worst band names

Going through MassLive currently:

KO and the Knockouts

Pocketful of Sexchange

Asian Snow Monkey

Dry Kill Logic - (did they just choose random words??)

Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie

Vertical Horizon.
The Goo Goo Dolls.
We're About 9.

Yeah, fountains of wayne wins my vote for best band name.

:)

Aside from Harvey Kubernick's Attention Getting Device, of course.

Wait....but....we're discussing worst band names.  :P  (And, it was really hard to get that bold thing with images still not loading....so I hope you all appreciate it.)

(Oh, I am *SO* appreciative)

;)

And... I realize... but... I felt I must point out that that is one of my favs.  heheh

Slightly less so once I found out it was the name of a real store that sells fountains.... but still.....

I don't know -- and, to be honest, I don't remember where I heard it, either...  so I don't have much verification.

-- Pauley

Herman's Hermits, definitely

Oh, and let's not forget, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

PANCREAS JOE AND THE ESKIMO LEFTISTS.

yes, really.

Is that for real???

If so, I love it!

Wohoo!

They're my new favorite band... based solely on the name.

:D

Yeah, those bastards.

:P

Invisibl Skratch Piklz
God Street Wine
The Flying Burrito Brothers (a best name in my book, though)
Jiggle The Handle (another best)
Avril Lavigne (i know it's her real name, but come on.)
yeP!
Tastes Like Chicken
Uncle Bob Touched Me
Trout Fishing In America

This forum is making me think of the bad band name generator (and I wish I could remember the url for it), the home of such *cough* fabulous bands as "Because we're penguins!" and "Ronald McDonald Is Not My Magical Friend!"

In real life I think I'd have to go with "And You Will Know Them By The Trail Of  The Dead"

Damn, "Earth to Doris" is an old Was (Not Was) song!!

Okay, so I saw so many bad ones in the Chicago Reader listings I had to paste this one....

PRODIGAL SON BAR & GRILL 2626 N. Halsted: Music at 9 PM. Fri 2/14, Reagan National Crash Diet, Tuffets, Treason Brothers. Sat 2/15, Lozenge, Herc., Jootwtsylfaess, Life Rocks! Sun 2/16, 8 PM, Dead Steel Mill, Urinal Mints. Mondays, Karaoke Dreams hosted by Rory Lake, Velcro Lewis (no cover). Thu 2/20, 8 PM, Swansea Mass, Cock E.S.P., Gays in the Military. Fri 2/21, Kasper Hauser, Children's Hour, Brendan Massei. Sat 2/22, Steepwater Band, Velcro Lewis & His 100 Proof Band. Sun 2/23, 8 PM, Paul B. Davis, Lord of the Yum Yums, DJ Doug Pound. 773-248-3093.

Aren't these TERRIBLE????

> Really? Kevin never told me that they stole the name from a band with
> an equally stupid name. *g*� I'm going to give him shit the next�time
> I see him.

Here I am! Bring it on!����� :)

Talk about bad band names - BJ Orchestra? What do they do for encores? *g*

anal c**t
one true voice (*cringe*)

also, it's really fun to go through the british hit singles anthology and check out the names of all the bad 70's and 80's bands that only got to 49 in the charts and stuff. like:

we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it
cactus world news
blue rondo a la turk
bonzo dog doo-dah band
disco tex and the sex-o-lettes

at school we were trying to think up a name for our mate's band and we came up with 'levitating doorhandles' :D

and check out: http://www.annoyyourfriends.com/randband.html

here's more from the Reader... so great...

BOTTOM LOUNGE 3206 N. Wilton: Music after 9 PM. Fri 2/21, Chinese Downhill, Flatline, Sullen, Twice Removed (18 & over). Sat 2/22, 6 PM, Exo, Jupiter Blue, Neptune Crush (all-ages); 10 PM, Nadas, Matthew Moon, Life in General. Sun 2/23, 6 PM, Inspektah Deck, Killah Priest, Cappadonna, Remedy, Family Tree, Verbal Kent, Rusty Chains, Bamski, Dug Infinite, DJ Precyse, Prime (all-ages). Thu 2/27, La Makita Soma, Spread, Memories. Fri 2/28, 6 PM, Murs, Aesop, Grouch, Bicasso, Eligh, Mystic Journeymen, Scarub, Luckyman, PSC, Sunspotz Jonz, Arata, Rhymesayers with Eyedea & Abilities (all-ages); 10 PM, Deans, Pi-Eyed Pete. Sat 3/1, 6 PM, Empyrean, Saraphine, Drawing a Blank, PGS (all-ages); 10:30 PM, Hedonists Maybe. Sun 3/2, Where the Streets Have Names. 773-975-0505.

not as terrible as the last batch I found, but Chicago's a wonderland for bad band names!

Yeah... not only a bad band name... they ALSO suck!

:D

ooh! and i forgot!

more fire crew (that might be spelled 'cru', i dunno)
so solid crew
blazin' squad

:D

...but they're so darn cute!

Fictional bands we made up in high school:

Jimmy and the Land Odders

Peasants Attacking Castles with Farm Implements (PACwFI)

You must really love Avril's "Sk8er Boi," huh?

;)

limp bizkit & linkin park (i loathe intentionally misspelled anything)

then how about The Beatles?

amy - why am i trying to stir a hornet's nest????? :-)

meat loaf!

i mean, come *on*. ew. :D

Eri and I thought that Wave at Fish Trap Creek was a cool band name..so we stole it!

I think you guys have picked through many of the ones I would have said...

Anyone say Arrogant Worms?

*ducks* I know! but whenever I tell people their name, thay look at me funny!

:)

~J~

Squirrel Nut Zippers (huh?)

Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies 

 String Cheese Incident (this just brings to mind some very strange visuals) 

 Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction 

 Dr Phibes and his amazing house of Wax Equations 

 Siouxe and the Banshees 

 Meatloaf (i have to agree with this one) 

 Milli Vanilli (shouldn't this be an ice cream flavour?) 

 UB40 

 INXS (inks?)

Kissing the Pink 

 N'Sync (do you know how long it took me to pronounce this name...damn those random apotrophes!!) 

 Hear'Say (speaking of....) 

 The Hamsters (such a noble animal.....) 

 SNMNMNM (ok...i know it's supposed to be the band members names....but please......) 

 Pantera (is this supposed to be a shampoo?) 

 Duran Duran (i'll be stoned for this one...but i can think of nothing but stinky asian fruit x 2)

.....that's enough for now

amy

Squirrel Nut Zippers (huh?)

It's a candy! Like, hello?  They're from the... 50's or 60's, I think... and they're yummy.

:)

Silly Americans!

:D

~J~

Heh.

Excellent band, too.

I've you've never heard them, I'd highly recommend checking them out.

oh! BOOB-arella!

I saw that!

stinker of a movie...but boys like it!

~J~

It's from the film Barbarella starring Jane Fonda.

But you already knew that. :)

Of course i did...;-) but but having grown up with my mother chopping up duran fruit...that is all i can think of...and boy Do They Reek (the fruit, not the band)!!!!!!

As for sqirrle nut zippers...i didn't know they were a candy, thanks to those who pointed it out :-)....i do like their music, but i still think they have a silly name....

Pantera = Panther in spanish.

INXS = in excess.� not so bad.

I *never* got Pink Floyd.� huh? Am I missing some profound cultural reference here?

hm, i think i'm with your boyfriend on this one - "Pepper" is a far superior song to "mmbop."

of course, that's about the extent of my knowledge of butthole surfer/hanson songs, so what do i know ;)

My contributions to this list are:

The Dead Milkmen (love 'em.)
The Frank and Walters
Depeche Mode (fast fashion? c'mon)
F*ck (s/*/u - impossible to play on indie radio.)
Slumber Party
The Knights of Mars
Dogbolter (previous 2 courtesy of my ex's many band names)
..one great name he came up with, though, was the Skot Farkis Affair. hee.

The Frank and Walters

NO!� Okay it is bit stupid but at lkeats they had a story to their name, it is reference to the wonderful habit that existed in Ireland of locking people up in asylums just because they had children outside of marriage, or were homosexual or unconventional in any other way like uh..Frank and Walter were.

Maybe my brother was winding me up with that one there but I think the point about the name sticking in your head applies here as with Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Pop Will Eat Itself and my new favourites Do Me Bad Things...it's very rare I hear a new band, like their stuff and can then remember their name to go seethem live.

dont get me wrong. i love the frank and walters! i found them in a cut-out bin at my old station and thus i only have the one album - i think it's called Colours? i could be totally talking out of my ass. i love the song Indian Ocean (i'm drinking tea in the taj mahal..) and most ofthe songs on the album.� wow, i cant belive you've heard of them :D

and, for the record, Pop Will Eat Itself was my first concert! they were opening for Nine Inch Nails. loved 'em.

Oh man, this is such a great topic. A lot of those names made me laugh out loud. {g}

I'd like to echo some of the above posts by saying that Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit are rotten names (and I hate those bands) and so is Herman's Hermits (and I *like* that band). Hrm.

I dislike names like Matchbox 20 (but isn't it Matchbox Twenty now?) and I think they're called Maroon 5? Whenever I see a generic, crappy band that I don't know about on MTV or MTV2, I call them Arthropod 60. It's just a catch-all name I made up for new and crappy bands.�{g}

And for all of you haters of badly spelled names, let me aggravate you, by bringing up Ludacris, Mystikal, and Fabolous. But they aren't bands, they're individual rap dudes.

My friend's�husband was in some lame cover band called the Scared Turtles before.�Oh yikes, and isn't there an Australian band called They Might Be Vaginas?

If I had a weird band it would be called Spontaneous Travel Plans and our first album would be Spoon Guard.� With a picture of a spoon on the cover.

Our second album would be North On Finch.� (Finch is a street in my city that runs east and west.� It's sort of an inside joke.)

No, I'm serious.

richard nixon's turnip farm.� my favorite. (:

(well, koz i was IN it.� but still)

yellow dog down
the posies
sausage
the commencement bay flounder and seafood conspiracy

just off the top of my head...

�-= george= -

"Avril, Floyd, and Moxy"? - good name for a trio of puppets.

Actually, 'Pink Floyd' comes from the first names of two blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. And yes, the name 'The Anderson Council' has been taken, too.

I didn't even know that 'Moxy Fruvous' was�a band name till I had surfed�this site pretty thoroughly - that's how bad a name it is.

And the name 'Lavigne' looks like 'vagina' and sounds like 'latrine'. Either way, it's where I put my dick.

My friend just changed his bands name to "Off Duty Mimes"

I was like "huh?"

In new england, there's an ice cream cake named Cookie Puss.

Um. Sorry, that's where your post sent my mind. :)

...oh

*hides*

Replying to aargh! way up above:

Well I'm doing fine, but I'm really curious as to who you are! If you sit behind th BJO sign you must be a sax player - yes? No? Tell me whom I am addressing!

By the way, does anyone think Polyphonic Spree is a bad band name? I thought so when I first heard it, but I realize that it stuck in my head - so much so that I took notice every time I read a reference to them, or heard one of their songs. Ultimately it led to my buying their CDs - so it must be a really good name!