re: Best band names - regardless of whether or not you like their music

4 pages. Not one mention of Carcass.

Also, The Busboys, Alabama Thunderpussy, and my favorite from my youth: FUAD (Face Up arse Down).

Best rap group name: Geto Boys

The Tragically Hip

Rainbow Butt Monkeys (Finger 11 now)

The name Metallica is why I sought them out on the radio to start with in high school. Didn't even sound like a band it sounded like an essence

Garbage

Sound Garden

Aquarium Rescue Unit

Gran Torino

Black Flag

Leftover Salmon

The Grateful Dead

The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begin with the hero coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts. He gives his last penny, either to pay the man's debts or to give him a decent burial. Within a few hours he meets with a travelling companion who aids him in some impossible task, gets him a fortune or saves his life. The story ends with the companion disclosing himself as the man whose corpse the hero had befriended.(Funk & Wagnall's Dictionary).

The name has also been attributed to this quote, though it's generally believed that they came across this one later:


"We now return our souls to the creator,
as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness.
Let our chant fill the void
in order that others may know.
In the land of the night
the ship of the sun
is drawn by the grateful dead."

-- Egyptian Book of the Dead

Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles

Sonic Youth