it's a pretty mediocre pie no mater how you slice it and the most notable thing here is their amusing antics

– Excrementory Grindfuckers
– Godspeed You! Black Emperor
– ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
– BadBadNotGood
– Bohren & der Club of Gore ("Drilling & the Club of Gore")
– Ostzonensuppenwürfelmachenkrebs (lit. "Easternzonebouilloncubescausecancer")
The band named themselves after a headline in the infamous German tabloid BILD about supposedly carcinogenic bouillon cubes from the socialist German Democratic Republic (called 'Eastern Zone' to avoid referring to it as a legitimate state)

Heh, some funny names indeed, especially translated. GSY!BE is a longtime favorite of mine, actually some of us were discussing that style here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/postrock_and_associated_genres


Just looking up the genre "pornogrind" will net you a lot of disgusting and awful names, so be forewarned if you enter that dark path.

The Japanese are pretty good at weird band names

- Maximum The Hormone
- DIE!!!DIE!!!COLOR!!!
- Machine and The Synergetic Nuts
- 口ロロ
- Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
- One Eyed Trouser Snake
- TIROLEAN TAPE and her Knights
- Right Mop Ears

Let's not forget about Porno Graffiti.

I've made up a few weird ones on my own:

-Teeth that Ate Too Many Oreos
-Five Angry Horseflies
-Sorry, This Name's Taken
-Hornets in My Shorts

:P

Not too weird if you speak Japanese, as pornography and porno graffiti are pronounced exactly the same, except the latter has the "tee" syllable, whereas the rest of those come off as weird. Also, I think the first time you hear the name, it instantly conjures up the image of somebody carving an erect dick onto a school desk, you know pornographic graffiti. I wonder what image it conjures up for the rest of the world.

Also BUMP OF CHICKEN may sound strange, but it's actually a funny mistranslation of the intent to say something like "a bump on the head for cowardly chickens." NICO Touches the Walls may sounds gibberish, but it actually has a hysterically funny origin that not many people know.

My contribution to the thread is World's End Girlfriend. It immediately makes me think of a girl so malicious if spurned that she would have saw off your dick with power tools for stealing her gum or something.

Some of Jens Rachut's bands had really weird names:

Dackelblut
Blumen am Arsch der Hölle
Kommando Sonne-Nmilch

More weird names:
We Butter the Bread With Butter
Die Toten Crackhuren im Kofferraum (Dead crackwhores in the luggage trunk)
Fuck Art, Let's Dance!
Kakkmaddafakka
Fury in the Slaughterhouse
Throw that Beat in the Garbage Can
The Aim of Design is to Define Space
Hallelujah Ding Dong Happy Happy

Jesus Lizard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6U1YtKGMHA

NoMeansNo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7amC0emmQ

Cows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0KQnu22sFc

Alice Donut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK9S6u5TbUg

Tar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD-ykciS3J4

Fugazi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MC_1whMsQ

Distorted Pony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIxe6XCaZeg

The Nation of ulysses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpq-GVY4k_0

The first that sprung to mind was "Cowboy Mouth", which sang the song "Jenny Says".