What's Your Favorite Made-Up Band Name?

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Nixon Liddy Codpiece. It's progressive (obviously). I'd be wearing a cape like Rick Wakeman. Playing SIX different pianos. Our first show would be a full performance of "Saucy Jack".

Granted, you can take any two surnames & throw in an incongruous noun to make up a silly band name. But I'm hoping you wonderful people have some more ingenious ways to do this.

Assuming you're not getting reprimanded by your employers for browsing the 'web. (Remember - Alt-Tab saves lifes.)

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wagonwheel Candelabra - a fictitious goth band from Texas who would have typically dark angst ridden music, but lyrically they would only sing about drinkin' leavin' and cheatin' and would wear ten gallon cowboy hats at all times - hats in black obviously.

― Kim, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My Sweet Slaughterhouse - A kitschy goth-industrial-house band fronted by a dude in leather and a woman in thigh-high dominatrix boots modelled after late-80's/early 90's My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Grammaticals. The first band who's songs are grammatically correct. Post-ironicore bubblegum purists and nostalgic futurists all rolled into one.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

We made up a band once, we were to be called Gay Military over a comment a friend made about a band - "Oh, that's a nice outfit, it's like military but gay and fabulous". It was going to be the most offensive band we could think of, since we had an offensive name. We would wear military clothes done up slutty and do punk music (since none of us played instruments, punk was the only choice).

― Ally, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The band are called BUNCHA JEWS. I'd describe the music as GANGSTA NO- WAVE.

― duane zarakov, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That would be "whose"

(Are they looking for a Theremin player?)

― mark s, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

what if the gorillaz were really animals and also females? they'd be grranimals. possible lawsuit involved here from clothing manufacturer.

then there's always bildungsroman. a vanity project. involving the zither. for those with a poor sense of humor, it could be called stephen and the dedali.

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Harlem Beatles.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Projectile Fish Cannons.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Web Shites, and the Stinky Buts...two great names for punk bands!

― james e l, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Enemies List, which I'm thinking I may use as my blog name anyway. If it were a band I suppose it would have to some really terrible Clash or Manics ripoff band.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You can't be a horrible Clash/Manics rip off, that's what Gay Military does, damnit. When we were deciding what to look like, someone grabbed a photo of the Manics w/Traci Lords and decided I'd be Traci Lords, then doled out the Manics accordingly, except we'd have to work camoflague into our outfits.

We still never learnt to play. We coulda been contenders.

― Ally, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's not like the Manics ever learned to play...

― Nicole, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh, I'm well aware. That's why we chose them as a model. The problem is, the Manics HAVE a James Bradfield with actual discernible talent. We, um, didn't. I can't even play a tambourine on time.

― Ally, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

If the world was big enough for These Animal Men and S*M*A*S*H, it's big enough for Gay Military and Enemies List.

Note "If".

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, we have way better names and images sussed out, hello.

― Ally, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Enemies List is good but Gay Military is rubbish cause it makes me think of i) Gay Dad, ii) Pink Industry (actually I've never heard Pink Industry but I've always disliked the name, but Gay Dad is enough anyway).

I'm sure you could do a convincing Manics image, though.

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The context of the statement was "way better names", with the unsaid portion being "...than S*M*A*S*H or These Animal Men". Not like way better in terms of actually being good - the only reason Gay Military is good at all is cos it'd piss off people in the military, and they could use some annoyance.

I could do convincing Manics. I'm on a mission to force Fred into dressing like that at least once. And force feed him eggs, of course, but that's another thread. If anyone needs advice on how to do convincing Manics, just ask me, okay? Why you'd need that advice, I'm not sure, but if you do.

― Ally, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

If our canteen doesnt stop selling cheap chocolates I'll be able to do a convincing Sean all too quickly.

― Tom, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Will you get angry and threaten to quit if we try to spray you with gold spray paint too? That'd be great.

― Ally, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Gay Dad was a good name: I realise it may have been tarnished.

Pink Military (formerly Pink Military Stand Alone) is a terrible name, long version or short version, but the LP I have by Pink Industry (New Beginnings, Zulu 7, 1985, rubbish sleeve design Jamie Reid/Leaving the 20th Century) is actually great, in a very low key way. Very Zoo. Name = no better, tho.

Jayne Casey: recent sightings?

― mark s, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Shithouse Rats The Stompedprickle Billy Booby and the Dungs The Angelic Hind

― -- Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

DRIP-STAIN QUARTET

SEXY OPINION

SAUCY AND THE TUBS

― Mister Robot, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Blouse - Chris Morris' name for his Pulp parody.

(Also: Fur-Q)

― DavidM, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Taunton. But that's not my idea: it's an imaginary prog band created by comedians Bill Best and Sean Lock (a kind of Spinal Tap with Jethro Tull and Traffic as its blueprint rather than 70s metal bands). They even made records (notably "Human Slaves In An Insect Nation") which were featured on Mark Radcliffe's Radio 1 show circa 1995. So really they don't count.

In that case: when I was about 12 I thought of the name "Bopeep Conundrum" (don't try to beat out of me where it came from). I think even people like Ashley Hutchings or Dave Swarbrick would have flinched from using it for a side project, but I'm afraid to confess I quite liked the name at the time. And, therefore, it must go in.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Babyhead Cannon.

― BrianR, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Rabbit Mayhem and Mounds of Quim were the two imaginary bands playing constantly on the second stage at all tomorrows parties.

― carsmilesteve, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yes Steve, I seem to remember the Mayhem were fairly entertaining but those Mounds just didn't justify the price of their flights. Hm. The whole weekend remains a touch fuzzy.

― Tim, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hopkins might remember this: back when were doing the Leeds Student newspaper, there came a week when all the singles around were just awful. Mindful of getting a reputation for being too negative, I decided we had to make up a really great record. The band was to be called Flawless, the song Ten-Pin. The problem was that the girl who was reviewing the singles that week just couldn't think of how to describe this record. Me: 'Just imagine the pop perfect song.' She: 'Convenience by Bob.' I was a bit taken aback by this: Convenience was fine as far as skip along, jangly early '90s indie pop went, but not really what you'd think of as up there with the greatest music ever made. Still, it was her call. Me: 'OK, so just imagine a song that's like Convenience... only even better.' She sits there for a while, doesn't type, and then looks at me in agony. She: 'But... but... nothing could be better than Convenience...'

― Mark Morris, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I actually do think of these things constantly, like every day, and try to remember but rarely do. But last week, last week I thought of a truly sad one that made me laugh - Volcanic Faction

― Kim, Wednesday, 13 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bend me Over Backwards and the Fuck-me Twice

― Geoff, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh, dammnit, we ended up *using* all my best fake band names on Entertain Me! I won a competition for coming up with the "best fake Lower East Side band name" with The Jesus Sugarpussy.

Besides, what do I need fake band names for, when we've got the Bull and Gate to provide endlessly amusing *real* ones? "Vomit Formaldehyde and the Booze Apocalypse".

― masonic boom, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Blimey! Implicated in two made-up-band scenarios. Mark, I recall the pile of singles for review was awful every week that year. Looking through a box of old 7"s the other day, I found a copy of "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" by Sting, a remnant of one of the few times you let my particular brand of positivity anywhere near the singles column. I must remember to throw the damned thing in the rubbish.

I've no idea why you worried about a reputation for negativity with me around.

― Tim, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dons of Spontaneity

― james e l, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one month passes...

JESUS AND THE HOLY FORE SKINS,, reffering to the feast of the circumcison (pre-vadican II)

― Jack Throckmorton, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Bearing in mind the current vogue for all things retro, and the pertinent psychology behind it ('80s slutwear trend propagated by Naice Gels in fashion whose mothers would never let them wear the stuff first time around) I have been planning my joke band for years, based on stuff that freaked me out when I was 13. My groop is SPAM JAVELIN. Our CD has a 'painted sunset/airbrushed unicorn' van (driven by the kind of mong my li'l sis used to date) on the cover and is named after the bumper sticker inevitably seen on the back of these vans. Title of LP: Don't Laugh, Your Daughter May Be Inside.

Songs will be of the 'road' variety and actually all will be named after bumper stickers from the fenders of Evil Wheels (another good one: Huntin', Fishin', But Mostly Foolin')

― suzy, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

nicked from Half man half biscuit's "4 skinny indie kids"

Christ like Mince

tripswitch hinterland

poolcue fancypants

sharkshit welterweight

website nonce (my favourite)

― cabbage, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i was in a fictitious band called the "hoochie Mamas". we never played anytjing but we used to run around town screaming about tampons and stuff.

― lady die, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Canada Briggs and Her Problems Down There (from Instant Wigwam and Igloo Mixture by Gokart Mozart).

Reginald Ovaltine and His Magic Slippers (with cross-marketed "The Adventures Of" children's TV and book series)

I'm still working on plans for my one-man Peter Andre tribute band, The Andy Peters.

― Graham, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

the count nuthin's & capital zero are real bands that haven't gotten off the ground yet. dirt sausage was entirely fictitious but appeared often on gig posters to make it look like a better evening's entertainment value. heroin goobers, country robots, sydenham lowriders - same deal but only got one fictitious "show" per. i've been in as many fake bands as real ones, my 1st was sredni vashtar when i was 14.

― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

no that's right 15. the 1st was the hoolocks (it's a type of gibbon).

― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

graham yr link doesn't work.

― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Constant Spray

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

J-LB8 for the paedo-Eminem rapper on Brass Eye the other night was pretty good.

― Nick, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hey I didn't write that. WHat gives? Is there a Mike HAnley imposter?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Duane, you'll need to delete the line break, or just cut+paste this: http://%20www.bni.canterbury.freeuk.com/james.haslam/autographs/images/andypeters.jpg

Nick, I'm expecting a discussion on Nu-Ass music on ILM any second now.

Oh, another one: The Eric Knowles Appreciation Society. Debut Album: Fear Of Randy Bachman. Breakthrough Single: I'm In Love With Gene Pitney. (Are any of those real?)

― Graham, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two months pass...

ther were a real punk band from durley chine (in dorset) called "the chineapple punks," which kicks arse when you think about it. they had a song called "my cat drinks beer."

― christopher phillips, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Anal Cunt (TAKEN)

Cumbucket (though that one screams nu-metal).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Surely Cumdumspter is the better choice?

And what about the Camel Toads?

― Kim, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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Chippy Chapman and The Brown Beavers

Honkaletto

― Chris, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

i read the answer cumbucket. i am actually in a band called cumbucket, and theres nothing nu metal about it. my favourite band name is one thats im not sure is fake or real. gonerria retart is made up of musicians but they are too lazy to play

― josh tonkin, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I speak for Dan here as well when I say that this answer pleases me for all the wrong reasons.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I speak for Dan

Yes, you do.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i'm not sure if it was Thrills or something but a Steve Lamacq- championed band was called the Fuzzy Felt Five.

i adore this name and if i ever form my twee thrash glitchpop group Fuzzy Felt Five is what they will be called.

― Wyndham Earl, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Opening Act. Assuming they got more popular, they would then change their name to the Headliners. I used to know a guy whose band was called The Special Guests. Don't know if they ever actually played more than the one show I saw.

And if I start an emo band I'm calling it Fear of Plaid.

― j.lu, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yes, you do.

Of course I do.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fishsticks On The Highway

― Lek Dukagjin, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Urinal Birthday Cakes Saskatoon Goons GashPumpers

― jehovah, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Laughing Boy and the Fucking Comedians

― misterjones, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...

[spam]

― Ginger, Friday, 20 January 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Windfucker

Comfort Inn Flushing

― Mestema (davidcorp), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

jam pandas

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.leonatkinson.com/random/index.php/band.html

everytime you refresh, new band names appear!

― Green Olive Face (hanle y 3000), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago) link

free range bananas

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link

are there really band names that aren't made-up then?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

THE SPIDER MAPS!!!

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

SICK DICK & THE VOLKSWAGONS

made up by Thos Pynchon in The Crying of Lot 49, later a real band.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

radiohead

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It's not The Spider Maps, it's just Spider Maps. I thought we'd been through this already!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

and anyway spider maps is a real band!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

There used to be a really grim teen, big-hair angst metal combo round our way called Silent Opinion. For a while my own band considered going out as 'Feasable Option' but we gave it a miss as the father of one of the bozos was the local promoter. Other names we considered but rejected.

Give a dog a boner: Big black tribute band.
The Shellsuit family: Nasty Techno duo.
Swastika family robinson. As above but with gothic overtones.
Built up shoe. A bit Primal Screamish, but funkier.
The underpants show. Fall tribute.

All utterly vile but funny at the time. we did actually do a few gigs as ABBA though.

― brasseye25, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Exocet Dogpile.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

mouthfeel

― gabbneb, Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link

nixon biscuits

― m coleman, Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

kid blast & the caps

― m coleman, Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link

rehab romance

― m coleman, Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link

a guy called momus

― m coleman, Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

Jesus McChee$eWhiz

― snoball, Sunday, 10 February 2008 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link

100 made-up euphemisms for semen

― the sir weeze, Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link

The Pimped-Out Chelseas

― M.V., Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link

The Blue Spitoons. An acoustic blues jug band.

― Aimless, Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Gland Games.

― the table is the table, Sunday, 10 February 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Cokesukka McGee and the Clandestine Rodent Fellating Association of America.

― snoball, Sunday, 10 February 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Here's some I just made up:

The Antidisestablishmentarianisms
Tortured in the Orchard
Bitchly Cowcorn
Carol Wreath (thrash metal singer)
Catch Her in the Rye

― JTS, Monday, 11 February 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link

enfunkskapedia funkskannica

― rrrobyn, Monday, 11 February 2008 05:04 (sixteen years ago) link

panty headliners

― aimurchie, Monday, 11 February 2008 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Nuns That Fuck

― G00blar, Monday, 11 February 2008 12:57 (sixteen years ago) link

The Zyphoid Process

― G00blar, Monday, 11 February 2008 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

The Spanking Onions
Blizzard of Blades

― Bimble, Thursday, 24 April 2008 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Dear Sir or Madam or Bear:

― abanana, Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link

fuckface
(yes the first 'f' being lower case is important)

― Black Rod, Jane, and Freddy (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

i wish there'd been a band called The Dicksplats.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

Been playing Hoffman Corner's underappreciated fourth album 'Wrinkles In The Laminate' this afternoon.

The instrumental interplay is slightly concerning and needless to say the sound quality is through the ceiling, even in quad!

― *there's (Noel Emits), Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

Definite Article Plural Noun

― Choose Your Own Disaster (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

I keep seeing subway ads for this band, I guess they're looking for a drummer

https://i.imgur.com/bqgeS1d.png

― mick signals, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link

I will never understand why there hasn't been a band called The Dirty Needles.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 19 April 2019 05:46 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

nostalgia for nightmares is either a really good band name or album title.

― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link

i've always thought Variable Smudge, which is a species of moths, would be an excellent name for a fictional band.

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link

fuckface
(yes the first 'f' being lower case is important)
― Black Rod, Jane, and Freddy (snoball), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:46 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe try "flickface" and see if anyone misreads it? I suppose the right/wrong font would help here.

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link

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