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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: emdasher on July 19, 2008, 06:35:02 PM
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A friend of mine wrote a screenplay in which she mocked the silliness of emo/screamo culture. So naturally, when band names like Scary Kids Scaring Kids popped up, I assumed she had made them up for comic effect. She hadn't.
Turns out this particular sub-genre is fertile ground for unbelievably terrible band names. Killbrand? Pierce the Veil? Breathe Carolina? Is this supposed to be some sort of in-joke, or are bands actually giving themselves these names in earnest?
It could be that ANY name a screamo band calls itself is going to sound terrible, and that good bands are more easily forgiven for having bad names. Or maybe the music itself has nothing to do with this.
What are the worst band names ever? And, what are the best bands with the worst names?
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On topic, while metal is the usual culprit I have a special hatred of punning ska band names. I shan't type them here.
Off topic, "veil piercing" is an important corporate law concept, but it's "reverse veil piercing" that really gets me giggling.
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Breathe Carolina?
Reminds me of Shallow, North Dakota who were from Hamilton, ON, not ND. Anyway, I liked them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51icu_dPeIo
Weird and bad band names certainly aren't anything new or specific to one genre.
Also, for yesno: :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwcDGJ3pVHU
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You.May.Die.in.the.Desert is pretty bad.
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Take out the periods and it wouldn't be quite so obnoxious.
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I remember a slight twinge of embarrassment when I bought The New Pornographers' first album in 2000. Admittedly I was just entering my teenage years at the time, so for me that was tantamount to a sexual awakening.
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Take out the periods and it wouldn't be quite so obnoxious.
Bands with excessive punctuation in their name are easy targets. Sunn 0))).
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Sunn 0))) is a great name, I think.
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Sunn 0))) is a great name, I think.
How about the 5.6.7.8's?
I like Stellastarr* but hate their name.
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How about the 5.6.7.8's?
Pretty bad. :-\
Kinda reminds me of 764-HERO which were named after the (still) phone number for reporting carpool lane violators in Washington State. Even though I "get" the name, I still never cared much for it.
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Off topic, "veil piercing" is an important corporate law concept, but it's "reverse veil piercing" that really gets me giggling.
Spring 08 flashbacks... Gross!
The Onion's annual compilation of bad band names is always a good read. http://www.avclub.com/content/node/71396
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The Onion's annual compilation of bad band names is always a good read. http://www.avclub.com/content/node/71396
Thanks for reminding me about The Wonder Years. How did their album Get Stoked on It! possibly only get one star (http://www.punknews.org/review/6787)? (My favorite thing on those sorts of reviews is always the fan who finds it a year after it was published and long buried in the archives and feels the need to tell everyone else how they just don't appreciate the genius of the band in question.)
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I think I might have said this sometime in the chat or in a thread or something, but I once had a friend in a techno-ska band called "Fuck You". Seriously. We had a ridiculous number of arguments (after he had t-shirts made) about whether this was the best or the worst idea ever. I am still unsure.
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I think the techno-ska part might be the worst idea.
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techno-ska band called "Fuck You".
Holy moley, that's like an idea borne in the sixth circle of hell. :D
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I think the techno-ska part might be the worst idea.
I think I figured it was easier to convince someone that they had picked an awful band name than to convince them they had picked an awful band.
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I think the techno-ska part might be the worst idea.
I think I figured it was easier to convince someone that they had picked an awful band name than to convince them they had picked an awful band.
A friend of mine in Asheville called his band "The Mathmatics," because he was drunk when he designed the flyer.
I'd take that over Does That Offend You Yeah?, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Saturday Looks Good To Me. If you can't think of a one- or two-word name, or if you think a "funny" name is going to help, the world doesn't need your band.
I stay away from Hot Topic, Autumn Ashes Die Death screamo because it's clearly not intended for me. But I've never heard any genre of music that's simultaneously that stupid and that not-fun.
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I think the techno-ska part might be the worst idea.
I think I figured it was easier to convince someone that they had picked an awful band name than to convince them they had picked an awful band.
A friend of mine in Asheville called his band "The Mathmatics," because he was drunk when he designed the flyer.
I'd take that over Does That Offend You Yeah?, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Saturday Looks Good To Me. If you can't think of a one- or two-word name, or if you think a "funny" name is going to help, the world doesn't need your band.
I stay away from Hot Topic, Autumn Ashes Die Death screamo because it's clearly not intended for me. But I've never heard any genre of music that's simultaneously that stupid and that not-fun.
You just said a mouthful - OF TRUTH!
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Best band with a horrendous name:
Masters of Reality
Best band with a name I haven't been able to decide whether or not is horrendous:
Rhinobucket
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I just Googled for "I hate you the ghost of anwar sadat" and found this blog...
http://18rabbitscircleblog.blogspot.com/
...which is probably owned by a prominent FoT, but I'm not in the loop enough to know who.
I think the techno-ska part might be the worst idea.
No worse than skambient.
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Damn. Google confirms I did not just make up "skambient".
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Damn. Google confirms I did not just make up "skambient".
Results 1 - 9 of 9 for skambient
That's hilarious. :D
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I can't decide if knowing the origin of a band's name makes me like it more or less.
From Wikipedia:
"Bettie Serveert are a Dutch indie-rock band. Their name translates to "Bettie Serves," and is taken from a Dutch television program, hosted by Dutch tennis player Bettie Stöve, who made it to the Wimbledon Ladies singles final in 1977."
Oh.
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I just Googled for "I hate you the ghost of anwar sadat" and found this blog...
http://18rabbitscircleblog.blogspot.com/
...which is probably owned by a prominent FoT, but I'm not in the loop enough to know who.
that'll be linus from south south newbridge.
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The only real problem with the name Bettie Serveert is that I'm sure many people assume that it's the lead singer's name when it is not. In and of itself it isn't a bad name though.
I'd probably rate Bettie high as a name due for a comeback even. Good name.
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I just came up with a band name: PizzaWire. Pretty terrible
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Oh, Vampire Weekend. Ugh.
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Ludichrist, who eventually changed their name to Scatterbrain:
[youtube]tb5ug-uSE8I[/youtube]
[youtube]sEr8SYqTc3s[/youtube]
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Back to names with a lot of punctuation, !!! annoys me. It would have helped if I liked their music, but I sold the album back within a week.
Best band with a horrendous name:
Masters of Reality
Don't forget Neutral Milk Hotel. One of my favorite bands, but I think their name dissuaded me from listening to them for quite some time.
IMHO, the worst name of a band EVER: Vertical Horizon. That sounds like a name I would have come up with in 9th grade.
Speaking of which, someone should start a thread about names of bands they were in in high school...if it hasn't been done already.
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terrible band name, terrific album cover:
(http://www.humandeath.de/Multimedia/Repka_Uncle_will.jpg)
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My favorite band name ever? 4 out of 5 Doctors.
I just assume that every band name came from that William Burroughs novel. It makes it easier.
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I don't know if Anal Cunt is a ludicrously terrible or ludicrously awesome band name but it certainly is ludicrous.
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Ludichrist, who eventually changed their name to Scatterbrain:
And got, -ulp- "funky."
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My friend T used to spend a lot of time thinking up ludicrously bad band names. Names that weren't content to just be meaningless, but were just evocative of absolutely nothing, visually, symbolically or otherwise. Names no band in their right mind would advertise.
Our favorite was always: "Mister Kayak".
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I've seen A.C. live. They were not that intense.
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Back to names with a lot of punctuation, !!! annoys me. It would have helped if I liked their music, but I sold the album back within a week.
Something must fall apart in the recording for them (their albums didn't stick with me either) but I remember seeing them live twice* and they were amazing. All 34 of 'em.
For some reason the name TV on the Radio bugs me.
* Once a couple of sets before the Turlet song guy at Siren in 2002(?).
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I just saw !!! live Saturday. Ew boy. I wanted to throw a brick at the singer when he started doing his awful dances.
Dancey hipster garbage, if'n you ask me.
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My friend T used to spend a lot of time thinking up ludicrously bad band names. Names that weren't content to just be meaningless, but were just evocative of absolutely nothing, visually, symbolically or otherwise. Names no band in their right mind would advertise.
Our favorite was always: "Mister Kayak".
My friends and I still do that occasionally.
We were recently trying to decide which is worse: Puppy Ciao! or The Angels of Memory.
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The Velvet Undergrads
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Critters Buggin'
of the Frank Zappa school of overly pedigreed musical zaniness.
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I've seen A.C. live. They were not that intense.
< 30 second songs pretty much never seem as intense live as they do on a record.
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Classic:
The Canonical List of Weird Band Names (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/weirdbandnames/)
Endless fun.
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Wow, how did I miss this thread?
The Onion's annual compilation of bad band names is always a good read. http://www.avclub.com/content/node/71396
My friend knows somebody in Comanche Abortion. I used to go see Let's French all the time in DC. I liked em pretty good.
I'd take that over Does That Offend You Yeah?, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsen, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Saturday Looks Good To Me.
Any band name that is a complete sentence is terrible. My hometown of Buffalo's pride and joy right now is an emo band called Cute Is What We Aim For. That band called I Am The World Trade Center used to really piss me off with their name, but I think something might have made them change it. But Does It Offend You, Yeah? gets my vote for all-time worst band name ever. I'd be embarrased to speak that name aloud to someone.
I used to have a fake metal band that I would post flyers around for called "FEEDBAG", with an umlaut over the "a". Maybe it's time they reunited.
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I Am The World Trade Center would piss me off with their terrible name AND their terrible music.
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"Wolf" bands beat "Yeah" bands, hands down.
As far as sentence-like band names, I actually like the name Godspeed! You Black Emperor.
Part of it was that post-rock reaction against the proliferation of one-word object or verb band names back in the nineties, I think. Those seemed fine at first but definitely got old as the related cliches set in.
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The only real problem with the name Bettie Serveert is that I'm sure many people assume that it's the lead singer's name when it is not.
Band names that could just as easily refer to the singer of the band as they could to the band as a whole are annoying. Like, Alison Goldfrapp sings in the electronic group named Goldfrapp. But Feist is just Leslie Feist.
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Arctic Monkeys. That name is just awful.
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Classic:
The Canonical List of Weird Band Names (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/weirdbandnames/)
Endless fun.
You made my week, Martin. Thank you.
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REO Speeddealer was such an excellent name. Too bad they had to change it.
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People With Chairs Up Their Noses
Organica
and Colostomy Grab-Bag are all pretty terrible.
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The only real problem with the name Bettie Serveert is that I'm sure many people assume that it's the lead singer's name when it is not.
Band names that could just as easily refer to the singer of the band as they could to the band as a whole are annoying. Like, Alison Goldfrapp sings in the electronic group named Goldfrapp. But Feist is just Leslie Feist.
I hate when bands use their last name. Just use your whole name. It's not that long.
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Goblin Cock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_Cock).
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I was just reminded of one my least favorite names and had to share:
Star Fucking Hipsters
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I was just reminded of one my least favorite names and had to share:
Star Fucking Hipsters
The Dandy Warhols changed their name?
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I played guitar in a band in high school that had the worst name ever.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you DEAD MINNOW BUCKET!!
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o313/amplituden/deadminnow.jpg)
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I played guitar in a band in high school that had the worst name ever.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you DEAD MINNOW BUCKET!!
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o313/amplituden/deadminnow.jpg)
Close, but I know a guy who was in a band in high school called "The Sexual Fish."
I'm pretty sure that's worse.
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I played guitar in a band in high school that had the worst name ever.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you DEAD MINNOW BUCKET!!
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o313/amplituden/deadminnow.jpg)
Were you a Dave Matthews Band cover band?
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Dead Minnow Bucket! Amazing.
Please indulge me as I wax nostalgic:
I was in bands in middle school and high school, all with terrible names:
Succubus changed to
Felix Stubble changed to
Amixia (the worst of all!)
I was constantly fighting with the other members of the above bands. My tastes were this weird mix of They Might Be Giants and, like, Native Nod. They all really liked Faith No More and Metallica. Our keyboardist was the biggest Aerosmith fan I've ever met.
Then I joined a band called Subminded (also really bad name!! Doesn't even mean anything) and then we changed our name to Gum Adder (still pretty bad but not as bad).
After college I started a band with some friends called My Three Dads (wtf??!!) .
The Tokeleys was a pretty bad band name too.
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my early bands had names that I am almost embarrassed to type. yes, I came up with most of them.
The End - crappy punk/hardcore influenced non-music.
CutThroat - feeble attempt at being youth-crew style bro-core. standout track: "Shut Up!" a song criticizing white power skins (I don't think we had even had any in-person experience with any, this being middle-class suburbia)
Common Ground - a more "posi" retooling of the previous band. still terrible.
28 Dollars - I was playing with a different set of folks now, and we were now doing Lookout! style pop-punk. Actually had some decent tunes. The name came from an experience we had at a late night diner where a drunken lady came over to our table and told us that a trucker at the other table wanted to have sex with "the one with the eyebrows" (meaning either me or Brian T.) He stated that he would pay $28 for this. After I left this group, they really got into listening to Gish and lsd and changed their name to 28 Days. I got them a gig playing live on Pat Duncan's through Dave Parasite, whose terribly-named band I was kind of in for a few months when I was at Seton Hall (just a handful of practices, no shows).
Litterbox - terrible dumb punk music.
I think I have blocked out a few more.
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After college I started a band with some friends called My Three Dads (wtf??!!) .
This is a good band name.
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After college I started a band with some friends called My Three Dads (wtf??!!) .
This is a good band name.
Keep in mind, this is well before Mamma Mia came out.
KtB, I love the story for 28 Dollars. and them going in a pumpkins direction and changing it to 28 Days is perfect/horrible. They should do a reunion show and the flier should say "28 Days...Later!"
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Bob Seger
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I got them a gig playing live on Pat Duncan's through Dave Parasite, whose terribly-named band I was kind of in for a few months when I was at Seton Hall (just a handful of practices, no shows).
O.k. - stop - this is better than any Chinatown reveal - you were in the PARASITES??
Once when Chisel (oh yeah - talk about bad band names - I was in a band called "Chisel" - WTF?) was doing Pat's show, Dave got so mad at me for goofing around on an older song of theirs that apparently "the other guy" had written, that he stormed out of the session and was never all that friendly toward me again!
It's sad - I liked him.
(Parasites - "Pair of Sides," though? Can we start a bad album title thread?)
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I got them a gig playing live on Pat Duncan's through Dave Parasite, whose terribly-named band I was kind of in for a few months when I was at Seton Hall (just a handful of practices, no shows).
O.k. - stop - this is better than any Chinatown reveal - you were in the PARASITES??
Once when Chisel (oh yeah - talk about bad band names - I was in a band called "Chisel" - WTF?) was doing Pat's show, Dave got so mad at me for goofing around on an older song of theirs that apparently "the other guy" had written, that he stormed out of the session and was never all that friendly toward me again!
It's sad - I liked him.
(Parasites - "Pair of Sides," though? Can we start a bad album title thread?)
yeah, it was only for a little bit, and didn't really go anywhere. That dude could write a pop hook though, I tells ya! The 'other' guy, I believe was the DeeDee character, and I guess they had a falling out after many years together, and now Dave was trying to reform the band. I think he relocated to SF later on and actually got a lineup together.
I gotta give Dave Parasite props for introducing me to wfmu.
another fun fact: the first 'real' show that Common Ground played was at Under the Hut in Olneyville. I do believe that a band called Citizen's Arrest played later in the evening. I bought their 7".
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I got them a gig playing live on Pat Duncan's through Dave Parasite, whose terribly-named band I was kind of in for a few months when I was at Seton Hall (just a handful of practices, no shows).
O.k. - stop - this is better than any Chinatown reveal - you were in the PARASITES??
Once when Chisel (oh yeah - talk about bad band names - I was in a band called "Chisel" - WTF?) was doing Pat's show, Dave got so mad at me for goofing around on an older song of theirs that apparently "the other guy" had written, that he stormed out of the session and was never all that friendly toward me again!
It's sad - I liked him.
(Parasites - "Pair of Sides," though? Can we start a bad album title thread?)
yeah, it was only for a little bit, and didn't really go anywhere. That dude could write a pop hook though, I tells ya! The 'other' guy, I believe was the DeeDee character, and I guess they had a falling out after many years together, and now Dave was trying to reform the band. I think he relocated to SF later on and actually got a lineup together.
I gotta give Dave Parasite props for introducing me to wfmu.
another fun fact: the first 'real' show that Common Ground played was at Under the Hut in Olneyville. I do believe that a band called Citizen's Arrest played later in the evening. I bought their 7".
My mind= blown.
How come we've never talked about this before??
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Momentum Flux.
Our two best songs?
"Run Midget Run" and "Six and a Half Shooter".
I was only 19!
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My mind= blown.
How come we've never talked about this before??
oh that's just an odd little footnote I realized awhile back. small world.
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I think a new low may have been reached:
Rectal Thermom&dad (http://www.myspace.com/rectalthermomdad)
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I think a new low may have been reached:
Rectal Thermom&dad (http://www.myspace.com/rectalthermomdad)
That name took some work to be that bad, so I almost half respect it.
Last night I had the weirdest dream that I was in a GWAR-style shock rock band called Punch, complete with grotesque costumes and a debut album entitled "Spiked!"
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the anarchist vampire.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=61120201
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While I disagree, my boyfriend wants me to put my fake band name "Bron-coitus" in this thread.
I think it's a GREAT band name, but .....
There was also a short-lived band here in Lincoln called Duran Duran Duran.
I thought that was great, too, but ....
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Didn't there used to be a band called Sirhan Duran?
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Abe Vigoda.
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I've heard of a band called "Du-Du-Ran-Ran-Ran Du-Du-Ran-Ran", too. Don't remember where, though. A dream?
Abe Vigoda.
One o' my bands played with those guys last year. I got an Abe Vigoda shirt with a big drawing of these 2 creeepy-looking kids on the front. I really just wanted a shirt that said "Abe Vigoda". When I wear it I always get a "What the hell is that" look from people.
The music's actually pretty fun and so are the guys.
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I seem to recall Donna Summer playing Duran Duran Duran a few times. Pretty great name for an act. Techno, right?
Abe Vigoda is a pretty cute name too.
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Abe Vigoda.
One o' my bands played with those guys last year. I got an Abe Vigoda shirt with a big drawing of these 2 creeepy-looking kids on the front. I really just wanted a shirt that said "Abe Vigoda". When I wear it I always get a "What the hell is that" look from people.
The music's actually pretty fun and so are the guys.
Yeah, I dig on their album. I think they go in the same category as Times New Viking as Great Band/Poorly Thought-Out Name.
I just realized my own personal number one for this thread is, though. A band that's gigging around my town now: Jazzbollah. Like, instead of Hezbollah, get it? 'Cause their jazz is so INTENSE!
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1: JAZBOLLAH! Oh my goodness, is all I can say about that.
2: John Campbell, who I am sort of internet-in-love-with, did a comic for Questionable Content that made me think of this thread:
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head (http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/1196.png)
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1: JAZBOLLAH! Oh my goodness, is all I can say about that.
2: John Campbell, who I am sort of internet-in-love-with, did a comic for Questionable Content that made me think of this thread:
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head (http://www.questionablecontent.net/comics/1196.png)
that comic spells RELEVANT to this thread. nice find.
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While I disagree, my boyfriend wants me to put my fake band name "Bron-coitus" in this thread.
I think it's a GREAT band name, but .....
There was also a short-lived band here in Lincoln called Duran Duran Duran.
I thought that was great, too, but ....
i used to get a chuckle from the names of lincoln bands opium taylor and urethra franklin.
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Real or not, I enjoy band names like Nat King Kong, John Cougar Concentration Camp, Jesus Chrysler Supercar, Lee Harvey Keitel, etc. Puns!
I also like "xx and the zz" bands, like Barbecue Bob and the Spare Ribs, Norman Bates and the Shower Heads, Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellas, Pope John Paul Quartet with Friends and Blowers on the Rocks, etc.
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Real or not, I enjoy band names like Nat King Kong, John Cougar Concentration Camp, Jesus Chrysler Supercar, Lee Harvey Keitel, etc. Puns!
I also like "xx and the zz" bands, like Barbecue Bob and the Spare Ribs, Norman Bates and the Shower Heads, Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellas, Pope John Paul Quartet with Friends and Blowers on the Rocks, etc.
Nat King Kong I would go see based on the name alone.
The key element of "xx and the zz" band names are that the zz be related to the xx. There's some kind of weird zone in my brain where if I hear one of those that is related, it's completely delightful to me, but if I hear one that isn't related, it's inexplicably irritating.
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Real or not, I enjoy band names like Nat King Kong, John Cougar Concentration Camp, Jesus Chrysler Supercar, Lee Harvey Keitel, etc. Puns!
I also like "xx and the zz" bands, like Barbecue Bob and the Spare Ribs, Norman Bates and the Shower Heads, Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellas, Pope John Paul Quartet with Friends and Blowers on the Rocks, etc.
man i LOVE pun band names WAY too much.
REO speedealer!?! hilarious!
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i used to get a chuckle from the names of lincoln bands opium taylor and urethra franklin.
Ahhhh ... the good ol' days ....
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i used to get a chuckle from the names of lincoln bands opium taylor and urethra franklin.
Ahhhh ... the good ol' days ....
i'm still stuck in those old days; sideshow, mercy rule, mousetrap, etc..
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The Onion AV Club's annual review of terrible band names is out, a survey of wince-inducing nomenclature that buggers all description: http://www.avclub.com/articles/2011-the-year-in-band-names,66284/ (http://www.avclub.com/articles/2011-the-year-in-band-names,66284/)
Mit Hamine doesn't make the list. ("Hazmat Modine" is phonemically the closest.) Losers couldn't even come up with something impressively annoying enough to be placed on a level with "Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!" or "Trippple Nippples."
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Cavorting with nudists, thanks for unearthing this great thread. Some truly hilarious and awful entries.
Full disclosure: I was once in a band called "unnecessary buffness."
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Anyone done 'Ted Dancin' yet?
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Of course they have: http://www.myspace.com/ted_dancin (http://www.myspace.com/ted_dancin)
Wait--was this a setup? Are YOU Ted Dancin'?
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I meant has anyone mentioned 'Ted Dancin'. It's a great/awful one.
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A friend of mine used to be in a band called "Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome." Which is obviously terrible, but also maybe sort of the best?
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Hobbits of the Shire would qualify, I think. They were a power/melodic-death-ish metal band from Austin, TX, but I don't think they took themselves too seriously.
The AV Club included them on an old "worst band names of the year" list (2008?) and they prominently featured the link on their Myspace page (when that was a thing).
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My favorite best/worst bandname was an Alberta band in the late eighties/early nineties called Grandpa's Magik Pinecone.
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I am mortified to report that I am kind of getting into this Sun City Girls-associated band from Seattle that plays pretty groovy psychedelicized versions of Southeastern Asian ritual music. Mortified, because in their wisdom they took the name "Master Musicians of [word for revolting practice popularized by gross Japanese porn--bllllaaaagggh, I can't go on]"
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I despise the band name Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Just hate.
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I've got your ludicrously terrible band names right here.
An Emotional Fish.
Sultans of Ping F. C.
Goats Don't Shave.
Apologies if these have come up already.
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Years ago I was slated to open for a touring band called From Bubblegum to Sky. I never heard the band but the name always stuck with me because of how weird and awful it sounded.
In high school I played in a band called the Radioactive Mushrooms. I was all-out punk/Ramones, the bass player was into jam bands and the drummer hated everything except Van Halen. We weren't that good.
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Has anyone said Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus?
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Has anyone said Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus?
Or Shitty Shitty Band Band?
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In high school I played in a band called the Radioactive Mushrooms. I was all-out punk/Ramones, the bass player was into jam bands and the drummer hated everything except Van Halen. We weren't that good.
I would genuinely like to hear how that sounded.
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In high school I played in a band called the Radioactive Mushrooms. I was all-out punk/Ramones, the bass player was into jam bands and the drummer hated everything except Van Halen. We weren't that good.
I would genuinely like to hear how that sounded.
My first band was called "Hemposaurus" and the drummer liked the name so much he got a tattoo of a dinosaur smoking a doob.
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Has anyone said Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus?
Or Shitty Shitty Band Band?
Shitty Shitty was (is?) a fun party band, you can't fault them for having a goofy name!
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In high school I played in a band called the Radioactive Mushrooms. I was all-out punk/Ramones, the bass player was into jam bands and the drummer hated everything except Van Halen. We weren't that good.
I would genuinely like to hear how that sounded.
Oh man, to revisit those demos (if they exist). I can tell you that we did covers of both 'Third Stone From The Sun' AND 'Molly's Lips'. I remember frustratingly trying to get them to learn a Poison Idea song to no avail. Also included were some of my earliest songwriting attempts. Our overall sound was the sound of teenagers disagreeing. Our break up was basically the three of us admitting we were terrible.
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Dump Truck Butterlips
Funkle Sam
Ani Defranco
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CLOUD CULT. I involuntarily shudder/cringe everytime I hear that name said aloud.
I also came across a band recently called RED WANTING BLUE. I'm afraid a blood vessel might burst in my brain if I spend too much time thinking about that one (and what it could possibly mean).
Also, yes -thank you for unearthing this thread!
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This guy Mike I kinda know is a recovering drug addict who teaches English in Sao Paolo. He's a great musician. He played all the instruments himself. He also has the absolute worst band name in the world. Download his EP's.
I can't even type this band name.
http://aidsinyerear.bandcamp.com/ (http://aidsinyerear.bandcamp.com/)
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This guy Mike I kinda know is a recovering drug addict who teaches English in Sao Paolo. He's a great musician. He played all the instruments himself. He also has the absolute worst band name in the world. Download his EP's.
I can't even type this band name.
http://aidsinyerear.bandcamp.com/ (http://aidsinyerear.bandcamp.com/)
GG LIVES!!!
Props for the "Devotional" tag.
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Not a band name but the term "Krautrock" is repulsive to me.
Also the band name Tarkus and Dokken. I must not like the letter "K"
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There was a band called Tarkus? Is there a band called Love Beach?
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Taste Of My Love: The ELP Love Beach Tribute Band
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I just woke up from a dream with one: Marianas Trench Foot.
Amazingly, no Google hits. You can have it, no fee, just points.
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I highlight one of these every week on my radio show ... there's always at least one egregiously bad band name playing in town. Extra points for using the word "funk" or ones that are like a "Before & After" clue on Wheel of Fortune. Here's 10 from the past 5 years ...
Banana Phonetic
Dirigible Ego
Fordoes Me Quite
Keep Me Conscious
Old Men Playing Chess
People With Instruments
Sex Wing Starfighter
Teenage Penis & The Herpes
Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof
Your Mother's Crotch
... and there's oh so many more.