Unusual Band Names

Real Bands with Funny Names

• 13th Floor Elevators - Austin, TX psychedelic band
• 57 Lesbian
• Accidental Goat Sodomy
• Alien Sex Fiend
• All Hat, No Horse
• AstroPop
• Bongwater Taffee - seen on a bar sign in Cocoa Beach, FL
• Butthole Surfers
• Camper Van Beethoven
• The Flaming Isotopes - A. Dudler's fake punk band
• The Four Nikators - long-lived Boulder, CO band
• Foxymorons
• Funkiphino
• Garage-a-trois
• The Gasoline Lollipops
• Gay Bikers on Acid
• Go Nads, Go
• Green Chili Burp and the Aftertastes - Eric Lipscomb from the MIDI FAQ
• The Guitar Stranglers
• Hairball
• Hoodie Allen
• Infected Mushroom
• Jimmy Eat World
• Jody Foster's Army
• Lothar and the Hand People - Lothar was a Theremin
• The Measles - Early Joe Walsh band
• Mickey Rat - Washington DC area punk musician from the early 80s
• Moron Tabernash Choir - 1970s group from Tabernash, CO
• Mythical Ethical Icicle Trycicle - alternate name for the Grateful Dead
• Naughty Frogs
• New Fast Automatic Daffodils
• Nurse With Wound
• Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
• Public Foot The Roman
• The Rude Goldbergs - Boulder, CO
• Screaming Asparagus
• The Soft Machine - Dallas' Got One
• Stirrup Trouble - Longmont, CO
• Technical Difficulties - short lived Boulder, CO band in the 80s
• Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs
• Tonto's Expanding Head Band - 1970s psychedelic band
• Twiddle
• Victoria's Secretion
• Warlock Pinchers
• Ween
• The White Trash Debutantes - San Francisco Punk Band

There seems to be a trend here:

• Humanure
• Mucis - Boulder, CO band
• Pee
• Snot

Humorous Names for New Bands

• Adamant Eve and the Holey Apples
• The Ambidexterous Dyslexics
• Appalachian Aberration
• The Aural Sectarians
• The Bat Monkeys
• The Braindead Machos
• Bubble Yuk
• Buckwheat and the O-Tays
• Caesar's Lesions - via Chris B.
• Chief Niwot's Curse
• Cleavage
• Code Nine Mary
• Comfort Noise
• The Copulation Explosion
• Dawn Surprise
• Daylight Slavings Time
• Divine Losers - Kesey
• Dog Breath
• Dog Spit
• The Draconian Overtones - from Joe R.
• The Drool Patrol, a.k.a. The Salivation Army
• Dyslexic Relevations
• Eggs 'n Seeds
• The Event Horizon
• The Ever-Changing Group of Friends
• Extatic Electricity
• The Fainting Goats
• The Flaming Sh*t Bags - via Lara Z.
• Four Beaver Hat
• Funny Religious Hats
• The Geologists (a rock band)
• Grok
• Gronk
• Headstash
• The Hee Haw Hoes
• The Hindu Gym Shoes - via Bart S.
• Ibuprofanity
• Jingnastics
• The Klezbians - via Joe R.
• Lesbian Chainsaw
• M.T. Void
• The Moroccan Rollers
• Multiple Units - a police band
• The New Normal
• Patient Zero
• Perfumigation
• Permanent Structural Damage
• The Pikers
• Pomp and Decadence
• Pretentious Beatnicks
• Ranky Stanky
• Real People, Not Actors
• RecycLED - good name for a Led Zep cover band
• Riff-Raf
• Rhythmic Babble
• Schlockmeister
• Schloshed
• The Schmegarettes
• The Secreters
• Sheer Stupidity
• Snork
• The Sloppy Seconds
• Solid Veneer
• Spacetime
• Strong Genes and Bad Habits
• Subspace Chatter
• Suicide by Meth
• The Sunday Monkeys - as in: Sunday Monkey vont très bien ensemble
• The Synaptic Cleft
• The Texan Connection
• The True Beleaguers - Via Paul D.
• Three Chords and an Attitude - Via Paul D.
• The Twang Bangers - via Joe R.
• Tone Deaf & Arrogant
• Twang
• Ugli
• The Ulnar Groove
• The Vegan Pagans
• Venus Envy - from Joe R.
• T.P. Hoarder and the Pandemics
• The Vocal Minority
• Wayne Gibbous and the Moonlighters
• White T
• Wide Eyed Grinnin'
• The Winjers
• World War 4
• Wyrd
• Yadda Yadda Odyssey
• You Reeka
• The Young Livers
• The Yuppie Tribe

Food Names

• Belching Seefood
• The Candy Sploofers - via Heather P.
• The Egg Roll Rappers - a Chinese Hip-Hop band
• Kosher Bacon
• Peas Unearthed
• Pork Sushi
• Tahini and the Beans
• Tastes Like Chicken
• Tuff Muffin

Names using the Apostrophe

• Bump 'n the Uglies
• Critters 'n Varmints
• Fat 'n Sassy
• Grind 'n the Pubes
• Hock 'n the Loogies

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