Oddest band names.

[arbusto_baboso]

Okay, list your favorite odd, funny, strange or disturbing band names.

Here are my contributions (And they're all real):

Butthole Surfers

The Hymen Blasters

The Revolting Cocks

Exploding Broomhandles

Gay Bikers on Acid

[flvegan]

1. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

I love The Revolting Cocks, too, btw.

[Reciprocity]

2. Mott the Hoople

[hotforteacher]

3. Sweaty Nipples

Brad
Southern Culture on the Skids
Alice Donut

[bicentennial_baby]

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

:D

[SarahB]

27. My ex-husband loves that band.

No other comment, just a lot of people don't know them. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

61. I also love that band.

[ForrestGump]

5. Exploding Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos

and

Exploding Budgies.

Two explosive bands from the '80s.

[SaveElmer]

6. The The...nt

[KamaAina]

7. Toad The Wet Sprocket

???????

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Meat Puppets, Naked Raygun, The Sound of Animals Fighting, These Arms Are Snakes

This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, TV On The Radio, You Say Party! We Say Die!

[Omphaloskepsis]

48. Did you ever hear about this...

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2006/03/03/20060303-A1-06.html

Kinda funny, and amazingly sad.

[ghostsofgiants]

49. Hahaha, yeah, I remember that.

Ridiculous.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Armageddon Dildos; Auto Body Experience; Throbbing Gristle

[GOPisEvil]

10. Fluffers Union

[Seashell Eyes]

11. Cherry Poppin' Daddies

[DBoon]

23. Squirrel Nut Zippers, Combustible Edison

nt

[ghostsofgiants]

60. Probably one of the creepiest band names out there.

[Seashell Eyes]

64. That's true

:scared:

[BrotherBuzz]

12. Wet Nurse

http://www.bay-area-bands.com/bab00027.htm

[salin]

13. Fat Mattress

as a kid - I was looking for a gift for my older brother. I knew nothing of music - except that rock bands looked grungy - so I chose an album based on looks. No kidding. Got the brother an album from Fat Mattress. (I dont remember ever hearing it - and doubt he ever listened to it either.)

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. Nurse with Wound; Crispy Ambulance

[VLC]

15. I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness

[elshiva]

16. Lesbians on Acid

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. One from the '70s

Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys.

[opiate69]

18. Trailer Park Barbeque

[elshiva]

19. Peanut Butter Conspiracy

Chocolate Watchband

[Gold Metal Flake]

20. Butt Trumpet

[Gold Metal Flake]

21. Scraping Fetus Off The Wheel

[DBoon]

24. I agree!

nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Circle Jerks; Jackofficers; Spanking Bozo

[Canuckistanian]

25. A Toronto band: Cinema Face

They were around in the 70's and 80's.

[volstork]

26. Accidental Goat Sodomy

Taoist Cowboys

[Reciprocity]

28. Blue Oyster Cult

[last_texas_dem]

36. Soft White Underbelly

I think I remember reading that this was the original name of BOC, and that they later played some dates under that name after they had already broken through as BOC.

[mitchum]

45. You are correct; they also played as The Stalk Forrest Group for awhile

[billyoc]

29. REO Speed Dealer

White Trash

[ghostsofgiants]

50. REO Speed Dealer is a great name, haha.

[Book Lover]

30. Reverend Raven and the Chain-Smokin' Altar Boys

[Initech]

31. ? and The Mysterians

[Roon]

32. Violent Femmes

My favorite band.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

34. Opie Hendrix.

Drop Kick Chihuahuas.

Bubble Puppy (one hit wonder from Houston)

Elephant's Memory
(appeared on 2 albums as backing for John and Yoko as Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band).

[Bennyboy]

33. String Cheese Incident and

Leftover Salmon. The thing is they both kick serious ass.

[Stardust]

35. Cowboy Junkies. Dead Kennedys. Jane's Addiction.

BLOODY HOLLIES, Gore Gore Girls, Circle Jerks
:rofl:

[last_texas_dem]

37. Some strange psychedelic-era bandnames

Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band

The Crab Cometh Forth

The Charging Tyrannosaurus of Despair

The Electric Prunes

Isosceles Popsicle

(I've never actually heard (or seen) anything by TCCF or TCTOD, but I remember them from a list of weird psychedelic band names I read. Isosceles Popsicle were from Louisiana I think, and I don't think they ever broke through nationally on any level.)

[last_texas_dem]

38. Oh yeah, I forgot one...

"The Ultimate Spinach"

[Gold Metal Flake]

42. And Billy Gibbon's pre-ZZ Top band "Moving Sidewalks".

[Fire Walk With Me]

39. Gangster Fun; Collapsing New Buildings; Surgikal Penis Klinik

[Left_Winger]

40. Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band

[SoxFan]

41. Ed's Redeeming Qualities

WHo can forget the classic song about getting pegged in the head with a lawn dart?

[Maestro]

43. Meat Beat Manifesto

Great Industrial/Electronica! Jack Dangers rulez!!!!!!!!!!!

[mitchum]

44. Thug Bottom, The Negrosexuals, Jew Bastards

[Bennyboy]

46. Blue Turtle Seduction!

an Amazing band out of Lake Tahoe.

[jobycom]

47. 30 Odd Foot of Grunts

[Reciprocity]

77. Russell Crow's band, right?

[jobycom]

78. Yeah. If I got the name right. I always confuse the plurals. nt

[Maestro]

51. Executive Slacks

80s and early 90s industrial music.

[Fire Walk With Me]

52. MC 900-Foot Jesus; Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo; Dread Zeppelin

[Maestro]

63. MC 900 Foot Jesus

sold me records at VVV Records in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas before he hit it big. I wish he would do more music.

[Omphaloskepsis]

53. Jon Cougar Concentration Camp

[ghostsofgiants]

62. Awesome name.

[PittPoliSci]

71. i liked those guys...

[Fire Walk With Me]

54. Punishment of Luxury; Killing Joke; King Missile; Renaldo and the Loaf

[Fire Walk With Me]

55. Fad Gadget; Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company; Procol Harum

[SoxFan]

56. Cactus World News

[muriel_volestrangler]

57. Bill Harzia and the Malarial Swamp Dogs

Wally Jumblatt and his Blues Militia

[smitty]

58. Tonto's Expanding Headband

The Crucifucks

The Charging Tyrannosaurus of Fear

[smitty]

59. The Dead Kennedys

Fever Tree

H.P.Lovecraft

[Fire Walk With Me]

65. Col. Bruce Hampton (retired) and the Aquarium Rescue Unit; The Fents; Ozric Tentacles

[Reciprocity]

66. Toad the Wet Sprocket biggest hit was "Walk on the Ocean"

[Mad_Dem_X]

67. This one is gross

The Bloody Stools. Known for their lovely tune titled "Give Head or Die."

[Mad_Dem_X]

68. Tequila Mockingbird. n/t

[Reciprocity]

69. Hootie & the Blowfish biggest hit was "Only Wanna Be with You"

[PittPoliSci]

70. exploding shit pinata

excrementory grindfuckers
genghis tron

to name a few...

pretty much any grindcore band has a ridiculous name.

[PittPoliSci]

72. Sunn 0)))

[PittPoliSci]

73. Bathtub Shitter

[Fire Walk With Me]

74. Dayglo Abortions

[susanna]

75. My fave: the Psychedelic Furs. n/t

[Reciprocity]

76. Fine Young Cannibals biggest hits "She Drives Me Crazy" and "Good Thing"

[jmowreader]

79. There was a band in Spokane called Exploding Fifi's

It was a New Wave band with a harpist.

[IntravenousDemilo]

80. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

http://www.trailofdead.com

Also, what the hell is a "Hüsker Dü"?

But a band name I like is Bunchofuckingoofs.

[VenusRising]

81. Screaming Headless Torsos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYgPU-WnmnA

[Pushed To The Left]

82. System Of A Down (one of my favorites)

Blind Melon

Anal Cunt

Dying Fetus

[DarkTirade]

83. If I ever started a band I was going to name it 'Dead Frog'... unfortunately that's already taken.

:(

[Rhythm]

84. I can't believe no one mentioned "Jack Off Jill" !!!

... contemporaries of Marilyn Manson, and occasionally toured with them in the '90s