Worst Band Names

Dub Narcotic Sound System is pretty bad, though Calvin Johnson would probably tell you it's supposed to suck.

There's this local band who named themselves The Heinrich Maneuver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDrJ-hQQxI

Actually my country is a heaven for bad band names. Other examples:

The Rock
Peterpan
J-Rocks
Mocca

whoever oops was, was really off the money on this thread. i guess people were too busy thinking of their own to argue.

agree that Hoobastank is probably still the worst name ever.

Actually my country is a heaven for bad band names.

You need to provide Myspace links or whatever for these characters.

The Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sqrv6IsBYE

Peterpan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jH5Y1LMwJA http://www.newpeterpanband.com/main.php

J-Rocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzpnYc9ib0

Mocca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJTr3POP68 (I hate this band. see for yourself.)

Some screamo/metalcore/whatever bands:

She Has a Fashion Vice
Attack Attack!
I See Stars
I Explode Like
Asking Alexandria
Blood On The Dance Floor
The Devil Wears Prada
Dead by April
nevershoutnever!
I Set My Friends On Fire
August Burns Red
An Ocean Between Us
Memphis May Fire
One Morning Left
We Are The Emergency
2 0' Clock Girlfriend
I, The Skyline...
Watchout! There's Ghosts

COULD YOU FUCKING BELIEVE THAT?!

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

There's a great local band in Portland right now called Mongoloid Village. They rock, but everyone wishes they would change the name.

They just need to add "People" to the end.

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All this from a band that "derives its name from an anti-materialistic mindset as stated by vocalist Mike Hranica, instead of directly refering to the novel with the same title."

Emo/screamo bands really do excel in this category.

pie chart of a dump

new worst band name ever: Municipal Waste.

They have already been mentioned upthread.

The first name that popped into my head was Archers of Loaf. Such a criminally poor name for such a great band.

Names of solo artists are rubbish too eg. Andrew Bird, John Vanderslice etc.They are their real names right?

Ditchcroaker

They have already been mentioned upthread

Municipal Waste? Not according to my Ctrl-F, they haven't. Archers of Loaf, on the other hand, have.

XposT - apologies _ i was referring to my Archers!

Municipal Waste is terrible - the HC band? Here in England that would translate as Council Dump or something.terrible

Oh I see, apologies.

I'm English as well and Municipal Waste sounds like a fairly normal British English phrase to me, though.

Ok anagram . You probably right. I need to brush up on my shit.

personal & the pizzas

I quite like the name Archers of Loaf.

There's a local band called Fanny Burger Face. This is so resolutely terrible that it may border on genius.

(Also, I believe it does refer to the British English meaning of 'fanny' rather than the personal name or the American English version.)

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...

I always say mu-NI-cip-al.

The correct answer is obviously:
"Does It Offend You, Yeah?"
Urgh.

xpost

almost there , I reckon
Fucking shocking and irritating to the extreme.

Where they any good? I avoiding them because of their name.

Who wouldn't?

Crunching kick into the balls

The Strange Death Of Liberal England

^ I would like to nominate these guys

Also has anyone said iLiKETRAiNS yet?

Actually every single band that last.fm says is similar to TSDOLE has a shitey name:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Strange+Death+Of+Liberal+England/+similar

Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies wtf?

Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start

^ okay let's kill these people

cats and cats and cats is probably the worst of all those

Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start

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

they're a bunch of c----s

Always hated Cherry Poppin' Daddies for it's horrible rapey invocation.

Aw, I like the name "personal and the pizzas" - because, well, pizza

disk jokke

The worst thing about Cherry Poppin' Daddies is, at a Warped Tour, I once saw a girl walking around, holding her mother's hand, and she couldn't have been older than ten or so, wearing a Cherry Poppin' Daddies t-shirt. Unto the pure all things are pure, I guess.

TV on the Radio is quite a bad name.

Went to see Future Of The Left the other week, and one support was Ice Sea Dead People, and I really couldn't see how it could get worse, but the first band were called Hold Your Horse Is.

"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.