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Coolest name for a band?

present_tensepresent_tense Posts: 121
edited May 2007 in Other Music
Im curious, what do you guys think is the coolest name for a band? recent or old?

for whatever reason... "black rebel motorcycle club" sounds so bad ass.
I think soundgarden was a pretty damn cool name too.
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  • Tek MoneyTek Money Posts: 642
    The New Pornographers is a cool band name.

    I also like The Tragically Hip, The Rheostatics, Broken Social Scene, The Dandy Warhols, Greak Lake Swimmers, Mumm-Ra, My Morning Jacket.

    There are probably more.
    Cock Fight.
  • DeetroitBaasketballDeetroitBaasketball Posts: 379
    Mumm-ra is a cool name. I think Wellwater Conspiracy is a great name too.
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    A few of my favorites:

    The Band (so simple, yet so effective at the same time)
    Pearl Jam
    Cowboy Junkies
    The Doors
    The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
    The Lowest of the Low
    Soundgarden
    The Tragically Hip
    The New Pornographers
    The Replacements
    Rheostatics
    Midnight Oil
    Screaming Trees
    Wintersleep
    Skydiggers
    The Weakerthans
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • corycory Posts: 736
    The Large Fingered Proctologists

    Texas Tittie Twisters

    Wakin' Up Naked Next To A Dude

    My Grandma's Tits Have Tatoos
    Revive the heart of the heartless...

    Why would you start was has no end?
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    The Utterly Incredible Too Long Ago To Remember, Sometimes Shouting At People


    They were a sixties psychedelic band who played the 14-hour Technicolor Dream at Alexandra Palace, in 1967.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Oh, I forgot Death By Milkfloat. That was a great band name.
  • NuclearTreeFrogNuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
    Angry Salad
    "The sun is shining, but not for me."
  • BrainofdzBrainofdz Posts: 1,617
    Lesbian By Default

    (a former project of my own, so I guess i'm a bit partial)
    "Stunned by my own reflection, It's looking back, sees me too clearly and I swore I'd never go there again, Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down,down,down"

    When you see me on the street, yell out "FAVO!!!"

    I've been to alot of Pearl Jam shows;So fucking what.
  • BinauralBinaural Posts: 1,046
    Audioslave - Forget the music, this name is blinding.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Bra - the ultimate support act
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    dunkman wrote:
    Bra - the ultimate support act

    Awesome.:D

    The Stanley Trainers
    Chevron Action Flash
    Shit

    All old local bands from around where I live.:)
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  • PedgePedge Posts: 71
    Rage against the machine
    Why do people with closed minds always open their mouth
  • depopulationINCdepopulationINC Posts: 2,074
    I always laugh at
    Butthole Surfers
    Rainbow Butt Monkey

    also
    Amplified Silence
    Smashing Pumpkins
    Angy Inch
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    (Because I know)
    Because I know how much time that wastes
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  • larslars Posts: 524
    I´m´not kidding you but there once was a band called CYCLE SLUTS FROM HELL. I believe their top single was "I wish you were a beer"
    You can´t trust a vegetarian.
  • yield2meyield2me Posts: 1,291
    Shit-Wheat
    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” - Frank Sinatra
  • Matt LukinMatt Lukin Posts: 647
    !!!
    The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
    And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Gay bikers on acid
    The Dead Kennedys
    The Replacements
    Captain Beefheart and his magic band
    Extreme noise terror
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    Already mentioned:

    !!! (chk chk chk)
    Butthole Surfers
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Also -

    Nashville Pussy
    Flaming Lips
    Flying Burrito Brothers
    Grateful Dead
    Heartless Bastards
    Super Furry Animals
    Parliment/Funkadelic
    Social Distortion
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    I totally agree, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an absolutely amazing band name........its a rough one to say in a sentence though
    Alpine Valley 2000
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    I totally agree, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an absolutely amazing band name........its a rough one to say in a sentence though

    and that is why we just say BRMC. :D
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    cory wrote:
    The Large Fingered Proctologists

    Texas Tittie Twisters

    Wakin' Up Naked Next To A Dude

    My Grandma's Tits Have Tatoos

    you forget:
    Butthole surfers
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    BMRC definitely is right there. I just claimed Wolfmother to be the coolest name for a rock band the other day. There's also a fairly obscure (At least in the States. Unless you listed to KROQ in the early 90's) band from Scotland called Trashcan Sinatras who I happen to love.
  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    east 17
    backstreet boys ( sound so rebelish, what are they doing in a backstreet?)
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • larslars Posts: 524
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Gay bikers on acid
    The Dead Kennedys
    The Replacements
    Captain Beefheart and his magic band
    Extreme noise terror
    You´re kidding me...no way there´s a band called gay bikers on acid
    You can´t trust a vegetarian.
  • B niceB nice Posts: 182
    cherry poppin daddies

    it's from the bible ..i think
    life has nothing to do with killing time
    Bring it on cause I'm no victim

    b nice loves pearl jam like ed vedder loves america
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Some of my favorites:

    Audioslave
    Soundgarden
    The Screaming Trees
    Radiohead
    Blind Melon

    There are others too but I can't think of them.
    It's a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win
  • The Pen Is MightierThe Pen Is Mightier Posts: 56
    I think they suck horribly, but...

    The Sqiurrel Nut Zippers
    Drunk by noon but that's ok
    I'll be president someday

    I have been to, and have the following posters framed:
    Hartford 96,
    Boston 98, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006
  • gleemonexgleemonex Posts: 848
    Eagles of Death Metal
    Funkadelic
    The Tragically Hip

    And the ultimate coolest band name ever: The Beatles.
    “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’” - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    i've always been partial to:

    the Decemberists
    Broken Social Scene
    the Arcade Fire
    the Rheostatics
    the Tragically Hip
    the Weakerthans
    Stereolab
    Spiritualized
    the Dandy Warhols (maybe my fav band name)
    the Flaming Lips
    In my world everyone is a pony,
    and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
  • oppie1oppie1 Posts: 755
    Matt Lukin wrote:
    !!!
    that, by far, is the dumbest name ever.. i must say

    for coolest names..
    Anal Cunt
    Reggie and the Full Effect
    Snot
    Walls of Jericho
    In This Moment
    In Flames
    Killswitch Engage
    Cradle of Filth
    Bobaflex (just fun to say)
    Funeral for a Friend
    Fuck Your Yankee Bluejeans


    i'm gonna go off on a tangent and list dumbest names too
    any "the" bands ... the white stripes, the who, the killers, the rolling stones... i fucking HATE "the" bands
    My Morning Jacket (dumb band, dumber name)
    Goo Goo DOlls
    Mother Love Bone (forgive me, yes.. its a dumb name)
    Candlebox
    Wolfmother
    Foo Fighters
    BoyHitsCar Masked Street Team
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