If you’re not following Major Spoilers on the social media, you may be missing out one of the most awesome parts of the MS Experience, such as the recent conversation between Young Zach and myself that devolved into a litany of fake band names. We actually came up with some great ones, though we’re hardly the first to do it (“Have you heard my new band, ‘The First To Do It’?”) as proven by the likes of Citizen Dick, Jesse & The Rippers, and The Hong Kong Cavaliers, which, in turn, begs a query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is beloved in Finland AND Denmark, asking: What’s the greatest fictional band name of all time?
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Sonic Death Monkey, which were on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but performed for one night as Barry Jive and his Uptown Five
I think the greatest is either Gorillaz or Spinal Tap. I know they had real music, but they were fake.
No contest here, it was Landry`s band Crucifictorius from Friday Night Lights.
In what has to be the worst crime against a fictional band name though, there was a sticker on a locker in the movie Clueless for a fictional band called The Dobler Effect, which is a pretty cool shout out to the movie Say Anything. Years later some d-bags started a real band called the Lloyd Dobler Effect, which is still a shout out to Say Anything, but manages to suck all of the cleverness out of the fictional band`s name.
So many great ones to choose from…
Disaster Area from HHGTTG
Dethklok
Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution from Arrested Development
Any of Spinal Tap’s antecedents (The Originals, The New Originals, the Thamesmen, the Hot Waffles). Spinal Tap, kind of like the Monkees were a real band with a fictional origin. The Spinal Tap soundtrack album was a better metal record than half the metal releases from the year it came out…
Kreb Zeppelin from Pete and Pete
The all time number one greatest fictional band name in my book:
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
How could I have forgotten Dr. Teeth?!
The Stains from “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains”
Night Flight!!
Maybe it is The Beets, with their hit single, “Killer Tofu”?
That was the same thing I was going to say. I wanted to get one of the fictional tour tees off of one of those t-shirt sites not too long ago.
They’re not exactly a fictional band in the strictest sense, but they were fake in a way: The Travelling Wilburys. The group dropped the fiction about all being 1/2 brothers, sons of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr pretty quickly, but they were sort of fake.
Besides, Mathew took the Monkeys already and someone else grabbed Spinal Tap.
All of these are excellent, but I’d like to add CB4 and Aldous Snow to the list.
The Monkees were a fictional band, but I’m not sure that’s all that good a name. It’s pretty much a Beatles knock-off…
I was thinking about them, but it seemed a stretch in that they weren’t completely fictional. And I love the name!
It was a GREAT name. The deliberate misspelling, the animal theme. Perfect.
Love Handel from Phineas and Ferb.
Shoot! I forgot about Breaking Glass from the movie “Breaking Glass.”
The name isn’t funny like many other proposals here, but it describes a sound that we all recognize in a simple way while playing off the events/characters of the film.
Another great Night Flight flick. This one has a great soundtrack for neo-punk new wavists.
The Shitty Beatles.
“Are they any good?”
“They suck.”
“So it’s not just a clever name?”
My vote goes to Sex Bob-Omb from “Scott PIlgrim”.
Personal favorite: Toad the Wet Sprocket. Designed for a Python sketch by Eric Idle as a name “so silly no one would use it.” Then look what happened…
…I’m partial to “Mucous Membrane” from the Constantine comics…
…gross, yet explains the music so well…