🚗 Top 10 Transportation-Themed Band Names 🚀

We can’t always write about pest control issues, but still work in a Beatles song whenever possible.  And because all playlists should come with turn signals.

Happy Friday! Sing along on your commute home!

  1. 🚁 U2
    Category: Cold War Spy Plane / Alt Rock Diplomacy
    Song: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
    Quip: After 40 years circling at high altitude, Bono still can’t find the baggage claim.
  2. ✈️ B-52s
    Category: Strategic Bomber / Beehive Glam
    Song: Love Shack
    Quip: The only band that can drop a beat and a payload—simultaneously.
  3. 🚂 Grand Funk Railroad
    Category: Locomotive Legends
    Song: Locomotion
    Quip: They put the “Funk” in “Freight Train Friday Night.”
  4. 🛸 Jefferson Airplane / Starship
    Category: Counterculture Aviation to Intergalactic Uber
    Song: We Built This City
    Quip: Started as a hippie glider, ended up as a space shuttle to corporate pop.
  5. 🎈 Led Zeppelin
    Category: Heavier-Than-Air Rock Blimp
    Song: Kashmir
    Quip: Somehow both heavier than air and floating on every rock playlist.
  6. 🚆 Train
    Category: Emotional Rail Transit
    Song: Drops of Jupiter
    Quip: The only express line that makes stops at heartbreak, space metaphors, and Starbucks.
  7. 🚘 The Cars
    Category: New Wave with Automatic Transmission
    Song: Just What I Needed
    Quip: Smooth, efficient, and always parked in the “cool” section of 1980s radio.
  8. 🦅 The Fabulous Thunderbirds
    Category: Blues Rock Muscle Cars
    Song: Tuff Enuff
    Quip: More grease, grit, and horsepower than a drag strip on a Saturday night.
  9. 🛩️ Foo Fighters
    Category: Military Pilot Lingo (for UFOs) Meets Arena Rock
    Song: Learn to Fly
    Quip: Dave Grohl fought mysterious aerial phenomena and still landed platinum.
  10. 🚛 REO Speedwagon
    Category: Firetruck Turned Power Ballad Express
    Song: Keep on Loving You
    Quip: The band that turned vehicle recalls into tearful singalongs.