In the Independent yesterday there was an article about German rap groups.

One of the bands discussed has the name 'The Brainless W**kers'. There are no doubt many other bands for whom this title would have been apt.

The 80's/90's band fuzzbox were all lesbians so no prizes for what they were named after!

Originally posted by absynthfairy
The 80's/90's band fuzzbox were all lesbians so no prizes for what they were named after!

Well, I suppose it was because the name 'The Slits' had already been taken by then

I quite like 'Toad the Wet Sprocket'. Years ago in Vancouver I saw a live band called 'The Manitoba Dustbins'.

And then there was the Goon inspired 'Ned's Atomic Dustbin'.

And in the sixties they really let rip with the weird stuff.... :)

half man half biscuit

Back in the day when I was growing up in Suffolk, there were some great band names including

"The Betty Swollocks Band"
"The Funkin' Bar-stewards"

and, my favourite

"My God You've Got a Big Rhinocerous" :clap:

One of my personal favorites is the Bonzo dog doo dah band

And I also like Slavonski Bal

Originally posted by muddycoffee
One of my personal favorites is the Bonzo dog doo dah band

And I also like Slavonski Bal

Big fan of the Bonzos over here!:cool:

I know there is one called Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead which I think is pure genious!!!!

:D

filthy Mc nasty and the snot trails. the 70s gay band,the doughnut ****ters,the flemtones,frozen dog turds at sunset,were agood band.anybody remember knobend and the fourskins,last of the windjammers,the 80;s folk group.....

I remember The Purple Helmets

I was always quite fond of the Dead Kennedys

and Dumpy's Rusty Nuts? Or Rusty's Dumpy Nuts.... :suspect:

StarSparkle :)

Originally posted by absynthfairy
The 80's/90's band fuzzbox were all lesbians so no prizes for what they were named after!

they did a rather good cover of yoko onos walking on thin ice i didnt no they where lesbians tho

Aren't the Scissor Sisters named after a particular lesbian sexual practice?

I think Badly Drawn Boy is a bit on the weird side as a name. But I also kinda like it.

The Cure is a weird enough name, esp when they should be called The Sickness.

Another Sheffield band (I think) - Dogs Die in Hot Cars - quite a funny name.. especially funny cos my boyfriend named a climbing problem that ages ago too.

hmmm ive never HEARD them but ive heard of them ..... some band called 'gorkys zygotic mynci' ..... strange :suspect:

Prog rockers - Matching mole.
Nottinghams - Fudge tunnel.
And how could all you pop pickers forget - Crotch Duster with the charming album - 'Big fat box of s**t'.

Originally posted by absynthfairy
The 80's/90's band fuzzbox were all lesbians so no prizes for what they were named after!

Wasn't their full name: We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It?

My favourite weird band name (although I can take or leave their music) is the Dead Kennedys

Originally posted by mojoworking
Wasn't their full name: We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It?

My favourite weird band name (although I can take or leave their music) is the Dead Kennedys

If you bothered to read the rest of the thread, you'd note I've already mentioned them :rolleyes:

StarSparkle

My mate's in a Sheffield band called "Johnny and the prison dont help boys"

That's class.

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra is rather wierd also. Their music has a strange, ethereal quality to it as well. The founder and leader died a couple of years ago I believe, so might be a candidate for the dead pop or rock stars thread, except the PCO were not a pop or rock band (in fact its difficult to classify them).

I once played in a local London group called Mark Thyme and the Stampers and the original version of the r'n'r classic 'Rock Around the Clock', before Bill Haley ruined it, was by Sonny Daye and the Knights.

Originally posted by StarSparkle
If you bothered to read the rest of the thread, you'd note I've already mentioned them :rolleyes:

StarSparkle

I can't believe you took the trouble to post that :confused:

Where does it say the same band can't be mentioned twice?

Originally posted by mojoworking
I can't believe you took the trouble to post that :confused:

Where does it say the same band can't be mentioned twice?

Duran Duran?

the weirdest off the top of my head are "eighties matchbox b line disaster"... do 4 Poofs and a Piano off of Jonathan Ross count as a band??? :hihi:

How about Alien Sex Fiend, Throbbing Gristle, Gaye Bikers On Acid, Kidney Thieves or even 1000 homo DJs!

I've always wanted a punk band that I could name Chocolate Speculum - think of the merchandising potential!

Originally posted by evildrneil
How about Alien Sex Fiend, Throbbing Gristle, Gaye Bikers On Acid, Kidney Thieves or even 1000 homo DJs!
I used to have a tape of Gaye Bykers on Acid doing an accoustic set - they renamed themselves Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds for the duration.

Some more weird, wonderful & obscure names from my hard drive: Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Blind Idiot God, Buckethead (though not that weird as he does indeed wear a KFC bucket on his head when he's playing), Butthole Surfers (did we already have that one?), Chocolate Watch Band, Disposable Heros of Hiphoprisy, Dog Faced Hermans, Funki Porcini, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Half Man Half Biscuit, Henry Cow, the Jean Paul Sartre Experience, Joan of Ass, Kenny Process Team, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy (whose name went on to inspire David Bowie to create "Ziggy Stardust"), the Martini Henry Rifles, Nihilist Spasm Band, Ooioo, Pete Brown & his Battered Ornaments, Peter & the Test Tube Babies, Presidents of the United States of America (yay!), Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Renaldo and the Loaf, Sidi Bou Said (named after a place in Tunisia. Why???), Sluts of Trust, Swell Maps, They Might be Giants, Third Ear Band, the Very Tiny Little Kids, Violent Femmes, Wevie Stonder, Zoogz Rift....

Originally posted by Norbert
Did your FCS contribute a song to my cherished Dolebusters benefit cassette c1985 seen here:
http://azoweb.co.uk/TrolleyDogShag/
Nope, that's not us, we weren't together until 1986 although our guitarist Lee, who I think came up with the name, may have used the name previously, or may have heard it somewhere else and nicked it :)

Originally posted by uncleheed
half man half biscuit

in 1988 i played in a band on merseyside called JEGSY DODD AND THE SONS OF HARRY CROSS!

i was sacked after three rehearsals!

guitarist ken hancock later joined half man half biscuit.

Originally posted by DanSumption
... may have heard it somewhere else and nicked it :)

yes off us!

howabout:

SLOPDOSH, BOBBAR AND IVAN CRUMP

and

DOOBRIE FIRKIN AND THE BATTERED FUR BURGERS

both formed in the late eighties in sheffield by mixmiff

Dansamption, a little of topic but I just had to express my delight at finding someone else who has been subjected to Henry Cow.

weird names indeed. more like a list of my favourites

Penguin Café Orchestra yep - Been on so many ads now, but none of the good stuff yet. Simon Jeffes RIP some years ago, so they will never play again

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Wahey Welsh Psychedelia

Gaye Bykers on Acid - Fantastic electro peppered rock thrash, they did in fact appear in drag, supporting themselves as the Mythic Lesbian Dopeheads on mopeds.

They Might Be Giants - whiney nerd rock outfit now making kids music and playing matinees in NYC. Brilliant!

I really like the Dead Kennedys, as well as offshoot Lard, and any of Jello Biafra's spoken words stuff. And pretty much anything on the weirdly named Alternative Tentacles label.

But no-one has mentioned Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel yet, which I always found pretty weird. Music was ace of course. Early eighties sample driven industrial trangression music (I invent them as I go along). Jim Thirlwell, for it is he, also worked under pseudonyms like You've Got Foetus On Your Breath, Foetus über Frisco, Foetus Under Glass, Clint Ruin(with Lydia Lunch in that unforgettable duet - "the only good christian is a dead christian"), Wiseblood ,Steroid Maximus Foetus Corruptus & Foetus Interrupus

I think he had a thing for the word Foetus.....
weirdly named bands at random from PhanFM -

Ween
King Missile
Catso Dogmoon
Moondog
R.Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders
Brainticket
African Head Charge
Jesus Christ Underground

mind you when I come to think about it, band names are just weird full stop. what's an ordinary band name?

Evil Ednas horror toilet. Best band name ever.
:D

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
mind you when I come to think about it, band names are just weird full stop. what's an ordinary band name?

How about The Band

or, in a tongue in cheek dig at the mundane: The Smiths

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phanerothyme
[B]weird names indeed. more like a list of my favourites

Gaye Bykers on Acid - Fantastic electro peppered rock thrash, they did in fact appear in drag, supporting themselves as the Mythic Lesbian Dopeheads on mopeds.

I meant to mention the Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds, but wasn't sure if this was a real band or just a spoof name for a gadfly band which performed, at most, one or two gigs

BOB,BOB AND BOB!...............always remember that one

I used to like Terminal Cheesecake- they were as weird as their name! I've been on the look out for one of their eps recently

I remember a punk band called The Angelic Upstarts. They recorded quite a good song called Teenage Rampage, if I remember rightly.

Originally posted by pete_fcs
that was me! is someone else claiming to be the fcs????
Yes, that was me. I was in *another* FCS - from the list of band members you posted it's clear that none of them was in our FCS. We were around at about the same time, or slightly later (1986/7), and I think it's quite possible that one of our members saw your band name and decided it was so good we ought to nick it. We were only ever really a knock-about band, making everything up as we went along and making a horrible noise which was universally reviled, but we did once get to support the Senseless Things :)

Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds are doing well - that's 3 separate mentions now.

A few more from the Earache stable: Old Lady Drivers, Filthy Christians, Spazztic Blur, Sore Throat.

I was always partial (like John Peel) to a bit of Three Mustaphas Three. There were six of them. And they were all called Mustapha.

And who can forget Ozric Tentacles?

I saw a Mustaphas CD on sale at a car boot this morning.

I think we should only count 'real' bands, not just names made up for effect, where the band in question do not actually exist (or if it did, then it was for one or two performances at most).

If for example we take the thrice mentioned 'Lesbian Dopeheads On Mopeds', I think we need to ask the following questions.

Were they Lesbians?

Were they Dopeheads?

Did they ride on Mopeds?

Could they actually play?

How long did they exist for?

Originally posted by LordChaverly
I remember a punk band called The Angelic Upstarts. They recorded quite a good song called Teenage Rampage, if I remember rightly.

that's right! in 1979/80...it went:

THIRTEEN! FOURTEEN!....teenage warning!

FIFTEEN! SIXTEEN!....but nobody's listening!

SEVENTEEN! EIGHTEEN!....who takes the blame?

NINETEEN! TWENTY! .....twennieth centureeeeeeeee!

lyrics copyright angelic upstarts

Originally posted by pete_fcs
that's right! in 1979/80...it went:

THIRTEEN! FOURTEEN!....teenage warning!

FIFTEEN! SIXTEEN!....but nobody's listening!

SEVENTEEN! EIGHTEEN!....who takes the blame?

NINETEEN! TWENTY! .....twennieth centureeeeeeeee!

lyrics copyright angelic upstarts


Seem to remember the singer was a bloke called Mensi?

And I think Jimmy Pursey took on a sort-of mentoring role with them?

StarSparkle

jimmy pursey looked after everyone!

sham 69 are still touring... we supported them at the corporation!

Originally posted by LordChaverly
I think we should only count 'real' bands, not just names made up for effect, where the band in question do not actually exist (or if it did, then it was for one or two performances at most).

If for example we take the thrice mentioned 'Lesbian Dopeheads On Mopeds', I think we need to ask the following questions.

Were they Lesbians?

Were they Dopeheads?

Did they ride on Mopeds?

Could they actually play?

How long did they exist for?

They weren't lesbians because they were all men.

They were almost certainly dopeheads, or that was the strangest cigarette I've ever seen.

Never ever saw them on mopeds, but I never saw GBOA on motorbikes either (maybe because they were 'Bykers')
They didn't ever cut any records, unlike Dukes of the Stratosphear (XTC's alter ego) but I saw them twice. Once supporting GBOA (i.e. themselves), and once with bad antipodean accents at the Brixton Academy supporting Hawkwind (with about a dozen other Loony Tune outfits including Here & Now)

Another weird band name, thinking of Here & Now, has to be "the invisible opera company of tibet"

Just remembered one of my favourite band names:

The Tygers of Pan Tang

Name Courtesy of Michael Moorcock :thumbsup:

StarSparkle

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
I saw them twice. Once supporting GBOA (i.e. themselves), and once with bad antipodean accents at the Brixton Academy supporting Hawkwind (with about a dozen other Loony Tune outfits including Here & Now)
I WAS AT THAT GIG! :D

Not that I remember much about it, except that the sloping floor got quite uncomfortable for sitting stoned upon after about five hours. And I bought lots of tapes outside from the Organ people, including one with the Lesbian Dopeheads on (so they didn't record an album, but they did have a track on an Organ compilation tape) and one (possibly the same one) with Evil Edna's Horror Toilet on. Lots of other strangely named bands on them too, like Noden's Ictus.

Perhaps we ought to extend this thread to include ideas for wierd band names.

My first nomination would be 'The Sphincter of Oddi'.

I was intrigued by this name when I saw it on maps of the digestive system when I was in the RHH recently. I have no idea who Oddi was or is.

Originally posted by LordChaverly
My first nomination would be 'The Sphincter of Oddi'.

I was intrigued by this name when I saw t on maps of the digestive system when I was in the RHH recently. I have no idea who Oddi was or is.
YES! Another name that I love - I wrote a little odyssey (Oddi-sea?) through the digestive system (http://www.sumption.org/articles/FAD-PheasantToFaeces.html) a while back, and the Sphincter of Oddi cropped up. Some other wonderful phrases there too, none quite as good as Oddi but all perfectly suited to grindcore bands (the article, like Earache records, even contained a bit of grinding and crushing).

Cephalic Phase? Slippery Bolus? The Lumen of the Larynx? The Peristaltic Contractions? Pylorus Spurts? Obliterated Lumen? The Pyloric Gatekeeper? (who I always imagined guarding the Sphincter of Oddi). Payload of Chyme? The Invaginations? The Hydrophobic Hydrophilic Little ********? The Crypts of Lieberkuhn? Jejunum and Ileum? Stercobilin Brown? Lovingly Crafted Faeces? Distended Rectum?

But my favourite (after Oddi) has to be "Stratified Squamous Epithelium".

Dan, I liked your Oddi-sea: very well-written, indeed almost Proustian in its imagery and concern for detail. For the moment though its quite put me off the idea of lunch.

Hmm, just musing on my own band name suggestions, Lovingly Crafted Faeces could become a Lesbian Dopeheads-type alter-ego for Badly Drawn Boy.

Originally posted by LordChaverly


My first nomination would be 'The Sphincter of Oddi'.



blimey, i nearly ended up in a band called "sphincter". i just thought it meant throat muscle...can't have been listening during 'o' level biology:|

According to his biography 'head-on', before he was in Teardrop Explodes, Julian Cope was in a band named 'The Flids.' They were rubbish as they used to get legless before each performance.:D

most band names are weird....like roger daltrey said on first hearing about the beatles..."the BEATLES? what kind of a name is that!?"

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
But no-one has mentioned Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel yet, which I always found pretty weird. Music was ace of course. Early eighties sample driven industrial trangression music (I invent them as I go along). Jim Thirlwell, for it is he, also worked under pseudonyms like You've Got Foetus On Your Breath, Foetus über Frisco, Foetus Under Glass, Clint Ruin(with Lydia Lunch in that unforgettable duet - "the only good christian is a dead christian"), Wiseblood ,Steroid Maximus Foetus Corruptus & Foetus Interrupus


Hey I mentioned this here, www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51937&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

Just did'nt want to repeat myself.

Top act you don't get many like him anymore, bands are way to safe these day's.

Originally posted by LordChaverly
I remember a punk band called The Angelic Upstarts. They recorded quite a good song called Teenage Rampage, if I remember rightly.

Teenage WARNING.

Still love this band today, they had many strings to their bow.
Great musicians with a good songwriter but not technically a good voice, much like Ian dury or Shaun Ryder.

Tracked down their synth album "Still from the heart" on cd only the other week.
It got slated in the press but I think it's one of their best.

Originally posted by Modesty
Hey I mentioned this here, www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51937&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

Just did'nt want to repeat myself.

Top act you don't get many like him anymore, bands are way to safe these day's.
You got that right

yay another SFOTW listener. Apols for missing your reference there modesty.

So, anyone up for a night of music by weirdly named bands?

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
You got that right

yay another SFOTW listener. Apols for missing your reference there modesty.

So, anyone up for a night of music by weirdly named bands?

Played the "Nail" album way to many times, locked in my bedroom after fighting with mum.LOL.

Again Sheffield leads the way:

TrolleyDogShag

&

The F**k City S**tters


From years back, but still memorable
I remember trolley dog shag-----my ex brother in law was the singer

...and you will know us by the trail of the dead

bit of an odd name

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

John Peel's show was the place to be for weird band names. Shonen Knife spring to mind but they have the excuse they're Japanese. Voodoo Glow Skulls for a bit of punk/ska and a friend of mine introduced me to Screeching Weasel a US punk hardcore band. Great name, cute cartoon weasels!

I quite like Siamese Onion, they used to play in Doncaster a bit, not seen them for a while.

Joel

A few more from the Earache stable: Old Lady Drivers, Filthy Christians, Spazztic Blur, Sore Throat.


sore throat stayed at our house on city road when they played sheffield with doom in 88?

we stayed at rich militias house in bradford after a hardcore all dayer not long after too, we also got thanked on one of the albums, cant remember which now, i dont have em anymore:(
hammy who runs peaceville records was there and was that smashed they buried him under about 4 mattresses and sat on him......then ate us out of about 4 loaves of bread



has anybody said psychik warriors of gaia, poisoned electrick head, oldham tinkers, bus stop loonies, jimmy savilles wheelchair, concrete sox, electro hippies, deviated instinct (my mate drummed for those on the 2nd album), revolting cocks, lard?

The Naked Pygmy Voles?

has anyone said "dogs die in hot cars" - (i think thats right)

I once told my friend he should call his band tablecloth and the healing horns and their echoes (this latter from the title of a piece of music on his mum and dad's piano) then they could change their name to tablecloth when they got famous and all the fans 'who knew them in the early days' could crow about it and wave around flyers and records with the full band name on. he didn't take me up on it. and his band didn't take off.

I don't think WGAFAWGTUI aka Fuzzbox (best girl-band EVER) were all lesbians - at least one of them is married now as far as I know. And two of them were sisters so one would hope that they weren't being gay with one another at least.

And Fuzzbox, as well as being a euphemism for lady gardens or whatever the cool slang is these days, is also the name for something sound equipmenty.

Other weird band names: Phixx (for the sheer terribleness of it); Sebadoh (what does it mean??) and PJ and Duncan AKA (mainly for that AKA bit)

Archbishop Kebab

Mad Halibut

SLBC Psycho-terrorism Research Unit

Mad Halibut



That's what I call him, but only behind his back :hihi:

Sheffields own MANtank (http://www.mantank.org.uk/) :hihi: :hihi:

wonder how they came up with that one?

Sheffields own MANtank (http://www.mantank.org.uk/) :hihi: :hihi:

wonder how they came up with that one?

probably rhyming slang

Blind Mole Rat - I still wear the T-shirts

probably rhyming slang

Inside I am laughing, but due to the unfortunate and dubious connections with this group of misfits I cannot comment on record... :P

One of the oddest band names i've heard recently is "Get cape. Wear cape. Fly." - which i think is great.

Not heard any of their tracks yet... but i'm about to take a listen at http://www.myspace.com/getcapewearcapefly

:)


.

I like Japanese grind band Bathtub ****ter. Their album Gore tits is brilliant.

Mull Historical Society.

And you will know us by the Trail of the Dead is a fabulous name.

I don't know if there was ever a band in the 60s called the Stoned Prunes, but there should have been :D

StarSparkle

my mates sisters husband was in the Various Vegetables. who can forget th Butthole Surfers?

That's what I call him, but only behind his back :hihi:

Oi! Chaverly! I heard that.....:suspect:

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Crispy Ambulance yet....or Flux of Pink Indians.

And what about ******* Kestrel?

i remember gay bikers on acid,lawnmower deth,metal duck.and of course the butthole surfers.all hits with a capitol s!

i remember gay bikers on acid,lawnmower deth,metal duck.and of course the butthole surfers.all hits with a capitol s!

Bit Of Nostalgia For Ya. Just Found This One Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJz6_PEu6Iw&feature=related

Classic Stuff.

Bit Of Nostalgia For Ya. Just Found This One Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJz6_PEu6Iw&feature=related

Classic Stuff.

Not heard that in years - Ace!!!!

I like Japanese grind band Bathtub ****ter. Their album Gore tits is brilliant.

Lots of grindcore bands have ace names. How about Funeral Rape, and their album 'A Chainsaw In The ****'

Grab Grab The Haddock always makes me smile.

Has anyone mentioned Rudimentary Peni yet? 'Death Church' from 1983 is a classic anarcho-punk album.

Satans Toilet

Carcass

Vanilla Bezerk

Half man, half biscuit

New Young Pony Club

I think we should only count 'real' bands, not just names made up for effect, where the band in question do not actually exist (or if it did, then it was for one or two performances at most).

If for example we take the thrice mentioned 'Lesbian Dopeheads On Mopeds', I think we need to ask the following questions.

Were they Lesbians?

Were they Dopeheads?

Did they ride on Mopeds?

Could they actually play?

How long did they exist for?

Indeed were they dykes on bikes :hihi:

Can I offer....Lydia Dustbin and the Refuse Collectors :D

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead

And you will know us by the Trail of the Dead is a fabulous name.

Pah, beat me to it.

THough one of my favourite and wierdest sleeve is The Mothers of Invention's Weasels Ripped My Flesh. (http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/FZ-WRMF.jpg)

I still have a record by the Electric Prunes ("Are You Loving Me More but Enjoying It Less?".

I used to be a fan of a band in Hampshire in the 60's called the Foetid Armpits.

THough one of my favourite and wierdest sleeve is The Mothers of Invention's Weasels Ripped My Flesh. (http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/FZ-WRMF.jpg)

It's a great sleeve. You need to be in a certain mood to listen to the tracks though! Abolutely barmy(in a good way).

my fella was in a band called monkey punch

see definitition here
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=monkey+punch

Among bands who I saw mentioned in the NME but never heard their music were -

Orange Jelly Baby and the Six White Chocolate Mice
The Night the Goldfish Died
The Sex Beatles, and my own personal favourite-
Attempted Mustache.

The Jesus and Mary Chain would have been seen as a rather peculiar name had we not "got used to it".

I can think of a cople of punk bands who made records and whose name wouldn't get past the filters, one called the Snivelling blanks and the other featuring Shane MacGowan before the Pogues.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin.

Taken from an episode of the Goons show I believe.

These supported Foo Fighters recently. Serj Tankian and The Flying C*nts Of Chaos.

Also Groop Dog Drill from Doncaster who were the only band to look like three Mark Lamarr's but had my utmost respect for the drummer doing full sets standing up.

Joe lean and the jing jang jong - im going to see them tonight!!!-

Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark always seemed a bit weird to me

Hmmm...I used to be in a band called Charlie and the Horlicks Overdose...

'KY Jelly and the Slippery Bitches'

Yes they do (or did) exist. See info below.

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=2625347334&ShowSims=Y

Caroline's Spine

has anyone said "dogs die in hot cars" - (i think thats right)

Thats right, they did the catchy song ' i love you cos i have too'

Other strange band names:

Queens of the Stone Age
Eagles of Death Metal
Chumbawamba
Butt Hole Surfers
Les Claypools Frog Brigade
Death From Above 1979 (think it was a helicopter in a film, dont know if thats were its from though)

My bro told me about a band at Bloodstock last year:

Necro Sadistic Goat Torture

Awesome!!!!!

The Sultans of Ping F.C.

My band's name is quite unusual...

Henrys Carpet Skip. :)

My last band was called Dont Trust Keith.

There is one that I can't really put on here as, even with masking the words, they are likely to cause offence...

...but for those not so easily offended, type Seth Putnam (the lead singer) in to Google.

yet still nobody has mentioned the fabulous inimtable ... the one & only never to be denied their place in music history .....
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CLIFF RESCUE & THE HELICOPTERS!! (http://cliffrescue.website.orange.co.uk/)

!!! are pretty good

Cradle of Filth is an odd one. Swedish group Cumshot is a strange one and the more I think about it Spandau Ballet is a great but unusual name for a band

punk band - screeching weasel

& im sure many on here will have seen & enjoyed (especially when neil was lead singer )

THE GUTTERBAND

A particular favourite is Cannibal Corpse, although their song titles are something to behold! Check 'em out here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Corpse

One of my fave band names - 'splodgenessabounds'

My old band was called "I Killed A Guy With A Trident"

:p

I sometimes play in a trio called "Back Sack and Crack"

How about the legendary "When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water" on the Shimmy Disc label?

Disciples of the Rabid Hamster

oh and Potty Pete and the Pikelets

Sammy Hagar from Van Halen and Joe Satriani have a band now called Chickenfoot .. lol

Col ..

Two German power metal bands spring to mind: "Chinchilla" and "Custard." Neither really scream \m/ METUUHHLLLL \m/ do they?

(Chinchilla I quite like, Custard I can live without.)

Sixties pop band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

70 Policemen In My Kitchen were a favourite

How about Grannie? Or Ixthuluh?

Sh2006.

Evil Edna's horror toilet.

Get's my vote!

Remember 'Millions of Dead Cops'? They were cool. Or even briefer and older; 'Hideous Bill Gangrene and his Rotting Lumps of Green Flesh'?

constable zippo and his electric commode band........brilliant innit !!

Lance Boil and the Carbuncles always has a nice ring to it I think.

Butthole Surfers (i know they've been mentioned alot, but they deserve to be :D)
Send More Paramedics
An** Cu**
Jingo De Lunch
Angelspit
Combichrist
Spermbirds
Girls Against Boys
New Bomb Turks
Lavotchkin
Alice Donut
Cancer Bats
Global Genocide, Forget Heaven
Nation Of Ulysses
Revolting Cocks
Pigface
Shudder To Think
Drunk Injuns
Jodie Fosters Army
Ween
Cephalic Carnage
Bolt Thrower
Dog On A Rope
Septic Death
Electro Hippies
Vanilla Trainwreck
NoMeansNo

:D

I used to thinkn 'The The' was a good name (and a great one for someone with a stutter) :hihi:

The Eagles of Death Metal is a terrific name. I haven't actually heard them but I instantly think of what Hotel California might sound like if it was covered by Napalm Death. :D

Two of my favourite bands have quirky names:

Porcupine Tree
Blue Oyster Cult (must have sounded weird when they first arrived on the scene)

posts in a second...

I've just tried to delete the posts but cant -sorry for spamming your great forum!! I'm going to PM Guzziowl...

I'm doing some research for the blog and exhibition www.queenincornwall.blogspot.com and trying to get hold of members of Constable Zippos Electric Commode Band. They played at a very obscure little club in Truro called PJs where Queen played their first billed gig...

I recently found the most awesome name ever:


BUMSNOGGER

The Star Speckled Giraffes a band I saw in Ireland once

'These 4 are from the 70's '

Spunky Spider

Burning Red Ivanhoe

Draught Porridge

Mother Tuckers Rubber Duck

anyone mentioned 'John Merrick's Remains?' (Professional sounding and most memorable elephant man themed local rock band. Saw 'em a few weeks a go in West Street Live. Really have a way with a melody.)

Come to think of it, on the same bill were Floating Death Picnic. One of far too few local bands to acknowledge in song the role the Sheffield Supertram plays in making all our lives more convenient.

I remember a band from the eighties called Furious Pig. Their crowd pleasing classic `I don't like your face' was available on Oven Ready Records I believe.

punk band..."stiff little fingers"

during the punk era some friends and myself formed a band called the septic pubes. we also did an updated version of labi siffre songs under the name of labia syphllis.

One that I like is
!!!
(pronounced Chk-Chk-Chk)

The 4 Skins :o

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Nine Inch Nails! guess I found that weird when I 1st heard of em...
And there is also this local band here, I loved their name, AC In hell, lol, hilarious right?