Bands And Albums.

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)

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

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

I really do like hearing the reasons behind the names. Cool!

I read that Led Zeppelin was so named because Keith Moon said the project would go over like a lead balloon. Is that true?

^ I heard the same thing. Actually I heard he said like a led zeppelin. I think it was on VH1 that I heard it.

Gorgasm is a good one. It makes me happeh.

Gorgasm is a good one. It makes me happeh.

That's hilarious, makes me think of GWAR.... "but you can call me the salaminizer! "

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

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

Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters

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'

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?

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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?