What's Your Band's Name?

IMAGINARY band name, that is. While showering my bathing suit area this morning, my half-asleep head kept echoing the same bizarre phrase: "Bad Luck Underpants" "Bad Luck Underpants" "Bad Luck Underpants." I have no idea what that means -- or why I'm not in an asylum -- but I thought: "Great band name." So that's today's call to arms:

If you started a band, what would the name be?

We're looking for fictional band names. You know you got 'em in your head. They usually pop up at the weirdest times: in the shower, drifting off to sleep, while committing a heinous crime.

Here's my abbreviated list, culled over years of madness (notice there are no "the" bands -- too easy):

Eyeball From Liverpool
Aldous Huxley's Head
Preliminary Fuzzballs
Dusty Seeds (the Preliminary Fuzzballs tribute band)
Santa Nirvana
Mephistopheles Is Not My Name
Rotisserie Placenta Wednesday (for a Brazilian death metal band)
Chucha (pronounced CHOO-CHA)
The Scorpion Song
Becks Is Fat
My Bathing Suit Area
Government Cheese (which I just Googled to make sure of my originality, but someone already beat me to it. Screw 'em, it stays on the list).

And hey, if you're in a cool band and it has a cool name, let's hear that, too. I just reviewed a local group called Cuban Sandwich Crisis. Good stuff.

Comments

[Chase Squires]

Well, I've always been partial to "Spankin' Franklin'" as a band name .. and then, a band name I even had an idea for an album title ... Wall of Blubber ... their debut album would be "The Confusion of the Walruses" .. comes from a newspaper story I was reading one day .. "Ladies and gentlemen, fresh off their European tour promoting their first album, "The Confusion of the Walruses," Please welcome .... WALL OF BLUBBER!!(crowd goes wild) ... ooh, there's another one .. "Crowd Goes Wild" ... or maybe, "Crowd Goes Wilde" ... hmmmm

[Bubbles 4 Ever]

Lets see.....I was thinking "Plastic Pipettes". You know those little things you can squeeze water out of. I don't know why, but it has always sounded cool.

[Chase Squires]

as proof that everything has already been invented, a quick search of the 'net shows us multiple references to "spanking franklin" and even "spankin' franklin'" ... how weird is that?

[Anonymous]

butting rocksa rammstein tribute band

[Anonymous]

To The Moon and Back. Lets not(Go crazy)Fallin for the Cheese

[vicdavis]

LeelsNuttankVacation Bible SchoolCougar MelonscentDumbwaitersNo Frog DifferenceMen Eat RocksShittalker

[vicdavis]

Forgot one:My prog goblinesque horror soundtrack band is called "X Atencio"

[Steve Spears]

My favorite imaginary band name is taken from Senior Cruise (high school seniors, not the 65-year-old crowd) when I mistakenly mishead someone. When I asked some girl her favorite movie, she said "Sixteen Candles." But what did I -- in a not-too-entirely sober moment -- hear? Why, it had to be...Sleaze Teen Canvas!

[sparky]

Band name "Morningwood" first album "Dew on the Lily"

[Sean Daly]

Sparky, Sparky, Sparky: You gotta start reading my stuff.One of my fave new bands is called Morningwood. No kidding. New York power poppers with punk edge.I believe Bonerama is also taken.

[sparky]

I forgot about them. Heard them on XM on the 1 hour and 40 minute commute the other morning.See the name works!They could use the album name free of charge.

[chilledbongo]

i am going to call my new band 'the sean daleys'....we'll be doing everything but doors and barry manilow.

[Sean Daly]

Aw jeez, I'm flattered, CB.Although I'd be even more flattered if you had spelled my name correctly.

[Janet K. Keeler]

The Hausfraus, my all mommie alternative band that plays at kids' birthday parties. Or Milk Maids.

[Sparky]

Daly. OK Morningwood is taken, what about "The Sperm Pencils"

[Sean Daly]

According to a slightly disturbing Google search, "The Sperm Pencils" have not been taken.

[Chris M]

Microwave Pork ExplosionThe idea came to me after a drunken cook-out. I won't name the other ones we came up with.

[Steve Spears]

"Milk Maids" sounds like an all-female act all right. The kind that usually plays bachelor parties though.

[Tonka]

I don't know why...but I've always wanted "Dapper Dan and The Donkey Punchers." Kind of catchy.

[Anonymous]

Meerkat Mafia

[Anonymous]

hola, hi! I am a spanish boy that need some help... I am studying Advertising and want to know if pop-rock music influences in t.v advertising. If you don´t understand my question i´ll repeat it with other words. I need your help because all of you are experts in this area. Thanks a lot.

[Chase Squires]

Oh, heck yeah. Look at Cadillac, trying to lure all those aging baby boomers with Led Zep songs ... and a lot of unknown bands are beind the theme music of commercials .. A duo called Fischer did the "It's a beautiful world" song for Toyota on contract, they were hired to write the song .. And Chris Root's bands, AM60 and The Mosquitos both have songs used in adds (summertime girlfriend for Old Navy ... and Boom Box for Baily's Irish Creme) ...

[Anonymous]

Ok, thanks. And do you know any book i could search or read in internet of this materia?Thanks again

[Sean Daly]

"I Am a Spanish Boy" would be a great band name.

[Anonymous]

Hey, I have the perfect name for a band -- how about (wait for it):The Starland Vocal Band!

[ClayFan]

2 words - Courtesy Flush!...and just in case google reveals that Courtesy Flush is already taken by some High School wanna be post-Punk rock band in the UK, my back up is "ClayFan" (but we only perform Clay Aiken covers, in drag).

[vicdavis]

Something Liquid This Way Comes

[vicd]

Whoops that's my xxx movie name.And I would change the spelling of "Comes"

[Jim Slade]

Some proposed names:Wolfmask ManComing Through Your WindowHomerNaked GirlfriendCrustaceous in the WoodshedBecks is Fat - I believe this was an actual band in the 80's. They're having a reunion tour next month in Florida.

[Dale]

Maintain Your Machine

[Uncle Crappy]

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[Uncle Crappy]

Two stories about band names:1) My one and only actual attempt at naming a band was met with total, crushing rejection. A few buddies were assembling to play a New Year's Eve party I was hosting, and decided they wanted an offical name. I suggested "The Magically Delicious," and was laughed out of the room.2) While stopping in the men's room at The Union -- my favorite bar in Athens, Ohio, where I went to school -- I noticed that someone had started a graffiti thread on one of the stall doors, a list where you could fill in your favorite untaken band name. At No. 6: Uncle Crappy. I was so taken I took my girlfriend, now my wife, into the men's room so she could see. As I have about zero musical talent, I decided, years later, to co-opt the name for my blog instead.

[Prestocat]

a few band names:Smurf Stompin'Shemp's Not FunnyDead Girls Don't Say No

[Xaphene]

Morgan Unfairchild!

[HP]

hell pelletas in a bunch of hell, catch a bunch of hell, swallow a bitter pill, catch some fresh helll.....all morphed into hell pellet you know, like a pellet of pure hell********************************I even had a bass and amp (I don't play) a drummer (she doesn't play)and a kooky quitarist with a home made amp. Obviously, due to any lack of skills or natural talent we were to be a punk band.******************************** and, much like Uncle Crappy, I adopted the name for my blog!