Strangest band names
I was just looking through my cd collection and it occured to me that some of these bands have pretty odd names. What are some of the strangest band names in you collection?
Mine: Toad the Wet Sprocket Inspiral Carpets Legendary Pink Dots Moonpools & Caterpillars Anal Cunt(nice one huh - band basically sucks but it was a gag gift from a friend so I can't get rid of it.) |
Not really in my collection but.....Chumba Wumba and a in my collection would be...The Goo Goo Dolls and Hootie and the blowfish.
Asta!! |
I am pretty sure there is a band called Genitalica, not positive.
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Accidental Goat Sodomy
Purple Headed Love Warriors Stop Calling Me Frank Bloated Scrotum Cherry Coke Enema The Fat Chick From Wilson Phillips Band Five Fat Guys Who Rock Flatutory Rape Deep Sea Racing Mullet Aggressive Crotch Display Amputatoe Anal Beard Barbers The Armadildoes Baloney Ponys Barney Rubble and the Cunt Stubble Big Dick and the Extenders Bolt Upright and the Erections The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre Colostomy Grab Bag Dirty Dick and the Trojan Test Pilots Don Knotts Overdrive Elvis and the Shitheads Full Throttle Aristotle Jehovah's Witness Protection Program JFKFC Quasimodo and the Eunuchs Shirley Temple of Doom |
Saltwater Vampires, a friend of mine told me this band name and I was like 'what?'
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"Babu The Dilated Junkie"
It's pseudo-hip-hop-rap and it sounds just about as good as its called. Good times. |
Babu of Dilated Peoples? If so it's fantastic no matter what. I don't even gotta hear it it just is. No one fuckin wit Dilated.
Asta!! |
At The Drive In
Jaya The Cat Aqua Bats Butthole Surfers (i think thats their name) |
the moldy peaches
smashing pumpkins flying burritos my morning jacket my bloody valentine yeah yeah yeahs dying fetus porno for pyros the the dead milkmen |
Nashville Pussy
Limp Bizkit (you hear it so much it's now common... but just think about it... wtf!) Foo Fighters (what is "Foo?") Godspeed You Black Emperor! |
Southern Culture on the Skids, Second-Hand Monk, Buddha with a Gun, Bottletones, Hanzel und Gretyl, and The Dave Clark Five.
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WHAM!
They Might Be Giants Man... Or Astro-man? The Moistboyz |
Electric Love Hogs
Led Zepplin Badly Drawn Boy The Mars Volta Jimmy Eat World Queens of the Stone Age Our Lady Peace System of a Down Porcupine Tree |
How about Englebert Humberdinck?
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godspeed you black emporer
archers of loaf red roses for a blue lady |
Melt Banana
Boom, boom satellite (I love UFO) Both Japaneese bands, of course :D |
Snot
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a direct translation of the title of a 1950's Japanese biker movie. The movie itself was never popular, but it obviously deeply affected the founders of the band. |
if i remember correctly, treble charger (i THINK it was them) used to be called 'rainbow butt monkeys'. at any rate, there WAS a band called that and they changed their name before they got famous. i wouldn't have, i love rainbow butt monkeys :D
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um, actually foo fighters was also a name for UFO's that WW2 pilots encountered. The little balls of light that would fly up to the planes, those were Foo Fighters. Thank you History Channel
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Butt Steak
Lard Revolting Cocks 1000 Homo DJ's Pink Floyd The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black |
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My picks: Super Furry Animals The Negro Problem Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Death Cab For Cutie The Flaming Lips The High Llamas |
Jethro Tull
I second The Flaming Lips (strange in general too) Bump of Chicken Gorillaz Frou frou The Shins Lemon Jelly |
Strangest band name? Steely Dan! .... if you know what it's refering to, that is. I'll give you a hint. It's a reference from Naked Lunch.
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Sneaker Pimps
Arrogant Worms |
Toad the Wet Sprocket got their name from a Monty Python skit.
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Skinny Puppy
Slick Idiot Anal Cunt Genitorturers I too second 1000 Homo DJ's...it actually comes from a quote of one of Jourgensens producers...he says something along the lines of not letting anybody remix a song except for a 1000 Homo DJ's Buck Satan |
Put my two cents in here...
Alien Nymphos from Uranus... Love this name Barstool Prophets... I too am one after the 5th Vodka and tonic Buster Hymen & the Penetrators.... momma is so proud Hitler's Missing Testicle... dont want to know Lip Smacking Kitten Lunch.... ummmm tastes like chicken Sluts for Hire... (pulling out my walet) The Yeasty Girls..... ewwwww |
Frankenstein Zombie Drag Queens From Planet 13
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One of the weirder names in my CD collection is definitly Porcupine Tree. |
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angry amputees
flogging molly dropkick murphys gob the dead kennedies queens of the stoneage motion city soundtrack hellogoodbye mudvayne nofx(no one in the band likes there band name) |
violent femmes
machine gun felatio System Of A Down Frans Ferdinand Elvis Mr Mephisto |
freebeerandchicken
all one work all lower case..... |
I knew this one band, they got together for a special May Day Festival and they called themselves
"Condom" because they were a one time band only! Thing is, they were going to play again the following week but with a different name "Used Condom" Anyway, it made me laugh :D. |
I have a few songs by a Canadian band named Swollen Members. Good stuff.
What about Creedence Clearwater Revival? What does that mean anyway? |
The Arcade Fire
Better Than Ezra Blue Oyster Cult Butthole Surfers The Cat Empire Crash Test Dummies Dredg Electric Light Orchestra The Flaming Lips Heiruspecs Nintendude The Postal Service Q And Not U The Tea Party Thanatopsis The Weakerthans Those are all I can find from a cursory glance at my selection. They are rather tame as weird band names go though:(. |
Peanut Butter Wolf
Smiley Kids No Use For a Name |
Depeche Mode (Fast Fashion)
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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) |
The Circle Jerks
Bad Acid Trip Bear Vs. Shark Leftover Crack |
Bad Yeggs
Bump of Chicken Ripslyme (All Japanese bands) |
best one: fuck.... i'm dead.
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I never really found any band name weird except for one that always stuck in my mind: The Butthole Surfers!
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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. |
Hootie and the Blowfish
Thunder Cock |
goodspeed you black emperor
butthole surfers huskur du jaga jazzist oysterhead |
i always liked
ebn-ozn geggy tah ODW (our daughters wedding) OMD (orchestral maneuveres in the dark) |
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. |
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. |
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) |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Percy Hill Phi-life Cypher the polyphonic spree The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower |
I was going to name my band "Starving Jack-Rabbit Stampede".... its a long story.
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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. |
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 :) |
heh heh
Jew Boy. Rapscallian... :* ................ : ) I can't compete with "SparkleHorse" I give up! (JEEEZUZ Tophat...Doctor Goatload!!!! Hole Lee!!!!!!!!!! |
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 |
Couple of Sydney based pub bands from the 1980's.
Plug Uglies Pork Hunts |
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 |
The Circle Jerks,
Ebenezer Splooge, Tenacious D <3 |
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Oh.. and umm.. Death Cab For Cutie. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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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Thrush Hermit
Reggie and the Full Effect Mull Historical Society Her Space Holiday The Decemberists Clem Snide |
Alabama Thunder Pussy
The Mr. T Experience |
Death Cab For Cutie
Skunk Anansie |
There's a local band in my area called Abortion Grenade. They're pretty horrible, but the name is pretty awesome
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mein gott
is all goot |
Q and not U....haha thats hilarious
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Legendary Stardust Cowboy (not a band, a performer, but odd, just the same)
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Glossy Flashpig
Jehovah's Angry Foot |
I think the strangest named band I have on my play list is
Architecture in Helsinki |
Cradle of Filth
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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Old Man's Child Strapping Young Lad |
REO Speedwagon
Ear Wacks Alien Ant Farm Dildo Warheads The Sound of Animals Fighting Frou Frou Chumbawumba Crash Test Dummies |
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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) |
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 |
lol
jihad jerry and the evildoers |
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
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Ed Gein's Car
Beerbellied Scum From Central Bucks County Bill Bixby's Big-Ass Communist Eighteen Wheeler Bjorn Again The Black Jewish Homosexual Experience Dinner is Ruined Farrt [sic] Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters some real winners from this great site http://www.brainwashed.com/bandnames/bandnames.html |
Wow, I read threw this entire thread and so no reference to:
And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of the Dead |
Pretty much anything listed here: http://sam.hochberg.com/bandname.html
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Ed Gein
Circle Of Dead Children Fecal Corpse Kayo Dot Behold...The Arctopus Cattle Decapitation Mod Flanders Conspiracy Akercocke Anaal Nathrakh Cock And Ball Torture Fuck...I'm Dead Tubring Vampire Moose .... |
Armageddon Dildos
Ascii Disko Atari Teenage Riot Cemetary Of Scream And Bandnames with Rockdöts are often strange: Toilet Böys Ümlaut Children of Umlaut (note the lack of umlauts in the name) Märtini Brös |
Man... this whole thread and no one has mentioned Ned's Atomic Dustbin. Further evidence that this band exists soley for my pleasure and no one else on earth has heard of them....
Ned's Atomic Dustbin G. Love and Special Sauce (?wtf?) Les Rythmes Digitales And for the record, I don't think Smashing Pumpkins is that wierd of a band name... back in the day they were The Smashing Pumpkins... I don't think they should have dropped "the." |
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Also... Aborted Agoraphobic Nosebleed Anal Blast Calamus Decapitated Into The Moat Leng Tch'e Naevus Nasum Solar Anus |
I always wondered how they came up with the name Lynyrd Skynard... ?
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Gwar
Dead Can Dance Dead Milkmen Monster Magnet Primaitve Radio Gods Dread Zeplin Boney M Art of Noise Concret Blond Bowling for Soup Meat Puppets Pop Will eat Itself Scary Valentine Shakespeares Sister Sister Machine Gun My Sisters Machine The Verve Pipe Deep Blue Something Stuck Mojo I'm sure I'll think ofa few others later |
How bout Milk McOwen's Brainchild?
thats the name of one of the jam bands i used to play in. Needless to say, we usually just went as MMOB |
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Ulver Cliteater Electro Quaterstaff Ifidel? Castro! Caninus ("featuring two pit bulls on vokillz") |
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Posterior Produce Policema with a Loaf of Bread |
Bauhaus
Jane's Addiction Dayglo Abortions The Fall Peter & the Test Tube Babies Anti Nowhere League Angelic Upstarts Teenage Head Ween The Damned Spearhead Supersuckers Sonic Youth D.O.A. The Gun Club New York Dolls Ramones Richard Hell & the Voidoids Eat The Stranglers Watch out for predators posing as House Pets |
IMPALED NORTHERN MOONFOREST!!! All hail the moongoat! hehehehe
it's a fake black metal band formed by seth putin (the guy behind anal cunt) basically anyone who is into black metal and has a sence of humour ( i know that there aint too many people like that ,,,,) you'll get the jokes! |
Donkey Punch
The wierdest one I have hear on the radio so far. |
my favorite band name is
suburban kids with biblical names another strange one is skeletons and the girl-faced boys |
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