Worst Band Names

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

the fact there's already been a Times New Viking makes this even fucking worse

Mushroom's Patience

My least favourite band name - echobelly I mean, who ever thought that was a good one?

is it a Patti Smith reference? a semi quote from Kimberly?
It was dawn & the storm ECHOed in your BELLY? Think that's the line anyway

The Beatles (doh! I guess it’s kind of easy to overlook among all the hyperbole and adulation, just what a thoroughly beguiling and quite frankly absurd/shit name it actually is. Imagine having a band called The Cockroaches turning up today and being proclaimed the greatest thing since sliced bread and saviours of popular culture as we know it. You just simply wouldn’t be able to take them seriously. Fancy naming themselves after such festering, squalid, useless f**ing vermin. Even if they are from Liverpool....)

It's actually a pretty good name for the time & a tribute to The Crickets the Buddy Holly band. I think it's a household word now so has a life of its own. Near sui generis associative link once you know who they are, or certainly for a few generations. In short, I think name pretty much = object so any possible shortcomings are outside the picture.
& I like the name anyway.

It might fall into the trap of band name is from an era before the band became themselves, as in not just a local band playing to local audiences and possibly wanted to rename after moving to next level.
Bit like Bark Psychosis (way too juvenile Goth/indie for the Che & later work, but were like 14 or 15 when they coined the name) or Live Skull (similar reason, bit too Goth/Indie for the band in later stages. Though they were a lot older than BP) & I'm sure there are others who pretty much outgrew the bandname but stuck with it cos that's what they were already known as or whatever.

I like The Beatles though.

Did I imagine this or was there a bandin the early 90's called Fflaps??

no, singer went out with Fat Mark singer of Dandelion Adventure, later manager of Cornershop. Fflaps came from Wales, might be why they have 2 fs in the name.

I think I went to school with Fat Mark.

I kind of like the name The Electric Assholes (from The Onion list)

I think there's a band called PDF Format. Not only is it the most boring, insipid thing you could name your band after, it's redundant to boot. Whether they didn't realize that or they thought it was extra-clever, it still SUCKS.

Psychedelic Horseshit

Conquering Animal Sound

Com Truise

Ringo Deathstarr, tho I take solace in that their really nothing more than an MBV homage band.

Krum Bums

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/284/110/363/11036340/300x300.jpg

Play The Tracks Of

Booklet

Skip The Foreplay

it like, this is the solution they come up with to capture their essence of "rapey douche metal" without calling themselves Rapey Douche Metal

Shouldn't be surprised I guess.

The Front Bottoms are a two-piece band based out of Bergen County, NJ. The band was formed in 2006 and originally had three members: Brian Sella (vocals, guitar, lyricist), Brian Uychich (keyboard, vocals) and Mathew Uychich (drums). However, as of fall 2010, Brian Uychich left the band to concentrate on school full-time and become a gynecologist.

Jukebox the Ghost
Young the Giant

the music

always pissed me off, that.

ctrl+f "No matches found"

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

Lock thread, we've found it.

Yeah that's definitely top five material. Can't really think of any that are worse.

Sooner Than Gary

The Cancer Bats?

Useless ID

Sunken Foal

The Dee Dee Dums - Tame Impala - Pond

lol o shi I just got 'Sunken Foal'

It is a very pity shun

NGC-4594 cos its got no semantic hook unless you're into astronomy. Pretty decent psychedelic band with touches of the Velvets though. Apparently sunk without trace because of the name though.

Worriedaboutsatan

MellowHype

Surfer Blood

Bassnectar

Complicated Universal Cum

Hinder

Turbo Fruits

The History of Apple Pie

Ned's Atomic Dustbin.
Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.
Carter USM
Most of the stuff XFM used to play in the early 90s

Grimes