What Band's Name Do You Like?

[Cute Irish Bono]

I have always loved the name Smashing Pumpkins. And Red Hot Chili Peppers. What names do you like? Also do you know the meanings behind the names? I know that Foo Fighters was some secret group that looked for evidence for aliens! I aslo like the name Feedback and The Hype which were U2's name before that was their name. . I do like U2 though.

 

[u2popmofo]

Because the names are cool:

The The
....And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

Because it's hilarious:

Meat Beat Manifesto

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Serious:

Blue October
(refers to the month the band quit using drugs and alcohol)

Hilarious:

Sweatpants Boner
(saw it mentioned in a thread around here)

 

[elevatedmole]

I like..

The Lemonheads
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
The Flaming Lips
The Fiery Furnaces
Arab Strap
The Thrills
Woodstar
Spearmint
The Sleepy Jackson

 

[~LadyLemon~]

I think there is a band called JFKFC. That fucking rocks!

 

[MrBrau1]

The Alarm.

 

[Liesje]

My dad had a band called The Raw Hotdog Jam Band, but they didn't sing or play any instruments, they just designed an album cover and called themselves that....and probably ate raw hotdogs or something...I really dunno, I think my dad was a stoner

 

[MrBrau1]

My dad had a band called The Raw Hotdog Jam Band, but they didn't sing or play any instruments, they just designed an album cover and called themselves that....and probably ate raw hotdogs or something...I really dunno, I think my dad was a stoner

Your dad is the greatest rock & roll star ever!

 

[~LadyLemon~]

That's okay--my dad was a stoner back in the day too!

 

[IWasBored]

Sweatpants Boner
(saw it mentioned in a thread around here)

yeah, i mentioned them a while back. i wonder if they're still around.



hmmmmmmm

for some reason i can only think of names i'm not a huge fan of...like the 4 skins, or this boston band jeepers h crackers.

 

[beli]

This is Serious Mum

(aka TISM)

 

[fah]

xtc
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
The Tragically Hip

I can't explain why I love these bands and their names but I do.

 

[Angela Harlem]

TISM are awesome.
My mum 'knew' back in the day, the singer from Masters Apprentices which were a destined for mediocrity Aussie band.

Bush. Impossibly hard to look up on the net without finding porn, but still.

 

[smooshcat]

The Polyphonic Spree
Biffy Clyro ('mon e biffy!)
Har Mar Superstar (not a band as such, but you gotta admire someone declaring themselves a superstar))
Reel Big Fish

And cos they sound nice........
Belle and Sebastian
Morcheeba
Idlewild

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

I don't like how Hottie And The Blowfish sounds.

 

[alia612]

Actually, it's Hootie.

Super Furry Animals is pretty funny.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Har Mar Superstar (not a band as such, but you gotta admire someone declaring themselves a superstar))

Apparently he's named after a local mall in Minnesota (Har Mar mall), which only makes the name that much better.

 

[elevatedmole]

Apparently he's named after a local mall in Minnesota (Har Mar mall), which only makes the name that much better.

That's true.. I was in the area just a week or two ago. A lot of stuff down there's named Har Mar -- there's a ballroom, stripmall, etc.

 

[Jack In The Box]

I like: The The, Super Furry Animals, Morcheeba, Elbow, Moloko, Heaven 17 , etc.

 

[U2ME3]

The Mars Volta

 

[smooshcat]

Apparently he's named after a local mall in Minnesota (Har Mar mall), which only makes the name that much better.

It does. And here was me thinking it was probably thrown together cos it rhymed with superstar..

 

[meegannie]

Super Furry Animals
Teenage Fanclub
The Tragically Hip
Mull Historical Society
The Reindeer Section
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Sparklehorse
Franz Ferdinand
Camera Obscura
Echo and the Bunnymen
Arab Strap
Yo La Tengo
Hope of the States
Electric Soft Parade
Broken Social Scene
Modest Mouse
My Bloody Valentine

 

[beli]

Cabaret Voltaire

 

[edge's girl]

i like:
ok go
mail order bride
nickelback
theory of a deadman
unstrung zero
hoobastank

 

[Jack In The Box]

New Pornographers...

 

[RadioSweetheart]

all the ones that I was going to list are here

 

[The Sage]

Appleseed Cast

 

[Mullen-Girl]

Molotov - I just love the way that sounds
Plastilina Mosh

 

[alia612]

Matching Mole

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

I like Madness. It makes sound like they are heavy medal band when they are a sky band.