I'll start...

1) Cute is what we aim for

2) TV on the radio


...anymore?!

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly
Panic! At The Disco
Bowling For Soup
Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Neds Atomic Dustbin
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Sh!tdisco
Gay Bikers on Acid
Pop will Eat Itself
The Pigeon Detectives
The Victorian English Gentlemans club

I know that this isn't a band, but there is a firm in Leicester called T. Watts. Cracks me up every time I see their vans

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Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
They Shoot Horses Don't They?
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Architecture In Helsinki
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Help She Can't Swim

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Godspeed You Black Emperor
You Say Party We Say Die

Arctic Monkeys - silly name, great band. But if you think about it, some of the greatest bands in history had silly names but as you are so familiar with it, it doesn't sound strange at all...

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac
Led Zeppelin
U2
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The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, although I gather later on they dropped the "Doo Dah"

JJ

The The - a band so good they named it twice.

Bucket Full of Teeth
Tunes for Bears to Dance To
Holy Molar - for some reason I really like this one.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Haemostatic Picnic Races

Boy Least Likely To
Death Cab For Cutie
Also come to think of it, Snow Patrol is pretty weird too.

Clam Abuse
Strapping Young Lad
Do Me Bad Things
The Alpacinos

Can't believe I forgot, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Boy Least Likely To.

Difference is, that they were/are great bands. The Arctic Monkeys have a crap name and are a crap band.

Garbage is pretty weird

Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band

Husker Du

Dinosaur Jr

Anal C**t

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes




No idea what kind of music they play, but I love the name!

For weird group names, you'd have to go a long way to beat the 60s and 70s....

The Rock & Roll Double Bubble Trading Card Company Of Philadelphia
T.O.N.T.O..S Expanding Head Band
1910 Fruitgum Co.
Crazy Elephant
Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus
Capt. Groovy & His Bubblegum Army
The La De Das
Les Fleur De Les
The Q’65
The Masters Apprentices
Wimple Winch
Cuby & The Blizzards
The Ugly Ducklings
Winston’s Fumbs
The Electric Prunes
Mouse & The Traps
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
The Chocolate Watchband
The Magic Mushrooms
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Cupid's Inspiration
Frijid Pink
Shocking Blue
The Golliwogs (aka Creedence Clearwater Revival)
The Lollipop Shoppe
The Balloon Farm
The Unrelated Segments
Hedgehoppers Anonymous
The Harbinger Complex
The Clefs Of Lavender Hill
Zakary Thaks

....the list is endless

I blame the lsd...

So would they..... if they could remember


Pinkerton's Assorted Colours
Procul Harem
Quicksilver Messenger Service

OK, could someone please confirm or deny that there was a band in the 60s called 'Snotty and The Nose Pickers'.
It sounds as though it would be more like a punk band, but when watching a retrospective of John Peel's life, they played a clip of him from his Texas radio station from about 1964. (He was called John Ravenscroft at this point). In the clip he told listeners to tune to his show to hear the latest in 'magnificent English beat groups, such as Hollies, Kinks, Spencer Davies Group, Snotty and the Nose Pickers and Boys Blue'.
Searching the web came up with no reference to any band called Snotty and the Nosepickers, and I got the idea that Peel was having his own private joke at gullible Americans' expense: the idea that he could have dozens of Texans going 'yeah, I just love Snotty and the Nose Pickers' in a desperate attempt to sound cool.
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The New Pornographers . . . the name is funny .

My favourite is "The Seal Cub Clubbing Club"

the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah's - I find it difficult to say gracefully

Don't forget Foetus!

I also saw a local pub band once called Bessie And The Zinc Buckets!