― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:35 (twenty years ago) link
Limp Bizkit and Puddle of Mudd and Queens of the (new ?) stone age..The worst possible names. But maybe were all out of sync with what sounds cool these days...
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
You think Queens of the Stone Age is "the worst possible name"? On what grounds? Do you think you might look gay if you wear their T-shirt?
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:48 (twenty years ago) link
NOFX. I hate names that I can't figure out how to say.
― Debito (Debito), Saturday, 29 November 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Iam Anonentity, Saturday, 29 November 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
Seems to me a pretty clever name. I likes.
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 29 November 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
also: The Cranberry Saw Us. Nearly as unforgiveable as the band they eventually became.
I also thought Pussy Crush was a horrible sounding name.
― Neil FC (Neil FC), Saturday, 29 November 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Angus Gordon (angusg), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link
I think An Emotional Fish actually has a good name. It says anomie or alienation but also passion at the same time.
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:26 (twenty years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
I've always liked "Deftones" as a play of words on being tone deaf.
― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link
DufusMoldy PeachesI Love You But I've Chosen DarknessSpeedball BabyINXS
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link
4. Hootie & the Blowfish[...]6. An Emotional Fish[...}9. Phish
Hmmm...
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link
bands with stupid names that i nonetheless adore:echo and the bunnymenwe've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use itbutthole surfersthe tubeway army
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
also XBXRX is incredible
death before dying is the worst name I'm ever heard though
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link
― kinski (kinski), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
On topic: Frozen Ghost. Glass Tiger. White Lion.
But who am I to talk? I was in a band called Desert Ice. And I named it! (I was 15! I swear!)
― spittle (spittle), Sunday, 30 November 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link
However, I like His Name is Alive, for the soul reason as it sounds good when said aloud. That's the biggest problem I had when trying to come up with a band name, getting to something that I could tell people without being embarassed. I still haven't done it.
Bad band names of my own: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. Godspeed You Black Emperor. And that's true, I still can't bring myself to listen to either bands music... and when my friend's play them in their cars, I try my best to tune it out.
― David Allen, Sunday, 30 November 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 30 November 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
Super Furry Animalsdefinitely second Hoobastank -- obliquely evoking crotch-rot does not a good band name makeany jam band name that references eatin', dirty shit, or drugs
― Clarke B., Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
not that i could ever possibly like ska anyway.
― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, this is just flatly unacceptable to me.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Blahde Blah, Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johann (johann), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Cunninlynguists
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 24 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Fuck them.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link