Adam's Name Your Band Page

Name Your Band

I have this...um...hobby? Obsession? Curse? Anyway, I tend to hear names for rock n' roll bands in everyday phrases, quirky word combinations, and slips of the tongue. I've scoured scraps of paper and calendar margins all the way back to junior high and put my findings here in case someone can make use of them...allowing me to get rid of all those scraps.

I make no claims of quality, one way or the other. Some are truly awful.

If you use, are inspired by, or recognize as already taken a name from this list, please send me an e-mail and let me know. I'll grey it out. Also please send your own name ideas.

Capitalization is optional. Some recently added entries are in orange or red. An underline indicates a name used from this haywire.net band-name list.

There are several other "Name Your Band" pages on the Web.

Potential Band/Album Names

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Brand new section of names HOT OFF THE PRESSES
A-H	I-R	S-Z
A Abyss Acheron Achilles Helix Ad Hoc Alarm Will Sound The Alien from Outer Space All Those Hearts Alphabet City Amoebae Anima Animato Apache Fog Apostolic Car Wash Argus The Arrangement Artist's Rendering Asylum B Bachelors of Science Bad Eggs Bandersnatch Barbaric Yawp Beeswax Beta Blockers Bible Elbow Big Media Bluedy Moos Blue In The Face Blue Period Blunt Object Boat Payment Due Bodily Functions Bodily Present Body Cavity Boy Genius Brain Trust Buffalo Tongs Butterfly Effect Boing Boing Bolshevixens Boys Against Girls (or G.A.B.) Bunches of Grapes But Is It Art? C Cadaver Calliope Case in Point Catharsis Cattle Prod. Celebrity Plaything Chance in Hell Cheap Shots Choosey Mothers Chromosomes Chronological Liar Circle Clank Clint's Squint Clockwork The Cogs Coitus Rex Comatose Coyote Vamps Critical Path Cruel Hoax Crusin' for a Brusin' Culture of Suspicion D Dandelion Wine Dedicated Poo (1) The Dickens DNA Dog Logic Dream Sequins Drip, Dry & Sons Durang, Durang E Earth Tones Ed McMuffin Effigy El Elixir Ennui Are Family Entities Event Horizon Everybody's Jesus Evil I Ex-Parrot F Faction Fade to Black Fang Feedhaytackwire Fertile Crescent Fewmets First Things First Fits & Starts Flash in the Can Floor Jordans 4 Out of 5 Dentists Franklin Pop Freaks of Nature Free Association Friend of a Friend Fries With That Fulcrum FUNEX Fuzzy Logic Fuzzy Metal (2) G Gangrene Garbled Response Generally Disillusioned Generic Band The Get-Go Gizmology Gnashing of Teeth Good Cop Bad Cop Good Eggs Great Unwashed Greatest Hits Gypsies Gypsters H Hairy Eyeball Half a Mind Half the Battle Hand to Mouth Handbasket Happenstance Hasn't Scratched Yet Hell Toupee Hogwash Hollow Legs Home Movies Hominoids Horn (2) Hot Pursuit Huckleberry Friend Human Error Hunt & Peck Hurly Burly	I Impetus In Cahoots Indifferent Drummer Inferno Infinite Monkeys Inklings In Like Flynn Inner Circle The Isms Itch J The Jacks Jalopy Jenny & the Pirates Jif & the Choosy Mothers Jukebox Logic Jump the Groove Just Toast K Kadjangers Kicking and Screaming Kidding Kiss Like I Sing Kitchenette Kitten Kaboodle Kitty Karieall Klaxon L Large, Large Sponge Lather, Rinse, Repeat Leaps & Bounds Leaves of Glass Lever & The Inclined Planes Life as We Know It Life in General - taken Lightfantastic Living Daylights Long Slow Suicide Looks Askance Love City Love Knots Love Muffins Lunatic M Mafia Suicide Man with Van Malicious Intent Maniacal Lunch Bucket Manic Spring Manxome Foes Marzeedotes Mayonnaise Medium Rare Ménage à Un The Mgt. (The Management) The Midst Mike Manure & the Meadow Muffins Misspent Youth Molecules More of the Same Mortar & Pestle Mostly Sunday Movers & Shakers Moving Target Mucous Membrane The Musical Question Mutual Fish Mutual Friends N Need to Know Neon New Weird Order New Word Order Next Big Thing Nick of Time No Man is An Eyeball No Rest for the Wicked No Sudden Moves Noble Savage No Radio No Reason No Relation No Prisoners Not Actual Size Nothing Doing Not Pictured O Obelisk Obelix Objects in This Mirror Obscure Band Odds-My-Bodkins Of All Things Olyology Onagain Offagain One & the Same Orange Genius Out of Body Experience Out of Context P Paleface Papillon Part of this Complete Breakfast Passion Poop Peas and Carrots Penny Dreadful Perpetual Erection Phil & the Harmonics Picture This Pink Freud Placebos Plain Brown Rapper Pocket Lady Pod People The Point Poliaris Present Tense Presto Change-o Pro Bono Prone Rangers Public at Large Public Nuisance Pulmonate Gastropods Pulsar Pure Chewing Satisfaction Python Q The Quick Qwertyuiop R Ra Rabid Owl Posse Rap CD in Blue Ray of Darkness Raze the Bar* Red Rover Red Shift Retrograde Filth Rhubarb Riddle Me This River Deep, Sugar High Road Rugs Romantic Art Heroes Royal We Rule of Thumb Rumble Strip Run Amok	S The Same Sanctions Sand Castle Virgins Schnel! Schnel! Scop & Gleeman Scratch n Sniff Seescape Sentinel Shaftway Share the Joystick Splin Shints Shaftway Shock Value Shrapnel Shrinking Violet Shudder to Think Signus Silent Spring Silent Sproing Silly Rabbi The Skinny Slam Bang Boom Slam Bang Circus Slap Happy Slim to None Slithy Toves Slow Children at Play Smackers Small Potatoes Snafu Soar Sock Monkeys Solanoid Something Ever After Spades of Ace Spandex Ballet Spasmatics Speed Bump Spheres Spock's Pod Squeaky Toy Squeaky Wheel Squeezebox Palace Squirrel on a Stick Standard of Living State of Flux Stay Tuned Stickybuns Strange Attractors Strange Weather T Taliban Talisman Talkin' Dogs Tangents Tarmac 10 Times Fast This Just In This Side Up Throw the Switch Ticketmaster Toggle Switch Totem Tough Titties Tower of Bagels Trick Question True to Life Tubular Bongs U Uberfish Ugly Mug Ukelaliens (3) Unforseen Circumstance Unlisted Up and Coming V Vandals & Visigoths Verb Missing Vice-Versa Village Idiot Void Void Where Prohibited Volition Vomitzvah Vortex W Wacky Neighbor(s) Wandering Minstrel Eye Waning Gibbous Warp Factor Nine Waxy Yellow Buildup We the People Welcome Wagon Welfare State Whiplash Whole Shack Shimmies Wild Blue Witty Quips Word for Word Working Stiffs Working Title WYSIWYG Y Yes, No, Maybe So Yonder Yop You Don't Say Yow Z Zapf Dingbats Zounds

(1) Seen on a truck in Portland (some letters were missing).
(2) Thanks to Nicole Burton of Canada, who also used the name "Abyss" from the list.
(3) Brainchild of Lawrence Rush, composer/lyricist/librettist

* These names were used by bands after being seen on this page!

Thanks to these additional band name contributors: Melinda Simms, Claire Wilkins, Sean Flora

Hot off the Presses

These names are so hot I haven't had time to put them in order yet! Nor, I should mention, to cut the really bad ones. (Not that I cut the really bad ones from the main list above, either.)

They are from members of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in NYC, who have no idea yet that I've stolen them. You can tell a lot about these peoples' obsessions and what they have in their houses by the names they choose...see if you agree.

(More to come from Susan once shehas leftovers...)

David Spencer

The Comfy Chair
Vinyl Lives
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
The City and the Stars
A Spaced Odyssey
The Vulcan Nerve Pinch
Amok Time
Cat's Pajamas
We're Just Better
Zebra Life
The House of Many Doors The Angel-Buffy Crossover
Shatner's Corset
It Burns! It Burns!
Charade
Where No Band Has Rocked Before
Scarier Than We Look
Too Many Kitties
Wet Kibble
Walkies
Animals Unleashed
Close Enough for Rock
More to Follow.
Bandwidth
Shatner's Dramatic Pause
Anti-Wrinkle Breakthrough
Charles Bloom

Band de Solei
The Kibbitzers

Michael Mooney

The Dragonflies
Cherry Pie
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Beaded Lampshade

Randy Lake

The Devil's Sintax
Lector's Dentures
High, Wide and Mighty
Flour 'n Sugar (aka a whiter version of Salt n' Pepper)

Other "Name Your Band" Pages:

Colin Viebrock's Band-O-Rama <= Closed? Mr. V. uses Javascript to generate a band name for you randomly from a long list of words. You'll get some names that are incredibly stupid and others that seem a work of genius. <As of 2003 it seems to have vanished.>

Aaron V. Humphrey's Random Band Name Server <= Closed? Everyone's friend Aaron V. Humphrey has set up a place where you can generate one or more names from a list of umpteen hundreds--maybe thousands--of odd suggestions. <Vanished -- too bad!>

band names a go go Fun list of names at merde.org

The Canonical List of Weird Band Names Thousands of real band names that will shock and delight you.
(Now being maintained by a fan of the original page, which was no longer being updated.)

Band Name Registry
One resource you can use to find out if a band already exists with a particular name.

This site "...offers for the first time the opportunity for bands, groups, orchestras and artists to register their names, wherever they are in the world - and to search the database to see if their name or proposed name is already in use."

It's already become a standard in the UK, they say. Seems to work pretty well; I used their database and found out my favorite band name, Sometimes Y, was held already by a band in Twin Falls, Idaho. Oh, well!

Band-O-Matic Picks one or another bizarre narne for you from a database

Please note that I am not responsible for the availability or restrictions on the use of any name on the list above, and anyone who uses one of these ideas does so entirely at their own risk.

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David Spencer
The Comfy Chair Vinyl Lives Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) The City and the Stars A Spaced Odyssey The Vulcan Nerve Pinch Amok Time Cat's Pajamas We're Just Better Zebra Life The House of Many Doors	The Angel-Buffy Crossover Shatner's Corset It Burns! It Burns! Charade Where No Band Has Rocked Before Scarier Than We Look Too Many Kitties Wet Kibble Walkies Animals Unleashed Close Enough for Rock More to Follow. Bandwidth Shatner's Dramatic Pause Anti-Wrinkle Breakthrough	Charles Bloom Band de Solei The Kibbitzers
		Michael Mooney The Dragonflies Cherry Pie Peanut Butter and Jelly Beaded Lampshade
		Randy Lake The Devil's Sintax Lector's Dentures High, Wide and Mighty Flour 'n Sugar (aka a whiter version of Salt n' Pepper)

Colin Viebrock's Band-O-Rama <= Closed?	Mr. V. uses Javascript to generate a band name for you randomly from a long list of words. You'll get some names that are incredibly stupid and others that seem a work of genius. <As of 2003 it seems to have vanished.>
Aaron V. Humphrey's Random Band Name Server <= Closed?	Everyone's friend Aaron V. Humphrey has set up a place where you can generate one or more names from a list of umpteen hundreds--maybe thousands--of odd suggestions. <Vanished -- too bad!>
band names a go go	Fun list of names at merde.org
The Canonical List of Weird Band Names	Thousands of real band names that will shock and delight you. (Now being maintained by a fan of the original page, which was no longer being updated.)
Band Name Registry	One resource you can use to find out if a band already exists with a particular name. This site "...offers for the first time the opportunity for bands, groups, orchestras and artists to register their names, wherever they are in the world - and to search the database to see if their name or proposed name is already in use." It's already become a standard in the UK, they say. Seems to work pretty well; I used their database and found out my favorite band name, Sometimes Y, was held already by a band in Twin Falls, Idaho. Oh, well!
Band-O-Matic	Picks one or another bizarre narne for you from a database

Name Your Band

Potential Band/Album Names

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