The Eagles of Death Metal?
Also R.E.M., but the band said that they picked the name by opening a dictionary at random.

The Flaming Lips is ****ing horrible and means next to nothing.

Also Neutral Milk Hotel is dumb

Arcade Fire

System Of A Down (they admitted they wanted their name to he close to Slayer)

Porcupine Tree

Cage The Elephant

Wingnut Dishwasher's Union

Hella

OFWGKTA

The The

Autechtre

Radiohead

Apples In Stereo

It's a Norcal thing.

I always assumed it was joke. Like maybe some other band was described as "The Beatles of punk rock" or something so they decided to describe themselves as "The Eagles of death metal".

It's a reference to a Talking Heads song.

Is it? Always disliked the name I thought it was in terms of something like "That was hella awesome" or some stupid **** like that.

I always assumed Gorkys Zygotic Mynci meant something in Welsh, but apparently it doesn't and is just totally meaningless.

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides

NMH I'm pretty sure means nothing. Like Strawberry Alarm Clock, psych oddness. Also could do with Jeff Mangum's 'Milk" stuff.

As WDU's music is political in nature, a wingnut is a person with extremely radical/irrational political views, and I assume the 'dishwashers union' part because it's really hardcore and punk rock and DIY to wash your own dishes.

The Flaming Lips and The Apples in Stereo I'd imagine are more psych mumbo-jumbo, and I find them fitting and good names.

Sometimes you just gotta make up a word too

Pavement.

Luv them but to me their name sounds like an electronica group.