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

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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

ok, "Shitty Shitty Band Band" gets a grin out of me every time I think it

I'm actually listening to them now...kinda not terrible? I was expecting noisy skronk but instead it's kinda skewed Americana or something, alternating male/female vox, reminds me a bit of...Wussy? 31 monthly listeners on Spotify.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/babehoven-demonstrating-visible-differences-of-height-ep/

https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/17/bustin-jieber-the-12-year-old-app-developer-who-taught-himself-to-code-goes-viral-video/

did we forget Swet Shop Boys?

Babehoven

sounds awful

I've always thought Deafheaven sounded like a play on Beethoven, not least because Beethoven was deaf.

Similar coincidence: Steely Dan and Steeleye Span.

Scoz Baggs
Tames Jailor
Doosker Who?!
Sex-Ray Pecs

Burly Chassis (an old Morecambe & Wise joke)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

No Sisters of Morrissey, GTFO

Cannabis Corpse is the best

There is, according to Youtube, a shitty all white jazz band that entered in a jazz competition called "Jizzy Gillespie"

I was sad to discover that Deflator Mouse was taken when I was a-huntin’ for a band name.

Shitty Shitty Band Band has me in tears.

I feel like “The Incredible Bing Strand” should be an album by conductor/cornetist Bing “The King Of Swing” Strand.

Hate Joy Orbison, Com Truise & the like, but the laziest shittiest one on the list is Wevie Stonder.

I always thought Modest Mouse was an obvious one but then someone told me that wasn't the intent of the name or something

There appear to be a couple of half-hearted attempts at usin “Ryan Beano” but I’m surprised nobody’s gone whole hog on it.

I hold the thread starter responsible for my having just remembered Master Musicians Of Bukkake.