*Bonus* Rock Therapy: "Rumble Shimmie" and Other Bandless Band Names
/This is my ongoing list of my made-up band names. Now if I only had a band to go along with the name...
**UPDATE!!! I do... kind of... scroll about halfway down....
Rumble Shimmie (the name that started the list... came from a phrase I heard once on Car Talk describing a noise a car made. I thought it sounded like a good name for a band).
I'm Not Telling You
I Don’t Know
Why?
88 Cents
Angry Bottom
Nine Bucks
Grey Light
Raspberry Agony
Sick of Soda
Alarm Clock Radio
Keep Us Off the Street
Between the Lines
Tire Swing
Swallow the Police
They Go Wild
Lobster Mary
Rattle Trap
Grab It!
Jimmy & The Snail Monkeyz
Eeew!
Matching Towels
Flash Bikini
Utility Room
Knife Lure
In a Jam
Ear Plugs
21 Bungees 4 Monday
Pole
Wide Open
Heaven's Door
What the People Need
Dokter'z Orderz
Someone Else's Dream
You Who?
Yeah...
Apathetic Goldfish from Hades
Too Far
Yeah, Right!
Nope!
Crossed That Bridge
Barbee Fish
Something Dreadful
Everyday
Everday Something
Lawn Darts
Don't Want to Know It
Something Else
Anything
Forget Us
Input Shaft
Pieces to Fly
Email Ben
Something Loose
Make Me Brownies
60 to 65 MPH
Four-Speed Automatic
Same Frame
Through the Gears
Abandon Ship Now!
Classic Case
Passenger Seat
Replaced Muffler
Down to 3,000
Cruising Speed
Regular Woodpecker
Upside Down Tortoise
32 RPM
In Between
Different Picture
I You
Anymore
'til It Happens
Attention Associates!* See update below… :-)
Got Older
Know the Truth
Don't U Dare
Get the Vibe
Hear Feel See
Root Fo' It
Go Away
Sympathetic Vibration
Above or Below
Go Back
Baked Item
Wandering Wayward
Short Break
15-Minute Break
Tea Party at Jason's
Lay It On 'Em
Grief
Bad Grief
Phoney Jealousy
Drawing Dragons for Molly
The Otta Popz
Professor Unbeatable
Cap'n Speedy and the Vomiteers
Obsessed Mongrel
Enemy Peanut
Pennsylvania Skirtz
Wispy
Whiskey Tango
Dub Tee
Valley Groove
Divorce Kitty
Why Mullet?
Fail On!
Seventeen Dishes
Doin' for a Livin'
Used by the Radio
Sell You The Money
XO
Vacuum Void
Well-Coiffed 'Taters
Mach .725
Juicy Pants
Scarey You
Scars Heal
Cow's Bell Yesterday (CBY)
Folded Box
LunaChix
Mooney James and the Wet Ones
Falling Before
Trainwreck Pie
Beyond Fargo
Chester's Lonely
Geezer
Brake Hard
Last Night's Brownies
Yesterday's Brownie
Day Old Cake
Sailors Delight
Left Home
Right n Rong
I Like Grapes
So There
Did It
Broken Cookie Jar
Knobby Tires
Mini Golf Monday
Tired
Wilted Salad
Krispy Xmas Tree
Bone Salad
When Is Now
Bra Crumbs
Gary and The Scars--Nate Payne
Dijiri Duo
Pothole Express
Stale Yogurt
Yogurt Chunx
Giant Mullet Smorgasbord
Cute Girl in Math Class
Has a Ring to It
Snaggletooth Jane
Situational Ethics
Karmic Wedgie
Can't Talk About It Now
The tin can lottery (added by adam)
What?!
Peppers Bath
Krunchy Pretzel
Turn It Down
Still On the First One
Slow Children
No One Listens to Me
Pretty Depressing
Pritty Kitty
Definitely Deacon
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF)
Pickled Wanker (Adams fave)
The Love Cookies
Hallelujah Sweater
Thousand Year Sneeze
Decay Yay!
Squeak Cheetah (or Cheater)
Hidden Saints
Covert Aspirin
The candy box raiders ( added by adam)
Don't Ask Me That Question (Matthew)
Weird Ramen (Ad)
Psychedelic Jellyfish
Resurrected Cars
The Rancid Farts
Bovine Polyamory
Naked On the Water
Fetal Pigs (a band Charlie managed in high school)
Unanimous Panda
Lift & Separate (Gary Klein)
Green Shag (Gary Pilcher)
*secretly Mary* (Molly)
No Meats 4 Monday
Meats 4 Monday
Paycheck Jack
Pantsless Grandpa
Musks of Lesser Men
The Snippets
Shreds of Consciousness
Feeding Egos
Misguided Waste
Poop Bomb
Mummified Neck
Barking at Balloons (inspired by Pepper)
Brain Distortia
Zipper Foot
Captain McCoy and the Scrotum Boys
Pantsless Grandpa
Sucking Chest Wound
LaZer Sküll (inspired by Mitch Carrasco)
Thoracic Cavity
Pete N Repeat
Socks and Birkenstocks. Bad fashion. Great band name.
The Rhythm Method
Big Bush Walking
Hide-a-Moose
Love Hamster
Drowning in Gravy (Roah)
Windy Yeti (Charlie)
Tasty Pants
chamfer down
Creepy Uncle Jon
Smile and wave
Puppy Butts
Old People’s Pants
The Guitarists Of Rump (Gary Pilcher)
The Bamstumpers(Gary Pilcher)
Pran (Gary Pilcher)
The Jackanories (Gary Pilcher)
Hide-a-Moose
Jiggery Pokery (Gary Pilcher)
Blunt Trauma
Fluffy Dusters
Umbrella 44
“Stool Morphology”
Cosmic Doink!
Supersonic Pterodactyl (“Dr Dave” Gilchrist)
Cosmic Monkey Wrench (“Dr Dave” Gilchrist)
The Marital Vampires
Pantsless Grandpa
The Drat Masters
Spyrod
Nearly 90
skewed data
2nd Helping of Jon
Entrenched Meander
Rogue Whoopie
Red Neck Goat Roper Shade Tree Slacker (RNGRSTS) (“Dr Dave” Gilchrist)
Psykö Slöth
Gypsy Steampunk (in honor of Lori G!)
Mom? (from Jory G!)
Love Fork
Cracked Weiner Dog
The Mating Screws
Band Name
Death’s Hibachi
Diaper Shirt
Less Stupid
Frenzied Mind. Hit single: “The effect of a” (Band name for Christian rockers by Dr Dave)
Turkey Circle
Brand Spanking (Wade Milne)
Feng Schwade,
Deviated Septum (Wade Milne)
Kitty Pig
"Just thought of a great name for a new band: Lift & Separate. Could also be used as a title for people/families who are enmeshed. This is just another of one of the many ideas that kept me out from entering the really good schools."
—Gary Klein, LCSWAny Day UK
Rabbit Hole of Despair (from a comment in a Sunday School discussion, Dr Dave)
Casual Succubus (Adam Sherman)
Dirt Fruit
Minor Villain (Dr D)
I Know I
Perfection Myth
The Naked Flame
Mystery Engine
Turbo Mendez and The Riders of Glory,
Atomic Lover Girl (Aunt Jess)
Delfar Seven (“Hard Day” skit, Kids in the Hall, S2E1)
Mystery Engine
The Strawberry Moments
2 Skank Night (Charlie)
Out of the Nest (Sophie Stine)
Pile of Why (Sophie Stine)
5 1/2 Waffles
Something Bad About Boba (line from the Star Wars Holiday Special)
Jon’s Big Lunch
No Love for Kaleb
Booger Grass
Cracker Snitch
Murder Truck
Diente Muerto
50 Fatties
3th
Danger Stop
Dirty Pancakes (SH)
The Dairy Swells (SH)
Set the Donkey Off (CWA)
Death Rabbit
“Band Name”
Flippin’ Tin
Mental Stiction
Zombie Bait
The Broth Birds, and their hit single “Spent Hen Soup.” (Dr. Dave)
Brain Cookies
Morrissey’s Mugging Me (dream I had)
The Wind Lied (Kara)
Puppy Spiders (another dream I had)
Paco Trot
Haulin’ Acid (saw a train pulling 50 tank cars of sulfuric acid)
Wise Love (Tiffany O.)
Soiled Linen
51 Pictures of Jesus (a teenager told me he counted and his family had “51 pictures of Jesus” in their home).
Gay for Gatsby (AJS literary reference)
Wolfcock (SH which is what he calls his neighbor’s annoying loud howling rooster)
The Marinara Disaster
Cheese Island
Spaghetti Butt
Bone Slit (CA in reference to Eskimo sunglasses made of bone with a slit)
Punching Yoda
Spicy Dirt
Sedate Date
Loin Fire
Certainly Something (a teenage client said this to me, “Well, it’s certainly something.”)
The Heebee Geebees (A really bad Bee Gees cover band, so bad that it makes your skin crawl. After my sister, Jory Grant, my wife Kara, and I sang a terrible version of How Deep Is Your Love?)
Atomic Beehive (Dr Dave)
Booger Wall (Navin J)
Trixie Hobbit
Minor Hassle
Burping Fire
Dump Run
Responsible Disaster (Andrea Hansen)
One Metric Inch
Intergalactic Uber
Soul Chamber
Winter Doofus
Good Trouble (Kyle Killian)
Our Dead Moms (because Kara’s and my mom are both dead, and if one of us teases the other, “Your mom!” the other replies sadly, “Oh… you mean my dead mom?”
Sick ‘n Wrong
Muzzle Velocity (John Davidson, Australia)
Waiting for Sushi (John Davidson, Australia)
Parking Lot Puppy
Pointless Banter
Substantial Nonsense
Stoner Mom (this pic of Kara, see below, was taken in my freshman dorm room when we were just friends. While she wasn’t, she looked stoned. She later became the mother of my children. Thus the name.)
Johnny Crappagin and His Two Hoots Galoots
Modulating Outliers
Rousing the Rabble
Numb Butt
Quiet Drama
Local Band
Rodent Proof Storage (Dr Dave)
Bud Nugget (Clyde Munson)
Prefrontal Cortex Override
The Flying Floosies (Andrea Hansen)
Definitely Something
Fling the Cat (Sandra)
Millions of Mollys
Now if I only had a band to go along with the name...
Oh wait! Well, lookie what happened here…
*October 2017: Well, holy freaking cow! The first name EVER taken from my list has been adopted by Tyler McKinnon and his friend's band. Tyler is the guy who did The #ChalkBus Documentary. During the documentary shoot just for fun, I showed him and his bandmate Daniel Robinson this list. They thought it was hilarious and had been puzzling about what to call their recently formed band and found a few names on this list that they really liked. And they decided on #74: Attention Associates! Folks, this is as close as I've ever gotten to having anything to do with a band, so I'm pretty stoked :-)
Here's their first performance as Attention Associates!
https://www.facebook.com/tyler.mckinnon.1044/videos/10155697940192170/
And here is their full #ChalkBus Session playing multiple songs!
"That has to be the finest, most comprehensive, most mind-blowing list of band names ever assembled. I'd even venture to say that this list could very well become the new standard for baby names. Forget about a boy named Sue, how about a boy named Eeew! And what Telephone Lineman wouldn't name their child Pole if given the opportunity whether well-endowed or not? Then there are the cool girl names - Yeah!, Dijiri, Dub Tee, and my favorite Wispy. Sweet!"
—Wade Milne
Stoner Mom, #342