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

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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

From Alex's thread-starter:

4. Hootie & the Blowfish
[...]
6. An Emotional Fish
[...}
9. Phish

Hmmm...

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 29 November 2003 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

BaronZen. He's also annoying.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry, Jackie O Motherfucker is a terrible name more suitable for some cheese-ass nu-metal band or something rather than the quite enjoyable group that they are. And from what I've read of his posts over the last couple months, hstencil seems to like a lot of things, like Thin Lizzy and improv and Nautical Almanac. Bands with good names.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

The Shins. When I heard one of their songs and actually liked it a lot, my reaction was, "but it's 'The Shins'! Why don't they suck a whole lot, like their name indicates they surely must?" Perhaps Shins is some sort of cultural reference I've missed, but consider Murry The Hump, back story or not it's still a godawful name to saddle your band with.

― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

modest mouse
peaches
good charlotte

bands with stupid names that i nonetheless adore:
echo and the bunnymen
we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it
butthole surfers
the tubeway army

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 30 November 2003 08:09 (twenty years ago) link

I just don't get Jackie O Motherfucker.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

His Name is Alive. Could never get beyond that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

hating on murder by death is not cool :(

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

Honorable Shed 7 mention.

― kinski (kinski), Sunday, 30 November 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

Re: the Shins -- I had that same response to the Glands -- I was like, "Ewww, the Glands?" But then it was pretty good. Which I guess means this post should be on that other thread. Oops.

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

I agree that Floetry -- or in that case, any band name that attempts to sum up the bands sound or what they're aiming for -- is usually really bad.

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

I never thought "tone deaf" when I saw/heard the name Deftones. I thought of doo-wop groups like the Monotones, and thought it was really cool to combine hip-hop ("def") and doo-wop ("tones") that way, especially since about 2 people in their target audience were likely to get it, if that many.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 30 November 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

The BANGS. Name brings to mind a sea of heads just a' bobbin' to the rock.

Super Furry Animals
definitely second Hoobastank -- obliquely evoking crotch-rot does not a good band name make
any jam band name that references eatin', dirty shit, or drugs

― Clarke B., Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

There's a subcategory of bad bands that name themselves after comedy sketches. Ned's Atomic Dustbin naming themselves after a Goon Show episode. Toad The Wet Sprocket after a Python line.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

any band with a penis pun in their name

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

Turbonegro.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

Also, Average White Band. And The Band.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:03 (twenty years ago) link

Megadeth
Anthrax
Venom
Satan's Cheerleaders

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

I agree....Turbonegro is hard to support.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

soup dragons
love tractor
gigolo aunts
hindu love gods
hypnolovewheel
humble pie
hot tuna
mott the hoople
uriah heep
black grape
moby grape
moby
operation makeout
rich kids on lsd
sheep on drugs

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

replace gigolo aunts with baby lemonade.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

Afghan Whigs

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

luscious jackson
g love & special sauce
mother love bone
nerf herder
every ska band with a play on ska in their name!!!

not that i could ever possibly like ska anyway.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

because i'm too good for ska and ska is too crappy for me, see.

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

I can't remember any bands I've ever hated just BECAUSE of their name (though with names like "Granola Funk Express," I guess I tend to be wary). But I still feel the Cherry Poppin Daddies and Rapeman should be mentioned here. (Also, didn't Steve Albini and some guys from Urge Overkill briefly have a project called Run Nigger Run in the '80s?)

― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

And I didn't mean to single Granola Funk Express and hippies of their ilk out -- there are lotsa funk-punk and political hardcore and death metal and lesbian folk and gangsta rap and fill-in-the-blank names just as stupid, I suppose. I just don't wanna think of them right now.

― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

g love & special sauce

Yeah, this is just flatly unacceptable to me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

Actually I don't even know if Granola Funk Express is the band's real name, come to think of it. (p.s.: The Jazz June, Bongzilla, Floetry, and HedPE, all of which I see above, have definitely sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard to me in the past, though I actually wound up liking the Jazz June's music when I heard it. Bongzilla also reminds me of Satanicide and Dread Zeppelin, whose names are just as dumb -- in fact, "names making fun of heavy metal bands without being remotely funny" probably deserve their own special category.) (And I don't even know if that's what Bongzilla ARE, though they should be.)

― chuck, Monday, 1 December 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe it took SO LONG for Godspeed You Black Emperor! and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead to come up!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 December 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

There's a metal-ish band called 'Soil'. That suggests to me either gardening or incontinence, neither of which I associate with rock, apart from the second one. And Death-CabÉ is the name of a song by the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band. Go figure.

― Blahde Blah, Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link

What, no Arhers of Loaf yet?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:38 (eighteen years ago) link

baby shambles

― Johann (johann), Sunday, 17 July 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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'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 (four 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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