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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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Smiling Politely From the Simpsons where Homer meets the lead singer of Smashing Pumkins: "Hi, Billy Corigan, Smashing Pumpkins" "Homer Simpson....Smiling Politely!" EDS5
SmilingPessimistic Kind of an opposite switch-er-roo....  Leslie
Smirked With Elation Smiled evilly with happiness. Kind of an oxymoron, but kind of not. Line from a story. therealdeepblue
Smith Smith & The Shadow Robots It's a Richard Brautigan Reference. Kinda like "Machines of Loving Grace" Dylan
SMOKE? short for: Should Monkeys Own Kendo Equipment? X
Smokey and the Bears just thought of it matt
Smokey McSafety Bear and the Alcoholic Skydivers Oxymoronic and it's just totally random.... too cool.  chad
Smokey The Campfire Slayer For the band determined to get busted for copyright infringement defenestrated
Smoking Gunn Another band name from the TV show "Angel". Imagine lawyer Charles Gunn smoking a cigarette. angel
Smoking Potatoes we were havin a BBQ and my friend said i had overdone the potatoes(in the oven) and i said 'no way-there smoking potatoes!' he told me it would make a cool band name, and he was right! RExy
Smooth Larry Appleton Otherwise known as Mark-Linn Baker, who played Balki's cousin in the 80's sitcom "Perfect Strangers".In one episode,he was called "Smooth Larry Appleton" because of his poker playing prowess.  t.v.
Smothered Infant Well after listening to Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, and various other death metal bands I decided that I had to come up with an outrageously disturbing name for my band in order to become somewhat popular. Smothered Infants is the kind of name that sticks with you... So that is what we might call our selves Bill
Snail Sans Shell It was a crossword puzzle clue. The answer was "slug"! Diane Stolfi
Snails On Steroids Me and my mates were sitting down thinking of band names and one of my mates thought of steroids, and I saw a snail...so...Snails + Steroids = Snails on Steroids. Jon Cartwright, Chris Raynes.
Snake and Cross My friends are all huge Fullmetal Alchemist fans, but we could never remember the name for the Flamel Snake symbol. We would call it the "Snake and Cross". After a while, I though "There's some weird hard rock band names, why not ours be called Snake and Cross?" It stuck. Trevor
Snake Eating Rabbits In A Toaster Well I was watchin t.V and I saw a snake eat a rabbit whole and I thought 'aww, poor rabbit, how would the snake like it if he got eaten whole?' and everything tastes better toasted lol Libby
Snapple Dap its a term we made up for a move while playing hacky sack...its got a nice ring to it mike
Snappy Charles & The Illegal Mexicans Actually has a long story to do with my ex's friend vomiting on the floor. Used to be our band name, until we became The (expletive).  Tobii Trash (tobiitraSh@Mindless.COM)
Sneak A Peak Always made fun o my friend for this....one day he was with his friend while he was taking a p*** against the wall...and he "sneaked a peak"......cool name for emo punk band maybe  Cory
Sneaky Pete and the Cable Thieves At one of the battle of the bands at my school, someone asked what the name was of the band and the host said Sneaky pete and the cable theives... i just thought it was really random... Cameron Jackson
Snickle-rizzle-frazzle-razz Named after Mutley's famous saying (from the cartoons Wacky Races, etc) MarKotsay7
Snifter It's a common thing between me and my friends. Snifter is another word for 'beer' and well, that explains why it's a common thing for us. mirza jill salcedo mijares
Sniper Men From Mars I can just imagine the film clip, space craft landing, then the occupants of this space craft getting picked off one by one by Snipers from Mars Scott
Snips Me and my friend were talking about what girls are made of (sugar, spice, and everything nice) and I said, "What are boys made of?" And she said, "Snips, snails, and puppy dog tails." Then I asked, "What are snips?" She started making a motion that a guy makes when he's lonely and has a Playboy. We started laughing and I thought that Snips would also be a cool band name. dead
Snoogans Well, this was an idea for a name. We sit in math class and think of made up words and we came up with "Snoogans". By the way, it didn't fly. Collin
Snooper I was once intrigued by a specific word that I had created over a conversation with my dearest friend, Walter Michaels Henry 2nd. He had informed me that he had exposed my drawer to his eyes. In conclusion, I held him accountable as a "Snooper". Therefore I conjecture that "Snoopers" would be an apporopriate "BAND NAME". I believe it will do fantasticly well with populartiy, and will gain power to minipulate many people to listen to "the band" Thank you for reading this and have a wonderfull band! ~ Delton Abreham McFee, The 3rd ~ Delton Abreham McFee, The 3rd
Snorkeling Goldfish It came to me in a dream. It was the title of a Calvin and Hobbes book in that dream. StGo
Snot Rockets i got this idea from my spanish teacher. he's from wisconsin and he used to talk about wat he used 2 eat wen he was lil. hotpockets...and he sed...snot rockets *lick Clover
Snow In July I think this is a cool name because it leaves you there thinking "Snow in July?". I came up with this when I was at camp. I told this one girl that I had once shoved an eraser up my nose ( I really did!). She didn't believe me, so she said "I"ll believe that when it snows in July!" Stephanie
Snow White's Red Blood even though i love disney (and i'm not afraid to admit it) this name sounds pretty cool to me SHOCK!
Snowballs Of Fire It is cool because how can snowballs be on fire i mean really  kody
Snuffaluffagus The wooly mammoth from Sesame Street patiperro
So Adictive I thought it would be a killer name for one of those bands that you just can't get enough of.  grovin'goddess
So Called I got this name of someone's t-Shirt. I think this is pretty cool for a punk/emo/alternative band. Benji
So Irritatingly Inquisitive  My friend just said in one conversation the line "I hope I wouldn't be so irritatingly inquisitive" And I immediately said that it would be good band name. It really is. Brings back the memories of the eighties band names. Cybbis
The So-Called I write songs and once I wrote a line that went "the so-called night"... I just really think either that or just The So-Called sounds neat, like you change and don't to have a name. Alex
Sober Homer I was thinking of oxymorons for band names. Sober and Homer Simpson are pretty contradictory. KDC_RIP
Soccer Mom Cult  Cause all those Moms in their Mini Vans are so robotic they seem like a cult Skip
Social Climbers Well I'm kinda just startin' to fit in and my songs kind of reflect that (its also from hate mail Billy Corgan sent to rolling stone) Deathawk
The Social Rejects Me and my band member are the unpopular ones in school and we just came up with it  Justin
Social Suicide All my friends and I in our "band" wear like pinks, and blacks, and just messed up stuff. So its kind of like mixing a prep, a goth, and jock, and everything else. It's kind of like a social suicide...hence the name. kyla
Social with the anti-social I was listening in on a group of ten or so people talk about how they are so anti-social. Well they are sitting in a big group talking with a bunch of friends, doesn't seem very anti social to me. So this name goes out to you anti-socials Killer panda
Socially Acceptable this is the name of my band. it is cool because we are playing tons of clubs and it is cool to have people call and ask us to ply with them or at a club. geoff
Socially Unattractive i dunno. Thats what my teacher told me i was..he said "u are rude, crude and socailly unattractive" summer
Societies X-Pulsion "Expulsion"... as to be expelled from society. Lee
Society Downfall I got the idea for it when i was thinking about how social distortion got their name. Riley
Society Of Misfits Perfect punk/grunge band name. Describes their fans to a "t". ridicoo us
Society Rejects Because in school, we were always rejected from the usual group of the "Popular" kids. Soon everyone else followed their example of ignoring us, making us, society's rejects.  Sasha
The Sociopath Next Door I was in a book store and came across a book about antisocial personality disorder. I named my metal band after the title, because I thought it was a catchy name. Mark
Socken It's the name of my band @ skool. It means 'sock' in German.  Paul M
Socks Vital Because, no matter how hard you try to convince yourselves otherwise, they are, aren't they? An acquaintance, Alison Berry, came up with this one in about 1993 and I've always remembered it, even though we're no longer in touch. Jimbob
The Sofa Killers My friend and I were out shopping one day. We sat down on a bench to have a drink, and some random man came behind us and shouted out "Sofa killers!" It was so funny and embarrasing. I think this would be a great name for a rock band. amy lou
Sofa King Retarded Lol... me and my drummer thought it was funny....P*ss people off by saying it fast Bob
Sofa Kings My friend and I used this for a while because we were so good at being lazy. quik
The Soft-Sharp-Positive-Negative-Modern-Old People My friend were playing "Opposites"; that's where it came from. Sheep-Stealer From Outer Space
The Soggy Bottom Boys What a name. O Brother where art Thou. YASMR
Soggy Cupcakes Spin off of "Limp Bizkit." robster lobster
The Soggy Muffins My brother's history teacher was talking about tax issues and said, Say Jumping Joe and the Soggy Muffins decided not to pay taxes. So I thought The Soggy Muffins sounded pretty good.  Mike
Soggy When Wet My friend Marc and I are always doing random stuff. At first it was "I like fried chicken". Then it led into "Yea, but friend chicken gets soggy when you put it in water"(we were at a pool party), hence the name-- Soggy When Wet, look for us Win
The Sogs  Basically it came up whilst chatting to a friend on msn he mis-spelled song and wrote sogs instead then he said he wanted to start a band so i suggested the sogs  Rachel
Soiled Linen well, we were visiting a friend in the hospital, and saw a hamper with "Soiled Linen" written on it...so we were all like "man.....awesome band name" but we ended up with VENT, so SOILED LINEN is still out there Randy Regnier
Soiled Linen me and a couple friends were visiting another friend in the hospital, seen this on a laundry chute thing, and i said "hey, that sounds like a sweet band name" Randy
Solar Rabbit We were given a worksheet in my eighth grade science class one time, and one of the questions had a bunch of diagrams with arrows and animals, and said, "Which diagram shows the correct path of the transfer of energy?" or something like that. One of the diagrams had an arrow going from the sun to a rabbit, and I thought, "Hey, neat, solar rabbit!" Also can be considered a tribute to the song "Atomic Dog" by some dude whose name I can't remember. Cessi
Soldier Jock My drummer is an electronics repair Tech Sargent in the Airforce. While he was away in Baghdad the keyboard player would keep refereng to the drummer as Soldier Jock and the name just took off. 7String
Solid Waste It was a name for a heavy metal band suggested to me by a hippie. dksnyc
Solstice Of Suffering I think it's cool because the initials are SOS. I came up with it because I was searching through font names and I saw this. Connor
Solus It's Latin for 'alone'. david
Solution 55 Look up Psalm 55 in the bible Brumby
Soma It's the name for the drug that everyone takes in the novel "Brave New World" written by Aldous Huxley. It's a mix of cocaine, heroin, etc. Basically, it's a really good pill. Ahmead Bakir
Some Dead Guys This is actually our band name at the time. We thought it would be cool to hear the radio dj say something like, "here's song title by Some Dead Guys." Plus it yields for some cool album names like "Killed to Death" "Pushing Up Daisies" and, this is totally unrelated, "Gyration Station." Fredo
Some Young Guy Its cool because it sounds Korean but its not. I thought of it after hearing a funny joke. Will Schildknecht
Somebody Popular Well.....there's this one pretty sweet song called Vindicated and I didn't really know who sang it. So.....i kinda asked mi dad who sang it annd he said "somebody popular" and i really thought that was the person who sang it. Turns out, Dashboared Confessional sings it and when the song came on the radio, i was like "I know who sings this, they're called Somebody Popular!" My friend looked at me and was like..."No it's Dashboared Confessional, u retard!" and so, i still thought that it was a pretty sweet name and that's kinda y i just typed all of this... Taylor
Something Better My friend's band has no good name. Infact, a crappy name. So I said they should be something better. Which they're not. The Dork Matt
Something For The Weekend coz that's why the band started, as something to do for the weekend. also for the sexual undercurrent. the idea was to give away free condoms at our concerts and get sponsored for it ...but as was realistically expected, this never came to be. Dominik Brotherton
Something Obscene That's what i would name my band... if i had a band and any musical talent, or not! Kerri
Something Offbeat It used to be our band name. Sometimes, when we were practicing, one of us would go off beat. When one person would match someone else, we'd all start to fall offbeat, good for an alternative or punk band XstillzX
Something Original i was thinking of a band name and i though "i need something original" then i realised that it sounded cool james
Something Strange Well, every time someone asks me what the name of my band is, I've always been in a band with a really lame name. So, I usually just say "It's something strange". And they're like "C'mon! Tell me!"... So, I decided to name the next band I'm in "Something Strange" so when they ask me, it'll go down like this: Me: I'm in a band. Person: What's your band named? Me: Something Strange Person: Yeah, but what's the name. Me: SOMETHING STRANGE! Person: Just tell me the frickin' name! Me: It's Something Strange!!!!! Person: Fine, don't tell me.... I don't even care anyway. Thrasher
Something Stupid Like many of the names on this list, this is something stupid, but it would appear as though the band didnt bother to come up with "something stupid" and used it as their name Yes I Am
Something To Do With A Duck Me and some mates were going to a local gig, and one of them wastrying to remember the groups that were playing, one of which was called strange duck, she couldnt remember the name so simply came out with: something to do with a duck and we all loved it... Faelfain
Sometimes Never Have you ever had to do a stupid thing around the house and your mom would always ask you if you finished or not? You would reply I'll do it sometime today but you really meant never so that's where sometime never comes in and it sounds kinda awesome! Music4life
Somus Taf Becaus backwards it spells 'Fat Sumos', and everything is to do with Japanese wrestling these days. ed Davis
Sonagi means rain in korean. could work for a rock band soomin
Songmaker's (silent) cry In one of my favourite and saddest Nightwish songs "Dead Boys Poem" there is a line in which Songmaker's cry can be found. I think it would be a good name for bands with similar but more gentle music as Nightwish. Cynthia Cardui
Sonic Death Monkeys i heard jack black say it in john cusack movie...dont remember the title Realm_of_satan
Sonic Fire My friend and I were trying to come up with a band name. I have an old set of comic books: "Sonic the Hedgehog" and "Fantastic 4" (the one with the Human Torch on the side) So I put the 2 together. Kinda lame, but hey, you never know what people are looking for. Fortified4ever
Sonic Horizons Is that not just cool? That's our band's current name. I was reading a physics book and there was a thing called a sonic horizon, kind of like a black hole's 'event horizon', but anyways, I thought it sounded really cool. We take 'Sonic', being sound, and Horizons, being like a limit or the end, and slap um together and get, "The limits and boundaries of sound which we must overcome" The Shocker
Sonic Superslide Taken from a song by The Go Gos. It's a great name for a band. Their music would be catchy, uptempo, melodic, upbeat and fun. They would also do some 80s style pop power ballads. The kind that build to a climax in the middle and then come down at the end and are very melodic and touching. Their power ballads would be quite memorable. Edward
Sonix Boom I came up with this name because I like rockin' video game music like that of the nw sonic games, I rest my case. I think it's a cool name because of all the misspellings in band names. Joshua
Sons Of Kane Because me and my mates were thinking of a band name. I thought of the wrestler Kane, and then thought that Sons of Kane was a cool idea. chris
Sons of Play This name kind of gives you the feeling: these boys really work hard and don't do it just for the money...after all...it's a family thing. ivorin
Soon, Yet Zen Named after the famous Chinese guy Sun Yat Sen. J.C.
sooner not later we are still young but we wana hit it big soon key word there soon a in sooner not later PEACE IM OUTA HERE  tim k
Sophie's Gravitas I read it in a book. it goes something like "She was as intelligent, and beautiful. But none of Sophie's gravitas." Alpha
Sopwith Camel-Toe Yeah- we're talking "wing span" here! Great band from the '60's, now fronted by Alanis Morisette princejellyfish
Sordid Evil I was playing that game 'resident evil', then I just replaced resident with sordid and thought that would be a cool heavy metal band name. 50 cent rocks
Sorely Mistaken  sounds cool enough deadeye
Sorrowful Songs Of The Weeping Willow While watching weeping willow limbs blowing in the wind, the wind made a whistling a very sad but deep whistle like it was singing a lullaby. Trent
Soul Nite My friend and I were coming up with band names and she came up with this one, perhaps for Evanescence-like music. The debut album would be called "Life and Death" and half the cover would be live things (butterfly, girl's face) and the other half, dead things (fallen leaves, skull). you
Soul Submission Well me and my friend are both interested with death and its a cool hard rock name. ADHD

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