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Best band name, real or imagined

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Brigade du jour

20:45 / 28.02.03

Not so much favourite existing band names, although if you've got really good ones they're welcome.

But what I'm really looking for is a name you made up yourself, whether your own real, or your own imaginary band.

Ulterior motive - I want to start a band of my own and am absolutely buggered if I can think u a decent name. All the good ones seem taken.

Thanks in advance for your ideas. Peace!

kaonashi

20:59 / 28.02.03

Earache and the VanGoGo's.
And I really like the word Bastian for some reason.

that

21:04 / 28.02.03

There's a metal record company called Earache, so there might be some legal issues over the use of the name - I recall a similar thing happening with The Verve who originally were just Verve. Apparently had to change their name because a pre-existing jazz label was also called Verve. The Earaches could work...

_pin

21:44 / 28.02.03

Smoking Anal Crack is the real name of my imaginary band (It has got another member, tho. So it's kinda part-way a real band. We just don't play music).

And credit where it's due, the name's from reflect. Tho I can't remember if he got it off someone else, or what.

Ganesh

22:34 / 28.02.03

Factitious Bereavement.

Jack Fear

23:32 / 28.02.03

The Fictitious Smoky Hipsters.

I always fancied having a band called Singapore Sling, too.

Laughing

03:24 / 01.03.03

Actually, I think Ulterior Motive is a good band name.

I also like:

The Cosmic Love Explosion
Alex Argon and the Gassy Nobles
Activate the Love Machine! (nicked from the Starchildren RPG)
The Center for Disease Control Is Full of Germs

...and for a "real" name, a local band out of Greensboro, NC: Those Bugs Are Eating Those Other Bugs' Guts. Brilliant, I think.

Brigade du jour

04:10 / 01.03.03

What they lack in snappiness they more than make up for in imagination.

Hey I just thought of something - is there a band called The Dudes? I seem to remember the Dudes of Wrath, but what about just plain ol' The Dudes?

04:14 / 01.03.03

My imaginary European glam-metal band is called Heroin 69, which i think is the best worst name ever.

I'm in a band that is playing a show soon under the name the Rear Admirals, which I'm also quite fond of.

The Return Of Rothkoid

06:54 / 01.03.03

I'm quite proud of the porn music duo that consists of Loomis and I. It's called The Sons Of Onan.

RadJose

10:13 / 01.03.03

the best fake band names me and my friends came up w/ were Rectal TherMom & Dad, Yr Mama and the Poppas, Ronnie Ray Guy and the Republitrons & the Guinessexuals

the oddest real band name i've see is Thurston Howell's Erection, i seroiusly laughed for weeks

JohnnyYen

10:40 / 01.03.03

Spetznatz
The Dead
500 Lawyers In A Gas Oven
Let's Not Lose Mars To The Commies <<

Hairy Baby.

Bedroom ETA.

You are aware that ETA stands for estimated time of arrival.

Hattie's Kitchen

12:49 / 01.03.03

The Sexual Swear Words (with apologies to Stoatie for nicking it off him).

Bongo Sluts. I would lurve to be in a band called the Bongo Sluts.

rizla mission

13:49 / 01.03.03

Another cool band names thread here.

My current shortlist for the bands I'll probably never get 'round to forming reads:

The Teenage Mice
The Bubblegum Crisis
Balls to Monty
The Things on the Doorstep
The Single Girl’s Guide to Pompeii
Go Go Second Time Virgin!
The Fun Guys from Yuggoth (with apologies to Ganesh)
Henry Mountain and the Fucking Wizards
The Fancy Boys (with apologies to whoever I stole this one from)
Pop Up Pirate
The Gay Dogs
The Algebra Girls
Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening to Neu! (with apologies to Sonic Youth)

And some that apply to bands I made up for various purposes:

Log-Jam
Gunboat Diplomacy
Ruck-Sack
The Dimensional Shamblers
The Many Voices of Hat

rizla mission

13:55 / 01.03.03

Oh, and I forgot to mention my Black Metal side project:

Where Strides The Behemoth?

14:30 / 01.03.03

I'm in a band called the Fancy Boys. The Rear Admirals is our secret identity.

Matthew Fluxington

15:14 / 01.03.03

Hey Rizla, last year I DJ'd a party, and one of the bands on the bill was called Log Jam. They're pretty good, actually, kinda like very early Pavement mixed with the Dead Milkmen.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

19:02 / 01.03.03

Waz about a rock band called

Spastic Arse Raider And The Hungry Merdivoures

or

Gastric Frig Attack

Brigade du jour

20:27 / 01.03.03

At the risk of sounding like a pop star, you guys are all totally nuts and I love you all!

These names are great. I suppose I'd better another contribution - how about The Rock'n'Roll Pirates? That must have been done already!

Math is for suckers!

20:40 / 01.03.03

I've always thought that "the well dressed, quasi intellectual hipster collective" was both fun and long-winded. And for best real band name, i'm partial to the sweatpant boners.

Catjerome

21:12 / 01.03.03

One band name I heard from my brother that always makes me laugh:

Spellcheck Republic

yeah!

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

21:24 / 01.03.03

The CakkaLicka Seed Machine

DJ Lemon Fancy, Daddy Peaches And The LadyBoy Experirnce

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:27 / 02.03.03

There is/was a band that occasionally played Sydney called The Thurston Howlers, who played ear-bleedingly loud surf-twang numminess. They all wore tuxedos, fezzes and sunglasses, except for the keyboardist who wore a white suit, a turban and some round glasses with white spirals painted on them. During one gig, a person in an ape suit handed out champagne to the crowd.

Obviously, they fucking rock(ed).

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:15 / 02.03.03

As soon as I manage to track down my old death-metal-obsessed friend, we're doing the ten-album acapella black metal rock opera cycle "Drugbeard and Boozehat- quest for the Fags of Booze" under the name Undead Orifice.

We've written most of the songs, and the storyline will kick your fucking ass. (Especially- ***SPOILER ALERT*** the part where "the gimpy hand of Beadle" steals the Fags of Booze and gives them to REO Speedwagon... it'll make you cry. I swear it.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:16 / 02.03.03

Hattie- would the Bongo Sluts' first album be called, by any chance, "Sleepless Bongo Nights"?

Cos if it was, I'd buy it. Or at least download it off the net.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

12:40 / 02.03.03

Sharon Landslide

A Happy Hardcore outfit called:

Wicked Rush & The Paedoravers.

Shrug

13:58 / 02.03.03

How about some old school punk band called "Abortions tickle" not very tasteful but you know it is punk. You can actually buy this on a t-shirt over on t-shirt hell .com,
Or maybe
The Gidgets
The Unimaginative Noise Collective

As for real band names I like "The Fine Young Cannibals" and "Depeche Mode"

rizla mission

14:11 / 02.03.03

Hey Rizla, last year I DJ'd a party, and one of the bands on the bill was called Log Jam. They're pretty good, actually, kinda like very early Pavement mixed with the Dead Milkmen.

You're kidding! I did (and occasionally continue to do) a whole bunch of comic strips about a band called Log-Jam - they're a load of grungey student wasters with a house that can travel through time and space and it's all a bit like The Young Ones.. the existence of a REAL band called Log-Jam is seriously frightening..

beatorbebeat

21:18 / 04.03.03

Imaginary:
Lack Toad Intolerant
Geargrabbers
Sweeps Weak

Real:
Forgotten Rebels
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Soul Coughing

Potguns

21:57 / 04.03.03

My D&B political activism band (imaginary) Answers Questioned

000

01:24 / 05.03.03

At some point or another, I have fancied these names for some reason or another:

Mr. Giggles
LosT Angeles -- although my brother said the name's already taken.
The PUSHERS -- figure this one might have been taken too.
Tasty Minds -- giggle.

diz

02:25 / 05.03.03

my girlfriend has suggested the following:

Your Pussy Still Hurts, Despite the Cream?

08:46 / 05.03.03

I've always wanted to start a band called the Can'tgetlaids.

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