Band Names: The List

Is your awesome idea for a band name already taken?  Assuming you read my other blog about this & have learned to Google potential names, and you’re stuck for ideas… Don’t give in to the temptation to just name your band that anyway.  Be different.  Be original.  Let me (& hopefully the eventual comments on this blog) help you out.

88 MPH

I might pull some of these from an older ever-evolving list at a website that’s a virtual ghost town any more.  I haven’t checked to see if any of these are actual band names.  You need to do that.

As always, I’m begging for input.  Please, add to the list.  It can be serious, scary, intelligent, funny, but make them catchy.  Include a reference/inspiration if you like.

• Dying Deadly Death Die Dead
• 88 MPH
• Dianoga
• Acinonyx Jubatus
• Full Frontal Obscurity
• Left Claw North
• N.A.T. (Name Already Taken)
• Optimus Prime Rib
• Residual Stench
• Six Sticky Sucker Sticks
• Doctor Jones
• The Incredible Bruce Banner
• The Traveling Dingleberries
• Tunnel Monster
• Two Ton Tauntaun
• Wolfman’s Nards
• Yes, We All Have Day Jobs
• Harvey Doll-banger
• Borrow or rob?
• Dr. Awkward
• The Gigawatts
• Public Distress System
• Autothysis
• Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
• Gnome Thrower
• The O.J. Squeeze
• Kiss My Converse 
• IF I HAD A HI-FI
• Salacious Crumb
• Chunk Loves Sloth
• X Never Ever Marks the Spot
• Fluffy Died Screaming
• I Hate Your Band
• OUTATIME
• Crepitus
• Apostrophe Catastrophe
• Klaatu Barada Nikto
• The Trident Killers
• Boombox Lincoln
• Lithopedion
• Operation Cobra Fist
• Colonel Mustard and the Lemon Custard Band
• Pall Smenis
• Broken Taco
• Coprophagia
• Velocipede
• Executive Derision
• Assorted Crackers
• Plopcorn
• Borborygmi
• ____________ (Band Name Here)
• The Tessellators
• Snatchsquatch
• Gong Farmer
• Texticles
• Urethra Franklin
• B.S.O.D.
• The Opiliones
• Ear Plugs $2 (a sign upstairs at the Smiling Moose)
• Vagina Repellant (I think we suggested a recent band that we played a show with ought to be called this.)
• Barn Full of Walkers
• Facehugger (or “the Facehuggers”)
• ABOSL or BSL or even aBoSL. (A Bunch of Stupid Letters)
• Unintentional Snot Rocket
• Frank n’ Beans

Dianoga

I didn’t come up with all of those, but they’re all from that goofy list.  Let’s add some more.  Make them better than band names that have already been used. Make them memorable and creative.  Make them something that you can register on Facebook, Band Camp, Twitter, MySpace, Google+, Reverb Nation, Pure Volume, or buy the .com (or at least .org).

Put your potential band names in the comments below.  Go!

(If you use one, and we need to cross it off of the list, let us know that too!)

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