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Not only did the Punk/New Wave movement of the late 70's early 80's produced some cool music but also some cool names.

For Example
U2---Bono
The Police---Sting
The Sex Pistols---Sid Vicous
(Hey...ain't Sting and Sid Vicous wrestleing characters on big time wresteling on that red neck cable station that also doubles as home of the Atlanta Braves?)
X-Ray Spex---Poly Styrene (my personal favorite name)
X-Ray Spex---Jack Airport
The Damned---Captian Sensible
The Damned---Rat Scabies (very cool name)

What other cool names can you come up with


just killing time,
jr

Classix Nouveaux - Sal Solo

interesting band names:

Flesh for Lulu
Tones on Tail
Wide Boy Awake
Fou Gorki (excellent late 80s group)
Noel (New Order clone)

Individual Artists that had cool names:

Nash the Slash

I'll come up with some

Here's a few more names for ya:

Bad Manners - "Fatty" Buster Bloodvessel
Suburban Lawns - Sue Tissue, Frankie Ennui, Vex Billingsgate, Chuck Roast
Madness - Suggs
Wreckless Eric
The [i]English[/i] Beat / General Public - Ranking Roger
Siouxsie & T

Speaking of Ranking Rodger, Quick question: In the song from special beat service lp "Pato and Rodger a go Talk", That is a reference to Pato Banton right?


Speaking of the English Beat not to mention Saxa that is a cool name especially if your a saxa

The Adverts had Lorry Driver

X Ray Spex Jack Airport was also a founding member of Classix Nouveaux

Scritti Politti singer - Green

M - M (Real name Robin Scott)

Some other interesting names:

Squeeze (top 40)
Red Box
Adam Ant
KAJAGOOGOO (who didnt see this one coming?)
Moanie (did a kick-ass song: Get Up and Move Your Body)
Cactus World News (album: Urban Beaches)
Fra Lipp

Can't believe I forgot The Cramps with Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, not to mention past members Nick Knox and Slim Chance!

Yeah, I almost forgot about 'ol Saxa, not to mention the elder stateman of punk drummers, <a href="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/strang

The tubes with lead singer Fee Waybill aka the "crippled Nazi" Dr. Strangekiss, country singer Hugh Heifer and Quay Lewd, a drug-addled British pop star. lol when i read this at allmusic.com. not to mention Prairie Prince and guitarist Bill Spooner.

Boomtown Rats' keyboardest---Johnnie Fingers
Pearl Harbour and the Explosions---Pearly Gates or Pearl E. Gates
Pearl Harbour and the Explosions---Peter Bilt
Squire (mod revival band)---Enzo Esposito (even though it not a knick name it is still cool.)

Some of my fave interesting band names are:

Sandy Duncan's Eye
Peter and the Test Tube Babies
JFA (Jodie Foster's Army)
Tenpole Tudor
Flesh For Lulu
Nightmares in Wax
Stump
Frank Chickens
GG Allin and the Scumfucs
Crucifucks
Naz Nomad and the

The butthole surfers (not sure if thats dated enough to be classified as true punk/new wave or not) I know little (I mean enough to fill a thimble and have a lot of room left) about this group. I was listening to the IR and they played a series of extende

the Sex Pistols- Johnny Rotten
the Go Gos- Jane Drano (Jane Wiedlen) and Dottie Danger (Belinda Carlisle)
the Germs- Donna Rhia, Pat Smear

oh the germs also had "lorna doom" (get it, like the cookies lorna doone?)

Frankie Venom - Teenage Head
Bram Tchaikovsky
Porcelain Forehead (Ottawa-area band from '86)
Ricky Slaughter - The Motors
Jet Black - The Stranglers
Drew Ling - Bootsauce
....oh, and Elvis Costello !




Edited by - audiofool on 10/05/2003

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