Extremely normal band names

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I personally love a lot of music (Go Britney!!!!!1111). Its not a big deal if you are a solo artist, 'coz you can keep your own name as the "band name". But there are exceptions to this too - intelligent people like L L Cool J. (Don't ask me how I know this, but L L stands for Ladies Love.) Next we have "The artist formerly known as Prince". Wouldn't it be really cool to change your name to an un-pronounceable word.? Apparently, "The artist formerly known as Prince" thought so too. Of course, at that time he was just known as Prince.

Super cool names maybe limited to individuals. But normal names are more common to bands. Take for example, one of my all time favorite bands : Porcupine Tree. There is only one possible explanation for that name. The band members had gone on a trek. While they were eating mangoes from the top of a "Tree", a huge rock fell on one of the band members. (Incidentally, this explains the sudden disappearance of one of the Porcupine Tree's founding Greek members: Mr. Porcupinus Treus.) Anyway, it was found out that a "Porcupine" had pushed the rock. Whether by mistake or on purpose, still remains a mystery. Amazingly, the porcupine was also eating mangoes from another "Tree" at a higher altitude.

Another band that I recently discovered was "The Pineapple Thief". It is pretty obvious as to why that name was chosen, if you know a little background info about its members. Their neighbor was a "pineapple" cultivator. For unknown reasons, he was losing a lot of pineapples. He thought it was flying pterodactyls that devoured his precious fruits. But once his musical neighbors became famous and revealed their band name, the little farmer sued the band members for all the money he had lost. The farmer won case but with no reward, since the band was called "The Pineapple Thief" and NOT "The Pineapple Thieves". They handed over a homeless person hanging around their house as the single thief, thereby achieving a moral victory even though the case was lost.

The homeless guy was released soon afterwards, since he enjoyed living in his cell more than on the streets. Becoming desperate, he became a serial killer so as to get back indoors, but the police wouldn't let him. Eventually, he became rich and got his own house, knowing which, the cops put him back in the cell and charged him with 11 life sentences.

Here is a complete list of equally normal band names that I did not refer to while writing this:
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/quotes/funnyband.html

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