Most bizzare band names of all time.

[Jazzmoose]

I'm shocked that the fairly well known Toad the Wet Sprocket hasn't been mentioned. Unless, of course, you guys think that's normal...

[ralphie_boy]

I'm shocked that the fairly well known Toad the Wet Sprocket hasn't been mentioned.  Unless, of course, you guys think that's normal...

Too conventional! How 'ya gonna compare that to Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles???.

Edited April 5, 2004 by ralphie_boy

[ralphie_boy]

A few others:

Better living through Chemistry

Sonic Jihad

[Jim Alfredson]

There's a guy I know in a band based in Ann Arbor called "The Fags". Their logo is a cigarette...

[Brandon Burke]

There's a guy I know in a band based in Ann Arbor called "The Fags". Their logo is a cigarette...

There's also a band (from Ohio, I believe) called the Giggling Faggots. They get name-checked in the Guided By Voices song "Hit".

[chris olivarez]

1910 Fruitgum Company

Lothar and the Hand People

Jodie Foster's Army

Eddie From Ohio

[Brandon Burke]

Jodie Foster's Army

Sandy Duncan's Eye

[LAL]

Good for laughs (When People Were Shorter..... has already been listed but merits a repeat mention)

* You've Got Fetus on Your Breath

* The Well I'm Sure I Left It There Yesterday Band

* When People Were Shorter and Lived By the Water

* Traveling Dingleberries

* Screaming Moist Accountants

* Pineapples From the Dawn of Time

* Pissed Off Postmen

* The Original Piece of Shit Band

* Me First and the Gimmee Gimmees

* Global Disrobal

* Ditchweed Danny and the Bad Bong Water Band

* Colon On The Cob

* Aggressive Crotch Display

[Jazzmoose]

* Ditchweed Danny and the Bad Bong Water Band

Sounds like our dorm room Freshman year...

[Hardbopjazz]

There's a new rock band called "The Motherfuckers" Their one album is called "We're Fucked".

[bertrand]

I propose the following band name:

'Dick Armey and his army of dicks'.

Or, alternatively, just 'Dick Army' (e omitted).

Bertrand.

[clifford_thornton]

I always thought The No-Neck Blues Band had a nice ring to it.

Jackie*O Motherfucker are a great band. They sound like early Amon Duul (not that I was there to see Amon Duul in 1969 anyway).

I second the nomination of My Dad is Dead, or MDID for short. "The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get" is a classic record.

[JSngry]

Dick Wellstood

Not a band, but still...

[Jazzdog]

I'm shocked that the fairly well known Toad the Wet Sprocket hasn't been mentioned. Unless, of course, you guys think that's normal...

Yeah, but they got that from a Monty Python sketch thats pretty damn funny. I'll try to dig up a transcription of it later. Tons of great band names herein.

[Chrome]

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

MC 900 Ft. Jesus

Del tha Funkee Homosapien

The Crucifucks

Edited April 6, 2004 by Chrome

[Jazzmoose]

Okay, this name isn't really that bizzare, but one that I'd forgotten about that just popped into my head from some found memory...anyone remember Destroy All Monsters?

[Jazzdog]

Yeah, but they got that from a Monty Python sketch thats pretty damn funny. I'll try to dig up a transcription of it later. Tons of great band names herein.

...and HERE it is!

Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Toad the Wet Sprocket has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of Finland. Flamboyant ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle. "Fell off the back of a motorcyclist, most likely," quipped ace drummer Jumbo McCluney upon hearing of the accident. Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland.

Divorced after only eight minutes, popular television singing star, Charisma, changed her mind on the way out of the registry office, when she realized she had married one of the Donkeys by mistake. The evening before in LA's glittering nightspot, the Abitoir, she had proposed to drummer Reg Abbot of Blind Drunk, after a whirlwind romance and a knee-trembler. But when the hangover lifted, it was Keith Sly of the Donkeys who was on her arm in the registry office. Keith, who was too ill to notice, remained unsteady during the short ceremony and when asked to exchange vows, began to recite names and addresses of people who also used the stuff. Charisma spotted the error as Keith was being carried into the wedding ambulance and became emotionally upset. However, the mistake was soon cleared up, and she stayed long enough to consummate their divorce.

Dead Monkeys are to split up again, according to their manager, Lefty Goldblatt. They've been in the business now ten years, nine as other groups. Originally the Dead Salmon, they became for a while, Trout. Then Fried Trout, then Poached Trout In A White Wine Sauce, and finally, Herring. Splitting up for nearly a month, the re-formed as Red Herring, which became Dead Herring for a while, and then Dead Loss, which reflected the current state of the group. Splitting up again to get their heads together, they reformed a fortnight later as Heads Together, a tight little name which lasted them through a difficult period when their drummer was suspected of suffering from death. It turned out to be only a rumor and they became Dead Together, then Dead Gear, which lead to Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, and the inevitable split up. After nearly ten days, they reformed again as Sole Manier, then Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Baith, the Places, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon In A White Wine Sauce, Salmon-monia, and Helen Shapiro. This last name, their favorite, had to be dropped following an injunction and they split up again. When they reformed after a recordbreaking two days, they ditched the fishy references and became Dead Monkeys, a name which they stuck with for the rest of their careers. Now, a fortnight later, they've finally split up.

[Jazzmoose]

Holy shit!

[Jazzdog]

and more recently...Toad the Wet Sprocket has also split up. That story isn't as funny though!

[Brandon Burke]

Thought of a couple more today. First of all, I was reminded of a late-80's D.C. band called Bells of.... That one always struck me as odd.

Now..... Get this one. Some friends of friends used to be in a band from Omaha called Vida Blue. Sure, it's a cool baseball reference and all but nothing to write home about, right? Well, a few years ago one of the dudes in Phish approached them and said that he wanted to use the name Vida Blue for a side project. He offered to buy the name from them outright for $10,000. They accepted and subsequently changed their name to Ten Grand. Now that's funny.

[Brandon Burke]

Oh yea, my buddy Mark put together a band for just one show called The Clown Clown. I've always really loved that one. Subtle but still strangely unsettling.

[J Larsen]

There was a band from the 1950s (I kid you not) called Clitoris that Thought it was a Puppy.

But you don't have to take my word for it:

AMG Link

[J Larsen]

While I'm at it, there's a horrible indie group out called Volcano, I'm Still Excited, and there's another band called Hal's Whoops I'm an Indian Writer. There's another called What is it Like to be a Bat? I can't think of anything to top the clit/puppy group, though.

[Noj]

The Conservatives

Chamber Of Commerce

Staff And Management

Triplet Twins

Unclaimed Freight

[J Larsen]

There's a local group called Dick van Dick. It made me laugh the first time I heard it.