This is an ever-expanding list of strange band names…most of which were thought of by me. I have given an indication of those that were contributed by others. Keep checking back for updates. New entries are in bold.
1-10
12 Reasons Why We Suck
4 out of 5 Doctors (JeL)
553 – Disapproved Content (KN)
A
A Brush with Wetness
A Night at the Oprah
A Whole Bunch of Nothin’
Abscess
Achtung Baby Teeth
Adult Onset Diuretic
Altar Call Forwarding
All Done with Egg Beaters
All Hands Meeting
Alphabet Soupy Sales (JeL)
Ambiguous Pizza Toppings
American Yum Yum Clown Monkey
Amish Photo Op (MG)
Andrew’s Adenoids (JL)
Andy Williams-Sonoma
Anonymous Cow (JL)
Annoyed by the Area Code (BH)
Aperitif for Destruction
Apgar Demo
Asian Football Player (BH)
Asparagus Children
Attempted Intimate Numbering
Attention Deficit Dungeons & Dragons (MH)
Axl Rose Stanley
B
Bad Blowout and the Diaper Genies
Bad Spellers Untie
Bag of Nope (BH)
Barack You Like a Hurricane
Basket of Remotes (CG)
Big Apologetic Nail Diagnosis (B.A.N.D.)
Big Cramp and the Hiccups (AH)
Big Salad and the Beans (AH)
Bi-Polar Opposites
Bill Cozumel
Blood Sweat & Tears for Fears
Bottom Mustard (AH)
Bowl Full of Mush
Boy George Michael Jackson Brown(e) Bannister (KN)
Brain Freeze
Buddy Ibsen and the Fancy Eatin’ Tables
C
Call-Ahead Seeding
Captian Kirk Douglas MacArthur (KN)
Casual Contact
Chef Tell Overture
Chet Atkins Diet (BG)
Chewbacchanalia
Chex in the Male (MH)
Chick Refrigerator Magnet
Chicken Fried Ricecakes (CG)
Chicken Lotion (BH)
Chicken Missile (BH)
Chip, Leave for Me (NaH)
Chock Full of Optimism
Chocolate Jones and the Temple of Funk (this is from Mystery Science Theater 3000)
Chocolate Mohawk
Chocolate Monkey (AH)
Cold Snap
Computer Tex
Cookie Monster Truck Rally
Cool Pillow & the Crazed Banana
Coretta Scott Baio
Corn on the Crib
Corned Beef Hashtag
Courtney’s Plastic Head
Cradle Cap & The Nastygrams
Crawling with Filth
Crevice Tool
Critically Ill (JL)
D
Dancing with Tuna
David Lee Roth IRA
Death by Partially Hydroginated Soy Bean Oil (AH)
Death by Zanzibar Slacks
Delicioso
Delirious Navel Ambush
Dewey Decimal System of a Down
Deviated Septum & The Strategic Abuse
Diarrheostat Lighting
Dickie Thon Underwear
Dimebag Squarepants
Do Trousers Matter?
Donut Day with Dad
Driving Lesson Subordination
Drowning in Butter
Dump Truck Soliloquy (JW)
Dumpster Fire
E
Eddy Albert Einstein
Eight Minute Absolution (CG)
Egregious Lichen Shenanigans
Elderly Children (JL)
Electoral Collagen
Electric Twang Fudge
Elton John Glenn Miller Time
Enron Hubbard
Evasive Surgery
Extruded Plastic Dingus
Eye Cruddy (NiH)
F
Fancy Plans & Pants to Match
Fanny Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
Far Beyond Pizza
Fat Boys 2 Men
Fish Fish Milk (NaH)
Fleetwood Mac & Cheese
Flip Wilson Phillips (KN)
Flying Lead Probes
Foreseeable Winning Shank
Fond du Lac of Communication
For Cying Out Loud
Fragrance Free Europe
Francis Ford Copula
Fred and Barney meet The Shmoo
Free Prize Inside
Freezer Burn
Fruit Leather Tuscadero
Funions & Dragons (MH)
G
Gangy’s Rape Horn (“Arrested Development” fans will understand)
Gargling with Edith
Gas Powered Fudge Llama
Getting Serious About Riboflavin
Ghirardelli House Pock (AH)
Go Ahead and Leave. See if We Care
Goodnight Warren Moon
Goony Goo Goo
Goudimel Tillis
Grand Theft Otto (BG)
Green Day O’Connor
Group of War Pencils (BH)
Groupthink Freak Out
H
H&R Communist Block (MH)
Hale to the Chef
Haliburton Cummings
Harold of Good News
Harry & the Apple Barrel
Hatteberg’s People’s Court
Haute Speech
Head Rush
Heard Enough Yet?
Helena Handbasket
High Fructose Corn Syrup on the Cob
His Eye is on the Jack Sparrow (JeL)
Hopped up on Goofballs
Hot Cross Buns of Steel
Heuristic Analog Rental Meat (H.A.R.M.)
Hugh Downs with the Sickness
I
I Don’t Have Time for This
I Don’t Particularly Like My Aunt’s Legs
I Heart Candy
Ice Cream Trucks Without Borders
Idiot Savant and the Aggressive Panhandlers
Impractical Nurses
Indian Test Pattern
Intolerable Fragrance Society
Intramural Foosball Scholars
Is That You, Dave?
Is There a Musician in the House?
J
Jazz Hates Johnny
JC Penney Marshall (JeL)
Jerry Lewis & Clark Kent
Jill Docking Station (KN)
Jo Jo & the Thomists
Joie de Viva Las Vegas
Jon Sinclair: Old Olympic Disappointment (MH)
Judge Wapner’s Food Court (MH)
Judy Fear Mongering
June JeJune
Just Give Us Your Five Bucks, Okay
Just Kinda Upset About Some Stuff (a Rage Against the Machine tribute band)
K
Kathy’s Sister (KN)
Kernel Debugger and the Random DLLs
Kernel Sanders
Killing Me Softly with His Smell
Kim Jong-il Divo
Kris Kringle & the Growing Ennui
L
Lasers to Leeches
Lather Rinse Repeat
Lazy Susan Peters
Let’s all Think about Retailing
Let’s Calm our Hearts
Let’s Get Fiscal
Let’s Get This Over With
Lichen Bruise
Liquid Armpit
Listen to the Flowers
Little Debbie’s on the Up
LL Cool J. Gresham Machen
LL Cool Jay Prater
Like We Even Care about Your Favorite Song
Loquacious Mimes (MF)
Lucky Charm School (JeL)
Lunch Lady Agitprop
M
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
Madeline All-Bran
Majoring In Baloney
Man Ray & the Turnkey Dadaists
Marky Mark McCain
Martha Stewart Little Richard Marx Brothers Karamazov (KN)
Mary Chapin & The Carpenter Ants (MH)
Member FDIC
Menu Options Have Changed
Metallicette
Michael Cooper Tube Sock Massacre
Mighty Morphin’ Pocket Lemmings
Mild Stomach Upset
Mistaken Identity Crisis
Mogie Langston & The Shape of Jazz to Come
Mommy & the Others (BH)
Monster Truck Stop (MH)
Motley J. Crew (JeL)
MS-DOS Boat
My Three Nuns
N
Nancy Drew Kelly Ron Paul Pierce Brosnan (JW)
Nat King Cole Porter Wagoner
Nathan Lane Davis Moore (JeL)
Naval Epaulettes Not Included (JP)
Navels?
Neanderthal Man Overboard
New Kids On The H&R Block (MH)
NICU Groupthink
Night Ranger Rick Nelson (KN)
Nipsey Russell Stover (KN)
No, We’re Not Done Yet
None of your Bee’s Wax
Norma Gene Rump
Not These Guys Again!
O
Objects in Mirror Closer Than They Appear (JW)
Off Track Vetting
Olivia Newton-John Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe
Oopsy!
Operation: Hot Mother
Osama Ben Affleck
P
Packet Loss of Appetite
Pat Scimitar (SB)
Patchable Attack Footwear
Pectoral College
Pensive Dog Torsos
Perhaps You’re Overqualified
Photographic Mammery
Pink Floyd Cramer
Please Hold for Harassment (MH)
Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
Pocket Full of Funk (JeL)
Poofy Nag Lady (AH)
Popular Underground Callousness
Pop-up Book of the Apocalypse
Praying Mantras (JeL)
Pre-Nasal Drip
Pregnancy Coat Dilemma (NiH)
Prince Charles in Charge
Protein Shake Your Booty
Pulp Jello
Q
Queen Kong (KB)
R
Rachael Ray Charles Nelson Reilly (KN)
Rage Against the Fax Machine
Raggedy Ansel Adams
Ranch Dressing & the Croutons (BH)
Randy Rhoads Scholars
Redneck Eloise & the Assertive Mocking
Relentless Chaffing
REO Speed Dial
Rest Home Anarchy
Robert Town Hall Meeting
Rocklahoboken
Roger Staubacchanalia
Roy Turner Overdrive
Rumspringa
Run-DMC. Everett Koop
Rusty Eck & the Ecktones
S
Sad Apples (JeL)
Safe Mode
Safety is my Goal
Saggy Diapers That Leak
Salmonella Fitzgerald
Sandi Patty Duke Ellington
Sarah Palin Tall
Sardine Culture (JoL)
Sasquatch Beefeater Urinal
SATA Claus
Satan Lozenge (JW)
Screws, Nuts, and Jumpers
See Label for Sequence
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Johnson
Shakespeare Pizza
Shhhh! & the Impulsive Library Behavior
Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton Oklahoma (KN)
Six-Pack Abscess
Snuggle Bunny Death Ray
So in Love with Hangnails
So You’ve Decided to Take Up Macrame
Soft Copy
Some Settling May Occur
Spongebob Costas
Squirrel Money Zippers (AH)
Spinning Toilet Lids (DH)
Steve Perry Mason-Dixon Line
Stealth Bomber Sleepover (JW)
Sudden Distrust of Chest Hair
Super Karate Monkey Death Car
Super Model Airplanes
Surgeons got Back
Sweet Home Allah Akbar (the first album will be called “We Declare Yee Haw”)
System of a Down Slip
T
Tackle the Chicken
Taco Bell Biv DeVoe
Taming of the Flu
Ted Flam & the Paradiddles
Terminal Pinkeye (CG)
That Band Down in Haysville
That Weird Kid from Monongahela
The 24/7 Sampler Band
The All Washed Ups
The Anorexic Ramp Monastery
The Baby Daddies
The Babysitter Who Whispered Shakespeare
The Bad Throughput Chamber Orchestra
The Balding Waitress Jug Band
The Band Formerly known as The Beer Bellies
The Blood & Guts Folk Revue
The Boubonic Plague Singers
The BSODs
The Charlie Batch Converters
The Cherry Sours
The Chia Pet Peeves
The Choosy Mothers of Invention that Choose Jif
The Cleft Palates
The Complicated Women of Trailer Park C
The Constipated Eiderdown
The Contrarian Yes Men
The Deafening Odor of Pizza (BH)
The Death of Swashbuckling
The Dewey Decibel System
The Disco Grindcore Big Band
The Disturbing Taste of Regret
The Dobby Brothers (Harry Potter fans will understand)
The Dropped Calls Quintet
The Enfamillionaires
The Ergonomically Correct Barbies
The Fighting Amish
The Flush Timers (Cisco geeks will get this one)
The Fried Nacho Hat Singers
The Funeral Home Buffet Band
The General MIDI’s (JP)
The Guys Your Mom Warned You About
The Handy Backpacks (AH)
The Higher Powers
The Hormonal Five-Year-Olds (JeL)
The Hot Spares
The Impending Doom Singers
The Incontinent Dirigibles of Fate
The Indignant Shift Key
The Intangible Toenails (SG)
The Itching, The Burning
The Knowledgeable Anchormen
The Kyle Rote, Jr. Death Cult Wind Ensemble
The Lethargic Mattress Pad
The Low Postmen
The Moist Naugahyde Singers
The Mr. Whipple Memorial Big Band
The Mysterious Cravings of Al Roker
The New Bad Hygiene Singers
The Nuh-Uh’s
The Oatmeal Scotchies
The Pants Party
The Pink Jeans Company
The Plus Size Ombudsman
The Portaloos
The Presbyopic Six (JeL)
The Rampant Bedtime
The Remaining Hamburger
The Restless Legs Septet
The Robert Town Bluegrass Revival
The Room Temperature Big Band
The Shapeshifters
The Shortness of Breath Singers
The Slut Onesies
The Sorry State of Cliff Diving
The Spoonerisms
The Superfluous Windshields
The Surrealtors
The Swing Weasels
The Talent Eludes Us Septet
The Talking Toilets
The Tastes Like Chicken Trio
The Throbbing Fontanelles
The Torn ACL Blues Revue
The Truth about Spell Check
The Up-Too-Lates (JP)
The WD-40s
The Whodathunkit Symphony Orchestra
The You Can’t Make Me’s (JP)
The Zip Lines (AH)
This is Bacon (AH)
Those…Nose
Three Cheers for the Greengrocer
Time-Release Placebo
Tina Turner Overdrive (MH)
Tommy John Surgery
Tough Love
Toxic Debt & the Bailouts
Truck Driver Divorce
Truck Stop Mensa League
Truck, Tractor and Groin Pull
U
U2 Live Crew
Under Her Majesty’s Head (BH)
Unoriginal Sin
Unwanted Bleeding
Urinal Etiquette
Ushers…Please Come Forward
V
Van Hellenist
Vasectomy Reversal
Voluptuous Humor Pigeon
Vulgar Display of Powerball
W
Waitress Sweat
Wardrobe Maleficence
Washed Up Before Dinner
Watch Out for Snakes
We Already Tried Practicing
We Hate Audiences
We Suck at Canasta
Weight of the Tilt-a-World (MH)
Weird Al Gore Vidal
Wet Nurse Blues Revue
We’re Pooped…and So Are You
We’re Really Not This Bad
What’s All This Talk about Dill Weed?
Where Have You Been?
Wild Wacky Action Bike
Willie Wilson and the Chocolate Factory
Win Rammstein’s Money
Worst. Band. Ever.
Wreck of the Cotton Fitzsimmons
WYSIWYG
X
X-ray Tex
Y
Yellow Armpit Trumpet
Yngwie Mallowmar
You Can’t Be Serious!
You Don’t Know Jack Van Impe
Youth in Asia
You’re Bleeding All Over Me
You’re Soaking In It
You’ve Got Male Pattern Baldness
Key:
AH – Abbey Hale is the author/co-author of this one
BG – Brandon Gross is the author/co-author of this one
BH – Beccah Hale is the author/co-author of this one
CG – Curtis Gross is the author/co-author of this one
DH – David Hoyer is the author/co-author of this one
JeL – Jennifer Lancaster is the author/co-author of this one
JL – Jeff Luttrell is the author/co-author of this one
JoL – Joshua Luper is the author/co-author of this one
JP – Josh Pickenpaugh is the author/co-author of this one
JW – Jonathan Workman is the author/co-author of this one
KB – Katie Brandt is the author/co-author of this one
KN – Kevin Nikkel is the author/co-author of this one
MG – Michelle Gross is the author/co-author of this one
MH – Matt Hale is the author/co-author of this one
NaH – Natalie Hale is the author/co-author of this one
NiH – Nicole Hale is the author/co-author of this one
SB – Sean Brandt is the author/co-author of this one
SG – Sean Gross is the author/co-author of this one
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