Names -> Cool Band Names -> R, 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: | ||
| R.A.N.T. | Actually my friend thought it up and he wanted me to put it here for him. It stands for Resistance Against Necessary Threats. Cool, huh? | spud59 for connor | ||
| R.I.O.T. Dancer | I was thinking Rio Dancer would be cool. You know from the Duran Duran song Rio, there's a line that goes Rio Rio Dancer cross the Rio Grande. But I couldn't come up with a good acronym for the letters rio, so I changed it riot. It would stand for Rhythm Is Our Thing, and the group would definitely be a dance/funk hip-hop fusion thing. Really groovy! | Ed | ||
| R.I.P. - Rock in Peace | I thought this name was cool because to me I was looking for a name that stood for something. I also thought it sounded like something you would say before someone went onto stage, like saying break a leg. Like I said I was trying to come up with something that stod for something, my first name I thought was cool was C.I.N. - Created In Nation being short for damnation, but I like R.I.P. better. | Jordan Squires | ||
| Rabbi Shank's Car | Sounds like sitar music, and everybody knows that Ravi Shankar is the king of sitar music. | hugh askew | ||
| Rabid Chimps | Monkey are cool | Deathawk | ||
| Rabid Chinchila Ranches | Viscious little rodents made even meaner by the fact theat they are rabid, even worse is that there are ranches o f them (not really) better name for a song than a band! | Pigertaws | ||
| Rabid Pineapple | a guy from my class came up with this when we were playing a really random game of pictionary on camp this year. i sort of adopted it and now it's the name of my website, my username for tons of online groups, and lots of other stuff; i sort of think of it as my alterego now. ;) | eleanor | ||
| Rabid Spam | It was one of the names suggested by one of my friends when we were forming our band. We were discussing message boards one day and someone brought up "an onslaught of rabid spammers." The name stuck, and we shortened it to Rabid Spam, until we came up with "To A Lesser Extent." | To A Lesser Extent | ||
| Rabid Squirrel Groupies | Psychotic squirrels are so cool! haha.. It all started when we went to the Grand Canyon and there was a squirrel sitting near this little girl.. She tried to feed him, and he bit her. So me and my friends were laughing and we were like "bwahah rabid squirrel!" . And thus we became fans of these fellows who torment poor young children O_o.. And BAM Rabid Squirrel Groupies was born! ...I also thought of the band names, Pie Meets dishwasher and Bastard of a Llama | Pie master | ||
| Rabidly Arcane | Rabidly meaning 'crazed' and arcane meaning 'esoteric' or 'understood by a special few' | Rogue Sparrow | ||
| The Racin' Gardeners | At the Indianapolis 500 (I believe it was 1999), there was a rookie driver who qualified named Racin Gardner. (Can you believe that was his real name?) The media had a field day joking about this unusual (and relevant) name. | rockon | ||
| Rack Hang Draw And Quarter | this name kicks... i came up with it in england.... at some castle.... i like it because it is the way queen elizabeth killed people in mid evil times.... kick ass eh? but yeah... it is great... rack= the streching board that you put people on to put their arms and legs out of joint... hang well you hang them but not let them die.... draw... take out their insides... then quarter.... you attach each limb to a horse and the horses all go seperate ways and they get pulled apart... i love pain... heh heh heh | lauren | ||
| Radar October | Monica | |||
| Radar Rangers | Obviously derived from what they used to call microwave ovens (Radar Range). A late 80's alternative band name. They would probably just play area clubs and be known as a local party band. | drlondon | ||
| Radiation | I came up with this because I read (your site's band name) X-Ray and the Lead Bibs and thought of it. | joey | ||
| Radical Dreamers | I thought of this when my dad was complaining about Radicals and how they are always dreaming, so i thought of it as a cool band name, | CuddlySoftBunnie | ||
| The Radical Muckraking Bastards | i got this idea from the movie "Dick" which was a comedy about nixon. He called howard and bernstien radical muckraking bastards, so i thought it would make a cool band name. | will | ||
| Radicals in Congress | I don't remember the exact facts, but I got it out of my 11th grade history class, when we were learning about the post-Civil War Congress. Always thought it would make a good band name - of course, this was back when Dead Kennedys was considered an extremely offensive name. | Sorcha Ravenschild | ||
| The Radicands | It's the term inside the square root. I was sitting in math class and thought it sounded like a cool indie punk band. | The Alex Basso | ||
| Radient red | Taken from a magazine article that said "she looked radient in red" | chelleb | ||
| Radio Active Wolverines | Well, the, "Radio-Active" part popped into my head at random. The, "Wolves" part was the word coming out of my friends mouth at the time "Radio-Active" was coming to my mind. | Jay Lingo | ||
| Radio Judas | I was living in London, England sharing a house with three other Irish rock musicians. We needed a radical name and coming from strict Catholic backgrounds, which we hated, Judas Iscariot was the ultimate anti-hero. Combine it with 'Radio' and the not-so-subliminal message is the propagation of treachery. Deliciously subversive and heretical! | Michael Synnott | ||
| Radioactive Afganistan Boy and the Flaming Osamas | What with current events and all, this one would be pretty cool. | IHaveNoBrain | ||
| Radioactive Milk | It was in a science text book at school explaining how the radioactive fallout over Chernobyl affected cows in England. | Helena | ||
| Radioactive Stench | It's how I describe the smell of Mexican food and stuff! | IHaveNoBrain | ||
| Radioactive Toy | A friend and I were siting in our history class. We were talking about the Cold War. So I came up with it and used it to talk about the nukes. Sounds like a cool band name though. | Person | ||
| Rage Against Charlie Sheen | It's an interesting play on words. | Eli | ||
| Rage Against The Limp Corn Biscut Machine. | I actually thought this one up while looking through CD's at Newbury comics. This is a bunch of band names combined so they make a wierd name. This would probably be a cool punk band. | Brucie | ||
| Rage Against the Vending Machine | This should go on the new band names page as a new form of Rage Against The Machine, but I'll submit here instead. I thought of this one one day when I was broke and at lunch I mooched enough nickels and pennies off people to get a bag of chips for lunch when the bag got stuck in the vending machine. I bodyslammed it several times while yelling various obscenities. | Hannie | ||
| Rage Of The Rodent | *swing a mouse by the tail* | Anita Bransom | ||
| Raging | It sounds as if your music is going to blow the roof off. I was watching a T.V. show and there were two kids staying home alone and the older one was going to have a party while their parents were gone and he said, "Man, this party's gonna be raging!". I thought it sounded pretty cool for a band name. | Fender 411 | ||
| Raging Blizzard | Why is it cool?...How is it not cool? Good name for a metal band. 1st track should be called "Iron Jesus" just because its a good song name too. | David Assad | ||
| The Raging Hormones | Teenage: explains itself. | Mike | ||
| The Raging Hormones | I was 13 n had some zits start to pop up, n my dad called me Chief Raging Hormones, that stuck with me cuz i've always wanted a band, and now that i've got one, only one of my 3 bandmates agree on the name, lol me and my friend think it's original and sticks in your head though so yeah | superdigg | ||
| The Raging Mullets | Well, my friend got a really bad haircut one time that kinda looked like a mullet and everyone was making fun of him so we called him the raging mullet | jake | ||
| The Raging Peace | It's a play on opposites. I just made it up randomly. | Bruce Wayne | ||
| Raging Rebels | This is cool because it is a fierce sounding name. It could also be used easily on the aliteration page where there is very few entries. | Travis | ||
| Ragnarok | I think it's cool because I think Norse myths are cool. Ragnarok means the end, or, the doom of the world. It would be kinda cool for a rock band. | Rebecca | ||
| Ragnarok | it means destruction of all gods and everything in one great battle | quinn | ||
| The Rah Rahs | My civics teacher called the kerry fans Rah Rahs..it thought it was a funny band name | Tiffy | ||
| Rain Walkers | Hmm Well Long Story... Here It Is...My Friend Mike Was Going To A Party Then He Had To Stop And Get Gas So He Stoped To This Old Shack Of A Station And Then He Saw This Pretty Girl Right Next To Him So He Says "Hi" And The Girl Quickly Kissed Mike Becasue Her Ex-boyfriend Was Coming Out Of The Shack So Then Mike Embrassly Says.."Umm Ok?" And Laughs So Then To Make A Long Story Short They Both Went To Mikes Party And Left In The Rain..lol Wild Story But I Like The Band Name.. | Zachary | ||
| rainbow acid | my sis's dream was about a rainbow and it melted down. | Alejandro hernandez | ||
| Rainbow of Discoloration | I thought of oxymorons | GriffinSilver | ||
| Rainforest Conspiracy | In class we were discussing how so many charities go to saving various world rainforests, when in fact it is drug money. We labeled this as the "rainforest Conspiracy" kinda cool, huh? | Bobby Bounce | ||
| Rainy Days | It's a really annoying song by 1000 Clowns, but it'd be a good name for a miserable band like The Smiths or Travis. | Sophie | ||
| Raise The Irons | I saw it on an Iron Maiden cd:) | benjamin carter | ||
| Raising Full Order | This is sort-of came to me when I was thinking of band names for a friend.Sounds like a protesting band name. | Chokex | ||
| Raising Kain | I chose this name because there was a book named "Raising Cain" and I thought that the misspelling of the name Cain would be cool for a metal band. | poopnuggets | ||
| The Rakish Hats | One of my band mates was from England/Ireland and came up with this name. A rakish hat is a hat that is tilted to one side of the head. | Kaila | ||
| The Rambling Noise | I came up with it while trying to think of a name for me and my friend's band. It just seemed to be us just throwing out names to each other. It just signified the whole evening. | Dexter-B-Benjamin | ||
| The Rammifications | My favorite music is metal and Punk. My favorite band is RANCID.And their is a band called Rasmus,and it just came to me. I like Punk,Rock N' Roll,and Metal,I want to start a band,so that's how it happened.Now we have a name we just need to get a drummer so we can start "Rammifications". | Mike | ||
| Rancid Corndog | Anything about rotten food is cool. I came up with it while at the mall with my brother in law. We were so bored watching my sister shop that we started coming up with name. This hot chick walked by eating a corndog and the name just popped in my head. | Onestroke | ||
| Random | It's the perfect name for a band who has members with diffrent personalities and styles. | Zevi | ||
| Random | Can you just imagine people ringing up to ask for tickets to your gigs? "Can I have Random tickets please?" They could end up anywhere! | Emma | ||
| rAnDoM aCtS | my and my cousin just bust out with really random things.... like sometimes we'll just bust out and bite someone... it's really wierd. and since i wanted to start a band i decided that would be kewl. | britney | ||
| The Random Annoyance | I was in church with my uncle. He called me a random annoyance, and I was like "DUDE! That rocks!" So I figured, "Wow, I should name a band that." | Jaime | ||
| Random Hiccupping Metroids | Anybody like the Metroid series? Metroids are floating bloodsucking space alien jellyfish, for those who don't know. Imagine if they sucked a drunk dude's blood. Just imagine it... Drunk Metroids. | Venah Avros | ||
| Random Massachusets Sassafras | I love bing random. I have a list of my favorite words. They're my favorites not because I like the meaning or it represents something to me, but because I just like saying them. I love to say Massachusets and sassafras. So why not Random Massachusets Sassafras? | 300 Bernard St. Girl | ||
| Random Scythings | The Amish version of random shooting, which was a big news story around where I live until they caught the guys. | Zeei | ||
| Random Thoughts | i was looking through papers, when I heard my mom and lil bro talkin. I thought I eard him say A.D.D, but he realy said ABC, so I just had a Random Thought, and u now ADD is that whole loosing concentration and stuff, so i just thought.....Random Thought | <3 Hearts Desire <3 | ||
| Randomly Hiccuping Ballads | I like dots...........C: | |||
| The Randomness | the name of the band im in,named so cuz we r the least likely ppls to make a band, 2 goths( me n my ex gf) one 50% goth/metalhead,one former goth/f***master,one flowerchild and one psycho currently in thailand | raven spirit | ||
| Randy Armadillo's With Knockers | its cool because our band RAWKS and we came up with it because we are idiots and the abreveation(dunno if thats spelt right) is R.A.W.K | sean | ||
| Randy Old People | Randy Old People is the name of a parody band I am in. 32 possible band names were drawn from a hat... R.O.P won. The name was inspired by the "elderly people crossing" road sign... (if you look at it, you can clearly see the female groping the male - check it out sometime) | Trevor | ||
| Randy Pandas | First off, it's cool because what's better than a horny panda? But I came up with it because my parent's friends have a 3-year-old and 6-year-old. The 6 year old calls me "Randy" (because my name is Miranda)' and the 3 year old calls me "Miranda Panda". So yeah, Randy Pandas. | randa | ||
| Rank Pigeons | i saw a pigeon drop a load on a guy once it was the best thing i ever saw it was the high point in my wonderful life | tim | ||
| Rapid Fire | Who really cares... it sounds nifty! | Punxy | ||
| Rara Avis | This word is Latin for a unique thing or group. How did I find it? Dictionary.com. It was one of those "word of the days" things. My bandmate, from church, and I are who make up this band. | Jenny | ||
| Rascal and Killer featuring Scarlet | Rascal and Killer are our Yorkie-Shih Tzu dogs and Scarlet is the Yorkie next door. Look for them on the Life's Ruff Label... | VJON | ||
| Rascal House Fiasco | There's a bar out in Cleveland called the Rascal House... And when the swing movement had come back in full force, we noted that without three words, it just wasn't a swing band. (Squirrel Nut Zippers, Royal Crown Revue...) It sounds nifty. | Big Daddy J | ||
| Rascel Flatts | Its cool! I mean creative and it makes sense if you hear there music it like fitts their music and backround it is just cool and creative! | Jewel | ||
| The Rasputins | Yall all remember lovable Gregori Raspuin from Russian History. He was the Tsar's favorite mystic, stabbed by a hooker, and had the scariest eyes ever. He was also assassinated, but it took enough cyanide to kill seven men, a few gunshots, an attempted strangling, and a dumping in the river to kill him. He finally died in the river from Frostbite. great name for annoying, mystic type bands that won't go away. | eliza | ||
| Rat Funeral | Inspired by NewsRadio. | Wraith | ||
| Rat Sac | Sounds smooth and it flows. It has a funny literal meaning. | Rat Sac | ||
| rat scabies | working at walmart and we were coming up with funny names for a group | atomicdog44 | ||
| Rata al rescate | Translated from the spanish meaning 'rat to the rescue' it would be a cool westcoast band who occasionally sing in spanish. It just sounds kinda good. | NC | ||
| Ratt Poison | All those 80's hair bands, reuniting and going on tour. This would be a supergroup, the members of Ratt and Poison together. Just imagine the concert t-shirt... | sherri | ||
| ratt poison | With the reunion tours, Where Are They Now specials featuring hair bands, it only seems logical for the members of Ratt and Poison to join forces and form a super group. The t-shirt alone would be worth it. | sherri | ||
| The Raunchy Bitch Band | My friend's Kristin and Tiffany came up with this. It refers to bands like Hole and Kittie and any other bitchy girl bands. | Bryan Hartshorn | ||
| Rave | One day I was just thinking of the bird, Raven, how it sounded all dark and everything. And then I took away the "n" at the end and it was "Rave", so I started to think about raves, wild parties, and thought, "Hey, that would be a cool band name!" So I thought if I named my band "Rave", it would show that we loved to have fun and party, but we also have a dark side, so you better not mess with us. | Katie | ||
| Raven Hell | Interesting word play, great for a hardcore NW band. Inspired a poem/song while observing a very frustrated and PO'd raven in a remote logging camp. | Cyn J | ||
| Raw Ice | I was thinking of the oxy-moron dry ice, and all of a sudden raw ice popped into my head and I was like! Kick ass! That sounds like a cool band name! | Jack | ||
| The Raw Prawns | well us Aussies are always saying ... "don't come the raw prawn with me baby!" LOL seems to come up a lot in conversations sometimes, either way you look at it, its kinda cool. | HILARY | ||
| Raw Toast | Me and my friend were camping and we were making mountain pies and this guy was telling someone how to make them and he kept calling the bread raw toast and it stuck so now whenever we do anything with bread its "can you pass the raw toast.....yea....... well i think it souds cool. | Catherine | ||
| Raw Toilet | When I first saw the entry for Raw Toast (on Cool Band Names), I thought it said "Raw Toilet". | Deathawk | ||
| rawspeech | fresh talents/music...original! | xicon7lead | ||
| Re-usable Cutlery | I just think it might be funny to go see a band that is named after plastic knives and forks!!! | becki aka pope | ||
| re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Spect | An email message subject relayed back and forth 8 times; the middle of the Aretha Franklin record. | schweitzito | ||
| Ready To Strangle | On the date mentioned above, I was having a REAL BAD day, and during said day, I thought, "I'm just about ready to strangle." Then I thought, "Hey! If someone's looking for a band name and THEY'RE having a bad day, they can use this band name to show the world they're ticked...REEEEEAL BAD." | "Real Ticked" (as of 3/5/07) | ||
| The Readybreak Jedis | About 10 years ago (1996) my mate and I were a bit drunk and talking about "Star Wars" (like the geeks we were). I was trying to explain something about Jedis when they die, you know when they have that glow around them, just like in the old advert for Readybrek. Any way, I discribed them as The Readybrek Jedis. Then I said, "Hey, what a cool name for a band ". I vowed that if I ever started a band or was in one, I wanted to call it The Readybrek Jedis. Guess what, I've never done it, yet. | simon lean | ||
| Readyever | It's based on the battery... everready, just switched around, I think it sounds cool | BoB | ||
| The Real | Could be cause it's the real deal. My name is rod and a running band name joke has always been "Rod and the Reels". I was jamming with some guys that were really serious musicians and i thought "The Real". sounds kind of deep and though provoking. | Rockin Rod | ||
| Real Groovy | The best music shop in Auckland, NZ and it sounds coolZ. | eViL B | ||
| Reality Of The Lost | I was just thinking, even years ago how this would be a really great band name. It's pretty self-explainatory, but anyway. The way mad/dellusioned people see the world must be real to them, so this refers to it, and the band would be about expanding views, from the darker angle. | Malek Markov | ||
| Reality Slap | This would be cool for an industrial metal or gansta' rap band or any band from dingy areas because they sing about reality slapping our faces with it. | origin | ||
| Really Bendy Thumbs | I think it is a name that says the musicians in the band have become very accomplished at playing their instruments. If your fingers are really flexible, then you can play extra well. Also, it may indicate that the band does not have transportation and hitchikes a lot. At any rate, a name that people won't soon forget--very catchy indeed. | hippi chic | ||
| really deep hole | my friend and i were smokeing around and looking for some skate spots at a school and since we were so wasted he saw a whole and said "wow, thats a really deep hole" and i thought it was so rad | andreas | ||
| Realm of Endeavor | I came up with this years ago, thinking it might be a good representation of a band that actually thinks, and sings about things that matter in this world (like Queensryche). :-) | Rikk | ||
| Realm Of Paranoia | It's a name that could actually cover several different areas of pop or rock music. Most likely a young band of guys and with a name like this on them, it conjures them being rebellious and outside the norm, and would appeal to teens because as we all know teens rebel and are so self-conscious that everyone is out spy on them, or tell them how live their life or make fun of them. I got it when I overheard my sister-in-law talking on the phone the other day about her job to someone. And she said something like paranoia realm, and I thought hey that's cool, but I thought it sounded even better with the words reversed. | Ed | ||
| Realusion | It means that we sound so good that it sems like an illusion, but the thing is we're real. | john maloney(drumer of REALUSION) |
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