Best Smart-Ass Band Named After Dead People

[Merrick]

Dead Kennedys


Or

The Dead Milkmen


This is a tough one for me, because I love them both so very much.

Favorite lyrics?

[taterguy]

1. If ya ain't got Mojo Nixon then your record store needs fixin

[deucemagnet]

2. Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that...

...knows what the QUEERS are DOING to OUR SOIL??!!!!

:)

[warrens]

3. Brian Jonestown Massacre

Two entirely different and unrelated sets of dead people in one band name.

[Merrick]

4. I gave my ice cream to a shark, and now I've got nothing to eat!

I don't want to be on the beach,
NO FUN!

[RedStateShame]

5. No amount of neon jazz/Could hide the oozing vibes of death

My dad's a vigilante now
He's bringing home these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV
When Kojak's on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve

This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere-Everywhere

[michreject]

6. Don't beat me up for this one.

Kurt Cobain's wifes band, Hole.

I know, groan.

[Merrick]

9. Are you suggesting they named the band...

for the thing they threw Kurt in? Cuz I think they were around before he died, so technically they weren't named after dead people. Also, I wouldn't consider Hole particularly smart-assed, and certainly they're not anywhere close to even being in the same galaxy as either DK or DM, so I guess that's three reasons 'Hole' is a wrong answer. sorry.

[underpants]

7. Mao Tse Helen

http://sam.hochberg.com/bandname.html

[everythingsxen]

8. Franz Ferdinand?

:shrug: