Fake Band Names

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:06 pm

At a teacher training day today (always awful), several fellow teachers and I wrote fake band names. Some were pretty funny. Here's a sampling:

Fascist Cat

Heckle and Jive

Black Pair'oJacks

and my personal favorite:

Pol Pot Pie

I know, it's sick. But....

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:20 pm

...
While I was at uni, I had a couple of bandnames rejected, and was in a couple of bands that never materialised into anything good...here are a few of those names, except unlike Noiseradio (and embarrasingly), these were serious thoughts...

We Hate Horses

The Spiral Diamonds

JR and his True Colours

Holy Motions

The Bourgeois Strategy

The Lonely Socialites

....Cringe Cringe Cringe! Still think the second and third are ones ok(ish) though!

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:50 pm

Would have beens:

The Pleasant Pain

Armpit Jake and the One-Eyed Bandits

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 7:58 pm

A few I've contrived over the years:

Feeler Gauge

The Plangent Platitudes

Todd Richter and the Rumble

The Barren

The Work (probably taken)

God's Hoary Orchestra

The Sounds Serious

The Hemp Nodes

The Phase IV Tangalooloos

The Fun Starts Now

Country Bob and the Ranchhands

The Want

Cordoned Truth

On Like That

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:14 pm

Well, after I finally take that "Instant Piano" course on PBS, or whatever it's called, learn to sing, and recall the lost lyrics to "Trash Compactor Love", I'm going to start me a band where record stores won't have to make new markers for us, and it's going to be called "Various Artists."

Our first album will, naturally, be called "Greatest Hits."

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:19 pm

Some others:

Ebola
Fratricide
The Eva Marie Saints
The Funnel Cakes
Hershel Bernardi's Dead
The Studs Terkels
Insane Anglo Warlord (an anagram of "Ronald Wilson Reagan")
Cosby, Sills, Cash and Chung (okay, that's an old SNL gag, but still...)

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 10:46 pm

that is brilliant 2 posts back there bobster. i don't care if you are gay!

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:22 pm

we should all be gay. happiness is a good thing.

nowhere near two sheets to the wind, just silly, poppet.

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:13 am

Here's the name of 3 bands I've actually been in...

Dog Pile
Walt and the Whalers
The Blazing Penguins

sulkygirl · Post by **sulkygirl** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:28 am

Gawd, I love 'em all!!

(Okay, so I've had a few beers....)

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:37 am

There are some marvellously warped minds out there. My fave is Rope's The Phase IV Tangalooloos.

The only feeble offerings I could offer would be cover bands called Stairs (for Steps) and Dry Dry Dry (for Wet Wet Wet).

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 2:14 pm

Hmmmm this looks like fun!...ok - i'll have a go!!

The Earbenders

Turn it Down

The Meddlers

The Carbunkles

Listen Up

Sir Strummalot And the String Pluckers

And I dont even drink!! - OK i'll shut up now!

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:39 pm

Here's some madeup bands from films...

Autobahn - Big Lebowski
Barry Jive and the Uptown Five (formerly Sonic Death Monkey)- High Fidelity
The Kinky Witches - High Fidelity
Fig'rin Dan and the Modal Nodes Star Wars
Fuck You Yankee Blues - Clerk
Otis Day and the Knights - Animal House
Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators - Some like it hot
Wyld Stallyns - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Ha' Penny Millionaire · Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:05 pm

Here are two blasts from my past:

Ringo Sings

Fuckle

tokyo vogue · Post by **tokyo vogue** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:40 pm

if i ever start a band, i'll call it If We Crash, Try Not to Die.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:55 am

The Fellatio Lovers.

They could write a song called 'She Knows What She's Supposed To Do (Oh Yeah)'.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 3:19 pm

A couple of great real band names:

Sandy Duncan's Eye
Stuckas Over Bedrock (I knew these guys! It's a Dickies reference and they were way into the Hanna-Barbera ouvre)
Live Nude Girl (I think several bands were using that one)

Along the lines of "Live Nude Girl"...I don't know whether or not anyone tried "Free Beer"

Other fictitious (as far as I know) names:

Herbal Ecstacy
The Sex Life of Charlie Brown
Pearls Before Swine
Human Growth Hormone
Johnson & Johnson
Bobster's Not Gay

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 4:23 pm

Fave (funny) real band name:

Eek-A-Mouse

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 5:02 pm

There's a band on at a local pub this week called Fuckingham Palace.

When I was a 16 year-old Joy Division (the best band name ever, of course) obsessive, we struggled long and hard for a band name, and came up with the moderately embarrassing Outside Volume, but also on the shortlist were Crawling Hectic (very 1980), and The Bulging Underpants (which, of course, we should have gone for).

New Order apparently toyed with The Sunshine Valley Dance Band.

Then there was Otis Westinghouse and the Lifts and sundry other EC pseudonyms (one of you triviameisters can list each and every one of 'em WITHOUT CHECKING). And of course the unforgettable REM as Bingo Hand Job.

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:37 pm

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