Worst Band Names

"Hold Your Horse Is" is also the name of a Hella album.

What about - Gay Against You ?

I've seen Cats and Cats and Cats and they seemed like a nice bunch of kids.

That makes it worse! "Why has your band got such a bad name?" "well we copied it off someone else."

It seems that crappy sub-pun phraselike band names are the order of the day. I don't know what's more irritating, things like Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, uninspired NRR names like The Hives, The Strokes, The Drums etc or early 90s band names that sound as though they were made to put you off like Toad The Wet Sprocket, Pity The Small Thumbs etc.

I always hated The Dandy Warhols as a name.

I kind of like the name Municipal Waste, but find it hard to intonate correctly in everyday speech, especially with a British accent. Mun-I-cipal Waste, MUN-i-CIP-al Waste... hmmm...

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:56 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I always say mu-NI-cip-al.

― anagram, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:33 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What on earth y'all?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?munici01=municipal

Or, if you would rather:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/municipal

It's just that the phrase doesn't roll off the tongue very easily when referring to them as a band.

Same as Acrimony - is it pronounced "acri-many" or "acri-moan-y"?

Fischerspooner
Blossom Toes
The Academy Is...
Jump 'N The Saddle Band
The Mama's and the Papa's (complete with inappropriate possessive apostrophes!)
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult

Also, so many early rock bands from the late 1950s to early 1960s had incredibly mundane, unimaginative names.

Goo Goo Dools, bar none. Come on.

Dolls, that is.

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i kinda don't understand. the Cs i mean. why.

config mode code for sonic 1 on genesis.

a lot of these terrible band names are actually great band names

Tame Impala

I can't think of any bands I really like that have an animal in their name.

the Beatles?

Oh yeah, but at this point "The Beatles" is just a set of phonemes that represent nothing in my mind other than four British dudes.

Shad
Anti-Pop Consortium

Lali Puna

Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start

i kinda don't understand. the Cs i mean. why.

― rabbis (arby's)

And I was all WHAAAAAAA?! because

this

Also, Neutral Milk Hotel. *barf*

Any later-day post rock or emo sounding shite like None Of Us Knew We Were Robots or Dust Of A Thousand Charred Pylons or anything with Robot, Bear, Captain or references to ships.

you do realise we're officially called Captain Robotic Bear and the Dying Embers Of His Burning Galleon now

None of Them Knew They Were Robots is a Mr. Bungle song.

Whatevs.

Velvet Velvet Spice Rack

Ugh, I just had to look.
http://www.myspace.com/andnoneofthemknewtheywererobots

We Were Promised Jetpacks
The Twilight Sad
The The. Everyone thinks it when they're 13. No need to do it.

Deer Tick

We Were Promised Jetpacks

What, this is good.

I'm sick of willfully unpronounceable and google-proof names like OOOooO or whatever it is (see also !!!).

Arctic Monkeys is a duff name. Put me off checking them out for ages, then irritated me because I had to then say I liked a band with a crap name.

The The. Everyone thinks it when they're 13. No need to do it.

― paulhw, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:41 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not in the eighties.

Oozing Goo

Tame Impala

― margana (anagram), Monday, September 27, 2010 11:00 AM Bookmark

Yeah this. If you're going to come to the table three years late with a band that sounds a little too much like Dungen, do not also put the word "tame" in your name.

Maudlin the Well
...really?
why not Sappy the Pump? Gloomy the Culvert? Morose the Cistern?

Ursine Vulpine

Pop's Cool Love

I can't think of any bands I really like that have an animal in their name

This. eg Frightened Rabbit ffs.

Echo and the Bunnymen?

The CuELEPHANTre?

Bunnymen are not animals, they are men.

The AV Club's Year In Band Names is up. Could make a poll thread.

anything from first person (i.e. 'I am' 'I did' and all that shite) is pretty annoying.

a friend of mine once said he'd start a band called the droneas brothers.

triple post and everything but i just spat out my earl grey snorting derivatively at this from the AV list:

(facepalm)
Faith And The Muse
A Rose By Any Other Name
Change We Still Dream
Children Of The Almost
Sundried Truth
Dance Of The Mourning Child
A Sonnet To Silence
Fragile Utopia
Angels Of Babylon
Backseat Dreamer
A Crush On Yesterday
Shroud Of Despondency
Destruction Of A Rose
Romance On A Rocketship
The Loveable Tulips
Wishpenny
Coping
Teen Daze
The Love Hangover
Raven Nevermore
Barefoot Truth
Retards In Love
Shaman’s Harvest
Lying Naked With The Stars

i really like the band, but seriously: Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam

Times New Roman

Someone named a band after the font?!

font was actually named after the band's stately, accessible, familiar sound

http://www.myspace.com/timesnewroman

at least they shouldn't have any problems deciding on the typeface for their album cover