I know we've had this thread before, but I think it got lost in one of the crashes and it's been a while. Anyway, I was listening to some internet radio out of seattle this afternoon and they mentioned a local seattle band called: Sexually Active Corpse that's just nasty. what's up with you seattlites?
There was an Aussie band a few years back called Lubricated Goat. That's pretty damned disturbing to me. I also like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dandy Warhols and Auntie Christ. Honorable mention to The Mr. T Experience.
i had some friends in high school who formed a band (and wrote a very clever and funny song about our principal), who reacted to several strains of dogma all at once, in calling themselves "the rhythm methodists." i thought that was brilliant. also rating, to me: - "FREE BEER!" (what a great way to get people to your gig!!) - "hey....that's my bike!!!" (a perfect imperative phrase to set "minnesota nice" folks all a-twitter!)
hey, adam, i just passed by a guy today, on the st thomas campus, who was wearing a FM t-shirt. sorry, i guess that's apropos of nothing...
Boy Hits Car Not Waving But Drowning Btw, I thought that Dandy Warhols' "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" was one of the better albums of 2000.
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead (hed)pe, also known now as (hed)planet earth Alabama Thunderpussy Alien Sex Fiend The Atomic Bitchwax Bongzilla Fuckemos Mary Beats Jane Queens of the Stone Age Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction Extra credit to the punk band MDC, not that "MDC" is so unusual, but they have changed what MDC stood for several times (Millions of Dead Cops, Millions of Dead Children, Millions of Dead Christians, Multi-Death Corporation, etc.)
Also perhaps the name of every band ever started at one point in their career, usually in the early baement stages. Friend of mine in College had a band called "Crowbar Massage", and I was briefly in a band called "Technicolor Yawn".
Re: Re: weird band names Awesome. When I was in the Army, a bunch of us used to screw around jamming at the base studio, and we called ourselves that.
I was briefly in a band called Peace in Space. Whatever the hell that was supposed to mean, I dunno. The cokehead guitarist came up with it. I was also in a band called Jimmy Prague and the Defenestrators. My favorite band names on campus, though, are Leon Chance and the Long Shots, and Millimeters Mercury (usually referred to in writing as mmHg).
MC 900 Foot Jesus and DJ Zero -- simultaneously excessive and minimalist Godspeed, You Black Emperor -- points for grandiosity. right up there with ....Trail of dead. Me First & The Gimme Gimmes -- childish, excellent and hilarious, both in name and in noisepop. El Destroyo -- simple, retro, yet menacing Sepsis -- name of a friend's never-leaving-their-garage band. "What does it mean?" I asked. "Massive bacterial infection," he answerd. "Why not call the band Massive Bacterial Infection?," I countered. "Hmmmm....."
a tad off the subject, but the group Smog released an album called "Dongs of Sevotion" (no i didn't misspell it). that always makes me laugh. back the the subject at hand.... weird band names. Sean Na Na Smut Peddlers Jackie-o Mutherfvcker Death Cab for a Cutie Dismemberment Plan (now broken up.... funk that shizzle) Handsome Boy Modeling School Meat Beat Manifesto the Fvcking Champs
I was in a band in high school called Duck Billed Porta-Possies. My brother's band name is Splunge Bucket. The Butthole Surfers have a great name.