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Here's a [[Just for Fun]] index of Tropes that would make [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]], with a brief description of what the resulting band would be like (Also, these [[Trope Names That Should Become Dance Crazes|dances]] would go perfectly with their music). Mind you, that it should be a name that the band would have chosen for themselves, not necessarily the one that describes them best.
Compare [[Trope Title Shows]].
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==A-E==
* [[Above the Influence]] - Indie rock band with deeply ironic lyrics poking fun at [[Scare'Em Straight]] tactics.
* [[Above the Ruins]] - Symphonic metal, soaring violins backed with growling electric guitars, thunderous drums, and the occasional air-raid siren. Best known for "Ragnarock", which they describe as "a post-apocalytic jam session".
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* [[Ascended Meme]] - A [[Weird Al]] sytle band that chooses a meme and writes a song about it (songs that are already memes are covered). Hit singles include ''[[Dawn of War|Our Enemies Hide In Metal Boxes]]'' and ''[[BioShock (series)|Nothin' like a Fistfulla Loitnin']]''. [[Once an Episode|One song]] in an album is [[Overused Running Gag|always]] ''[[Rickroll|Never Gonna Give You Up]]'' [[Rickroll|disguised as a different song]].
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Emo+Death Metal+Children's rock. Each song starts out dark, gets darker, then becomes trivial.
* [[Artistic License Military]] - A controversial metalcore/crossover thrash band, where all of the band members are dressed in military uniform and army fatigues, and the lyrics are a bombastic satire of military traditions, hierarchy, and boot camp. They generally pal around with bands such as System Of A Down and Dead Kennedys.▼
** Formerly entitled "You Fail Basic Training Forever", the managing label encouraged them ([[That Wasn't a Request|not too subtly]]) to change their name and suggested that they invoke a bit of "artistic license". The band evidently took their suggestions a bit too literally.▼
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]] - The s-l-o-o-o-w-e-s-t and DARKEST prog metal you will ever hear. The band members play "live" concerts, in quotation marks: all the lights are turned off and the band members are behind the curtains.
* [[Atop a Mountain of Corpses]] - As Black as Black Metal gets, absurdly popular in Norway, banned everywhere else
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*** I think I just had the world's biggest [[Nerdgasm]].
*** Don't forget Jayne on tambourine and rain stick.
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* [[Big Boo's Haunt]] - Long-time opening band. Mainly does movie soundtracks from horror/thriller movies.
* [[Big No]] - A band that was alternative rock back before there was alternative rock. Unless you have a casette player, expect to search long and hard for any of their songs.
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* [[The Blofeld Ploy]] - Metal, mostly of the screaming variety, but with occasional forays into death metal territory.
* [[Blood Knight]]-Scandinavian Thrashcore with a penchant for instigating excessively violent mosh pits.
* [[Blood Magic]]-[[Cast
* [[Bloody Warrior]] - [[Heavy Mithril]] band.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Made up of four friends who got tired of all "hard" bands looking like rejects from a horror movie. They dress like accountants. They sound like death metal at its hardest.
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* [[Canon Immigrant]] - Folk rock
* [[Cassandra Truth]] - Borderline emo, every song predicts doom and gloom of the worst variety. The lead singer is legendary for her waily vocals.
* [[Cast
** Damn it, now I want this to exist really bad.
* [[Cast Herd]] - Electro-pop group [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|that sounds very similar to Devo]].
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* [[Differently-Powered Individual|Differently Powered Individuals]] - Geek-Techno, all of their songs are about having superpowers.
* [[Dirty Communists]] - Very similar in their unfaltering stage personas to [[Those Wacky Nazis]].Often do covers of folk music. Musical style varies; it is an open secret that each of the band members has a different musical style (though premised on the same idea), and have been at each other's throats.
* [[Disco Dan]] - Singer/composer who has been releasing music consistently since 1976, despite being way too old and having about a dozen remaining fans. Has an [http://ocremix.org/artist/4285/disco-dan artist page] over on [[
* [[Disease Bleach]] - Punk rock. This troper actually thought "[[A Good Name for a Rock Band|that sounds like a band]]" when she saw the name.
* [[Disney Death]] - A Death Metal band that only plays Disney songs. It's better than it sounds.
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* [[Erection Rejection]] - a band that plays spoofs of love songs.
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]] - Enthusiastic, goofy punk-pop with an almost childlike, optimistic tone. The world is a giant playground, life is pretty good, and penguins make everything awesome, so why worry?
* [[Eviler Than Thou]] - A death metal band famous for dressing up as famous movie villains. The lead singer is Darth Vader, voice and everything, with Sauron on bass, Darth Maul on guitar, and Agent Smith on drums. The Joker plays keyboard, but it sounds like Bloody Stupid Johnson's synthesizer from [[
* [[Evil Weapon]] - Heavy metal.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] - Also called Aptly Named [[Fan Nickname|by their fans]], every one of their songs is about a random everyday object, and all their albums are [[Concept Album|themed around]] where the objects would be found. ''Closet'' is their biggest record to date, with hits such as "Shirt" "Tie" and "Smelly Shoe".
* [[Eye Scream]]: Death metal band with an impaled eye as its emblem.
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]] - Techno/Punk group with laser light shows lasting almost the entire concert.
==F-J==
* [[Fallen Creator|The Fallen Creators]] - A band who was once named The Creators and had lots of fans. But then something bad happened and instantly all the fans started hating the band, leading to the name change.
* [[Fastball Special]]: Heavy metal. They usually conclude their shows with the lead singer picking up the drummer and throwing him at his own kit.
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* [[Feng Schwing]] - a band that actually tries to play serious songs to get people in the mood. Concerts either end in a massive sausagefest as all the women in the hall leave, offended, or in a gigantic orgy.
* [[Fetish Fuel]] - An eccentric punk band that only writes and plays songs about various sexual fetishes to the tunes of childhood songs such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."
* [[Fille Fatale]] -
* [[Fission Mailed]] - An experimental band, most of their songs switch style so often it seems like several songs cut up and randomly blended together. Combined with their lyrics the whole thing amounts to a [[Mind Screw]].
** Clearly, by this description, Fission Mailed is fronted by [[Mike Patton]].
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* [[Five-Token Band]] - Exactly the same as the [[Five-Man Band]], except for the fact that they are automatically considered cooler because almost all the members somehow fall into a "minority" group.
* [[Flushing Toilet, Screaming Shower]] - Noise rock with the occasional shakuhachi solo.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Flaming Cobra Sugar Cellar]] - Rock band; considered good by most people but [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|despised by those who knew them when they were "indie" now that they've supposedly "sold out."]] Their style and trademark surreal lyrics have, of course, gone unchanged.
* [[Franchise Zombie]] - A once successful hard rock band who has been forced to churn out records due to [[Executive Meddling]]. Most of their lyrics now deal with thinly veiled stabs at their oppressors.
* [[Freudian Slip]] - Indie rock band that experiments with different styles. However, every song ends up being about sex.
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* [[Humongous Mecha]]: J-Pop/Metal cross. Their only known video before being annihilated by copyright lawyers replaced the male backup singer with [[Macross|Skull One]] and the other band members with an [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Aevestalis]] on guitar and the [[Gurren Lagann]] on drums. The female lead remained unchanged.
* [[Hurting Hero]] - Punk Rock band with lyrics pertaining to the theme of bold defiance, despite overwhelming odds and personal anguish.
* [[I Call It "Vera"]] - Slightly dark (but not enough so to be emo) indie band whose songs, while catchy, have the unfortunate tendency to all sound alike.
** Also known as [[Dragon Force (video game)]] II.
* [[Idiot Ball]] - Pessimistic punk group.
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** Alternatively, a band that does covers of unpopular songs by popular artists.
* [[Jungle Princess]] - Vaguely jazzy electronica that makes extensive use of sampled sounds, including human voices singing nonsense words in close harmony.
==K-O==
* [[Kid From the Future]] - Tween bubblegum-pop band that tries to be nerdy.
* [[Kill Sat]] - Hardcore.
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* [[One-Winged Angel]] Symphonic gothic fully-orchestrated power metal from Japan.
* [[Only Sane Man]] - A strange [[Genre Busting]] garage band where the lead singer dresses like someone from [[The Hives]] while everyone else dresses trashy and over the top. While the band plays thrash metal the singer will have lyrical pieces and very clean-sounding speech (albeit with some cursing). Subject matter will probably involve how antagonistic the singer is to the rest of the band, [[Alter Ego Acting|even if they're all in on it]].
==P-T==
* [[Paint the Hero Black]] - An alternative rock band that sings songs with lyrics that take the most heroic actions in history and try to vilify them. Famous for their hit single "Thirteenth Amendment Blues". While they pretend to be bitter enemies with [[What the Hell, Hero?]] it's all scripted for laughs.
* [[Paranoia Gambit]] - Industrial Synthetic Rock, advertises through propaganda-style posters.
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* [[Slasher Smile]]- Incredibly distubing and violent lyrics set to catchy, cheerful pop rock
* Speaking Simlish: A pop-rock band that either speak a mash of foreign languages in each song, or just sing gibberish. [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|Wider audiences claim they're actually singing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and even Russian.]]
* [[Spikes of Villainy]] - affectionate parody of [[Black Metal]]. Lots of [[Heavy Mithril|fantasy]] and [[Warhammer
* [[Springtime for Hitler]] - A neo-Nazi rock band that keeps trying to get themselves pulled off the radio by singing praises for Hitler. The controversy just makes them even ''more'' popular.
* [[Squee]] - a Japanese pop band whose songs are incomprehensible, but the few understandable lyrics all relate to a [[Sugar Bowl]] world where [[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparkles reign supreme.]]
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*** OH, SNAP!
* [[Twenty Bear Asses]] - [[Heavy Mithril]] filk, using "no shit there I was" stories as a [[Framing Device]]. The [[Ho Yay]] [[Transparent Closet|manages not to take over]].
==U-Z==
* [[Unfortunate Implications]] - Lo-fi rock band whose lyrics do, in fact, have [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* [[Unmoving
* [[Unsound Effect]] - Experimental art-rock band that makes "music" with random objects. Kind of a Steve Reich meets early Residents sound.
** Alternatively, a rap group whose song lyrics consist of absolutely nothing but various onomotopieas.
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* [[Visible Silence]] - Quiet-yet-menacing slow rock, with a lot of acoustic instruments ''a la'' early Days of the New.
* [[Voodoo Shark]] - Full Stop.
* [[Vox Pops]] - One of those interchangable cookie-cutter manufactured groups that only does covers of recent pop hits.
* [[Wall Banger
* [[Wallet Moths|The Wallet Moths]] - Indie rock. Currently busking.
* [[Wangst]] - Supergroup formed by all the members of [[Erection Rejection]], [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]], [[Feng Schwing]], and [[G-Rated Sex]], as well as the drummer from [[X Meets Y]] and the vocalists from [[Party in My Pocket]]. NSFC, NSFT, NSFSC... hell, not safe for ANYBODY.
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* [[X Meets Y]] - Their songs all have to do with human biology. In an ''extremely'' creepy way. Alternately, pop rock.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]] - A rap/hip hop band with completely unoriginal songs that are usually covers for other rap artists. Well, except for the fact that they have Xtremelee Kool Leerix Wyth Phunkee Letterz.
* [[
* [[Yaoi Guys]] - erotic gay male J-Pop group entirely made of 4chan moderators.
* [[Yoko Oh No]] - All-female J-pop group that does covers of Beatles songs.
* [[You Wanna Get Sued?]] - Alternative band that only does covers and remixes. Currently has some legal troubles.
* [[You Fail Logic Forever]] - a very odd, synth-heavy band whose first album (Global Warning- er, [[Hollywood Global Warming]]) is composed almost entirely of things that wouldn't seem out of place on the [[Surreal Theme Tune]] page.▼
▲* [[Artistic License Military]] - A controversial metalcore/crossover thrash band, where all of the band members are dressed in military uniform and army fatigues, and the lyrics are a bombastic satire of military traditions, hierarchy, and boot camp. They generally pal around with bands such as System Of A Down and Dead Kennedys.
▲** Formerly entitled "You Fail Basic Training Forever", the managing label encouraged them ([[That Wasn't a Request|not too subtly]]) to change their name and suggested that they invoke a bit of "artistic license". The band evidently took their suggestions a bit too literally.
▲* [[You Fail Logic Forever]] - a very odd, synth-heavy band whose first album (Global Warning- er, [[Global Warming]]) is composed almost entirely of things that wouldn't seem out of place on the [[Surreal Theme Tune]] page.
* [[Zerg Rush]] - [[Sci Fi]] speed metal from Seoul.
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]] - All female tribute to [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] sporting short skirts and high socks.
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