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Best band name, real or imagined

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The Natural Way

10:08 / 18.03.03

The Slunt.

Spatula Clarke

14:22 / 18.03.03

I've had 'Peachy Keen' going around my head for years now. Thanks to an older version of this thread, I've expanded the idea. When I turn 46, I'm going to become a dirty old man/pop svengali and put together an all-female pop-guitar group with the name.

Sponsorship deals! Movie contracts! Ill-advised relationships with posh boys! Leaked home-sex vids! Wait and see - when it happens, you fuckers can kiss my big, fat, hairy cheque book.

rizla mission

14:33 / 18.03.03

I just remembered today that I've always thought Johnny Coca-Cola would be a pretty cool (if unspectacular) band name. It's kind of already been taken, in that it was the name of the NY punk band who featured briefly in the movie 'Driller Killer', but, I mean, you could probably kill all the people in the world who know that without too much difficulty.

I also still believe there should be at least one band called The Comic Books in the world.

05:23 / 19.03.03

The name the Pink Mustard came to me yesterday in a dream. Well, maybe not a dream, but i was rather tired. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds like it's supposed to mean something ribald.

The Return Of Rothkoid

07:46 / 19.03.03

Riz: I'm harder to kill than you think...

rizla mission

21:20 / 08.04.03

I just heard a reference on the radio to a band called;

I Love You But I Belong To The Darkness

From Texas, home of the over-long band name..

Brigade du jour

21:30 / 08.04.03

Is that where ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead come from then?

AfroBarber

21:48 / 08.04.03

THE TICKLING WINKIES! suitably rude yet still within the boundaries i think.

Sexy Legendary

14:53 / 09.04.03

Or how about:

The Marmosets
When Jesus Attacks
Domestic Placenta
Mister Bint
My Paedo My Bride
Titskreig
Etc and the ...s
The Cuntipotents

rizla mission

19:49 / 09.04.03

Is that where ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead come from then?

yes. In addition to Explosions in the Sky, Biblical Proof of UFOs, Lift to Experience and (not long, but cool!) Slobberbone.

Those grand sunsets and majestic landscapes must inspire them to greater band-naming heights.

Brigade du jour

20:24 / 09.04.03

Can I assume then that there's a band from Texas called The Kings of The Hill? If not then there you go, I just made them up. Yay!

rizla mission

21:32 / 09.04.03

Another great band name just heard:

Become the Waters of Death

Who are from, um, Worthing.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

21:50 / 09.04.03

i like Absinthe from Prague, with respect to grant morrison who in an early invisibles letters column wanted to call his goth band that

03:17 / 10.04.03

I used to be partial to Augustine and the Bad Angels, from some very off-the-wall comment my Mediaeval Philosophy professor made in class. Then I read Inferno and picked out The Wrathful and Sullen. Hm. Both Christian-influenced. Which would be interesting, since if they were my bands, the music would have rather pagan overtones.

lord nuneaton savage

20:09 / 10.04.03

Fuck me I can't believe someone else remembers children of the monkey basket! As for the greatest band name of all time there can be only one, ladies and gentlemen I give you...BUDGIE!

gingerbop

22:41 / 10.04.03

SCAFFWEASEL.
www.scaffweasel.netfirms.com

Aethelwine Jedi

10:06 / 11.04.03

Aural Shex
Holy Rising Hemlines
Disconfunkilized
Guinda Pug
Gigglepig
Beastly Beasts
Gay Furry Superheroes Who Wear Diapers
Nut-Rolled For Her Pleasure
Hunsperger
Zeke Love

Yes, they're all crap. CRAP! Which is why I like them, for the most part. Anyway, Children of the Monkeybasket has my love.

diz

12:31 / 11.04.03

i love the name Johnny Coca-Cola.

speaking of the names of fictitious bands from movies, there's always Olaf's Russian heavy metal band from Clerks (the ones who sang "Berzerker"), which was called Fuck Your Yankee Blue Jeans.

another line from that same scene yields another possibility, now that i think of it: Do Your Metal Face, Girl Think Sexy

Ms.Blue

05:23 / 14.04.03

real bands.bad names.

the jon denver plane eXplosion
the strangulated beatoffs

diz

16:42 / 14.04.03

apparently a real gynecological procedure:

Transvaginal Ultrasound

rizla mission

09:58 / 15.04.03

apparently a real scientific phenomenon;

The Ultra-Violet Catastrophe

rizla mission

09:16 / 16.04.03

Look upon my band name accumulating works ye mighty and despair, for I have heard a record by;

INTESTINAL BAALISM!

I was going to stick some other amusing names in this post, but I think we should reflect on the greatness of this one for a little while.

Baz Auckland

15:47 / 16.04.03

This may have been suggested already, but a metal magazine at work yesterday had Rotting Christ on the cover. Made me laugh. A lot.

FinderWolf

16:35 / 16.04.03

My friends and I were in a band we created for several years - it was called INCLEMENT WEATHER.

I also have toyed with the idea of naming a band ZERO DENSITY.

that

16:39 / 16.04.03

I like those both, HunterWolf - very Iain M. Banks.

My friend had a band called Death of Christie. I just thought that was the coolest. Apparently it wasn't a play on the death of Christ or anything though.

rizla mission

20:42 / 16.04.03

I'm right bored at the moment, so,um,

My current top 5 band names from the terrifying and silly world of "extreme metal":

1. Intestinal Baalism
2. Carnal Forge
3. Cock & Ball Torture
4. Darkwoods My Betrothed
5. Teen Cthulhu

FinderWolf

15:40 / 17.04.03

Cool -- who's Iain M. Banks?

deja_vroom

19:44 / 17.04.03

"Intestinal Baalism" is the best possible name for every single thing under the Sun. I'll call my first daughter like that, actually.

minor 9th

09:17 / 18.04.03

Grandma Death. Definitely.

that

17:56 / 18.04.03

HunterWolf: Iain M. Banks is an SF writer (who also writes straight-ish fiction under the name Iain Banks). His ship minds have cool names, like our very own Grey Area (where are you anyway, GA?), who takes his name from the Banks ship mind.

Lea-side

22:58 / 19.04.03

TEEN CTHULU! that rocks sooooooo much i might just have to use it.

if of course my new surf-thrash-metal-garage-hardcore band weren't a cool Baudelaire-referencing,

FLOWERS OF EVIL!

raise me.....

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

02:38 / 20.04.03

theres a band here in albuquerque called Rage Against Martin Sheen which i founf insanely cool the other night.

i think Albert Anderson and the 12 Steps (heh, get it AA) would be pretty cool for a lounge band.

my ultimate Emo band would be called Crying in Latte and the album would be called Composition Notebook Full Of Poetry

08:59 / 20.04.03

There should be a 60's-style garage rock group called Thee Browne Acidde.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:16 / 20.04.03

Our old notional porn band was either to be called The Star Spangled Bondage Babes, the Star Spangled Bondage Birds or the Star Spangled Bondage Bitches, but my wah-wah pedal broke.

Due to may flatmate's misreading of a place name in Somerset, is the world ready for the new glam sensation of Spandex Huxley ?

rizla mission

10:55 / 20.04.03

dunno about the world, but I am!

I'm still all about Intestinal Baalism though - like, the worship of Baal, but somehow centred around intestines? .. the phrasing kind of suggests the Baalism is actually taking place inside the intestines maybe..

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