A collection of phrases that strike me as (mostly terrible) possible names for bands, rappers, albums, etc. If you want to take one, it's yours if your promise to send me a link to add when you've actually got songs.

Updated sporadically.

From the maker of An Obsession A Week.

These are the sorts of names we've got:

Theme by nostrich.

1st February 2012

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all-female neo-Garage rock band:

Galligator 

Tagged: *movie referenceall-femalegarage rockband namegarage revival

28th September 2011

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all-girl (but the drummer) 90s revival band name:

No Mister Right Girlfriend

Tagged: band nameearth girls are easy90s revivalall-girl*movie reference

20th September 2011

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slightly wussy art rock band name:

Fingers At Random

Tagged: fingersart rockband namewussy

5th September 2011

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twee band name:

The Permanent Crushes 

[suggested by VJ Franz K]

Tagged: tweeband nameVJ Franz K

15th August 2011

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New Wave band name:

Robot Culinaire

[French name for a “Food Processor”]

Tagged: new waveband namefrenchrobot

12th August 2011

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dance-punk band name:

Wild Abdomen

[a witty malpropism by John Lennon]

Tagged: wildjohn lennonmalpropismband namedance punkpunk

29th July 2011

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not quite post-punk band name:

Professor O’Blivion

[from Cronenberg’s Videodrome]

Tagged: post-punkband namevideodromecronenberg

20th July 2011

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90s pop-punk band name:

The Magnificent Dead Guys

[from Mystery Men]

Tagged: punkpop-punkband namedead*movie referencemystery men

11th July 2011

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experimental indie-electro duo name:

A’a’ Lava

[I was watching a documentary about Volcanoes …  This lava is “spiny or blocky”]

Tagged: experimentalindie-electroduo*number of membersband namelava

27th June 2011

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post-Beefheart freak surf band name:

Prominent Dude & the Boring Boobs

[this was an amalgamation of two different tumblr-related conversations with RealBroad]

Tagged: and the'sdudecaptain beefheartpost-Beefheartsurffreak surfband name

21st June 2011

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dark psychedelic five piece band name:

Hot Awesome Family

Tagged: *membershippsychedelicfamilyhotband namefive piecedark psyche

20th June 2011

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postpunk ska band name:

Mail Man Jail

Tagged: postpunkskaband namejailman

1st June 2011

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Captain Beefheart cover band name:

Megaloid Momworship

(from Phillip Willey’s “Generation of Vipers”)

[submitted by Kontextmachine]

Tagged: captain beefheartcover bandband name*philosophy referencephillip wyliesubmission

31st May 2011

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twee rock band name:

Hot Laundry

Tagged: hottweerockband name

24th May 2011

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shoegaze band name:

Vanilla Dayjob

Tagged: shoegazeband namevanilla