Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.

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Hoobastank!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:14 (twenty years ago) link

Ekoostik Hookah

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:18 (twenty years ago) link

Hoooooverphonic
Polyphonic Spree

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

Swearing at Motorists would be funny if it were the name of a comedy troupe.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

the soundtrack of our lives
three colours red
the death of anna karina
sweep the leg johnny
save ferris
death cab for cutie
the promise ring
the unbelievable truth
pedro the lion
american football
elf power
kitty craft
masters of the hemisphere
dances with wolves

― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link

Ned's Atomic Dustbin
They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them)
Every God!speed extension ever

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

Sad because I actually would like to like They Came...

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:24 (twenty years ago) link

jets to brazil
dead can dance
the jazz june
the kills
OMD

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:25 (twenty years ago) link

I think Death Cab for Cutie passes, not because it's clever, but it at least has the good taste to be inscrutable.

I think what most of us are getting at here is what the name of a band reveals about the intellect of a band. Some of the best band names are utter nonsense, having been made up by people who realize that giving your band name some kinda "meaning" would be unbearably pretentious. Band names like Ned's Atomic Dustbin are great, IMO. Bad band, of course, but don't let that color your appreciation of their ridiculous band name. Look -- at least it's not "arty."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

Jackie-O Motherfucker (although to be fair I did give them a chance)

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

what's so inscrutable about taking your band name from a Beatles movie?

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link

I think JOMF is a great band name. But I really like the band too. Foolish man.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:28 (twenty years ago) link

oh man it's a horrible name! But I was gonna give them the benefit of the doubt 'cause some people I knew with decent taste liked them (ahem), but jeez were they ever not-so-hot-or-worth-my-ten-bucks live.

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

I often wonder, hstencil, what DO you like?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

fuck off Kenan.

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link

You're right, they're probably not worth ten bucks alone. But most bands aren't.

add to the list: Facial Defecation, Anal Cunt

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link

fuck off Kenan.

Hey, eat shit. You're an endless fountain of negativity about everything possible, and it's getting fucking boring. Lighten up, sourpuss.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:34 (twenty years ago) link

let's see, on this thread I:

1. made a joke about Sonic Youth, a band I like.
2. listed one band, Jackie-O Motherfucker, as falling into the category of having a stupid name, with the caveat that at least I gave them a chance.
3. questioned whether naming a band from a Beatles movie is "inscrutable" (hint: it isn't!).

I didn't:

1. list a lot of bands.
2. personally attack anyone for their choices or comments until attacked by Kenan.

Yeah, you're right, I clearly am "an endless fountain of negativity about everything possible," that's why I did these things. Unlike yourself.

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:40 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno, it may be fair to use the word "inscrutable" when the reference is not common knowledge.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

No one's mentioned Puddle of Mudd?

WHY TWO D's?? WTF

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'm just saying that I can't remeber the last time you said anything nice about anything. And if you did recently say anything nice about anything, it's been eclipsed by your general demeanor, which is certainly that of a sourpuss. I'm not saying you;re a bad sport or anything. Just that you're a bummer to be around.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link

Re PoM: Heh, yeah, I was watching cable at my parents' house yesterday, and MTV had some you-pick-the-next-video thing, where two videos go head to head, and at one point one of the choices was Puddle of Mudd, who (never having heard them) I hoped would lose only because of the name.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:50 (twenty years ago) link

it may be fair to use the word "inscrutable" when the reference is not common knowledge.

Well, yeah, the only reason I have this knowledge is because of the band name. Therefore, still in the realm of the abstract.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:51 (twenty years ago) link

What a strange concept.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link

Indeed.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:57 (twenty years ago) link

broken social scene.

― Elliott (ebb), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link

a "bummer to be around?" When did I invite you to my house?

I post positive stuff about things I like all the time. It's just that you don't, or won't, or can't, see/read it. Also, this is not the most positive thread subjet matter on ILM, but I don't see you jumping down anyone else's throat.

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:14 (twenty years ago) link

When did I invite you to my house?

You didn't. Maybe that's why I'm bitter.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link

well why would I when you take every opportunity (this thread isn't the only time it's happened) to go ballistic when I merely post an opinion (or in the case of this thread, a simple question)? I don't think I'm the one who needs to lighten up, and by telling you to fuck off it should be quite clear I'm tired of your bizarre pathological bullying. Okay?

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:20 (twenty years ago) link

Okay. I'm pathological and unstable, it's true. And you're habitually negative, which is also true. I see you saying pointedly negative and insulting things so often that it sinks in. It's not just your words, it's your tone. You HATE things, like, you really HATE things. That's weird to me, and I am now suspicious of your every opinion, fearful that it's tainted with HATE. And this was probably not the thread to go off on you, but whatever.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:28 (twenty years ago) link

right now the only thing I hate is you.

― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link

All nu metal ever. Pissing Razors, Korn, Sevendust, Puddle of Mudd, Soulfly, Linkin Park, Mudvayne, Deftones, HedPE, Staind, stuff already mentioned etc. All of it.

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:31 (twenty years ago) link

the above two posts : nu metal lyrics?

― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link

hm... me and hstencil doing a hate-themed version of "Guilty Conscience"?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:35 (twenty years ago) link

Where I come from theres a football team called OMP.
- Orchesteral manoeuvers in the Park.
I always thought that was quite witty.

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

Would you name a band Sounds Cool? We're all in sync, I guess.

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

Ben folds five - now theres a name that actually annoys me.

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

"Only If You Call Me Jonathan". FUCK OFF.

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

Death Cab for Cutie is terribly annoying.

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

The most recent one is Billy Talent. Lame name for a pretty good band.

― Iam Anonentity, Saturday, 29 November 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

Deaf + Tones = Deftones?

Seems to me a pretty clever name. I likes.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 29 November 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

The Smashing Pumpkins. Love, love, love the band, can't stand the name.

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

Floetry!

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, Deftones actually isn't all that bad namewise.

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

DJ Mencap- No, why would I look gay in a queens of the stone age t-shirt ?

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

http://http://www.lakeshore-records.com/queensweb.jpg
Like this ??

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

Jimmy Eat World has some decent songs, but the band name strikes me as being pretty questionable.

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

http://www.lakeshore-records.com/queensweb.jpg
Hmmm...

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

I always thought Queens of the Stone Age was a cool name, as it was one of things that attracted me to the band in the first place. It also aptly describes their music: heavy, primitive, but also quirky.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

some more:

Dufus
Moldy Peaches
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Speedball Baby
INXS

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

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Digable Planets
The String Cheese Incident

― R. Greene, Sunday, 9 October 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Flaming Sideburns
New Pornographers (seconded)
Hoobastank (seconded)
As The Poets Affirm (jesus god!)
Supreme Beings of Leisure
The National

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolute worst I've seen mentioned so far:

Jackie-O Motherfucker (still have never heard them only because of the name)
The Von Bondies (pisses me off on a gut level, can't say why exactly)
and everything of the Puddle of Korn ilk.

Yet to be mentioned (I think):

The Music

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

The Von Bondies (pisses me off on a gut level, can't say why exactly)

"The Von Bondies" pleases me on a gut level, can't say why exactly.

No one's mentioned Puddle of Mudd?
WHY TWO D's?? WTF

-- Gear!

"Pudle Of Mud?"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Toad The Wet Sprocket

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link

TTWS was actually borrowed from a Monty Python sketch called "Rock Notes", so the stupidity was kinda the point.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Wacky.

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

jezus christ - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL to thread !

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 7 January 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

So many terrible band names to choose from ...

Shirk Circus.
Weeping Tile.
Deep Blue Something.
Third Eye Blind.
Boom Crash Opera.
Mary's Danish.
Blow Monkeys.
Low Pop Suicide.
Big Bam Boo.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Death Cab for Cutie passes, not because it's clever, but it at least has the good taste to be inscrutable.

It had the good taste to be inscrutable when the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed a song by the name of "Death Cab For Cutie" in the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. Credit where it's due, dammit.

The band DCFC is only inscrutable in that one wonders why a band would willingly write and perform music that sounds like background music for prescription drug commercials. Go on, try it: the next time you hear a DCFC song, say out loud, "Are you suffering from seasonal allergies?"

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

With maybe an exception or two, ALL full-sentence names are awful.

(BTW, sorry if I sounded smug, xero, wasn't my intention at all. Python fans can be a tiresome lot, can't they?)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Blonde Redhead - sounds like Four Non Blondes.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Blonde Redhead are good though!

I hate the name "Antony and the Johnsons."

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Alanis Morrisette
Fiona Apple
Jack Johnson

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

xxxpost: Please -- that didn't even register on the ILM Smug-o-meter™. I just hate that name, and it being cribbed from Monty Python only makes it worse.

Soul Coughing
Walt Mink (who were not altogether bad)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

deja voodoo

― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

ILM & The Threads

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

babyshambles

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 8 January 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

WTF is so bad about the name sloan? it's not that crazy.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link

crotchduster

― blownspeakers (lucy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"With maybe an exception or two, ALL full-sentence names are awful."

The exception being "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah". I've never heard their music and I'm not sure I even want to cause it might spoil my appreciation of their awesome name.

........

Jim Crow
Anyone with "Lil" in their name.

― R. J. Greene, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Tits on The Dashboard

― poodle puddle, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names and any band with typographical a typographical or orthographic conceit in their name: Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia..., (Smog) (although they've dropped the parentheses, so now they're OK), k.d. lang, et cetera (not, to my knowledge, a band name).

― caek (caek), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

the vulnerable cardigans

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

"With maybe an exception or two, ALL full-sentence names are awful."
The exception being "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah". I've never heard their music and I'm not sure I even want to cause it might spoil my appreciation of their awesome name.

-- R. J. Greene

Actually, my personal specific exception was the awesome Nomeansno - a name that, in print, doesn't even LOOK like a full sentence.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 8 January 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

My Cat is an Alien
Green Milk from the Planet Orange

― Rombald, Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Anthrax
Megadeth
W.A.S.P
Venom

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack

― clotpoll, Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

so many HORRIBLE band names, lol
pussy galore is a horrible name, but theyre not that bad
one of my fave band names is misled youth, my friend is in it, but theyre good
I LOVE THE BUZZCOCKS! but the name is a little weird

― Sheryl, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

audioslave
velvet revolver
test icicles

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think Death Cab For Cutie can be mentioned enough here.

― Dan (Gah) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I was listening to an online radio station, and they played a band (that sounded a lot like Spoon) called "The Dammitheads"

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

'tis a good thing I heard My Bloody Valentine's music before I knew their name...gotta admit people, it's a crummy name, was a lame-o movie, and I hate hearing myself vocalize it whenever asked to rattle off some of my all-time favorite albums...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Cunninlynguists

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 24 April 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

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

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