Clever team names combining rock music and computers!

October 11, 2006 8:29 AM

Help me come up with creative team names involving rock music and computer terms.

I'm running an all-day conference event for system builders (Businessmen/geeks who build and sell PCs.) Part of the event will be a game show type quiz where the room is divided into four teams. I need help coming up with creative and clever names for the teams.

The event has a Rock and Roll theme, and the conference is dealing with Intel and Microsoft products, so the team names should somehow combine terms from rock music (band names, instrument names, song names, rock music references of any kind) with Intel or Microsoft products, computer part names, or computer terms.

Suggestions should be business-friendly and not too obscure. For example, "Jimmy Page's Processors" would be something along the lines that we're looking for (although that example isn't especially clever). On the other hand, a reference to Jimmy Page and something about Windows paging files would probably be too obscure.

I know you lot are supremely clever, so let's see what you can come up with!

posted by Diva Despina to Grab Bag (32 answers total)

The Blue Screens of Death Metal
posted by Robot Johnny at 8:31 AM on October 11, 2006

Bachman-Turner Harddrive?
posted by Ash3000 at 8:32 AM on October 11, 2006

The Mamaboards and the Papaboards
posted by Ash3000 at 8:33 AM on October 11, 2006

R.A.M.?
Johnny Cache?
Notorious D.L.L.?
posted by Robot Johnny at 8:34 AM on October 11, 2006

I played in a band called Turing Machine.
I'd step up Bachman-Turner Harddrive to Bachman-Turing Harddrive.
posted by plinth at 8:42 AM on October 11, 2006

Response by poster: Bachman-Turner Harddrive is perfect! More please. :)

(Bachman-Turing Harddrive is hilarious; sadly it's probably too obscure for this crowd.)
posted by Diva Despina at 8:44 AM on October 11, 2006

You were in Turing Machine? I love Flip Book Oscilloscope!
posted by four panels at 8:44 AM on October 11, 2006 [1 favorite]

d-ram d-ram
posted by edd at 8:53 AM on October 11, 2006

I played in a band called Turing Machine.

Holy crap!

What four panels said.
posted by dobbs at 8:54 AM on October 11, 2006

The 5.25" Bay City Rollers
CPU 2
Routerhead
posted by gfrobe at 8:59 AM on October 11, 2006

R0x0r
posted by [insert clever name here] at 9:01 AM on October 11, 2006

Blue Screen Oyster Cult
RAMstein

*rimshot*
posted by slimepuppy at 9:04 AM on October 11, 2006

Katrina and the .wavs
Suzanne VGA
posted by horsewithnoname at 9:09 AM on October 11, 2006

Twisted Vista!
posted by uncleozzy at 9:21 AM on October 11, 2006

L.E.D. Zeppelin
posted by csg77 at 9:25 AM on October 11, 2006

Kernel Panic at the Disco!
Jimmy Page Fault.
128K Screaming maniacs
Modem Gnomes (they're the ones that sing to the Internet, don'tcha know?)
Nerd-vanah
PEBKAC (Problem exists between Keyboard and Chair)
L.E.D. Zepplin (light emitting diode)
posted by now i'm piste at 9:25 AM on October 11, 2006

damn you csg!
posted by now i'm piste at 9:25 AM on October 11, 2006

The Keystrokes?
posted by pokeydonut at 9:37 AM on October 11, 2006

[this is good]

INACCESS (like INXS and Office)
DELLtron 3030
We will IRQ you
Magic Smoke Get's in Your Eyes
CAT-5 scratch fever
ISAturday Night Fever
10 Rock and 20 Roll 30 GOTO 10
AC/DC
Winterpol
UK USBs (the real band is called UKSUBS)
USBee Gees
It's all about the Pentiums
Turtle Beach Boys
Y2Kant Tori Read
1.81 Jigawatts
C:\Rock_n_roll
PC Load Letter
Microsoft Office Word to your mother
posted by now i'm piste at 9:50 AM on October 11, 2006

Cello world?
posted by now i'm piste at 9:51 AM on October 11, 2006 [1 favorite]

Bachman-Truner Overclocking
Def Leppartition
Boot Diddley
The Who-SB
Men at Network
Operating System of a Down
.38-bit Special
The Alan Parsing Project
Bobby Ry-Dell
Jimmy Buffer
Bob PC-ger
The JPEG Geils Band
SCSI Top
The Butthole Servers

these aren't rock, but maybe you could use:
Earth, Windows & Fire
XP Diddy
Buena Vista Social Club
Kid 'n Plug 'n Play
Alvin & the Chip-monks
Grandmaster Flash Drive
Shania TWAIN
posted by hydrophonic at 10:13 AM on October 11, 2006

Oh, don't get your hopes up - it apparently wasn't this Turing Machine. It was the very first (and God help us, the only) all computer-scientist band at Oberlin that existed for 1.5 semesters in 1988.

Barenaked Lasers
Linus Torvalds Ladies Aid Society
NOP
Cache Hit
New Order(n)
Memory Styx
posted by plinth at 10:17 AM on October 11, 2006

The Broad Band
posted by Milkman Dan at 10:27 AM on October 11, 2006

PC and the Sunshine Band
ROM Speedwagon
The Jimmy Hendrix Experience Music Project (kind of obscure, I know, but EMP is funded by Paul Allen from Microsoft)
Blink 00110001 00111000 00110010 (Blink 182)
posted by fletchmuy at 10:51 AM on October 11, 2006

Echo OFF and the Bunneymen
posted by Diskeater at 11:08 AM on October 11, 2006

Simpler: Blink 10110110
posted by Khalad at 11:23 AM on October 11, 2006

Microsoft Cell
Core 2 Devo
10/100/1000 Maniacs
posted by Diskeater at 11:41 AM on October 11, 2006

Men at Word
BizTalk Talk
The VeeBees
Windows Media Slayer
Welcome to the (Virtual) Machine
I Got the Power(point)
Visual Stustudio
posted by MCTDavid at 11:50 AM on October 11, 2006

LLooccaall eecchhoo aanndd tthhee BBuunnyymmeenn
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:26 PM on October 11, 2006

CDGB
The Hex Pistols
RAMones
posted by mattholomew at 6:44 PM on October 11, 2006

I am at work trying not to burst out laughing reading this!
posted by radioamy at 8:45 AM on October 12, 2006

Rage Against The Machine?
posted by Ash3000 at 12:02 PM on October 12, 2006