Radio Rumpus Room's List of Found Band Names

Radio Rumpus Room's List of Found Band Names

Why are there so many lame band names, when there are so many GREAT possibilities out in the real world, just waiting to be adopted? For awhile now Radio Rumpus Room has been accumulating a list of terrific potential band names. NOTE: All names are guaranteed observed in the real world, NOT made up or generated by some hokey Internet software. These are the real deal.

Last updated January 5, 2012

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Ground Ambulance Picnic (handwritten sign with arrow pointing toward Minnehaha Park, on shoulder of Hiawatha Ave., Minneapolis) This is the one that inspired this list.

Martha Stewart's Lesbian Fury (headline on supermarket tabloid)

Skeeter Deleter (sign on side of truck spraying mosquito larvae)

The Shagadelic Mojo (brand name of fireworks manufactured in Ohio)

The Automated Buttocks (machine that tests car seats in Detroit)

The Fish Fuzz (title of game warden column in small rural Wisconsin newspaper)

Jellyfish Flesh Bullet
Contrary Soap Heaven
Restraint Maniac
Transformation Nurse

-- from a list of Japanese adult video (AV) titles

The Cockshutt Seeder (farm equipment seen at antique steam tractor show, Hastings, MN)

Let Them Eat Bullets (title of a '50s crime cult classic by author Howard Schoenfeld)

Ugh the Tug (on the stern of a towboat on the Mississippi, south of Minneapolis)

Fish Nipple
Nixon Underwater
Triple Teaser
Firetail Sonic
Darter Twitchin' Cuda Jerk
Wiggle Wizard
River Scamp
Big Creek Bug Wiggler
Gee Wiz Action Frog
Tease-Oreno
Saltwater Surfster
Sinful Sal
The Huskey Dinger

-- from the Encyclopedia of Fishing Lures and Tackles, 1890s-1970s:

Utopian Turtletop (early name suggested by critic for the Edsel)

Aerial Beaver Survey (title from a list of discontinued Minnesota Department of Natural Resources publications)

World's Fastest Monkeys (title of a National Geographic article)

Annette's Secret Passage ('60s Milton Bradley board game featuring ex-Mousketeer Annette Funicello, seen at a Minneapolis record show)

Keep Watching The Skies! (final admonishment from the 1951 film The Thing From Another World)

Horny Goatweed (with mocha) (variety of Puritain's Pride vitamins)

Fast And Bulbous (Capt. Beefhart song title)

Fluid-Filled Joints (sign outside a Walgreens Drug store, St. Paul, MN)

Immaculate Conception Record Hop (title of track from Cleveland DJ Pete Mad Daddy Myers radio spot, courtesy of Norton Records)

The Oxygen Destroyer (ultimate weapon from 1954 film Godzilla)

Tentacle Sex (genre of Japanese adult comics)

Toto Auto-Flush (brand of toilet at Interstate rest stop, somewhere in Iowa)

The Nutlets Of Sagittaria (great psych band name; found in a book on wetland plants of Minnesota and Wisconsin)

The Bong Invaders (headline from a 1965 Milwaukee Sentinel article referencing trespassers at Richard Bong Recreation Area in Kenosha County, WI)

The Minimally Invasive Hip Replacement (billboard on I-94 in Wisconsin)

Ferreteria (publicity for pet fair, seen on mobile events board parked outside a Milwaukee high school)

The Glacial Drumlins OR Glacial Drumlin (topographical item, glaciated area of southeast Wisconsin)

Diabetes Cure 101 (sign on free publication rack at an Interstate rest stop in Central Wisconsin)

The Amish Woodshed (eatery and souvenir shop along Wisconsin I-94)

Tom Swift & His Triphibian Atomicar (1962 book title from The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures series, Victor Appleton II author)

Pancake Santa (scrawled on sheet of plywood, advertising 2006 Christmas event for Minneapolis Parks Dept.

Hillbilly Potato Leaf and Green Zebra (varieties of heirloom tomatoes)

Who's Hitting Who? (overheard being shouted repeatedly while walking past house; by mother with out-of-control rugrats) Note: Being spoken and not written out, this technically should not be listed here. But we're bending the rules 'cause it felt like we should include it.

Corn-Fed Giants (videotape on hunting trophy whitetail deer in Iowa)

Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers (Department of Natural Resources billboard on zebra mussel eradication, on I-94 in Wisconsin)

Trilobite Treasures (title of museum exhibit in Menomonie, Wisconsin)

Block E Bachelor Party Brawl (headline in Minneapolis Star Tribune) Submitted by Blanche Fubar

All Iowa Attack (name of Iowa girls basketball program) Thanks to Blanche Fubar

Beelzebufo (devil toad, an armored, bowling ball-sized amphibian whose 70-million-year-old bones were recently uncovered in Madagascar) Contributed by Spleen

Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine (credited with longest title for a Korean film; directed by Nam Gi-wung, 2000) Source: Korea Film Archive, koreafilm.org

Elephants On Acid (title of book by author Alex Boese chronicling outrageous and bizarre modern-day scientific experiments)

Festival Of Knives (ad for Kitchen Window store)

Wreckology (term used by aircraft archeologists who recover pieces of planes lost to combat and crashes in WWII Europe)

Terminal Playset (miniature bus station found in the toy department at Sam's Club)

Hog Slat (business sign along Hwy. 65 in Hampton, east-central Iowa)

Pets In A Jar (older library book on keeping animals like toads and crickets)

Honeycomb Void Fill
Skidmates

-- items from the U-Line packaging catalog

Yummy Mennonite Recipes (from a hotdish cookbook; good name for a Japanese girl group?)

Feminist Mormon Housewives (actual website... everybody deserves a niche...)

Brain Upholstery Service (business sign in yard on Highway 6, Newton, Iowa)

Hangover Breakfast (from New Years Day event calendar of Floyd's Bar in Victoria, MN)

Stewed Heart (recipe in cookbook found in Dakota County Library book sale)

Iowa Pork Tent (from somewhere along Highway 65 in Iowa)

The Internal Structure Of Python Eggs (article title and potential psychedelic band) Hat tip to Blanche

Banana Control Board (published the cookbook Be Bold With Bananas... another great psych band name) Jean be trippin' again...

Riot Of Life (from AP news story on deepwater organisms thriving in Antarctic hot springs)

Thanks to Jean and Blanche and other anonymous toilers for your continuing vigilance and contributions to the Radio Rumpus Room List Of Found Band Names

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Submissions: Your observations and contributions will be gratefully accepted. Remember: Potential band names must be found, written out in a tangible form to be included here. Please include a description of the circumstances where you found it if you submit a name for inclusion.