Gay For Johnny Depp
be your own PET
Sonic Youth
Fugazi
Bangs
Bikini Kill (I heard their name on TV when I was like 7 and have remembered it from then until a few years ago when I actually heard them for the first time and started getting into them.)
X

Animal Collective
TV On the Radio
Yo La Tengo
!!!
Sunburned Hand of Man
No-Neck Blues Band
Lightning Bolt

The Velvet Underground

Nine Inch Nails.

but then i'm exteremly biased

The Dwarves
The Modern Lovers
Television

all I can think of right now are Dutch bands:

Hallo Venray --> Hallo=Hello, Venray is a Dutch town
Bettie Serveert --> named after dutch female tennis player Bettie Stove
LUL --> "Lui Uit Leeuwarden" --> people from the city Leeuwarden. Lul = dick in English (I actually don't even know their music)

Babes in Toyland

Th' Faith Healers

Melvins

Sun Ra and His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra

They had like a jillion names. The record on my wall is credited to the Myth Science Arkestra.

Fuckweasel McHedgebasket and the Florins

okay, i made that one up, but it would be a good one if it really existed. Go on, someone name their band this. You know you want to.

Anal Cunt & Rage Against the Vending Machine are the only names that spring immediately to mind.

Pavement is a fucking awful, obsequious twat of a name, and that's regardless of whether I've spelt obsequious right.

You can't spell obsequious without I.O.U!

Pavement's name has more meaning in the USA than in the UK, anyway. If they were called Sidewalk, people would be complaining with you.

Blur

crazy horse
anal cunt
the cramps
pixies
television
the voidoids

the velvet underground
rolling stones
sunburned hand of the man
sleater kinney
pussy galore
nirvana
bilge pump
lords
deep wound
nurse with wound
smegma
birchville cat motel
swell maps
fear
satans fingers
charalabides
lightning bolt
awesome colour
be your own pet
ashtray navigations
smog
mudhoney
the melvins
the sonics
mc5
the stooges
ramones
the modern lovers
gauntlet
slayer
iron maiden
jesus lizard
errase eratta
black sabbath
ac/dc

I was always under the impression that what Brits call pavement, Yanks call Sidewalk. Hence it being obsequious. Or is that what you're saying?

maher shalal hash baz.

check mate.

Hm...

Well, I like:

Be Your Own Pet
The Casual Ties (not The Casualties)
Frank Sinatra Sank My Mantra
And... Tentative Title (my band, with fellow guitarist/drummer Bollocks To Pop)

Al Tuck & No Action

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (too bad their music blows)