97 Bands With Animals In Their Name!
Now here’s a pointless list if ever there was one! The other night I was searching through iTunes and noticed a few bands with animals in their name. Before I knew it I was off and running and compiling a list. My one criteria was that the bands needed to be ones that I’d actually heard of as I’m sure there are heaps more “animal” indie combos that I haven’t come across. It would have been nice to get to 100 but this is all I’ve got! And in case you don’t understand the pic, it’s those rubber bands kids put around their wrists… geddit? Animal bands! Yeah, it’s a bit lame…sorry!
1. Adam and The Ants
2. Alien Ant Farm
3. Andrew Bird
4. Animal Collective
5. Animal Liberation Orchestra
6. Arctic Monkeys
7. Atomic Kitten
8. Badfish
9. Band of Horses
10. Beastie Boys
11. Bee Gees
12. Birds Of Tokyo
13. Black Crowes
14. Bloodhound Gang
15. Blue Oyster Cult
16. Boomtown Rats
17. Buck Cherry
18. Buck Owens
19. Buddy Holly & The Crickets
20. Buffalo Springfield
21. Buffalo Tom
22. Cat Power
23. Cat Stevens
24. Counting Crows
25. Country Joe and the Fish
26. Crazyhorse
27. Danger Mouse
28. Def Leopard
29. Dinosaur Jr
30. Dixie Chicks
31. Eagle Eye Cherry
32. Echo & The Bunnymen
33. Eddie Rabbit
34. Fabulous Thunderbirds
35. Fishbone
36. Fleet Foxes
37. Flock of Seagulls
38. Gorillaz
39. Government Mule
40. Grant Lee Buffalo
41. Hawkwind
42. Hootie & The Blowfish
43. Howling Wolf
44. Iron Butterfly
45. Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
46. John Cougar Mellencamp
47. Lamb of God
48. Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
49. Modest Mouse
50. Noah & The Whale
51. Owl City
52. Oysterhead
53. Papa Roach
54. Persephones Bees
55. Pet Shop Boys
56. Phish
57. Pussy Cat Dolls
58. Ratcat
59. RATT
60. Reel Big Fish
61. Samantha Fox
62. Scorpions
63. Seal
64. Sheryl Crow
65. Sick Puppies
66. Skunk Anansie
67. Slash’s Snake Pit
68. Snoop Doggy Dog
69. Soup Dragons
70. Squirrel Nut Zippers
71. Steppenwolf
72. Stray Cats
73. Super Furry Animals
74. Swanee
75. T Rex
76. The Animals
77. The Aquabats
78. The Beatles
79. The Byrds
80. The Doves
81. The Eagles
82. The Eels
83. The Flying Lizards
84. The Giraffes
85. The Hippos
86. The Jayhawks
87. The Lounge Lizards
88. The Monkees
89. The Wombats
90. The Yardbirds
91. Them Crooked Vultures
92. Three Dog Night
93. Toad the Wet Sprocket
94. Vampire Weekend
95. WASP
96. Whitesnake
97. Wolfmother
As always, if you’ve got any more you’d like to add just whack them in the comments section.
UPDATE: A couple of friends have done what I couldn’t – take this list past the magic 100! Dave Kent suggested Spiderbait and Baby Animals, and Vera Klein came through with The Ferrets and The Dugites! Brilliant!!
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Vampires, dragons and “Swanee” you are pushing for the 100 all right. How about “Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club” and “The Mock Turtles” and if you really want to make the 100, how about Herbie Hancock?
How about The Turtles? You know the band that made this song .http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LFyTHc9IgKU Or Imagine Dragons?
No Blue Oyster Cult? The even have More Cowbell!
it’s in there.
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Terrorhorse
Powerwolf
Cancer Bats
Dog Is Dead, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala
Nice! Really just surprised he missed Ratatat, and i’ll add Bat for Lashes, Pigeon, The Doves, and The Donkeys.
Bonobo
Caribou
Well for one I had to look up what a Bonobo was! Nice one Chris! (It’s a pygmy chimpanzee for those who want to know)
Lamb, Goat, Swans.
The Cat Empire (the BEST!) Dr. Dog, Little Dragon, Boy and Bear, Grizzly Bear…
Beartooth
The Bunny The Bear
Thanks Dave
White Lion
Venom
Viper
Thanks Nancy
Oh man, you’re missing some of my favorites:
Grizzly Bear
Shearwater
Bowerbirds
Fruit Bats
Porcupine Tree
Seawolf
The Dodos
Panda Bear
Deer Tick
Deerhunter
The Doves
Department of Eagles
Them Crooked Vultures
Blackbird Blackbird
The Antlers?
Boy & Bear
Sparklehorse
Birdy
Foals
Frightened Rabbit
Pepper Rabbit
Horse Feathers
Parlor Hawk
The Last Bison
Miniature Tigers
Phoenix
Dr. Dog
Fossil Collective?
Ratatat?
There’s a lot more, but these are key 😉
Wow, awesome additions. I’d stuck with mainly bands I’d heard of instead of getting too indie but you’ve nailed a bunch of good ones there – thanks heaps.
cage the elephant
The Night Crawlers
Jackyl
Vixen
Faster pussycat
Scorpions
Zebra
Bear Hand, Panda Bear,Minus the Bear,
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Dingoes
Ratcat
Cockroaches
David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
Cat Empire
Goanna
Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons
Jake Bugg
Ferrets
Spiderbait
Trex
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
Temple of the Dog
Great White
White Lion
Imagine Dragons
You Bred Raptors? (question mark is part of the name)
Groundhogs
Turtles
Blodwyn Pig
Three Dog Night
Bonzo Dog Do Da Band
Chicken Shack
Chickenfoot
Saved me from having to remember how to spell ‘Blodwyn’!
Anybody say Beatles or monkeys.
Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies
Atomic Rooster – there I showed my age
Beat me to it.
The great kat.
Goatwhore.
Hounds.
Wolf.
Kitties.
Cyclefly.
Flyleaf.
Pig destroyer.
Sheep on drugs.
I don’t know if anyone said it yet but what about Street Dogs from Boston.
Trampled by turtles
Atomic Rooster
Eddy Raven
Tame impala
I can’t believe nobody remembers this one: Glass Tiger
Budgie
Hot Tuna
Screaming Weasels
How about The Chipmunks!!
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruber Biscuit!!!!!
Skinny Puppy.
The Dogs D’Amour
The Locust
Voice of the Beehive
Pussy Riot
The Blow Monkeys
Buggles
Climie Fisher
The Flamingos
Counting Crows
Sly Fox
McFly
Roachford
King cobra
lieutenant pigeon
Leather Wolf
And Hippo Campus!!
Also: Hippo Campus
You missed those classic punk rockers Slaughter and the dogs plus from the 60s the Piglets…..
I’m going to show my age and say the Turtles again….come on, Flo and Eddie! Happy Together
And everyone on Earth knows “Hair” by the Cowsills
Racoon and Spider Murphy Gang
The Turtles…Screamin jay and The NightHawks…Three DOG Night…Cat Stevens…The BEATLES…White Snake…Phish ??
The Turtles…Screamin jay and The NightHawks…Cat Stevens…
Did nobody think of the Stray Cats or the Bonzo Dog Dooda Band? 😉
Vampires aren’t an animal. But how about the local rabbits, Neil young and crazy horse,
What about – Elkie Brooks, Olivia Newton John, Pointer Sisters, Blue Mink, Bucks Fizz and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
three dog night?
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