Best band names EVER?

[arely staircase]

Brian Jonestown Massacre
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
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[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. The Rolling Stones.

Rock-n-Roll defined.

[Boomerproud]

2. The Beatles

Puckish and fun, just like they were.

[arely staircase]

4. yeah. that was good

people forget what a cool paly on words that was. their talent and success overwhelmed the cleverness of the name.

[magical thyme]

3. Ben and Jerry's

oh...I thought you said best bRand names.

[eShirl]

5. Barenaked Ladies was a brilliant small-venue band name

before anyone knew who they were

[Ahpook]

6. Grateful Dead

of course?

[Danmel]

7. Gang of Four

Not my favorite band, but what a great band name.

[amerikat]

8. Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band.

or maybe the symbol Price used for a while.

[arely staircase]

9. Oak Ridge Boys II Men

nt

[azurnoir]

10. Butthole Surfers

best band name ever

[arely staircase]

11. i am from austin

do you know the genesis of that?

[azurnoir]

12. actually no

I just remember them from when they played shows up here in Mn

[arely staircase]

13. riding an intertube down the river was

butthole surfing

[azurnoir]

14. lol and a rough one at that too depending

having tubed down the Apple River a few times

[Arugula Latte]

34. I wonder if they considered the name "Enema by River"

[OrwellwasRight]

15. Brazen Ego Vehicle

Special Guest
Burning Sensations

[PasadenaTrudy]

16. Throbbing Gristle...

[AsahinaKimi]

17. X~JAPAN

[Populist_Prole]

18. Sick Dick and the Volkswagens

http://nowave.pair.com/no_wave/sickdick.html

[Chiennoir54]

19. Insane Clown Posse

I always thought Insane Clown Posse was a great band name. Hate that stuff they actually do, though.

[olddots]

20. Fort Mudge Memorial Dump

embarrassing ........

[Mr.Bill]

21. Dead Kennedys

And better yet was the lead singer's name, Jello Biafra.

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. What? No Dale Earnhart Junior Junior?

They also happen to be pretty damn good musicians.

[OriginalGeek]

23. i Just got home from a Cannibal Corpse/Napalm Death show

George Corpsegrinder Fisher whips his hair

(Either my phone or G+ created this gif from a series of pics I took at the show! Had no idea it could or would do that)

Other bands I like with funny names:
Circle of Dead Children
Pungent Stench
Fuck...I'm Dead
Wolves In The Throne Room




but that Kathleen Turner Overdrive is cracking me up. I hope they are good.

[Gravitycollapse]

24. The Dillinger Escape Plan, Scissor Sisters, Modest Mouse, Radiohead

TV on the Radio, Public Enemy, My Bloody Valentine.

[olddots]

25. the Meat Puppets were cool

most of the mid west punk banks had good names oh yeah The Piss Flaps were a great band along with Pimples & Peachfuzz .

[HarveyDarkey]

26. String Cheese Incident

Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Electric Prunes

[fizzgig]

27. phone sex panda

[Dr Fate]

28. The Shitty Beatles

Nt

[arely staircase]

31. +1

nt

[mulsh]

29. TBA, we'd just show up at clubs that posted it

n/t

[kaiden]

30. Kinda Like a Forehead

Denver band.

[cliffordu]

32. Charlies' second farm.

[rppper]

33. Ned's atomic dustbin...the screaming trees...

.....I did sound work for a garage band called splatterkat.....

[OriginalGeek]

35. THere used to be a pretty good metal band here

called Nailshitter. Saw them quite a few times as they got on local bills of national tours coming through. I regret that I didn't get a t-shirt while I could. It's been a few years since I heard anything about them so I don't know if they are split up or what...

oh hey - the wonder of the intertubes:

[rppper]

36. THAT.....was intense!

This is a little more my speed....


Check out this video on YouTube:

[OriginalGeek]

37. That was pretty cool

I saw them on their Beneath The Remains tour but didn't hear much from them after that other than their cover of Motörhead's Orgasmatron...But I like when metal bands mix in their local flavor like Native American grind band Resistant Culture and Middle Eastern band Melechesh or Vedic metal band Rudra...It always an interesting change of pace from chugga chugga growl....

I haven't heard anything they've done since Max and Igor left.

[rppper]

39. My nephew turned me on to that song...

I was never a big fan but like you said, the combination of the native noise and metal was just awesome...I'm just really starting to discover some of their older stuff...back in those days I was into stuff like MOD/SOD, ramones or corrosion of conformity....I fell into grunge in the 90's and bands like Tool later, but my tastes range from Bach to Sarah McLachlan to zeppelin to Frankie goes to Hollywood....I'm pretty eclectic !

[alarimer]

38. Japandroids

Southern Culture on the Skids.
The Meat Purveyors.
The New Pornographers.

[kwassa]

40. Echo and the Bunnymen, Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys,

Average White Band, They Might Be Giants, Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

[Jeff R]

41. How about

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Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

[Jeff R]

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