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| 244.1 | | SMURF::LONGO | Mark Longo, USSG | Fri Jun 05 1992 13:25 | 66 |
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Following is a posting from the internet from a few years back that
lists local bands from the London area. A few are a bit off-color but within
conference guidlines I should think, Mr. Moderator.
From: [email protected] (Robert O'Connor)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers
Subject: Stupid Band Names
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
All the following are genuine UK band names from 1989 as stolen from the
Making Music freebee magazine (incidentally probably the best magazine of
its kind available here in Britain). I know this is more suited to
rec.humor, but you lot are probably a lot more discerning (and warped) than
that lot, so here goes...
Cheesy Hood And The Precautions
Bob is 32
Gang Green
Pink Volkswagen
And The Cow Went Yech
Psycho's Mum
Cosmic Orgasms
Cranial Cheesecake
Turbo Slag
Projectile Vomit
A Fridge Too Far
Son of God's Mate
Hairy Canary
Dang Wam Sam
Haddock Fish Beast
14 Iced Bears
Brief Case Full Of Slugs
Nel Mangle Versus The Robinsons
Emma Gibbs Loves Badgers
Blue Bum Snoggers
The Marauding Mutant Headbangers From Hell
Door Marked Summer
Throd
Rancid Hell Spawn
Polished Electric Head
Indigo Plankton-Motus
Ned The Sponge
Mad And Bonkers
Fat
Fat And Frantic
Poodle Whumpies
Foul Language And The Chicken *hits
Aardvark And The Swinging T*sticles
Toggle And The Dufflecoats
Billie Bowel And The Movements
Richard Brown And The House Of The Tragic Poet
Randolph Silage Pit And His Exploding Hamster
Dr Foulbreath And The Molten Medicine Show
Bongo Sherbert And The Electrified Yeti Wobblers
God And The Crazy Lesbians From Hell
Joe The Crow And The Birdseeds
Invasion Of The Lego Men (one of my old bands)
Apologies if you're actually in one of these bands, and if you're not, then
don't pinch them!!!
Rob O'Connor
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| 244.2 | A few more "double bills" | SELL3::FAHEL | Amalthea Celebras/Silver Unicorn | Fri Jun 05 1992 13:41 | 33 |
| One morning on WCGY's Comedy Stop was a comedian who was a genius on
group names. He was putting together the ultimate double bills.
(It might have been the same guy). Here are a few that he said:
Ratt/Poison
Prince/Queen
Guess Who/Who/U2/Yes
Madonna/Supertramp
Rush/Traffik
Cream/Bananarama
Talking Heads/Simple Minds
Guns 'n' Roses/.38 Special
Genesis/Earth, Wind & Fire
Styx/(Rolling)Stones
Meatloaf/Bread
REM/ELO
Some that I came up with:
Black Crows/Byrds
Monkees/Animals
Fat Boys/Weather Girls
Violent Femmes/New York Dolls
Sweet/Taste of Honey
John Stewart/Rod Stewart/Al Stewart/Amii Stewart/Charles Stewart...
King Crimson/King's X/Queen/Prince/Duke Ellington (The Royal Family)
Heart/Soul II Soul
Dr. Hook/Doc Severenson (sp)
John Butcher/Anita Baker (the "Where's the candlestickmaker?" tour)
The Raspberries/Wild Cherry/Bananarama
Paul Simon/Carly Simon
K.C.
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| 244.3 | | WONDER::REILLY | More 'Itchy and Scratchy!!!!' | Fri Jun 05 1992 13:52 | 6 |
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I think we did this double-bill thing in an old version.
My personal favorite was an actual double bill one year - Squeeze/Hooters.
- Sean
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| 244.4 | | WRKSYS::MARKEY | Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging | Fri Jun 05 1992 14:34 | 15 |
| I noticed in .1's list that there was a band named Gang Green. There
was also a Boston band by that name. I have one or two of their songs
on various local compilations.
Two other Boston bands that had "interesting" names:
Jerry's Kids
Painful Rectal Itch
Maybe in the double bill dept. Jerry's Kids could match up with the New
Kikds and Painful Rectal Itch could team up with the Buggles.
Oh never mind...
Brian
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| 244.5 | Appearing with Little Village... | CARTUN::CARTUN::BDONOVAN | | Fri Jun 05 1992 14:34 | 8 |
| K.C.-
The "Where's the Candlestick Maker Tour" is an excellent one!
(Jon Butcher/Anita Baker Tour)
Good work! :)
Brian
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| 244.6 | | SELL3::FAHEL | Amalthea Celebras/Silver Unicorn | Fri Jun 05 1992 15:15 | 11 |
| Re: .5
Thank you! :^)
Re: .3
There was..._I_ started it! As a matter of fact, .2 was a compilation
of all of my notes from that topic. (OK, so I cheated...but I DID add
a few new ones, too!)
K.C.
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| 244.7 | | DREGS::BLICKSTEIN | Mariah Carey's Fiance | Fri Jun 05 1992 18:24 | 11 |
| The Dregs and the Tops
> Squeeze/Hooters
Perhaps we could squeeze one more band in there:
Squeeze/The Firm/Hooters
Or how about:
The Birds and "The B's" (common nickname for the B-52s)
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| 244.8 | No Shirts, No Shoes - No Service | THEBAY::WIEGLEBDA | Push the button, Frank! | Fri Jun 05 1992 19:59 | 3 |
| At my school we almost had a line-up of "The Shirts" and "The Shoes"
- Dave
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| 244.9 | a few | NEMAIL::CARROLLJ | Immanuel Kant was a real . . . | Sun Jun 07 1992 12:55 | 35 |
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Re - "Where's the candlestickmaker? tour"
-excellent!! - good job!
mine =
REM/XTC/ELO/RTZ/OMD/INXS
The Waitresses/Eat at Joe's
Nirvana/East of Eden
The Bears/Wild Swans/The Animals
Joe Jackson/Jackson Browne/Michael & Janet Jackson
Donna Summer/Winter Hours/Bruce Spring-steen
The Fall/The Call/Hall & Oates
Choke/Fishbone
Boston/Chicago/L.A. Guns/N.Y. Dolls/America
ZZ Top/BB King/CC Ryder/GG Allen
Billy Joel/Billy Idol/Billy Bragg
MC 900 foot Jesus/Jesus Jones/Jesus & Mary Chain
-Jimbo
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| 244.10 | how about | WBC::DEADY | | Sun Jun 07 1992 18:57 | 7 |
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Madonna might prefer Steeley Dan......
;^))
Fred Deady
WBC::DEADY
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| 244.11 | TSOL | WMOIS::MAZURKA | Son of the Dawn | Sun Jun 07 1992 19:35 | 5 |
| Right said,Fred.......;-)
Question? Not Comedy,but does anyone know what"TSOL"stands for?
Crazy_set_up_Al
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| 244.12 | | RAVEN1::JERRYWHITE | Where's my DEC cadet handbook ? | Mon Jun 08 1992 09:09 | 2 |
| TSOL :== "Tough Sh*t Outta Luck"
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| 244.13 | True Sounds of Liberty | KID2::WIEGLEBDA | Push the button, Frank! | Mon Jun 08 1992 13:05 | 7 |
| RE: .11,.12 (TSOL)
Depends on the context I suppose. There was a band called "True Sounds
of Liberty" that got a bit of airplay in the early Eighties
which released a number of albums under the abbreviated "TSOL".
- Dave
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| 244.14 | as seen advertised in The Phoenix | DELNI::STHILAIRE | just another roll of the dice | Mon Jun 08 1992 17:31 | 5 |
| My favorite name for a local Boston band was -
Judy's Tiny Head
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| 244.15 | more groups | DELNI::YORSTON | | Tue Jun 09 1992 13:06 | 7 |
| here's a couple....
Mama's and Papa's with The Baby's
Black Crows with The Birds
U2 and UB40
Extreme/Pretenders
Outlaws with LA Guns
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| 244.16 | Before there was Gary Larson, there was B. Kliban | THEBAY::WIEGLEBDA | Push the button, Frank! | Tue Jun 09 1992 17:41 | 6 |
| RE: .14 (Judy's Tiny Head)
This is actually derived from a B. Kliban cartoon of some years back.
("The callous sophisticates laughed at Judy's tiny head.")
- Dave
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| 244.17 | They're up here too | TROFS::C_CONNOLLY | | Wed Jun 10 1992 17:57 | 14 |
| There are some interesting 'local' Canadian band names as well:
Melwood Cutlery & the Fashion Plates
Sing Along With Tonto
The Nancy Sinatras
Dayglo Abortions
Bratty & The Babysitters
Me, Mom & Morgentaler (Dr. Morgentaler is an pro-abortion activist)
Bunchofuckingoofs (I hope that's within conference rules)
Cal C.
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| 244.18 | some more | NEMAIL::CARROLLJ | Immanuel Kant was a real . . . | Wed Jun 10 1992 22:59 | 7 |
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Warrant/Arrested Development
Dr. and the Medics/Cure
Christopher Cross/Kriss Kross
Vanilla Ice/Ice Cube/Ice-T
Jimbo
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| 244.19 | :^) | ARRODS::OHAGANB | Four Thousand Week Hangover | Thu Jun 11 1992 08:45 | 6 |
| re .1
Thanks for the laugh. It's a fertile ground for new p-names.
Now, which one then?
barry.
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| 244.20 | | FORTSC::CHABAN | Make *PRODUCTS* not consortia!! | Mon Jun 15 1992 16:43 | 7 |
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A friend of mine had a punk band named The Lubricants
Only they pronounced it with a long A ;-)
-Ed
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| 244.21 | | JARETH::DKAPLAN | | Thu Jun 25 1992 15:56 | 10 |
| If we're talking sheer offensiveness, I always liked "The Crucifux"
Or for offensive innuendo value, there's "Snatches of Pink" (I read an interview
with them in which they claimed to have no knowledge of any sexual connotations
when they picked the name - oh come on!)
And sheerly as a side note, there's some band out now who's name escapes me,
but they have a GREAT name for an album:
"Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious":
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| 244.22 | | SEGAD1::FLATTERY | | Tue Dec 15 1992 16:08 | 3 |
| a couple of my faves............"Big Catholic Guilt" and "Two Nice
Girls"....(there are 4 women in the band, so i guess they leave it up
to their audience to figure it out)................;')........./k
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| 244.23 | here are a few | EZ2GET::STEWART | the leper with the most fingers | Wed Dec 16 1992 09:43 | 120 |
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The following material was extracted from note 2448 in the GUITAR
conference. If you're easily offended, I don't want to hear about it!
Most of these are names of working bands, but a few were proposed as
possibilities.
Seen in the San Diego Reader:
Paul Hayward & The Self Righteous Brothers
Womb Broom
Cranial Vacancy
Love Battery
Seen in an ad for the 8x10 club in south Baltimore:
The Non-Dairy Screamers
The Crazy Sacred Dogs
and in an ad for the Cat's Eye Pub in Fells Point (Baltimore):
Banjos From Hell
The Condo pygmies
Bishop Desmond and the tutu's
the Screaming Blue Messiahs
Clutch Grabwell and the Hacksaw Horns
Pygmy Love Circus
Celebrity Skin
Flies on Fire
the Frut
the Dentists
B.B. Chung King
Urban Sex Tribe
El Grupo Sexo
Barney's Bicycle
Possum Death
Bungee Chords
Alice To The Moon
Unruly Pig Farmers
Rod & The Pistons
The Bumpin' Uglys
Trostski Icepick
Nag Nag Nag
Aristocratic Trash
Ants Love It
Damnage
Black Market Elvis
Carboard Superstars
Rosetta Stones
& More
Lynyrd Skynhead
Too Many Joes
Downy Mildew
Delicious Mind Garden
The Eligible Spinsters
Live Nude Girls
Billy Bob & the Beer Bellies
Attilla The Stockbroker
Maurice Oxford And The Shooting Brakes
School of fish
Born again pagans
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggy
Tragically Hip
17 Pygmies
Afghan Wigs
African Head Charge
Algebra Suicide
Alice Donut
Anastasia Screamed
Appalachian Death Ride
Aztec Camera
Bitch Magnet
Black Markey Baby
Braindance
Brief Weeds
Carter & the Unstopable Love Machine
Cat Rapes Dog
Controlled Bleeding
Drumming on Glass
Gallon Drunk
Green Magnet School
Killdozer
Monster Magnet
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Out of Band Experience
Ozric Tentacles
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Screaming Trees
Straightjacket Fits
Strawberry Switchblade
Sucidal Tendencies
Tonto's Expanding Headband
Toys Went Berserk
Urge Overkill
Vanilla Trainwreck
The New World Orderlies
The S.I.D.S. -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Smegma and the Nuns
Endangered Feces
Leather Toys
Einst�rzende Neubauten (new buldings falling down)
Die Toten Hosen (The dead trousers)
A few band names from the Zurich/Switzerland area:
Swinging Zombies
Ladyshave
Shakin' Piranhas
Neon Babies
Toxic Shock
The Shy Guys
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| 244.24 | | SAHQ::LUBER | Atlanta Braves: 1993 World Champions | Wed Dec 16 1992 09:52 | 1 |
| My friend had a group in high school called The Bowel Movements
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| 244.25 | Thrash! | NAVY5::SDANDREA | Send lawyers, guns, and money! | Wed Dec 16 1992 12:15 | 5 |
| I tease my HM buddy about his fav group name being:
"Jonny Autopsy and the Coroners of Death"
8^)
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| 244.26 | The height of the punk era | KOLFAX::WIEGLEB | Ring on Meat | Wed Dec 16 1992 19:05 | 4 |
| A short-lived punk band at Clark University in Worcester, MA was
"Smeg Magoo and His Four Skins".
- Dave
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| 244.27 | | WMOIS::MAZURKA | Son_of_the_Swagger | Wed Dec 16 1992 21:27 | 1 |
| "2_Licks_And_A_Lash"
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| 244.28 | Miranda Sex Garden. | BLOOMS::OHAGANB | none | Fri Dec 18 1992 09:04 | 7 |
| .23
That should read, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Quite
popular over here in Blighty. Can't understand why though (he
says, looking over his shoulder for that Panes chappy).
barry.
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| 244.29 | from High School | AYRPLN::MOKIE::LAUER | Simply Irresistible | Fri Dec 18 1992 09:22 | 2 |
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"The Dog's Breakfast"
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| 244.30 | Art Rock Suite | TECRUS::ROST | I fret less these days | Fri Dec 18 1992 09:26 | 9 |
| Re: .29
Copped from the National Lampoon "Goodbye Pop" record, of course...
In which Christopher Guest does a dry run of his Nigel Tufnel character
when he appears as "Sid Gormless" of "The Dog's Breakfast". Great
tune, though...
Turiya Alice Cooper
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| 244.31 | | AYRPLN::MOKIE::LAUER | Simply Irresistible | Fri Dec 18 1992 13:01 | 4 |
| re: .30
I guess that's possible...but I don't think so, because this was
in 1977. What year was the National Lampoon record?
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| 244.32 | | TECRUS::ROST | Give me Beefheart or give me death | Fri Dec 18 1992 15:51 | 6 |
| Re: .31
"Goodbye Pop" came out in 74 or 75 I think...back to our regularly
scheduled program.
Brian
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| 244.33 | | WMOIS::MAZURKA | Son_of_the_Swagger | Tue Dec 22 1992 06:58 | 4 |
| Any_Body know what National_Lampoon album has Some_One immitating
Jack Kennedy singing"Wild_Thing"?
Crazy_It's_Pretty_Old_Al
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| 244.34 | Ocarinas �ber alles | RAGMOP::T_PARMENTER | mazap�n y turr�n | Tue Dec 22 1992 08:38 | 5 |
| Not NatLamp. There was a single with "Wild Thing" on both sides, one
by "Senator Bobby" [Kennedy] and the other by Senator Everett Dirksen,
"The Wizard of Ooze". I don't remember what name they gave the
Dirkesen impressionist.
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| 244.35 | HHHMMMM!!! | FAILTE::TELESALES | | Thu Jan 28 1993 12:23 | 19 |
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How's this for a painfull triple-bill:
Squeeze/The Beatles/Foreskins
Ouch!!!
paul
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