Best / strangest band names ever

Blue Rondo a la turk, anyone?

Besses o' th' Barn

Hall i' th' Wood

Ashton-under-Lyne

Detox In The Sun (Without Electrodes Strapped On)

Moggy and The Speed Monkeys Trampface

Just a couple that always make me smile. Trampface is actually one of my fave expressions...their music was shite though...

Liv

What about....Liberace's Rotting Corpse? (See thread I started for further details)

The Edsel Auctioneer

Kitchens Of Distinction (fine band, silly name)

And They Shall Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead (or something)

How about Aussie band MACHINE GUN FELLATIO. They're in the Big Day Out fest with NO.

Apparently they're banned from some uni...their live shows too sexist....

Pale Fountains

Jesus and Mary Chain

Crispy Ambulance

Blancmange

A Flock Of Seagulls

When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water

Miranda Sex Garden

Electrafixion ( I like the Bunnymen, but that's just a bad name)

TISM - This Is Serious Mom Le Clube Foote Not Drowning Waving Check One-Two

All Aussies, sun got to them!

The Spermbirds Ned's Atomic Dustbin The Fuck Fucks Shit Factory and my favourite...

PissFlaps

CTD

Oingo Boingo Haircut 100 Johnny Hates Jazz Swing Out Sister Paul Revere and the Raiders Milli Vanilli

The Other Two is a really funny name, isn't ?

There is a French band called Kat Onoma, which means "As its name indicates" in old Greek. BTW, they do great music. Lyrics are in French, English and sometimes Spanish. Very very good, and very hard to find, too. For those who might be interested, their best albums are 'Billy the Kid' (with all lyrics taken from Jack Spicer's book 'Billy the Kid'), 'Far from the Pictures' and 'Kat Onoma'.

There's this Perth guitar band named "Left Nut", which I always find amusing. The US gay punk band named "Pansy Division" is a cracker also, a play on Panzer Division, Joy Division, etc.. "Sheep on Drugs"- are they still around They put out some good tunes.. But most of all, I can't get enough of the death metal types:

Fields of Nephilium Blood Duster Death Chalice Cradle of Filth

etc etc.

The funniest element being that they're normally made up of the softest mummy's boy types you could ever meet.. Or crazy Norweigans.

Right Said Fred Franky Goes to Hollywood Pet Shop Boys

Seems to me that gay bands always have jolly names :D

They Might Be Giants Ten Thousand Maniacs The Frank & Walters ("Highly promising three piece band from Cork, Ireland, named after two tramps who inhabit a nearby village")

The Stiff Kittens.

ahhhh if only... (for those that know!)

Originally posted by Inta Don The Stiff Kittens.ahhhh if only... (for those that know!)

BTW "The Sunshine Valley Dance Band" would have been a funny name.... but...

What about "Stevie and the JDs"?

My favorite shitty names: Limp Biscuit, Korn, Staind, Creed, Sum 41, Lone Star, Garth Brooks, Lincoln Park, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of dead.

Splodgenessabounds always raises a chuckle

Some of my favourites are: Les Negresses Vertes The Men They Couldn't Hang Inspiral Carpets Screaming Trees Fugitives From Hell

DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS!

Sig Sig Sputnik Johnny and the Fartknockers and BTW isn't Stiff Kittens without "the"?

These are names I've come across at some point or other (one of my obsessions is making note of crazy band names) So here's part one;

Deeeeep breath....

Torpedo Flasher & The Raging Orgasms Harry The Hernia Oil My Whelks Bob Bob Bob and Bob I, Ludicrous Klaatu Virada Niccta Janet And The Icebergs (actually Siouxsie and the Banshees under an assumed name) Bum Gravy March Of The Superannuated Slapheaded Jizz-Bags Crispy Ambulance How Many Beans Make Five? Intensely Personal Grudges Notwithstanding Robert The Coccoon The James Dean Driving Experience Stomping Buddhist Disco Family Clinically Insane Freur (actually their name was an indecipherable squiggle - this was apparently the pronunciation - and not many of you may know this, but TWO of them, Karl Hyde and Richard Smith, went on to become UNDERWORLD!!) Welcome To The Pussy Palace Stilted Brickbats Woooooaaaarghhhhh!!! Gourmet Toss Cheese Shoplifting With Richard Madeley Urban Strawberry Lunch (I'm hoping to collaborate with this inventive Liverpool-based percussion outfit next year!! Plug!! Plug!!)

Martin, didnt freur have one little hit?Something with DootDoot

Yep - that's the one Mario! "We Go "DOOT DOOT!!" ! and they ALL had horrendous MULLETS as well - it was 1983 after all!!

Yeah right, christ these guys guys(?) really looked as if they were from another planet. Each time they were on Toppop(the dutch TOTP in those days) you could carry me away laughing so much that it hurt. Those were the days my friend, we thought they never end lalalala lalalalalalaaala.

Originally posted by Martin Gray Freur (actually their name was an indecipherable squiggle - this was apparently the pronunciation - and not many of you may know this, but TWO of them, Karl Hyde and Richard Smith, went on to become UNDERWORLD!!)

You're joking ?! From the ridiculous to the quite good....

BTW, Durutti Column is a name i never really understood. Yo, that sounds like a Stockholm Monsters song: i nver really understood (rep. about 4 times) then finished with Fuck off. Great song.

Originally posted by Mario Herlaar BTW, Durutti Column is a name i never really understood.

Don't know if that helps you. Durutti was a spanish anarchist who fought in the spanish civil war 1936 - 39 and his squad was named Durutti Column.

Johnny & The Self-Abusers.....shoul've been Jimmy & etc..

Originally posted by Yecnuaj Mit > Originally posted by Martin Gray> > Freur (actually their name was an indecipherable squiggle - this was apparently the pronunciation - and not many of you may know this, but TWO of them, Karl Hyde and Richard Smith, went on to become UNDERWORLD!!)

You're joking ?! From the ridiculous to the quite good....

Nope, Martin's definitely right...

I, Ludicrous !!!!! Excellant

Prepostourous Tales in Life of Ken McKenzie is probably the greatest single ever !!!

Spizzenergi who later became Spizzenergiathleticomardrid

Originally posted by Andy Kay > Originally posted by Mario Herlaar> BTW, Durutti Column is a name i never really understood.

Don't know if that helps you. Durutti was a spanish anarchist who fought in the spanish civil war 1936 - 39 and his squad was named Durutti Column.

You see , one learns a little every day.:D

Oh, and eeh.. did they win???

Originally posted by Mario Herlaar Oh, and eeh.. did they win???

Unfortunately not. But that's another story...

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