Fake Band Names
- noiseradio
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Fake Band Names
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....
Fascist Cat
Heckle and Jive
Black Pair'oJacks
and my personal favorite:
Pol Pot Pie
I know, it's sick. But....
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
--William Shakespeare
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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!
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!
- A rope leash
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Orchestral nomenclatures
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
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
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."
Our first album will, naturally, be called "Greatest Hits."
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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...)
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...)
http://www.forwardtoyesterday.com -- Where "hopelessly dated" is a compliment!
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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
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
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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
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
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- Otis Westinghouse
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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.
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.