Is this The Cure?
I have several friends who possess an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical. I, on the other hand, have an uncanny ability to fail to correctly identify even my favorite bands and songs.
But not tonight.
Tonight, I was on. I successfully identified songs by Jon Secada, Jewel, Billy Joel, Violent Femmes, and Butthole Surfers. Never liked that last band name. Call me crazy. Now THERE’S a good band name.
Which reminds me that I’ve started a collection of humorous band names, only I keep forgetting to write them down so I don’t remember any of them. I’m pretty sure one was ‘Rotational Force.’ I must’ve been watching Discovery Channel.
So I charge each of you with the responsibility of submitting your best humorous band name. My collection needs a jump start.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Niall came up with a great one the other day when he was talking about it being human nature to possess the ability to be a huge jerk, but that not everyone taps into that ability all the time. I believe the thing he claimed everyone had was “Douche Tendencies” and I completely agree. Not only is it a true statement, it’s also a hilarious band name.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
In honor of Cory and his latest blog post, I also propose “Suckness”
October 16th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
I saw a new Wii game called “Balls of Fury.” Would also make a good band name.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
My favorite band name is “Better than Ezra’. Originally they were going to be called “Ezra” but found out a band by that name already existed. So “Better than Ezra” was born.
My submissions:
Big In Japan
Taste Like Chicken
Keith Richards Liver
October 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Wow, just the 80s alone makes this far too easy, but here are some that come to mind:
Ween
The Silver Jews
Wang Chung
Rainbow
Murray Head
No Dobut
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10,000 Maniacs
Hootie…
Oysterhead
Colonel Les Claypools Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel
Colonel Claypool’s Bucket Of Bernie Brains
Beanpole
Foetus
Bob Cock and His Yellow Sock
Weird Al
Twisted Sister
Men at Work
Men Without Hats
Iron Butterfly
Milli Vanilli
Chaka Kahn
Soft Cell
Psychedelic Furs
Flock of Seagulls (No such thing as a Seagull; no taxonomic meaning)
Kajagoogoo
Mr Meat Loaf
Atom and His Package
This is going on WAY too far… especially if I were to add in some of the crazy prog / jam or 60s psychedelic bands i listen to on occasion
What is harder is to find are funny / odd song names and since I mentioned Atom:
“People in this Computer Lab Should Shut the Hell Up” (one of my all time faves)
“Sting cannot possibly be the same guy that was in police”
“(Lord It’s Hard to Be Happy When You’re Not) Using the Metric System”
“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lib”
“I Am Downright Amazed at What I Can Destroy With Just a Hammer”
October 16th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
When I saw the sheer size of the list Angelo posted, the exclamation that came out was “Holy Shiester!” which makes a great band name.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
2 + 2 = 5 , this is pointless, I am the pope, hippopotamus dentist, Sacking Rome (in honor of all of those other band names that involve some ancient city being destroyed in some way) I lick power outlets, punching kittens, finger+socket=fun, recycled tissues, Nose insert crayon
October 17th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
i want to apologize for my first comment. it was not niall who came up with the name Douche Tendencies. it was Brian Lofing. odd that i associated niall with douche tendencies. or is it?
October 19th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I think Angelo covered it all.
jason
October 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
Accidental Genius. that was one of my other ones.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Zombie Shuffle. Inspired by one of my coworkers.