Favorite band names?

[zhao]

The Eagles of Death Metal

W... T... F...

 

[swears]

Daft Punk of course, I'd forgotten. This would be a terrible name for a guitar band, but I dunno, it just works for them. The sound of the words and everything.
I love the story behind it as well, Darlin' and all that. I downloaded the Darlin' songs. Kinda like a tiny little lo-fi embryo of the whole Air/Phoenix thing.
When I was 14 this band was like punk to me.

 

[throughsilver]

The Eagles of Death Metal

W... T... F...

Heh, it's like an evolutionary move on from Queens Of The Stone Age.

On a similar tack, I do like Fatso Jetson, Karma To Burn and Slo Burn. Back before 'stoner rock' meant Wolfmother...

 

[marke]

for me its all about the pseudos that Foetus used to come up with before he settled down with the simple one word, they always made me smile and the shop assistants recoil in shock. bonus points.

others :

t.raumschmiere - no idea why - tis just a great name for a damn fine noise (just posted interview if anyone likes their stuff)
pop will eat itself grew into their name from a jokey reference, but alongside the tDR artwork it sort of became a damn appropiate name for their crush collision.

and of course - i think that age of chance was a perfect name for band, but then i would wouldn't i !

m.e/ireallylovemusic

 

[zhao]

Heh, it's like an evolutionary move

backwards

 

[styledubk]

Adult.
Tamion 12 Inch
Lunachicks
Atari Teenage Riot
Stereolab
Polyphonic Spree
Slave

 

[John Doe]

Gaye Bikers on Acid was one I admired. Evocative, I thought, in a leather-and-psychedelics kinda way.

 

[10:02am]

faster pussycat
royal trux
babyshambles
my bloody valentine
giant sand

(just a few at a moment's thought)

 

[D84]

Sometimes the best names are staring you in the face. I just spotted this one on myspace:

POSECORE

 

[Le Bob]

Depends on what you mean by favorite; As in "it captures the spirit of the band", or "imaginative and funny"?

In the latter category, Lack of Afro always makes me chuckle.

 

[Oss]

Big Black
Butthole Surfers
Cocteau Twins
Coil
Autechre
Low

 

[Peak]

Buzzcocks - brevity, sounds-like-the-music, sounds vaguely sexual, definitely is something sexual if you get it, but also UK northern ('cock' = inoffensive equivalent of 'mate'.) Layered enough to let them be cuddly Top-of-the-Pops punks, despite being really quite rude (for 1978).

 

[mistersloane]

Buzzcocks - brevity, sounds-like-the-music, sounds vaguely sexual, definitely is something sexual if you get it, but also UK northern ('cock' = inoffensive equivalent of 'mate'.) Layered enough to let them be cuddly Top-of-the-Pops punks, despite being really quite rude (for 1978).

and what it means.....

"Scanning the pages of Time Out magazine, a London 'what's on' guide, the three friends find no listing for the Sex Pistols. By chance, reading a review of a Thames television series called Rock Follies about a female rock group, they stumble upon the headline 'It's the buzz, cock!'. Trafford suggest that this phrase, with its hint of aural and sexual irregularity, would make a great name for a band."

 

[D84]

speaking of cocks, how could we forget one of my favourites:

 

[daren]

Japanese bands seem to always have very good names:

No Fucker
Les Rallizes Denudes (What does this MEAN???)
Boris
BUST MONSTERS
High Rise

etc.

 

[the undisputed truth]

http://www.fuckpony.com/

 

[polystyle]

J Name game cont.

Picking up on the J bands name thing.
Culled from listings in the past weeks :

One night robot
Zilconia
Nirgilis
Show -Ya
Nico touches the walls
Orge you asshole
Strut berry

Can imagine the group meeting
'Strut Berry' , yeah, let's use that one , great !'
well whatever works fer ya (in Tokyo's overlit mini band arena)

 

[Kate Mossad]

Neu!
Black Sabbath
Klang
UT
Savage Resurrection
Selfish Cunt

I don't know why I like them, I just do. it helps that I like the music I suppose. Oh yeah not forgetting Slaughter and the Dogs, great name shit band.

 

[dave]

the sorecocks

 

[Guybrush]

Too many to mention, but from the top of my head:

Mongo Santamaria (distinctive and fantasy evoking)
Techno Crab (awful and hilarious in equal doses)
Angry Samoans (ditto)
Modest Mussorgsky (because the first name moonlights as an adjective, and the two names looks, and reads, great when put together)
Van Dyke Parks (the best of the bunch imo; slightly crippled, perhaps, by the fact that a lot of people already know him and his works, but aside from that it's perfect.

I also have a soft spot for every band name including the word "orchestra":
Salt City Orchestra
Innerzone Orchestra
John Davis and the Monster Orchestra (now that's a great name!)
Love Unlimited Orchestra
Machito and His Orchestra
Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra
Penguin Café Orchestra