Orton’s Hammer is the name of my fantasy hockey team. No one gets it though.

Do you think that maybe they don’t think it’s funny?

Five Guys Who Formed a Band And Still Can’t Get Laid

my favorite.

I don’t know if I sent you that, but all those are from the Worst Possible Band Names thread that I wasted a lot of time on at Salon Table Talk in the Late Clinton Era. We had thousands of entries — I think this guy, whom I’d never heard of, is responsible for culling the list. (And I can’t believe, after all these years, he hasn’t quit his wedding band and gotten a real job. Though he did cut his hair.)

related almost sadZ – http://gizmodo.com/5739091/how-creed-saved-a-norwegian-boy-from-a-pack-of-wolves

Almost all of them would be crap band names but AWESOME song titles.

the Worst Possible Band Names thread that I wasted a lot of time on at Salon Table Talk in the Late Clinton Era.

Definitely the best band name of all of them.

Durwood Kirby Sleeps On My Living Room Couch

Now that’s funny right there.

One of the Creaturette’s punk rock pals passed this observation along to her, and I must share it with the group.

“When you play a Nickelback song backwards, you really hear Satanic messages! And what’s even more terrible, when you play it forward, you really hear a Nickelback song!”

Are these real? Or just bad suggestions? Either way, I like:

Hungry Hungry Hypocrites
No, Mister Bond, I Expect You to Plotz

and

Leave the Gun, Take the Zamboni

Back in the ’80s, there was a band called Gefilte Joe and the Fish. They had a record that was dyed blue and in the shape of a Star of David.

Which you may see (and unfortunately) and listen to here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjyyjCzXCnY

That’s actually pretty hilarious. Someone on Youtube says “Actually, it was Richard Foos, the founder of Rhino Records & some friends.”

Speaking of parody bands, I wonder if anyone here is old enough to remember The Masked Mauraders. Can’t get no nookie aaaaw yeah….

I worked in a couple of bands with silly names:

The Ordinaires, and Rene and the Coordinates.

Favorite silly band name (of an actual working band): Double Naught Spy Car (before that they called themselves Pink Floyd the Barber).

I actually have an album (you know, the old vinyl kind) by a band called “Attila the Stockbroker“. Album title is “Libyan Students from Hell“.

the bands I was in during university in the late 80′s included a jokey consciously spinal tap psycheldic band with two drummers and four lead guitarists called The Blind Samlon Spewship. There was also our folk-rock quartet with two hippies, a yuppie and hot chick drummer called “Those Meddling Kids” sometimes referred to by our friends as those medleying kids for our tendency to jam out of one song such as the Beatles “helter skelter” and into another, like Dire Straits “Wild West End”.
Other friends had bands called Forensic Banquet, The Winged Marsupials and Nine Big Dogs. Surprisingly or not, many of the people from these bands are now music professors or professional musicians. The drummer from the Spewship is now a professor at the University of Toronto who plays in a funk band on the weekends called “Getuplicans & Downocrats.” Some other friends are local legends in Eastern Ontario under the name The Frere Brothers.
When I get more time I fully intend to start a new band call Fink Ployed, though I’m tempted to put together a group and call it St. Satchmo and the Thursday Night Bassets, just to cash in on all the Tbogg fans.

Walk on the Kosher Side is pretty funny, but you have to listen to Hanukah Rocks first. I think T should mate his video of Malkin with that song.

Gree -

Thanks for that link. I never thought I’d see or hear that record again. God bless the internet.

As a Hendrix fan, I’m just loving this one:

If 6 Was 9, That’d Be Just Wacky

OT, but Sullivan v. McArdle slappy fight ensuing over at the Atlantic:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2011/01/loughner-and-the-right.html

These Ordinaires? Twenty years ago I played the crap out of that first album.

As a Hendrix fan, I’m just loving this one:

If 6 Was 9, That’d Be Just Wacky

I’m guessing that “If 6 Was 9″ was Jared Loughner’s favorite Hendrix song.

(Too soon?)

David Letterman came up with that one.

If you ever put together “Thursday Night Bassets”, put me down for rhythm guitar. And since TO is my home town, I’ll happily attend the occasional practice.

No, my “Ordinaires” was an early seventies college-era bar band. Checked the personnel list on the page you linked to see if any of my old bandmates were there, carrying on the name, as it were, but nope, don’t recognize anybody there. ‘Course [laughing], come to think of it, I can’t actually remember any of their names, so–

The Four Horsemen of the Disappointing Ending

My fave.

gotta spell out the hilarity at this link:

A boy saved himself from a pack of wolves with a little help from Creed on Thursday…Thirteen-year-old Norwegian student Walter Eikrem came across a pack of wolves on his way home from school. He knew not to run away from the wolves, so he quickly became resourceful and attempted to scare the wolves away by using his phone: he blasted the Creed song he was listening to through his cell phone.

The wolves didn’t get scared, probably because they couldn’t take Creed seriously either. However, the loud music was enough to make the wolf pack turn around, walk away, and let Walter be.

I think those have all been names of General Systems Vehicles.

Attila the Stockbroker is still performing. You find his stuff on youtube

Then there is the Mensa house band “Six Points None the Wiser.”