Bands With Great Names

The Teardrop Explodes' "Reward" has just been on the radio. 'What a fucking great name for a band,' I thought.

What are the best ever band names? Here's some for starters:

The Teardrop Explodes Sex Pistols Felt Half Man, Half Biscuit Joy Division Prolapse Wu Tang Clan

My band is called I'll Ask Alison

i thought this about a band the other day. i can't for the life of me remember who though.

in the meantime:

throwing muses pop will eat itself my bloody valentine get cape. wear cape. fly

i shall doubtless be adding to this as the day progresses. i have nothing better to think about.

peter and the testube babies chicory tip manhattan transfer womack and womack

http://neworderinfoweb.piczo.com

Does Afrika Bambaataa count???

talking heads specials

Gaye Bykers On Acid

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts Tindersticks Revolting Cocks (can't believe I forgot about this one before!) Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

pooh sticks! my god, i'd forgotten all about them. probably best.

violent femmes the smiths

Ger Boy wrote: Gaye Bykers On Acid

lesbian dopeheads on mopeds

bloodynora wrote:

Ger Boy wrote: Gaye Bykers On Acid

lesbian dopeheads on mopeds

Transgender pilots on microdots

Tasmanian Funk Devils remains my favorite. Never heard the band, though

Electric buttocks.

Wet Dog (but they only exist in my head).

bloodynora wrote: pooh sticks! my god, i'd forgotten all about them. probably best.

violent femmes the smiths

Pooh sticks is a game is it not? You drop two sticks one side of a bridge and whoever's comes out the other side first is the winner? It's from a Winnie The Pooh book I'm sure. Which I was very fond of as a child.

The Suicidal Snails

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Echo & The Bunnymen Mannheim Steamroller Babylon Zoo Iron Maiden The Dream Academy Mouse and the Love and Light Orkestra Architecture in Helsinki

Emilie Autumn and the Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (her touring show name) not to mention her backing singers, The Bloody Crumpets.

Electric Dentures and Scrambled Debutante. Neither are real bands, sadly, they're fictional bands from the comic strips Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes, respectively.

Fuck Buttons. Shit Disco (from Glasgow) Fuck Off Machete (from Glasgow)

Any band with swearing in the title basically.

GlasVegas wrote:

bloodynora wrote: pooh sticks! my god, i'd forgotten all about them. probably best.

violent femmes the smiths

Pooh sticks is a game is it not? You drop two sticks one side of a bridge and whoever's comes out the other side first is the winner? It's from a Winnie The Pooh book I'm sure. Which I was very fond of as a child.

yes. it is all those things.

and also a little welsh indie band with songs like 'I Know Someone Who Knows Someone Who Knows Alan McGee Quite Well'.

GlasVegas wrote: Fuck Buttons. Shit Disco (from Glasgow) Fuck Off Machete (from Glasgow)

Any band with swearing in the title basically.

the snivelling shits

GlasVegas wrote: Fuck Buttons. Shit Disco (from Glasgow) Fuck Off Machete (from Glasgow)

Any band with swearing in the title basically.

In that case, surely a clear winner is....

HOLY FUCK

Dinosaur Pile up The Hicks :)

Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote:

GlasVegas wrote: Fuck Buttons. Shit Disco (from Glasgow) Fuck Off Machete (from Glasgow)

Any band with swearing in the title basically.

In that case, surely a clear winner is....

HOLY FUCK

Forgot them. I downloaded an intrumental of theirs called 'Lovely Allen'.

The Edsel Auctioneer The Heart Throbs Kitchens Of Distinction

Blackett88 wrote:

Electric Dentures and Scrambled Debutante. Neither are real bands, sadly, they're fictional bands from the comic strips Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes, respectively.

dr teeth and the electric mayhem

Lubricated Goat was a great one......

Not really a band..more like a solo project, and he's Japanese...but Acid Black Cherry

There's also a band called 'Porno Graffitti' here too.

Head Dokter and the Majik Konvention.

(their bassplayer and moogist was a real cock though)

The The. The band that can't be Googled.

Edit: It can now, I just checked.

Woo.

Nurse With Wound Throbbing Gristle

Love 'em both!

World's Largest Snake Found Dead

...is up for grabs.

Guns n Roses The Stone Roses Ned Atomic Dustbin (not!)

Biginoil wrote: The The. The band that can't be Googled.

Edit: It can now, I just checked.

Woo.

Another band who can't be googled; 'Sexy Kids'. (they're v good though).

Anyway continuing with great names

Benny Profane Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Beef Curtains

Best names are those that can conjure up the sound of the music in one word (and swear words are a bit middle school I think)

Doves Orbital Interpol Germs Cracker

No-one's mentioned Anal Cunt

Abyssinian pole vault were a band that played in a pub I used to work at in Blackpool in the 80's, they played covers of Tears for fears, very, very badly, the guitarist had no idea of triplets, which made the intro to everybody wants to rule the world comical.

Great name, shite band

I'm sure I heard a band called Waikikamukau pronounced Why kick a moo cow, in the 80's but not sure where, very hazy recollection!!

Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle.

Peely was a fan.

Black Box Fuckpuppet Fuzzbox Arse Biscuit

Venetian Snares The Zimmermen Fanny Cider

The Arrogant Worms Puffy AmiYumi Circa Survive Super Furry Animals

Jed Stephens wrote:

I'm sure I heard a band called Waikikamukau pronounced Why kick a moo cow, in the 80's but not sure where, very hazy recollection!!

I think that one may just have to be the winner...that's all kinds of awesome.

Edd wrote: No-one's mentioned Anal Cunt

Looked at the wiki entry - no surprise they were formed in one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts. The rich kids got a lot of rage

like the names tribute bands come up with

current fave ( though I must stress the music they cover is fookin bobbins )

BY JOVI

and now sadly folded but still a fine moniker

HALF MAN, HALF LAGER

electronic kraftwerk fra lippo lippi friends again modest mouse muse otherTwo oneTwo

cRispy Ambulance sigue sigue sputnik carter the unstoppable sex machine throbbing gristle

Biginoil wrote: The The. The band that can't be Googled.

Edit: It can now, I just checked.

Woo.

THE THE So good they named it twice

After hearing it on jp show in 78 i ordered from small wonder a single from by a yank band called 'The nipple erectors'

Lill wrote: Nurse With Wound Throbbing Gristle

Love 'em both!

nice!

Of The Wand And The Moon Bilbo Baggins Iron Virgin The 4-Skins Turbonegro Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (very inconvenient, but ballsy)

and the legend that is....Strawberry Switchblade

eskamiya wrote:

and the legend that is....Strawberry Switchblade

I FORGOT ABOUT THEM!

Yes, that is an EXCELLENT choice!

Massive Attack Godspeed You Black Emperor The KLF Einstürzende Neubauten KMFDM (allegedly, Kill Motherfucking Depeche Mode) Black Box Recorder Kraftwerk British Sea Power Postal Service Revenge

Joy Division really is unbeatable as a name, though.

Seona Dancing

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Depeche Mode here.

Surely no-one will ever beat that...

RE-ORDER

gotta be bonzo dog do da band,sheep on drugs,check out thier web site.

C'mon-no mention of The Ramones?

Sisters of Mercy Pansy Division Split Enz Hunters & Collectors The Traveling Wilburys Wilco

Failed Abortion Babies (FAB) Bored Broccoli p The Not The Friendly Flatulence

ok, I just made those up. I wonder if any of those are actually real?

I think at this point almost every name has been used, except odd combinations

That Petrol Emotion The all-seeing I Ambulance Ltd Badly drawn boy The dbs

and surely ...

The Buzzcocks

This HAS GOT to be a winner

Awww...

everyone forgot Fudgetunnel..

'Jesus Jones'. A great name thet was totaly wasted on this lot. Shame.

Disco Biscuits

GlasVegas wrote: Fuck Buttons. Shit Disco (from Glasgow) Fuck Off Machete (from Glasgow)

Any band with swearing in the title basically.

you forgot to mention where fuck buttons are from

The Hippos

Just found them-fun Indie Rock/New Wave/Ska Punk band.

'Blodwyn Pig' prog rockers from Wales.

'Eaton Crop' from Holland

'Gandalph murphy and the slambovian circus of dreams' from N.Y