Many years ago, I worked with a musician who named his band One Large Banana after opening a recipe book and pointing blindly at a line. I guess some of the bands below chose their names that way too.
My favourite band names are Soundgarden and Orchestal Manoeuvres in the Dark. But I also like:
- 10cc
- Alice in Chains
- Anthrax
- Audioslave
- Awol Nation
- Bachmann Turner Overdrive
- Bad Company
- Bat for Lashes
- Big Audio Dynamite
- Blue Oyster Cult
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Deep Purple
- Def Leppard
- Deftones
- Dire Straits
- Echo & The Bunnymen
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Fine Young Cannibals
- Grand Funk Railroad
- Grateful Dead
- Guns N’ Roses
- Iron Maiden
- Judas Priest
- Led Zeppelin
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Metallica
- Mothers of Invention
- Nine Inch Nails
- Primal Scream
- Procul Harem
- Queen
- Quiet Riot
- Radiohead
- Rage Against the Machine
- REM
- Screaming Trees
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Sonic Youth
- Steppenwolf
- Stone Roses
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Supertramp
- System of a Down
- Talking Heads
- The Art of Noise
- The Black Keys
- The Cure
- The Kinks
- The Mothers of Invention
- The Psychedelic Furs
- The The
- The Tragically Hip
- Thin Lizzie
- World Party