pan6467

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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bob32

The Circle Jerks
Bad Acid Trip
Bear Vs. Shark
Leftover Crack

Bob Biter

Bad Yeggs
Bump of Chicken
Ripslyme

(All Japanese bands)

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heroquest

best one: fuck.... i'm dead.

Gimmick

I never really found any band name weird except for one that always stuck in my mind: The Butthole Surfers!

noodle

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.

Johnny Pyro

Hootie and the Blowfish
Thunder Cock

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h2ogo69

goodspeed you black emperor
butthole surfers
huskur du
jaga jazzist
oysterhead

drewpy

i always liked

ebn-ozn
geggy tah
ODW (our daughters wedding)
OMD (orchestral maneuveres in the dark)

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Martian

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 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

God of Thunder

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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PoweredByPorn

Those two were my first thoughts when I read the thread title.

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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Senor Roboto

The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Percy Hill
Phi-life Cypher
the polyphonic spree
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower

FloydianOne

I was going to name my band "Starving Jack-Rabbit Stampede".... its a long story.

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Tophat665

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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ktspktsp

I am Kloot
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Flaming Lips
Mercury Rev
Death in Vegas
Trashmonk
The Third Eye Foundation
The No Smoking Orchestra
Sparklehorse

And they're all good bands too

QuasiMojo

heh heh

Jew Boy.
Rapscallian...
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I can't compete with "SparkleHorse"

I give up!
(JEEEZUZ Tophat...Doctor Goatload!!!! Hole Lee!!!!!!!!!!

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ARauckhorst

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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Stick

Couple of Sydney based pub bands from the 1980's.
Plug Uglies
Pork Hunts

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Menacing; threatening. Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.

iwhore

Say Hi To Your Mom
A Farewell to Arms
Circle Takes The Square
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Between The Buried and Me
Sneaker Pimps
Mogawi
Horse The Band
Spoon

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OuterHeaven

The Circle Jerks,
Ebenezer Splooge,
Tenacious D <3

Martian

Does it really? I always just assumed it was a Don Quixote reference.

Oh.. and umm.. Death Cab For Cutie.

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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

DazednConfused

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

oldbob

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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Draconis

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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STEVE MCKENNA!

mystmarimatt

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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The5thCandidate

Thrush Hermit
Reggie and the Full Effect
Mull Historical Society
Her Space Holiday
The Decemberists
Clem Snide

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Muthtard?! Don't let'th be thilly. Lemon, now that'th different...

gnort

Alabama Thunder Pussy
The Mr. T Experience

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springhaze

Death Cab For Cutie
Skunk Anansie

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thebrent

There's a local band in my area called Abortion Grenade. They're pretty horrible, but the name is pretty awesome

QuasiMojo

mein gott

is all goot

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Shpoop

Q and not U....haha thats hilarious

Val_1

Legendary Stardust Cowboy (not a band, a performer, but odd, just the same)

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-Frank Sinatra

frankx

Glossy Flashpig
Jehovah's Angry Foot

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Mantus

I think the strangest named band I have on my play list is

Architecture in Helsinki

streak_56

Cradle of Filth

killeena

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Old Man's Child
Strapping Young Lad

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art of leaving

REO Speedwagon
Ear Wacks
Alien Ant Farm
Dildo Warheads
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Frou Frou
Chumbawumba
Crash Test Dummies

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burtsbees

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)

CyCo PL

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