What is the worst rock band name ever?

uhhhhh

Garcia People’s
Drive by Truckers

Five Finger Death Punch

Saw it on a t-shirt the other day for the millionth time but for some reason it just struck me... DEF LEPPARD is a truly terrible name for a band...

Slint.

The correct answer is Slint.

Stunned to realize that neither Umphrey's McGee nor əkoostik hookah have been mentioned yet itt. I consider both band names to be acts of violence.

Shpongle

This made me laugh a lot, I love it

also Bathtub Shitter, but it's also one of the best ones simultaneously

my friend's wife grew up in Youngstown, OH and years ago, when i had a fb acct, her little brother excitedly wrote on her wall "hey sis! i got us costumes for Shpongle!"

i legit thought that's what they call Halloween in Ohio for months afterwards, until she told me otherwise.

came here to post king gizzard or w/e but its taken so i will offer:

infected mushroom

I guess (hED)PE is more “horribly formed” than “bad”. I should have started a new thread.

the jam band world is littered with terrible names (apologies to those already covered by astute ilxors):

Deep Banana Blackout
The Disco Biscuits
Dopapod
ekoostik hookah
Goose
Hypnotic Clambake
Leftover Salmon
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
Shpongle
String Cheese Incident
Twiddle

Rage Against the Machine

genuinely great band name imo

Spoon

genuinely great band name imo

Fucking awful imo, but then again I hated their music too. The Clash without the wit.

i just encountered BlueBucksClan

Theory Of A Deadman
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
The The
Therapy?
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
Portugal. The Man
Pretty Girls Make Graves

My favorite bad band name is Ralph Macchio And The Steaming Dumps

A local band that was widely derided for having a terrible name (that I always thought was great, imho): Hamburger Hotdog

Bathtub Shitter is an amazing band name.

Fatuous Rump, on the other hand...

Hypnotic Clambake

Agreed, but I loved these guys' accordion-driven hijinx.

The Front Bottoms.

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly

I always liked this name, it reminds me of text adventures.

i thought it was an intentional reference! particularly since the name is I think "get cape. wear cape. fly."

Drink potion

Oh yeah, I think it probably is intentional, I just wasn't sure so didn't want to assert it as fact.

tbh this reminds me that I've always struggled to come up with an apt comparison to "Car Seat Headrest". It's such a perfectly maximized trio of mundane, arbitrary and clunky. The perfect worst band name ever. Like naming your band Bottom Left Cabinet Hinge or something else from a random page of a product manual.

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Gay witch Abortion

Just "Gay Witch" would be pretty good.

good band!

The Front Bottoms.

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, May 23, 2023 2:00 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this one makes me cringe more than any other

Audioslave

Eyehategod

It really may be the Front Bottoms

idk someone pointed out "ekoostik hookah" and now I'm not so sure

Has anyone said Perfect Pussy yet?

Garcia People’s

^^ genuinely love these dudes and couldn’t get into the name at first but have since gone to appreciate its youthful sincerity.

Gay Witch Abortion is one of the best band names, wtf?

Just got a promo email about an artist (not a band, just a guy) named Cautious Clay.

Perfect Pussy is a great band name

Imperfect Penis is not as good

And yeah Audioslave is a really bad band name

Eyehategod

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, May 23, 2023 5:43 PM bookmarkflaglink

ahem u meant this for 'best band names' thread

yall weird af

i'd say 'does it offend you, yeah?' has to be up there

yes omg terrible

does it offend you to clap your hands and say yeah yeah yeahs?

their disasterpiece of a logo redeems the name somewhat and casts it in a different light imo

https://i.discogs.com/JID8KDdRyCA5Xgr9ZzymnZxDOE3U5PuUoQcORKYCjY4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM3MjY4/MzMtMTM0MTkzNTU4/OS0yMDU5LmpwZWc.jpeg

Came across this one last nite: http://thebellwetherla.com/events/mild-high-club-230726

(I guess it's actually not too bad, but sure made me eyeroll)

haven't heard the name dogs die etc for years but it always upset me, you have to be a real arsehole to want that image to accompany all of your music

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otm ... there are plenty of names mentioned in this thread that are "ugh no" because they refer to things that are gross in an embarrassing way ... like all the piss and shit names ... but dogs die in hot cars is gross and depressing