*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... see #74

  1. Rumble Shimmie
    (The name that started the list... came from a phrase I heard once on the NPR radio show Car Talk, describing a noise a car made. I thought it sounded like a good name for a band).

  2. I'm Not Telling You

  3. I Don’t Know

  4. Why?

  5. 88 Cents

  6. Angry Bottom

  7. Nine Bucks

  8. Grey Light

  9. Raspberry Agony

  10. Sick of Soda

  11. Alarm Clock Radio

  12. Keep Us Off the Street

  13. Between the Lines

  14. Tire Swing

  15. Swallow the Police

  16. They Go Wild

  17. Lobster Mary

  18. Rattle Trap

  19. Grab It!

  20. Jimmy & The Snail Monkeyz

  21. Eeew!

  22. Matching Towels

  23. Flash Bikini

  24. Utility Room

  25. Knife Lure

  26. In a Jam

  27. Ear Plugs

  28. 21 Bungees 4 Monday

  29. Pole

  30. Wide Open

  31. Heaven's Door

  32. What the People Need

  33. Dokter'z Orderz

  34. Someone Else's Dream

  35. You Who?

  36. Yeah...

  37. Apathetic Goldfish from Hades

  38. Too Far

  39. Yeah, Right!

  40. Nope!

  41. Crossed That Bridge

  42. Barbee Fish

  43. Something Dreadful

  44. Everyday

  45. Everday Something

  46. Lawn Darts

  47. Don't Want to Know It

  48. Something Else

  49. Anything

  50. Forget Us

  51. Input Shaft

  52. Pieces to Fly

  53. Email Ben

  54. Something Loose

  55. Make Me Brownies

  56. 60 to 65 MPH

  57. Four-Speed Automatic

  58. Same Frame

  59. Through the Gears

  60. Abandon Ship Now!

  61. Classic Case

  62. Passenger Seat

  63. Replaced Muffler

  64. Down to 3,000

  65. Cruising Speed

  66. Regular Woodpecker

  67. Upside Down Tortoise

  68. 32 RPM

  69. In Between

  70. Different Picture

  71. I You

  72. Anymore

  73. 'til It Happens

  74. Attention Associates!* See update below at end of list… :-)

  75. Got Older

  76. Know the Truth

  77. Don't U Dare

  78. Get the Vibe

  79. Hear Feel See

  80. Root Fo' It

  81. Go Away

  82. Sympathetic Vibration

  83. Above or Below

  84. Go Back

  85. Baked Item

  86. Wandering Wayward

  87. Short Break

  88. 15-Minute Break

  89. Tea Party at Jason's

  90. Lay It On 'Em

  91. Grief

  92. Bad Grief

  93. Phoney Jealousy

  94. Drawing Dragons for Molly

  95. The Otta Popz

  96. Professor Unbeatable

  97. Cap'n Speedy and the Vomiteers

  98. Obsessed Mongrel

  99. Enemy Peanut

  100. Pennsylvania Skirtz

  101. Wispy

  102. Whiskey Tango

  103. Dub Tee

  104. Valley Groove

  105. Divorce Kitty

  106. Why Mullet?

  107. Fail On!

  108. Seventeen Dishes

  109. Doin' for a Livin'

  110. Used by the Radio

  111. Sell You The Money

  112. XO

  113. Vacuum Void

  114. Well-Coiffed 'Taters

  115. Mach .725

  116. Juicy Pants

  117. Scarey You

  118. Scars Heal

  119. Cow Bell Yesterday aka CBY

  120. Folded Box

  121. LunaChix

  122. Mooney James and the Wet Ones

  123. Falling Before

  124. Trainwreck Pie

  125. Beyond Fargo

  126. Chester's Lonely

  127. Geezer

  128. Brake Hard

  129. Last Night's Brownies

  130. Yesterday's Brownie

  131. Day Old Cake

  132. Sailors Delight

  133. Left Home

  134. Right ‘n Rong

  135. I Like Grapes

  136. So There

  137. Did It

  138. Broken Cookie Jar

  139. Knobby Tires

  140. Mini Golf Monday

  141. Tired

  142. Wilted Salad

  143. Krispy Xmas Tree

  144. Bone Salad

  145. When Is Now

  146. Bra Crumbs

  147. Gary and The Scars (Nate Payne)

  148. Dijiri Duo (Wade & Jonathan)

  149. Pothole Express

  150. Stale Yogurt

  151. Yogurt Chunx

  152. Giant Mullet Smorgasbord

  153. Cute Girl in Math Class

  154. Has a Ring to It

  155. Snaggletooth Jane (Keri H)

  156. Situational Ethics

  157. Karmic Wedgie

  158. Can't Talk About It Now

  159. The Tin Can Lottery (Adam)

  160. What?!

  161. Peppers Bath

  162. Krunchy Pretzel

  163. Turn It Down

  164. Still On the First One

  165. Slow Children

  166. No One Listens to Me

  167. Pretty Depressing

  168. Pritty Kitty

  169. Definitely Deacon

  170. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (WTF)

  171. Pickled Wanker (Adams fave)

  172. The Love Cookies

  173. Hallelujah Sweater

  174. Thousand Year Sneeze

  175. Decay Yay!

  176. Squeak Cheetah (or Cheater)

  177. Hidden Saints

  178. Covert Aspirin

  179. The Candy Box Raiders (Adam)

  180. Don't Ask Me That Question (Matthew)

  181. Weird Ramen (Adam)

  182. Psychedelic Jellyfish

  183. Resurrected Cars

  184. The Rancid Farts

  185. Bovine Polyamory

  186. Naked On the Water

  187. Fetal Pigs (a band Charlie managed in high school)

  188. Unanimous Panda

  189. Lift & Separate (Gary Klein)

  190. Green Shag (Gary Pilcher)

  191. *Secretly Mary* (Molly)

  192. No Meats 4 Monday

  193. Meats 4 Monday

  194. Paycheck Jack

  195. Musks of Lesser Men

  196. The Snippets

  197. Shreds of Consciousness 

  198. Feeding Egos

  199. Misguided Waste

  200. Poop Bomb

  201. Mummified Neck

  202. Barking at Balloons (inspired by Pepper)

  203. Brain Distortia

  204. Zipper Foot

  205. Captain McCoy and the Scrotum Boys

  206. Sucking Chest Wound

  207. LaZer Sküll

  208. Thoracic Cavity

  209. Pete N Repeat

  210. Socks & Birkenstocks. Bad fashion. Great band name.

  211. The Rhythm Method

  212. Big Bush Walking

  213. Hide-a-Moose

  214. Love Hamster

  215. Drowning in Gravy

  216. Windy Yeti (Charlie) 

  217. Tasty Pants

  218. chamfer down

  219. Creepy Uncle Jon

  220. Smile and wave

  221. Puppy Butts

  222. Old People’s Pants

  223. The Guitarists Of Rump (Gary Pilcher)

  224. The Bamstumpers(Gary Pilcher)

  225. Pran (Gary Pilcher)

  226. The Jackanories (Gary Pilcher)

  227. Hide-a-Moose

  228. Jiggery Pokery (Gary Pilcher)

  229. Blunt Trauma

  230. Fluffy Dusters

  231. Umbrella 44

  232. Stool Morphology

  233. Cosmic Doink!

  234. Supersonic Pterodactyl (“Dr Dave” Gilchrist)

  235. Cosmic Monkey Wrench (“Dr Dave” Gilchrist)

  236. The Marital Vampires

  237. The Drat Masters

  238. Spyrod

  239. Nearly 90

  240. skewed data

  241. 2nd Helping of Jon

  242. Entrenched Meander

  243. Rogue Whoopie

  244. Red Neck Goat Roper Shade Tree Slacker (RNGRSTS) (“Dr Dave” Gilchrist)

  245. Psykö Slöth

  246. Gypsy Steampunk (Lori G)

  247. Mom? (Aunt Jess)

  248. Love Fork

  249. Cracked Weiner Dog

  250. The Mating Screws

  251. Band Name

  252. Death’s Hibachi

  253. Diaper Shirt

  254. Less Stupid

  255. Frenzied Mind. Hit single: “The effect of a” (Band name for Christian rockers by Dr Dave)

  256. Turkey Circle

  257. Brand Spanking (Wade Milne)

  258. Feng Schwade

  259. Deviated Septum (Wade Milne)

  260. Kitty Pig

  261. "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 one of the many ideas that kept me out of entering the really good schools."
    —Gary Klein, LCSW

  262. Any Day UK

  263. Rabbit Hole of Despair (from a comment in a Sunday School discussion, Dr Dave)

  264. Casual Succubus (Adam)

  265. Dirt Fruit

  266. Minor Villain (Dr D)

  267. I Know I

  268. Perfection Myth

  269. The Naked Flame

  270. Mystery Engine

  271. Turbo Mendez and The Riders of Glory,

  272. Atomic Lover Girl (Aunt Jess)

  273. Delfar Seven (“Hard Day” skit, Kids in the Hall, S2E1)

  274. Mystery Engine

  275. The Strawberry Moments

  276. 2 Skank Night (Charlie)

  277. Out of the Nest (Sophie Stine)

  278. Pile of Why (Sophie Stine)

  279. 5 1/2 Waffles

  280. Something Bad About Boba (line from the Star Wars Holiday Special)

  281. Jon’s Big Lunch

  282. No Love for Kaleb

  283. Booger Grass

  284. Cracker Snitch

  285. Murder Truck

  286. Diente Muerto

  287. 50 Fatties

  288. 3th

  289. Danger Stop

  290. Dirty Pancakes (SH)

  291. The Dairy Swells (SH)

  292. Set the Donkey Off (Charlie)

  293. Death Rabbit

  294. Band Name

  295. Flippin’ Tin

  296. Mental Stiction

  297. Zombie Bait

  298. The Broth Birds, and their hit single “Spent Hen Soup.” (Dr. Dave)

  299. Brain Cookies

  300. Morrissey’s Mugging Me (dream I had)

  301. The Wind Lied (Kara)

  302. Puppy Spiders (another dream I had)

  303. Paco Trot

  304. Haulin’ Acid (saw a train pulling 50 tank cars of sulfuric acid)

  305. Wise Love (Tiffany O.)

  306. Soiled Linen

  307. 51 Pictures of Jesus
    (a teenager told me he counted and his family had “51 pictures of Jesus” in their home). 

  308. Gay for Gatsby (AJS literary reference)

  309. Wolfcock (SH, which is what he calls his  neighbor’s annoying, loud howling rooster)

  310. The Marinara Disaster

  311. Cheese Island

  312. Spaghetti Butt

  313. Bone Slit (Charlie, in reference to Eskimo sunglasses made of bone with a slit) 

  314. Punching Yoda

  315. Spicy Dirt 

  316. Sedate Date

  317. Loin Fire

  318. Certainly Something (a teenage client said this to me, “Well, it’s certainly something.”)

  319. 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?)

  320. Atomic Beehive (Dr Dave)

  321. Booger Wall (Aunt Jess)

  322. Trixie Hobbit

  323. Minor Hassle

  324. Burping Fire

  325. Dump Run

  326. Responsible Disaster (Andrea Hansen)

  327. One Metric Inch

  328. Intergalactic Uber  

  329. Soul Chamber 

  330. Winter Doofus 

  331. Good Trouble (Kyle Killian) 

  332. 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?”)

  333. Sick ‘n Wrong

  334. Muzzle Velocity (John Davidson, Australia)

  335. Waiting for Sushi (John Davidson, Australia)

  336. Parking Lot Puppy

  337. Pointless Banter

  338. Substantial Nonsense

  339. Stoner Mom [See pic at end of list below 👇]

  340. Johnny Crappagin and His Two Hoots Galoots

  341. Modulating Outliers

  342. Rousing the Rabble

  343. Numb Butt

  344. Quiet Drama

  345. Local Band

  346. Rodent Proof Storage (Dr Dave)

  347. Bud Nugget (Clyde Munson)

  348. Prefrontal Cortex Override

  349. The Flying Floosies (Andrea Hansen)

  350. Definitely Something

  351. Fling the Cat (Sandra P)

  352. Millions of Mollys

  353. Death by Focaccia

  354. Lovely Bubble

  355. Jar of Fingers

  356. Knuckle N’ Thumbs

  357. Ham Quickie (breakfast item at One Man Band) 

  358. Failing French

  359. Deep Pet Urine Removal
    (Dr D said, “Just saw an ad for that. I told Debbie it sounded like a band name.”)

  360. 29 Cheetahs

  361. Mashroom Lesbain (from the kids’ JackboxTV game misspellings)

  362. Spare Parts
    (Brian Rogers said, “I work with a drummer with a kidney transplant, a guitarist with both hips replaced. And me, a liver transplant. We plan on getting to getting together soon. This may be our band name.”)

  363. Keepin’ Cats

  364. Catching Cats

  365. Crusty Minstrels (Brian Rogers) 

  366. Pillar of Fear

  367. Cat Claws (Sandra P)

  368. Fighting Fur (Sandra P)

  369. Scratching Post Therapist (Sandra P)

  370. Oedipus and The Mansplainers (Brien Hamrick)

  371. The Mansplain Experience (Brien Hamrick)

  372. Eyeroll of Love (Brien Hamrick)

  373. Kerosene Cocktails (Brien Hamrick)

  374. Garbanzo Mosh Pit (Brien Hamrick)

  375. Conniption Fitting Room (Brien Hamrick)

  376. Kinetic Outhouse (Brien Hamrick)

  377. Angling for Asps (Brien Hamrick)

  378. Punching Nazis (Devin Baird)

  379. Definitely Dubious

  380. Waving at Jon

  381. The Ditch Daisies (Dr. Dave) 

  382. A-Hole Rabbit Hole (C.H.)

  383. Upthrust

  384. Booga Flicka

  385. One On Wednesdays 

  386. Hate on Nate

  387. Drive-Thru Jesus (Molly)

  388. Iron Pipe Sphincter (Charlie)

  389. Iggy Proton and The Moon Raiders

    1. (My brother’s pseudonym is Iggy Proton. I told him and my sister, “I was thinking Iggy Proton needs to go on my bandless band names list. But I thought it needed to be “Iggy Proton and..”. So I have some possibilities, but since it’s your name, I’d like you to either come up with your own or help me pick from this one and the following…”

  390. Iggy Proton and The Raiders of The Moon

  391. Iggy Proton and The Slave Monkeys of Planet X

  392. Iggy Proton and The Intergalactic Knights of Sol

  393. Iggy Proton and The Intergalactic Knights of Star System 7XT

  394. Iggy Proton and The Intergalactic Knights of Dimension X

  395. Iggy Proton and the Vita-meata-Benjamins (my sis, Jess Grant)

  396. **Iggy Proton and The Atomic Orbital

    1. (My brother explained, “The orbital being the space where an electron likely exists around the proton. So we're a duo.” My sis said, “Like you and Leah [his wife] ❤️.” Aww! Me: Love it! That’s perfect. I think I’m going to have to add the others as runners up, with Jess’ as First Runner Up.

  397. Chaos Chapter (Adam)

  398. Flaming Death Rectum
    (Charlie called their Border Collie “Mr. Five” this once after he was particularly gassy)

  399. Indecorous Aquatic Menace (Dr Dave) [See pic at end of list below 👇]

  400. Jonathan’s Massive Ego

  401. Jesus #13

  402. Sane Again Soon (Molly)

  403. Locks & Knocks or Lox & Knox

  404. Feral Chaos (Cat Stickler)

  405. The Boring Basics (Cat Stickler)

  406. Hagg!

  407. Parody of Dads

  408. Jonny in Jail

  409. Half-Hearted Assassins (Sister Cox)

  410. The Missing Giblets Trio (our chicken package said it “may be missing some of all giblets.”)

  411. Bad Mind Disaster (a line from the song Thanks and Praise, by ??? 
    https://open.spotify.com/track/5iKVQxaWVMKQlM8sD7hnEq?si=ax-Z_iDpQdy_TcVqPhtbwg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A76SgfEBYcS9HmVYwIULa8x)

  412. Stupid Little Sarah
    (inspired by  this SNL skit my sister shared with me: https://youtu.be/IHTaMMyK274)

  413. Silent  Guacamole, with their hit single: "Avocado Incommunicado" (Dr Dave)

  414. Y’all Yo (Aunt Jess) 

  415. Stupid Hipster Doofus (what Elaine called Kramer in Seinfeld S05E03)

  416. Ruthless Compassion [See pic at end of list below 👇]

  417. Mitch & Bone or Mitch & Boan

  418. Lulu in the Middle (Molly) 

  419. Stoned Puppy & The Hallucinogenics [See pic at end of list below 👇]
    This one deserved an album title and full track listing :-)

    1. Genre: Psychedelic punk rock. 
      Album Title: “Cone of Confusion”
      Track Listing: 
      1. Barking Up the Wrong Tree (Dr. D, my vintage VW mechanic, recommended this as one of the songs, which made me think of the rest). 
      2. Paws and Reflect
      3. Fetch the Universe
      4. Fur-Ever Trippin’
      5. Hallucinogenic Howl
      6. Food Begger
      7. Chasing Psychedelic Squirrels
      8. The Wag Tails the Dog
      9. Fire Hydrant of Love
      10. Butt Sniffer
      11. Like a Dog That Returns to Its Own Vomit (I Come to You, My Love)
      12. Man’s Best Friend?

    2. Goldfish Monday [See pic at end of list below 👇]

    3. Bugger Sauce (David Curneal)

    4. Shame & Panic (Tyler M)

    5. Grilled Cheese Fascist (Adam Sherman) [See pic at end of list below 👇]

    6. The Idiot in the Back

    7. Pickle Clog [See pic at end of list below 👇]

    8. The Filthy Normals (Paytie Poo)

    9. The Pirates of Charity

    10. Slacktavious James and The Sluffers

    11. Pantsless Grandpa (heard on the TV show Community)

    12. Ballistic Gel Dummy Head (Gary Klein) [See pic at end of list below 👇]


Now if I only had a band to go along with one of the names on this list...

Oh wait! Well, lookie what happened here…

#74:

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 :-)

"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


#342: Stoner Mom. This pic of Kara, see below at end of list, 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.

#402: Indecorous Aquatic Menance, from this movie poster.

$419: Ruthless Compassion, from a company’s misunderstanding of the meanings of words. I added the dictionary definition for emphasis.

#422: Stoned Puppy & The Hallucinogenics, named after this picture of when our dog Ginger got spayed and was still drugged after her surgery.

#426 Grilled Cheese Fascist (Adam Sherman. I asked ChatGPT to mock it up).

#428 Pickle Clog was inspired by this image:

#433 Ballistic Gel Dummy Head, my colleague Gary Klein, LCSW, offered to buy this for me ;-)