BEST band names ever:

Hands down...

"Powerclown", from Nanaimo, BC

http://pisstank.ihateclowns.com/photo.html

Peter Frampton's 1967 group. Great name, good music.

Here goes:

The B-52s
James Brown & The Famous Flames
The Clash
Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
The Del-Vikings
Digital Underground
Doctor & The Medics
Earth, Wind & Fire
Fine Young Cannibals
Fugazi
Funkadelic
The Go-Go's
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
The Grateful Dead
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
The Impressions
Johnny & The Hurricanes
L7
Megadeth
Metallica
The Miami Sound Machine
The Miracles
The Mothers of Invention
Niggaz With Attitudes (N.W.A)
Nirvana
The Ohio Players
Roy Orbison & The Teen Kings
The Police
The Pretenders
Public Enemy
Reparata & The Delrons
R.E.M.
The Righteous Brothers
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
The Smithereens
Soul Asylum
Talking Heads
The Temptations
The Velvet Underground
Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps
War
The Yardbirds
The Zombies

Obscure New Wave band. Great name...I can't believe rock was 40 years old before anyone recorded under that name.

From the rockumentary "This is Spinal Tap"

"we were like sticks of dynomite that could go off at any time"...Joe Strummer.

Wendy O was insane. really.
i think she killed herself.

Screaming Cheetah Wheelies

yipes!

and Collective Soul

Onelinedrawing
Incubus (An evil spirit supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep (from dictionary.com))
A Perfect Circle
AFI (A Fire Inside)
Dashboard Confessional
Sunny Day Real Estate
Hidden In Plain View
Death Cab for Cutie
New End Original
Anthrax (ok, so I like microbio...)
Fugazi (It's a word that soldier used in Vietnam (similar to FUBAR and SNAFU) and it means "Fucked up, got ambushed, and zipped in" to describe a soldier that wasn't careful and ended up getting killed and zipped up in a body bag.)
The String Cheese Incident


I'll probably think of more later...

On Edit: I completely forgot the best one!
Finger Eleven's old band name used to be Rainbow Butt Monkeys.

they sound like AC/DC.

Followed closely by "Questionmark and the Mysterians"....

Butthole Surfers
...and you will know us by the trail of dead

Great name.

active in Oberlin Ohio, mid-to-late '80s. Suck band, wonderful name.

http://www.starresource.com/Star/Accidental+Goat+Sodomy/


Of course, if we're talking FAKE band names, hands-down my choice would have to be "SLED DOG AFTERBIRTH"!

(Bonus points to anyone who can identify the source of this fake band name.)

I never heard them, I probably wouldn't like them, but I love that name.

Punk band from Fort Worth, Texas.

It was a punk band from the Bay area in the 80's. There always were inumerable bands in the lineup, and when "Free Beer" appeared on the flyer it made people think that..that..well, you get it.

There was this other local punk band called "Flock of Trendies", making fun of the band name "Flock of Seagulls". Punks really sneered at "trendies" and "poseurs" in those days.

though I was amused when a band called Dick Stiff and the Swinging Testicles played my college when I was on junior year abroad in England 20 years ago.

Of clown-themed bands, Insane Clown Posse. Hey, you didn't say they had to be good!

Of bands that actually enjoyed any level of success, The Who.

Great band name.

This summer we were at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. They have alittle room where you can go with the family and be a band. (It's fun for the kids!) Anyway, our band name was "Orange Alert".

though monty python inspired

which isn't a bad thing

and Doug and the Sluggs