The best band names ofall-time, according to Spin

A Friday wouldn’t really be a Friday without a list to debate so here’s another attempt to answer that age old debate – What’s the best band name of all time?

We all know that the perfect band name should sound witty at first and then seem less funny each time you hear it, but now the crew at Spin (yes, the same folk who recently named Skrillex one of the best guitarists of all-time) has attempted to compile an authoritative list of the 40 best band names using what they jokingly refer to as “qualitative data and a scientifically sound blueprint”.

The best band names of all-time, according to Spin

40) Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
39) Three Times Dope
37) Das Racist
36) Television
35) Thin Lizzy
34) Teenage Jesus & the Jerks
33) The Who
32) Three 6 Mafia
31) L7
30) Bathtub Shitter
29) This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
28) The Band
27) Black Flag
26) The Strawberry Alarm Clock
25) The Slits
24) Tony! Toni! Toné!
23) The Shitty Beatles
22) The Art of Noise
21) Lipps, Inc.
20) The 13th Floor Elevators
19) Throbbing Gristle
18) A Tribe Called Quest
17) Mudhoney
16) Millions of Dead Cops
15) X
14) The Velvet Underground
13) Sex Pistols
12) Iron Maiden
11) Bikini Kill
10) Slayer
9) AC/DC
8) Devo
7) Brian Jonestown Massacre
6) Dead Kennedys
5) Joy Division
4) Big Star
3) N.W.A
2) MC5
1) Motörhead

Check out Spin’s explanation for each name on the list