100 FLOWERS / THE URINALS

100 Flowers started off in 1978 as The Urinals, performing as a parody punk band at their UCLA dorm talent show.  Apparently they went over big, cuz they kept on going, eventually touring and sharing stages with acts like the Go-Go's and Black Flag.  Membership was:John Talley-Jones (also of 17 Pygmies, Radwaste, and Vena Cava) Kevin Barrett (also of God and State and Project 197), and Kjehl Johansen (also of Trotsky Icepick).

As their music matured, they renamed themselves 100 Flowers, name inspired the Maoist "Hundred Flowers" campaign.  They called it quits in 1983, then reformed (as The Uringals) in 1996, eventually releasing a new album.  For a brief time they were known as The Chairs of Perception, but as of now remain active as The Urinals.  Trouser Press described them fairly accurately as: 

arty, poetic music that is kinetic in spite of occasional murkiness ... owes a mild debt to the Fall, although its more melodic guitar sound is all-American. Dispensing with such concepts as verses and choruses, the trio favors subterranean funk grooves and drones; the effect is impressive if limited, and wears thin over the record's course ... this is how R.E.M. might have sounded as a punk band.

The Minutemen covered the Urinals song "Ack Ack Ack Ack Ack" on their final album, Three-Way Tie (For Last).

Official Site (very nice!)