Dickie Hart and the Pacemakers, obviously.

Club Dogsobdy has always been fond of Joe Blob and the Spoonersims.

Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Cryptkickers, who were famous for "Monster Mash" and absolutely bugger all else.


Edited to make Cryptkickers one word, which is obviously 13% of their genius...

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B Bumble & The Stingers has always amused me.
Also Martha & The Muffins, if only for the (unintended?) connotation.

But for sheer feelgood value, has to be Jimmy James & The Vagabonds.
Nothing like "I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me" to raise the mood on a dreary evening.

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I always thought Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction was a better band name than band. (though Prime Mover rocked in a kind of cartoon heavy metal way).

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Zodiac MW & the Love Reaction is a great name.

 

"? and the Mysterons" has to be way, way up there.

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Snap!

was just checking the spelling of Mysterons when you beat me to it. "96 tears" eh? What a tune!

I quite like Billy Bragg when he had a backing band so he was...

Billy Bragg and the Blokes

and wasn't there a record by

Coldcut featuring Yazz & the plastic population.

that's not a name - that's an essay

 

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Richard Hadlee and the Ilford 3rd XI

Originally formed as New Zealand, after waiting a long time for success they became known internationally as the Kiwis, and had a couple of hits (mainly in the head). Hadlee strong performances made him a natural leader so the top billing became inevitable to get a few more punters in. Allegedly the group's name comes from a comment by Graham Gooch.

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I always thought Peter and The Test Tube Babies was a great name, if not a great band.

Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers

Funksters:
Russell Gordon & the Versatile Souls, Mato and The Mystics, Carleen and The Groovers

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I know it's not an x and the ys, but the best-named outfit of all time is ...

Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters

Have just remembered this lot from the early / mid 90s.

Dr Phibes & the House of Wax Equations
The track I heard from them Sugablast was pretty decent too. Killer name.


found these ones too in a list of silly, but real band names

Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits
Cap'n Crunch and the Cereal Killers
Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives
Hopalong Casio and His Texas Instruments (my favourite)
Nervous Christians and the Lions
Norman Bates and the Shower Heads
Roid Rogers and the Whirling Butt Cherries


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Tracy & the Hindenburg Ground Crew
Toxic Shock and the Tampons
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
Nervous Christians and the Lions
Nate Nocturnal and the Nightly Emissions
Mr. Happy and the Genocides
Gefilte Joe and the Fish
Buster Hymen & the Penetrators
Smegma and the Nuns