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Best band name, real or imagined

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rizla mission

13:37 / 06.03.03

Inspiration hit me this morning, and I've got a fantastic concept for a band;

We'll be called My Kind of Debris, and we'll take the idea that energy and intent is far more important than musical proficiency to unholy extremes by playing completely improvisational arty-noise-fuck with a total disregard for any kind of musical order or form, and just shredding wildly on every instrument available to us and yelling utterly meaningless dadaist beat poetry and leaping around and breaking shit.. like 70s No-Wave but without the self-consciousness or doomy nihilism, or like the Hunches and the Martini Henry Rifles but without the pretext of being a traditional rock band.
By "we" of course, I mean "I", but a recruiting drive could well be in order assuming I don't get bored of the idea by this evening.

Poke it with a stick

14:58 / 07.03.03

I suggested having an imaginary band named The Fluffers. It's got that whole dirty 70's CBGB's thing going.
Everyone wanted to be the Bez-type dancer, though.
How about Aural Love?

fidrich

17:02 / 07.03.03

In school, I once decided to start a band. I managed to get a few other girls to agree to be in it, despite the fact none of us could play any instruments. Probably they just wanted me to shut up. We were gonna be called either Bruises in Paradise or Bad Habit.

After about two weeks of sitting around parks at lunchtime listening to me prattling on about songs we could cover and places we could practice and such, the finally managed to get me to understand that generally, the members of a band should be able to actually *play* guitars and such. *rolls eyes* Bloody quitters.

-Fid

Shrug

12:36 / 08.03.03

Someone suggested earlier on in this thread about Apathy being the best name for a slacker grunge band, I knew a band back in the day called Hapathy which was "Happy about being apathetic" as they put it, they couldn't play their instruments though.

I've always wanted to see a band called Billy Joe and the Undead Crooners, it'd be like a Country and Western/ Goth Metal crossover band.

rizla mission

14:40 / 08.03.03

Just thought I'd say that my favourite real band name at present is the great Crack: W.A.R. which stands for Crack: We Are Rock.

Guy Parsons

00:44 / 10.03.03

Geeky economics in-joke band title:

Adam Smith And The Invisible Band

(confession: stolen from somewhere)

05:07 / 10.03.03

I dig Rage Against The Machine.

bio k9

08:00 / 10.03.03

The Abysmal MCs

deja_vroom

18:20 / 10.03.03

She Left Me For A Zombie
The Hungarian Zits
Please Stop Shooting

Brigade du jour

23:06 / 10.03.03

Thank you again everybody - can't decide between The Can'tgetlaids and Your Pussy Still Hurts, Despite The Cream. Honestly, it's just sex, sex, sex round here isn't it?

Laughing

01:36 / 11.03.03

I always wanted to name my band The Shirts until I found out there was already a band by that name. It's a pleasing name though, simple and effective. Maybe The Pants instead? Or has that been used before too?

Maybe I'll stick to Deoxyribonucleic Assholes instead.

JerryMuerte

19:18 / 11.03.03

Astral Plane Cat Fight for a "bitch power" (girl only) band... they should sing things between Emo and some Core... about broken girl hearts and their psychic revenges on men... Carrie anyone?

LOL

JerryMuerte

19:21 / 11.03.03

there's a band over here that's called "We want to be the heirs to the son of the winner of the 400 meter race from Mexico '70"... they play Punk-Core very like Crass or The Ramones...

Nelson Evergreen

23:36 / 11.03.03

I'm horribly tempted to start up a wet-behind-the-ears-core, overtly sensitive (and subtly satirical) indie guitar band called Men Who Love Too Much.

But not as horribly tempted as I am to incorporate 'Henry Mountain and the Fucking Wizards' into the next toilet venue I'm called upon to illustrate in the name of sequential art.

pomegranate

01:58 / 12.03.03

I think these are fake:
Weird Beard
Bitch Paste

I like these ones I made up:
Spitting Pink (kinda dada, but I got the idea after brushing my teeth once if you know what I mean)
Pants

I knew someone who used to call him and his friend Dead Animals. I'm stealing Algebra Girls. You will hear of us. Trip-hop booty bass.
LMAO @ Deoxyribonucleic Assholes.

Lilly Nowhere Late

05:36 / 12.03.03

The band in my latest story is called The
Flux 'o Teens. And when they all go off their meds they just get
called Flux.

23:36 / 12.03.03

My favourite real names for Japanese bands-

Fun Fun Attitude
Nails of Hawaiian
Banana Erectors
Intimate Fags
Fun Up
Dizzy Joghurt
The Great Mongoose
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

Phaedrus

03:59 / 13.03.03

When I started my first band in high school, we came up with a bunch of funny punk band names.. only one's I can remember are:

Dildos for Wasps
Masturbating Mothers
Don't Mention Dana
Chelsea's Kootch

diz

04:06 / 13.03.03

Godzilla-Related Turbulence

Eloi Tsabaoth

12:43 / 13.03.03

The Ticklish Assassins.

bjacques

13:39 / 13.03.03

Poison Network
Spindle of Iniquity
Dirty Bombers
Mobile Biolab

William Sack

14:48 / 13.03.03

Seven Shades of Shit.

diz

14:59 / 13.03.03

how about The Axis of E-Tards?

Brigade du jour

21:17 / 13.03.03

Ooh, I do hate to have favourites, but Seven Shades Of Shit? That sounds like the best name ever - it could even be a movie. Maybe like a fantasy LOTR-type thing where the mystical and elusive Seven pieces of Shit, each a slightly different colour, have to be rescued from the evil clutches of a big monster or whatever. Cool!

Jackie Susann

01:05 / 14.03.03

me and some friends are starting a band called Cold Chiselin' Bootae. pretty proud of that one

Saveloy

11:22 / 14.03.03

H.I.R:

"Seven Shades Of Shit"

Album title: 'All the Colours of the Brownbow'. Last track: 'A Whole Crock o' Shit"

William Sack

11:46 / 14.03.03

Indeed Saveloy; their last album before the lead singer was found floating in a swimming pool.

Loomis

11:58 / 14.03.03

Unfortunately I can't claim credit for either of these:

Box Waft
The Upside Down Triangles

William Sack

12:54 / 14.03.03

Indeed Saveloy; their last album before the lead singer was found floating in a swimming pool.

I forget to mention that the rest of the band went on to become New Ordure.

Saveloy

15:05 / 14.03.03

"Indeed Saveloy; their last album before the lead singer was found floating in a swimming pool."

Heh heh! "Such a brilliant career ahead of him and he just flushed it all away...." [you're fired! - ed.]

00:38 / 15.03.03

Yikes, I forgot a couple of Japanese bands-

Fuck on the Beach
Bathtub Shitter

poetry, isn't it.?

Brigade du jour

20:57 / 15.03.03

Bathtub Shitter? lol!

La Main Droite

17:05 / 17.03.03

Kettledrum Hamstring

I Cant Spell Dictionary

I Read A Book On Magic And Turned Into A Witch

Water Extinguisher

American Dictation

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

20:16 / 17.03.03

I'll never forget the fake band name dreamed up by Mark & Lard on their Evening Sessions show - Children Of The Monkey Basket. Always makes me chortle, that one, for some reason.

Then there's the single worst real band name I've ever come across; Anal Fistdeath. Ewww.

06:44 / 18.03.03

That's not as bad as Filthy Maggoty Cunt. I swear I didn't make that up.

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