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Poet deVine
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since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
What are some of the strangest names for bands/rock groups that you've heard of? |
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Saxoness
since 1999-07-18
Posts 1102Texas |
The Verve pipe ------------------ "Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone I sing my tearful song which has charms only for me." -Charles Brugnot |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Hung Monkeys Psychotica GooGoo Dolls |
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Dragoness Senior Member
since 1999-08-07
Posts 513 |
Electric Rooster Toad the Wet Sprocket ------------------ Set you heart free and your mind will follow. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Cherry Poppin' Daddies |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
Cream Garbage 3 Dog Night Sha Na Na Butthole Surfers ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) Many more, but I have to stop somewhere ------------------ Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. JP |
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Systematic Decay Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1301That place with padded walls and funny people in white......... |
Nine Inch Nails. While one of my favorites, I still have no idea what it means!! Oh, and I thought I'd add Smashing Pumpkins ------------------ "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage." -Billy Corgan- [This message has been edited by Systematic Decay (edited 10-15-1999).] |
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caroline Senior Member
since 1999-08-16
Posts 1218http://members.xoom.com/belladona123/index.htm |
Skinny Puppy...LOL!! Now THAT is weird! |
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StratMatt Member
since 1999-09-19
Posts 87Macomb, IL, U.S.A. |
weird band names? How about these: Geggy Tah Rhino Bucket Jack Off Jill Hootie and the Blowfish Aerosmith Savage Garden Def Leppard Jamiroquai As well as most of the one already listed came to mind, especially Toad the Wet Sprocket, now THAT'S weird. |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
The Feelers - now that's just plain dubious! And Hootie and the Blowfish - weird! |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs The Reverend Horton Heat The Tractors Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (D.R.I) They Might Be Giants most rap artists Squirrel Nut Zippers Frank Zappa and the Mothers most ska bands Blue Oyster Cult Creedance Clearwater Revival Dead Kennedys Dead Milkmen Black Flag Sisters of Mercy Englebert Humperdink Tiny Tim Meatloaf Anthrax Primus Nervous Norris GWAR and those strange people from Dr Demento who sang "Fish Heads", "I Want to be a Lifeguard", and "Two Triple-Cheese, Side Order of Fries" |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
OK - one more: The Fine Young Cannibals. |
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sweetnsxy Junior Member
since 1999-10-19
Posts 10Sterling Heights, Mi, U.S.A. |
godsmack megadeath Limp Bizkit Smashmouth [This message has been edited by sweetnsxy (edited 10-20-1999).] |
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JP Senior Member
since 1999-05-25
Posts 1343Loomis, CA |
Technically Alicat these three: Englebert Humperdink, Tiny Tim, and Meatloaf, are not bands, but individuals.... ------------------ Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn. JP |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
Besides all of those listed above I'd like to add Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Rob Zombie, and Green Day ------------------ If you love me like music, I'll be your song. ~Heart~ Dreamboat Annie |
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Sally S. Senior Member
since 1999-06-07
Posts 847Ohio |
how about..... Oingo Boingo Bow Wow Wow Magnapop Haircut One Hundred Split Enz (perhaps those 2 are related..not sure..LOL) Sigue Sigue Sputnick Kajagoogoo |
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Ladycat
since 1999-07-05
Posts 782At the edge and a doorway,TX |
Limp Bizkit Counting Crows Sepultura Stabbing Westward Orgy Candlebox Enigma Enya Sneaker Pimps Rancid Third Eye Blind Matchbox20 Spice Girls 311 Sublime Bush U2 No Doubt Hole Foo Fighters Now how about that for a few weird names.. I think that I just got carried away.. |
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DreamEvil Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396 |
Ceitic Frost Merciful Fate King Crimson Deep Purple Pink Floyd Accept Devo KnightCrawler B-52s Ratt Quiet Riot Kansas Boston Psychedelic Furs Just a few for now. ------------------ Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~. DreamEvil© |
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starboards Member
since 1999-10-14
Posts 467longwood, florida |
How about: Uncle Mudfish Jimmy's Chicken Shack Slip knot Oleander ------------------ "If you love something let it go...if it comes back to you it is yours...if it doesnt then it never was" |
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Elizabeth
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since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
Just for your information: the name Hootie and the Blowfish comes from two guys the band members knew. "Hootie" was for someone with really bugged-out eyes like an owl and the "Blowfish" was someone with puffed out cheeks (think Dizzy Gillespie). ------------------ *Elizabeth* "Dwelt a maid belov'd and cherish'd by high and low, But with autumn leaf she perish'd, long time ago..." "Something sweet, something sort of grandish, sweeps my soul when thou art near..." |
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starchild Member
since 1999-10-22
Posts 59manchester, england |
Prefab Sprout Queen (if freddie mercury is your front man and has not yet declared his sexuality) Llama Farmers Spandau Ballet Pink Floyd Arab Strap Wet Wet Wet (as it is a reference to dreams while the band had lovely pop his all nice and cosy for all the family) |
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Alicat Member Elite
since 1999-05-23
Posts 4094Coastal Texas |
What ever happened to decent, familily oriented names...or at least band names that were not spelled phonetically. Like, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, Gladys Knight and the Pips (she stole our name!!!), Mollie Hatchet, and others? It gives me no end of amusement to look at current band names (I think rap is disqualified, since most rappers are individuals, not collective entities). I've gotta wonder how they get the spelling.....Scrabble on Acid, or spilled Alphabet Soup? Who knows? |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
SMASHING PUMPKINS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! uh.........I'd have to say a weird name is Butthole surfers Modest Mouse those two  I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
The Violent Femmes (who are all men, BTW) |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
Rainbow Butt Monkeys Stone Temple Pilots Chumbawamba |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
Did anyone think of U2? Didn't read em all. |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Hahaha rainbow butt monkeys?!?! hahahahahahahahahaha I have a little "group" and my mom proposed the name "sucky poo's" what do you all think? A friend of mine suggested: Derma-Laid I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Actually Ali? Frank Zappa's band was "The Mothers of Invention" but I know you know that-- just wanted to brag that I had the extreme pleasure of seeing them (and him) four times...extraordinary and how I miss him! |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
Oh boy do I know some weird bands… Cat Rapes Dog Android Lust Hair of the Dog Dismembered Quietly Meat Beat Manifesto Three Hams on Rye Plastic Noise Experience Sheep on Drugs Velvet Acid Christ The Fabulous Potato Heads and, of course... Big Lou's Polka Casserole (PLEASE don’t ask me how I know this one) |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
blink 182 --- what's that suppose to mean korn --- they don't know how to spell  limp bizkit --- geez "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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Swamp¤Faeryie Member
since 2000-12-04
Posts 393fairyland....of course;) |
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire (my most awfully favorite band on earth,i think name is cool )The Twelve Vampires (they were an all women jazz band in the early 20's go figure,lol) The Flying Burrito Brothers(pre or post byrds) and that's all i can think of,heehee |
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Irie Senior Member
since 1999-12-01
Posts 1493Washington State |
Oh my Corline.... Skinny Puppy! LOL I remember them! Wang Chung incubus Korn Professional Murder Music Flock Of Seaguls I'm sure there are many more that I can't recall... and of course there are those that are already mentioned. ~Sheri "The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first" |
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LoveBug
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since 2000-01-08
Posts 4697 |
The hot little group around here is 69 fingers, because there are 7 members, but one was born without a pinky finger. He is also their best guitar player! And nobody mentioned Papa Roach? |
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Jesse Jaymz Senior Member
since 2000-01-24
Posts 708Youngstown, ohio |
hmmmmm i got alot of good ones cowgomoo nerve circus Crystal Armentrout Carbon Leaf earth to andy eddie from ohio e: fighting gravity Hogwaller Ramblers my dog lucy The Naked Puritans The double cross band hmmmmm have to think of more. the double cross band aint strange. but i was in it so thats why its odd  great topic. off to rememeber more. hell my own name is odd JESSE JAYMZ!!! hehehehe True beauty is often hidden in darkness... |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
There was a band around here in the late 60s and early 70s playing the high school dance circuits that was called Orange Purple Marmalade. Jamie Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil. "Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely". |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
i think we're mentioning all the bands  "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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Greeneyes617 Member
since 2000-11-22
Posts 329Arkansas |
Well....my history tacher had a band called "Hot Pink Sex" I donno about you but to me thats kind of weird.  |
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insect Senior Member
since 2000-04-22
Posts 1014 |
I miss Frank Zappa too! Does anyone remember the “Way Outs”? I think that’s their name! |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~The String Cheese Incident. |
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snowpants Member Elite
since 2000-09-16
Posts 2061KS |
Purple monkey dishwasher do I believe we'd be better off apart? can I see my world without you in it? baby, not for a single minute... |
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Dusk Treader
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since 1999-06-18
Posts 1187St. Paul, MN |
How about the awesome but short lived band Blind Melon. Amd the even shorter lived Guano Apes... And the equally short lived Push Monkey...(With their radio single, "Lefty" ROFL...) "And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell" - C.S. Lewis |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
a band in High School was named "Vas Deference" "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
SF!!! You know about the String Cheese Incident??? Okay, HOW cool... *grins* all of our "crossing" road signs in Boulder (and woo boy are there a bunch) had hula-hoop like rings that the Peds where groovin' through, and all the Animals were jumping through for about a month before their concert. To this day that is still the coolest form of advertising I've ever seen... |
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SpitFire Member Elite
since 2000-04-19
Posts 2396 |
~Yes! I've GOT 'Round The Wheel'!?! hehe. *Peace. |
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Paula Finn Member Ascendant
since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546missouri |
How about FASTER PUSSYCAT...LIVE...BLUE OYSTER CULT...CREAM... |
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Dee Member Elite
since 2000-08-19
Posts 2330Queensland, Australia |
How about... Mental as Anything Devo Just a couple I could think of. Dee |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
The PIPS |
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Dopey Dope
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Member Patricius
since 2000-08-30
Posts 11132San Juan, Puerto Rico |
All those names are messed up but I still think that the Rainbow Butt Monkeys is a definate winner. I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust. I'm in love with my shadow I admire it daily |
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DancinQueen
since 2000-07-29
Posts 1092Kokomo,IN,USA |
Incubus Slip-knot Stabbing Westward 3 Doors Down Flow-melow Addicts Morphine Steppen Wolf Twisted Sister Rage Against The Machine Marcy Playground Buckcherry Bloodhound Gang Godsmack Powerman-5000 Papa Roach Sprung Monkey Mott the Hoople REO Speedwagon 38 Special Kentucky Head Hunters Nashville Pussy Big Bad Voodoo Dadies Squirrel Nut Zippers Talking Heads Blonde Redheads ¤Sometimes the hardest thing to get over, is something you never really had¤ |
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insect Senior Member
since 2000-04-22
Posts 1014 |
Snap Crackle Bop….Ha! And I always loved…. Supertramp |
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DancinQueen
since 2000-07-29
Posts 1092Kokomo,IN,USA |
hey how about The Beatles ????  ¤Sometimes the hardest thing to get over, is something you never really had¤ |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
what about all the boy bands "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
The Beatles ROCK!!!!!! |
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Skyfyre Senior Member
since 1999-08-15
Posts 1906Sitting in Michael's Lap |
What about 'was(not was)'... With their unforgettable number :"Hello, Dad? I'm in Jail ..."  Linda |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
Has anyone mentioned "The Who" ? |
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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
ABBA Badly Drawn Boy Coldplay Fatboy slim Supergrass stereophonics Eminem Mansun Verve Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning. |
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Dream-eagle Junior Member
since 2001-03-07
Posts 34Indiana, USA |
maybe showing my age a bit here but how about: The Troggs A Box of Frogs The Honey Drippers Q. Does anyone remember who made a come back with the group A Box of Frogs??? |
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Mike Member Elite
since 1999-06-19
Posts 2462 |
Which of the Yardbirds you talking about? tis a multiple choice question you ask... no Clapton however... |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Um, just a few I can remember from the Battle of the bands in my high school days: Kumquat, Graveyard Rape, Type "O" Negative Makes you wonder where I went to school, I bet. Oh, and Linda would like to add: Yeasta Girls, famous for the song, You Suck! - ewwwwwweeeeeeee, and Brim Sandwich.....ARGHHH!!! - don't even go there. Michael |
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Allan Riverwood
since 2001-01-04
Posts 3502Winnipeg |
Okay, and these bands all I am about to mention RULE, by the way.  My own collection of industrial favourites. Skinny Puppy Velvet Acid Christ VNV Nation (Victory, not Vengeance) KEIN MEHRHEIT FÜR DIE MITLEID, or KMFDM (which translates to "No Compassion for the Majority") Axonal Warfare Cat Rapes Dog X Marks the Pedwalk Dismembered Quietly Evil Mothers and trust me, the list goes on and on. It's just my own brand of music. They tend to have very impressive names. ~Allan If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort [This message has been edited by Allan Riverwood (edited 03-09-2001).] |
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Child of the Stars
since 2000-09-07
Posts 1658Ann Arbor, MI |
...SNEAKER PIMPS!!!!! YEAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Third Eye Blind (dunno if sumbody mentioned that one already..) and..Bic Runga "The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake." - Leonardo da Vinci |
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Dream-eagle Junior Member
since 2001-03-07
Posts 34Indiana, USA |
Just thought of another one Sleez Beez |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
Micheal, Type "O" Negative ROCKS. Have "The Least Worst Of" CD... |
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orange()alligator Junior Member
since 2001-02-06
Posts 21 |
obvious one..korn metallica guns 'n roses pantera sepultera KMFDM pearl jam red hot chilli peppers soulfly taproot toadies the union underground system of a down cradle of filth lords of acid coal chamber slipknot a perfect circle tool nine inch nails orgy offspring mudvayne local h three doors down marilyn manson linkin park sevendust staind kittie incubus glassjaw dope fuel foo fighters deftones camp kill yourself at the drive in ...okay i'll shut up now lol |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
OK...Can someone give me a band w/o a weird name? Seems like we named all the bands in this thread already "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this give life to thee." W.S. |
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Fading Away
since 2001-03-14
Posts 3131Lynchburg, Virginia |
Jars of Clay I never thought that you would ever be the one to let me down. I guess that just goes to show how wrong I always am. |
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Allan Riverwood
since 2001-01-04
Posts 3502Winnipeg |
Acire-- how about "The Band?" If I had your eyes, I'd be blind. For I can only see out of my own. ~~Carly Van Dort |
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Dusk Treader
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since 1999-06-18
Posts 1187St. Paul, MN |
SHEEP ON DRUGS! SHEEP ON DRUGS!!! I want to hear that band just because they have an AWESOME name! LOL Earthquakes Over Daphne - Local band.. Over? LOL Sunna - With the CD "One Minute Science" Alice in Chains - One of the greatest bands ever! But a rather odd name... (It's a name for a speed metal band in drag, though they aren't, LOL) "And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind - is, in the end, Hell" - C.S. Lewis |
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Dusk Treader
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since 1999-06-18
Posts 1187St. Paul, MN |
Oh, I forgot! Vertical Horizon - Let's just contradict ourselves here... |
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SEA
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since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
A lot of these bands I really like some of thier music.... Goo Goo Dolls ( i have) Rob Zombie ( well I have White Zombie) Nine Inch Nails (ugh, love them) Bow Wow Wow ( my freshman yr. I wanted my hair like hers) Creedence is just too awesome there's more on here.....they are really good...... I think the names are fun SEA |
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