Favourite band names [any genre]

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Matt_R
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:44 PM

Wild Billy Childish & The Buff Medways

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Matt_R
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:55 PM

Whoops ... their full name is Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: alanabit
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 12:52 AM

Ivor Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglers, with their classic "The Winker's Song". Now that could be a good one for Little Hawk's recent thread!

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:04 AM

Megadeth (funny, tho' not intended to be)
Ultra Vivid Scene
Momus (Roman god of debauchery)
Ozrics Tentacles
Alice Cooper (when contrasted with Kate Rusby?)
The Hot Club of France
The Mothers of Invention
They Might be Giants
Butthole Surfers
Echo and the Bunnymen
Peter, Bjorn & John (for hip retro styling)
A Tribe Called Quest
The Cat Empire
Captain Beefheart
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Soil & "Pimp" Sessions (for the quotation marks..)
L.F.O. (Low-frequency ocsillation)
Bebop Deluxe
Cocteau Twins
Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Groove Armada
House of Love

think I aughta quit there..

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 02:21 AM

PS:

Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart

(as well as having a good name, deserve a mention as when I first started realising that these old songs existed, I learned my second traditional song off 'em! The Blacksmith )

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: GUEST,CupOfTea
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 10:24 AM

Imagine if Monty Python named an all-male a cappella ensemble specializing in choral music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - they couldn't do any better than

Suspicious Cheese Lords

It almost takes some of the fun away to know it's based on a mondegreen of a Latin lyric, but it is my favorite early music group name.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Rowan
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 06:02 PM

I remember a group entered in the Chorus Cup at Wagga Folk Festival in about 1978 that was called "Guru Murrumbidgee and the Stock Routers".

That was when many folkies (and others) in Oz had become adherents of the Maharishi, not long after many others had become members of the Divine Blight, which became another short-lived group.

On an earlier thread I can't now find I mentioned that the first all-female rock band in Oz was called "Hens' Teeth" (from Canberra?) and a later, better-known one from Sydney was "Ovarian Sisters".

While playing with "Flying Pieman" I occasionally guested with the Melbourne bush band "Rum, Buggery and the Lash"; both groups were known to make reference to flashing pink privates while assembling sets for the Dashing White Sergeant. "Cockies' Joy" and "Messmates" are both names I've liked and used when playing specific repertoires to relevant contexts. And there's a group of Sydneysiders with a maritime repertoire who, when past their thirties, formed a group called "The Roaring Forties".

Great names, all of them.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Jayto
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 06:21 PM

The Bad Seeds. That has been my favorite for years now.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 09:47 AM

There's a San Francisco band called Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys; for years I've been trying to get my jam group to adopt the name Once Born Gospel Singers (the first name attached to us was Point Isabel Poodle Players since the two original members met at the Point Isabel dog park while walking their poodles. I, the third member was never comfortable with that since it disrespected my dogs, Labradors. I tried to get a couple of other names adopted as well, Charlie Bond and the Bail Jumpers and Monday Night at Sally's (time and location of our regular jam). When I record with some of the members we are Kratz&Jammers.

Of course I've always liked The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service...oh, and Dire Straits. And, in old timey/bluegrass The Dry Branch Fire Squad. Another great name and great band, The Austin Lounge Lizards.

Charles

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 12:38 PM

I think my UN-favourite has to be Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. Think of its horrible implications! Ugh!

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 12:54 PM

"The Divorcees" and "The Whisky Kisses" are cool band names.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: oldhippie
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 04:17 PM

Beat Farmers
Cocktail Slippers

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 05:46 PM

I almost forgot "Alert The Medic". These are local bands. They tend
to have interesting names.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 06:26 PM

Red Molly... still don't know what it means, is it some sorta mutant
             tropical fish? great name, great band

You know, I hadn't thought about it for years, but when I was young I always thought "The Beatles" was a brilliant name. I guess they hit the mark.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Splott Man
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 05:58 AM

Red Molly is a character in the Richard Thompson song Vincent Black Lightning 1952.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 09:14 AM

Very Good R&B band from High Wycombe back in thbe early seventies - 'Brewers Droop' - and the Uxbridge Ceilidh Band -'The A40 Improvement scheme' !
Duo I was in post 'Fools Gold' was 'No Turn Unstoned' . aka 'The Psychodilly Banjo Beards From Hell'

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: raymond greenoaken
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 12:42 PM

Dr Strangely Strange

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra

The Faulties

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 03:09 PM

In his pub rock days, James Hunter used to bill himself as "Howlin' Wilf".

I once saw a hand-written sign in a North London pub window for a country/bluegrass act called "Banjovi".

"Norfolk & Chance" was actually a racehorse, but the name would suit a slightly second-rate folk duo even better.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: Ernest
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 03:48 PM

Ialways liked that name of a western swing trio:

"The Hot Club of Cowtown"

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: mandotim
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 04:59 AM

Simon Mayor used to play in a band called 'Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginians'.

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: mattkeen
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:31 AM

I once once in a band called George Herbert and the Metaphysical Poets

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:40 AM

Mattkeen ~~ Love that one. Out of interest ~

a. Did you actually have a George Herbert; or a George &/or a Herbert? or any real rationale beyond the merely delightfully referential?

b. What sort of music did you play?

♥♫❤Michael❤♫♥

Subject: RE: Favourite band names [any genre]
From: mandotim
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:57 AM

My first ever band at school had a name culled from a random opening of a science textbook; the name? De Broglie Wavelength. The bass player went on to better things. He was (name drop) Maartin Allcock. Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention don't have the same cachet though, do they?