Ludicrously terrible band names

[dave from knoxville]

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.

[Sploops]

I don't know if Anal Cunt is a ludicrously terrible or ludicrously awesome band name but it certainly is ludicrous.

[TL]

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".

[yesno]

I've seen A.C. live. They were not that intense.

[gravy boat]

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(?).

[todd]

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.

[courtney]

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

[Phantom Hugger]

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.

[Martin]

Classic:

The Canonical List of Weird Band Names

Endless fun.

[Pat K]

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.

[John Junk 2.0]

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.