Author Topic: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .  (Read 17634 times)

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #250 on: 04 May, 2018, 10:02:51 am »
Gaye Pedestrians on Acid

Lesbian Dpoeheads on Bicycles

King Cleary and His Savage Mice

The Sam Hutt Band

Frank Ducks

The Balham Newts

Woofage

  • Tofu-eating Wokerati
  • Ain't no hooves on my bike.
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #251 on: 04 May, 2018, 12:33:34 pm »
The Really Not Too Bad Alex Harvey Band

UB39

Aluminiumy Dan
Pen Pusher

Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #252 on: 04 May, 2018, 11:42:24 pm »
Aluminiumy Dan
better than Irony Dan I suppose
For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #253 on: 05 May, 2018, 07:27:21 pm »
Holly  Island
Its More Fun With Three .

Woofage

  • Tofu-eating Wokerati
  • Ain't no hooves on my bike.
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #254 on: 06 May, 2018, 03:26:40 pm »
Aluminiumy Dan
better than Irony Dan I suppose

Their sound is a bit lighter, but when they try to push it too hard it all falls apart.
Pen Pusher

Pingu

  • Put away those fiery biscuits!
  • Mrs Pingu's domestique
    • the Igloo
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #255 on: 06 May, 2018, 11:33:11 pm »
Aluminiumy Dan
better than Irony Dan I suppose

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #256 on: 07 May, 2018, 05:24:50 am »
Marvin Straight

cygnet

  • I'm part of the association
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #257 on: 07 May, 2018, 12:32:31 pm »
Mowgli

Bored of Canada
I Said, I've Got A Big Stick

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #258 on: 09 May, 2018, 07:58:51 pm »
Hard Sell

Billy Modest

Haggerty F, Haggerty R, Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Robson, Crapper, Dewhurst, Macintyre, Treadmore, Davitt.

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #259 on: 13 May, 2018, 10:26:43 pm »
Joan Jett and the Blackheads.

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
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Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #260 on: 14 May, 2018, 03:34:43 am »
It's punk time:

The Sex Trebuchets

The Dashed

The Fizzchickens

The Minor Incident Of Handbags

Floppy Thumbs

Underpass Cult

The Fruit Preserve

The Angelic Kickstarts
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

Giraffe

  • I brake for Giraffes
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #261 on: 14 May, 2018, 08:44:40 am »
The Euthanasics
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

Beardy

  • Shedist
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #262 on: 14 May, 2018, 11:19:20 am »
Odeon Music,

Smooch

T Rover

Regina

The Gitter Band

Deaf Tiger

Pudding

Warlock



For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #263 on: 14 May, 2018, 11:26:39 am »
Warlock

During the 1980s, there was a German heavy metal band that recorded under that name.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #264 on: 14 May, 2018, 11:33:09 am »
A Flock of Gannets

Gary Numan & Light Railway Militia

Vickers Ballet

Frankie Goes To Elstree
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
  • Custard Wallah
    • Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #265 on: 14 May, 2018, 12:19:47 pm »
Durian Durian ~ had a hit in Indonesia with an unlikely cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell"

The Jon Spencer Pies Experience

Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Gruts
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #266 on: 14 May, 2018, 12:25:22 pm »
Durian Durian ~ had a hit in Indonesia with an unlikely cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell"

Phil Collins could feel it Coming in the Air Tonight.

Giraffe

  • I brake for Giraffes
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #267 on: 24 June, 2018, 08:48:30 am »
Manspread Mann's Earth Band

Modness
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.

TheLurker

  • Goes well with magnolia.
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #268 on: 24 June, 2018, 09:42:49 am »
I'm surprised pop pickers; a quick scan shows no entries in the chart for, "The Whom".

The David Clark Quintet

And an upvote for Helly's "Laevo's Midnight Runners".
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rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #269 on: 24 June, 2018, 11:01:23 am »
Have we had Judas Vicar yet?  Singer Rob Halfords.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Giraffe

  • I brake for Giraffes
Re: Band Names That Just Missed It . . .
« Reply #270 on: 25 June, 2018, 09:44:09 am »
Or Judas Rabbi(!) Singer: Topol.
2x4: thick plank; 4x4: 2 of 'em.