jude77
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Oddest band name?
Back in the 80's I played in a band and there was a "punk" style club in the city where we were. We wanted to play there for fun, but we knew we couldn't get booked under our regular name so we wanted a name that we felt would fit the club. Aftr some thinking we came up with a name that we felt was appropriately punk: "The Dead Wives of Jerry Lee Lewis". We're probably lucky we didn't get sued. So guys, what other odd band names have you used or heard?
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 12:20:48
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I always liked 'Half Man, Half Biscuit'. They were pretty good too 
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 12:36:39
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Nettlesmith.
WTF do smiths Nettle?
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 12:38:02
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2016/01/18 12:56:27
Other way round, the 'smithing' is the doing bit.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 13:13:14
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Death Cab For Cutie, always struck me as unusual.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 13:15:03
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The Beatles.
Bad spelling aside why call a group of humans a disgusting insect name?
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jamesg1213
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 13:15:52
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Death Cab For Cutie, always struck me as unusual.
They were named after a song by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, if that explains anything at all..
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 13:32:58
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I always liked 'Half Man, Half Biscuit'. They were pretty good too
Still are.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 13:35:38
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jamesg1213
I always liked 'Half Man, Half Biscuit'. They were pretty good too
Still are.
Still going? Hope they play 'The Trumpton Riots' 
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 14:36:01
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One of the bands that I played with was named Spontaneous Monotony.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 15:12:02
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jamesg1213
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I always liked 'Half Man, Half Biscuit'. They were pretty good too
Still are.
Still going? Hope they play 'The Trumpton Riots'
Or more appropriate to current events.. Seal Clubbing.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 16:19:36
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/01/18 16:54:49
Stan Dupp and The Jennifer Tillies? Fizzy Pickle?  
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 16:21:32
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After a night of heavy drinking at SXSW, I woke up with a cassette in my pocket by a band called "The Satanic Butt Slayers." Their demo was as bad as their name.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 18:04:09
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I used to be in a thrash band called D-Neif. It was a relaunch of an old punk band called The Fiend and the singer simply reversed Fiend and added the hyphen. I remember my dad saying at the time "I feel embarrassed for you. Please don't tell any of my friends."
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 18:08:52
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LOL! 
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 18:15:13
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I always wanted to try some of whatever they were smoking when they came up with "Toad the Wet Sprocket". Then again ... maybe not.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 19:58:51
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Captain Beefheart was pretty out there.
We played a few places under "Cecilia's Thong" Had a lot of fun thinking up songs (thongs) we could add..
Thing a Thong
The Thong Remains the Same
Immigrant Thong
etc.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 19:59:11
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Butthole Surfers (check 'em out on Wiki).
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 22:48:12
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I always wanted to try some of whatever they were smoking when they came up with "Toad the Wet Sprocket". Then again ... maybe not.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 23:05:57
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There used to be a band called Green Apple Quick Step in the 90's. Can't remember if they were any good or not.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 23:32:01
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Just thought of Mott the Hoople.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/18 23:52:30
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I know "Mott The Hoople" was originally the name of a novel but where I come from "mott" is slang for female genitalia, as is "hoop." So the name has always seemed extra hilarious to me.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/19 00:44:55
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I heard it was about some circus freak.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/19 01:20:35
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When I was a teen, my brother and his band mates were tossing around using the name 'Cerumen Toast' Being 3 years younger than them - [still am], I had to ask what cerumen was: In case anyone doesn't know, here it is: 'Earwax, also known as cerumen, is a yellowish waxy substance secreted in the ear canal of humans and other mammals.' Needless to say, I passed on the 'toast' for the next few breakfasts.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/19 10:00:09
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Death Cab For Cutie, always struck me as unusual.
It was a song by the Bonzo Dog Band ... but I don't think this band could even kiss the boot dust from the Bonzo's! 10CC -- kinda takes the cake on names. But then, their previous incarnation as "Hotlegs' might be even more interesting! Faust -- Kinda misinterpretation of the novel and its themes, but I guess the point is to confuse people! Novalis -- Even though singing about the philosopher's material, somehow it just does not sound ... right! Tanned Leather -- Smooth vocals in an acoustic sound. Socrates -- Worst name for a band ever! Well, I guess one song by Vangelis helps! Aphrodite's Child -- I bet we all know if she had children, and which! Popol Vuh -- Well, at least the music was not scary after the first album or two! Tangerine Dream -- Horrible name, but then even Salvador Dali was not very good at naming things. Should have hired Burroughs ... he at least had "Naked Lunch" and "Steely Dan" and other band names! Premiata Forneria Marconi -- PFM ... forget what it means since it has nothing to do with the band's work itself! How creative! Genesis -- From Genesis to Revelation ... nuff said! Should have been from Genesis to FAME! Will leave behind many of the Canterbury things, because many of them are sexually related and we don't want to shake some ladies' feelings around here, with some obviously incendiary lines or thoughts.
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/19 10:15:07
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I would have thought it would be more of a challenge for Pedro to think of a normal band name
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2016/01/19 10:20:37
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I would have thought it would be more of a challenge for Pedro to think of a normal band name
I like names like "Amon Duul 2" ... because it makes you go look until you find ... nothing, except on one of the words, since the other is too esoteric and Wiki does not have anything of the Turkish legends. Some of the names are downright weird ... like a band named "Mona Lisa" ... after one song about her eyes, what else do you write about? How sexy? Nice stuff, but not great. or you can take "Banco del Muttuo Soccorso" as a very odd name, and find just an incredibly great and well defined band, that you would make a point of missing their albums in the first place. Always thought the name "Carmen" for a rock band, was bad ... since the story about Carmen is such a nasty piece of Spanish History ... but I guess the romantic elements in it are better for a band name than otherwise ... specially when the band is from LA, not Spain ... how's that for double weirdness! Another one: Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoios -- totally defies description, as does the album itself! The stuff that is weird to me, is when people try to intellectualize the names of "Led Zeppelin", or bands, whose names are just "cleverisms".
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/19 10:27:31
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I remember hearing of a band named, "Front of Truck." I always liked that.
In high school, I was (briefly) in a band called Frontline (not weird at all), but our logo underlined the band name so that the F looked like an E. We became known as Erontline. Fortunately, that band didn't last long enough for it to matter.
I used to know a guy who played keys in Juggular, a jazz-fusion band which featured a juggler. (I kid you not.)
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2016/01/19 10:30:21
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I used to know a guy who played keys in Juggular, a jazz-fusion band which featured a juggler. (I kid you not.)
Roy Harper called his duets with Jimmy Page ... Jugula +4 ... we have no idea who the 4 are, but we figure that they were so drunk and stoned, that the other 2 were the same person!
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Re: Oddest band name?
2016/01/19 11:27:35
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The Beatles.
Bad spelling aside why call a group of humans a disgusting insect name? In the early 60s I remember some radio DJ introducing a song by the Beatles, at that time a relatively new group (to the US), then yelling Step On Them, Step On Them!! It was kind of funny back then. Wouldn't work nowadays.
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