Worst Band 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!)

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

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.).

But Im going to see thee worst named band tonight:

BEEFTERMINAL

Um, I have a Turbojugend NYC pin that I wear on my jacket. Don't go knockin the darkness!! [Throws devil sign in air, flicks tongue, grabs own ass.]

Innit! It's a perfectly normal German word. Most of these clubs seem to have started in Germany anyway

Innit! It's a perfectly normal German word. Most of these clubs seem to have started in Germany anyway

Now don't you even try to claim that "Turbojugend" doesn't bring to your mind any connotations towards a certain Fascist regime and it's youth organization. "Jugend" is a perfectly normal German word, yes, but naming a fan organization "xxxx-Jugend" and making badges which bear that name is hardly innocent.

Also "Northern Uproar" did suggest boring meat 'n' 2 veg britrock of the most ZZZzzz-inducing sort. Fortunately.

As you can guess, I was most disappointed when I finally heard their tunes!

BTW In terms of "interesting" band names, I don't think you can get better at the moment than The Excrementory Grindfuckers!!!!!

I must disagree with something Dastoor said like 2 years ago: Soul Coughing is a wonderful band name.

A band I was in in high school once shared a bill with a band called Thunderchicken which was like the Screaming Trees but with Gavin Rossdale in place of Mark Lanegin.

For a name that breaks your heart before you've heard a note, it's got to be An Emotional Fish (mentioned above).

With the possible exception of Dishwalla.

There is also the CAPTAIN MATCHBOX WHOOPPEE BAND (hit single My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes).

Then there's Blodwyn Pig, Henry Cow, M, Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs (Jona Lewie was Lead singer), Kajagoogoo, Spandau Ballet, Pseudo Echo,
and lets not forget both the Guess Who and Klaatu who both named themselves hoping that everyone would believe they were the BEATLES in disguise-SHEESH!

love the band though...

(actually Fingertight may be even worse)

Random Mating
Spiteful Sea Nymphs
Mass Obliteration
Vetoed Miracle
Lung Burger
Spirits of Fish and their Desire to be Holy
Muppet Love
Sodomized Christmas Tree (don't ask)
Space Zombie Jesus
Unholy Matrimony
The Fountain Pens
Thoughtless Giant

There are literally hundreds more...too many to type. We get better at it everyday. With enough practice, any one can come up with hilarious names