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Best band names!
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Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:56 amby neanderpaul
As opposed to my last thread "worst band names" here is the best of them. Post away!
Big Time:
Led Zeppelin
Wolfmother
The dead milkmen
the Pixies
Janes Addiction (Hate the band. Love the name)
Metallica
Guided by Voices
Thinking Fellars union local 282
They might be Giants
The violent femmes
The Kinks
Small time:
ceiling fan
The Pleased (sorry it's mine and I'm proud)
fair well
Jim-n-I
Alchemy
Laws Rushing (actually a guys name!)
Branded Sons
Fallout
The Make (my favorite band name EVER! Local punk band Roanoke late 80's - early nineties)
Posted:
Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:25 pmby Irish Anthony
here are the ones i like and the reason behind them..
1.thinlizzy......................................... after a cartoon strip
2.radiohead.......................................a talking heads song
3.U2.................................................after the u2 spy plane
4.the kaiser chiefs.............................an african football(soccer) team
5.david bowie...........real name david jones named after american hero
6.nirvana..................................as in the trance like state of nirvana
7.the blind boys of alabama.................the name says it all
8.fugazi....slang name used by us troops in the nam war for crazy/insaine
9.lynyrd skynyrd.............................after there old school teacher
10.abba..........................................all the first letters of there names
Posted:
Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:22 pmby jimmydanger
UB40 - unemployment form in England
ZZ Top - rolling papers
Jethro Tull - inventor of the flush toilet
Uriah Heep - a character in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield
Girl Scout Hand Grenade - local female led death metal
Red Light Chamber Choir - local arty rock ala Floyd/Radiohead
Posted:
Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:30 pmby neanderpaul
I really do like hearing the reasons behind the names. Cool!
Posted:
Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:43 pmby scarletrust
I read that Led Zeppelin was so named because Keith Moon said the project would go over like a lead balloon. Is that true?
Posted:
Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:17 amby neanderpaul
^ I heard the same thing. Actually I heard he said like a led zeppelin. I think it was on VH1 that I heard it.
Posted:
Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:32 pmby Gorgrotesque
Gorgasm is a good one. It makes me happeh.
Posted:
Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:21 pmby neanderpaul
Gorgrotesque wrote:Gorgasm is a good one. It makes me happeh.
That's hilarious, makes me think of GWAR.... "but you can call me the salaminizer! "
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Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:54 pmby scarletrust
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
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Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:07 amby HowlinJ
The Punishment of Luxury
The Weasels
Root Boy Slim And The Sex Change Band
The Pretenders
Tentative Relationship (one of mine)
P.S. (note to Irish Anthony)
Lyric from Allen Sherman's 1963 hit "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah",
"You remember LENNARD SKINNARD? He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner" (old schoolteacher indeed! who they trying to kid?)
Deftones, Nirvana
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Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:49 amby Felicity Chicane
Deftones, Nirvana
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Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:05 amby The BuckVillians
Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters
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Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:58 pmby HowlinJ
Buck,
Looks like your fixin to put together an awesome rockin' bluegrass band! Best of luck.
(May I suggest that you start feeding your mandolin player more, I don't believe they make mikestands tall enough to fit him). ...later
Howlin'
Black Mariah
Posted:
Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:30 pmby raycparrish
Small time band name I like....
Black Mariah........I guess in the UK its a paddy wagon. In the U.S. a hundred years ago they were "black" horse drawn hearses. Anybody have another definition?
www.tucsonbassplayer.blogspot.com
Posted:
Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:47 pmby gbheil
I Thought Sir Thomas Crapper invented the flush toilet?
I always thought the name AREOSMITH sounded cool.
I like the old tunes they did. like Gotta move it out cause the citys movin in. What was the name of that one?