07-20-2005, 12:53 AM | #62 (permalink) | |
Young Crumudgeon
Location: Canada
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Oh.. and umm.. Death Cab For Cutie.
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07-20-2005, 02:09 AM | #63 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: On the Darkside of the Moon
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Screaming Headless Torsos
Bowling for Soup Dead Eye Dick Kajagoogoo The Flying Frog Brigade ? and the Mysterians (Yes his name is really "?") Stone Temple Pilots Hoobastank (what the hell is that?) and a band my husband used to be in: Mojo Bobfoot |
08-08-2005, 08:10 PM | #64 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Detroit
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Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
Nurse with Wound Throbbing Gristle Rudimentary Peni The Soft Pink Truth The Revolting Cocks MC 900 Foot Jesus Jackie-O Motherfucker And in the vein of Steely Dan, there's Arab Strap - the best dang glaswegian band named after a... well... you know... ever.
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08-09-2005, 09:20 AM | #65 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Normandy, June of '44
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Oedipus Rex and the Mamma's Boys
Hey There, Hi There, Ho There Velvet Acid Christ Corpus Delecti 616 Abortions What Ever Happened To Mary Lou? The Winter of Our Discontent (a joke emo band spoof my frat bro and I did: W.O.O.D. ) Del Tha Phunkee Homosapien
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08-09-2005, 12:50 PM | #66 (permalink) |
Omnipotent Ruler Of The Tiny Universe In My Mind
Location: Oreegawn
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Not so much a singular band, but I've always been fond of that fashion of band names being extricated parts of sentences, like Less Than Jake, Minus The Bear...There are others, but I can't remember basically any right now.
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Words of Wisdom: If you could really get to know someone and know that they weren't lying to you, then you would know the world was real. Because you could agree on things, you could compare notes. That must be why people get married or make Art. So they'll be able to really know something and not go insane. |
12-11-2005, 10:38 AM | #73 (permalink) |
Addict
Location: In a State of Denial
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Legendary Stardust Cowboy (not a band, a performer, but odd, just the same)
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01-08-2006, 11:50 PM | #78 (permalink) |
Upright
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REO Speedwagon
Ear Wacks Alien Ant Farm Dildo Warheads The Sound of Animals Fighting Frou Frou Chumbawumba Crash Test Dummies
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"Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth -- that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me." |
01-15-2006, 02:19 PM | #79 (permalink) | |
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I completely agree with you. When people find that band no one has ever heard of that plays decent music, it's such a grand discovery. Sometimes, I find people who like to show this off in conversation: "Have you ever heard of _______? No? You should listen to them, they're soooo good." my list includes: Architecture and Helsinky I am the World Trade Center (made BEFORE 9/11, of course) |
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01-18-2006, 06:20 PM | #80 (permalink) |
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Location: Tulsa, OK
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hmm, let me go thru my winamp library and see what I can find
1000 homo dj's Bullring Brummies (both off of the black sabbath tribute album) Cake Death Cab for Cutie Del the Funky Homosapien The Dismemberment Plan Dying Fetus Eagles of Death Metal Eels Fairyland Flaming Lips Modest Mouse Neutral Milk Hotel Nuclear Rabbit Prong Psychostick Sausage Smashing Pumpkins Spineshank Stuck Mojo Three Mile Pilot Ugly Casanova lots of those have already been listed before, but they're all pretty strange |
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