The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names In Rock History
Fun subject for a little shit list debate, and it comes to you via Cracked.com. We've gleaned that there are a couple of stipulations in place, namely 1) your high school band is not eligible (unless you're Brandon Urie) and 2) apparently you're meant to dig deeper than just emo and hair metal bands (too easy), though a few do justly pop up on this list. Of course we have our issues, but first their Cracked out findings...
25. Porno For Pyros
24. Nickelback
23. The Alan Parsons Project
22. Stone Temple Pilots
21. Matchbox 20
20. The Smashing Pumpkins
19. Def Leppard
18. W.A.S.P.
17. Puddle Of Mudd
16. Of Montreal
15. Goo Goo Dolls
14. The The
13. Mr. Mister
12. The Mr. T Experience
11. Panic! At The Disco
10. Limp BizkitFirst off, the Smashing Pumpkins: really that bad? Same with Of Montreal -- both sound good to us. And Limp Bizkit should be a lot higher. !!! is hell to Google, but seeing the Chkers and Archers go 1-2 on this list is painful. (Though that may just be the music fan in us talking.) Just put Hootie #1 on the name shame list and make everybody happy.
09. Chumbawamba
08. Enuff Z'nuff
07. Mott The Hoople
06. Hoobastank
05. Toad The Wet Sprocket
04. Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts
03. Hootie And The Blowfish
02. Archers Of Loaf
01. !!!
Posted at 6:28 PM in Shit List
What about the Beastie Boys? Check out the shit review for their latest shit album! hahahahahhahahahaahah and the proverbial ha. This will probably piss off a markus or some other sort who still defends shit music.
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For dumb, obvious, corny, pandering names, you simply can't do worse than "The Beatles." Almost as bad: "Paul McCartney and Wings."
OTOH, Smashing Pumpkins is a fine name for a band from Illinois, where little Billy Corgans do just that every Halloween. Maybe they just didn't get it.
Another great name: Spin Doctors.
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no 'anal cunt' ?
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Umm can you say Arctic Monkeys
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LoveThe Shins, but I fucking hate their name.
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What about "When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water"??? Huh??
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Oingo Boingo?
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Korn
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Absolutely shocking that Jimmy Eat World didn't make the cut.
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I love their music, but Death Cab for Cutie is a truly awful name.
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Should Toad the Wet Sprocket get a pass for their name being a Monty Python reference?
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!!! is a cool name written down but it has to be on the list because it's lame and weird saying chk chk chk out loud to people in actual, normal conversation.
Also, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead should be on this list only because it's the only band name where you actually have to stop and take a breath to say all of it.
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they might be giants?
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alan parsons project
thats not weird @ all
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WTF "meh".
I know a good band name for you. Whut about "Shut your hole". Proverbial? Nice made up word man.
Piss me off one more time Gayness and youll git it.
This post is lame. shit..
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um... The String Cheese Incident?
How about Death From Above 1979?
Honestly, are there really any band names that aren't absolute crap?
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steppenwolf, deep purple, sugarcult, weezer, zz top, assorted jelly beans, bedouin soundclash, bigwig, blue oyster cult, bowling for soup, big d and the kids table, hellogoodbye, lucky boys confusion, fall out boy
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What? No Spinal Tap?
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what about 98 degrees? they were a lot hotter than that....so that's a bad band name i think.
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i fucking hate Cracked.com
Not one thing they said about the Stone Temple Pilots had an ounce of truth.
i stopped reading @ #21...
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No, as much as I love them, Of Montreal does belong on this list. They're the one band that I always have to use air quotes on or something.
"That band 'Montreal' is pretty cool."
"No, that's 'Of' Montreal."
"Oh, they're from Montreal?"
"No, no..."
And it took me a while to get past "Archers of Loaf", that's a pretty bad name.
Some more nominations:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Apples in Stereo. Racoo-oo-oon.
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Lighten up, bitches.
"Smashing Pumpkins" has nothing to do with Halloween. It's British-style slang for "nice tits," basically. You figure it out.
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Cajagoogoo (sp?) an absolutely atrocious band from the 80s.
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I have a CD from "The FVck Dolls" based out of Long Beach. Now which list does that Top?
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No love for ? And The Mysterians?
BEST band name I've heard was a band from around Indianapolis called "JIF And The Choosy Mothers."
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Frou Frou. Just try not to sound ridiculous saying it.
"Hey guys, have you heard the new Frou Frou album? I really like Frou Frou. How can you not like Frou Frou? You wanna go see Frou Frou this Friday?"
Armageddon Dildos
The Chocolate Watchband
Mouse and the Traps
B*Witched (if only for that fucking asterisk)
Butthole Surfers
String Cheese Incident
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I agree that Limp Bizkit should really top the list. but I really have to point out a big omission. I love them an all, but please guys... 'Spoon'. I think they could have gone all the way if it weren't for their name.
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And on second consideration, Limp Bizkit is actually a pretty great name - easy to say - fits right into the same annunciation as "Led Zeppelin" has. Glad to see someone else beat me to Kajagoogoo.
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Of Montreal sounds just fine to me. I have a hard time taking Archers of Loaf seriously on account of their name and all.
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Sure it's his name, but John VANDERSLICE? He should be on list for OPTING OUT of going by something that would make him sound like less of a douche bag.
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Better Than Ezra, Rainbow Butt Monkeys, The Strawberry Alarm Clock - actually, that one was kinda cool.
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I like Dave's usage of 'annunciation', as in the virgin mary being told by the archangel gabriel she is to bear the child Christ. In the same sentence as LIMP BIZKIT
carry on
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"Saliva". 'nuff said.
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I always wanted to name a metal band "graven image"
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REO Speedwagon. Horrible name, horrible band. Many of the bands on the list and those mentioned in comments are fair, good or even great. You've got hand it to REO for being band on all accounts.
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butt hole surfers?
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I could never figure out how to say "Akron/Family," so I just say "Akron and the Family." Is that right? Still, love the band, hate that name, as well as any other band that uses a slash or a plus sign instead of just saying "and," like "Ted Leo + Pharmacists".
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Though it's definitely better than Hootie and the Blowfish, "Menomena" is a pretty strange name. And "Weezer," too!
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Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band with Choir?
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Godspeed! You! Pretentious! Exclamation!
The Flaming Lips
The Shins
Cradle of Filth (has a nice ring to it, though)
Any band with incorrect spelling, numbers, or stupid punctiation
Insane Clown Posse
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Angels and Airwaves
Default
Finger Eleven
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (sometimes listed as having elipses, too)
YACHT
BARR
The Apples In Stereo
Live
WHAM!
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Elbow
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Re:
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchastra & Tra-La-La Band
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Kitchens of Distinction
LSD and the Search for God
The New Pornographers
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
(basically any band with a ! in the name)
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The Bears Can Smell The Menstruation
Oedipus and the Motherfuckers
John Cougar Concentration Camp
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austin bands could fill this list alone. here we go...
our well-known, worst offenders
1. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
2. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
are we 12?
3. Monkies Doin' It
4. Armageddon It On
5. Assacre
6. Crotch on Fire
7. Slippin' Mickies
wtf?
8. Til We're Blue Of Destroy
9. Horse + Donkey
10. iKiLLCaRS
11. Woozyhelmet
12. Whole Wheat Bread
13. Human Being Lawnmower
yay! exclamations!
14. Moth! Fight!
15. Tiger! Tiger!
16. Clap! Clap!
stuttering problem?
17. Foot Foot
18. Destroyer Destroyer
19. Bark Bark Bark
20. Zibra Zibra
21. Lick Lick
death rawks!
22. Misskarrage
23. Summer of Blood
24. World Burns To Death
and last but not least... my personal favorite...
25. SuperHeavyGoatAss (yes, all one word)
ahhh austin... the live (overwhelmingly shitty) music capitol of the world
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WANG CHUNG.
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I Am The World Trade Center
I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business
Volcano, I'm Still Excited!
And any other band who graduated from the band naming school of ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead.
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Endangered Feces
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Oh, man.
Mr. T. Experience is an awesome band with an awesomer name!
They've had it for over 20 years now, anyway, so it's too late to change.
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BAT FOR LASHES...they are some good Manimal Vinyl freakfolk!!!
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The shitty indie name fad has hit Adelaide, Australia in a bad way.
At the top of the lists we have:
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!
and
Jump! You Revolutionary.
Seriously, what's with all the god damn exclamation marks and other punctuation?
Still, nothing beats Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. (I think it's so ridiculous, it's genius!)
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I know this wouldn't fit anywhere on the list, but I once enjoyed listening to a Korean boy band called H.O.T. in the 2nd grade.
H.O.T. stood for High-five of Teenagers.
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Dr. Dog - great band, horrible name
Lynard Skynard - it makes me cringe at least
Chumbawumba - do I need an explanation?
The Band - yeah, we know...
The The - really, c'mon
ditto on the misspellings & numbers
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Wow... "The The" and "The Band" are pretty awesomely glaring omissions, but you can't question Question Mark and the Mysterians!
And Bort forgot BOAT in "caps lock is cruise control for cool" contest.
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Imagine looking for The Music in your local CD store.
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An all consonant construction like like "xbxrx" is a pretty good canidate as are bands that insist on bizzare mixtures of lower and uppercase letters like Dallas band "girlsRISEwithHEAT" (Bonus points for no spaces as well.)
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Surely no list of appalling band names can get away without Test Icicles, although latest NME hypes Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong come close.
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I agree with Saliva, Test Icicles and The The. I always thought U2 had a really corny name.
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ahem....Matchbox 20 was only Matchbox 20 for their first album. Since 2000's Mad Season they have been "matchbox twenty" - all lower case, no numbers. ahem. just thought ya might like to know.
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turbonegro?
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Hey, don't sleep on Anal Cunt from Boston. Check out their A Team theme cover.
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Sufjan Stevens... I mean, c'mon -- what is that?
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Zoogz Rift and his Amazing Shitheads yet.
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echo and the bunnymen
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RE: What? No Spinal Tap?
Actually they came in at number 27. Right after Puppet Show.
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I agree: The Music and The Band are way too generic. At least the latter had a reason for their title; "The Music" just comes off as sheer laziness.
Unpronounceable/ungoogleable names like !!! ("chk-chk-chk"?) and Sunn 0))) can grate... but I admire their stubborn commitment to semi-obscurity that their chosen moniker dictates.
More-than-a-mouthful/"clever" names like A Bullet For My Valentine, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, and Cute Is What We Aim For always evoke cringes. Four syllables max, for just about any quality band name, says I.
More exclamation point bullshit:
On! Air! Library! (saw them live with Interpol and were actually quite good, but are now defunct)
The AVClub put up an excellent, brain damage-inducing roundup of last year's absolute worst:
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/57488
Choice selections:
Brutal Dildos
Honkytonk Homeslice
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza (seriously, WTF?)
Here Comes Old Vodka Tits
Death metal bands never cease to amaze by their vapid attempts at scandalous obscenity. Too many examples to cite; just combine something along the lines of [dead body (preferably a child)]+[religious reference]+[verb denoting fornication or murder]
Oh, and enough with bands having the words "fire/flame," "wolf," "white," or "black." Too goddamn many already.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - who forgot them?
And "Cute is What We Aim For" never quite tripped my trigger. It's like they shot Death Cab for Cutie or something. Stupid.
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GODSMACK
SOLAR ANUS
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Isn't there a band on the charts right now that goes by the name Skillet? Now that's a shit band name.
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elvis hitler ?
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Staind
The Disco Biscuits
Crash Test Dummies
Weather Report
The Velvet Underground (possibly the highest ratio of awesomeness to shit band name)
String Cheese Incident
At The Drive-In
Steely Dan
Savage Garden
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Guess Who
Fountains of Wayne
Lollipop Lust Kill
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Four words: Red Hot Chili Peppers.
And I know we're not supposed to reference metal, but "Cattle Decapitation" might be the worst band ever in the history of ever.
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HOOBASTANK...I mean come on...
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You are all forgetting about the worst band name of all time:
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH
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gorky's zygotic mynci outta be up there
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Some of these are more obscure than others...
The Automatic Automatic
T.I.T.S.
Measles Mumps Rubella
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Tralala
Someone Still Love You Boris Yeltsin (love it or hate it)
!!!
Priestbird
Shout Out Out Out Out (wait, is that 3 or 4 outs?)
I love them, but Handsome Furs???
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HELLO! the Vaselines, my chemical romance come on!
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Modest mouse.....
Simple Minds.....
My Bloody Valentine (I mean come on).....
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I remember a review years ago in a hardrock magazine of an EP by a band called Vampire State Building. Actually, I have always remembered it because I thought it was such a brilliant name, but I figured I'd post it here anyway :)
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what about dm21-i21-39mna ?
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Circle of Dead Children
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Wake Up on Fire
Boyz II Men
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Where's Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
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Can we start a Best Band Names ever list? I'll submit the best one I've ever heard:
Probably Vampires
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I am a big Jason Molina fan, but nonetheless, Songs:Ohia was a terrible name. Magnolia Electric Co is much better.
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OOIIOO
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Shit Disco anyone? I also hate Babyshambles, as it ruins a legitimately badass, rock-star reputation. And no one has mentioned the annoying period of Prince using some doodle sign.
Also, NME has a weekly nomination of worst band names. Most of unheard of, but still makes you think. Why start a band if it no one can say the bands name with a straight face?
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what about the Samuel Jackson Five? Great postrock band and a really ridiculous band name...
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New Fast Automatic Daffodils
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I gotta admit, much as I love Of Montreal, any band that starts their name with a preposition such as Of is sorta asking for it.
Also, Final Fantasy.I love his work, but his name so hard to explain without confusion.
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Though not a real band (from the British TV show Peep Show), I always liked/hated 'Mama's Cumquat'.
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I think Minus the Bear is such a stupid band name. I refuse to listen to that band based on that horrid name alone.
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Puddle of Mudd is a perfectly reasonable name (band sucks though) and the Smashing Pumpkins is a joke that sounds cool. And Anal Cunt and Meat Shits deserve a place as well.
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What do you think about The Circle Jerks..
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yeah, 'better than ezra' is a terrible, awful band name. other nominees - spooky tooth, sigue sigue sputnik, who else - blue swede, nurse with wound, bone thugs 'n' harmony, dead kennedys (is not on the list!!!???), revolting cocks, steely dan, orchestral maneuvers in the dark, nitzer ebb, gwar, PM Dawn, ok i better stop with that! agree with 'clap your hands say yeah' - ugh dear god...but i think most indie rock bands coming out these days have names which are way too self-consciously trying to be cutesy, its really annoying.
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oh my god, how could I forget 80's canadian 'rockers' - THE BLOW MONKEYS
???
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What about God Lives Underwater
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Puddle of Mudd is absolutely not a reasonable band name, unless you use the rationale that spelling "mudd" with two "d"s is insanely stupid, and thus fitting for an insanely stupid band.
This is one of the only band names on Cracked's list that I thought really deserved it.
The Mr. T Experience is an awesomely-named awesome band. For reals. And Fountains of Wayne is a cool name too.
I have to put a vote in for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! Put them in with Puddle of Mudd in the category of "bands with stupid names that suck," along with Cute Is What We Aim For.
Scary Kids Scaring Kids is a crap name.
I hope someone names a band Clit-Ass-Trophy someday (rhymes with "catastrophe"), and makes a list like this one.
The more I think about it and visualize, the cooler "Porno For Pyros" really is.
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Simian Mobile Disco is a stupid name, imo, as well.
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sunn 0)))
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okay, not a big fan of their music, but panic! at the disco is a perfect name for the band- circus-y, emo-y, c'mon
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i feel like The The should be on here. who am i to say, though?
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The The are #14 on the list.
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it's really too bad that !!! didn't make the list.
that's most annoying of all names in history..
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor, ring any bells?
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I'm going to have to go out on a luimb here and say "Radiohead" is the shittest band name in history. Shit band, shit name. Total shit.
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And before it turns into pedants corner here, apologies for the misspelling of "limb" in my previous post.
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Re: Rygun at June 28, 2007 1:41 AM
it's really too bad that !!! didn't make the list.
that's most annoying of all names in history..
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Checck it again. It's Number 1.
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You left out "String Cheese Incident."
That was a mistake.
Admit it, Stereogum, you made a mistake. You forgot about String Cheese Incident, didn't you? Admit it!
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Deep Blue Something
The Slugs Tits
(and although I love them) Duran Duran
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Just an fyi The Automatic Automatic are really just The Automatic, I guess they had to change it because a US band already had the name.
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I truly dislike Alexisonfire
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Ditto Alexisonfire. Is it supposed to be Alex Is on Fire or Alexis on Fire? Fuck that.
I love Duran Duran, too, but their name is crap. Maybe that's why I think Duran Duran Duran is such an awesome name.
As for all of the crappy emo/metal bands like on Fuse or whatever, how hard is it to come up with a GOOD word to name you band after? Not something that sounds like the main character in some lonely English major's unpublished fantasy novel.
I'm guilty of the ! sin. I started a band last year called Yes We Can!. But that wasn't as bad as my bass player's subsequent metal band Aunt Rosie's Roadside Freakshow. My friend Derek and I tried to start a band, but we spent more time trying to come up with a good name before we settled on Eck, a reference to Johnny Eckhart, which is terrible. I would've gone with Khango, which is equally terrible. His friend Matt had an ridiculous (in a good way) name for a metal band, however: Death or Death. I chuckle whenever someone mentions it. Sorry if I seem like I'm plugging a bunch of bands I was in, but I'm just saying coming up with a name is hard business. In all fairness, all of these bands are defunct and never recorded anything.
Oh yeah, I was glad to see Natives of the New Dawn make the AV Club list. The only reason I knew about them was because I knew the lead singer's underage girlfriend. But they're based in Detroit and both of us lived in North Carolina. The last time I saw that girl was the first half of her senior year of high school when she threw up and passed out on the floor of my drama class and never came back to school. Then I found out she had a baby. But anyway, that's a shitty, pretentious name by a band with a shit sound.
I think I'm done.
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Oh yeah, as for Akron/Family, I've always just said "Akron Family."
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There is a vast goldmine of awful band names that has yet to be tapped on this thread, and that is band names with "ska" in them. Some of the worst include:
The Skaskank Redemption (I'm pretty sure there were two bands named this for awhile)
Oskama bin' Skankin' and the Skaliband (for real; they have a MySpace page)
Skanorrhea and the Burning Sensations
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I'm not too upset with this list, but it is missing an awesome and awesomely bad named band: A Hawk and a Hacksaw.
Most inappropriately named band? Barenaked Ladies. For obvious, testosterone related reasons.
And while I love them, I do think Kings of Convenience is a pretty stupid name.
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BeatallicA ... and their album- Sergeant Hetfield and the Motorbreath Pub Band. Shitty band and even worse name.
I agreed re:Limp Bizkit. They should win anything that helps them carry on their heavy weight champions of suck title.
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Shittiest Name Ever + Shittiest Band Ever = Shiny Toy Guns
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The exclamation point thing is way overdone at this point. Bring on the question mark!
Alexisonfire?
Akron/Family?
!!!?
Limp Bizkit?
Ah...that'll be the day...
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I'd like to submit a band name to the post calling for best names of all time.
My entries:
The Damned
The Sex Pistols
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Black Sabbath
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slaughter and the dogs, wham, urban cookie collective, mr wiggles magic skin flute, ok that last one i made up but i think i might rename my band it now
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oh yeah i forgort sigue sigue sputnick, explain that one for me please
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and neds atomic dustbin, what drugs were them fuckers on
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I just thought of one. Fisted Sister. If that's not a band, it needs to be.
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I'm glad to see that people here are really digging up the good ones, since the original list is really lame. Half of the list are actually fairly smart names (although pretty lame) that the list maker apparently didn't get and have proven their ability to stick in our minds over the years. I personally think Panic! at the disco is a great name, although I don't like the music. !!! deserves a prize for being so annoying that everyone talks about the name, even if they've never heard the music. That suits the attitude of the band too.
Here's my two cents:
- The Sisters of Mercy (one of my fave bands, but what the fuck!)
- All Girl Summer Fun Band
- The Kevin Costners
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BILLY TALENT. makes me cringe every time i hear it.
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What about Butthole Surfers?
Halo of Flies...kind of like the imagery, though.
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How about Barnyard Slut?
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Oh yeah. Professor Murder. Love them, but dumb name. I know that it's intentionally stupid (which suits them) and it's a Mr. Show reference, but still, Professor Murder? It's just kind of awkward. I like it and dislike it at the same time.
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#1 most rediculous band name of all time...
GOBLIN COCK
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Bachman Turner Overdrive.
I think the 70s win for bad band names. Bachman Turner Overdrive is my least favorite. At least others are trying to be silly/funny. BTO is trying to be badass (!Overdrive!) but end up sounding like a lawfirm.
I guess it's an improvement over their original name - Brave Belt.
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NEW FAST AUTOMATIC DAFFODILS
(from Manchester UK, had a minor alt radio hit with "Stockholm, and defo the worst name ever)
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mmm... powerman 5000?
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That SHTEWpid new one: Mute Math
?!
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How has no one mentioned Harvey Danger, the shittiest fucking name in recorded human history?
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Butthole Surfers belongs simultaneously in the top 5 best and worst band names of all time.
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yeah, i don't really like their music at all, but me first and the gimme gimmes is probably the best band name i've ever heard of.
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Has anyone here mentioned Nashville Pussy? Ick.
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Or Harry Pussy, for that matter? Pussy Galore?
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"Southern Culture On The Skids"?
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Sweatpant Boners
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Fall Out Boy
should be on there somewhere.
Green Day...(they are great), but what's up with they name?
Green Jelly (really wtf?)
Foo fighters (what's a foo)
the Beastie Boys
Dixi Chix (they suck, and what's a dixi, that's now how you spell CHICKS)
there are so many more retarded names, that have absoutley no meaning what so ever.
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i'm going through my iTunes:
ambulance ltd.
big japan
big star
cat power
dntel
electric light orchestra
every move a picture
enon
goldfrapp
her space holiday
king crimson
murder city devils
the sea and cake
silversun pickups
the starlight mints
stellastarr*
stereo total
these arms are snakes
weezer
c'mon, cracked.com.
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this band i once knew....'lame and bitching on music blogs about worthless shit' comes to mind.
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foo fighters is understandable... im gonna say, the "ozark mountain daredevils" should be in there if STP is in there, and how bout the butthole surfers ... pink floyd... pretty much 8-9 out of 10 names on any list are rediculous
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led zeppelin .. they are the only band i can truly think of with a great and meaningful name... killswitch engage... that has some meaning because of their musical direction ........... judas priest, another symbolization of the standings of the band .... the who is good cuz its kinda a joke and the rolling stones pictured their success within their name ... alterbridge - theres one, since they are supposedly a christian alternative rock group . im just wonderin how the beatles are bad? they changed their name to be catchy but contain the word "beat"... if thats ridiculous then i dont know wat earths coming to
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DANITY KANE.
And, on a tangent, () is the stupidest name for an album (or just plain the worst title for anything) - ever.
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How come no one has said jimmie's chicken shack yet? God that's such a piece of shit band name along with...
the all-american rejects
am/fm
au
audioslave
biffy clyro
blessid union of souls
brand new
buckcherry
cross my heart
our lady peace...i can't take this anymore my list ends.
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Cross My Heart were awesome. I just have to say that because no one knows them.
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'Smashing Pumpkins is British slang for nice tits.'
Uh, no it isn't.
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The Dead Kenny-G's
The Steve Gutenband
Skabba The Hut (Bravery fans?...)
The Ass Ponys
All of these are equally amazing as they are bad.
There is also a band kicking around upstate New York and beyond (whom I am a huge fan of) called:
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
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I think that !!! should be given honorable mention for creating a bandname that, when spoken out loud, makes the speaker sound like they have some horrendous vocal tick. For instance, when I was raving to my mother about seeing !!! live, I was forced to repeatedly say the chk chk chk, and just the next day she took me to get a catscan to be sure I didn't have some brain tumor destroying my vocal abilities, and when that came back fine I was shuffled straight over to the vocal therapist. I quickly became the golden boy by overcoming my pre-mammalian guttural throat stutter in record time, but it was still a rather unneeded excursion all on account of a band.
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^ Ha!
I agree with the whole "incorrect spelling and numbers" thing. Worst ones I can think of that no one's mentioned:
Little Blue Crunchy Things (I saw them once on the Jenny Lewis show and I only remember them because of their hideous name).
Dope
Bran Van 3000
Ted Nugent Probably Smells Like Corn Chips
The Number 12 Looks Like You (I hate it because they're obviously *trying* to come up with a crappy name, and yet it's so bad that it's almost avant garde.)
The best band name I can think of is a band from my high school called The Atoms Family.
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The best band name "Duran Duran Duran"
I was pretty disappointed in America when "Fall Out Boy" became legit.
Really? A Simpsons reference...? Thats good enough for you?
sigh...
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Electric Lights Flashing Very Fast. Pretty good band, but still.
And Def Leppard is an awesome band name, as is The Smashing Pumpkins, but I'm glad to see Chumbawamba made the list.
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Hm, I've never heard of Number Twelve Looks Like You before, but I'm intrigued. Always fun to meet a fellow Twilight Zone enthusiast.
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Haircut 100
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"Spookytooth" ................ ftw
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Lothar & the Hand People
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Echo and the bunnymen? Sounds amzazing, but is absolute rubbish.
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Did anyone mention Snow Patrol? Maybe it should be Yellow Snow Patrol.
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MEN WITHOUT HATS - dumbest band name of all time.
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I do not like it when bands leave out punctuation such as Gatsbys American Dream and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.
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BANANARAMA people... BANANARAMA.
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"there are so many more retarded names, that have absoutley no meaning what so ever."
Foo Fighters are named after a bit of WWII jargon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter). And if you don't know what Dixie (which you misspelled) means, you must not be from the US. Maybe you should look things up before assuming that they're meaningless.
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Hentai Cum dungeon. Real Band I swear.
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wow, there are some really terrible, stupid suggestions on here. for most ridiculous band name of all time, someone suggests 'big star'? what an idiot!
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I haven't read all the comments, but Vomit Launch's career was certainly hindered by its name.
Iowa City, Iowa once had bands called Marcia Brady's Tits and Odlid! (the exclamation point is part of the band's name; spell it backwards and wonder how their CD ever got sold at Wal-Mart).
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This changed from "Worst band names" to "Best band names" really fast.
What about Betty's Not A Vitamin?
Or Gaye Bykers on Acid (here we go with misspellings again) or their counterparts, Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds?
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yeah !!! whoo!!!
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Leftover Salmon!
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um...what about PEARL JAM ? Come on (er, pardon the pun). How'd they ever get away with that anyway?
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What about the ones like MC Hammer to Hammer?
or Puff Daddy to P Diddy to just Diddy?
There are so many but these are mostly ridiculous:
Bubba Sparxxx
Dirty On Purpose
Thunderbirds Are Now!
The Go! Team
Eminem
Architecture in Helsinki
Hot Hot Heat
Zero 7
She Wants Revenge
My Morning Jacket
Bitter:Sweet (not too many with colons are there)
Clear Static (another oxymoron)
The Boy Least Likely To
The Like
Silversun Pickups
Be Your Own Pet
Elbow
Nine Black Alps
Shout Out Louds
Stars of Track and Field
Aqualung
Film School
Dashboard Confessional
Boys Like Girls
They Shoot Horses, Don't They
The Academy Is...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - one of the first bad ones I immediately took notice to
Genius:
Sam Champion - He's a NYC area weatherman.
Le Castle Vania
Air - genius or ridiculous?
Test Icicles - I love it
His Boy Elroy
CunninLynguists
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Actually, Eminem is pretty clever when you think about it. Eminem = M&M = Marshall Mathers - his initials.
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Super Furry Animals
SPiTZZ
Ween
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wat about falloutboy??
i mean i love them but seriously?? wat kind of name is that??
and is anybody else actually reading the list?? i keep seeing commetns for 'why isnt smashing pumkins or the the on there? casue those are really weird names 2!'
well if you arent a complete retard and if u look on the list you will see that they ARE ACTUALLY THERE ON THE STUPID LIST!!!!!
glad i could be of service :)
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Fall Out Boy
Bullet For My Valentine
Pavement
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Not sure if it counts because it's a fictional band but it's goddamn stupid.)
Harry and the Potters and all derivatives (Draco and the Malfoys, Ron and the Weasleys, etc)
(and it's Brendon Urie. Just thought I should point that out. Otherwise you'd get mauled by 14-year-old weemo's)
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Hey Neil Wheatley! Thanks for considering us in your personal most ridiculous band name in rock history.
For those who don't "get" the name, go rent Police Academy.
Four: Citizens on Patrol.
or Short Circuit.
3 Men and a Baby. Classic.
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WHAT ABOUT THE FOX BORO HOT TUBBS?????!!!!!!!!
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Uhh,
3OH!3 (Its said like 3 0 3)
The Academy Is......
Blink-182
Cannibal Corpse (can't believe nobody got that)
The Devil Wears Prada
Backseat Goodbye
Brokencyde
Bullet for my Valentine
Chiodos
Dance Gavin Dance
Dot Dot Curve :) (yes the smiley is part of it)
Eiffel 65
Escape the Fate
Every Time I Die
Goatwhore
Hey Monday ( Huh?)
Hyper Crush
I am X-Ray
LMFAO (come on guys......)
Never Shout Never!
Nickasaur!
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
PlayRadioPlay
Slow Motion Noise
Suicide Silence
Tune Up!
Ultra Violent Sound
Watchout! Theres Ghosts!
Any of these could have made that list.....
And I'm not just bagging on bands I don't like. Some of these are from my Itunes, and some are from my friends with, well, poor taste in music.. haha.
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