Great Band names
Posted by David on 28 February 2008 - 8:35pm.
Rob Fitzpatrick has covered terrible band names elsewhere, so what about band names that work...you read the name out loud and think "That's a winner"
Here's a few I like:
- Sonic Youth
- Teenage Fanclub
- Nightmares on Wax
- Broken Social Scene
- Daft Punk
- Hot Chip
Remember its not about whether you like the music, its on the name only....
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One I've mentioned before
I think on other threads - a Japanese band called 'Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her'.
Xtc
Named after an Xtc track. Good taste.
Oops...........
Just seen that someone else has already made this point. Sorry for the repeat.
Here's a few, this could go on for ever!
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
The Dandy Warhols
Mercury Rev
Bros
Yes
Despite what you might think of their music, a great band name. And given that they were formed in '68/9 were they the first single name band (or was it Free) ?
Them
There was no messing with unnecessary definite articles for Van.
Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
is, if I'm not mistaken, the title of a song on XTC's 'The Big Express' album.
A quick Google
proves you right Eddie. Thanks for the info!
Actually...
XTC is pretty darn perfect isn't it?
Pubic Enemy
The Clash
The Damned
Siouxie & the Banshees
The Bad Seeds
etc.
"Pubic Enemy"
Should they not be in Rob's post?
D'oh!
Probably should have been in the "Worst Porn Film Names" thread.
Said it before, but
The Band.
It does what it says on the tin .
Mad...
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
The Flaming Groovies
Roxy Music
...bad...
The Sex Pistols
The Prodigy
...and dangerous to know.
The Butthole Surfers.
Copycats
It ires me when everyone has to jump on the bandwagon at once. That's why I have a soft spot for Editors (and one not very good CD) for espousing the The before their title, when it was otherwise compulsory.
A good game from the olden days was to deliberately annoy fans of the underground (remember that genre?) scene, by adding a The to their monicker, and adding an s at the end, much as, no doubt, my mother probably did, out of innocence in her case. The Pink Floyds and the Jethro Tulls were good.
Across the pond, I never knew whether it was The Jefferson Airplane or just Jefferson Airplane, and while it was definitely the Dead,in abbreviation, was it Grateful Dead or The Grateful Dead.
(Does it matter?)
etc
The Blue Nile
Channel Light Vessel
Deep Puddle Dynamics
Future Sound of London
Giant Sand
Portishead
Propaganda
Rival Schools
Saint Etienne
Twinemen
Wheat
Young Marble Giants
More great band names
Vulpes Vulpes, Archie Valparaiso, (the) Backwards 7, Adze Thuggery, Oeufman, Twangothan; o the list is endless
Off-topic
I once spent New Year's Eve in Valparaiso. There were loads of fireworks, and at midnight we ate pineapple ice cream.
^^^hopeless romantic^^^
you can't help yourself, can you Fraze?
A night in Valparaiso....
Many people pay good money for that experience, eh, Archie?
Indeed
Me, usually.
What's in a name?
I'm sorry, Hot Chip is stupid and annoying, the Dandy Warhols is arch and annoying and The Butthole Surfers is just disgusting (and annoying). I actually can't get beyond certain band's names to the point of sale, even if the music's acceptable. Examples include Gomez, Grandaddy (sp?), Travis, Elbow and, actually, most one-word combos, if the one word doesn't say anything about the music. But names that just beg investigation include: The Mars Volta, Secret Machines, The Church, The Blue Nile, Band of Horses (they're not really horses) and Slayer. Go easy on the Slayer.
No Ifs,no Butts
Surely that's the point of the name. If you've spent any time in the company of say Rembrandt Pussy Horse you'll find it both disgusting and annoying, but also scary and exhilarating.
They make Slayer sound like girls.
And just what is a Mars Volta?
Few good names
Bands were slagged off for their names elsewhere (especially new bands)but really there aren't many really good bad names I know of. One that stands out for me is Dinosaur Jr. That seems particularly inspired.
Great names and beyond
Gay Bikers on Acid.........does exactly what it says on the tin
Broken Social Scene
Something Happens......it never did
The Flamin´Groovies
God Speed You Black Emperor
T-Rex
Booker T and the MGs
The Moe Sislak Experience featuring Homer
sorry to be a pain...
but it was Gaye Bykers on Acid
What about Snarling Rictus?
My other favourite was the Snivelling Shits.
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
The "Sensational" makes it sensational.
Saw a band advertised the other day called "We Smoke Fags" - how does this register on the collective radar?
And, sir, they were......
......but I am a little uncertain how it holds with Alex in the ground all these years. I remember they kept going for a while as "SAHB without Alex", but I think they have refurbed and are on tour, perhaps as we blog, without the without soubriquet.
Bit like Taggart, really.