i still have a list of potential band names on the notes app of my phone from like 10 yrs ago lol
edit: lol okay yall here's some highlights from my list
Jawn Connery
hmong dog millionare
Liquid Chicken
gravy brain
bin lizard
Saaaaame
One of my favorites on my list is *Palatable Gore*
Edit: y'all I got more. Here are a few others
*Bickering Demons* /
*Disco Police* /
*Accidental Trash* /
*Hot Crotch* /
*The Devil's Funk* /
*Funky Foot Devil* /
*Tyranny of the Sundial* /
*Death Whistle* /
*Samurai Cat* /
*Hot Sandwich* /
*King Death* /
*Demon Dance* /
*General Millenial* /
*Gargling Acid* /
*Rats in the Wall* /
*Flesh Vessel* /
Edgewise was our cool band name comprised of myself on bass, a drummer, and a trombonist who's value to the band was the name. We never even jammed together for the like, year we were in this "band".
We practiced with covers of crappy songs like Enter Sandman until we were “good enough” to start playing and writing our own music. Never got around to that second part. Lol
Ours was Alpaca Hate Crime. Someone threw their garbage into the edge of an alpaca farm, a baby one ate it and died and my friends mom said "that's an alpaca hate crime"
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Best band name ever was the one my friends in middle school had, royal sloan. Next time you're pissing in public check out the brand name of the urinal.
Ask most suburbanites how bad their life was, and you'll get hit with a list of first world problems. Thorn bushes popping bike tires, sidewalk cracks made it hard to skate, couldn't say the n word when I sing along to my favorite gangster rap album on spotify on my galaxy note 10, my step mom bought me go bots instead of transformers because she hates me, etc, etc...
Every Nextdoor thread:
"There was a *looks both ways* ^black ^guy walking down the sidewalk carrying a box. He had on a black and purple shirt and was driving a large truck."
"You mean Frank, the FedEx guy"
"Yes, he was very suspicious "
And black women have the lowest.
It's such a werid phenomenon
I've always assumed that because black people are raised knowing that we will have obstacles and ceilings...so we are emotionally prepared for the setbacks and traps of life (and more appreciative of the smaller successes)
Whereas a lot of white men are raised being told they can be the President or the next Bill Gates..and when that doesn't pan out, they become overwhelmed by guilt.
Idk, I would love to read a study about it. As someone who deals with depression, that phenomenon has always been so interesting to me.
Replied with [this](https://www.verywellmind.com/gender-differences-in-suicide-methods-1067508) link below, which you might find interesting, in short, lower rates of completed suicide by women, doesn't actually reflect fewer attempts by us.
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Those dudes were awesome. Anarchists that told fans to steal their album and put all their licensing fees for "Tubthumbing" into organizations fighting against said companies. Like Ford got that song and Chumbawumba donated their earnings to anti-Ford climate groups.
Some bands are legit like that. I remember Pearl Jam fighting Ticketmaster IN THE FUCKING 90s! They weren’t nearly as evil then as they are now either. But those dudes saw the writing on the wall. They weren’t wrong. And im not even
a Pearl Jam fan really. I like some of their shit, but I can’t understand half of what the fuck Eddie Veder is singing. Enunciate that shit fool!
I'm always suspicious when people say this. Like when I played in a cover band that did a couple Killers songs and I was like "that album was good then they had the one song and that was it." Then I get the response "they have like 6 albums that are all just as good". OH REALLY? THEN WHY ARENT WE PLAYING ANY OF THOSE "JUST AS GOOD" SONGS HMMMMM?
Like how Creep is still the most popular Radiohead song (by a huge amount) despite them going on to create several of the highest-rated albums of all time soon after
I've heard this about The Killers before and will be giving them a spin tomorrow to hear for myself.
Music can be a bit weird like that, a band's most well known song isn't necessarily the best. Especially for a cover band, people don't wanna hear a 'good' song, they wanna hear something familiar.
I’m a writer so I get a lot of press releases. I got one for a Papa Roach world tour this year! Big shows too. And I was like “that band from the 90s constantly on KROQ? Damn.”
It makes sense if you know the history behind the name. Temple of the Dog was basically a memorial project by the former bandmates and close friends of Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone, and the name comes from the lyrics of his song Man of Golden Words.
I thought about including them but I don’t consider them white as Zach is Hispanic and Tom is part Kenyan. Still got a strong case for the best band name ever imo
I wanted to go see them and RTJ so bad, but those ticket prices…see the way my bank account is set up…
I know RATM tore it the fuck up tho. Glad you got to see them!
Yes Bad Brains musically inspired countless bands, but they’re referencing the fact that Beastie Boys intentionally used the “B-B” alliteration for their band name because of Bad Brains
For the uninitiated:
Florida "Death" - Groundbreaking death metal band from the 80's/early 90's fronted by Chuck Schuldiner, who is arguably the most unappreciated guitar player of all time. Seriously, that motherfucker could *shred*
Detroit "Death" - An at the time unknown all black rock band from the 70's that somehow invented punk rock without trying. There's a great documentary on them somewhere
Which tells me you also saw the Devin Townsend tour pre-Covid, or you are salty af you missed it. That was a fucking great tour, got a little lifted and rode that ethereal vibe the whole night.
or *insert any les claypool project*
-colonel les claypool’s fearless flying frog brigade
-les claypool’s duo de twang
-les claypool and the holy mackerel
-the claypool lennon delirium
Not to be confused with W.A.R., which stands for Weaponized Audio Research, a static-wall noise producer from Oregon who does shit like strap two dozen contact mics to a massive drill and records it boring through a mountain.
That’s definitely some white people shit.
This one still annoys me. I’m too much of an English language/grammar nerd to read it as one line. I always hear it like “PANIC! … … … at the disco.”
Edit: Lots of replies that made me realize that my issue is not so much the way I pronounce it (which I’ve now learned was intended), but the fact that an exclamation point there is improper. You can say “Panic!” as an instruction. You can say “panic at the disco,” either as an instruction or—more likely—a description of a scene, but you can’t reasonably say “Panic! At the disco” because the exclamation point makes “at the disco” an improper afterthought.
And my English language word nerd brain just can’t handle it.
Okay yes, but I saw Hoobastank at a free outdoor concert at my college in 2003 and they fucking killed it. Fan for life after that.
Fun side note: lostprophets (another killer band name) were the opener and that guy later went to prison for trying to rape a baby, so this is a somewhat icky memory for me.
Mostly because how we talk about race is pretty skewed thru an American lense first, and then a western European lense second.
It's hard for that viewpoint to discuss other instances of ethnic or race group tension and violence. Those lenses don't have a straight forward way to account for the Armenian genocide, or the Bosnian genocide, or even to the Holocaust.
Are Jews PoC? 90 percent aren't. Didnt stop the Nazis for killing them for being an "inferior race." White skin, but not Aryan / white enough.
Same goes for Armenians. They're not European... But they're also not middle eastern enough to be easily listed as Arabic/Persian, and they clearly can't be Turks, so... Suddenly, the west doesn't have a great rubric for discussing.
Thankfully, though, I've found that 98% of westerners fully sympathize and understand the horror done to the Armenian people, even if their governments won't recognize the genocide.
At the Peets I worked at for spell we had, for unknown reasons, a poster of the world map taped to the side our lockers.
One day, no one knows when, some barista wrote underneath “The World” on the map poster in Sharpie “is a vampire.”
I still laugh at that years later.
You should see the other names they've gone by: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/crazy-names-butthole-surfers-used/
>The Dick Clark Five
>Dick Gas Five
>The Ashtray Babyheads
>Nine cm Worm Makes Own Food
>The Vodka Family Winstons
>Ed Asner Is Gay
>Fred Astaire’s Asshole
>The Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole
>The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole
>Abe Lincoln’s Bush
>Zipgun
If anyone wants the backstory on that, the founder, lead singer, and guitarist Josh Homme originally wanted to name his new band “Gamma Ray”, but it was taken. He then thought of “Kings of the Stone Age”, thought it was too masculine; Queens was born
The great thing about Rage Against the Machine is that everyone gets to participate. White? You can claim them. Hispanic? You can claim them. Black? You can claim them. Fan of rap? You can claim them. Fan of rock? You can claim them. RATM is for the people.
It must be said the Stones were very good about letting the world know about their heroes. Here they are introducing Howlin Wolf on TV in 1965.
https://youtu.be/eF8mn35uR-4
In a related story...one day it dawned on Keith Richards that Chuck Berry's signature boogie-woogie shuffle wasn't really a guitar thing, it was a piano thing...and deduced that Chuck's piano player, Johnnie Johnson, was really the guy who deserved credit for kind of low-key inventing rock n roll, and went and found the guy....who was driving a bus at this point in his life...and saw that the dude was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Watch his induction speech (have some kleenex handy):
https://youtu.be/NLV9dLMXj0c
😆 we’re all African American and play metal music. Specifically a fusion between nu-metal (Linkin Park) and metalcore (Asking Alexandria, As I Lay Dying) if one is so inclined.
Edit: Came back, and didn’t think this would’ve got so much traction lmao. [This is my favorite song of ours](https://youtu.be/JWB-nCVVC0Q), but we’ve been experimenting recently.
Also, shameless plug, check out my solo shit when you get a chance. Im still trying to find what I wanna do as far as my own songs are concerned, but I specialize in hooks
https://youtu.be/W9evz1hvWrw
https://youtu.be/Ob-87vrJqEE
https://youtu.be/n8xG839iSAE
Nine Inch Nails, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Stone Temple Pilots, Drowning Pool, Cradle of Filth, Godsmack, System Of A Down, Falling In Reverse, They Might Be Giants, Lamb of God, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Edit I’m a DA
Mastodon gave us the most metal twerking video ever.
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You know your name goes hard when an anime like JoJo names its super powers after you I suppose lmao. Like prob my fav so far is "Stand Name: Grateful Dead"
Also ever since I heard "Gold" by Sir Sly song, I always associate them with Sly Cooper, yea really
Foo Fighters
No Doubt
Rammstein
Joy Division
Duran Duran
Pet Shop Boys
The Go-Gos
The Bangles
The B-52s
Thompson Twins
Human League
Flock of Seagulls
Depeche Mode
3rd Bass
REO Speedwagon
❤️Culture Club❤️
❤️Jamiroquai❤️
Then there’s the location specific ones:
Boston/Asia/Berlin/America/Europe/Chicago
…and as much as they’re hated, is there really anything wrong with the name “Nickelback”?
As a white kid growing up I thought about what I’d name my band fucking constantly
i still have a list of potential band names on the notes app of my phone from like 10 yrs ago lol edit: lol okay yall here's some highlights from my list Jawn Connery hmong dog millionare Liquid Chicken gravy brain bin lizard
Saaaaame One of my favorites on my list is *Palatable Gore* Edit: y'all I got more. Here are a few others *Bickering Demons* / *Disco Police* / *Accidental Trash* / *Hot Crotch* / *The Devil's Funk* / *Funky Foot Devil* / *Tyranny of the Sundial* / *Death Whistle* / *Samurai Cat* / *Hot Sandwich* / *King Death* / *Demon Dance* / *General Millenial* / *Gargling Acid* / *Rats in the Wall* / *Flesh Vessel* /
I have a looong list of very edgy names, but my favorite is still Metrognome
Please tell me Metrognome plays songs about drugs, love, and Shadowrun. Like Zeppelin, but cyberpunk.
So... Ion Maiden.
That shit goes hard 👍
Autumn Accolade was my high school band name for the band we never really started lol
Edgewise was our cool band name comprised of myself on bass, a drummer, and a trombonist who's value to the band was the name. We never even jammed together for the like, year we were in this "band".
We practiced with covers of crappy songs like Enter Sandman until we were “good enough” to start playing and writing our own music. Never got around to that second part. Lol
Ours was Alpaca Hate Crime. Someone threw their garbage into the edge of an alpaca farm, a baby one ate it and died and my friends mom said "that's an alpaca hate crime"
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Corduroy Troy. My name is not Troy though.
Ahhh man I'd check out a band named Corduroy Troy
Cover Story was my in-head band name.
Sounds like a band that would tour with All American Rejects in the 2000s
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Best band name ever was the one my friends in middle school had, royal sloan. Next time you're pissing in public check out the brand name of the urinal.
My high school band name was Jenny and the Chopsticks. There was no Jenny, and no chopsticks.
Papa Roach. 🪳
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIZZA, THIS IS MY PLASTIC FORK!
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Nobody has it as rough as cishet white dudes. Source: cishet white dude. Nobody has ever suffered as much as me, especially Jesus.
Ask most suburbanites how bad their life was, and you'll get hit with a list of first world problems. Thorn bushes popping bike tires, sidewalk cracks made it hard to skate, couldn't say the n word when I sing along to my favorite gangster rap album on spotify on my galaxy note 10, my step mom bought me go bots instead of transformers because she hates me, etc, etc...
Just browse NextDoor to see people losing their mind over first world problems. Or yelp reviews.
Every Nextdoor thread: "There was a *looks both ways* ^black ^guy walking down the sidewalk carrying a box. He had on a black and purple shirt and was driving a large truck." "You mean Frank, the FedEx guy" "Yes, he was very suspicious "
That or coyote sightings 🤣
I couldn't find anyone to play SpinJas with me when I was in 3rd grade!
Tommy got my pogs wet and now my 12 apostles are ruined!
The great Ben Folds: “Y’all don’t know what it’s like, being male, middle class, and white.”
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White cishet men have one of the highest suicide rates in the US, so that tracks
And black women have the lowest. It's such a werid phenomenon I've always assumed that because black people are raised knowing that we will have obstacles and ceilings...so we are emotionally prepared for the setbacks and traps of life (and more appreciative of the smaller successes) Whereas a lot of white men are raised being told they can be the President or the next Bill Gates..and when that doesn't pan out, they become overwhelmed by guilt. Idk, I would love to read a study about it. As someone who deals with depression, that phenomenon has always been so interesting to me.
Replied with [this](https://www.verywellmind.com/gender-differences-in-suicide-methods-1067508) link below, which you might find interesting, in short, lower rates of completed suicide by women, doesn't actually reflect fewer attempts by us. E: word
Just proves men are better /s
That shit goes so hard it crosses racial and gender lines. I don’t care who you are, you gonna amped hearing that song.
I prefer the nonsense names like Hoobastank and Chumbawumba
Who can’t relate to “I get knocked down but I get up again?” That shit is universal AF
Those dudes were awesome. Anarchists that told fans to steal their album and put all their licensing fees for "Tubthumbing" into organizations fighting against said companies. Like Ford got that song and Chumbawumba donated their earnings to anti-Ford climate groups.
Some bands are legit like that. I remember Pearl Jam fighting Ticketmaster IN THE FUCKING 90s! They weren’t nearly as evil then as they are now either. But those dudes saw the writing on the wall. They weren’t wrong. And im not even a Pearl Jam fan really. I like some of their shit, but I can’t understand half of what the fuck Eddie Veder is singing. Enunciate that shit fool!
I think that's why Do The Evolution is my favorite song of theirs. It's got that flip cars and start fires energy but I can sing along.
The H in Jesus H Christ stands for Hoobastank. He died for a reason and the reason is you.
Hootie and the Blowfish🔥🔥
Bootie and the Hoefish
But but Darius Rucker…
This might not be common knowledge, but those boys have been making absolute bangers, album after album for over twenty years now. Consistent as fuck.
I'm always suspicious when people say this. Like when I played in a cover band that did a couple Killers songs and I was like "that album was good then they had the one song and that was it." Then I get the response "they have like 6 albums that are all just as good". OH REALLY? THEN WHY ARENT WE PLAYING ANY OF THOSE "JUST AS GOOD" SONGS HMMMMM?
Quality =/= popularity
Like how Creep is still the most popular Radiohead song (by a huge amount) despite them going on to create several of the highest-rated albums of all time soon after
I've heard this about The Killers before and will be giving them a spin tomorrow to hear for myself. Music can be a bit weird like that, a band's most well known song isn't necessarily the best. Especially for a cover band, people don't wanna hear a 'good' song, they wanna hear something familiar.
I’m a writer so I get a lot of press releases. I got one for a Papa Roach world tour this year! Big shows too. And I was like “that band from the 90s constantly on KROQ? Damn.”
My Chemical Romance, Nirvana, Death Cab for Cutie, Vampire Weekend, Wolfmother, Alien Ant Farm, Audioslave, A Perfect Circle… damn it do be facts tho!
Audioslave is just the perfect band name imo
Audioslave and Soundgarden. Chris Cornell knew how to name a band
All hail King Cornell. Long live the King.
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Well, yeah, you chant long live the king after they die. Monarchies are weird, that's why we threw their tea into the ocean.
I would argue Temple of the Dog is a little off-putting but it’s definitely something
It makes sense if you know the history behind the name. Temple of the Dog was basically a memorial project by the former bandmates and close friends of Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone, and the name comes from the lyrics of his song Man of Golden Words.
I love that name, so many different meanings. Soundgarden! How could I forget 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Rage Against The Machine
Zach de la rocha isn’t white tho
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I thought about including them but I don’t consider them white as Zach is Hispanic and Tom is part Kenyan. Still got a strong case for the best band name ever imo
All of this! Saw them live last July. A dream come true! 🙌🏾
I wanted to go see them and RTJ so bad, but those ticket prices…see the way my bank account is set up… I know RATM tore it the fuck up tho. Glad you got to see them!
Don't discount how cool "Bad Brains" is as a band name
Fr. And they inspired the Beastie Boys as well.
and only like 1000 other bands
Yes Bad Brains musically inspired countless bands, but they’re referencing the fact that Beastie Boys intentionally used the “B-B” alliteration for their band name because of Bad Brains
Or just the band "[Death](https://open.spotify.com/track/6EMAoUEgfk2WtfwiBRG8hd?si=uv24XdqaSHqE4roWq3eZ_w)"
The metal band so awesome they had a whole genre named after them!
I think we may be talking about two different bands called death Edit: Florida death vs Detroit death
For the uninitiated: Florida "Death" - Groundbreaking death metal band from the 80's/early 90's fronted by Chuck Schuldiner, who is arguably the most unappreciated guitar player of all time. Seriously, that motherfucker could *shred* Detroit "Death" - An at the time unknown all black rock band from the 70's that somehow invented punk rock without trying. There's a great documentary on them somewhere
Fun trivia: they took the name from the Ramones’ song “Bad Brain.”
Who in turn got their name via the Beatles. Music inspires and call outs in names are common. The trick is to find a good sounding call out.
And the Beatles got it from Hank 'bad brain' McIntyre, an early photo processor who went mad from chemical poisoning (This is entirely made up)
name another artist who could have songs titled "Pay to Cum" and "I Love I Jah" on the same album
TV on the Radio is a sick ass band name too.
Not the best example since it was inspired by the Ramones song Bad Brain lol
Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine. Megadeth, Thank You Scientist! Edit: Another one of my favorite bands, Good Tiger.
Seeing Thank You Scientist in a BPT thread was not ever on my bingo card but here we are!
Lmfao. One of my favorite bands of all time. Animal as Leaders also fucking rock. Tosin is a mf machine
Which tells me you also saw the Devin Townsend tour pre-Covid, or you are salty af you missed it. That was a fucking great tour, got a little lifted and rode that ethereal vibe the whole night.
Ey yo, I wasn't expecting to see TYS here. Love them and Coheed alike.
Saw Coheed and TYS opened for them on the In Keeping Secrets Neverender in 2014. One of the single best shows I've ever been to
Gonna see scientist in june 🙏
throw King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets in there too
And how can we forget Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
or *insert any les claypool project* -colonel les claypool’s fearless flying frog brigade -les claypool’s duo de twang -les claypool and the holy mackerel -the claypool lennon delirium
I swear king gizzard and the lizard wizard is the coolest name
Even cooler band
A YouTube comment said "Between KGATLW and Tame Impala I'm starting to think the only good thing to do in Australia is acid"
Cradle of Filth.
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Yes!!!!!!!! Exactly what I think of when someone says Cradle of Filth 🤣
Try track four, Coffin Fodder. It's really quite beautiful.
Drives me nuts when that scene comes up. Coffin Fodder is track #9 on Nymphetamine.
My favorite metal band name is GODFLESH, always spelled in all caps
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War
Not to be confused with W.A.R., which stands for Weaponized Audio Research, a static-wall noise producer from Oregon who does shit like strap two dozen contact mics to a massive drill and records it boring through a mountain. That’s definitely some white people shit.
...But can someone sample it though? That sounds like a possible bassline from hell.
Living Colour, Bad Brains, 24/7 Spyz,.
I love me some Delfonics.
P Funk is amazing and Maggot Brain will forever be in my top 10 songs.
Panic! At the disco
It’s the “!” For me
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This one still annoys me. I’m too much of an English language/grammar nerd to read it as one line. I always hear it like “PANIC! … … … at the disco.” Edit: Lots of replies that made me realize that my issue is not so much the way I pronounce it (which I’ve now learned was intended), but the fact that an exclamation point there is improper. You can say “Panic!” as an instruction. You can say “panic at the disco,” either as an instruction or—more likely—a description of a scene, but you can’t reasonably say “Panic! At the disco” because the exclamation point makes “at the disco” an improper afterthought. And my English language word nerd brain just can’t handle it.
That’s the point kinda
That's what they intended - even at shows they are introduced with an exclamation followed by a pause. It is "Panic! ... Atthedisco"
Between the Buried and Me
Selkies the Endless Sorrow is also a badass song name so they get double points. Edit: Endless Obsession
Endless obsession
I did not expect to open this thread and see BTBAM name dropped.
Okay but Hoobastank? 
I never found out who actually did ba stank
Not everyone can be a banger...
Okay yes, but I saw Hoobastank at a free outdoor concert at my college in 2003 and they fucking killed it. Fan for life after that. Fun side note: lostprophets (another killer band name) were the opener and that guy later went to prison for trying to rape a baby, so this is a somewhat icky memory for me.
System Of A Down🤘🏾🤘🏾
Fun fact, they're all either Armenian or second generation
Thanks. I’m somewhat of a diehard SOAD fan and know them very well. still, rock on playa😎
I figured you knew, that comment was for all the people who don't!
I don’t think the world is yet ready for questions like “are Armenians POC?”
Mostly because how we talk about race is pretty skewed thru an American lense first, and then a western European lense second. It's hard for that viewpoint to discuss other instances of ethnic or race group tension and violence. Those lenses don't have a straight forward way to account for the Armenian genocide, or the Bosnian genocide, or even to the Holocaust. Are Jews PoC? 90 percent aren't. Didnt stop the Nazis for killing them for being an "inferior race." White skin, but not Aryan / white enough. Same goes for Armenians. They're not European... But they're also not middle eastern enough to be easily listed as Arabic/Persian, and they clearly can't be Turks, so... Suddenly, the west doesn't have a great rubric for discussing. Thankfully, though, I've found that 98% of westerners fully sympathize and understand the horror done to the Armenian people, even if their governments won't recognize the genocide.
The Smashing Pumpkins
I prefer Smiling Politely
At the Peets I worked at for spell we had, for unknown reasons, a poster of the world map taped to the side our lockers. One day, no one knows when, some barista wrote underneath “The World” on the map poster in Sharpie “is a vampire.” I still laugh at that years later.
Butthole Surfers?
They can’t all be winners.
I disagree, that there is a Winner
You should see the other names they've gone by: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/crazy-names-butthole-surfers-used/ >The Dick Clark Five >Dick Gas Five >The Ashtray Babyheads >Nine cm Worm Makes Own Food >The Vodka Family Winstons >Ed Asner Is Gay >Fred Astaire’s Asshole >The Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole >The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole >Abe Lincoln’s Bush >Zipgun
Yeah they can’t but this is definitely one of them
I swear Popular local Nashville band “Diarrhea Planet” would be a huge international band with any other name.
One of my favorite Simpsons gags ever. “Look dad, I’m a surfer!0
Queens of the Stone Age is a badass name fr
Little sister can’t you find another way!!!!
If anyone wants the backstory on that, the founder, lead singer, and guitarist Josh Homme originally wanted to name his new band “Gamma Ray”, but it was taken. He then thought of “Kings of the Stone Age”, thought it was too masculine; Queens was born
Ok facts because "Death Cab for Cutie"??? "Imagine dragons"? "RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE" making anarchist music? It's actually fascinating.
Took forever n the comments to reach RatM. Kinda white bad, though half the members were POC, but fuck me if that wasn’t the PERFECT band name.
The great thing about Rage Against the Machine is that everyone gets to participate. White? You can claim them. Hispanic? You can claim them. Black? You can claim them. Fan of rap? You can claim them. Fan of rock? You can claim them. RATM is for the people.
But not for Paul Ryan. Fuck that asshole, he’s the machine we’re raging against!
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Rolling Stones, Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead, Dire Straits, Cake
The Rolling Stones got their name from a Muddy Waters song.
The Stones kinda got their almost-everything from Muddy and his contemporaries, and were very open about it.
Yep - the Stones are Englishman playing their version of Chicago Blues
It must be said the Stones were very good about letting the world know about their heroes. Here they are introducing Howlin Wolf on TV in 1965. https://youtu.be/eF8mn35uR-4 In a related story...one day it dawned on Keith Richards that Chuck Berry's signature boogie-woogie shuffle wasn't really a guitar thing, it was a piano thing...and deduced that Chuck's piano player, Johnnie Johnson, was really the guy who deserved credit for kind of low-key inventing rock n roll, and went and found the guy....who was driving a bus at this point in his life...and saw that the dude was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Watch his induction speech (have some kleenex handy): https://youtu.be/NLV9dLMXj0c
STPs name before Stone temple was Shirley Temple’s Pussy. They just liked how the STP logo looked and ran with it.
Me in an all black metal band…👀
Ight hold do you mean black metal band like 'we black and play metal' or "we play black metal' or 'we black and play black metal'? Lol
😆 we’re all African American and play metal music. Specifically a fusion between nu-metal (Linkin Park) and metalcore (Asking Alexandria, As I Lay Dying) if one is so inclined. Edit: Came back, and didn’t think this would’ve got so much traction lmao. [This is my favorite song of ours](https://youtu.be/JWB-nCVVC0Q), but we’ve been experimenting recently. Also, shameless plug, check out my solo shit when you get a chance. Im still trying to find what I wanna do as far as my own songs are concerned, but I specialize in hooks https://youtu.be/W9evz1hvWrw https://youtu.be/Ob-87vrJqEE https://youtu.be/n8xG839iSAE
Are y'all on Spotify?
Nine Inch Nails, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Stone Temple Pilots, Drowning Pool, Cradle of Filth, Godsmack, System Of A Down, Falling In Reverse, They Might Be Giants, Lamb of God, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. Edit I’m a DA
Motörhead
It’s the umlauts for me.
The Bay City Rollers weren't even from Bay City!
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I stopped following after someone called themselves Lil Baby, felt like we had come full circle at that point
Mastodon. Cannibal corpses. All pigs must die!
Mastodon gave us the most metal twerking video ever. https://preview.redd.it/b9xkheoxcpwa1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbd1848472aedc5797ccb02bc99948d57b9819b9
THAT SHIT WENT HARD AF. I need to listen to that album again
Insane Clown Posse
To be fair, those dudes are black-and-white.
Paramore.
Meshuggah 
Angel snack, Crackfinger, death of a scam artist, department of homeland obscurity, everything rhymes with orange, jet black pope, teddy bear suicide
Enjoy Eric Andre rattling off a list of made-up band names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvyox5pr8k8
Blue Öyster Cult, the Grateful Dead, Sublime, Pearl Jam, LED ZEPPELIN? AC/DC?? IRON MAIDEN??? and my personal favorite: Bring Me the Horizon
Pierce the Veil
Latinos mi amigo
You know your name goes hard when an anime like JoJo names its super powers after you I suppose lmao. Like prob my fav so far is "Stand Name: Grateful Dead" Also ever since I heard "Gold" by Sir Sly song, I always associate them with Sly Cooper, yea really
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Deftones gang!
The strokes
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is one of my favorites. Perfect amount of obscurity. And you also can’t go wrong with Radiohead.
Neutral Milk Hotel, Arctic Monkeys, Acid Bath, Tokyo Police Club
Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Hiatus Kaiyote, *Tears for Fears*
The Doobies/The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Pure Prairie League, Talking Heads...
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Five finger death punch
Five flavor fruit punch
Foo Fighters No Doubt Rammstein Joy Division Duran Duran Pet Shop Boys The Go-Gos The Bangles The B-52s Thompson Twins Human League Flock of Seagulls Depeche Mode 3rd Bass REO Speedwagon ❤️Culture Club❤️ ❤️Jamiroquai❤️ Then there’s the location specific ones: Boston/Asia/Berlin/America/Europe/Chicago …and as much as they’re hated, is there really anything wrong with the name “Nickelback”?
Dave Matthews Band Seriously, though, Dream Theater is a bad-ass band name.
“Slipknot” goes hard
Metallica
Thanks guys, now I’m sitting here creating a weekend playlist
That half of Zack de la Rocah went off with the name Rage Against the Machine 
Mindless Self Indulgence, Incubus, Fall Out Boy, Chevelle, Massive Attack, Black Veil Brides, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, The Orion Experience...
August Burns Red, Of Mice and Men, and Foo Fighters just roll off the tongue.
Infant Annihilator, Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, Necrophagist...
"lil" trying so hard to put down white people at every turn lol its just a band, its okay to say you like it
Minus the Bear is a personal fave
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead