What's Your Favorite Made-Up Band Name?

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the count nuthin's & capital zero are real bands that haven't gotten off the ground yet. dirt sausage was entirely fictitious but appeared often on gig posters to make it look like a better evening's entertainment value. heroin goobers, country robots, sydenham lowriders - same deal but only got one fictitious "show" per. i've been in as many fake bands as real ones, my 1st was sredni vashtar when i was 14.

― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

no that's right 15. the 1st was the hoolocks (it's a type of gibbon).

― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

graham yr link doesn't work.

― duane, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Constant Spray

― Martin, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

J-LB8 for the paedo-Eminem rapper on Brass Eye the other night was pretty good.

― Nick, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hey I didn't write that. WHat gives? Is there a Mike HAnley imposter?

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Duane, you'll need to delete the line break, or just cut+paste this: http://%20www.bni.canterbury.freeuk.com/james.haslam/autographs/images/andypeters.jpg

Nick, I'm expecting a discussion on Nu-Ass music on ILM any second now.

Oh, another one: The Eric Knowles Appreciation Society. Debut Album: Fear Of Randy Bachman. Breakthrough Single: I'm In Love With Gene Pitney. (Are any of those real?)

― Graham, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

ther were a real punk band from durley chine (in dorset) called "the chineapple punks," which kicks arse when you think about it. they had a song called "my cat drinks beer."

― christopher phillips, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Anal Cunt (TAKEN)

Cumbucket (though that one screams nu-metal).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Surely Cumdumspter is the better choice?

And what about the Camel Toads?

― Kim, Sunday, 21 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

there is a band in caernarfon , north wales called chineapple punks. they've got www.chineapplepunks.co.uk too!

― Meic PArry, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stone Phillips Wants Respect (from a tabloid headline referring to pompous US tv newsreader clown)

Year Of The Twat (came to me while reading ILE)

White Load

― dan, Thursday, 27 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I dont know who is resurrecting old threads but I'll say "Sibling Snot."

― Mr Noodles, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Married/dating (also inspired by ILE)

Plums

DJ Rhythm Bitch Nazi on Heat and the Unwanted Pregnancies (a sadly all-too-real band who were the forerunners of my teenage band the Coathanger Abortions)

― Mark C, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

MT = miserablist boyband.

― james, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Scumbucket Wipies Greasy Poopfilter Onya bike with the seat off anal weed magent Chumbag and the Cronies & 'Nuff said really.

― the Chil, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Chafeyboots & the Blisters The Corn Horns The Plaid Mofos Swimbuddy Daniel Tiger Pangea<--metal band

― Mandee, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd just like to say that The Camel Toads is sheer brilliance.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Why thank yuh Dan, thank yuh very much. I really, really, really must make up the T shirt for that one.

― Kim, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

CHIP AND THE DICKS

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nick Ripple and the Dick Nipples

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Zeitgeist Follies-They play 'electro burlesque'

Rat Dynasty

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 18 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

DENTAL RIVALS

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

My mate Paul says if he ever formed a band he'd call it And Emily Loved Him. Which is actually a Bagpuss quote, but hints at story telling ability and/or doomed romance.

I quite liked it really.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

are they a metal band Anna?

― j>e>l, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not my fictional band. Knowing Paul I would say they would probably sound like Elvis Costello.

― Anna, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Brian came up with Maybelline Messiah some time back.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Your Dumb Band

― helenfordsdale, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Opening Act. Assuming they got more popular, they would then change their name to the Headliners.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cor, one of MJH's GRATE IDEAS!

― RickyT, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Poodle Support Group

― Graham, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Never Has-Beens!

― j>e>l, Tuesday, 19 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Pear Shapes.

Stars On Ice.

Fair Cops.

(the last two are triple-plus entendres, I'm slick like that....the last one is for a Rodney King tribute band)

Here are two indie-ish band name cliches, you choose what's fucking worse and more played out.........1. hiphop dj or MC that puts a "one" at the end of his name....yeah that'll get you noticed you fucking worm...... 2. shitty go-knowhere fashion garage, twee, or emo band starting with "The" and ending with an object or organism too mundane to possibly be a band name....or IS IT?!?!?....."The Favorite Sweater"....."The Toothbrushes"...."The Bookmarks"...."The Flashing Lights"....."The Lampshades"...."The Type Of Thing Ramosi Will Cut Your Dick Off For"......I also hate that shit where it's the guys name preceding "the (singular object or abstract)"...."Walter Mercado and The Timetable"......"Jimmy Agallah and The World History"....fuck em all.

― Ramosi, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"The Type Of Thing Ramosi Will Cut Your Dick Off For" = the new name of my band!!

― geeta, Tuesday, 9 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Grumble Blue and The Grumblebusters, a Saturday-morning cartoon band from the Sixties. They looked like four apples covered with brown fur, and sounded just like the Ramones would ten years later. Their show only lasted half a year.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan Druff and the White Shites

a name not coined by me, but by a chap i used to know on a forum i used to patronize

― nickie, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the dehumanisers.

― di, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sloppy Bog And The Urinals. Whenever someone I don't like asks me my band name I tell them this.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

ya send me now

― rami hamra, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chippy Chapman and The Brown Beavers

Honkaletto

― Chris, Friday, 17 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

i read the answer cumbucket. i am actually in a band called cumbucket, and theres nothing nu metal about it. my favourite band name is one thats im not sure is fake or real. gonerria retart is made up of musicians but they are too lazy to play

― josh tonkin, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I speak for Dan here as well when I say that this answer pleases me for all the wrong reasons.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I speak for Dan

Yes, you do.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i'm not sure if it was Thrills or something but a Steve Lamacq- championed band was called the Fuzzy Felt Five.

i adore this name and if i ever form my twee thrash glitchpop group Fuzzy Felt Five is what they will be called.

― Wyndham Earl, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Opening Act. Assuming they got more popular, they would then change their name to the Headliners. I used to know a guy whose band was called The Special Guests. Don't know if they ever actually played more than the one show I saw.

And if I start an emo band I'm calling it Fear of Plaid.

― j.lu, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, you do.

Of course I do.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Fishsticks On The Highway

― Lek Dukagjin, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Urinal Birthday Cakes Saskatoon Goons GashPumpers

― jehovah, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Laughing Boy and the Fucking Comedians

― misterjones, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three years pass...

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― Ginger, Friday, 20 January 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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Dear Sir or Madam or Bear:

― abanana, Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link

fuckface
(yes the first 'f' being lower case is important)

― Black Rod, Jane, and Freddy (snoball), Thursday, 13 December 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link

i wish there'd been a band called The Dicksplats.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link

six years pass...

Been playing Hoffman Corner's underappreciated fourth album 'Wrinkles In The Laminate' this afternoon.

The instrumental interplay is slightly concerning and needless to say the sound quality is through the ceiling, even in quad!

― *there's (Noel Emits), Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:21 (five years ago) link

Definite Article Plural Noun

― Choose Your Own Disaster (Old Lunch), Saturday, 23 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

I keep seeing subway ads for this band, I guess they're looking for a drummer

https://i.imgur.com/bqgeS1d.png

― mick signals, Thursday, 18 April 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link

I will never understand why there hasn't been a band called The Dirty Needles.

― Hideous Lump, Friday, 19 April 2019 05:46 (five years ago) link

three years pass...

nostalgia for nightmares is either a really good band name or album title.

― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link

i've always thought Variable Smudge, which is a species of moths, would be an excellent name for a fictional band.

― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link

fuckface
(yes the first 'f' being lower case is important)
― Black Rod, Jane, and Freddy (snoball), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:46 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe try "flickface" and see if anyone misreads it? I suppose the right/wrong font would help here.

― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link

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