Best Band Names?

[hmxhenry]

I've got a short list of favorite band names, but they all tend to be longer nonsensical names. Case in point, The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza.

What are your favorite band names, and why? I love The Ramones as a band names because it created this weird gang image when they all took Ramone as their last name, but it also paid homage to their pop rock roots (Paul McCartney occasionally used Paul Ramon as an alias when staying at hotels to avoid fans).

Your favorite band names don't even have to be your favorite bands. They don't have to be big bands either, they could be a local group, some bar band you saw once, or a band you started with your friends. Heck, it could even be your Rock Band band. You just have to like the name. Let me hear 'em!

[Weirdsandwich]

there's
John Cougar Concentration Camp
His Hero Is Gone
Confederate *** (It's a pro *** band with tons of sarcasm)
Guyana Punch Line
Infest, to the point and brutal like they were
Union of Uranus

some bands from the 90's that i grew up to

[Maelphaedor]

Five Finger Death Punch
Killswitch Engage

They both kinda make you scratch your head and wonder what the hell spawned the conversation that brainstormed up those names. Like from the Some Kind of Monster movie, when they 1st hit upon the phrase "some kind of monster", you knew it was getting used somewhere, it just resonated too well at the moment.

[CEDRICtheFOETUS]

Porno For Pyro's
Daisy Chainsaw
No Use For A Name
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

[a21schizoidman]

Pink Floyd - named after two blues musicians (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council)
INXS
Supertramp
Jayson & the Scorchers
Dillinger Escape Plan
Sly & the Family Stone
X
Bad Company
Mott the Hoople
Television
Talking Heads
? & the Mysterians
Booker T and the MGs

[OldFogey]

XTC (before the internet days -- abbreviations hit rock 'n' roll)
Cream (a little pretentious but very apt)
Jimi Hendrix Experience (is there a more descriptive name?)
The Who (so many great plays on the name possible)
INXS (altho' I always thought it should just have been NXS)
Buffalo Springfield (who knew or knows what it meant, just sounded great)
Quicksilver Messenger Service

I tend not to go for silly names, altho' I was once in a band called "Pope Paul's Ragtime Rhythm Band" I can't take credit for the name, tho'.

[a21schizoidman]

Paul Revere and the Raiders
The MC5
Animals
Fine Young Cannibals
Beatles (beetle is the bug, Beat-le)
King Crimson
The B-Sharps!!!!

[OldFogey]

Pink Floyd - named after two blues musicians (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council)
INXS
Supertramp
Jayson & the Scorchers
Dillinger Escape Plan
Sly & the Family Stone
X
Bad Company
Mott the Hoople
Television
Talking Heads
? & the Mysterians
Booker T and the MGs

Good call on ?.

Looks like we both hit the send mark on INXS about the same time -- you beat me by a hair!

[a21schizoidman]

how about Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow?
good name for a heavy metal band

and another good one is Uriah Heep

The Nice

Atomic Rooster

Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Chicago (simple name, I like)

[Sayburr]

OH....

Butthole Surfers - What can I say... very crude name.

Pigmy Love Circus - http://www.pigmylovecircus.com/ - Punk rock... no, wait, Metal, no Punk... eh, what ever... Great name though

...And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead - http://www.trailofdead.com/

[Runesmith]

X-Ray Spex (One of the few instances where an intentional misspelling actually enhances the band name.)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Butthole Surfers (Good call on this one, Sayburr! Definently high on the 'WTF?' list.)
Black Sabbath (The name is a perfect summary of the band's sound.)
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Throbbing Gristle (Another name that compliments the band's sound to the letter.)
The Flaming Lips
Death (Simple and straight to the point.)
The Velvet Underground ('Velvet' meaning sultry and taboo, and 'Underground' meaning so unknown "only one hundred records" where sold during the band's tenure. Not that this has changed much since they broke up. :D)
The Damned
They Might Be Giants
Maylene And The Sons of Disaster (I love how they took the Southern legend - well, mostly legend - as a band name.)

I also second HMXHenry's call on The Ramones. Their shared monikers and uniform image (leather jackets, jeans, Chuck's) adds an interesting dimension to an already amazing band.

[a21schizoidman]

Iron Butterfly (Iron meaning heavy, Butterfly meaning something light)

[Rockbandfan23467]

An HMX guy here!!!!!!!!! :eek:


I like The Kinks, The Fall and The Who. They prove that a defenine article can make a bad name great. Black Sabbath is another. ? and The Mysterians is just plain brilliant. Fear is one because it's sounds cool.

[JukeBoxHero]

Rush(It fits the band well)

King Crimson(Cool name)

Yes(Fun band to talk about with a friend who doesn't know the band. :) )

Cygnus Eye(I like the name and I find the eye with the bobby pin emblem to be funny. This would be one of the two Rock Band bands I formed.)

Anthrax(Cool name once again)

I edit the list when I can think of some more names I particularly like. Although, the bands I listen to I tend to like the band's name.

[a21schizoidman]

America just cuz of the pure irony of them being British (well formed in Britain, and they had British mothers)

[frostywolf]

Genghis Tron (The "tron" bit really conjures up the right kind of idea - electronics, which are incorporated into the bands' grindcore-ish sound)
Iron Maiden (Probably the coolest sounding torture device you could name your band after)
Opeth (has that otherworldly and ethereal sound to it, which perfectly fits with their music, imo)
Judas Priest (Just like the way it sounds)
Megadeth (I think it looks much better without the "a")
King Diamond (doesn't fit his music at all, but I like the fact that his name sounds like he could be a poker player or something).
Witchfinder General (Just like the way it sounds, though it might be the horror movie fan in me speaking).

Oh jeez, almost completely forgot - My Bloody Valentine (for the same reason as "Witchfinder General").

[next jimmy page]

butthole surfers
the flying burrito brothers- strange, yet beautiful
thid eye blind- third eye alone would b a good name, but it being blind? genius
wolfmother- sounds like the name of a death metal band, so intense
nirvana- nirvana means peace, but their music attacks you, completely opposite of the word

[coasterpunk]

Bathtub Shi*ter- a carzy grindcore band from Japan
Blood Duster- Austrailian grindcore
Cattle Decapitation- Ca grindcore
Goatwhore- Lousiania black metal

those are probably my favorites

[AxlVanHagar]

The The
Neurotic Outsiders
Killer Dwarfs
Day-glo Abortions
Me First and the Gimme Gimme's
Blind Guardian

[lpunderground19]

OH....

Butthole Surfers - What can I say... very crude name.
Shoot, you beat me to it.

Fountains of Wayne. Wtf does that mean?

[FrshChees91]

Black Sabbath
Damn Yankees
Meshuggah
Metallica (Metal in the name!)

[wvusteel87]

The Grateful Dead - Their name came from a folktale that involves a traveler who encounters a corpse of someone who never received a proper burial The traveler then either pays off the dead person's debt and buries them. The traveler is later rewarded or has their life saved by a person or animal who is actually the soul of the dead person hence the soul is referred to as The Grateful Dead

[FrshChees91]

^ cool

......

[GroovyBanana]

I've always thought that Dread Zeppelin was clever (they're a Reggae Led Zeppelin cover band).

[TheCrimsonSaint]

Gogmagog. Heavy metal super group consisting of: Paul Di'Anno, Clive Burr, Janick Gers, Neil Murray, and Pete Willis. They only released three songs. What a shame.

[Runesmith]

The Grateful Dead - Their name came from a folktale that involves a traveler who encounters a corpse of someone who never received a proper burial The traveler then either pays off the dead person's debt and buries them. The traveler is later rewarded or has their life saved by a person or animal who is actually the soul of the dead person hence the soul is referred to as The Grateful Dead

I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing! Knowing the backstory behind the GD's name actually makes me more interested in the band, and I was already getting on a bit of a Dead kick before hearing about this.

I'd also like to ante up Aztec Camera as a band with a great name. I have no idea what it means, but hearing the name provoked a 'Darn, I wish I thought of that name' response from me the first time I heard one of their songs come on the radio.

Some other striking names I forgot to add to my first list on the first or second page:
Violent Femmes
R.E.M.
Echo and the Bunnymen (Definently got a 'Huh?' response out of me. Echo was actually the name of their drum machine until they found a permanent drummer during their early days. I'm not sure what the bunnymen part refers to, though.)
Sisters of Mercy (Borrowed from a Leonard Cohen tune.)
Green Day (The name revels in its immaturity. I like it.)
The Dead Milkmen (A spoof of the Dead Kennedys.)

[Cosma]

Alice Cooper (He got the feel he was looking for. Sort of a Lizzy Borden, little girl with the butcher knife behind her back kind of thing)

KISS (Just because of all the meanings people have come up with for K.I.S.S.)

Double Trouble/Triple Threat Revue (both were SRV bands, only the first used his name)

and who can forget that the name was changed to protect the innocent....sorta

Lynyrd Skynyrd (Named, kinda, after their high school gym teacher Leonard Skinner and the funky spelling)

[Luv_Studd]

KISS - I had an overly religious aunt growing up who would always say that the name stood for Kings in Satan's Service, or something like that to try and disuade me from listening to them.

(she didn't need to try hard, there were many other better bands in the 70's I liked a lot more).:p

[barbaraann72]

Devo (what is it? De-evolution of man, right?)
Railroad Earth
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Government Mule
Tealeaf Green
Cowboy Junkies
Dead Milkmen
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions (my favorite)

I actually don't know any music from some of them. The names have just stuck with me.

[emoron5]

As I Lay Dying...amazing band&&&&band name

[ThrashtilDeath]

Dying Fetus, nuff said. Also The Flaming Tsunamis just love that name for some reason.

[OldFogey]

New Riders of the Purple Sage
Government Mule

I actually don't know any music from some of them. The names have just stuck with me.

Wow - a Dead fan who doesn't know the New Riders! (Name taken from a Zane Grey novel, I believe). You do know it started as a side project for Jerry Garcia, right? Didn't find any good vid of him playing with them, but here's the lineup without Jerry:
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And you'd like Government Mule. Warren Haynes from Allman Bros. heads that band up. Warren has played with Bob Weir and Phil, I do believe. YouTube seems to be down or I'd post a vid. Maybe later.

[They Call Me The Swede]

X Japan

The greatest band nobody has ever herd of except for some people that are just really really into Japanese music.

[orange_black]

Captain Geech & the Shrimp Shack Shooters

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[AxlVanHagar]

Captain Geech & the Shrimp Shack Shooters

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o44/inverted_cheeze_doodle/hehehmn.gif

Love that movie! :D

[rwiggum]

My Rock Band band?

The Butter and Ham Disaster.

[l-o-t]

Timmy and the lords of the underworld
Tenacious D
Electric Mayhem
The Hoo (me and my buddy's airband in which we dressed in owl costumes and rocked out to a mix of Who songs)
Hugh Jass and the Moe Lesters (me and the same buddy's rock band band)
The Monkees (lol, they spelled it wrong on purpose!)
Boston ("what should we call ourselves?" "I dunno" "where do we live?" "Boston" "sweet, lets use that" ... I really wish I could have seen this conversation take place)

I know more but they escape me right now...

[Insane3]

Paul Revere and the Raiders
The MC5
Animals
Fine Young Cannibals
Beatles (beetle is the bug, Beat-le)
King Crimson
The B-Sharps!!!!

I'll go with Fine Young Cannibals. I find they're music kinda boring (sometimes) but the name is ... tasty... lol

[Insane3]

Genghis Tron (The "tron" bit really conjures up the right kind of idea - electronics, which are incorporated into the bands' grindcore-ish sound)


Do you know what does Genghis means? Genghis Khan was a mongol leader, probably the leader of the biggest empire ever (it's debated wheter Mongolian empire or Romain empire was the biggest). Genghis means "The great".

[barbaraann72]

Wow - a Dead fan who doesn't know the New Riders! (Name taken from a Zane Grey novel, I believe). You do know it started as a side project for Jerry Garcia, right?

And you'd like Government Mule. Warren Haynes from Allman Bros. heads that band up. Warren has played with Bob Weir and Phil, I do believe. YouTube seems to be down or I'd post a vid. Maybe later.


HA! Those were the two of the ones that I did know. It was the Cowboy Junkies and Dead Milkmen that I didn't know (but liked the names).

I will be enjoying that video very shortly.

[shogun290]

KISS - I had an overly religious aunt growing up who would always say that the name stood for Kings in Satan's Service, or something like that to try and disuade me from listening to them.

(she didn't need to try hard, there were many other better bands in the 70's I liked a lot more).:p

Was she like the mother in Detroit Rock City?

[KingofQUEEN92]

Jay Walker and the Misdemeanors!!

[orange_black]

Jay Walker and the Misdemeanors!!

that is a great name... was trying to think of it and couldnt remember...

well done!

:)

[KingofQUEEN92]

haha yea its an up and coming band out of Minnesota with the front man Jay Walker!

[Rollnkutter]

Alien Ant Farm

R.E.M.

Blue Öyster Cult - The first band to use a non-functional umlaut in their name. Even without it it's still a pretty cool name.

ZZ Top

Rush - Very fitting name indeed

[mazzy]

The Allman Brothers Band

They were going to name it something else because they felt they were a true band and not just about Gregg and Duane, but the play on words was too much in the hippie movement.

All men are brothers... man!

[Pennsylvanian]

For me, it's probably "Bomb the Music Industry!"

[MxKrmr1974]

I remember watching Trekkies 2 a couple of years ago. There was a Klingon death metal band called Sto-Vo-Kor. I thought that was pretty cool.

[Jhail83]

Liquid Tension Experiment
The White Stripes
The Raconteurs
Porcupine Tree
Muse
Rush
King Crimson
Genesis
Gentle Giant
Camel
Smashing Pumpkins
Tomahawk
Faith No More
Alice in Chains
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Pink Floyd
The Doors
Iron Maiden (Best Metal Name ever imo)
Yes

[Rock_Band_Over]

U2: Simple and Elegant
Depeche Mode: Ultra-hip. French for "Fast Fashion" but means nothing in French.
System of a Down: Just plain cool... sounds deep, too!
Cute Is What We Aim For: Awfully Awesome
Jefferson Airplane => Jefferson Starship: What a gnarly concept!

[a21schizoidman]

Wings
Jethro Tull
Rare Earth
Mott the Hoople
Porcupine Tree
Sly & the Family Stone
Little Feat
Dire Straits
Alan Parsons Project
Three Dog Night
Mullins Brothers!

[frizzy_bj]

Although they are swing, jazz or whatever you want to label them, I like the Squirrel Nut Zippers.

Others worth a mention:

Dream Theater
Tractor Sex Fatality
Post Stardom Depression
The Dead Milkmen
Sock Trophy
The Circle Jerks
The Kankles
Rockum Sockum

[Remyngton]

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

...and not a real band, but a funny name that I saw on the Rock Band leaderboards:
The Fallopian Tube Swim Team

[orange_black]

...and not a real band, but a funny name that I saw on the Rock Band leaderboards:
The Fallopian Tube Swim Team

COOL! where do i sign up?

:D

[orange_black]

Although they are swing, jazz or whatever you want to label them, I like the Squirrel Nut Zippers.


that reminds me of the Cherry Poppin Daddies

:D

[hmxhenry]

There have been some awesome names put up! Lots of groups I had forgotten about / made myself forget about.

I like the added bit of info that goes along with some names describing their origins. Never knew where the Grateful Dead came from... very cool!

On a somewhat related note, I find the band Rainbow to be hilarious. Legendary heavy metal group featuring Dio? The only way you can make that sucker any more rockin' is by calling them RAINBOW. Easily the most metal band name ever. Anyone could call themselves Cannibal Corpse and sound brutal, but you have to rock roughly 1000% harder in a band called Rainbow to have people take you seriously.

[orange_black]

Tbut you have to rock roughly 1000&#37; harder in a band called Rainbow to have people take you seriously.

not only that, you automatically raise all merchandise sales by 10 percent due to the g@y/lesbian community.

:D

(lol)

[WhiffleBallTony]

Anything with the word "iron" in it sounds good. Iron Maiden, Iron Butterfly, Iron Man, etc. For some reason, that word is full of pure winsauce.

Also, one accidental name that a friend of mine came up with is full of win. What he had was "Astrophonic Earthquake". The way it came about was when we were coming up with a name for a band we wanted to start, and I suggested something. I forget what it was, but my friend mistook it for that name and it stuck. We never actually formed the band, though, unfortunately. It still stays in my head, though, if I ever do form a band in the future.

[a21schizoidman]

Iron Butterfly chose their name to be an oxymoron
Iron = heavy
Butterfly = light

[Tee76]

My friend's created band on Rock Band:

"Al-Qaeda Airlines"

[partyboydanial]

Sex Pistols...

always thought it was effin awesome name

Cream

(during Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era) The Spider's from Mars

Audioslave

Funkadelic

Grateful Dead

The Stooges

Stone Temple Pilots

Queens of the Stone Age

Weezer

The Velvet Underground

[Spandrel]

I always liked the names that sounded tame but were euphemisms for nasty things.

Lovin' Spoonful
10CC
Steely Dan

[OakTea]

Just quick replying..

The RockBand Rock Band "Hitler and the Jew Crew" inspired my friends and I to come up with funny band names. Here are some of our concoctions:
"Plumbum and the Chewy Chickens" (We call our friend Plumbum, and yes, after the elemental name for lead)
"Ostrich Discharge Playground"
"Jesus and the Holy Mother Fuhz" (Jesus singing, God on Guitar, Shakti on drums... No official bassist yet.)

Oh, and for real ones. I've always liked Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer-Incentives.

[Hungryfreak]

In terms of my potential band names:

The invincible Super Guys(have a friend who used that name. Taken from an actual Kung Fu movie, haha)
Eye of Cthulhu(because I like eyeballs and Cthulhu)

and my personal favorite:

6669

[partyboydanial]

don't know if its out there but

999 Evil and a Half

[Thallis]

Raw Toast. 'Nuff said.

[Lithium_666]

Lamb of God, because they are a death metal band and someone who heard that could think it was a christian band.
Korn, because they took this because they wanted to take a simple word and make it something huge.

[Hungryfreak]

Lamb of God isn't death metal. They're metalcore. Big difference.

[miche.cs]

Best band name...Nashville ***** or possibley The Replacements (who often got misbilled as The Placemats). I was always a fan of my wife's band's name as well, Chevy and the Chasers.

[Lithium_666]

Lamb of God isn't death metal. They're metalcore. Big difference.

OMG, listen to their older cds, Metalcore wasnt even a word when they came out

[Jixzer]

Since most of the really good names were covered, I've always liked these names (sorry if I repeat any):

Six pence none the richer
Bad Company
T'pau
Hoobastank
Bowling for soup

Also, though not real bands, some of the Rockband band names have been equally cool as well.

Spurious (yes, shameless self promotion. That's my band; means fake...I thought it was clever)
Blow Damascus: Coworker's band
Almost Zombies: Another Coworkers band
and endless others

BTW, "The Fallopian tube swim team" is all WIN. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Kudos.

[Hanrahan89]

Angry Johnny and the Killbillies

[yelladog32]

Hootie and the Blowfish
Lung Cookie


Some names I haven't seen here, off the top of my head.

[polishdog90]

Irwin and the Stingrays

(Steve Irwin got killed by a stingray)

Thats my local band.

[Cubecubed]

Fall out boy has a cool name to me(Huge Simpsons fan),music aside.
Pearl jam
Death Cab For Cutie
Green Day(Weed slang ftw)
Smashing Pumpkins
Coheed&Cambria
Radiohead
Muse
The Raconteurs

[tylererwin]

Metallica
Rage against the machine
third eye blind
death cab for cutie
hoobastank
incubus
autumns on fire

[a21schizoidman]

Blue Cheer
MC5
UFO (pronounced youfoe)
Talking Heads
ZZ Top
the Zombies
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Pretenders
Cheap Trick
Styx
Electric Light Orchestra
Tower of Power
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Fabulous Thunderbirds
Focus
Egg
Happy the Man
Henry Cow

[PastorO Muppets]

I know most of you wont believe me but ...
Guy Mann Dude

[sg327]

Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Big Brother & the Holding Company
George Clinton & The P-Funk All-Stars
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Average White Band
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
The Electric Prunes

Main course:

Meat Loaf

And for desert:

Humble Pie
Vanilla Fudge

[Cheesimus]

Ludicrous Lollipops
Rage Against The Coffee Machine
Tonto's Expanding Headband
Teaspoonriverneck
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
The Mr T Experience

[louis010]

36 crazyfists --- i mean cmon how do you think up a name like that

killswitch engage --- quote on the name - "basically shutting everything down that we once knew and starting over. Killswitch, which is like turning everything off. Like if someone’s hand gets caught in something in a metal working shop the foreman will press one button that will turn off the machines. A killswitch. Then the engage is just turning it back on or something like that" lol

[Parodygm]

Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Kitchens of Distinction
My Bloody Valentine
Hüsker Dü
Amusement Parks on Fire
Boards of Canada
Dead Can Dance
Killing Joke
Porno for Pyros
Skinny Puppy

[Bodabo240]

Jesus +1 !!!!!!

lol

[Cosma]

A local band out of Abilene, Texas

Happy Fat and the Free Form Tango

[a21schizoidman]

Happy the Man
Henry Cow

[Schmeal]

Interestingly, the band names that come to mind belong to bands that I don't really like:

Dumpster Juice
Eyehategod
Goatwhore

[TheCobra49]

Leftover Crack

Operation Ivy

Dead Kennedy's

[Soja]

Iced Earth - It evokes an image of the planet in a deep winter.
Cannibal Corpse - Never listened to them, but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. The imagery of the name is enough.

Personally, I like one of my bands names:

DethTraktor

Inspired by:

DethKlok

Yet another favorite name.

And more favorite names:

Iron Maiden (Intriguing, simple, and evocative.)
Judas Priest (One of my math teachers once used this as an expletive. It has a good phonetic quality.)
Rammstein (It sounds so brutal and I don't even know what it means. Complements the music well.)
Dimmu Borgir (Another brutal sounding band name.)
Amon Amarth (Ditto.)

[DarkEternal37]

I'll agree with:
Rush
Cute Is What We Aim For

And add:

Bleed the Dream
A Change of Pace
Escape the Fate
Gym Class Heroes (Not really a BAND in the truest sense, but yeah)
Hidden in Plain View
It Dies Today
The Receiving End of Sirens
Reggie and the Full Effect
Under the Influence of Giants



My friend's created band on Rock Band:

"Al-Qaeda Airlines"

This reminded me of my favorite band on PSN: Air Nagasaki. The best part is their motto being "Droppin' the atomic rock bomb"

[Ravaana]

My favorite band name actually has to be a friend's band from high school. They never went anywhere, but they had a theme, and the songs were supposedly just following along with it.

For some reason I loved the name, and cracked up. It stuck, and it's been brought up by quite a few people from my old circle of friends a few times.

"A day in the life of a punk named, Norton Nezbit."

Ridiculously long, but..... Whatever. They were a punk band. Don't have to make any sense. :p

[Meaty_Turtle]

Swollen Members
Jedi Mind Tricks
Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives
Soundgarden
Adam and His Package
Porno for Pyros
Pusifer
Mr. Coffee & the Drips
Stabbity Stabbity Stab Stab Stab
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Lords of Acid
Atari Teenage Riot

I could go on but I won't

[Ravaana]

Wow, I forgot all about Atari Teenage Riot.


Good call, Wayne. Shaw!

[dirty_bird32]

The Band...always a good one

I like Derek and the Dominos, too (read it was maybe a mispronounciation of Eric and the Dynamos, but idk)

[writnstone]

writnstone

a band that i made for me and my friends

[senatorwidestance]

Bobby Soxx & the Teenage *****s
God is My Co-Pilot
Useless Eaters
Throbbing Gristle
The Jackson Two
Captain 9's and the Knickerbocker Trio
Heroine Sheiks
Tumor Circus
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Turbonegro
Nomeansno
Child Molesters
Tribe Called Quest
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Ghetto Ways
Nervous Eaters
Goatsnake
Devil Makes Three
Best Kissers in the World
Kill the Hippies
Residents
Hand Over Head
Nazis From Mars
Miracle Workers
Joy Division
Dead Kennedys
Mastodon
Godflesh
Funkadelic
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs
Test Icicles
Simply Saucer
Lee Harvey Oswald Band
F**kemos
F**king Champs
Too Short
Really Red
Magnetic Fields
Napalm Death
Skeletal Family
Heavy Vegetable
Barry and the Remains
Viletones
Shangri-Las
Lard
Guitar F**ker
Flotsam and Jetsam
Pointed Sticks
Satan's Cheerleaders
Third Ear Band
Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Gnomes of Zurich
Rip Rig and Panic
Crumbsuckers
Spread Eagles
Electric Wizard
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Cut the Sh*t
Vas Deferens Organization
Holy Modal Rounders
Faxed Head
Brotherhood of Electricity
Jesus and Mary Chain
Jesus Lizard
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
Dead Prez
Zip Code Rapists
Nothing People
Spiritual Beggars
Swingin' Medallions
Supreme Dicks
Biz Markie
Yoko Ono

And, my names for my Rock Band bands:

Senator Widestance and the G.O.P Gloryholes
Cunning Stunts
Obtuse Youth
Finger in the Dyke
Cocoa Butter Fantasy
RX Feast
Hypothermia
Ku Klux Klowns

[ordinary]

My friend Steve's Rock Band band is called Dirty Protest. I like it.

[Parodygm]

Happy the Man

Is that taken from The Cure song of the same name?

[a21schizoidman]

Is that taken from The Cure song of the same name?

not to my knowledge, was a (mostly) instrumental prog. rock group from the 70s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_The_Man