List of 237 Good Band Names that are Awesome

A listing of 237 good band names that define the music industry. While some may have never gone mainstream, some of these bands have seen top lists for singles and albums.

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A Wilhelm Scream
ABBA
AC/DC
Ace of Base
Adiemus
a-ha
Aiden
Air Supply
AKB48
Alexisonfire
Alice Cooper
Alice in Chains
Anberlin
Arctic Monkeys
Art of Noise
As I Lay Dying
A-Teens
Atreyu
Audioslave
Automatic Pilot
Average White Band
Bachman–Turner Overdrive
Backstreet Boys
Badfinger
Bauhaus
Be Your Own Pet
Belle & Sebastian
Betty’s Not a Vitamin
Between the Buried and Me
Biffy Clyro
Big Drill Car
Billy Talent
Black Flag
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blind Melon
Blue October
Blur
Brainerd
Bring Me the Horizon
Butthole Surfers
Camper Van Beethoven
Cansei de Ser Sexy
Childish Gambino
Coldplay
Crass
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Daft Punk
Dashboard Confessional
De La Soul
Dead Can Dance
Dead Kennedys
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Der Plan
Dexys Midnight Runners
Dire Straits
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Double Dagger
Dream Theater
Drive-By Truckers
Drummer
Duran Duran
E Street Band
Evanescence
Evergreen Terrace
Exit Ten
Fall Out Boy
Fastball
Five Iron Frenzy
Florence + The Machine
Follow For Now
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Garbage
Georgia Wonder
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
Gnarls Barkley
Grateful Dead
Green Day
Gringo Star
Guns N’ Roses
Hard-Fi
Heaven 17
Hootie and the Blowfish
Hüsker Dü
I Am The World Trade Center
Imagine Dragons
Iron Maiden
Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
JFKFC
Jimmy Eat World
John Cougar Concentration Camp
Joy Division
Kaiser Chiefs
Kasabian
Kassidy
KJ-52
Klaxons
Lasgo
Led Zeppelin
Linkin Park
Living Colour
Lothar and the Hand People
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marillion
Mary Tyler Morphine
Matchbox Twenty
McFly
Meat Puppets
Megadeth
Modest Mouse
Molly Hatchet
Morphine
Mötley Crüe
Mumford & Sons
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Nine Inch Nails
No Doubt
NOFX
Oasis
Of Mice & Men
One Bad Pig
One Direction
One Night Only
Opeth
Panic! at the Disco
Paradise Vendors
Paramore
Parliament Funkadelic
Pearl Jam
Phoenix
Pink Floyd
Pixies
Porno for Pyros
Portishead
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Procol Harum
Propagandhi
Qntal
Queen
Queensrÿche
Question Mark and the Mysterians aka and the Mysterians
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
REO Speedwagon
Russian Circles
Saving Abel
Say Hi To Your Mom
School of Seven Bells
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her
Seether
Sepultura
Sevendust
Shai Hulud
Sigur Rós
Simple Minds
Skrillex
Slipknot
Sloan
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Southern Culture on the Skids
Spandau Ballet
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Steeleye Span
Steely Dan
Stone Sour
Stryper
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Sum 41
Sunny Day Real Estate
Taking Back Sunday
Talking Heads
The All-American Rejects
The Apples in Stereo
The B-52’s
The Band
The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
The Beatles
The Beautiful South
The Black Crowes
The Clash
The Cure
The Decemberists
The Devil Wears Prada
The Doors
The Flaming Lips
The Hollies
The Killers
The Lee Harvey Keitel Band
The Libertines
The Maine
The Moody Blues
The Mountain Goats
The Names
The Offspring
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pogues
The Prodigy
The Ramones
The Residents
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths
The Soup Dragons
The The
The Velvet Underground
The Villebillies
The Who
The Yardbirds
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
They Might Be Giants
Thompson Twins
Throbbing Gristle
Throwing Muses
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Tokio Hotel
Two Door Cinema Club
U2
UB40
Vampire Weekend
Van Halen
Weezer
Widespread Panic
Wilco
Wu-Tang Clan
X
Xiu Xiu
Zao
Zox
The below infographic outlines recent statistics with the changing music industry. While record stores have seen a decline of more than 76% between 2000 and 2010, the individual sale of digital tracks went from 0 to $1.2 billion.