Conference mr1pst::music

	Following is a posting from the internet from a few years back that 
lists local bands from the London area.  A few are a bit off-color but within
conference guidlines I should think, Mr. Moderator.


From: rsoc@doc.ic.ac.uk (Robert O'Connor)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers
Subject: Stupid Band Names
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.

All the following are genuine UK band names from 1989 as stolen from the
Making Music freebee magazine (incidentally probably the best magazine of
its kind available here in Britain). I know this is more suited to
rec.humor, but you lot are probably a lot more discerning (and warped) than
that lot, so here goes... 

Cheesy Hood And The Precautions
Bob is 32
Gang Green
Pink Volkswagen
And The Cow Went Yech
Psycho's Mum
Cosmic Orgasms
Cranial Cheesecake
Turbo Slag
Projectile Vomit
A Fridge Too Far
Son of God's Mate
Hairy Canary
Dang Wam Sam
Haddock Fish Beast
14 Iced Bears
Brief Case Full Of Slugs
Nel Mangle Versus The Robinsons
Emma Gibbs Loves Badgers
Blue Bum Snoggers
The Marauding Mutant Headbangers From Hell
Door Marked Summer
Throd
Rancid Hell Spawn
Polished Electric Head
Indigo Plankton-Motus
Ned The Sponge
Mad And Bonkers
Fat        
Fat And Frantic
Poodle Whumpies
Foul Language And The Chicken *hits
Aardvark And The Swinging T*sticles
Toggle And The Dufflecoats
Billie Bowel And The Movements
Richard Brown And The House Of The Tragic Poet
Randolph Silage Pit And His Exploding Hamster
Dr Foulbreath And The Molten Medicine Show
Bongo Sherbert And The Electrified Yeti Wobblers
God And The Crazy Lesbians From Hell
Joe The Crow And The Birdseeds
Invasion Of The Lego Men (one of my old bands)

Apologies if you're actually in one of these bands, and if you're not, then
don't pinch them!!!
                                               Rob O'Connor
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    One morning on WCGY's Comedy Stop was a comedian who was a genius on
    group names.  He was putting together the ultimate double bills. 
    (It might have been the same guy).  Here are a few that he said:
    
    Ratt/Poison
    Prince/Queen
    Guess Who/Who/U2/Yes
    Madonna/Supertramp  
    Rush/Traffik
    Cream/Bananarama
    Talking Heads/Simple Minds
    Guns 'n' Roses/.38 Special
    Genesis/Earth, Wind & Fire
    Styx/(Rolling)Stones
    Meatloaf/Bread
    REM/ELO
    
    Some that I came up with:
    
    Black Crows/Byrds
    Monkees/Animals
    Fat Boys/Weather Girls
    Violent Femmes/New York Dolls
    Sweet/Taste of Honey
    John Stewart/Rod Stewart/Al Stewart/Amii Stewart/Charles Stewart...
    King Crimson/King's X/Queen/Prince/Duke Ellington (The Royal Family)
    Heart/Soul II Soul
    Dr. Hook/Doc Severenson (sp)
    John Butcher/Anita Baker (the "Where's the candlestickmaker?" tour)
    The Raspberries/Wild Cherry/Bananarama
    Paul Simon/Carly Simon
    
    K.C.

    
    I think we did this double-bill thing in an old version.
    
    My personal favorite was an actual double bill one year - Squeeze/Hooters.
    
    - Sean

    I noticed in .1's list that there was a band named Gang Green. There
    was also a Boston band by that name. I have one or two of their songs
    on various local compilations.
    
    Two other Boston bands that had "interesting" names:
    
    	Jerry's Kids
    	Painful Rectal Itch
    
    Maybe in the double bill dept. Jerry's Kids could match up with the New
    Kikds and Painful Rectal Itch could team up with the Buggles.
    
    Oh never mind...
    
    Brian

    K.C.-
    
    The "Where's the Candlestick Maker Tour" is an excellent one!
    (Jon Butcher/Anita Baker Tour)
    
    Good work!  :)
    
    Brian

    Re: .5
    
    Thank you!  :^)
    
    Re: .3
    
    There was..._I_ started it!  As a matter of fact, .2 was a compilation
    of all of my notes from that topic.  (OK, so I cheated...but I DID add
    a few new ones, too!)
    
    K.C.

    The Dregs and the Tops
    
    > Squeeze/Hooters
    
    Perhaps we could squeeze one more band in there:
    
    	Squeeze/The Firm/Hooters
    
    Or how about:
    
    	The Birds and "The B's" (common nickname for the B-52s)

    At my school we almost had a line-up of "The Shirts" and "The Shoes"
    
    - Dave

    
    Re - "Where's the candlestickmaker? tour"
    
    	-excellent!! - good job!
    
    mine =
    
    	REM/XTC/ELO/RTZ/OMD/INXS
    
    	The Waitresses/Eat at Joe's
    
    	Nirvana/East of Eden
    
    	The Bears/Wild Swans/The Animals
    
    	Joe Jackson/Jackson Browne/Michael & Janet Jackson
    
    	Donna Summer/Winter Hours/Bruce Spring-steen
    
    	The Fall/The Call/Hall & Oates
    
    
    	Choke/Fishbone
    
    	Boston/Chicago/L.A. Guns/N.Y. Dolls/America
    
    	ZZ Top/BB King/CC Ryder/GG Allen
    
    	Billy Joel/Billy Idol/Billy Bragg
    
    	MC 900 foot Jesus/Jesus Jones/Jesus & Mary Chain
    
    
    					-Jimbo
    

    
    Madonna might prefer Steeley Dan......
    
    ;^))
    
    		Fred Deady
    		WBC::DEADY

    Right said,Fred.......;-)
    
    Question? Not Comedy,but does anyone know what"TSOL"stands for?
    
                            Crazy_set_up_Al

    TSOL :== "Tough Sh*t Outta Luck"
    

    RE: .11,.12 (TSOL)
    
    Depends on the context I suppose.  There was a band called "True Sounds
    of Liberty" that got a bit of airplay in the early Eighties
    which released a number of albums under the abbreviated "TSOL".
    
    - Dave

    My favorite name for a local Boston band was -
    
    Judy's Tiny Head
    
    

    here's a couple....
    
    Mama's and Papa's with The Baby's
    Black Crows with The Birds
    U2 and UB40
    Extreme/Pretenders
    Outlaws with LA Guns

    RE: .14 (Judy's Tiny Head)
    
    This is actually derived from a B. Kliban cartoon of some years back.
    ("The callous sophisticates laughed at Judy's tiny head.")
    
    - Dave

    There are some interesting 'local' Canadian band names as well:
    
    Melwood Cutlery & the Fashion Plates
    Sing Along With Tonto
    The Nancy Sinatras
    Dayglo Abortions
    Bratty & The Babysitters
    
    Me, Mom & Morgentaler (Dr. Morgentaler is an pro-abortion activist)
    
    Bunchofuckingoofs (I hope that's within conference rules)
    
    					Cal C.
    

    
    Warrant/Arrested Development
    Dr. and the Medics/Cure
    Christopher Cross/Kriss Kross
    Vanilla Ice/Ice Cube/Ice-T
    
    				Jimbo

    re .1
    
    Thanks for the laugh. It's a fertile ground for new p-names.
    Now, which one then?
    
    barry.

    
    A friend of mine had a punk band named The Lubricants
    
    Only they pronounced it with a long A ;-)
    
    -Ed
    

If we're talking sheer offensiveness, I always liked "The Crucifux"

Or for offensive innuendo value, there's "Snatches of Pink" (I read an interview
with them in which they claimed to have no knowledge of any sexual connotations
when they picked the name - oh come on!)

And sheerly as a side note, there's some band out now who's name escapes me,
but they have a GREAT name for an album:

	"Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious":

    a couple of my faves............"Big Catholic Guilt" and "Two Nice
    Girls"....(there are 4 women in the band, so i guess they leave it up
    to their audience to figure it out)................;')........./k

    My friend had a group in high school called The Bowel Movements

    I tease my HM buddy about his fav group name being:
    
    "Jonny Autopsy and the Coroners of Death"
    
    8^)

    A short-lived punk band at Clark University in Worcester, MA was 
    "Smeg Magoo and His Four Skins".
    
    - Dave

    "2_Licks_And_A_Lash"

    .23
    
    That should read, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. Quite
    popular over here in Blighty. Can't understand why though (he
    says, looking over his shoulder for that Panes chappy).
           
    barry.   

	"The Dog's Breakfast"

    Re: .29
    
    Copped from the National Lampoon "Goodbye Pop" record, of course...
    
    In which Christopher Guest does a dry run of his Nigel Tufnel character
    when he appears as "Sid Gormless" of "The Dog's Breakfast".  Great
    tune, though...
    
    						Turiya Alice Cooper

re:  .30

	I guess that's possible...but I don't think so, because this was 
	in 1977.  What year was the National Lampoon record?

    Re: .31
    
    "Goodbye Pop" came out in 74 or 75 I think...back to our regularly
    scheduled program.
    
    							Brian

    Any_Body know what National_Lampoon album has Some_One immitating
    Jack Kennedy singing"Wild_Thing"?
    
           Crazy_It's_Pretty_Old_Al

    Not NatLamp.  There was a single with "Wild Thing" on both sides, one
    by "Senator Bobby" [Kennedy] and the other by Senator Everett Dirksen,
    "The Wizard of Ooze".  I don't remember what name they gave the
    Dirkesen impressionist.
    

    
    How's this for a painfull triple-bill:
    
    Squeeze/The Beatles/Foreskins
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Ouch!!!
    
    
    paul