I actually wrote this strip a year and a half ago, saved it in the wrong directory, and just found it. Most of this came from an IM conversation I had with my lovely wife where we went back and forth trying to outdo each other with band names. Other band names that came out of this conversation included The Bulbwaiters, Fartbunny, My Purple Uncle Moe, Corntwiddlers, Orange Mohair Chaps, Spectacles For Jesus, and Uncle Waffleneck.
The best band name I’ve ever come up with is probably the last one mentioned in this strip, though “Timmy Tampon and the Stringalongs” and “The Urkel Jerks” probably rate pretty high on the list as well.
Welcome to 2013!
-=ShoEboX=-
I think the Urkel Jerks is one of those things that everybody sort of stumbles on independently because I’ve seen it like ten different places with no connection.
Is it? I haven’t seen it, but then, I haven’t actively looked for it either.
-=’Box=-
My favorite (real) band name is Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Wonderland).
You guys have read the AV Club articles about worst (actual) band names, right?
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-year-in-band-names-2012,89829/
I’m laughing so hard I can’t even think of my own without resorting to a formula
like Corbin Pinkpalms and the Fifth Elephant or Repeating Hairline
Uncle Daddy and Family Secrets
I’ve always felt that at least half the song titles from The Mothers of Invention could be band names.
“Honky-Tonk Vomit”. Seems almost plausible.
Best one I ever came up with was Flying Death Boner!
Moral Bludgeon
My dad had groups like that. “Joe Banana and his bunch. The group with appeal.” “Nick Nostril and his Nine Nasty Nosepickers.”
Thing about the name “Urkel” was i always had this sneaking suspicion it was meant to be short for “Hercules”.
“Freaky Freddy and his Free and Funky Finger-F***ers”
We had a Heavy Metal/Black Metal band naming contest at a company I used to work for. It went on for weeks and we all tried to one up each other. One of the band names that stayed at the top of the voting for a while was “Steak Knife Enema”. Others I can remember are “Entrail Soup” and “Vomit Kiss”. Good times…
“Karl Marx and the Instruments of Labor”
fisting in a laundromat, dude! where’s my pancreas?, electric soap, ,cranial speedometer, good-natured homicide, raven mocker, skin-walker, spearfinger, thrusting blue-veined junket pumps, sexual morrisment, and supporting bands, the bonerfarts. Beat that
Androgynous Elk anyone? The Cheebacabra Bananarchy? Fartbarf?
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-year-in-band-names-2012,89829/
I’ll just leave this here and walk away…
The New Vinton County Frogwhompers Marching, Singing, Strumming, & Plucking Society
First album was “We Always Wanted To Be A Big Name Band”