Groups with animal names!

Subject: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 08:53 PM

This one starts with the most blatantly obvious example possible....(drum roll, please...)

*** THE ANIMALS ***

Go to it, Mudcatters!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: dwditty
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 08:58 PM

Phish

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:00 PM

Whitesnake...

Does that count, being a reptile?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:02 PM

Well, of course it counts, for flip's sake! Us reptiles is animals!!! (Hrumph!) (the nerve!)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:04 PM

Oh yes!

Hawkwind!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:05 PM

Then there's the Byrds...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:06 PM

The Monkees

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:07 PM

Not forgetting the Eagles...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:09 PM

Okay, somebody has to say it...

The Beatles...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:13 PM

And, of course, the Commodores...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:14 PM

lovely. Keep it coming.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: campfire
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:15 PM

Let's not forget the Turtles either.

campfire

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:15 PM

Can you remember Lieutnant Pigeon...?

(Mouldy Old Dough, etc!)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:17 PM

Erm, the Bee Gees?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:20 PM

Atomic Rooster!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:23 PM

Little Hawk, birds of prey aren't reptiles...

More for the list:
Buffalo Springfield
Three Dog Night

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:26 PM

The Penguins
The Old Blind Dogs (cool trad group from Scotland)
Los Lobos
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Yardbirds
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Smokin' Armadillos
Dogstar (Keanu Reeves' band)
The Seahorses
The New Nashville Cats
The Boomtown Rats

That's all I can think off the top of my head at the moment..

--Matt

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:27 PM

Aren't nuns birds of pray?

Hedgehog Pie (an English folk band...)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:29 PM

Hey, Matt, what were they doing on the top of your head, anyway?

The Buzzcocks...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:36 PM

The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band (sp?).

Sigh, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:40 PM

Butterfly Messiah
Ravenblack
Parrothead
Ravenswing
Swallowtail
Sierra Hart

(If you don't recognize these, it's cause they're from mp3.com and IUMA)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:41 PM

I realize birds of prey are not reptiles, but I have always deeply liked reptiles, so I consider myself a brother to them and had to rush to their defense. Then too, birds and reptiles seem to be quite closely related, probably having originally sprung from the same common ancestors.

Which may well be true of all creatures on this planet.

How about THE TROGS? What is a "trog" anyway?

Nazi Dog And The Viltones

Herman's Hermits (crabs?)

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:42 PM

That Dog
The Revolting Cocks

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:43 PM

Sorry, that should have been: Nazi Dog and the Viletones

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:46 PM

Jimmy's Chicken Shack

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:46 PM

BTW, a commodore is a naval officer, not an animal, as far as I know...but correct me if I'm wrong (is there some seabird called a commodore?).

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:47 PM

La Vesse Du Loup

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:47 PM

OOOO! OOOO! OOOO!

MOTHER TUCKER'S YELLOW DUCK

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:54 PM

I thought hawks ATE snakes and other reptiles... Small ones, anyway.
Am I off target here? (Maybe if you were hungry enough.)

There is a bird called a Cormorant. Is there a band by that name?
As for Commodore, get out your dictionary, LH.
(You know I don't have one.)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:57 PM

Iron Butterfly, The Wheezing Dogs.

Yeah, like, later. Mooh.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mooh
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:00 PM

T Rex. The Village People.

Like, later. Mooh.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:00 PM

Yeah, bbit ots more jgigh to haoi...damn! It would help if my right hand was on the correct keys...what I meant to say was...it's more fun to just ask.

Hawks do eat snakes and other reptiles...but I'm a spirit hawk, so I've given up on such fare. Don't tell Lepus...gotta keep him guessing.

I do still get hungry, of course...you know...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:08 PM

Wolfstone
The Goat Ropers
Spacehog
Great White
Def Leppard ;-)
El Tigres Del Norte
The Stray Cats
Funky Monkey (J-pop band)

BTW The Trogs was a shortened form of "The Troglodytes", or cave dwellers (cave men!). Their first album had a humourous label on the inside "Despite their name, the members of the bad neither live in caves, nor enjoy cave-related activities."

--Matt

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:13 PM

The Village People are animals? That's an insult to animals everywhere! Y M C A! Y M C A! Y M C A!

Ah...troglodytes...thanks!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:14 PM

Ah, how could a forget The Tartan Amoebas? Great band! Pipes & horns--what a combo!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:15 PM

I think Mbo has a better music collection than I do.
Waaaaaaaaahhhhh!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:16 PM

Toad, The Wet Sprocket?

I've never had any friggin' idea what the hell that's supposed to mean. Maybe one of you fans of Major Tom, Psychotic Astronaut, could help me out here?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:28 PM

Okay, Spaw. I tell you this extremely arcane and hidden knowledge at the risk of unhinging your mind...

Toad, The Wet Sprocket refers to one of the high-tech devices that malfunctioned in Major Tom's space capsule, condemning him to a lingering death in deep space. There are numerous sprockets of differing sizes in any space vehicle, each one of them playing a vital part in its proper function. Major Tom had taken along several small animals, in order to perform routine tests to see how they could cope with zero gravity and other effects of being in space. One of them was a toad. The toad, unfortunately escaped during the zero gravity test and made its way through a small access port, vanishing into the navigation machinery module. Eventually said toad felt a need to relieve itself, peeing on the sprocket in question (gravity effect having been restored by that time). The result was a short circuit which blew out the navigation systems, dooming Major Tom, as well as the toad, and resulting in the song you know and love so well.

And there ya have it. Toad, The Wet Sprocket.

(Either that or it was the usual young @$$holes trying desperately to come up with an original name for their band...)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:30 PM

Toad the Wet Sprocket are cool! Very folk/rock-ish. No joke, I believe the name is a reference to a Rolling Stone song.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:30 PM

Thanks Hawk.......I feel much better now.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:32 PM

Aw, come on, Mbo. That's no fun. I'm going with the Major Tom connection.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:46 PM

Ah, I found it! I was mistaken! It says they got the name "Toad the Wet Sprocket" from the Monty Python sketch called "Rock Notes", a transcript which can be read here.

--Matt

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:55 PM

That's ...uh, great......yeah, thanks Meebo..............super.................uh-huh...............oy.................

So let's see....Real animal names? How about Bare Naked Ladies? Now THAT is an animal I can really get into.....so to speak.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 10:56 PM

Cool. Way to go, Matt.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:00 PM

BNL ROCKS! Spaw, I though a band you would have been into is Buffalo Farts.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:02 PM

Actually Meebs, I don't dig buffalo farts...prefer my own. But I have been to 4 BNL concerts, macaroni and all.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:03 PM

Whaddya mean, Meeebo, Spaw? It's Em-bo. Yer just tryin' to bug me, arentcha?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:22 PM

Go Meebo do chuid fo-eadaigh.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:25 PM

I'll take that as an insult.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: hesperis
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:32 PM

I think Spaw says Meebo as a vernacular version of Me Boy. That and because it annoys you. (That and it's easier to type than Em-bo.)
Of course, he could just not be getting the point...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:33 PM

Don't do that Meebo! After all, it ain't your underwear. Besides, I can insult you without having to go that far!!!! (:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:35 PM

Bull Moose Jackson
Budgie
Praying Mantis
Leningrad COWboys (that's a stretch, isn't it?)

Why can't I think of more?

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:36 PM

Well, Spaw, at least I don't where Gordon Bonk Underoos like you!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 11:46 PM

I don't wear any at all Meebs!!! I am however the sole manufacturer of the Gordon Bok inspired Amish Australian Pitchfork Moustache Tuner. Now that's a true piece of work! Its a shame Little Hawk wasn't around to bid on that little beauty!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: The Beanster
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 12:13 AM

Little Hawk--LOLOL

My entries: Iron Butterfly, Mink DeVille, Country Joe & the Fish and Seal...

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: p.j.
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 12:24 AM

I play with an Irish group called The Roanes...does that count?

pj

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowbetter
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 12:26 AM

Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Ratdog
Howlin Wolf
Kingfish
Blackfish
Leftover Salmon
Hypnotic Clambake
Fishbone
Snake Oil Medicine Show
Donna the Buffalo
Adam Ant
The Dixie Chicks
Hot Tuna
Government Mule (Allen Woody R.I.P.)


I'll rack my brain for some more but this is all I can think of for now. In the meantime, thanks Little Hawk> Fun Thread,
Rich

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 12:29 AM

LOL...Geeziz Rich....Do you think there is some way to convince you to shorten up the handle a bit? Man everytime you post to a thread the freakin' poster list gets longer than the thread!!!!!(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bugsy
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 01:10 AM

3 DOG NIGHT

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 01:30 AM

Duh... The Fighting Cocks!

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Dave Swan
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 02:05 AM

The Austin Lounge Lizards E.S.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 02:48 PM

An Emotional Fish
The Bloodhound Gang
The Stone Ponies

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 05:30 PM

Four Men And A Dog

Jon

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 05:37 PM

Just thought of these! (BTW my childhood nickname was "Bug")
The Scorpions!
Adam & The Ants
The Flys

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: GUEST,Raptor
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 05:40 PM

Men without hats (you didn't say it had to be a good band)

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 05:52 PM

Men - hats = animals?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 06:47 PM

I don't get it either, Mbo. I think Raptor has depleted his brain cells through rampant sexual excess. Either that or it's crawling on his belly through the underbrush trying to snap a closeup of the Ream-Nosed Romflombler. One was rumoured to be in the area a couple of weeks ago, and he's been a little dingy ever since...Raptor, I mean, not the Romflombler.

Spaw - I am quite miffed about missing out on the bidding for the Amish Australian Pitchfork Moustache Tuner. It's not often a chance like that comes up.

Has anyone noticed that dogs and fish seem to be dominating the theme? Interesting. Why not penguins and aardvarks? Go figure.

Mbo - I think Spaw's gaelic curse (directed toward me) means something like "May the malevolent Meebo soil your underwear!" If so, it insults both you and me.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 06:57 PM

Spaw's like a kindergartener, if he insults you, that means he likes you. But my dear Little Hawk, there was a band called The Penguins! I mentioned them above. Remember, they sang "Earth Angel". God I love that song.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: thosp
Date: 02 Sep 00 - 07:08 PM

los lobos
stray cats (did someone mention them?)
hootie and the blowfish
howlin wolf

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 03:24 AM

Goats Don't Shave (Irish band, first Album was called "The Rusty Razor")
Horselips

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: GUEST,ashamed
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 07:13 AM

cat stevens [ok its not a group]

stoned crows

eagles

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: dwditty
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 07:36 AM

OK, now for some blues:

Rabbit Brown
Bo Weavil Jackson
Furry Lewis (If he's furry, must be an animal, right?)
Slue Foot Joe
Jaybird Coleman
Bumble Bee Slim
Speckled Red (maybe some kind of bird)

dw

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 12:58 PM

The Black Crowes

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Metchosin
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 01:04 PM

The Tartan Amoebas

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 10:41 PM

The "Tartan Amoebas"??? Really? What did they play?

Has anyone mentioned Iron Butterfly?

Oh, and there was a band in Toronto in the early 70's called SYD RABBIT (take note, Lepus Rex), and another called EDWARD BEAR.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 10:44 PM

Little Hawk, you gotta read all the posts! I mentioned Tartan Amoebas way up there. They combine Highland bagpipes & Scottish melodies with ska brass band.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: sophocleese
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 11:03 PM

Blue Oyster Cult, I don't remember reading that one but I may have missed or forgotten it.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Metchosin
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 11:22 PM

Sorry Mbo missed it.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Callie
Date: 03 Sep 00 - 11:44 PM

And now for some Australian groups:

Large Rabbit Lubricated Goats The Cockroaches Sensitive New Age COWpersons BesaRata (which is Spanish for KissRat - a group I played in) Teddy Sexual Baby Animals The Dingoes Goanna Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes Trout Fishing in Quebec

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bugsy
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 01:46 AM

Manitas De Plata-pus.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bugsy
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 01:47 AM

Dingoes Breakfast (from OZ)

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bugsy
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 01:48 AM

The Sex Pistols (Now there's a group of animals if ever there was one!)

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Callie
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 02:10 AM

Sorry - I forgot to put in line breaks!! Teddy Sexuals and Baby Animals are 2 different groups.

Callie

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Quincy
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 06:02 AM

Well now, this brings to mind a trip over to the Galtymore Irish Club in Cricklewood last year. We'd had a good night...several bands had been playing.....back to B&B in the early hours.
I was sitting at the breakfast table and through half-open eyes I saw a fella that I thought I recognised from a band on the stage the night before. No sleep so I wasn't too sure......but I had to ask anyway!
"Excuse me, but would you be a Squealing Pig?"
Thankfully, much to my relief....he was! An elderly couple at the next table were highly amused.
I think the band were from London/Londonderry way. So there you go now...a long way round to it.....The Squealing Pigs!!!!

best wishes, Yvonne

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Grab
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 02:08 PM

My nominations...

Super Furry Animals Screamin' Jay Hawkins Captain Beefheart (well, it's _part_ of an animal...) Fish (ex of Marillion, now solo) Sid Kipper (it's an animal, just dead and a bit smokey) Eagle-Eye Cherry

I've a feeling you may find that "Whitesnake" isn't named after a species of reptile... ;-)

Oh, and a "trog" is a trogolodyte, or caveman. So not quite an animal (although the debate on that will run and run if we've got any evolution vs. creation nutters in here).

Grab.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Bernard
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 06:26 PM

Ey up, Grab!

> I've a feeling you may find that "Whitesnake" isn't named after a species of reptile... ;-)

Never said it was! The thread is called 'Groups with animal names' - not 'named after animals'!

Poetic licence, y'see!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 03:18 AM

Curlew (Shetland band) The Possum Pickers (Old-timey band from MA.) Getting down to the obscure stuff now.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Grab
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 09:23 AM

Oops, forgot my line-break tags!

Fair enough, Bernard. But someone further up was saying something about Whitesnake, so I just posted that. Can't be arsed reading the thread through again to find exactly what was said, though! :-)

Grab.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Sep 00 - 09:45 AM

Grab - You had the temerity to introduce the supposed evolution vs. creation debate...Ooooooo, boy!

Well I've got news fer ya...no need for said debate at all. You see, both evolution AND creation are perfectly legitimate notions, and are not mutually exclusive.

To wit: Creation may be termed as the single original impetus that got the whole ball rolling (the "Big Bang", if you want to put it in scientific terms). The scientists' only misperception about said Big Bang is that he doesn't seem to realize that there was a conscious purpose and intention behind it. There was. That was creation. Now, within creation were embodied numerous handy and elegantly workable mechanisms to modify said creation and move it onward into new and interesting developments...such as evolution. Evolution was based on numerous factors, such as survival, beauty and aesthetic considerations of all kinds, the desire toward perfection, the desire to test out all possible theories and limitations, and so on, ad infinitum.

None of that was accidental. Evolution is simply a smaller aspect of life contained within the whole of what we could term creation. No need for a debate between them at all.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Melani
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 12:13 AM

One of our favorites is an after-hours Renaissance Faire band called Rats in the Haggis.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 09:18 PM

Hootie and the Blowfish
The Spaniels (circa 1950)
Joe Cocker

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: John Hindsill
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 09:39 PM

The Robins, The Orioles, The Crows, The Skylarks, Cat (actually a record company that put out the original "Sh-Boom") all great R & B groups of the early 50s, except I think the Skylarks were earlier. And The Teenagers...you can't be more of an animal than that!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 10:18 PM

Counting Crows, how could I forget! And The Eels. And Echo and The BunnyMen!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 11:10 PM

Blodwyn Pig
Capercaillie
The Flock
The Arrogant Worms
Seals and Croft
Charlie Byrd
Ferlin Husky
Scorpions
Bee Bumble and the Stingers
Iron Butterfly

Sorry for any duplications, by the time I got to the bottom I forgot what had already been listed

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: richlmo
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 11:36 PM

Lubricated Goats?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 06 Sep 00 - 11:47 PM

Buffalo Springfield!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Metchosin
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 01:43 AM

ooh ooh ooh!! Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Yer getting bad as me Mbo, Buffalo Springfiel was already mentioned....Its the hour, right?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Callie
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 02:11 AM

Yes, Lubricated Goats. They are or were an indie band around Sydney.

And I forgot to mention other local bands:

Real Gone Cats
Party Pigs

John Lennon's band Elephant's Memory

A band I was in that came last in the University Band Competition called Ram (we got a special mention and prize for being terrible).

Callie

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Micca
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:01 PM

Grab, on a technicality, Troglodytes troglodytes is the Northern Wren and therefore a bird, and (I know its stretching it) therefore admissable tho' I doubt if the Trogs had this in mind when choosing a name.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:05 PM

Troglodytes aedon is the house wren, (for all you Mr.Rogers enthusiasts)! BTW I told the story of the Trogs' name on the Part one of this thread.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:33 PM

I will point out that biologically people are animals. If you object, your other options are to be a plant, a protista or viroid: hence commodores, and men without hats (or with hats for that matter) and Troglodytes are all animals

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:36 PM

Ok, then! Human League! Don't you want me baby? Don't you want me oooooh!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: MMario
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:38 PM

Mbo - go take a cold shower. *grin*

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: sophocleese
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 04:49 PM

MMario you reminded me of some friends in highschool who won the air-guitar contest. They attached strings to hats, lowered them so that they hung in front of the microphones and called themselves "Hats without Men".

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: mousethief
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 05:17 PM

I looked up commodore and there was nothing about birds.

Don't quote me, but I think the the word "animals" as used in the name of the thread was meant to mean "animals as opposed to people' -- obviously people are animals (what else? minerals? vegetables? well okay some are that too).

Other animal groups. Hmmm.

Country Joe and the Fish
Flock of Seagulls
The Chipmunks (surprised nobody said this yet)
The Cowsills (well it has "cow" in it...)

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 05:38 PM

No cold showers for me!

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 11:42 PM

Here's a REALLY obscure one...there was an adult comic called "Omaha The Cat Dancer". It had characters who were cartoon animals, such as cats, dogs, buffalo, different kinds of birds, etc...dressed up and behaving like 20th century people in our society, and it openly depicted their sex life at times, as well as all the other aspects. In some respects it was a pretty good comic (and may still be around, for all I know).

They had a band in that comic called "The Herd". Now, I believe there actually is a human band called The Herd which was a spinoff from that, formed by musician friends of the couple who draw and write that comic...I can't recall their names.

I have an "Omaha The Cat Dancer" T-shirt. It's cool.

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Mbo
Date: 07 Sep 00 - 11:44 PM

Who was the 40's band leader who's band was The Thundering Herd? Herb Alpert?

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: GUEST,Rich(dumbbodhránaiwhodoesn'tknowbetter)
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 11:53 PM

First, I shortened my title for Spaw's sake.

Ok, a group of musicians with an animal in its name.

Mudcat!!!!

Rich

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowbetter
Date: 08 Sep 00 - 11:55 PM

Come to think of it....CATSpaw! ;-) LOL

Rich

Subject: RE: Groups with animal names!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Sep 00 - 12:08 AM

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