Ridiculous Band Names

There was a day when popular music was the domain of bands with simple and straightforward names like The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, The Rolling Stones and other less-than-creative entries. It was only a matter of time until all the well of simple and basic names was running dry, and bands were left calling themselves The Cars or The Cure. If you didn't have a cool last name like Ramone or Van Halen or even Znuff then you were left to come up with a name that was catchy, cool, most importantly, not already taken. With all the good short names gone and most of the bad one too, bands had to get clever and a bit more verbose and come up with stuff like Bare Naked Ladies and Crash Test Dummies. That still doesn't explain some of the completely ridiculous names I'm going to rate below, though. I want to know what some of these people were thinking. And when I say thinking, I mean smoking.

Echo and the Bunnymen: A lot of bands use the convention of "Someone and the Something" where the someone is the lead singer and the something is the name of the band, i.e. "Huey Lewis and the News." When you have conventions sooner or later people are going to start messing with them, and so we have Echo the Bunnymen. There was no one named Echo in the band, and I'm fairly certain none of the members had any rabbit DNA. I'm also assuming they didn't dress in rabbit suits for concerts. That would be really Bad.
Editor's note: We've since found out that Echo was the brand name of their drum machine. It all starts to make sense, now.

30 Odd Foot of Grunts: I think I speak for everyone when I say "Huh?" The only reason anyone anywhere has ever heard of this band, and the only reason they merit a mention here is because Russell Crowe is a member. Oh, actually, there are two reasons: with a completely idiotic name like 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, they give me a sure thing to put in the Ugly column.

Toad the Wet Sprocket: This one has always confused. Is toad a sprocket who happens to be wet? Or is toad a verb, therefore making the band name an order for the listener to toad the sprocket which is wet, as opposed to the dry sprocket. If so, how exactly does one toad something? Does it involve actual amphibians? Inquiring minds want to know.
This name is not completely random, however. It was inspired by a Monty Python sketch. So that saves it from being relegated to the ugly stack, and move it up to merely being Bad.

Strawberry Alarm Clock: Here's another one for the confusion category. Is this a strawberry coloured alarm clock, or a strawberry-shaped alarm clock, perhaps is the clock strawberry flavoured, which does raise the question of who goes around tasting alarm clocks? And why strawberry? Does it tie into the cliché that when a villain kisses/licks the female prisoner he has to comment that she "tastes like strawberries" (Okay, that happened in Goldeneye and on one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, so calling that a cliché might be a stretch)? All that said, I do think Strawberry Alarm Clock is a rather cool sounding name for a band, and it's about as Good as ridiculous names get.

Theory of a Deadman: There are lots of theories of various quality out there. There's the theory of evolution, the theory of relativity, Fermat's last theorem (okay, so I'm not entirely clear on what a theorem is exactly, but it's close enough) and now apparently there's a band named theory of a deadman. I should point out that I have no idea what the theory is, or even if there is a theory, but I do know this, that the name is really really Ugly.