The best name for a band ever

Pixies

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

**** riot

p*ssy

crispy ambulance

Free Beer

I can think of some crap ones

The The, Mr Mister, Caravan and The Alan Parson's Project

I'm not familiar with any of their music, and with names like that I never will be:

"What you listening to fella?"
" Mr Mister, Caravan, The Alan Parson's Project and The The"

Strangely the name Jimmy the Hoover suggests ( to me ) that he was a rock and roll drug monster so that's OK ( unless he doubled as a domestic cleaner/cleaning appliance in which case it is not

A couple of imaginary ones,Warm Handles ,Triangular Biscuits.

If we are going for imaginary ones this one nearly made it -  Spillage Idiots

worst name for a band was mike rutherfords ' bank statement ' .

Cliff Rescue and The Helicopters also known at some point as Ken Wood and The Mixers used to appear in gig listings when I were a lad - before I was old enough to go, so no idea if they were any good.

And you will know us by the trail of dead ( later abbreviated to Trail of Dead)

Got some decent tunes as well

best tribute band name, hugh reed and the velevet underpants

Furious Pig

Dog F

Dog F

Whoops - Dog Faced Hermans

Always thought that Velocity Girl (early to mid 90's) was a great band name.

Mike and The Mechanics

Ten Benson

Carter Unstoppable Sex Machine for me too, Slippy blue.

Jimbob still lives at Crystal Palace; my son talks to him occasionally.

Apart from the name; brilliant lyrics too.


Half Man half Biscuit  too.


John Peel used to make them up; "and there will be music later from The Flying Cream Shots" was one of his.

Brewer's Droop.
The last album of theirs was as The Booze Brothers and featured Nopfler and Edmunds,the cover is worth a look.

Saw an all-girl band years ago called Bertha's Got Balls.

Good rock band they were an' all.

Yes,and there was another all girl group called,of course,Fanny.
The could play a bit too.

I don't know much about them, but I've got a feeling that they're an American all-girl group, Slunt is a great name.

We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Gonna Use It.

Clive Pig and the hopeful chinamen can still be viewed on Youtube..

Godspeed you Black Emperor.
Bruce Flid and the Skid kids.

I think I still have a copy of "The fkin cnts treat us like prkcs" by A Flux Of Pink Indians.

Gaye Bykers on Acid, Gay Dad and Sultans of Ping FC. I always thought Def Leopard was a particularly silly name for a band and they didn't even spell it right - a serious chit-chat faux pas.

Mind you, I hired Jean Therapy and the Chromosones to play at my wedding reception.

Cycle Sluts From Hell

That's a cracker, HRH!

They were bloody awful, but did have at least have a great song title in "I wish you were a beer!", and i recall one of them was particularly filthy looking. They had stage names like Venus Penis Crusher!

napalm death
butthole surfers
killing joke

The Four Skins was a great name...kinda summed them up perfectly.

Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias another cracker.

Then the band named after a well known ex-C4 Racing presenter´s method of picking winners: System of A. Down

The Manic Street Preachers is a great name too.

I always said I'd call my band The Duration. Be great at festivals - "How long are you here for?", "Oh we're here for the duration"

Obviously betting without The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Barenaked Ladies
Atari Teenage Riot
The Manhattan Love Suicides
F**k Buttons
Super Furry Animals
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Splodginess Abounds

Chicken Shack

Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

bigH 05 Jan 13 20:57 
And you will know us by the trail of dead ( later abbreviated to Trail of Dead)

Got some decent tunes as well


wins by a mile, corking band

Yeah Yeah Yeahs is a great band name

Got a soft spot for Cradle of Filth, Bomb Disneyland (later banned, and disappointingly re-named Bomb Everything) and Slayer. To the point, great metal band names.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

The Band

Sid Sideboard and the Chairs

Band from Watford around in the 70's....Saw them play at the Pump House

Obviously, from the point of view of marketing, and for the $$-induced sake of brevity, there can only B 1 one winner : U 2

Mercy Flush

Dinosaur Pileup.

Went on a stag do earlier this year and one of the lads there who I didn;t know told me abot this band his brother was in, called Wheelchair Wheelchair Wheelchair Wheelchair.

I haven't dared listen to them yet.

Ken Dodd's Dad's Dog's Dead



is a shocking omission

Irish band, Goats dont shave.

Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
Mad Caddies
Janitors Against Apartheid
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Springbok Nude Girls
Zen Baseball Bat

It's a beautiful day.

The Sniveling Sh!ts
The Modern Lovers
Bad Company
Free

Tesco Bombers

Cream
Half Man Half Biscuit

The B0ll0ck Brothers is a shocking omission

Neutral Milk Hotel (nap)
The Decemberists (nb)

Pogue Mahone,
from the Irish 'póg mo thóin', meaning "kiss my ar5e".
Later abbreviated to 'The Pogues'.

Elastic

Dead Kennedys.

A friend of mine in '82 was known as

The Sad Liver

and

My Dog Popper

always thought Throbbing Gristle was quite an unusual name