not sure it's the name or the band, but I really dislike the sound of 'Mumford and Sons'. It just feels awkward to say that word and I don't like the song I know by them.

Surprise no one mentioned A Flock of Seagulls. I liked their songs I Ran, Wishing, Space-Age Lovesong but that a strange name for a band.

Another one is The Thompson Twins there are three of them and they are not related so what give?

As much as I love them and enjoyed many many shows by them in my Boston U days, The Neighborhoods (plural) was always a really dumb name for a band anyway.

Most bands who think they are being witty with their name...Dandy Warhols come immediately to mind.

There actually used to be substantially more than three unrelated members of the band. I believe they took the name from characters in an old comic strip.

The history of the band and the name is actually pretty interesting. They originally played more of a post-punk style (I think their early work reminds me of XTC). They had one "dance" song, In The Name of Love. Singer Tom Bailey decided to leave the band and form a group more focused on that type of music, but when told the rest of the band was breaking up anyway he decided to keep the name for his new project. And that's the Thompson Twins you know and (maybe) love.

What about the very brief trend of combining two unrelated terms that had a common first and last word? The most obvious example being Camper Van Beethoven. We had a local band that followed that style with Sugar Twin Reverb. And the band the Didjits used that "cleverness" on their albums Full Nelson Reilly and Little Miss Carriage.

I went to a Cattle Decapitation show back in 2012, mainly because I was a good friend of one of the openers, Cattleist. Cattleist's songs at the time were mostly about eating beef, drinking beer, and smoking weed. They were big fans of Cattle Decap, but it definitely wasn't lost on them how far apart their ideology towards meat was.

Their lead singer has mentioned three main reasons for the V. I knew about the last two:

Similarly, the Canadian band Alvvays (pronounced "always") went with two Vs due to the existence of a 90s band named Always.

haha, reminds me of the time my band played a vegan cafe, and I wore my In-N-Out Burger T-shirt on stage.

Of course! The two bumbling cops from "Tintin". It never occurred to me.

I've always thought The Brian Jonestown Massacre was clever.

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I always thought a great name for a band would be "Various Artists". They'd have a huge catalog to start with.

I hung around with a couple of struggling bands in the 80s, and they joked about one of them changing their name to Open Bar, while the other would be No Cover Charge.

I can sort of remember an urban legend about a bar band that called itself "Free Beer."

It will actually lead you to the Deaf Leopards.... a school for the deaf with leopards as their mascot.

Of course, the band had to meet them!
https://www.edweek.org/education/dea...eppard/2016/05

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The old EC Rocker used to have regular full page ads by a hair metal cover band called "Free Drinx", I'm guessing the spelling change became a requirement from places that booked them.

I wonder if that worked in early days for the Barenaked Ladies.

Holy crap, it only just dawned on me that that's why they chose that name.

I remember a band that called themselves The Original Artists.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4146...sts-Hit-Single

I'm reminded of another urban legend about a casual league softball team that called themselves "No Game Scheduled", so if the other team didn't show they'd get the win by default.

Yeah, I'll give them props for that one.

Damn, me too!

Probably not for long...