Post Band Names you've actually heard of that were cool, weird, or otherwise great.

[Tyler Durden]

The Insect Surfers
Tru Facts and the Insaniacs
Rubber Rodeo

(Lineup at a New Wave concert, Washington DC, early 80's)

[Bombtrack]

1. The Fags

[hellbound-liberal]

2. Crosscut Saw, a blues band from Tallahassee

featuring Julian Kaspar on guitar, Pat Ramsey on harp and Mike and Steve Howell on bass and drums.

[begin_within]

3. Jesus Chrysler

[Tyler Durden]

4. I have actually heard that one somewhere.

[unpossibles]

11. ha! that's the name of my wife's car!

love the burningman pic - are you going this year?

[begin_within]

13. I have never been to it yet. My friends go every year. Someday I will.

[unpossibles]

18. it took me years to finally make it out there

and it was worth it when I finally went last year. We loved it and are going back.

[asthmaticeog]

56. I saw that band playing in the back room of a deli in like '88!

Speedy punk, casual venue, lots of grimy reprobates about, goodtimes! :thumbsup:

[meegbear]

5. Screaming Trees

[chknltl]

49. Saw them once, not sure who they were opening for...

but I liked them ok. I once had a Seattle Comp CD from some movie...had the song "Nearly Lost You" on it, great song. I don't remember much else about them though. Cool but odd name for sure!

[taterguy]

6. Drivin'n'cryin'

Best band name ever.

It's music for when you want to go for a drive,
or when you feel like crying.

[SoxFan]

33. Good guys, too

I met Jeff Sullivan (the drummer) after a show in Portland, ME years ago. Very cool guy.

[Jokerman]

7. The Damn Dirty Apes

Local band with a great name.

[AllegroRondo]

8. Birth Defects

punk rock band from Wisconsin

[masshole]

9. Pajama Slave Dancers

Some old friends of mine from the 80's.

[Burma Jones]

10. Jake the Evil Redneck - from Wilmington, NC

[aljones]

12. Gavrilo Princip

instead of Franz Ferdinand!!

[swag]

14. Wow, hadn't thought about the Insect Surfers for quite a while.

I'll toss in The Very Idea of Fucking Hitler and Jodie Foster's Army.

[Tyler Durden]

22. I think you just won first prize....

YIKES!

[HuskerDU]

37. Jodie Fosters Army is always the first band I think of for this

topic, then the 4-skins (already mentioned)

I'll throw in: Naked Raygun
Genital Motors

[Exiled in America]

15. Oedipus Rex and the Motherfuckers

Mentioned them in another thread... funniest band name I've heard. :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

43. This one...

trumps them all for me! :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. I've always liked the names "Tank", "Dead Kennedys" and "Bonzo Dog Band"

I think the name "Garbage" is also pretty cool.

[Rob H.]

17. The Leather Nun

The only reason I remember them is because they released an album in '87 called Force of Habit.

[Joe Fields]

19. Moby Grape, Strawberry Alarm Clock

[Dervill Crow]

20. The Dung Beatles and the Byrd Brains

Beatles and Byrds cover bands, of course.

[mikeytherat]

21. Gaye Bikers on Acid, Scraping Foetus off the Wall, The Motherf**kers

Bit of an '80s punk, I was I was.

mikey_the_rat

[Tyler Durden]

23. Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Love that name.

[fudge stripe cookays]

35. You know where they got it from, right? n/t

[SacredCow]

39. Rick Stardust,

lead electric triangle player with Toad The Wet Sprocket, has had to have an elbow removed following their recent worldwide successful tour of Finland.

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. Very nice.

Trout. Dead Trout. Poached trout in a white wine sauce...

Just checking, ya'll.

[Beausoleil]

57. Monty Python sketch

Eric Idle wanted "to think of a name so silly and unusual no one would ever consider it for a group."

[calimary]

62. No! I probably should, but I don't.

[fudge stripe cookays]

63. Here ya go...

It's from a Monty Python skit called "Rock Notes." It used to be on the Contractual Obligation album.

Here's a transcription for you:
http://www.wordlab.com/articles/mp_rocknotes.cfm

[Strawman]

24. The God Bullies

I liked their song "Let's Go to Hell"

C'mon baby dontcha' wanna dance (Let's Go to Hell)
I ain't got time for romance (Let's Go to Hell)
You've got one last chance (Let's Go to Hell)
You've got Satan in your pants!

[wavesofeuphoria]

25. The Velmas

[Rambis]

26. Jiff and the Choosy Mothers

The 4 skins
I saw a billboard for Marsha Brady's Tits (don't ask me folks)
Throbbing Grissel
UPS (useless pieces of shite)
The Worried Guys
Snohj Ocat (Taco John's backward)

[Redbear]

27. The Silver Beatles

Im not sure what became of them afterward.

[SoxFan]

34. Vaguely rings a bell

Didn't they used to be Johnny and the Moondogs?

[1gobluedem]

28. Acoustic Urban Voodoo Juice

Local band from a few years back.

[conscious evolution]

29. Donna the Buffalo

http://www.donnathebuffalo.com/

Their name was supposed to be Dawn of the Buffalo but someone misherd and wrote it down wrong.Everyone thought it was funny so it stuck.

There is also a bluegrass band named Smokin' Grass.

[KamaAina]

30. The House Levelers, local New Orleans band circa 1990

What's cool about it is that it has a locals-only double meaning: because the ground under much of the city is subsiding (it wasn't always below sea level, y'know), one side of a house may end up a few inches below the other. There are companies that do business going around town jacking up people's houses so they're even. They are called "house levelers". There is even a category for "house levelers" in the Yellow Pages.

[bif]

31. The Trashcan Sinatras, Do Make Say Think

[SoxFan]

32. Scruffy the Cat

Scruffy the Cat, a very cool '80s-'90s Boston rockabilly/roots rock/alt country band. Thin Old 97's with a bit more oomph.

Honorable Mention: Ned's Atomic Dustbin

[GOPisEvil]

36. Fluffers Union

[martymar64]

38. Jodie Foster's Army

also Running with Scissors, Misterectomy, Just Say Yes with the Rev. Bud Green, Haunted Garage, Chuck E. Weiss and the Goddamned Liars
edited to add John Cougar Concentration Camp
edited again to include Millions of Dead Cops

[Kali]

40. Dashboard Mary (kind of a grunge/hard rock band)

Pig Iron (country punk, same band leader)

Giant Sand (formerly the Sand Rubies)
Billy Clone and the Same
Blue Shoes

[volstork]

41. Taoist Cowboys

Nervous Melvin
Cowboy Mouth
Good Question

[Va Lefty]

44. Johnny Carburetor and the Sparkplugs

[Monk06]

45. Butthole Surfers and UJ3RK5 (U Jerks)

[SKKY]

46. Toad the Wet Sprocket

[VenusRising]

47. Screaming Headless Torsos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouhuypd1zlA

[chknltl]

48. I always thought "Ten Years After" and Uriah Heep were cool....

...names and back in 1970 or 71 I was forced to go against my druthers to see a band with the silliest name I had ever heard of: "PINK FLOYD"! ("CHICAGO" was playing in the larger venue across town that same evening and I HAD heard of those guys at least!)

I suspect you are looking for less well known bands. I worked as a photographer with many local bands up here in the Seattle-Tacoma area for a number of years.

CHURCH OF HATE is the first odd name which comes to mind...(They are NOT a racist band but to be fair they do pick on Christians quite a bit)...(then they go about picking on everyone else)

GENITORTURERS is another cool name, one which fits because Gen is their vocalist and yes Mistress Gen does torture the naughty folks on stage with her whips and what-nots.

HELLES BELLES is cover band, all gals and lotsa fun to see, I never had the pleasure to work with them but I have enjoyed their shows and a finer name is not out there for them.

Oh and lest I forget: "SWEATY NIPPLES" was a great band around these parts, as was "RUNNING WITH SCISSORS", "THE BAR FEEDERS" and "THE PLEASURE ELITE". Not from around here but fun anyway were "THE IMPOTENT SEA SNAKES".

[Okiojira]

50. King Dick and the Royal Fux, Zen Frisbee

never heard King Dick, but I'm a huge fan of ZF...

[Neoma]

51. The Bastard Fairies

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bastardfairies

[GenDem]

52. Squirrel Nut Zippers and The Be Good Tanyas

[regularguy]

53. Nixon's Head. Camper Van Beethoven.

[dembotoz]

54. Bonzo dog dooda band

great stuff from long ago

[RubyDuby in GA]

55. BareNaked Ladies and Death Cab for Cutie

Like them both.

[liberalpress]

58. Some modern bluegrass bands...

Twisted Lester, Banjovi,Earl Jam

[NewWaveChick1981]

59. Killer Pussy, Dead Baggers, The Fabulous Knobs...

:hi: The last two are now-defunct New Wave bands from the Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh area in NC. (And for those of you not in the know, a "bagger" was slang for frat boy back in my day...:rofl:)

The Fabulous Knobs were named after the lead female singer's....um....attributes...:P

[mitchum]

60. Scary Hand

[ceile]

61. Retarded Elf

Great band from Houston in the early 90s.