Kajagoogoo (and Limahl)
Haircut 100
Anti-Pasti - against pasta! They took it from an Italian restaurant menu: 'ante pasta' as in before pasta (a starter) and punked it up.
Anti-Nowhere League
U.T.F.O. - always sounded a bit corny to me when expanded to Untouchable Force Organization. I think they should have skipped the Organization bit.
Intentional foolishness that I quite like:
Crispy Ambulance
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
The Happy Flowers (Mister Anus & Mister Horibbly Charred Infant)
Furious Pig
Johnny Hates Jazz - how can anyone hate jazz? A crappy pop band shouldn't even have the right!
The Poison Girls - a band with one female
America, Portishead, Kansas, Boston, Asia, Europe etc. - Put something with it for goodness sake! Be The Ohio Players, Detroit Emeralds, Stockholm Monsters
Jamiroquai
Spice Girls
Inspiral Carpets
Tygers of Pan Tang
Big Audio Dynamite - stupid band, matching name. Painfully hip for a while.
The Buggles
Atomic Kitten
5ive
Girls Aloud
Vomit Visions
Tears For Fears
Fun Boy Three
(not a band but) Puff Daddy (and P Diddy)
Snoop Doggy Dog / Snoop Dog / Snoop Lion