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Whenever I hear a cool phrase somewhere, I like to exclaim "That would make a cool band name". This page is a list of such names.
I can not verify whether these names have been taken yet or not. If your band happens to already use one of these names sorry. If you want to use a name you see here, you'll need to verify it's not already in use.
Entries Beginning with L, Page 2
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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| Le Petomane! | oh i dunno...it's the governer (Mel Brooks) from Blazing Saddles...bahahaha... | Rktikfox | ||
| Lead Balloon | kinda negative, but has a good ring to it. I read it in a book somewhere... | saraha | ||
| Lead Based Paint | I was talking with a couple of friends, then one of them said something stupid, so we kept telling him to stop eating lead paint chips. Out of nowhere, it hits me: Lead Based Paint would be a name, especially for something like a punk rock band. | TJ | ||
| Lead Fudge Nipple | we were at the mall and friendly's or somebody had an advertisement for an "Iced Fudge Ripple" and we were at a distance and my friend was like, "dude, does that say 'lead fudge nipple'??" and im like no, but that would be a sweet band name! | justin | ||
| Lead Pipe Cruelty | From 'Grosse Pointe Blank' when describing his line of work - 'Doing busines in lead pipe cruelty, mercenery sensiblity, sports sex, no real relationships.' | Quadraspaz | ||
| Lead Singer and the Backup Band | There's quite a few bands that follow this naming convention (Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Huey Lewis and the News, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) so why not a band that simply spells out that convention. The only problem would be the lead singer having to explain that his name isn't "Lead Singer". | Brian Kelly | ||
| Leaders | It came to me as I entered another name. | NICKI | ||
| Leafy Greens | My friends and I were sitting on my front porch talking about secret stuff. Workers were coming in and out of our house to fix our floors. One of my friends would say, "Leafy Greens" when ever someone would come out, so I thought that sounded like a cool band name. | weird o | ||
| leaking water hardcore | Got the name from something funny my friend Carly said. | Corey | ||
| Leaky Hosepipe | At school, we were thinking of names for a totally hopeless bunch trying to start a band - none of us had played an instrument before! We came up with a couple that said "this thing's no darn use to anyone!!" Others were: Burnin' Fire-escape ... like, yeah, where you gonna go now!! MT Canne (empty can) ... not even a drop of cola left! SoapSliver ... that tiny piece that just breaks in your hand and doesn't even foam. Dead Budgie ... well, you get the idea. | eastcoastjac | ||
| Leap Of Faith | A common term used to explain how mankind understands and excepts the existence of God; and the same explanation used by Darwinist to explain their illogical belief in the 145 year-old unproven "theory" of evolution. But a really cool name for a band too. This I know because it was my groups name about 4 years ago. We went with it because we all agreed for our band to sign on a label. We needed to show a strong leap of faith that it would happen. Whoops! I guess some things were never meant to be. | Raphiel D'angel | ||
| Leaping Poomer | Random words i just made up with... Not sure what it means though! | Kaa | ||
| leathal lepraCONS | i was watchin that leprachaun movie with ice t then watch leathal weapon and then watched con air and mixed them together | rob | ||
| Leave It Go Natural | There's a shady area of my front lawn which I can't decide whether to sod or mulch. As I was staring at it yesterday, for the 105th time, thinking about what I want to do with it, I thought "Maybe I can just leave it go natural." | Susan | ||
| The Leave Its | it comes from the phrase "Take it or Leave it" & could be a punk-emo type band that would play at the Warped Tour. would be a kickin hard-ass girl band, though. | iheartjimmyfallon | ||
| Leaving South Hampton | No, I'm not from South Hampton, I know there's "The Hamptons", in Florida but I'm not even sure theres a "South Hampton" but it has nothing to do with that me and my friend were thinkin of names and he lives in a neighborhood called "West Gate" and he hates it so he said "Leaving West Gate?" I was bored so i was lookin at a map and as he said it I saw Hampton and i said "what about Leaving Hampton" I kinda liked the west in west gate but decided on south instead... it's a name you either embrace and fall in love with or immediatly reject and hate it. | Tyler | ||
| The Lectroids | Several bands got names from sci-fi properties (Nerf Herder from "Star Wars", T'Pau from "Star Trek", Eve 6 from "The X-Files", and of course, Duran Duran from "Barbarella") so why not a name from "Buckaroo Banzai"? | Brian Kelly | ||
| Left Foot Green | Inspired by one of the most challenging Twister maneuvers ever. Advantage: The abbreviation LFG just rolls off the tongue. | K | ||
| Left Hand Man | When a Mob boss needs someone to turn to, he goes to his right hand man. But when he needs someone killed for him, he goes to his left hand man. So my friends and I thought that would be a good name, because we're all kinda homicidal! [Ed.'s note: Speak for yourself!] | Drollive | ||
| Left On Green | because It's a common used direction and people would think of it often and that would make good sales. | charlene | ||
| Left Side Drive | Friend got in trobule in school for saying stuff about LSD So we had to make up a name to get outta trouble and was like hell thats sounds coo | Skit | ||
| The Left Sock Thievers | The idea comes from a song called 'The Left Sock Thievers', in 'The Cat In The Hat Song Book' by Dr. Suess. All of that book's songs can now be found on YouTube, by the way. | Regina Haniger | ||
| Left Ventricle | It's the most powerful chamber of the heart. | Super D | ||
| Leftover Acetamide | I was sitting in Chem class one day, looking through the chemicals...And Acetamide just sounded cool. It's kind of a rip-off of Leftover Crack. | marisa | ||
| Leftovers | When my band split up me and the bass player decided to form an acoustic act. This was an option that almost made it. | Don Christensen | ||
| The Leftovers | i think it would be cool for a band that was just thrown together, because everyone wanted to be famous. I told it my band, but they toosed it out the door, so maybe someone elses can use it! :0) | Amanda Lee | ||
| Leg Crabs | My friend said she had leg CRAMPS, but I had mistaken what she said for leg crabs. Thought it'd be a good band name. | Junior | ||
| Legacy | I like it because it makes it sound pretty badass, but it has its soft side to it too. | Josh Somers | ||
| LegBreakerz | Since im a Breaker-slang for breakdancer- I thought this would be a tite b-boy-breaker- Krew name. I was also thinking about------> Neck Breakerzzz | Daniel | ||
| The Legend of Danger and Solstice | I was playing around with a couple of words in my head when my friend needed a band name. | Matryshoka | ||
| Legendary Power of the Magikarp | Not only does it show that the band isn't going to just bash pokemon, but the fact that they are talking about a magikarp's power(Magikarp being well-known as probably the weakest and most pathetic pokemon.), shows how weird they are. | birdboy2000 | ||
| The Legendary Turndowns | True story: I was at a party playing Frogger on a MAME cabinet. An attractive young woman walked up and asked "what game is that?". When I said "Frogger" she said "that's a game I've only heard about in legend" and walked away. Thus a band name was born. | RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Legends | Show everyone what you plan to be. | NICKI | ||
| Legion | Really cool name for, like, a death metal band. Legion is actually the name of a demon in the bible, and is mentioned on "The exorcism of Emily Rose". Double Win!! | Jake | ||
| Legions of Rock! | it sounded cool i thought of it | The t man | ||
| Lego Brick | It hurts to step on a lego brick! | The Mole | ||
| The Lemmings | lemmings are little weasel-like critters who hurl themselves off cliffs by the thousands (or is it dozens?) each year, simply because of their follow-the-leader-herd-mentality. people are lemmings and any band with enough insight to label themselves as such would completely and thoroughly kick a**.... wouldn't they? i'd like to think that they would. | mary jane | ||
| Lemon Ninja Chickens | It's cool because it's the 3 coolest things around: lemons, chickens and Ninjas. Also, I thought as a debut album, you could have songs about them invading. For short, you can say LNC. I came up with it because of various in jokes with my friends and my love of these 3 things. Plus no one else would think of it. | Paris | ||
| Lemons Made of Wood | I was sitting in math class and some of my friends were talking and one of them said made of wood just as I said Lemons | Alien7 | ||
| The Lemony Snickets | After the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events! :) | Anonymous | ||
| LEMyT | It simply is an acronym of Les Enfantes Miserables y Terribles!!! | dyess | ||
| Lendl's Magic Wand | This came to me in a dream when Ivan Lendl was still a struggling tennis player. I drempt that my sister, (who hates most sports) was saying it (and approving of it) in a conversatiom with a friend. The "magic wand" is, of course, his tennis racquet. | sport | ||
| Lenin & The Bolsheviks | I was talking about Communism in Russia and the Revolutions of 1917 (as you do) & came out with this phrase, I thought it sounded pretty cool as a band name. My friends however, didn't. | trevster2905 | ||
| Lenin and the Bolsheviks | Well i was studying and i looked at my study syllabus, about the russian revolution, and one of the points was Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution | Jason | ||
| The Lennon Complex | Every guy in a band wants to be John Lennon, just so they can have an Asian girlfriend (only works if the guy is white), like I did | Danny | ||
| Leon's Pee-ons | Leon is the gay manager played by Martin Mull in "Roseanne". The "pee-ons" are a tribute to working class folks like you and me. | newschool | ||
| Leon's Schedule | In a recent sales meeting, someone commented that the date of a pending lunch with a prospective client would "depend on Leon's Schedule." Since that moment, I've been walking around the office screaming, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a nice round of applause for 'LEON'S SCHEDULE!'." Not sure why... | dc | ||
| Leon's Schedule | In a recent sales meeting, someone commented that the date of a pending lunch with a prospective client would "depend on Leon's Schedule." Since that moment, I've been walking around the office screaming, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a nice round of applause for 'LEON'S SCHEDULE!'." Not sure why... | dc | ||
| Leonard Hochstetter | A hybrid of two characters from different sitcoms on CBS, Leonard Hofstader from The Big Bang Theory and Major Wolfgang Hochstetter from the old show Hogan's Heroes. I always thought that Leonard was a ancestor of Major Hochstetter. | Frosty The Cat | ||
| Leonardo DiCapitated | An artist known who was known to draw bizarre characatures of celebrities as mammals, was on Access Hollywood. He drew a beheaded lion that resembled Leonardo DiCaprio and call it "Leonardo DiCapitated". Instant death metal band name. | star | ||
| The Leopard Boyz | It is so cool because it is based on the coolest movie ever, Cheeteh Girls. | steven | ||
| Lern Too Spelle | It's "learn to spell" deliberately mispelt. Funy! | Idiot Savon | ||
| Les Dog | i was thinking about the les paul guitar and the grateful dead concert DVD called Grateful Dawg. i just thought it sounded cool together | Link9 | ||
| les sauvages | Good for riot ladies. French for 'the savages'. | kate | ||
| Les Voitures | Well, I have quite a few obsessions, two of which are the French language and the band The Cars. So I decided to put them together...The Cars in French is Les Voitures! | Cat | ||
| Les Yeux Mysterieux | I really like french and I wrote a rhyming poem entitled "Les Yeux Mysterieux" HENCE the name! I just came....I guess cause I really really really love french! | Alison | ||
| Lesbian Dan | My best friend dan was going out with a true dog of a girl who he was completely obsessed with...she seemed to think it wasn't cheating on him if she only got with other girls...the novelty soon wore off when she left him for my boyfriend...bygones...still cool name though...i'm thinkin maybe a punk band?! | natz | ||
| Lesbian Pudding | When I mentioned bands from one of AVClub.com's yearly Worst Band Names lists called "Lesbian" and "Pudding" to a friend, he thought they were one band called "Lesbian Pudding" | JeReMy | ||
| Less Insentive Than A Chineese Factory Worker | chinese people are funny | unknown | ||
| Less Talk More Walk | This is is one of many, many band names scribbled over a few pages in a small sketchbook. I'm not sure how I came up with it. As of 07/10/06, it's unused. | Eleya | ||
| Less Than Clever | Was listening to Dexie' s Midnight Runners, and this line struck me as kind of deep... who among us REALLY has all the answers. This title modestly proclaims that we are all in fact on the same journey - a life spent learning | Big D Woman | ||
| Less Than Gentlemen | I just did. No interesting or funny reason, it just came to me. | Boymanman | ||
| The Lesser Evil | it's from that saying 'sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil' and i think it would be great for a hardcore punky goth band cos it kinda has a ring to it. | Rage | ||
| Lest Evil Should Be Infinite And Never Stop | It sounds epic and plus the first letter of each word spells something. | G | ||
| Let Sally Dance | A friend was dancing alone in a club and having a great time. My partner and I figured this was the reason we paid the cover -- well worth the money. | Kim | ||
| Let's Call Helicopters Clouds | I called a helicopter a cloud by mistake, but it seems like a cool band name. | Richard | ||
| Let's Play Tonight | C'mon - by far the best band name thought up. Bunch of guys thinking "Screw it, let's play tonight" | Danny The Manny Bobanny | ||
| LetDoItAndSayWeDidnt | Since alot of band names are just one word-eatmewhileimhot,isetmyfriendsonfire, ect- I though it would be cool to use a well known saying as a band name! and I came up with letdoitandsaywedidnt! | Mariah | ||
| Letha' Weapons | A great name for an all-female hard rock band---or a stripper. | Obie Lame Kenobi | ||
| Lethal Injection | come on..... u know today everything sounds cool to us stupid rockin teenagers. why should this be considered bad? i think this name kicks ass! | Yoshiko | ||
| The Lethalizer | It's more a political statement than anything. The other three band members and I were watching something on lethal injection and we thought this would be a great name for a metal band. Also, we created the name because we were sick and tired of all the other bands around our area. We wanted to "lethalize" them and silence them forever. | Steven | ||
| Lets Make Something Heartless | It sounded cool to me lol | kat | ||
| Lettuce Prey | Band Logo: Extreme close-up of a Praying Mantis chomping on something. Those things are wickedly ugly. How I came up with it? It just popped into my head when I was sitting in class, bored, writing out cool band names. | Johnny the K | ||
| Leukemia Kids | We almost picked this name when we wanted something that would really offend people across the board. I dont think anyone wanted to go bald though. | Mr Podgurney | ||
| levado | Me and my four friends come up with this name when we are in a trip. | cris john | ||
| Level 87 | I came up with it when I thought of those extremely obsessed gamers who wear out their thumbs. | SamVK | ||
| Level Cross | Can't have it both ways. If you start with an X (the cross) and turn it until one of the arms are level, then the other arm will be on a cockeyed tilt. It happens every time. Anyway I do like the word "level" cause it's the same both ways, left to right and right to left while the V in the middle gives it a defined centre point. A cool word back to front or vice-versa. | Murdock MaGoo (gg) | ||
| levelhead | I honestly don't know..........It uhh, means to have "sound judgement", but I just like how it sounds. | jess | ||
| leviathan | Pronounced 'la-vi-ath-an'. The Leviathan is a mythical sea monster. | JORDAN | ||
| Leviathan | Its cool because its one of of the many forms of Satan expressed as a dragon like sea creature, perfect for extreme metal bands | Gazz | ||
| Lexdysia | Alternate self-reference of dyslexia. It has Lex at the front, as in Luthor, and as Lexan clear plastic. Some cool stories are dys-topian - the opposite of utopian. So don't change the syllables, change the order, the way the dyslexic probably do. | vivifizgig | ||
| The Libation Army | Like the Salvation Army but much more drinking is involved. | RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Liberius | norway folk metal | bill blogg | ||
| Libertines | Got the idea from The Breeders' "Cannonball". Would be good if it were a riot grrrl band. | Lee | ||
| Lickers | I was watching Resident Evil one day, and one of the monster was called a "licker". I thought Lickers would be a cool band name =) | Marishka | ||
| Licking Ashtrays | A non-smoker once told me that smoking was a bad habit and that it was like "licking an ashtray". | Vahtoe Bill | ||
| Licking Willy | LOL | Grate Job | ||
| Lie Before Tragedy | I was just thinking about homeless people, then yeah, there it is. | God | ||
| Lies from the Tablecloth | Got it from a line in "BYOB" by System of a Down. Serj, please don't sue me. | Amanda | ||
| Liez | My friends and I were standing around the school quad and someone wrote something on my hand. It said, "I Heart Melissa". I'm said, "Give me that pen", and I wrote "Liez". She answered, "Is that your band name?" Duh!! XD not cool. | Chelsea | ||
| Life After Me | My friends and i were trying to come up with a band name that would play on the lips of the fellow students on campus, we were pretty stumped, but then this thought occured to me "what will the world be like after my life?" you know, the words formed and i came up with "Life After Me" sadly though the band broke up and now this great name is back up on the shelf. | volcom llama lover | ||
| Life Alarm | It was a play on the band Death Clock. | Holly | ||
| Life In A Fish Bowl | I was sitting on my bed looking at my beta fish, (his name is Chop Sueyif anyone is wondering) and me being weird again, I was talking to him . . .I said "Hey buddy, How's that life in a fish bowl?" I thought its sounded pretty awesome, maybe for a rock band who needs to get out and see the world . . . | Janice | ||
| Life In The Shadows | I think it is awsome band name because, i was thinking what it would be like to watch someone live their life but the person who is watching is not actually alive.the name rox! | Rachael Hayden | ||
| Life In Veins | It's based off the premise of "living in vain". It kind of just came to me one day. It seems like it would be a good name for a metal band. | Hugs | ||
| Life Size Marshmallow | Ever seen hay rolled into those white things on the sides of the freeway? Besides it sounds cool. | a couple people with instruments and no name | ||
| A Life Spent Learning | What better way to spend a life? Keep in mind, it doesn't say they are wiser, I guess their songs would have to prove that. Maybe they have "SPENT" it already, and never learned a thing. I have a sister like that, but she seems pretty happy with the results. | Big D Woman | ||
| Life Support System | Struggling musicians who want to play music for a career need a support system to survive. | ME | ||
| Life Support Withdrawn | Life Support withdrawn is cool because in some movies when people are going to die, they say "Shall I withdraw life support, Doctor?" I just thought it was cool. | Connor | ||
| Life-Long Slump | Another in a bunch of downer names. Actually sums up my life pretty well -- although that's another story. Most of my friends think it's too dark . . . which makes it perfect. | dumb |
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