Worst Band Names

Vampire Weekend (totally misleading)

Apocalyptica (how original...)

!!! (any name that you can't even pronounce without specific instructions is bound to suck)

Hercules and the Love Affair (what the hell does this even mean? the music is quite nice, but the name mislead me to think it's one of those stupid indie bands)

...And You Will Know Us by the Pretentious and Overlong Name of Our Band

Broadfield Marchers

Any band that auditions for The X-Factor is guaranteed to have a bowel clenchingly bad name. Some choice picks:

2 to Go
Voices With Soul
4 Tune
Addictiv Ladies
4Sure
Same Difference
Bad Lashes

I've always thought that Technical Difficulties, Plus Support, and Gig Cancelled are all very bad band names.

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Addictiv Ladies

why is this making me lol so hard

Smell & Quim

A somewhat talented band in the wake of Goldfrapp, Product 01, will probably be condemned to obscurity due to the most forgettable band name ever. It's not even embarassingly misguided.

Pig Destroyer is an awesome name.

taking in mind "Pig" = "Cop" here.

Field Music, and the two side-projects of it's members: School of Language and The Week That Was.

Came across two crackers recently

Hockey

The Answering Machine

There used to be site on the dusty old internet with what seemed like thousands of names in a plain text document. Of course I never bookmarked it or saved it, and google searches for bad band names just fill up with dull blog entries. Don't suppose anyone...?

Hockey, the band. Great.

Yeah the band had to sit and agree that too. Lord knows what the other ones were on the shortlist. Lacrosse? And don't mention Darts, first album I ever bought...

You have GOT to be fucking shitting me:

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THEIVERY CORPORATION
MORCHEEBA
hoobastank

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃

Now imagine the festival name all three would headline.

― Ned Raggett

Terrastock!

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;-)

I've never been sure if this is a good or bad band name:

Archers of Loaf

better than Pinchers of Loaf

^^^ love it!

man, threads like this just make naming your band at all seem pointless. why bother?

no-named bands are the future!

what if you named your band "why bother?"

i like the name it hugs back. also they are great.

what if you named your band "why bother?"

― casual racism fridays (bug), Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:09 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cuz it could potentially be misconstrued as a weezer cover band

there seems to be a band with the name "cassettes won't listen" which bombards me with spam mail. as if i would ever listen to a band with such a shitty name. bastards.

are you a cassette?

Has there ever been a worse band name than Killswitch Engage?

Al Qaeda Sound System.

Well, Vortis might not be the worst, but everything about the band stinks (and it is a bad band name, don't get me wrong). I am sure some of you know exactly why this band reeks, but if you are curious just go check them out. The bio and explanation of the name kinda say it all.

I just got a Facebook invite for a gig, and the band playing there is called Bloodshit Gutsfuck. I declined.

Has there ever been a worse band name than Killswitch Engage?

Isn't there also a band -- a different band -- called Killswitch click?

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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DUDE! YOU GET A LAMINATE! I didn't know people fucked with those since Rockabilia ads in the back of Metal Maniacs.

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.