What is your favorite band name?

Subject: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 03:15 PM

Well, I haven't given this a ton of thought but I saw a thread posted today by the, "Flying Chaucers," and I thought - wow,
what a great name for a band - so my lot is is cast with the Flying Chaucers; but, what is your favorite band name; and yes, you can list more than one. In fact, you can even put forth a band name that no one has ever used but you think would be a great name.
I always though "Truncheon" would be a great name for a metal band. Have fun. Cheers.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 03:29 PM

Achilles and His Heels.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,firinne
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 04:27 PM

When I lived in Liverpool in the 60's, the Liverpool Echo ran a competition for names for a pop group, can't remember what won but most unforgettable was 'Snotty and the Nosepickers!'

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Tom Bliss
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 04:32 PM

Hey I wasn't ready!

My first proper band was called, honestly, Joy Stick and the Cockpits.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Serious
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 04:36 PM

I think Show of Hands is a damn fine name for a band!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 06:00 PM

A couple of bands aah've had the great good fortune te be involved in are

Phatt-B'Stards
Blo na Gael
Nine Mile Ride
Jet Blast & The Deflectors


But aah still think that yez have te gan back te that late 60's/early 70's for things like

Blodwyn Pig
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre

But for me aall time favourite band name - Dire Straits

If Dire Straits and Chris Rea made an album, what wad the' caall it?

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 06:27 PM

The Sons of the Underbrush.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cattail
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 06:43 PM

Hot Vultures

Cattail !

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 06:43 PM

I badly wanted to call a band I was in Lemming Moran and the Tarts, but I was voted down.

A short-lived effort (but I did like the name) was Macswel's Friends .. you'd have to have met Macswel to appreciate the name. Macswel was a soft toy made by my Mum, with heaps of character.

Anne

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

my son's favorite band (not sure if fave band name, but probably so)
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Giant Folk Eyeball (inactive)
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 07:18 PM

I always wanted to call a band 'Meat Soup Enema'

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Alice
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 07:30 PM

Look in the BS section. I refreshed an old thread about Favorite Band Names.
It's a music thread... don't know why it is in BS.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 07:48 PM

There is a band extant - from Canada, I think - whose name makes me smile: Buddy Whassisname and the Other Fellers.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GerryMc
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 08:05 PM



I wouldn't call it a favourite but in the '80s we were in a band called...

Jack Door and The Ravens

and at school, when looking for a 'strong' name for our band we were very nearly...

Caustic Soda and the Bleach Boys



Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Compton
Date: 02 Sep 07 - 08:22 PM

I thought Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginians were a stroke of genius. There was a punk band in Stafford called Denis Racket and the Noise Boys!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: M.Ted
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 12:08 AM

Recent favorites:

Neutral Milk Hotel
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Hayseed Dixie
Me Too and the Gimme Gimmees
Badly Drawn Boy
Insane Clown Posse
l

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Rowan
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 01:00 AM

The thread Alice refreshed has the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons, I'm pleased to report. The first all female rock group in Oz (in the early 70s) that I heard about was called "Hen's Teeth"; unfortunately they didn't last very long. A couple of years later another all female rock group formed in Sydney, called "The Ovarian Sisters"; I think they lasted 4-5 years.

And, in the late 70s, I occasionally played (and sang the occasional shanty) with "Rum, Buggery and the Lash!" who did a great version of "Running Bare".

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Splott Man
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 03:35 AM

Bands I've been in:

Needeep
Stuff
Chunky
The Kitchen Sinkopators
Hamstrung Bones

The latter was after a joke on (I think) Round the Horne referring to Lord Snowdon as Anthony Hamstrung-Bones.

A fave name I know is the Blues band - Cliff Rescue & the Helicopters

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: mattkeen
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 04:53 AM

Gas Mark 5

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Trevor
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 06:35 AM

Brent Ford and The Nylons were in Birmingham in the 70s. And I liked the sound of Ricky Cool and The Icebergs (presume it's the same person now touring as Ricy Cool and The Hoola Boola Boys.

Bamsquilverboozled was a pretty good name, we thought! Rapsquillion is easier though these days!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 06:44 AM

My nominations:

Bob's Little Brother's Mate's Band
The Above Average Weight Band

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 06:55 AM

In the 70s, there was a punk band (made up of music journalists, I believe), called the Snivellin' Shits. Best band name ever, surely.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 06:58 AM

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
The Pigsty Hill Light Orchestra
The Men They Couldn't Hang
Mechanical Horsetrough
Wishbone Ash
Bellowhead
Uriah Heep
Capercaillie

Those are all real. Some friends had a school band called Easy Grandma.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 08:00 AM

Ceilidh Minogue
May Contain Nuts

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: dj bass
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 08:09 AM

Gay Bikers on Acid
The Booze Brothers
Telephone Bill and the Smooth Operators

dj

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Compton
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 12:08 PM

There was a Ceilidh band I knew thought about calling itself "The Oral Six"!!...but didn't.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 02:03 PM

The band of my other self is called "Walter Ego and the Doppelgangers"
Catch them somewhere in Dorset

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 02:23 PM

Hi Georgie - Nick Pallett from Principal Edwards (they later shortened their name to that) was a mate of mine at university and he there had a band called the Nathaniel Clackthorne All-Rubber Band.

One of my uni bands was Shaft and the Rocks (the lead singer was a mining engineer, see?) and one of my school bands was the Pink Perves. Another uni one was Wandering Hands and the Jailbait.

I am also the oldest surviving member of Roger the Chorister.

More currently, yes, I too think that the Flying Chaucers is a great name, and there is a snigger snogwriter female trio from somewhere near Cambridge called "Deadly Lampshade".

I liked the in-your-face element of Courtney Love's band name "Hole", and also "the Slits".

"The Chosen Few" is a pretty good name too.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 02:39 PM

Knit Your Own Yogurt
Hugh Reed & the Velvet Underpants
The Crazy World of Arthur Lowe

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 02:47 PM

Half Man Half Biscuit

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 02:48 PM

Gogol Bordello

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 02:55 PM

Machine Gun Fellatio

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 03:10 PM

Half Man, Half Biscuit?

Was that a band fronted by Lionel Richtea ???

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 03:18 PM

Flying Chaucers, of course!

And --

Starboard List
Three Sheets to the Wind

and there used to be a local Portsmouth, NH rock group called "Jiggle the Handle".

Linn

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 04:12 PM

Come to think of it, there was "Empty Vessels", from Dartford-ish.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: M.Ted
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 05:52 PM

"The Men They Couldn't Hang" makes me think of "My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult"--

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: the button
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 05:54 PM

Hayseed Dixie (bluegrass covers of AC/DC & other heavy rock)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 07:20 PM

There is a punk band here in Eugene Oregon that calls itself(and you will forgive me I hope);

FUCK GOD IN THE FACE!

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 07:44 PM

Grab the Future By the Face

Linn

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GerryMc
Date: 03 Sep 07 - 08:16 PM


and I was also in The Above Average Weight Band (AKA Fat B!"tards)


Gerry :-)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Mark H.
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 03:20 AM

Wish I'd thought of Midfield General.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Serious
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 03:26 AM

The Oysterband - great name! great music too!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Compton
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 06:00 AM

I saw advertised in Chester..........The Shy Teds !!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Nick
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 07:25 AM

Jimmy Shandrix Experience

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Beer
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 09:42 AM

Cutty Sark
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Serious :0)
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 11:16 AM

Mawkin-Causley is a grand name too!

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 02:49 PM

I saw an American band play in London, called simply "Fuck", they were quite good. Got the CD somewhere. I don't think they got a lot of radio play.

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 02:55 PM

There's an old-time band that goes by the name Wabash Cannibals.

-Greg

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 02:56 PM

Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

Subject: RE: What is your favorite band name?
From: GLoux
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 02:58 PM

The Wabash Cannibals post was mine...my cookie is now reset.

-Greg