band names I really, really like:

[Rabrrrrrr]

Cradle of Filth
Garbage
Tank
GWAR

And I'm so out of the loop, I can't think of any more, but a few weeks ago when I was with my niece and nephew, they played some music for me from bands with names that I translated for them, since my niece nad nephew aren't the swiftest people in the world and had no idea what the latin/hebrew/greek roots of some of the band names were.

Wish to hell I could remember - one of them I was really, really impressed with.

Fuck.

[Zuni]

1. I have seen GWAR in concert

it was a riot. I was drenched in various bodily fluids emenated by the band when I left

[Lannes]

2. "Afghanistan Banana Stand "

Its from a line from the movie "The Hot Rock". When I was younger and thinking of starting a band and I was going to use that name but these guys took it.

[graywarrior]

3. Squirrel Nut Zippers

[Richardo]

51. "Hell"

In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there’ll be hell to pay

People listen attentively
I mean about future calamity
I used to think the idea was obsolete
Until I heard the old man stamping his feet.

This is a place where eternally
Fire is applied to the body
Teeth are extruded and bones are ground
Then baked into cakes which are passed around.

Beauty, talent, fame, money, refinement
Top skill and brain
But all the things you try to hide
Will be revealed on the other side.

Now the d and the a and the m
And the n and the a
And the t and the i-o-n
Lose your face, lose your name
Then get fitted for a suit of flame

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. How about NKOTB?

[datasuspect]

5. "jesus blood cult"

i always wanted that for a band name

or effexor (complete with umlauts and visualized with some kind of lightning bolt font)

[In_The_Wind]

6. now I know I'm old

I have no idea who you're talking about ... but I was listening to a band playing Santana's Black Magic Woman today :shrug:

[Zuni]

8. actually it is a Fleetwood Mac song

Black Magic Woman was written and originally performed by Peter Green (possibly the greatest white blues player ever) and the original Fleetwood Mac, a british Blues Band. Later on, two members of the original band---Mick Fleetwood and John McVie with a few others moved to the US and hooked up with Stevie Nicks and Linsey Buckingham and recorded pop records

[In_The_Wind]

12. I give up ~ you're right about this one Santana only recorded it

I got a Black Magic Woman.
I got a Black Magic Woman.
Yes, I got a Black Magic Woman,
She's got me so blind I can't see;
But she's a Black Magic Woman and
she's trying to make a devil out of me.

Don't turn your back on me, baby.
Don't turn your back on me, baby.
Yes, don't turn your back on me, baby,
Don't mess around with your tricks;
Don't turn your back on me, baby,
'cause you might just wake up my magic sticks.

[Zuni]

23. my old band used to play this

but Peter Green style, with a rideout jam on Otis Rush's "Keep on Loving Me"

a bad ass song. I have many versions, but there is a live version on one CD with a twin guitar jam with green and danny kirwan tearing it up that is mind boggling

[In_The_Wind]

37. thanks Zuni ... it's such an awesome song

I love the music ... forget about the words ... it's just a great sound

[mr blur]

39. Yes! Let's hear it for Peter Green!

You're absolutely right in your assessment. For tone, touch and passion, he's unbeatable. Clapton? Paah! Saw PG a couple of years ago and he still has the power to crease you up inside.

[enigmatic]

7. I used to be in a punk band called Gay Cowboys In Bondage...

then we changed our names to Yom Kippour and The Circumcisions....and no, I'm not joking.

[Zuni]

9. That is awesome

My favorite band names that I have been in were Uncle Salty and the Cadillacs and Jacknifed Sugar truck---a simpsons reference.

[enigmatic]

10. LOL!

Both great names; Gay Cowboys was named after our drummer, who came to us one day despondent because he was in his Dad's tool box and founf a video called "Gay Cowboys In Bondage"! After we laughed for about 2 hours we decided to change our names to that and write a Punk Opera around the storyline of our drummer's sad stale. I think we performed it 3 times...

[Zuni]

11. What are you playing tonight on your radio show?

[enigmatic]

17. I added some new stuff to the rotation...

Here's the new stuff; I'm adding some opera this week as well:

1. Beatles - Helter Skelter
2. Bill Hicks - Dinosaurs
3. Bill Hicks - The Elephant Is Dead
4. Allen Ginsberg - America
5. Neil_Young - Philadelphia
6. Pearl Jam & Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
7. Clannad - In A Lifetime
8. Passengers - Miss_Sarajevo
9. Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher (acoustic)
10. Built To Spill - The Plan
11. Bruce Cockburn - Call It Democracy
12. The Jam - In The City
13. The Who - Armenia City In The Sky
14. The Doors - When The Music's Over
15. Stompin' Tom Connors - Bud The Spud
16. Stompin' Tom Connors - Sudbury Saturday Night

[datasuspect]

19. throw in some okko maybe?

early 70s, dutch funky sitar with moog/clavinette, funky bass. instrumental heavily beatles influenced.

has an album entitled "sitar and electronics."

weird aside: there's a station in chicago that plays old progressive/glam/tyrannosaurus rex (acoustic, pre-electric warrior days) in the 2 to about 4 am timeslot.

the first time i ever heard tyrannosaurus rex, hawkwind, and steeleye span on the radio.

maybe they did that a lot 30 years ago, but it was pretty cool

[enigmatic]

21. Whoa, that sounds cool...

You got it; I'll look for it when I go Downtown tomorrow. I've played Hawkwind in the past...

[Zuni]

24. now that is a very varied mix

I am impressed :thumbsup:

[enigmatic]

25. Thanks bro

Not as varied as I useually do, which is why I'm adding some opera and speed metal shortly:)

[Lilith Velkor]

61. Ever hear of Gaye Bikers on Acid?

Never saw them, just posters all over Chicago back in the late 80s.

[liss681]

64. big gay al and the chickenfuckers....

my husband wanted to start a band just so they could call themselves that. the singer would wear a big pink cowboy hat and the rest of the band would wear chicken costumes... but al refused to put on the hat :shrug:

[RandomKoolzip]

13. There was a great band in Nashville called the New Faggot Cunts.

Seriously. They were great, but their name was so offensive they couldn't get it printed in the Scene or any other paper.....

So they changed their name. Now they're called Tan As Fuck.


On edit: hey mods: if you think this post is offensive, go ahead and delete it. No skin off my back.

[WCGreen]

14. Uncle Fucker....

I saw that name on a list of bands playing at a bowling alley in Lakewood Ohio last weekend.....

Uncle Fucker

[enigmatic]

27. Lakewood?

Was it at Hilliard Lanes or Mahall's by chance?

[WCGreen]

28. Mahalls....

The place I learned how to play pin ball

[enigmatic]

29. Oh man....

I lived there when I was a kid; that and Madison Park across the street! Mahall's is playing bands now; wow...

[WCGreen]

30. Yea, after about ten o'clock at night...

We were gonna go but it ws our anivesary and I don't think Mrs. WCGree would have been happy spending our aniversary watching a band called Uncle Fucker...

I can sense those kind of thing,,,,,

[enigmatic]

31. LOL!

I can see the romantic sparks flying after seeing "Uncle Fucker" in action...

[WCGreen]

32. Sparks, yes, romanitc no

[asthmaticeog]

43. MAHALLS!

That place kicks high ass.

[Omphaloskepsis]

15. Artless Motives is my fave..

And I know damn near every one in this link...
http://www.answers.com/topic/music-of-oregon

Jawbreaker, Green Day, AFI, Defiance, UK Subs, Mukilteo Fairies (now known as ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead), FYP.

I only know a few from Jawbreaker, A.F.I (total pricks) and FYP. I used to work at Icky's Teahouse.. And I was a roadie for SED..

My best friend was Bryan Fields..

[TroubleMan]

16. I think Coprophagia would be a good name for a group

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophagia

[Floogeldy]

18. Garbage Rocks!

I love "The World Is Not Enough."

B-)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

20. I was in a band in high school called "Rocco and the Manifolds"

[giant_robot]

22. About six or seven years ago...

...there was a local band here in Buffalo called "Ominous Sea Pods". I just love the 1950s B-grade horror movie images that name conjurs up! (in my mind, at least!)

[frylock]

26. two former bands from the san diego scene..

a jazz/funk outfit named "The Price of Dope" (and they were dope), and an all-grrrl band called "Room Full of Nipsey", named after Nipsey Russell, of course.

[xmas74]

33. I used to party w/ a band called Vertical Smile

(not too hard to think about what they were referring to).

[BulletproofLandshark]

34. 3 Inches Of Blood

Band names don't get much more metal than that.

[tigereye]

60. I was going to say

why do these metal bands have such an "obsession with gore".... and then I realized that would be an excellent band name... for that kind of band. ( or a very postmodernist one...) ;)

[laststeamtrain]

35. Death Row Jethro

Local band from Portland, OR. Disappeared really quickly, but I loved that name.

[khashka]

36. Current 93

Obscure enough that no one ever gets the meaning.

Thelemic Khash.

[laststeamtrain]

40. It's real Typhonian N/T

[khashka]

46. You Beast!

Khash.

[laststeamtrain]

57. Nods and winks..

Got Ligotti?

[judaspriestess]

38. Napalm Death!!

Revolting Cocks
American Headcharge

[ghostsofgiants]

41. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

[bicentennial_baby]

50. beat me to it...

:yourock:

[ghostsofgiants]

52. You mean THEY rock

[bicentennial_baby]

54. Well, yes

but you also rock for thinking of it ;)

[bbernardini]

42. Buster Hyman and His Swingin' Organ

[swag]

44. The Buttery Lords

[RPM]

45. The Oozing Wounds

my personal fav...

[shugh514]

47. Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

http://bsojc.com/

[trebizond]

48. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Revolting Cocks, Crucifucks.

All appeal to my juvenile sense of humour.

[Initech]

58. Dont forget Anal ****!

Should be on any list of inappropriate band names!

[trebizond]

63. D'oh! How could I forget the mighty...ahem..."AC"

[rbnyc]

49. Bourbon and Clorox

They should have made it big.

Sigh.

[name not needed]

53. Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Rod Stewart and the Whiskey Sluts - great name, but one of the worst bands I have ever seen. Awful live, the music was even worse.

[WeRQ4U]

55. Cannibal Corpse

With such selections as:

"Fucked with a knife"
"Force fed broken glass"
"Hammer Smashed Face" and the crowd favorite...

"Entrails ripped from a virgin's cunt" (I shit you not, that is the name of a song)

So wrong.

[peekaloo]

56. Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel and Throbbing Gristle.

[seemunkee]

59. Al Roker Death Cult Wind Ensemble or

Vincent Price's Orphan Powered Death Machine

[Lilith Velkor]

62. Dayglo Abortions!

[Initech]

65. I like the band name Children Of Bodom

I mean come on, any band that names themselves after a mass murder...

[dhinojosa]

66. Jay Walker and the Pedestrians

Real band too.