h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I got these two from 'Screen Burn' in the Guardian Newspapers 'The Guide':

Puppet Squad

Petri-dish Kids

And added some of my own:

Moneyspin

Bland Boys

Formulaic Pop Group 8.2

Boyband! Action Figures With Real Posing Action(tm)

Just Add Talent

I like just add talent and the slogan could be...

We do for music what the KKK do for race relations

ok so that is in bad tast and I am sorry

How about: 5 Blantantly Homosexual Boys Singing About Women

*LOL*
impressive great name I like it

How about the'Rip Off Gang'?
'We're Just Doing This Until Something Better Comes Along Or Our Fans Get Wise To Us'?

....plastic men and plastic cats and dogs.....

FABT

Rancid Sock - Ive always wanted a band called Rancid Sock, just thought you should know....

Ghetto Life!

>Petri Dish Kids
>Just Add Talent
Brilliant!

Some other thoughts, which for some reason all seem to have an R in them:
Boys R Us
R Spandex
Hype R Active
R U Listening
(to which the answer must be No! - the exclamation mark is compulsory)

Boys Are New And Lovely
(or Banal for short)

hmm... methinks tis going downhill from here

Phil

Hormones a'Poppin

Teeny Boppers: Just Add Rhythm

Raging Idiots

Manufactured in the USA

and, my favorite

Batteries Not Included

I got a kick out of South Parks answer to boy bands-

Finger-Bang!

Ideally you need a name with a number in it (East 17, Boyz 2 Men etc.) and the song should be a very slight change of somebody elses ghastly recent hit, with just a hint of innuendo but not so much thet the ever more prude Aunty Beeb will take offence.
With that in mind I give you "Claws 14" and their new song "Who let the puppies out?".

'Noaces'?

How about B@bes 2000?

It's got a number in it. It's got a symbol that suggests the Internet in it. The number will date within the next two months. It's got it all.

Stolen from the Adam And Joe Show

1471

Or how about:

Running on empty
Laptop (these would be scantily clad young laydees)
Weblife (digitally recreated clone of Westlife)
Stake That (Buffy fans)
Ouch
Come Up Next Time (Nice acronym)
Felch

I like the last one.

Felch?

I'd like to tip my hat to Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols for inspiration with this one:

The Great Pop Music Swindle

It seems to me that often peoples' reasoning behind liking these groups is that the people in them are "really nice lads". Like that means they sing good songs?! Or have talent?!

Therefore, "Aimiable Young Fellows" or "Cheeky But Inoffensive" would be good names.

I really do dispair of the manufactured music industry - some of their group names are SO bland an uninspiring (which is quite fitting, really). A1? _A_ _1_? Choose a letter. Choose a number. I bet they only stuck the 1 on because "A" are already a band (and are actually quite good).

Or what about Boyzone? "Well," though the producers, "the theme of this group is that, er, they're all male and... er... they can sing a bit... er..." and then their deadline rushed up to meet them so they jotted down "Boyzone" so it looked like they'd done some work, and it just stuck. I bet.

Mind you, that said, I'm in a band called The Pregnants. And that isn't exactly a great name.

I think I like "Just Add Talant" but to be 'cool' you might want to spell it horrible wrong, stick in numbers, put in as much punctuation as possible and/or write it all in capitals (like our freinds, N*SYNC)(or of course, 2Ge+her - who are actually pretty funny, I must admit)
for example: JU$T @DD+ TALUNT17

I hate to say it, but the other day, perusing the record store, I came across a band actually called Boyzone. So much for that? How about
--MPG (Manufactured Pop Group)
--Boy Group (or Girl Group, depending on the gender)

and I have to admit that I do like Just Add Talent. But what about something really bad, like We Are Not Real (WENR for short)?!

Man Fat
The Joke

does anyone remember e-male, who's gimmick - apart from the name - was that a) they all wore rollerskates and b) all their names began with e. ie e-mote, e-galitarian or something?