What is your favorite band name?

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Neil
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 10:01 AM

Dread Zeppelin
Cowslingers
Skrew Tractor
Jehovah's Waitresses
Hostile Amish
Truck Meets Train
Cop Shoot Cop
Blond Boy Grunt and the Groans
Corpse Vomit

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 15 Sep 07 - 09:51 AM

Raggytash, the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Team used to be reported on regularly on Round the Horne; they held exhibition matches against the Harlem Globetrotters, bring and buy sales and an annual flagpole squat.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 05:33 PM

My trio is named "Matthew-Mark, Luke and Bubba" because here in the south Matthew-Mark is considered one name. We rejected the name "The Rhythm Methodists" and for one night only we performed as "The Brokeback Mountain Boys".

JC and the Water Walkers
The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Boys Life
One City Without a Train
The New Wave
Dark Restaurant

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 04:51 PM

"A Beautiful Noise," if only because it's my son's band and finally beginning to do well regionally after six years or so.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Sean Belt
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 02:56 PM

Around here (St. Louis, MO) a couple of my favorites are The Sins of the Pioneers and one of the bands I play with, The Hot Baloney Boys.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Raggytash
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 02:35 PM

Troupe not team, The Nicaraguan Over Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Troupe"

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Raggytash
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 02:34 PM

I was very very briefly in a band in Manchester in the late seventies who gloried in the name

" The Nicaraguan Over Eighties Nudist Leapfrog Team"

Thought it was a brilliant name then ................ still do come to think of it

Raggy

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: LesB
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 01:57 PM

deafshepherd
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 14 Sep 07 - 03:47 AM

The Nearly Music Consort (filkers).

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Neil
Date: 13 Sep 07 - 09:02 AM

After over-imbibing at a local Blues festival I saw Blue Lunch, and then I did.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 10:07 PM

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Splott Man
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 11:20 AM

lefthanded guitar

"Red Molly
the name and the band

and I still don't know where they got the name from-"

She's a character in the Richard Thompson song - Vincent Black Lightning 1952


Splott Man

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 10:32 AM

Courage of Lassie. Great Band as well..gone now..too bad.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Snake
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 09:25 AM

Snotty and the Nosepickers
(Actually existed as a band in Johannesburg, South Africa)

Suck

(Also a South African band circa 1979)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 08:03 AM

One of these days I'm going to form a band called TBC.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: mattkeen
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 07:57 AM

Vince Pie and the Crumbs

Did at least 3 gigs in and around Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire in late 70's

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Marilyn Monsoon
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 07:49 AM

Ok, here goes.

Butthole Surfers
Limp Bizkit
Gay Dad
Napalm Death (scary!)
Cradle Of Filth
Dandy Warhols
and erm......Tom Jones

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Barnacle
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 06:00 AM

There used to be a ceilidh band in the North of England called

Oscar the Frog

Thirty years on and I still remember the name. I wonder if they are still going?

Sue

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 05:55 AM

100th post ?

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,BobL
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 05:35 AM

I forgot the local family band of yore - Dyer Tribe

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,BobL
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 05:28 AM

Apologies if any of these were mentioned earlier, but:

    Sid Sideboard and the Chairs
    Us and Him
    Wit of a Banker
    Women Wrestling in Mud (another that got complaints from disappointed punters)
    Floating Crowbar (named after an electrical circuit?)
    Dickie Hart and the Pacemakers

but the ultimate most brilliantly tastless band name of all time has just got to be

      Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Frank Lee
Date: 12 Sep 07 - 04:37 AM

Not a band as such, but 'The Old Spice Girls' is a dance team in Cumbria

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Beer
Date: 11 Sep 07 - 09:29 PM

Natural Gas

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,guest ian
Date: 09 Sep 07 - 04:37 PM

strolling clones

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 07:41 PM

The Electric Prunes

Climax
In the Sixties, most of us wouldn't have understood the implication. I've been listening to some "bubblegum" songs and realized the lyrics were not as sugar and spice as whe thought. Oh my...)

Lemon Pipers
Speaking of bubblegum, here are some of the fanciful words that, when you take another look...)
"Take a trip on my pogo stick
Bounce up and down, do a trick
I'll play a beat on your pumpkin drum
And we'll have fun in the sun"
Now I KNOW how naive my friends and I were! How we managed to stay so sweet 'n' innocent in the craziness of the Sixties I'll never know.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Electric Light Orchestra

Steelers Wheel

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: bankley
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 11:57 AM

Rumpleforeskin,
Rolling Estonians,
Blind Lemon Pledge,
Steppenshit,
Cunning Linguists
Jerry Hatrix
and from Toronto.. "Holy Fuck"... which takes care of religion and sex. They were cut from the line-up at the Canada Day celebrations in London but did really well in Glastonbury....

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: MudGuard
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 05:34 AM

Or even better:

The Bent Banned Band

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: MudGuard
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 05:33 AM

The Banned Band

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 04:00 AM

I always liked the implied irony of The Pure Prairie League, and in the same James Stewart Western vane, the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
But it's hard to beat Nashville Pussy.

By the way, did you hear about my Uncle Charles' rooster?

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 02:11 AM

Hootie & The Blowfish

Redbone

The Blues Magoos

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Remember "Fire"?)

? & The Mysterians

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Genie
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 01:25 AM

A now-defunct Celtic group in Portland, which had at least 2 different incarnations with variations in the band's personnel, was "Howling Gael."   I love that name.

And we have a great bluesman here named Paul DeLay. While Paul was in the slammer on a drug rap -- I know, I know, hard to imagine that happening with a blues musician -- the band performed under the name "No DeLay."

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Genie
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 01:21 AM

Bill Murlin, of Portland, OR, and another guy named Bill sometimes perform free at festivals under the name
"The Unpaid Bills."

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Genie
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 01:19 AM

Austin Lounge Lizards

How's Bayou (Cajun group)


Smegma ( I kiddingly said a while back that I thought this would be a good name for a band, and I was told there already was one! ) *g*

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cstargazy
Date: 08 Sep 07 - 12:44 AM

Peatbog Faeries, Shoogenlifty, Eager Igor and the Ukrainian Ramblers, Ivabolakov and the Balalaika Barbed Wire Hurdlers

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cluin
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:23 PM

The Blow Monkeys

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cstargazy
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:13 PM

Spiced Quinces, Thick Perkins, Chocolate Chinchillas, Salt-water Duck, Elderflower Fritters, Smoked Goose,Sangaree, Turtle Lady Curzon

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cstargazy
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 07:02 PM

Hi Texas, some unused (in my world) band names for you...Cardboard Mountaineers, Chicken-in-a-Basket, Warp Dressers and Twisters,...and some used ones...Monk Brown and his Dirty Habits, Pineapple Nine (particularly creative this one:they sang English Folk,did not do any numbers about pineapples, and there were only three of them...they hoped their audiences would be sypathetic on account of six band members not having bothered to turn out... tho' indifferent musically, they were quite droll)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 05:05 PM

Red Molly
the name and the band

and I still don't know where they got the name from-
a long lost cousin from Ireland?
a tropical fish?

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Rich(bodhránaí gan ciall)
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 04:59 PM

Dry Branch Fire Squad

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: kendall
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 04:43 PM

Lunch at the dump.
That was a bluegrass band here a few years ago. They all met at the landfill and found out that they all made music, so they formed a band. Too bad they broke up.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 04:13 PM

Long Jon and the Underthings...but I've never been able to get my partner Jon (who is short, of course) to start the band.

Thought of this about 20 years ago when we were in a singing competition, the second Harmony Sweepstakes, against "the Slips" and (I think) "the Girdles."

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Sharon G
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:09 PM

Just returning to visit this thread...Corned Beef and Couscous went into retirement after about 2 years of existence. Just an historical artifact now, but there might be a living room tape available still....that would be from my living room.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: MystMoonstruck
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:10 PM

I just encountered two while doing a bit of Net wandering:

Mr. Quimby's Beard

Spock's Beard

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: DADGBE
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:00 PM

That female punk band from Los Angeles has my vote - The Cunning Stunts

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Y_Not
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 07:08 PM

BODHRAN BODHRAN

(pronounced BORAN)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Wendy
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 06:37 PM

Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: folk1e
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 05:38 PM

How about Shaemus O'Blivion and the Megadeath Morrismen
I never got over those pink tights he wore eather!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Brakn
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 04:28 AM

Dean Gabber and the Gabberdeans.
Ken Wood and The Mixers.
Ed Banger and The Nosebleeds.
Medium Wave Band.
Paddy Goes To Hollyhead.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Ernest
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 02:53 AM

St. Bushmills Choir (name of a folk-punk band found on the www)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 12:56 AM

The 4 Skins.