Good names for indie bands taken from cartoons and comics!

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(Yes, yes, a parody of the other thread, I know, but seriously!) In this thread I suggested The Penfold Three (or Four, or Five, or however many you have in your band) for Danger Mouse fans.

No one can suggest The Teardrop Explodes, I'm afraid.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

The Goggles Do Nothing.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

or Love and Rockets.

Mansion Unda Yacht.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Atom Ant can't be possible now, either. Same story with Josie and the Pussycats.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Since Star Wars had cartoon spinoffs, though, I'll put down Bespin and Kessel.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Blivitz.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Can't do Tiger Trap either. They got their name from Calvin and Hobbes.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Nor Celesteville.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

There could probably be a lot of simpsons references...
Tastes Like Burning, Floor Pie, ....

Hansi, the Girl Who Loved the Swastika
http://re2.mm-b.yimg.com/image/1438712575

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

SKEEZIX

http://www.marklansdown.com/pinbacks/images/skeezix-noimprint.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 30 June 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Maddie Pryor! (cue corrections from enraged fanboys)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

The D'ohs
Slurm
Brian and the Talking Dogs

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

OK now I've cemented myself as Captain Obvious of the cartoon fandom.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Modest Mouse was a rather good name actually -- a play, I assume, on Mighty Mouse. But a friend pointed out that it could have also been a reference to Modest Mussorgsky.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

the Jetsons would be a cool band name.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Chemical X.
The Dexters.

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Its not a cartoon really but I had a good one from the Goons: the Mountain Eaters.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I was in a school band named after the comic strip Ignatz.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

The Latverians
Archy and Mehibatel

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Miss Wakk Wakk
Lil Ainjul
The Brickflingers
The Wheel and the Bolt

have I ever mentioned that I love Krazy Kat?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

another tack would be to name a band for technical cartooning terms:

Panelgutterpanel
Stinkwaves
Crowquill Nib

or cartoonists

The Sterankos
etc

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

24th and a Half Century.
The Goofy Gophers
Villainstruck

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

The Blistering Barnacles

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

3DBB
The Go-Go Gophers

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

The Blue Blistering Barnacles, surely?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

YES

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

the Jetsons would be a cool band name.
There was a local band called Astro Jetson.

Can't do Thompson Twins. Blistering Branacles came from Tin-Tin, no? That'd be fantastic!

Asterix and Obelix
Murun Buchstansangur

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Barnacles, not Branacles, although that's pretty funny.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Maddie Pryor! (cue corrections from enraged fanboys)

...there's a band called the Hellfire Club already, right?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/i/impossi2.jpg

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

I spent the better part of the late 90s trying to convince bands I knew to change their name to Challengers of the Unknown and wear purple jumpsuits!
http://www.challengersoftheunknown.com/challs2.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Daphne and Velma

Could be a name for a twee indie-pop band.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Who's been Shag'n Scoob?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, but Scoob and Scrap were Big Daddy Kane's dancers back when he first came out. No, not like that. I mean his first couple of albums.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Aquaman vs. Namor

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

...there's a band called the Hellfire Club already, right?

The Electric Hellfire Club!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Mr Peabody and Sherman.

― The New and Improved / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

The Electric Hellfire Club!

!!!

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Papa Smurf

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.electrichell.com/
http://www.myspace.com/electrichellfireclub

Associates of MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

another tack would be to name a band for technical cartooning terms:

The Plewds
The Briffits

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Curses! jocelyn and n/a beat me to the Tintin reference.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Anyway... the Bashi-Bazouks.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Actually someone should start an IDM project called Fenris.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Kleeman and Mike, or October the Pirate

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

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