Best punk rock name ever?

[Bossy Monkey]

I'd run a poll, but I don't see how anyone beats Joe Strummer. Though I have much fondness for Billy Zoom (as a name and as a musician.) And you?

[RandomThoughts]

1. I don't buy into it being a 'punk'

If that is the case, then the other methods would be so bad, I really try to avoid thinking that is being done.

[mitchum]

2. Cheetah Chrome or Lux Interior

[Richardo]

3. Exene Cervenka

Let's just nominate X. Because John Doe and DJ Bonebreak are great, too.

[Iggo]

4. Ted.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. MiddleFingerMosh. n/t

[kayakjohnny]

6. You got me thinking ... so then I found this.

It's a punk band name generator.

They give you a chance to enter an optional word.

I typed 'gump', and got this....

* Smelling Gump Of The Miserable Syndrome
* Gump Band
* Across Gump
* Confusing Gump Of The Photo Blur
* Gump Magnum
* Blonde Gump Of The Old Fellow
* Gump Parent
* Gump Of Chasing
* Obscurity Of Gump
* Gump Carcass


Give it a whirl...

http://www.bandnamemaker.com/

[kayakjohnny]

7. And this came up without the optional word selection...

* Hydroponic Trucker
* Bar Reverse
* First Class Her
* University Of Forsaken
* Force Marmalade
* Guardian Up Vehicle
* Soup Of The Herbal Depth
* Retired Attorney
* Humid Enema Of The Desire Sunberry
* Without Itchy

[TroglodyteScholar]

14. VERY nice...I put in "Jamma" and my best result was this one:

Jamma Probe And The Tenth Affiliate

:rofl:

[kayakjohnny]

15. !

:thumbsup:

[Bossy Monkey]

29. Awesome! Will be shared far and wide. You should probably break it out

as a separate thread; it certainly deserves it. Thanks!

[BurtWorm]

8. Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious are kind of iconic

For that matter Iggy Pop is a potent proto-punk name.

A few more I like:

Rat Scabies
Richard Hell
Stiv Bators


Jello Biafra is a bit over the top, which maybe makes it more punk that anyone's.

[mitchum]

22. Johnny Rotten was first coined by Carl Reiner in the 50s...

he and the other writers were tossing around idea for a "Your Show of Shows" sketch featuring a 50s juvenile delinquent. His first suggestion was "Johnny Fuck"
"Johhny Rotten" was the acceptable alrenative that he offered. Despite that change, the sketch never got beyond the writing stage.

I also think that Richard Hell is a great punk name.

[old mark]

26. Johnny is hilarious - this was a performance from the Late Late Show in 2007 -

Pretty Vacant, in which Mr. Rotten shows off his belly fat and rather fetching breasts and states
"Fat is this year's thin!",,,the band kicks ass live!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvxrYm4nxXY&feature=related

mark

[abq e streeter]

9. +1 for Johnny Rotten--sounds like a petulant 5 year old, which was probably the point

[SoxFan]

24. And pretty accurate!

[Forkboy]

10. Lee Ving

[bif]

11. Jello Biafra comes to mind.

[Throd]

12. Dinah Cancer of .45 Grave

[mitchum]

23. And her bandmate Rob Graves (Rob Ritter)

[pink-o]

13. We had our own post-punk girl band,

I was Anne R Key. My friend was Luna Sea.

I also toyed with Decca Dance or Ruth Less (Ruth being my real middle name) but Anne R Key totally represented my attitude back then!

[old mark]

17. From Anne R. Key to pink-o....

Life is change
How it differs from the rocks...

:bounce:


mark

[pink-o]

20. LOL! Actually our ability to come up with Punk Names

far exceeded our ability to play our instruments! But the 80s was a pretty low expectation era for Girls with Guitars, so we (kinda) got away with it.

However, the world is not a poorer place by any measure for my having given up my musical aspirations!

[tigereye]

25. I was looking at old photos of local bands from that era

Pat D Hearse comes to mind.

[TroglodyteScholar]

16. Ska, not punk, but...

Buster Bloodvessel of Bad Manners...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Bloodvessel

[old mark]

18. As found in my personal area here on DU, we once called out band

"The Fucking Shits", but we were not punkers and it was just quite temporary, and over 35 years ago.

But I love the name still.

mark

[Jade Fox]

19. Boomtown Rats

[pink-o]

21. Yeah, but the fact that the lead singer was named "Geldof" instead of O'Hara

always gave us pause. A Geldof from Ireland? We really do wander everywhere, don't we?

[Kat45]

27. Lux Interior and Poison Ivy Rorshach from The Cramps. n/t

[Skittles]

28. Titty Bingo