Give It Up For Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fella
Did you ever notice how many music bands there are around? There are so many bands out there that it can be hard coming up with a name for a new band. All the good names are taken. In fact, a lot of the bad names are also taken. These are actual names of actual bands. If you get a chance, check these groups out when they come to a venue near you and ask them "where the heck did you get that name?":
A Box of Fish with Tartar Sauce
Above Average Weight Band
A Cat Born in an Oven Isn't a Cake
Agnes Morehead
Apocolypse Hoboken
Attila the Stockbroker
The Band Formerly Known as Sausage
Big Fish Ensemble
Big in Iowa
The Biggest Freak in New Jersey
Body Falling Down Stairs
Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters
The Bumpin' Uglies
Cap'n Crunch and the Cereal Killers
Crappy the Clown and the Punch Drunk Monkies
Cream of Whoop-Ass Soup
Dead Milkmen
The Dead Pants (Die Toten Hosen in German)
Disciples of Ed
Dick Duck and the Dorks
Disappointed Parents
Disgruntled Postal Workers
Don Knotts Overdrive
Draw Your Own Cow
Elastic Sausage
Electric Blue Peggy Sue and the Revolutionions from Mars
Ethyl Meatplow
The Fat Chick from Wilson Phillips
Five Fat Guys Who Rock
The Fred Mertz Experience
Free Beer and Chicken
Furious George
Gee That's a Large Beetle I Wonder If It's Poisonous
Hard-drinkin' Housewives
Here, Eat This!
He's Dead Jim
Heywood Trout Festival
Hindu Garage Sale
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of Death
Hornets Attack Victor Mature
Impotent Seasnakes
Individual Fruit Pie
Iowa Beef Experience
Jehovah's Waitresses
The Jehovah's Witness Protection Program
JFKFC
Jif and the Choosy Mothers
Jizzy Speedwack
Joan of Arkansas
John Cougar Concentration Camp
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
Kerrigan's Knees
Kill Ted Knight
Kung Fu Action Clergy Persons
Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers
The Leave it to Beaver Conehead Immolation
Lee Press-on and the Nails
Lovebucket and Slapphappy Superfly
Mary Kay and the Cosmetics
Mega Smegma
The Morbid Tavern Apple Choir
More Drunk Cowboys
My Dog Has Hitler's Brain
New Squids on the Dock
Noodle Muffin and the Pig Squints
Not Drowning, Waving
Not With My Camel
1,200,000 Dead Tibetans
Poonanie Cramp-up
Poultry in Motion
Psychic Buddhist Gorillas
Pumpin' Ethyl
Rats of Unusual Size
Rebel Without Applause
Sandy Duncan's Eye
Screaming Moist Accountants
Severe Tire Damage
She Stole My Beer
Shirley Temple Pilots
Shot Down in Ecuador, Jr.
6 Hard Brothers and a Dog
69% Female
Snuff the Ficus
Sorry About Your Daughter
Spastic Colon
Stop Calling Me Frank
Strong, Naked and Car Thieves (Sterk, Naken & Biltyvene in German)
Stukas Over Bedrock
Sucking Chest Wound
Susanne and the Guys With Ties
Ted Ed Fred
They Were Expendable
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Too Fat to Skate
Tracy and the Hindenburg Ground Crew
Traveling Dingleberries
Trailer Park Casanovas
Trotsky Icepick
Tupperware Death
2000 Flushes
Ultimate Spinach
Underpants Machine
The Vast Void of Empty Nothingness
Vic Morrow's Head
Vic Vacuum and the Attachments
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
Wafflebutt
When People Were Shorter and Lived By the Water
Who the Hell Are You?
The Yeasty Girls
Your Damn Neighbors
Zulu Leprechauns

5 Comments:
Yeah -- Weird Al has covered most of these guys...
By PDAZ, May 22 09 4:00 PM
OK, now I am at work, and prefer, if my iced tea is going to shoot out of places it shouldn't...I'll finish reading this at home!
Stop Calling me Frank...:)
By veronikkamarrz, May 22 09 6:12 PM
Jeepers. Weird Al must be in the studio all the time.
By deputygary, May 23 09 10:25 PM
I'd like to add: Mott the Hoople, Moby Grape, Oingo Boingo, Husker Du, 1910 Fruitgum Company, Was (Not Was), Toad the Wet Sprocket, Prefab Sprout, The The, Holy Sisters of the Gaga Dada, Throbbing Gristle, and a real fave Dain Bramage.
By deputygary, May 26 09 11:02 AM
Don't forget the Electric Prunes
By PDAZ, May 27 09 11:17 PM