Worst band/musician with a name that is pun based on other bands/musicians

Maul Pickartny

Like I'm sure a million other people I assumed Kurt Vile was one of these when I first heard of him

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1:35 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He's not?!

Yeah, was gonna say. He's one of the very few I'd give a pass to cuz he brings it.

Melonious Thunk

There are a couple songs called "Melodious Thunk" or "Melodius Thunk."

Sino Jaw Doon Here

I'm just going to recycle some of mine from the other thread.

Whoah and the Nale
Plastic Bono And
The Strolling Ones
The Bitter Gland
The Bloody Mues
Hogfat
The Incredible Bing Strand
Spurning Bear
Power of Tower
Half Rutter

And a new one:

Toe Mucker

you don't thuck with Thelonious man!

Feel I'm right on the cusp of figuring out a crude + inadvisable alteration of 'Dinosaur Jr.'

lol @ "Hogfat"

a song called Spruce Bingsteen redeems Run DMT, run imo.

another one i loathe is elvis depressedly

"Todd Terje" is quite funny imo

where are the Deathray Davies

all these are good

Bourtney Carnett
Vurt Kyle

they really let the thread down by not calling their collab duo Kurt & Courtney

Like I'm sure a million other people I assumed Kurt Vile was one of these when I first heard of him

you gotta assume his parents knew what they were doing though

Dr. C, you are otm wrt the Mad Magazine comparison. Even as a kid it used to drive me nuts that the altered names in their movie parodies were so completely tossed off. RAIDERS OF THE LOST BLECCH! or whatever. Come on, man, you're getting paid for this shit.

Raiders Of A Lost Art btw

Thames Jailer
Moany Jitchell
Bait Kush

lol I just came back to present Maul Pacartney, Lon Jennon, Stingo Rarr, and Heorge Garrison

basically part of my sense of humor is still operating happily at a first-grade level

should have known:
https://baitkush.bandcamp.com/

Power of Tower

ok this is good

Ronnie Baitt
Blames Jake

Peat Muppets

Rove & Lockets

xp
not a nice way to talk about some of my very fine cousins and uncles in Tralee!

lol

Run DMT

wtf is this

wanted to start a band at college called the Velvet Undergrads

Ned Ruggent

Ned Tugent

Base of Ace

the Pallin' Arsons Project

Jilly Bowl

Feel I'm right on the cusp of figuring out a crude + inadvisable alteration of 'Dinosaur Jr.'

― Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 20:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3Hsnu3F5U

good band tbh

Garry Bibb

lol I almost put in the Gee Bees earlier

Had some friends in college who came up with the concept "Goth Brooks" but did not follow through.

Motherhood of Bran

(Good name for a lesbian wholefood collective)

or a Game of Thrones cosplay act

Garry Bibb

This just reminded me that when Frenzal Rhomb singer and non-bassist Jay Whalley joined semi-comedic punk/metal band Nancy Vandal on bass for one album, he used the name Jason Jasonn Beers in reference to INXS' bassist Garry Gary Beers

Wanton Ebern

Zoren Wevon

Had some friends in college who came up with the concept "Goth Brooks" but did not follow through.

― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, February 19, 2020 10:31 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is the first one in this thread that I got chills reading the name. However, somebody has made use of it in the meantime, and it fails to live up to expectations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6i51bbQU_U

Ah, good times! (The linked thread up there. Forgot that one)

And how long did Celibate Rifles exist until I found out it was a pun? A very long time..

Pretty sure Wevie Stonder is the guy's real name.

Never really got Celibate Rifles. I mean, "celibate" may be the opposite of "sex", but "rifle" is surely not the opposite of "pistol." If that was their point.

Lol thx for explaining that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPIpeW581rE

Maybe not pertinent to this thread but I went in search of Kurt Vile’s first album at Other Music in ‘08. The clerk who helped me was like, ‘sure, right here,’ and produced an lp by Kurt Weil.

Now that somebody else did it first, that's all the excuse I need to say "Look what a funny fuck I was in the Fink Ployd thread!"

Swirls Before Pine
The Crack Blows
Fryin' Berry
Tyke Earner
Toe Mucker
Bum Tickly (Switch the first 2 letters)
Runny Day Seal Estate
Fella? It's Gerald!
"Lord of the Rings" soundtrack composer Showered Whore

On a side note, how do we know that Deftones is "Def Tones" and not "Deft Ones"?

And yet, Sufjan Stevens bears no relation to Shakin'

this has been done before (though admittedly not as a poll) Band names that are parodies of other bands' names

I thought Watt Stalker would be a good name for a very loud metal band with crooner vocals. Sunn O))) and Scott missed a trick there.

Joy Orbison I just can't fathom. It's so pointless, what's the relationship? Is it just that Roy Orbison is 'old timey'? At least Wevie Stonder is supposed to be ridiculous.

I recall coming across a band once called Deflator Mouse. That's pretty funny. It's not a musical pun, per se (though it is a musical pun), but I always liked the band name Shitty Shitty Band Band.

Shitty Shitty Band Band is all-time, have heard they are aptly named though.

Wanton Ebern

lol