Just thought of Mott the Hoople.

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. 

I heard it was about some circus freak.

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. 

michaelhanson
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.
 
 

I would have thought it would be more of a challenge for Pedro to think of a normal band name 

sharke
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".
 

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.)

UbiquitousBubba
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!

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.