Right: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914)

Ah, it is refreshing to see young rockers that are immersed in history! Using names from history such as Franz Ferdinand (the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination started off WWI) AND even spelling them correctly! Especially after having a decade or so of "Johnny can't spell" rockers such as Korn and Limp Bizcuit.

As a public service, EAR CANDY is listing a handful of obscure and infamous names to help young bands that want to follow this trend to find that all-important band name. This is by no means a complete list (I found myself continually adding to it as a name came to mind), just one to help those that have "writer's block" in regards to choosing a name. So, use our handy-dandy list to come up with a name for your band! Let us take all the work and hassle out of your choice! Print out this page and check the names that 'call' to you, then narrow it down from there. Pick and choose and combine if you like; for instance, combine Ted Bundy with Brigitte Bardot for the name "Brigitte Bundy" (a perfect name in the vein of "Marilyn Manson").

Music related: __Allen Klein __Andrew Loog Oldham __Pete Best __Alex Mardas ('Magic Alex')

Painters: __Picasso __Kandinski __Matisse __Magritte

Philosophers: __Aristotle __Plato __Hegel __Nietzsche

Actors/pop culture:
__Rudolph Valentino
__Patty Hearst
__Ann Margret
__Raquel Welch
__Brigitte Bardot
__Mae West
__Sally Struthers
__Jayne Mansfield

Assassins:
__John Wilkes Booth (President Lincoln assassin)
__Sara Jane Moore (Gerald Ford assassination attempt)
__Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (Gerald Ford assassination attempt)
__Arthur H. Bremer (George Wallace assassination attempt)
__Nathan Gale (killer of Darrell 'Dimebag' Abbott)
__Mark David Chapman (Lennon assassin)
__John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan assassination attempt)
__Richard Lawrence (Andrew Jackson assassination attempt)
__Charles Julius Guiteau (President James Garfield assassin)
__Leon Czolgosz (President James William McKinley assassin)
__Lee Harvey Oswald (President John F. Kennedy assassin)

Wartime:
__Erwin Rommell (German general The 'Desert Fox' WWII)
__"Black Jack" Pershing (American general WWI)
__Joseph Mengele (Nazi fugitive)
__Martin Bormann (Nazi-Hitler henchman)
__Manfred Richthofen (German ace, the 'Red Baron' WWI)
__Rudolph Hess (Nazi-Hitler henchman)
__Bertha Krupp ('Big Bertha' cannon in WWI named after her)
__Mata Hari (WWI spy and erotic dancer)
__Benito Mussolini

Names from history:
__Gregory Rasputin
__Czar Nicolas
__Francisco Pancho Villa
__Crispus Attucks (First american killed in the American revolution)
__Virgina Dare (first European born in North America)
__Isadora Duncan
__Thomas Edison
__Rezin Bowie (Jim Bowie's brother and actual inventor of Bowie knife)
__Peter Paul Mauser (bolt action rifle inventor)
__John Taliaferro Thompson (inventor of the Thompson machine gun or 'Tommy Gun')
__Czar Alexander
__Louis Braille (inventor of the Braille alphabet)
__Joseph Guillotin (inventor of...you guessed it...the guillotin)
__Jean Nicot (Frenchman that "discovered" nicotine)
__Rudolf Diesel (invented diesel engine)
__Niccolo Machiavelli (wrote "The Prince")
__Leo Tolstoy
__Ernst Mach (physicist - 'mach' number)
__Simon Newcomb (astronomer)
__Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ('hertz' unit of measure named after him)
__James Prescott Joule ('joule' unit of measure named after him)
__Georg Simon Ohm ('ohm' unit of measure named after him)
__Alice B. Toklas (inventor of the hash brownie)

Infamous:
__Jack Ruby
__Al Capone
__Attila the Hun
__Caligula
__Ted Bundy (serial killer)
__Bonnie Parker (bankrobber of 'Bonnie & Clyde' fame)
__Clyde Barrow (bankrobber of 'Bonnie & Clyde' fame)
__Biovanni Giacomo Casanova
__Marquis De Sade ('sadism' named after him)

The Presidents of the United States under the Articles of Confederation:
__Samuel Huntington
__Thomas McKean
__John Hanson
__Elias Boudinot
__Thomas Mifflin
__Richard Henry Lee
__John Hancock
__Nathaniel Gorham
__Arthur St. Clair
__Cyrus Griffin

Various: __Carmen Electra __Robert Downey Jr. __Mike Lookinland __William Kennedy Smith __Tawny Kitaen __Kobe Bryant __Mike Tyson __John Gotti Jr. __Andre the Giant __Stone Cold Steve Austin __O.J. Simpson __Lucky Luciano __Dennis Rodman __"Machine Gun" Kelly __Don King

__Christian Slater __Christian Brando __Macaulay Culkin __Tupac Shakur __Axl Rose __Amy Fisher __Dana Plato __Wynonna Judd __Lou Rawls __Vanilla Ice __John Wayne Bobbitt __Michael Jackson __Ted Kaczynski __David Berkowitz __Jeffrey Dahmer

__Erik and Lyle Menendez __Richard Speck __Frank Sinatra __Ozzy Osbourne __Jesse Jackson __Sirhan Sirhan __Charles Manson __Sid Vicious __Roger Clinton __Patty Hearst __Timothy McVeigh __Terry Nichols __Dr. Jack Kevorkian __Joey Buttafuoco __Frankie Valli

DISCLAIMER: This is a PARODY! So if any of these names offend you - TOUGH SHIT! We don't care one iota about your touchy-feely crapola.