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So which bands/groups/solo artists have the best name? Don't have to like their music, just their name.
Here's a few, in no particular order, to get started:
Public Enemy
The Killers
Young Black Teenagers (hip hop fans may remember they were white)
Ganja Kru
Elbow
Groove Armada
Kasabian
Led Zeppelin
The Rolling Stones
The Police
Hovercraft Pirates.
Dead Kennedys
The Slits
The Southern Death Cult
Pookisnackenburger
Half Man Half Biscuit
Dinosaur Jr
P*ss-flaps Over Disneyland
The Crystal Method
Pissing Razors
Strapping Young Lad
Armoured Cats
Creaming Jesus
Seven Dead Astronauts
The Nips who were -
The Nipple Erectors
Who's lead singer went on to form
Pogue Mahon (sp?)
Butthole Surfers
Dr Phibes and the House of Wax Equations..
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Violent Femmes
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
The Slits
Butthole Surfers
UB40
The The
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
jimmy the hoover
pookah makes three
throbbing gristle
jefferson airplane
credence clearwater revival
street sweeper social club
Ozric Tentacles,
Soft Machine
Goats don't shave
Metallica...
.............
LOL
jefferson airplane
Points deducted for morphing into 'Starship' via Jefferson Starship...
rage against the machine ill always love
and quite like alice in chains too
Splodgenous Abounds (sp)
The Jesus and Mary chain
anal c*nt
lawnmower deth
Creaming jesus
extreme noise terror
Ultraviolence
the march of the sinister ducks
gaye bikers on acid and the jokey spin off lesbian dopeheads on mopeds
Alien sex fiend
the men that will not be blamed for nothing
Sultans Of Ping FC
Paddy Goes To Holyhead
Pop Will Eat Itself
Neds Atomic Dustbin
Swervedriver
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Half Man Half Biscuit
Transvision Vamp (mmm, Wendy James!)
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
Chainsaw Etiquette (excellent (probably defuct) blues band local to Southampton)
Skimmington Ride (excellent (defunct) folk band also local to Southampton)
einsturzende neubaten
kraftwerk
jon spencer blues explosion
corrosion of conformity
oh and I used to be in a band called The Liquid Silk Explosion 8)
(minor geek points to anyone who knows where i stole it from)
Since I came across the ticket stub this w/e:
Slunt
Gay Dad.
I knew of a band called:
The terrorist ballet dancers from hell
Currently in a band called
Hells Anglers, which is mostly about drinking beer and talking about making music, not actually doing it.
Insane Clown Posse
knobjockey..
Dexy's midnight runners?
The Pretty Things
Some 80's Newcastle bands
The Rhythm methodists
The Sensible pencils
Arthur two-stroke and the chart commandos
Ian
The Arsebandits, like the bmx bandits..
cameltoe complex
The atomic bitchwax
The Frightening Shadows!
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
They Might Be Giants
Modern Lovers
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Fudge Tunnel
Maggot slayer overdrive
Bus station loonies
Noddy and the screaming cutlasses
Mogwai
Atari Teenage Riot
Eddie and the Hotrods
Sepultura (trips off the tongue in a chant, Sep-ul-tooora, SEP-UL-TOOORA...)
Nine Inch Nails
Inspiral Carpets
Primal Scream
New Order
**** off machete.
Burial.
Talking Heads.
**** Buttons.
Spacetime continuum.
Buzzcocks.
Shitdisco.
Who da funk.
Vampire Weekend.
The Real Tuesday Weld.
Tokyo Police Club.
That Petrol Emotion.
Simian Mobile Disco.
Stanton Warriors.
Pendle Coven.
Plump Dj's
Nagual Sound Experiment.
New Young Pony Club.
Nightmares on Wax.
Nine Inch Nails.
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Massive Attack.
LCD Soundsystem.
Lesbians on Ecstacy.
Leftfield.
Kyoto Jazz Massive.
Jane's Addiction.
Infected Mushroom.
I , Ludicrous.
Height's of Abraham.
The House of Pain.
F.C Kahuna.
****pony.
Future Sound of London.
Flowered up.
Funkadelic.
De la soul.
Caustic Window.
Claro Intelecto.
Carbon Based Lifeforms.
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine.
Colorblind James Experience.
Cocteau Twins.
Camper van Beethoven.
Bentley Rhythm Ace.
Big Audio Dynamite.
The B52's.
Asiandubfoundation.
Anti-nowhere League.
A Certain Ratio.
teh funkster
abba with the first b reversed!
Mr Bungle
Faith No More
Peter and The Test Tube Babies
The Dickies
Cockney Rejects
Snuff
Salford jets
The Cure
Killin' Joke
Kajagoogoo
Goatpuncher
Bestial Warlust
Satan's Almighty Penis
Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis
Fondle corpse
Jurassic 5
Alabama 3
Spacemen 3
Fun Boy 3
Anything really with numbers in it, i'd of liked the band name five, if only there were 6 or 4 of them, or preferably none of them thinking about it.
The Enid
^ Spacemen 3. Quality.
My vote goes to:
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Buffalo Tom
Aphex Twin
Liquid Pub Dugs (my mates band from college days)
Husker Du
Sonic Youth
Sceptic Deth
Shellac
Sage Francis (best rapper ever)
And my favourite......Woodchuck, that's my band
Boss Hogg
Tav Falco and the Panther Burns
Can't believe that on a forum like this no one has mentioned
The Desperate Bicycles- so I will.
Pig Destroyer
Fields of the Nephilim
The Very Things
Stiff Little Fingers
The Sisters of Mercy
New Model Army
Vanilla Pod
Gogol Bordello
This Mortal Coil
Bauhaus
A**L C**T
Awful grindcore/thrash. Formed in the late eighties as a joke, but still together now.
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I cant believe nobodies mentioned The Clash..Short, sharp & yer face - a great name for a punk band.
Just in case anyone forgot:
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Cliff Rescue and the Helicopters
Floyd Lloyd and the Potato Five
The Toxic Kangaroo Babies
The Wonder Stuff
Urge Overkill
Gaye Bikers on Acid
Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction
Pelvic Thunderhound
Raging Speedhorn
The Rock of Travolta
Northshore Ponyclub
archers of Loaf
Fountains of Wayne
elemeno p
Skinny puppy
Fat Freddy's Drop
the Spermbirds
The Cramps
The blubbery Hellbellies
Spear of Destiny
Meat Beat Manifesto
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone was one that always made me chuckle. Ace name AND describes the music rather well!
The Honolulu Mountain Daffodils.
I was in band called Chemical Toliet.
Which made me laugh.
Pearl Jam
Cabaret Voltaire
Combichrist
Die Krupps
Killing Joke
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Revolting Cocks
Seen on flyers in London...
Guns 'n ****ers
Mussolini Headlock
ZZ TOP
Lynnard Skynnard
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Nazareth
Mike and the Mechanics
The Troggs
The Kinks
Acid Mothers Temple & the melting PARAISO U.F.O
Rambling Johnny Stomach Pump and the Village Idiots - supported the Levellers at York Uni late 80s.....
Scumfucs
Bloody Mess and the Skabs
P1ssed Jeans
Impaled Nazarene
...all rather nice radio friendly acts. Great names if you are about 13 years old.
Deaf Shepherd
The Shitbirds
The Mr T Experience
ALL
LimeRoach
Phunk Junkeez
Bloody hell no one has mentioned
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