Ludicrously terrible band names

[Pat K]

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!

[emma]

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

[iAmBaronVonTito]

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

that comic spells RELEVANT to this thread.  nice find.

[Turf Out]

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.

[Martin]

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.

[Pat K]

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.

[Turf Out]

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!

[courtney]

i used to get a chuckle from the names of lincoln bands opium taylor and urethra franklin.

Ahhhh ... the good ol' days ....

[Turf Out]

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..

[cavorting with nudists]

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/

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."

[dudep]

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."

[Dan of Orange]

Anyone done 'Ted Dancin' yet?

[cavorting with nudists]

Of course they have: http://www.myspace.com/ted_dancin

Wait--was this a setup?  Are YOU Ted Dancin'?

[Dan of Orange]

I meant has anyone mentioned 'Ted Dancin'. It's a great/awful one. 

[emma]

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?