2009: Band Names

The A.V. Club
finds an endless bounty of funny, stupid, and confusing names every year for their annual band-names list.
After all, someone out there right this very moment is forming a band and wondering what to call it.
Each year the A.V. Club assembles a list of the notable names encountered along the way.

the list offers links to hompages or myspace-pages for most of the bands + bands' statements or background information

2009's categories are:

- GENIUS
- STILL USING EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!
- WINNER, MOST OVERWROUGHT ACRONYM
- FUNK BANDS WILL NEVER GET IT
- PROPER NAMES
- MOVIE/TV REFERENCES
- SHOTGUNS
- BITCH WHORE SLUT ETC.
- THE ALWAYS POPULAR VAG
- COCK
- NIPPLES THAT ARE STIFF
- SEX
- PANTS, FOR SOME REASON
- THE FUTURE LIES
- THE SOMETHING AND THE SOMETHINGS
- HIPPIE-SOUNDING
- TOO TWEE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD
- SO HEAVY, DUDE
- REALLY?
- [FOREHEAD SLAP]
- ???
- STOP WITH THE Zs ALREADY
- FOREVER DAMNED TO SAY “IT’S A PALINDROME!”
- WILL NEVER BE SPELLED CORRECTLY BY PROMOTERS
- LONG
- WORST HIP-HOP NAMES
- PUNS, RHYMES, & MISC.
- FUCK
- CANADA!
- ANIMALS
- DISABILITIES
- DRUGS
- MISC.


SK's top3 band-names picked from the list:

1. Dananananaykroyd
2. Gardening, Not Architecture
3. Computer Jesus Refrigerator