Just searching for posts with a certain band's name will give you dozens of threads similar to this one, of which I've selected fiveBands Who(m) I Have Never Heard Note One Of, But The Name Tells Me All I Need To KnowILM Most Hated 2005Crap Band Name Watch!!!!Bands that are victims of having a name that allowed them to be pre-judged and dismissed by people before being even listened to...Bands that are victims of having a name that allowed them to be pre-judged and dismissed by people before being even listened to...
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Well four threads, five posts.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^yup (cape)
Uh Huh Her
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
ANY band named after a Smiths song (I mean come on..). I generally have a hard time with bands named after other bands' songs or albums. It just seems half-assed. It took me a long time to accept Eric's Trip b/c of this. I probably would have had a problem with Radiohead too, except for that I was unaware of the TH song until well after I was already a RH stan.
― SORCEROUSES..roll on stage! (Pillbox), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.band whose name sounds like something you wouldn't want within a ten foot radius of yourself
Shittiest Ska Bands Names Ever (or Total Skrap):who has the worst name out of all the 'The ....' bands?
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
It Hugs Back
aww these guys are awesome
― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
xxpost: was just thinking of Shakespear's Sister...
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
If I hadnt heard their music right away, there's no way I would have given iliketrains any time of day.
― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, bugger the name - the Baby Animals are shit.
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Until the CD reissues came out, I completely ignored The Lines and also The Sound because I could never remember their humdrum names. Who knew that they created so much jaw-droppingly splendid music? Too bad about those names, though.
― Fishes, You Hit Me With A Flounder (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Shimpboat.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Govt. CheeseGov't MuleBig Head Todd & the MonstersJohnny Hates Jazzmoe
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Cute Is What We Aim For fills me with rage every time I see the name.
― Kickstart My Heartwork (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
"Alex in NYC" is kind of IKEA-grumptious.
― Straight from the Top of My Dom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I am just curious, as this has come up before, but the Jeans aren't angry. We know this, right?
Oh, and the worst: To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie
― grandavis, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I still haven't bothered with Unsane even though I think I might like them.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:53 (fifteen years ago) link
― henry s, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This can't be real. o.o
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't even bring myself to google that.
― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i have no interest in them at all, but
someone still loves you boris yeltsin
has got to be among the worst names ever
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
posters you've written off because of their name...
(j/k)
― bnw, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
^i am glad i checkout out SSLYBY but yeah fuck that really is one of the worst names of all time
― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link
checked out
condo fucks (how could one of my fave bands who have a decent name call their last project like that, my esteem for them has definitely decreased after that.)
...and you will know us by the trail of dead (most ridiculuos name ever? the three dots in the beginning are the top of the icing. never really listened to them)
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The Strange Fruit Projectany the ______ project, really
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 06:47 (fifteen years ago) link
henry cow, fad gadget
― Zeno, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i dismissed death cab for cutie on the basis id assumed they were another landfill emo band. I then was convinced by a friend who i usually trust on these matters to investigate their music. At which point I dismissed then for being a load of old smug wet toss.
At the moment loads of germans making perfectly good house music are causing dance musics collective skin to crawl over their need to stick 'motor city detroit deep afro soul' minstrel crap in their names
― straightola, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I missed out on mclusky for years, because I convinced myself they sounded like Hefner. Who I have never knowingly heard because of their name.
― dada wouldn't buy me a bauhaus (aldo), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 09:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Terje Rypdal, Shaham Hagai, Nejad Rastegar Nasser, Barrington Levy, Isung Yun, Josek Suk (clearly suks), Professor Longhair (damn hippies), Dr John (get back in the surgery), Peter Tosh (clearly tosh), Sofia Gubaidulina (too close to Gobbolino). Man, racism is hard.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
jefre cantu ledesma
― you say tomato, isao tomita (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
― I'm the head soul brother in the US. Where to now? (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
- Fuck Buttons- Holy Fuck- Fucked Up (although this uncited anecdote on their wikipedia page is amusing: "Zucker was replaced as frontman after missing several crucial shows while in jail for punching a Toronto police officer who had stolen a ham sandwich from him")- I guess I just don't like band names with fuck in them, okay? although I'm oddly indifferent to Anal Cunt.- Fountains of Wayne (compounded by the fact they're responsible for that horrible Stacey's Mom song)- The Boy Least Likely To
Some of the ones listed that I've heard — My Morning Jacket, Cute is What We Aim For, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, You Say Party! We Say Die!, and Minus the Bear — I thought lived up to the awfulness of their names.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:26 (fifteen years ago) link
no big loss as far as i can tell, his ep on static caravan is the most boring thing they've ever put out
― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
chris brown.
i went to school with a guy called chris brown.
it's not a name that really 'pops', is it?
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
micah blue smaldone
― you say tomato, isao tomita (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i'm just jealous that i didn't have rich hippie parents.
"condo fucks (how could one of my fave bands who have a decent name call their last project like that, my esteem for them has definitely decreased after that.)"
this is all part of the joke, no?
― europeen handball (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
all band names suck, people should just record themselves under their real names, or even better, some kind of identifying number
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Death Cab For Cutie (even finding out about the Bonzo Dog link doesn't appeal)Modest MouseFuck ButtonsHoly FuckCrystal Castles
Various solo artists with really dull names, so dull I can't recall them.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.the-fly.co.uk/upload/images/album_reviews/Joe-Lean-And-The-Jing-Jang-.jpg
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Hefner were better than McClusky- both very good, too. Bad and rather misleading names.
I always thought Nirvana was a terrible name, given their approach, and given that there were a ton of bands in their greater scene that were far more mind-manifesting (Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Loop)
― bendy, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Hefner were a terrible band.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
You know, I never bothered listening to Hefner or McClusky, and the names were a big part of that.
xpost re artists performing under their own dull names - I get over this, but initially, my reaction tends to be "What, you just couldn't be bothered going to the trouble?"
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
A Place To Bury Strangers
oooh...I'm so scared!
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Pantytec
― henry s, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah condo fucks makes me lol
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
if i could punch a name, cute is what we aim for & i love you but chosen darkness would be those names
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Mclusky not McClusky
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
the bee AY tles
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
In addition to My Morning Jacket, My Brightest Diamond.
I thought A Place to Bury Strangers were a screamo/nu-hardcore band for the longest time.
― salsa shark, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link