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bands with silly names ?
just been listening to the Twerps which i thought was a pretty silly name, but that's nothing compared to
The Broken Penis Orchestra or Hot Buttered Anal ... |
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Aborted Hitler Cock is my personal favourite.
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Kaiser Chiefs - named after a football team - enough said
Mumford & Sons - sounds like a painter and decorator business The Pigeon Detectives - What? The Kills - Sorry, The Killers was taken Northern Line - Best band name out of all the tube lines I suppose |
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Northern Line - Best band name out of all the tube lines I suppose
As for band names that are other tube lines, I don't know of any, but I'm sure there must be/have been some. |
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Once you're used to it any strange name will seem normal. When we first heard there was a new band called Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark it was a real WTF moment but noone thinks that now.
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I really hate it when artists give themselves "hilarious" versions of other, more famous musicians' names, like Joanna Gruesome and Chet Faker did.
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Here's a few funny band names that have always made me laugh:
Half Man Half Biscuit Ned's Atomic Dustbin Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Limp Bizkit Mint Royale Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine |
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Once you're used to it any strange name will seem normal. When we first heard there was a new band called Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark it was a real WTF moment but noone thinks that now.
In my defence, I was about ten when they first started out. |
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I really hate it when artists give themselves "hilarious" versions of other, more famous musicians' names, like Joanna Gruesome and Chet Faker did.
REO Speedealer (who later dropped the REO for legal reasons) Sex Beatles |
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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 |
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There was a sixties band called Piccadilly Line, which I think is better.
As for band names that are other tube lines, I don't know of any, but I'm sure there must be/have been some. |
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Phaser Whale is a really off the wall name for a band.
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New Fast Automatic Daffodils.(they shortened it to New FADS!)
'We've got a Fuzzbox and we're gonna use it' - shortened to Fuzzbox when they went all poppy. |
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I thought they were Our Kestrel Manoeuvres in the Dark at first which does kind of work.
In my defence, I was about ten when they first started out. |
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One of the groups whose music was used in the London 2012 Opening Ceremony was called F Buttons.
Well, I suppose they couldn't use their actual name - F*** Buttons. |
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As mentioned earlier, familiarity tends to diminish the silliness but Prefab Sprout still jars with me even after all these years.
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Brit-Funk outfit Central Line were quite popular at the turn of the 70s/80s.
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