When Saints Go Machine is a horrible horrible name
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
It is supposed to be a pun isn't it?
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
It's not a very good one if so. I've hated having to say their name outloud (which I do on occasion if someone asks me for music recommendations).
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
Grizzly Bear.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Don Nots (Mount Cleaners) (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
Mwahaha
― Pato The Cape GOAT (some dude), Friday, 9 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
i blame the internet
― Nultified Ancients of Man U (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 March 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
xp - at least one of them used to be in a band called Ned. cool guy.
― sarahell, Friday, 9 March 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
There's a band in Atlanta called Groove Stain, which is hilarious and the worst name I have ever heard for a band EVER.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
Reptar
― tanuki, Friday, 9 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
lol groove stain
― Pato The Cape GOAT (some dude), Friday, 9 March 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
Most unappealing band name I have heard in a long time:
Bushwick Book Club
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
Leftover Crack... I had no idea.
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 26 April 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
The Beatles - who wants to listen to insects?
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
― I want your nose, your shoes and your unicycle (dog latin), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:29 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:38 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
omg i just got what this pun is meant to be
i cannot
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 April 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
Girls
― caulk the wagon and float it, Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
twenty | one | pilots
― jjjdoom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
Dirty Projectors
― Supper's Burnt (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
or indeed any 'Dirty' band
Prefab Sprout
― anagram, Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:00 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Prefab Sprout just recently graduated from being an Artist I've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored Because of Their Name to an Artist I Play Around Other People With Great Trepidation Due To Fear That They Will Ask Me Who It Is and I Will Have To Say Their Name Out Loud.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Butthole Surfers
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I remember an band called "Weeknd" placing in some ILM poll... The missing "e" irritates me so much I never want to listen to them.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
alt-j (∆)
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Missing or superfluous letters automatically put bands on this list for me these days. Just tired of it already.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
Like in Beatles maybe?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Nah, that happened before I got tired of it. ;)
― cwkiii, Thursday, 30 August 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
Drive By Truckers
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's so you can Google them isn't it?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 August 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
That makes sense. But then there are newish bands with names that seem to have been chosen deliberately to defy Google (e.g. The Men, Girls) that still come up as the #1 search result when you search for their name + "band". I don't know, I guess it's mostly in my head, but I tend to avoid bands that jump on what appear to be band name trends; like if you formed some time in the middle of the last decade and have the word "Wolf" in your name, you were written off/pointedly ignored.
It's the all caps-no vowels band names in particular these days that have been bugging me. But at least this thread exists so I can take comfort in knowing I'm not alone in being unfairly dismissive!
― cwkiii, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Anything that makes me use Character Map.
― Click here to read in HD (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/SiteNewAnswersControllerServlet
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry
The Presets
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
why not just call your band "Autopilot" (actually, that's a better name) or "Phoning It In"
king gizzard & the lizard wizard
then i happened to hear one of their tracks accidentally and it was great
― eat sock become sock (electricsound), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
Dirty beaches.
I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!
I did listen to him though finally. Pretty good shit.
― Dreamland, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
Spotify is bannering me about a band called The Orwells
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
But they come so highly recommended...
The Orwells: "They're like the Strokes if the Strokes got hit in the head with rocks."
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D. Also, trying to imply that your shitty indie band is the musical equivalent of a sober, clear-eyed political critic and one of the greatest essayists of all time -- not only highly unlikely, but highly un rock-and-roll even if true.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
CHVRCHES
― clouds, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
^^^ something about it screams "latecomers to Williamsburg"
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
I like the fact the next buzz band to come along was called "Temples". CHVRCHES are fine, name aside, though.
Dirty beaches.I mean seriously dude? Two ridiculously overused words in post - 00 band names..lets just mash em together!
I had assumed that it's a juvenile "dirty bitches" pun rather than evidence of an interest in marine conservation, given that's how about 75% of the world would say those words in English, but i may be wrong.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Classixx
Del the Funky Homosapien
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Nude Beach
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
Trying to sound literate by naming your band after an author probably 50% of middle schoolers read: C/D.
Similarly: Gatsby's American Dream
I feel like there were a few other bands in the mid '00s who were heavily influenced by their high school summer reading lists, but the only other examples I can think of right now are shitty local bands.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I liked Rainer Maria in the day
― rap is afraid of me (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
You were assigned Rilke in high school?
I don't think even yr absolute standards are always a bad idea to draw from, e.g. I like the names of both Rollerskate Skinny (Catcher in the Rye) and the Boo Radleys (To Kill a Mockingbird). But "The Orwells" is just so lumpen and ham-fisted.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
I agree, and those are great examples. But when done wrong it's just a sad disaster.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Tempted to start a S/D: Bands Whose Names Are References to Canonical Literature thread, but will restrain myself.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Although it's neither a truly bad name nor a truly bad band, I kind of knew exactly what Perfect Pussy was going to sound like, and I just recently confirmed it.
― ₴HABΔZZ ¶IZZΔ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
The Orwells are stillI IN middle school iirc so give em a break. Almost all band names are really stupid if you spend more than a few seconds thinking about them so I maximize efficiency by spending no more than 1.1 seconds. I have never gotten to the end of ...and you will know us by the trail??? but I assume the ending is satisfying
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link