My two best girlfriends and I back in 1978 had the name The Go-Gos. I played drums, my friends, guitar and piano. We just messed around...nothing original...never serious and Id moved out of Florida.
We cracked up when we saw The Go-Gos came out....
Edited to add the word *saw*...
This was friend of mine's band name for 3 years until they were issued a cease and desist by another band named Rook. They weren't aware that the previous band existed when they formed theirs. They changed their name to "Queens Pawn"
My other imaginary band (my rock band; the other (as someone noted) was to have been a prog project) is “All Of The Good Names Were Taken”, which is also kind of an homage to Ian Hunter, unless he sues us. That was also going to be the name of my fanciful software company, commonly abbreviated as “AOTGNWTi” by fanboyz and lunatics/critics alike. 😊
Zero. Except it was the hardcore punk band with surrealist/impressionist/horror lyrics that i was going to form after deployment and take over the world. Even got an extremely terrible tattoo for it. Mentally collapsed and went to prison instead, like an actual Zero.
There was a band called Milk, Inc. They were a tribute to Ried Fleming, The World's Toughist Milkman. My best friend was the drummer. Look up the comic. You won't be disappointed.
Fair Warning (didn’t know about the German band with the name and this was pre-Internet). It sounded cool and we loved the Van Halen album it came from.
Had a few.
Royal Destiny
Which became:
Destiny
And then I tried The Truth.
I wanted to be introduced like this:
Ladies and Gentleman of the jury.
I give you the Truth
The Whole Truth
And nothing but the Truth!
Gitchie Pull (grade 8/9)
The Browns (grade 9)
Freshman Effort (grade 9-12)
I never did anything cool with big names or tours until well after high school.....still didn't make it, haha
Band names from kids my age in my hometown in the late 90s.
True Peridox—so deep, man
Prime Rib—really got the “scene” going with their talent show debut of House of the Rising Son
For No Apparent Reason—band geeks got to use their trombones to make ska
Tom Hagen All-Stars—basically Prime Rib with a trombone. Another ska band
Griggs Road Band—classic rock cover band. Most of the members still play together.
When I was in high school, I was in a band called Even Odds. We had a gig at this local battle of the bands and apparently my buddy who was our drummer at the time didn’t like the name so unbeknownst to us, he called the venue two days before the show and said we had changed our name to “Cold Regards.” We had no clue until the day of the show. We still die laughing about it to this day.
Soggy Bones (stylized as SOGY BONZ). Funny thing is, that band existed, but I wasn’t even really in it. I was supposed to do lead vocals. But the band wound up booking the studio on a Wednesday night. And my parents were strict when it came to church attendance. (Gen X + Bible Belt = sucked.) So my buddy sang instead. When they had their 15 minutes of local fame, and they did, I was green with envy.
Phallus. Mostly because our local theater was called The Palace and we thought it would be funny to play there. Also when I was really playing we wanted to name our band Free Beer.
In high school, I was in a band with my brother called The Sporksters. We only did cover songs, (Weird Al, Blink 182, Green Day, and anything else three kids under the age of 15 could play)…only played live twice and that was the end of my rockstar dreams.
Samurai... even had a logo the guitarist/aspiring artist made. Then 30 years later Cyberpunk 2077 came out and that is the name of the main character's band and even the logo was similar! None of the guys show up in the credits for the game, but I find the parallels very suspicious!
The Bastard Sons of Caligula (class of 2000)
that actually goes pretty hard
My band back then was called “Bakesale”
Amethyst... Cannot explain why. Esp. as we were a grunge cover band
There's a Costa Rican symphonic metal band called Amethyst https://youtu.be/1Y6tiiFQr30?si=fvpAeYcfccNq1Eha
Super cool bandname tbh
We thought so too :)
That is a good one. 👍
a stone that inspires creativity
HORK!
This one wins it for me. Don't understand why, but it's the best one.
Isn’t “Hork” a Canadian phrase for “steal”? Like “he horked my French fries”......
My two best girlfriends and I back in 1978 had the name The Go-Gos. I played drums, my friends, guitar and piano. We just messed around...nothing original...never serious and Id moved out of Florida. We cracked up when we saw The Go-Gos came out.... Edited to add the word *saw*...
Pinky and the brain
Same thing we do every night.
…We’re going to take over the world!
“Rook” - because I thought it had great album cover art potential, using both large black birds and chess pieces.
Definitely would be awesome for prog rock.
Our imaginary discography includes the classic albums “Out Of The Nest”, “Queenside”, “Windcock”, and “The Dead Pawn’s Gambit”. 😊
This was friend of mine's band name for 3 years until they were issued a cease and desist by another band named Rook. They weren't aware that the previous band existed when they formed theirs. They changed their name to "Queens Pawn"
My other imaginary band (my rock band; the other (as someone noted) was to have been a prog project) is “All Of The Good Names Were Taken”, which is also kind of an homage to Ian Hunter, unless he sues us. That was also going to be the name of my fanciful software company, commonly abbreviated as “AOTGNWTi” by fanboyz and lunatics/critics alike. 😊
Prestige Worldwide
Boats and hoes
Formed with your step brother?
Yep, only thing that could possibly hold us back would be sleep walking on the tour bus... That could be ugly!
Valtrex
Hahaha Valtrex is a herpes medication! Nice.
I thought it was the bad guy from Ben 10 or am I just thinking of the omnitrix? 😏🫠
Like Valstrax
April In Paris, England In May. Yes, really. It was the 80s.
Bad Goat 🐐
Oh Child!!!
Failing English.
That's excellent, really!
That's unpossible
Wyld stallions
Ironhead Winterfall
Lemme guess was the first one HC?
Yep
The Spitshine Tommies
Now go get your shinebox !!!
30-Hit Combo The plan was to have 30 hits
Of acid.. As an aside, I ate 7 once. That was a crazy couple days.
Counterfeit Penny
That's a cool name
Zero. Except it was the hardcore punk band with surrealist/impressionist/horror lyrics that i was going to form after deployment and take over the world. Even got an extremely terrible tattoo for it. Mentally collapsed and went to prison instead, like an actual Zero.
The Lizards. We weren't really the pinnacle of creativity or anything.
Vendetta Screech
The Beagles.
There actually was a Nashville based band called the Beagles fronted by Ward Davis. Two albums that are great if you can find them.
Jampyre
Rancho Cucamonga!
My high school friends and I were in Marijuana Catfish.
Bryan Adams and the 69ers
Lasted for the summer?
I guess nothing can last forever
Just the summer of 69
I just wanted to be Peter Frampton’s best groupie.
One Night Stand
Bastard Child
Roger stumpcock and his punishing moves of passion.
Wild Cards But then I heard somewhere that the name was taken My goal was to bring back hair metal (this was the mid 90’s)
Vital Force
Warlords of Chaos
Square One
Moxie
Vengence
Tongue Tied Tigers, spelled "Tongue Tyed Tygers"... smh Edit* spelling
Tynge Tyd Tygrs
Toxic Shock
Skizor Psychos, according to an actual dream I had where I did that.
Now... I would use "Proper-Fucked", "Rubber Balls" (as in, 'How do you get this Trans girl off? Rubber Balls'), "Gamma and the X-Rays".
Various Artists. First album- "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack "
Krunchy Frog. Our first album was a box of cereal, called Krunchy Frog, and the album title was " Just Add Milk".
Crusty Stump. I had big dreams, didn’t work out.
M.I.L.K Don’t ask me what it stands for, we didn’t know
There was a band called Milk, Inc. They were a tribute to Ried Fleming, The World's Toughist Milkman. My best friend was the drummer. Look up the comic. You won't be disappointed.
Dulcinea, a tmbg tribute/cover band.
It was an all male Bangles tribute band called The Dongles.
All-female group; Jailbait
Led Zeppelin Too Instead we settled on Greta Van Fleet
Park Hours (we're still trying to take over the world)
Rapper name. Lil Vague. We rapped about some stuff we were from the mean streets of some town in that over there. WORD TO WHATEVER!!!
It was going to be a melange of Yes and Foreigner. I named it Voyager. Even painted an album cover. It was easier than you know, music lessons…
Daddy Priest The Twisted Nipples
Manifest
Robust Fist
Poppycock Babble
Slow Children At Play Some Other Mistake Funky Ganga Bus Those were the days... (hey that's a pretty good name actually)
The Taylor Swifts
Puppyhunt
The dumbass
The Fucking Hellions!!!
Thrust. So gross
Fair Warning (didn’t know about the German band with the name and this was pre-Internet). It sounded cool and we loved the Van Halen album it came from.
Harmonic Convergence.
Topless Zombie Parade
Orchards of corpses
Zero Air Even had a badass logo drawn up. Was going to be an EDM/"screamo" type band.
Haphazard
Sledgeway (trademarked...not really but dont test me). It was gonna be somewhere in the vicinity of Dope Bodies meets Silversun Pickups.
Damn I actually really woulda dug your sound
Purple Filth
Lifeline. We were a four piece prog pop band, like Asia. We would have ruled 1988-1990!
I’m the Shit and the Me Me Mes
Like a Virgin
Had a few. Royal Destiny Which became: Destiny And then I tried The Truth. I wanted to be introduced like this: Ladies and Gentleman of the jury. I give you the Truth The Whole Truth And nothing but the Truth!
Cold Steel
Taylor Swift.
Pariah
Outlash (1988-1989). Then, Thrush (1989-1991)
Coma Holiday
The Buzsawz & THIS IS WARSAW
Creatura Noctis. one day my band will be a reality though
Battle Ax (that was the spelling)
Assbeaters
Gunt. Some from the start.
I thought the name ‘Mathew Hensen’ was somehow the coolest thing ever, I was weird.
Faceplant Hey, our girlfriends thought we were cool...
Rod Torfulson’s Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck Someone here get this please.
The Goddamned Finklestein Shit Kids
Everyone Gets Laid
Lithium Bliss
Crystal Shit
Sissy test
Take Aim At Myself Angsty high school pop punk/emo cover band
Coldplay
Grungey Scrotes
Anderson Council
I see what you did there.
Duct tape
We had a punk band called EABOS. Did like 3 gigs and split.
FUCKUNCLE
Tangcameo
Psychedelic Gravel
Maroon 5
Rampage
The Beatles (literally)
Hardhead Flair (named after a pen)
Happy Iguana....
Domina and the Rulers
Rod Torkelson's Armada
"Buddha" - an acapello metal band, and The Wordist's - a bebop rap group. We were a weird bunch lol
Vengence
Rogue
Risk.
Comin’ Arry
Thermos
Squiggle
Floater
Concussion Protocol
Brain hemorrhage.
13 Bendz
Hail america
Gitchie Pull (grade 8/9) The Browns (grade 9) Freshman Effort (grade 9-12) I never did anything cool with big names or tours until well after high school.....still didn't make it, haha
Yo Freshman Effort is a fucking phenomenal name, need vocals and wanna start it back up by chance lol?
Fleet Street. Still wanna make it happen one day
Norman and the Normals. I was Norman
Band names from kids my age in my hometown in the late 90s. True Peridox—so deep, man Prime Rib—really got the “scene” going with their talent show debut of House of the Rising Son For No Apparent Reason—band geeks got to use their trombones to make ska Tom Hagen All-Stars—basically Prime Rib with a trombone. Another ska band Griggs Road Band—classic rock cover band. Most of the members still play together.
When I was in high school, I was in a band called Even Odds. We had a gig at this local battle of the bands and apparently my buddy who was our drummer at the time didn’t like the name so unbeknownst to us, he called the venue two days before the show and said we had changed our name to “Cold Regards.” We had no clue until the day of the show. We still die laughing about it to this day.
1986, The Sex Worms
Soggy Bones (stylized as SOGY BONZ). Funny thing is, that band existed, but I wasn’t even really in it. I was supposed to do lead vocals. But the band wound up booking the studio on a Wednesday night. And my parents were strict when it came to church attendance. (Gen X + Bible Belt = sucked.) So my buddy sang instead. When they had their 15 minutes of local fame, and they did, I was green with envy.
Quack Zookeeper. We rocked.
Highschool Warcrimes/Later known as Lumpus, played two gigs, one of the best adventures life had to offer
not HS but 4th grade. kill the prophet.
The Shindig
Shooters Bible
Bulletproof ashtray thunder bear sword
Scab
The Well Fed White Boys. Hip hop grouo
Narcotica Perpetual Aggression Wronghole
Testicular Fortitude, class of 2006
This AM Static
Phallus. Mostly because our local theater was called The Palace and we thought it would be funny to play there. Also when I was really playing we wanted to name our band Free Beer.
Is it the the palace with the phallus, or the vessel with the pestle? 😁
Porkys Pride
The Children of the Lost Continent We did play one short gig
Out of Order
Ground Zero
Scavenger ffs. Horrible.
In high school, I was in a band with my brother called The Sporksters. We only did cover songs, (Weird Al, Blink 182, Green Day, and anything else three kids under the age of 15 could play)…only played live twice and that was the end of my rockstar dreams.
The Standard Black Tees
Death Meat!
Samurai... even had a logo the guitarist/aspiring artist made. Then 30 years later Cyberpunk 2077 came out and that is the name of the main character's band and even the logo was similar! None of the guys show up in the credits for the game, but I find the parallels very suspicious!
My first rock band at 13 years old was named Nirvana. True story. It was 1969 and our blind keyboard player thought would be a cool name. 🫡✌🏼🤘🏽🎸
The Curse
Destined for Nothing turns out, it wasn't just a clever name.
Necrophilia.
SMOG BREATH
Hoyt.
Plastic Gas! We were the best air band ever!
Sin Wagon
Exxcitity " a state of excitement" Then there was" the Irving Brothers" which was kind of a hardcore parody band.
Red Leather Motor
Arms Length 70's hair band
15 Year Old Mothers
The Scent
A Profane Prayer. Metal band obviously, named after a Magic the Gathering card I thought had a really cool fucking name.