Someone on Twitter posed an interesting question this week: “If band names were LITERAL, what would be the scariest band to fight?” (Oh, give him a break, we can’t ALL be searching for a COVID-19 vaccine.)
The original poster suggested Megadeth and 10,000 Maniacs, but others added some GREAT responses. Here are our favorites:
- A Flock of Seagulls . . . to which the person added that it happened once to them, and, quote, “I Ran.” (HI-YO!)
- Reel Big Fish
- The Police . . . which probably got REAL for some people.
- The Rolling Stones . . . adding, quote, “I mean, how many would there be? How big are they? It could be scary.”
- Nine Inch Nails
- Poison
- Fine Young Cannibals
- The Dead Kennedys
- Meatloaf
- Someone said, quote, “I don’t want to find out what a Hoobastank is.”
- Quote, “Not sure I’d want to stand toe to toe with The Sex Pistols.”
- Quote, “The Cranberries would put up quite the fight against a UTI.”
- Quote, “T. Rex would be a tough out. Wouldn’t even want to tangle with Dinosaur Jr.“
- Franz Ferdinand . . . because, quote, “if you win, then it triggers a world war.”
- The Alan Parsons Project . . . quote, “It could be anything. Could be a book. Could be a spice rack. Could be some sort of doomsday machine. All I know is I’m not willing to roll the dice.”
- Presidents of the United States of America
- B*tth*le Surfers . . . “seems pretty intimidating.”
- Slayer
- They Might Be Giants . . . “because you don’t know.”
- A-ha . . . “will always have the element of surprise.”
- The Zombies
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Foo Fighters
- Anthrax
- War
- Wham!
- The Backstreet Boys
- The Animals . . . “I guess that’s *all* of them.”
- The Killers
And of course, the BEST response was: …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, which is one of the best band names of all time.
One person even suggested these for the LEAST scary:
- Korn
- Cake
- Blind Melon
- Limp Bizkit
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