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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 10 Jul 03 - 02:03 AM The Dead Horse Beaters |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: John MacKenzie Date: 10 Jul 03 - 01:12 PM That's Kay's job!! Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Raedwulf Date: 10 Jul 03 - 04:15 PM I'm disappointed! No-one's mentioned Dumpy's Rusty Nuts!!! *bg* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Jul 03 - 04:34 PM Correct, Cluin, but they spelled it this way: Bunchafuckingoofs In that fashion they were able to advertise in the Toronto Star and so on, instead of being censored for daring to use the "F" word in print. I think they may have been the most honestly named musical group in history, and the name gave them instant solidarity with their fans as well... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 11 Jul 03 - 01:11 PM Thanks, LH. I remembered the name, but was ignorant of the spelling. A good name can work wonders. Look what it did for The Barenaked Ladies.... instant notoriety when their name cause the Municipality of Toronto to cancel their gigs and the media lept on the story. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 11 Jul 03 - 01:13 PM Lept? I meant leapt. (Is that areal word anyway, outside of conversation?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: John MacKenzie Date: 11 Jul 03 - 03:47 PM No lept is where you have to round with a bell,ringing it, shouting can't spell-can't spell. :-) *BG*.....Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Bograt Date: 11 Jul 03 - 07:01 PM I have a recording of "Banks of the Poinchatrain" (sp). A great track by....... HOT VULTURES Cheers Bograt |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 11 Jul 03 - 08:27 PM Dr. Bunhead and the Kamikaze Cowpats |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 11 Jul 03 - 08:47 PM Spock's Beard |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST Date: 13 Jul 03 - 12:16 PM Keep this thread going folks, please. At least it is fun. OK gross is winning over cute. I'll go with the winner: Hard Meat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: HuwG Date: 15 Jul 03 - 01:36 PM At University, I heard of some Chemistry students who formed a band called, "Hoffman Degredation". You needed to be a Chem. Eng. graduate to get that one (although I did meet it in Chemistry A-Level). It's the process of converting an alliphatic (long carbon-chain) amide, to an amine, losing one carbon atom in the process. Bored ? Well, after explaining all that to the audience, there would hardly be enough time to do the rest of the gig, which may explain why they never shot to fame and fortune. How about "The The" ? This has the side-benefit of being unpronounceable in Yorkshire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Wa Ban Zhou Date: 15 Jul 03 - 04:02 PM A string band from NE Washington and Idaho called " The Famous Potatoes" This is only funny if you've lived in NE Washington or Idaho |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cool Beans Date: 15 Jul 03 - 05:26 PM What about: The Chicken Chokers The Mountain River Valley Boys Broadzillla (an actual all-female band from Detroit) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: pdq Date: 15 Jul 03 - 10:43 PM To whom it may concern, the (overexposed) guest is now legit! By the way, was that Dead-horse Beaters or Dead Horse-beaters? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 16 Jul 03 - 12:02 AM Trojan
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Wa ban Zhou Date: 16 Jul 03 - 11:40 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 21 Jul 03 - 12:23 PM "!" As in !Kung, But you may have to be a bushman to pronounce it properly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: lady penelope Date: 21 Jul 03 - 02:06 PM My favourite has always been "We don't want the peanut we want the whole plantation dance band". I used to be in a band called "Who Cares?" and narrowly missed the chance to do a double bill with another local band called "So what?" I haven't seen Dumpy about for years now. Do you think he's still going? TTFN Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: pdq Date: 21 Jul 03 - 06:53 PM The ultimate PC name for a bluegrass band was the "Good Ol' Persons". Funniest part is they could flat play! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 21 Jul 03 - 09:25 PM Buster Hymen & the Penetrators |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Dave the Gnome Date: 22 Jul 03 - 06:11 AM Mate of mine (dead now - rest his soul) had the nickname 'Stones'. His band were Snoty Stones and the Turdbenders - in 1969 and well before punk! Favourite name at the mo is the tribute band - By Jovi. Can't think who they might be a tribute to... Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Sarah the Flute Date: 01 Aug 03 - 06:47 AM Glad to see the Chaucers made it into this list. Wot about such greats as the Dead Sea Surfers and that wonderful ceilidh band Ceili Minogue! We thought of a few as well at a band practice with a south London flavour including Eltham John and Long John Bromley Oh well!!! What am I doing here at work I am supposed to be on holiday!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Trevor Date: 01 Aug 03 - 10:57 AM Pox Doctor's Rubber Glove. Brent Ford and The Nylons (British 'catters with good memories will twig where that one came from!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:01 PM There's a rock band in Minneapolis called Dumpster Juice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Wesley S Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:52 PM JC and the Water Walkers Pontius Pilate and his Nail Driving Five Supermans Girlfriend Ten Hands Throbbing Gristle Quad Pi |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Trevor Date: 01 Aug 03 - 07:12 PM Rapsquillion of course |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Ely Date: 01 Aug 03 - 07:22 PM I always thought Squirrel Nut Zippers was just garble until I actually saw the candy for sale in Asheville, North Carolina. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Bat Goddess Date: 02 Aug 03 - 06:38 PM Great Metropolitan Steam Band Lunch at the Dump Jiggle the Handle Pioneers of Modern Typography Linn (not a band name) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Bman Date: 03 Aug 03 - 06:57 AM Not to bring down the tone of the thread (don't I always?), but there's an Italian rock band called the Cheetah Chrome Motherf**kers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 02 Sep 03 - 03:27 PM A resident band on Mackinac Island: "Hot Carl & the Cleveland Steamers" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Arnie Date: 02 Sep 03 - 04:16 PM Glad to see the Dead Sea Surfers got a mention - they were a great band as well as having an amusing name. I've got on tape a track by a Hull-based band called Roger's Interview (but no-one in Hull professes to have heard of them!)There's also Morris and the Minors (I met Morris, who told me he wrote The Deserter now sung by Fairport) and Slim Panatella and the Mellow Virginias (I think Slim was Simon Mayer the mandolin player). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 02 Sep 03 - 04:22 PM I loved The Ranting Sleazos. Full Frontal Folk is another great and appropriate name. (Notice how I picked two all-female bands). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 02 Sep 03 - 05:09 PM I remember with fondness a 12 inch LP of showtunes by The Original Cast, which (as I recall) had on the record shuck a picture of a presumably broken leg in a plaster cast. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: MBSLynne Date: 03 Sep 03 - 05:04 AM I don't think anyone has mentioned "Sensitive New Age Cowpersons"...got to be one of the best! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Elfcall Date: 03 Sep 03 - 05:22 AM Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas (as they were originally) Sprocket the Wet Toad Les Lapins !! Elfcall |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cluin Date: 03 Sep 03 - 08:41 PM Think I was kiddin, huh? They really do stink. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Troll Date: 04 Sep 03 - 12:31 AM Ovary Dose...an all-female band in Gainesville, Fl. Whoreculture Wat Tyler and the Revolting Peasants The Tholtan Builders ( a tholtan is a building that is falling down) The last two are Manx bands. Mudcrutch...they later changed the name to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: jonm Date: 04 Sep 03 - 03:24 AM I once thought of "Which Tyler and the Pedants' Revolt" but nobody in the band got it. Eventually we became "Surprise Guests." Wasn't Ashley Hutchings' first band the Ethnic Shuffle Orchastra? The House Band? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Splott Man Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:57 AM Way back when, we had a college band called Les Freres Sidebottom. I later graduated to The Kitchen Syncopators (that one has subsequently cropped up elsewhere). Other favourites from south Wales have been Cliff Rescue & the Helicopters (still going strong), and Colonel Pine & the Pine Kernels. Keep them coming! Splott Man |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: mike the knife Date: 04 Sep 03 - 04:55 PM As for the Cheetah Chrome- he was a guitar player for the punk band The Dead Boys. May be the same guy. Other faves: King Ustinewicz and the Ustinewicztones, The Dancing Assholes, The Thin Lads, The Goodrich Blimps (I was in that one), Guided By Voices, Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts (Awful band, great name), Birds on Drugs, and so many more I can't remember... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Troll Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:54 PM There is a Klezmer band called "Tennessee Schmaltz" troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Cool Beans Date: 05 Sep 03 - 03:29 PM Used to be band of newspaper folk called The Bad News Bearers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Bob Hitchcock Date: 05 Sep 03 - 03:56 PM Interesting to read these names as my my band "Name that Band" is as you might guess, looking for a name. Some suggestions :- Phil Dirt and the Shovels UB50 Meanderthals Mott the Poophole If anyone has a real good band name going cheap, let me know Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,pdq Date: 05 Sep 03 - 08:41 PM If you play the current BOOM! BOOM! noise, you could do worse than "Sub-Sonic Youth." (It's Free.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Padre Date: 05 Sep 03 - 10:25 PM From college days, Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts - a truly outrageous southern bar band. Bob Hitchcock, I once played in a group called None of the Above - we couldn't agree on a name either. And who could forget Dr. Kilmer's Jug Band, Medicine Shoiw and Storm Door Company. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,Niall Date: 10 Sep 03 - 03:07 PM We had a band in Cork called the Dancing Bastards From Hell. Another crowd driving to a gig saw a billboard which said "Fit Kilkenny Remoulds" so they called the band Fit Kilkenny & the Remoulds. I've always wanted to call a band either Johnny Foreskin & the Drawbacks or Harry Haemorrhoid & the Piledrivers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Guy Wolff Date: 10 Sep 03 - 07:10 PM Ok bands I have played in : The Trojans ( 6th grade we had no idea) Meloncoly Olly and the Loving Subcultures ( 1966 ) Solstis ( we had Sun ampliphiers 1968) Dr Dopo Jam ( Copenhagen1970 they knew exactly what they were doing ) Clay Wolfe & His Ugly Mugs ( Union Groves NC 1973 -75) Polcat ( well playing music can be a lot of exercise and you cant shower on stage) For the Brits a polcat is a scunk . they smell All the best , Guy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: Robin2 Date: 10 Sep 03 - 10:53 PM oh, good thread! My faves are plays on words. "The Often Ensemble" A great 3 person group that uses their last names "Atcher, Beck and Kaul" "The Dead Sea Squirrels" Robin2 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Favorite Band Names From: GUEST,noddy Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:32 AM hung like a corgi. dont know where they got the idea from but they come from somwhere near Balmoral Castle |
