Worst Band Name Ever
 

Just scanning through my music, and I find many ridiculous band names (J+J+J, Ethel Meserve, !!!), which made made me think - what is the worst band name of all time???

So for discussion, list your worst 1-3 bands and why it is a stupid name. I'll go first.


1. The Presidents of the United States of America - From the moment I heard this band name many years ago, I thought it was stupid. Who wants to think about the president when you're listening to music, I mean why not - the House of Representatives or the Supreme Court? Horrible name - horrible band.
2. The Monkees - First off, it's not even spelled correctly. And when I start to ponder the name, I get really bad images in my mind. There's lots of other animals out there to name yourself after without the extra connotation baggae of a monke(y)e.
3. The The - Either clever as hell, or stupid as hell - I vote for the latter.

All right, your turn, what other horrible band names exist?

Crash Test Dummies

I'm not disagreeing, but Presidents of the United States of Amercia = Pot USA

I absolutely love the band but The Yeah yeah yeahs

The Monkees were modeled after The Beatles, thus the misspelled animal name.

My vote goes for that classic early sludge metal band Fudge Tunnel, because it's ass. On that note, I have to add The Butthole Surfers. Shitty name, dude. I'd rather hang with the Meat Puppets but they're dicks. I'd add Coldplay simply because I hate 'em but their name's okay so I'll not do that.

Did a thread like this on a metal board I am on.. here are some of the ones from there.

Bowling For Soup

My Chemical Romance

Cinderella

The Butthole Surfers

Nickelback

Anal Mucus

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

No Use For a Name

Hoobastank

Limp Bizkit

Reliant K

Wham!

Reel Big Fish

Alien Ant Farm

The Flying Burrito Brothers

Dee Dee and the Dishrags

Anal Cunt
The Sweatpant Boners

But I'll tell you 3 band names that don't exist but should:

1) Feces Bazooka
2) Mike Dexter and the Dopest Guys In School
3) The Twat Jockeys

All-around winner for worst band with the worst name:

INXS

Whether I like the band or not, I actually think INXS does what a band name should. It's short and catchy, has a double meaning and it's clever. I remember when they first hit in the early 80s and their name was definitely a topic of conversation the day after they first aired on MTV. Of course, they were no Bananarama.

Silverchair

I had a friend once that had named his band BLOOD FART

Its easy to have a shitty name when you are a no name band but i think SMASHING PUMPKINS wins for best band with a bad name.

If ya think about it...smashing pumkins? WTF?

Smashing Pumpkins sounds like a FUN name!!

Much better than MeatLoaf!

haha i dunno man.......agreed that the band rocks.........but I def used to looked forward to halloween when i was younger just so i could smash some and blast some Geek USA or Zero

You know what? I'm changing my vote to meatloaf. Fucking fatass couldn't think of anything else. Had to call himself whatever was in his mouth at the time.

Actually, Meat Loaf was a nickname given to him in high school by his football coach. Not that it suddenly is a better nickname because he didn't give it to himself or anything...

OGGRTEFAA- Our God Given Right To Eat Fred Austaire's Asshole.

We had a band in High school called "The Pork Hunts" (stole the name though!)

Theres a band here in Oz called TISM which is short for This Is Serious Mom. They had such hits as "I might be a cunt, but at least i'm not a fucking cunt" I might see if I can upload an album.

AND you can't tell me "Hootie and the Blowfish" doesn't sound like some gay felching experiment>

TOTO

Menudo

The Village People

The Revolting Cocks

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Bongwater

Yes, Anal Cunt (aka A.C.) how could I forget about this aweful band with such lovely albums as 50 More Reasons to Hate Us

The Twat Jockeys is a good one.
Better than LIMP BIZKIT!

Dem Franchize Boyz. That name makes me think demz Stoopid.

And the one I hate the most is.........................................

Does It Offend You, Yeah?.

That name sucks, and I haven't heard their music and I don't plan on it. I just can't imagine how awesome their music must be.

Mister Mister
Hanoi rocks
The Bullet Boys
and well pick a lame ass 80's failure band.

-Winger
-Ratt
-Cinderella
-Butthole Surfers
-Nada Surf

i've always hated bananarama

Chumbawumba? tub-thumping, anyone?

OH GOD!!! I thought that I had totally erased that from my memory banks!

worst band name = Morningwood

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by the way...

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah = a good band name

totally random but my friend kristen is touring with them right now

im a fan of this band...and the name

You people are missing something:

The band's attitude and sense of humor.

Smashing Pumpkins is a GREAT name for that band, nothing is worse than walking outside on Halloween and finding the pumpkin you worked so hard to carve smashed to pieces into a mess on your front stoop.

Butthole Surfers: How serious do you think these guys are? If you don't know that the name is a total joke, then lets be honest...

The Presidents of the United States of America goes under the same basic idea as Butthole Surfers. The only really stupid names are the ones that have no bearing what-so-ever with the band's sound or attitude, such as Fall Out Boy or Zwan

I don't think anyone was going that deeply into these band names. Of course those bands joking. Stop taking all the fun out of this game. :rolleyes:

I'm just saying, you can't run around bashing the name of something unless there's a reason. It's a bit like saying RED IS STUPID or posting "heres my tits!" without an attached picture. The only stupid name is one derived strictly to be catchy and cause hype, yet has no bearing on the sound, mood, feel, or message of the band itself.

I still say you're thinking too much about this topic.

On the surface, Pink Floyd is kind of a dumb name, but we all know Pink Floyd's not dumb. It's like with tits, don't think so much and just enjoy the game. I mean, very few bands' names actually describe their sound. Metallica comes to mind but not many others. Rush doesn't describe their sound. Alice Cooper doesn't describe his sound. But who cares? Band names are meant to catch your attention. That's what they are for. This discussion is about those names, not the bands...

Aw fuck. :mad: You ruined it for me. You made me think about it instead of just enjoying it. That fucking sucks. Blah blah blah Smashing pumpkins is a good name. Go start a thread for good band names and post that in there. That can be your 9th post.

You're going to mock my post count? Good one.
I'm not trying to turn this into a shitsling debate, I'm pointing out something fairly vital to the topic. Adding a little bit of depth. If you don't like that, go make your own post about favorite colors and get out of my face.

50 of the Worst Ever
 

This site has a good compiling of the worst offenders.

A few to note: "!!!", Chumbawamba, "Wow, owls", New Found Glory, Wham!...

http://progressiveboink.com/archive/worstbandnames.html

HAHAHA

Mocking your post count? Nah. Pointing out that perhaps you don't yet have your finger on the pulse of this place? Oh yes.

The problem here, though, is that it's my face that you are in. You earn your place here and normally, it's after you get poked with a sharp implement a few times. I am of the opinion that there is nothing vital about this topic. After all, Led Zeppelin were named from a joke Keith Moon told. Had Keith been too drunk to speak that day, they might have used another name, perhaps Chocolate Banana shall we say? We'd be rocking to the fucking Banana just the way we rock to the fucking Zeppelin.

Again, n00b (since fellow boardies brought that term up, I say that we are discussing band names here, not bands. However, you were within your rights to respond with your opinion. Your opinion, however, was slightly off the topic. You need to grow a thicker skin if you plan on sticking around.

After all, I could have simply said

STFU n00b!

but I didn't. We're civilized here. :rolleyes:

Thicker skin? You're the one shitting bricks about my post.
Sorry, toots. As far as having a grasp about this place, I thought it was a decent place to post, but if you and your forum buddies want to circle-jerk over the fact that I don't have your quadruple digit post count, then be my guest. I joined this place because there seemed to be people, not jackasses (case in hand).

As for anyone else in the topic, I apologize for these chain of posts.
Now be a big boy and drop this, since we're clearly shitting up the topic.