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Yeah, but supposedly they changed it back again. Erps.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Slutarded!

(not really, that's a fantastic name)

― Kim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Puppy Piss,and N'SYNC !

― James H., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

Neo Cyber Christ

― tits arthur, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THAT PETROL EMOTION. Never has the mediocrity and pointlessness of a band name felt so much like a swift kick to the groin!

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Danny Wilson. Because none of them were actually called Danny Wilson. A-ha-ha-ha.

In modern parlance, it's difficult to see past The Electric Soft Parade.

― Mr Swygart, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can close this thread now. Holland's number one nu-metal band is called Dreadlock Pussy. I am not making this up.

― JoB, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK why does it matter if they have a bad name? I think that Rainbow butt monkeys, and Ween are cool names cause they're funny! And besides they're probably inside jokes or they just wanted a funny name.

I have alot of friends that play in bands and they all have funny names; to name a few: 69cent burito, 3 chord special, The Buckleys, Death by defection, and 749 damage. Now see these names would be considered crappy by the stupid anoying people that dont understand but to my friends and I they are funny as hell. So what I'm trying to say dont judge the bands name cause they all mean something to someone.

― JAY ROY OLSEN, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four weeks pass...

Curiosity Killed The Cat

It's one short step away from naming your band 'A Stitch In Time Saves Nine' or 'Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining'.

― Ray Manston, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No one has mentioned Sheep On Drugs.

Also Bum Cello; Chicks On Speed; Sub Sub; Jam and Spoon; Tok Tok; Fridge; Tortiose.

― Anna, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sheep On Drugs is a great name! Sixpence None The Richer is not, though.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Tortiose' - they sound a bit more grandiose than Tortoise ? ;)

― Ray M, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sissy Prozac

― Indieholic Anonymous, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll second Spandau Ballet.

Also:

Humble Pie Dying Fetus Gorguts Bread Galactic Cowboys Slaughter Mephiskapheles Christafari Ugly Kid Joe Trik Turner

― Brad Haywood, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst name from the grind-metal regime: "Cannibal Corpse"

Worst disc title ever : "Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious"

WTF????

― Dev, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

Incredible Edible Ed

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 29 May 2003 20:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Eat World

Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her

The Beatles (of course, and I know this is a tired one)

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 30 May 2003 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Night Ranger, Supertramp

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 May 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't decide if Renaldo and the Loaf should be under best or worst names. But I always imagine some fancypants Spanish dandy next to a steaming pile of poo. Maybe that was their intention.

No, it was the nicknames of the two band members.

Some more horrifying names: Ozzfish Experience, A.P.P.L.E. (which stood for something totally pretentious that's completely vanished from my mind--they were a political band), The Spam Grenades.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Friday, 30 May 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

any band you like, taking their name out of familiar context, is usually dumb. Motorhead, Superchunk, Led Zepplin, Hawkwind, Mobb Deep, etc. Think about your reaction to someone on ILM telling you they were thinking of starting a band called Arches of Loaf or the Buzzcocks.

Cool names immediately, then and now: NON, Black Sabbath, Killing Joke, The Fall

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 May 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...

Insane Clown Posse
Wee Bee Foolish
Winger
Yaz
String Cheese Incident
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Air Supply

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Winger, haha! You might as well call your band Quarterback or Hooker. Hang on, that's a great name!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Grandfunk Railroad
Manheim Steamroller

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Future Sound of Melbourne

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Rage Against the Machine

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

george

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

N.E.R.D.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Love Spit Love

― turkey (turkey), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Love Spit Love was correctly descibed in a music magazine as a 'godawful' name.

Robbie wrote:

"Imagine having a band called The Cockroaches turning up today and being proclaimed the greatest thing since sliced bread"

You could've experienced this, Robbie, had you been in Sydney i9n about 1985. They later became The Wiggles, who are indeed the greatest thing since sliced bread if you're three years old.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Bite The Pillow

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Plaid, if only for the number of people who don't know how to pronounce it.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Tangerine Dream

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Dokken.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent, colin

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I never understood why anyone would call their band Abysmal, but yes, they exist.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinback
Lucy's Fur Coat
Green Apple Quickstep
Ugly Kid Joe
Suddenly, Tammy!
Live
Carissa's Weird
Bush

There were tons more of those crap 90's altrock names, but I have blocked most of them out.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Bananarama

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

µ-Ziq

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Death Faeces (seen on one of those 'review your demo' pages in a music mag)
Bikini ('new wave' group based in Hungary, around 1990?
The Ordinary Boys (NME choice from 2 weeks ago. Less potential than the Roaring boys from a few years ago)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

loose fur
the specimens

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm, there have been loads of bands with really *horrible* names:

Flash & the Pan
Mental As Anything
Def Leppard
REO Speedwagon
Wang Chung
Mott the Hoople

And loads more with just plain old *stoopid* ones:

Liberty X
Jimmy the Hoover
Oingo Boingo
Splodgenessabounds
Mr Mister
Sniff'n'the Tears

But let's face it, NO-ONE is EVER really going to beat these fellers:

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BIG BALLS AND THE GREAT WHITE IDIOT (God bless 'em!)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Crunch & Let's Do Lunch.

Got a demo tape by them back in the early '90s, though I can't remember a thing about it.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Turbonegro
XPQ-21
Butthole Surfers

Lots and lots of metal bands with "gloomy" pseudo-Latin or otherwise "poetic" names (Altaria, Apocalyptica, Solitude Aeternus, On Thorns I Lay, Stratovarius, Dark Tranquility etc.).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Lasting Legacy
Celebratory Rape
Sniffschitz
Humpy Boogle
The Secrets of Colorchange

― Ben K., Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Grannysample
Shoebert
Sweetbelly Freakdown
Cloud Around the Biffy
Toad the Wet Sprocket

― Ben K., Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you'll find Turbonegro is an unquestionably brilliant name actually, my Finnish friend.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Really? I never understood what the word "negro" has to do with pasty-faced, pseudo-gay Norwegian rockers. Worst of all, the Turbonegro fan clubs around the world call themselves "Turbo Jugend", and they wear "Turbo Jugend" badges on their shoulders. Before I've heard of the band, I saw a guy with such a badge, and thought he was some sort of Neo-Nazi.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

delicious mind garden

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to mention Crabby Appleton but have decided I love it - Tucky Buzzard however still sucks

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

My Friend the Chocolate Cake

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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