Weeviliterotica: Band Names

[Weevil]

What are the really great band names? I don't mean the bands you like, or names that are funny but what names out there truly capture the essence of the band?

Here's my list

The Clash
Gin Blossoms
The Velvet Underground
Soundgarden

Any others?

 

[Starblayde]

Red Hot Chilly Peppers
The Pixies
Manic Street Preachers

to name but a few that my aching brain can come up with... perhaps more to follow

 

[MissTaken]

Genesis


I know. This post dates me, but their music really was a Genesis of sorts.

I will go back to my rocking chair now!

 

[Spinaroonie]

Bad Religion (Commenting that some people follow a band around like it's a bad religion)

Propaghandi (Just love that)

Dead Kennedys (how impolite)

 

[Starblayde]

at the mention of religion

Geezers of Nazareth

Moldy Peaches

 

[Weevil]

Bad Religion (Commenting that some people follow a band around like it's a bad religion)

Propaghandi (Just love that)

Dead Kennedys (how impolite)

I agree with the Dead Kennedys. There's something very, very punk about that.

The other two? It doesn't really make me think of their music. Just decent names.

 

[Starblayde]

Just four words

Rage. Against. The. Machine


'nuff said

 

[Jimi]

Doug & The Slugs
Led Zeppelin
The Delaware Destroyers
Tragically Hip
Iron Butterfly
Sex Pistols

Dead Kennedys - a 17 year-old family friend thinks it's bizarre that an old fart like me thinks that they are cool ...

But it has to be the best song title/lyric in punk history

 

[Mellon Collie]

Propaghandi (Just love that)

Heh, I love them and I second that. I love Butthole Surfers, what a crazy name. I think Flogging Molly is a kick ass name for a band also. And Garbage too, what a great name - but I want to make sweet love to Shirley so I may possibly be biased.

 

[Starblayde]

but I want to make sweet love to Shirley so I may possibly be biased.

Don't we all?

 

[Mellon Collie]

Yeah but me first.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

The Radiators--hot New Orleans funk

The Fugs--old '60s east village porno-hippie-poet band led by the one and only Ed Sanders

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

and ...

The Band

 

[alexandraaah]

Husker Du

 

[Starblayde]

Yeah but me first.

OK, I'll watch. Just so i know you're not taking too long by going before me

Oh yeah... Fun Lovin' Criminals and My Vitriol

 

[GreenEyedGirl]

The One Hand Band - local punk band; they are rude, loud and funny.
Foo Fighters
The Trash Can Sinatras
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
and
Spearing Brittany - another local punk band that opens and closes their show with a "cover" of a Brittany Spears song. Nothing like seeing 4 punkers screaming "Oops I did it again" while thrashing!

 

[Mellon Collie]

Spearing Brittany

That was a T-shirt here years ago and it still makes me smile.

Edited to add:

Edna's Goldfish
Less Than Jake
Rancid
Living End
Smashing Pumpkins

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Ebee Jeebee.

How about uncle nick

THE Bad Seeds

Radiohead

 

[Weevil]

Ebee Jeebee.

You know, chef, when Lav comes up with weird variations on my name it's kind of funny.

Like the girl in college who I'd flirt with and called me Big Weevs.

When you do it, it's kinda creepy.

Like that guy in college who called me Big Weevs.

 

[tortoise]

• Godspeed You Black Emperor
• Yo La Tengo (my favorite band; it's what a beisbol outfielder calls out when he has a bead on a fly ball)
• Drowning, Not Waving
• Black Tape for a Blue Girl
• Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
• Godflesh
• the The
• Trashcan Sinatras
• Boiled in Lead
• 3 Mustaphas 3
• Miranda Sex Garden
• O Yuki Conjugate
• Tortoise