Names -> Cool Band Names -> C, Page 1
Whenever I hear a cool phrase somewhere, I like to exclaim "That would make a cool band name". This page is a list of such names.
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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| C U Next Tuesday | It's better than See You Aunty.... and uses my favorite word in a way most people don't notice | kerri | ||
| The C**cumbers | Apparently this is what I called cucumbers as a child. The band's name alone would heroically push the boundaries of censorship | jimo | ||
| C.C. McCrary and the Devirginators | some friends and i were driving and making up funny band names. this one was a combination of some small store and 'we cant keep the ladies away'. no i don't know how to use the shift keys fool. | hi im dum | ||
| C.McZedoe | On my job, I have to monitor a marine radio for ship traffic on the Mississippi River. That's where I first heard this name of a tug boat. Some tugs are named for old river men. I don't know the real spelling so I spelled it just as it sounds. I think it's got a real roll to it, perfect for a band to be remembered. It's to be pronounced "See-Mac-Z-doe". | France Dupree | ||
| C1v1l Arrest | I DONT KNOW ME AND MY FRIEND WERE DOING HOMEWRK AND WE WERE THINKING AND WE WERE LIKE THE CIVIL WAR AND I WAS LIKE CIVIL ARREST WAS AND WE JUST LIKED IT ALOT SO WE STUCK WITH IT!? | MATT | ||
| C4 | It's a plastic explosive. Name for a metal band? | Joe Montmatre | ||
| Cabbage and Candy | So contradictory. | 300 Bernard St. Girl | ||
| Cable | It's cool because it is important in our lives. And being a band, Cable the name of the band, will be important in everyone lives. {Ed.'s note: Like the group Television.] | Ronald | ||
| Cabron | Red Hot Chili Peppers song - Spanish for 'bastard'. | Nathan Redwood | ||
| Cacahuate | I think that's how you spell it, but it's spanish for peanut and it's funny to say | Megan | ||
| The Cactus Jezebels | It justifies all those warning about things that could "put yer eye out". That and it would be cool if they really rocked! | Badboybear | ||
| Cactus Tarantulas | It's from an urban legend about a cactus that explodes and releases hundreds of baby tarantulas. So I thought, "Exploding Cactus...Cactus Spiders...Cactus Tarantulas!" | Da Phoenix | ||
| cactusbeanbag | When i was bout seven my older brother and i were walking through the bush and saw this big, weird, deformed cactus that looked like a beanbag.. it was then that he decided it would be funny if i sat on it. So he threw me on it.. my nan picked prickles out of my bum all afternoon!! | Baz | ||
| Cad Man | Cad stands for Computer Assisted Design. | Mr. non-de-plume | ||
| Cadaver Dogs | It captures Rock Music's fascination with death. I came up with it from watching COURT TV too much. It always seems their using Cadaver Dogs for finding bodies on their different shows or during current searches for missing people who they think were done in by foul play. Thanks, Vince O'Neill | Vince O'Neill | ||
| Cadaver Dogs | It's cool because it projects an erie finality. I came up with it by watching a lot of Court TV. | Vince | ||
| Caddy Smells Like Trees | A repeated line in William Faulkner's classic novel, "The Sound and the Fury." They could be the thinking person's bluegrass band. | Olvan The Terrible | ||
| Cadence | It is when a quarterback calls out when the play is about to start. I think that it is a great name for any alternative-rock band. | Sean Tanner | ||
| Cadet Carter | I just think it's plain cool. I'm a Cadet and I liked this guy called Sam so I wrote him into my novel with a different surname (Carter). So I mixed real Sam with book Sam and came up with Cadet Carter! | Emma | ||
| Cads of Badness | This was listed and it was the name of a bar band in Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho about 20 years ago. | Dark Dragon | ||
| Cads of Badness | Being from the '50 era of music, was just incorperating a car (Cadalac) with black or something "bad" , so , there it is! | Idaho Joe | ||
| Caffeine, Maijuana, and Ninjas | As you all know, there is an awesome website called howstuffworks.com. Well when i started thinking off all the stuff i know more about than a normal person should because of this website, these are the first three things that came to mind | Tyler | ||
| The Caged Purple Kites | I just thought of how much I used to love being free outside and playing with my purple kite my aunt gave me. But as I grew up, I started noticing how much responsibilities you attain. All I could picture was that purple kite trying to break out of a cage representing me trying to break away from life. | Rj aka Tr1ck | ||
| Caged Rabies | It just sounds like a cool little rock/pop group. Kinda like Offspring or Fuel. A little aggressive but has songs that'll change sides. | Romy | ||
| Cairophonic | based on an egyptian report i did last year. when asked by my social studies teacher what i liked about egypt i said it was cairophonic. it sounded interestingly fun. | rachael | ||
| Cal Abdul Roosterbarn and White Noise | Our "singer" came up with his alter ego- a Muslim cowboy/hobo type, and the backing band couldn't play-hence the white noise. | Rico | ||
| California Stop | A "California stop" is another term for a rolling stop at a stop sign, when someone doesn't fully stop. I heard it and thought it would make a good name for a Grateful Dead-type group. | Carla Bisagni | ||
| Calignaphobia | It used to be Caligynephobia (the fear of beatiful women) but we slurred it and its Calignaphobia (the fear of horrible music). | Ben | ||
| Caligynephobia | Caligynephobia is the best band name! "Fear of Beautiful Women!" I own it though... it's copyrighted. | ducksauce | ||
| Call Box 47 | In the Air Force we always had to call box 47 on the intercom, that was our boss. So it's kind of sentimental and like your always reporting to someone. It's a good Emo name. | fired08 | ||
| Call Me Ishmael | For some odd reason, i think it sounds sweet. as a lot of you probably know, its from MOBY DICK. It honors our great literary past (pffff), and i guess you could link the name to some hidden meaning in the book, like the struggles Captain Ahab went through, or SOMETHING. | jessie | ||
| Callback International | I was looking through a phone book and it said 'Call Back Internationally for only 5p". I thought it would be an awesome band name for a band. | John Smith | ||
| Callidus Ficus | I started an all-girl band my freshman year of high school. We had NO idea what to call ourselves, so I went online to a English-Latin dictionary. We were typing in all sorts of random phrases when we suddenly came up with "Callidus Ficus" or (in English) "Clever Fig Tree". This comes from a very old inside joke, and we thought it just sounded awesome. (pronounced cul-EE-dus FI-cus) | Pikkle | ||
| Calligraphy | My mother bought me a calligraphy book for my new school so I fit in and all. I also like the ring to it! | 707 | ||
| Callipygian | I love this word. Firstly it sounds great. Secondly no one will have an idea what it means. Thirdly if they do find out what it means then they will be extremely amused to find out it means: "having beautiful or elegantly shaped buttocks". | Cynthia Fischer | ||
| Calum and the Crab People | Our lead singer is called Calum, and we are all huge "South Park" fans. | will | ||
| camel toad | funny | lisa | ||
| CameroSmith | Mixing a cool car sports car of the 80s with a cool cheese rock band of the 80s | Ricky | ||
| Can't Resist the Rockerr | It's so true if they're any good, I was actually just responding to a question of whether I would prefer a preppy guy or a rocker. And the double "r" just makes it more kick-@$$. | Alex | ||
| Can't Stop The Nutz | "Can't Stop the Nuts" was an actual name of an ice cream flavor at Baskin-Robbins to promote the Village People's ill-fated foray into movies with "Can't Stop The Music". This band name could describe the psycho fans of the group---Can't Stop The (Demented) Nutz. | bandesoleil | ||
| Canadian Gravel | Me and some friends were off to Canada for a heavy night of drinking...we stopped to x-change money..kassie stepped outside to let me out and was complaining about the rocks hurting her feet...and i yelled out "what you have something against Canadian Gravel?" there our band was born!! | Jenn H. | ||
| Canadian Leprechauns | My friend and I were acting drunk once when we were hyper. I said that I was once abducted by a leprechaun, and it took me to Canada. Then I thought that'd be a weird band name. So yeah, that's how it happened lol. | randa | ||
| Canadian Metaliods | We all were sitting in Science class talking about how ridiculous Canada jokes can be. We were supposed to be talking about metaloids and we thought it had a cool ring to it. | Jon | ||
| Canary Wharf | After years of passing though this London tube station, only recently did I realize it would make a cool band name | Death, The Grim Reaper | ||
| Cancelled! | Wouldn't it be cool to have posters adevertising gigs for a band with that name. Cancelled! March 3, Wembley Stadium. | jukkalele | ||
| The Cancer Ward | I just looked at a book that was called "Cancer Ward". | hamp | ||
| Candle Eaters | i was over my friends birthday party and we were all sitting on the floor being bored and lazy listening to music and i looked over at my friend and i noticed that she had only half a candle in her hand and i asked her what happened to the other half and she just smiled but her mouth was all blue (the color of the candle) and yeah that is how i got the name or you can call it candle chewers or something like that | Aryka | ||
| Candle Light Mist | I think its cool because it sounds so creepy and would suit a band that sounds like Aiden or The Used. I Came up With it when there was a blackout in my city and the candle light burnt out and the smoke looked like mist and it just looked cool !!! | DeV | ||
| The Candy Canes Made Of Popcorn | This will be a funny name for a rock band and I did eat a candy cane that smelled like popcorn. | Ryan C. | ||
| Candy Coated Razorblades | I was inspired by a band by the name of Jack Off Jill who passed out candy coated razorblades at their concerts. It just sounds yummy! My e-mail stitch_my_lipz@yahoo.com if anyone out there loves Jack Off Jill | C*NT | ||
| Candy in the Vodka | I came up with this when my friend took a Sunkist Gem and stuffed it into a bottle of vodka. Simple, but it says what it needs to. | Lalallama | ||
| Cannabalistic Horses | I was sitting in English class and reading Macbeth, the teacher told us that when the king was going to be murdered all kinds of weird crap was going on including horses that escaped and ate each other. | jerm | ||
| Cannabis Crops | I think this would be a perfect name for a stoner doom metal band. It's a play on words of Cannibal Corpse, the stoner metal equivalent! Thought of it while really bored. | Funny, I don't smoke weed... | ||
| Canned Elephants. | Well, for those of you who know how some clever people come up with little thind to remember thing like Every Bad Girl Deserves An Egg (guitar strings) Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (the lines of a music staff). Well, my teacher said it was a good thing to do to remember things. So, to remember the 11 Characteristics of Life (Biology 112) , I came up with one. The characteristics are as follow: Reproduction, Cells, Metabolism, Require Energy, Grow, Movement, Require Water, Adaptation, reaction to stimuli, Carbon-based, and finally excretion. The letters go like this RCMEGMWASCE. My sentence, which just randomly popped into my head was this: Real Cabbage Munchers Eat Green Mellon With Apple Sauce and Canned Elephants... I thought canned elephants were the best thing I have ever thought of. | SomeoneAbsurdleyHumorous | ||
| Canned Meat/Fish | It would only be cool as a joke/temporary name. It comes directly from one of those isle header signs from rainbow foods. | Dohn Joe | ||
| Cannibal Bananas | I was doing a report for school on urban legends and my mom found one about bananas from Costa Rica that supposedly could have a flesh eating disease on they're skin that could kill humans.The title of the article was Cannibal bananas: the Costa Rican connection.Though the legend was proved false....I thought the phrase cannibal bananas sounded kewl(cool). | me | ||
| Cannibal Clowns | I hate clowns because I saw the movie 'IT' by Stephen King when I was a little kid, so I had nightmares about clowns for a long time. I'm still hella creeped out by clowns. | Tyson | ||
| Cannibal Cows | Just sorta came to me one day plaing Spades in the slammer, comparing my daily life to that of a cow headed for slaughter. | Kevin | ||
| Cannibal Cows | We were discussing Mad Cow Disease in my Ecology class, and the teacher said they used to grind up unuseable parts from dead cows and feed it to other cows. I was all like "So they're cannibal cows? You know, that'd make a cool band name." | IHaveNoBrain | ||
| Cannibal Obituary | My friend and I made it up when we were talking about "Cannibal Corpse" and she said " I wonder if Cannibals have obituarys" It was stupid, but it sounded cool. | to cool to know | ||
| Canniballistic Llammas | I was watching a cartoon where there was a show on called "When Good Llammas Go Bad". Then it showed a news reporter petting a llamma and saying "Who's a sweet South-American cud-chewer? Who?". But then it went off-screen and you could hear the man screaming"AAAHHH! My arm!" So I think it's pretty neat. | Sanji | ||
| Cannot Be Broken Down | zinc Is an element that can not be brokend down | jesse gonzalez | ||
| Cant Sppel | Isn't it funny when you're IMing your friend, and you mispell a word, and they try to type "you can't spell", but they spell it wrong? Hahah. | Eric | ||
| Canus The Dog | It was a sick parody on "Saturday Night Live" which poked fun at perfume ads. The man's object of his attraction is his dog, and the perfume was "Canus" (which is the species of the dog family). | Deano | ||
| Canux | A little Canadiana! Actually, I came up with it for a cartoon I wanted to come up with. Weird twist on "Canucks". | KAZ | ||
| Cap'n Crunch And The Cereal Killers | A practical name for any of you "Larry, The Cable Guy"s out there. | allison | ||
| Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters | Haha, this is hilarious...but it's in the movie "That Thing You Do" | Nick Barber | ||
| Capgun Suicide | Well I thought it was a cool band name because you cannot kill yourself with a cap gun. So its like a oxymoron. I think it's a rad band name! | HEATHER | ||
| Capillary Action | I believe the term is capillary action, not attraction. Still a cool band name though. | Andrew | ||
| Capillary Attraction | This would be a name for a girls band. It is actually the term for the force that allows a porous material to soak up a liquid, but it sounds cool. | clueless | ||
| Capital Eye | Absolutely positively totally I. | Eddie Brock | ||
| Capital Offense | I have no idea if this is already being used...but I was listening to "I shot the Sheriff" and just the way Eric Clapton says "Capital Offense" made me think of a grunge band. | Class-E | ||
| Caps Lock | I was wondering what name to chose so i looked at my keyboard and saw caps lock. I thought that would be a cool name for a band. | Matt | ||
| Captain Brau and the Meisters | Formerly the Pledgeomatics (see entry) poor drunken college students, cheap crappy Bavarian sounding beer. Why not? | rico | ||
| Captain Codpiece and his Merry Little Fish-Fingers | Our drummer wanted our band to be called this... We said no... We settled on Ring Pirate and the Uphill Gardeners... Yup. | Frank | ||
| Captain Crunch For Lunch | Funny and rhymes, my band said no way but maybe sum1 else will like it. | mike | ||
| Captain Emo and His Band of Merry Men | This is sort of a take on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, except Captain Emo and his Merry Men dont get along, at all. | fardwark | ||
| Captain Klepto & the Lightbulb Thieves | A mate came up with this about 10-15 years ago, when we were looking for band names. It was because someone kept stealing these special three coloured lightbulbs from a pub near him. | Tony | ||
| Captain Krook And The Lunc Box Crew | The Name has the kiddish feel to it, but fun. Stupid, but amusing. | Reanne | ||
| Captain Legend | Its my brother in law's idea. He made it our name for our Rockbnad Band...best game ever by the way | Ashlan | ||
| Captain McAllister and Handsome Pete | Two characters from the Simpsons. | Henry | ||
| Captain Nemo and the Plastic Catholics | This is my Adam and the Ants cover band name. A great name because it evokes instant recognition. CN is the hero to many, and the PC makes for astonishing and acrid conversations. | brad | ||
| Captain Quirk | I thought of this when thinking of band names. It's a pun of the "Star Trek" character name "Captain Kirk." | Renard | ||
| Captain Spasm and the Shakes | In high school, I had this awesome substitute teacher who said that this was his band name back in college. He also said before that, they were called "Free Beer". That would draw some crowds! | twackt | ||
| The Captain's Log | Not necessarily a crude sexual reference. It is a chronologic historical document of record, essential, vastly important and captains of all varieties must maintain one. Trekkies remember all those "Captaons Log; Stardate..", entries in the star trek series. The rest of us remember the answer to the famous question, "What did Spock see when he went to the John." | badboybear | ||
| Captian High Top and the Love Commanders | From a Mother Love Bone song; always thought it would make a great band name for someone that didn't take themselves too seriously. | Fotch | ||
| Car Crash Hearts | Iman | |||
| Car Pet | its a car...and its a pet. kind of like pet rocks, but with wheels. | Kyle | ||
| Carbon Copy Legend | I came up with this when we were learning about carbon dating in school. My teacher said carbon and legend in the same sentence. It's cool because its a electronica band. | drummin guy | ||
| Carbon Stereoxide | I just thought of...guitars and sound systems breathing carbon dioxide. :) | trashed | ||
| Cardiac Arrest | i just thought of bad experiences ive had and took another bad feeling and made our name | scott sales | ||
| Cardiac Delights | I love to eat high-cholesterol meat. It makes me high! It's cool for a band with very fat members! | Jipri | ||
| Carghay | I was listening to the radio a few days ago and it said: 'Tonight we'll be playing Man-to-man's *gay-machine* ' And with the words machine i thought of cars, and with the word gay i thought of ghay (the austrailion version of gay), so i came up with 'Carghay' (which comes to mind cargo deck). My teacher said Carghay was a type of Resonal Liquid (theres another cool band name!) but he is a laugh so Resonal Liquid might be his version of made-up words and a cool band name! Whatdoyathink? | Rox-Elizabeth | ||
| A Carload of Carlos's | "A carload of Carlos's,(I believe there were 4 Carlos's in the car) were behind me at our local," What-a-burger" drive thru,and it kind of just came to me in a druken stupor!' | B Delgado | ||
| Carnival of Defeat | The band name has that angst-ridden touch to it, sort of rough rock-n-roll. It was classmate's band in college, and they came up with the name from a headline in National Enquirer. | Oondy | ||
| cARNY pEOPLE | Parents hate it when you hang out with them. They are always on the road, only come out at night, and have questionable character. What would your dad say if you announced, guess what I'm gonna marry a guy, he's one of those cARNY pEOPLE ? Great name for a band | HIPPI CHIC | ||
| Carpe Noctem | I've always been on a quest to think of a cool band name, and I've finally come to it. It's courtesy of a quote from my friend Jon. We were on a Scholastic Bowl team together, and when we went out of town to stay in a hotel for Sectionals, he was talking about what we should put on our T-shirts. "We're such night owls, we should have 'Seize the Night.' Y'know instead of 'Carpe Diem'...'Carpe Noctem.'" And then I realized, "Whoa. That would be THE most awesome name for a band, ever." Why? Because it's a play on words, it rolls off the tongue, and foreign band names are the coolest. So if I'm ever in a band and I get to name it, I'll definitely call it Carpe Noctem. | Cat | ||
| The Carpet Frogs | I was sitting on the carpet with my buddies. I made a "ribbit" sound with my a**. Farts on the carpet? Blame it on the carpet frogs! | Alizza Fitzkrinkle | ||
| Carpet Samples | i was with my family shopping for carpets....hense the name | Jonah | ||
| The Carpet Tunnel | I heard a woman mispronounce "carpeltunnel" as "carpet tunnel". If there was actually a carpet tunnel, Aladdin would be a happy boy indeed. | truth |
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