...I realize there are more than enough reasons to hate these bands already, but having silly/stupid/embarassing names certainly doesn't aid their already troubled cause.
4. Hootie & the Blowfish5. Matchbox Twenty6. An Emotional Fish7. Limp Bizkit8. Korn9. Phish10. .......?
Yers?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
nearly every modern hardcore bandany band with a number in its nameevery metal band ever
in particular:
murder by deathyour enemies friendskerosene 454gorilla biscuitsdeath before dying
― ohrobert, Saturday, 29 November 2003 06:59 (twenty years ago) link
That is stupid.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:09 (twenty years ago) link
Mister MisterHaircut 100Pretty Boy FloydTears for Fears
and lately:
matchbox 20blink182
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:11 (twenty years ago) link
― reo, Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:17 (twenty years ago) link
Actually a good band! But your list reminds me: Youth Brigade, Youth of Today... esp. when the members started getting up in the years.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:19 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:43 (twenty years ago) link
But they weren't a HORRIBLE BAND to begin with.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:55 (twenty years ago) link
Reminds me of The Commitments:
"And And fucking And?!"
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 07:58 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:08 (twenty years ago) link
*Gorky's Zygotic Minci *Bongzilla*As I Lay Dying / From Autumn To Ashes / any faggotass emo shit (despite the stunningly good drumming of a lot of these cats, in particular Poison The Well and Avenged Sevenfold)*Swearing At Motorists*The International Noise Conspiracy
― roger adultery, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:14 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link
― nestmanso (nestmanso), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:25 (twenty years ago) link
I think what most of us are getting at here is what the name of a band reveals about the intellect of a band. Some of the best band names are utter nonsense, having been made up by people who realize that giving your band name some kinda "meaning" would be unbearably pretentious. Band names like Ned's Atomic Dustbin are great, IMO. Bad band, of course, but don't let that color your appreciation of their ridiculous band name. Look -- at least it's not "arty."
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:28 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link
add to the list: Facial Defecation, Anal Cunt
― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link
Hey, eat shit. You're an endless fountain of negativity about everything possible, and it's getting fucking boring. Lighten up, sourpuss.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:34 (twenty years ago) link
1. made a joke about Sonic Youth, a band I like.2. listed one band, Jackie-O Motherfucker, as falling into the category of having a stupid name, with the caveat that at least I gave them a chance.3. questioned whether naming a band from a Beatles movie is "inscrutable" (hint: it isn't!).
I didn't:
1. list a lot of bands.2. personally attack anyone for their choices or comments until attacked by Kenan.
Yeah, you're right, I clearly am "an endless fountain of negativity about everything possible," that's why I did these things. Unlike yourself.
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:40 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link
WHY TWO D's?? WTF
― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:50 (twenty years ago) link
Well, yeah, the only reason I have this knowledge is because of the band name. Therefore, still in the realm of the abstract.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:51 (twenty years ago) link
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 08:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliott (ebb), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
I post positive stuff about things I like all the time. It's just that you don't, or won't, or can't, see/read it. Also, this is not the most positive thread subjet matter on ILM, but I don't see you jumping down anyone else's throat.
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:14 (twenty years ago) link
You didn't. Maybe that's why I'm bitter.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:31 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 29 November 2003 09:35 (twenty years ago) link
Limp Bizkit and Puddle of Mudd and Queens of the (new ?) stone age..The worst possible names. But maybe were all out of sync with what sounds cool these days...
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Saturday, 29 November 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― cujo bass, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erock LAzron, Friday, 7 October 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
For some reason I always hated the name "Electric Flag" out of all proportion. I'm not even sure I've ever listened to the band, I just hate the name.
I had a hard time buying The New Pornographers when they came out because I thought it was a really dumb name.
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Did you come up with that one all by yourself?Also Slim Thug is a badass name. Yaz is a cool name too.
And "Evanescence" is an indisputably great name for an awful band.
― deej.., Friday, 7 October 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
i think it's just These Arms are Snakes not "Like Snakes"
I like Silver Jews as a band name.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 7 October 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erock Lazron, Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Any band that has the word "die" in it -- Every Time I Die, As I Lay Dying, Death In Vegas, etc. Exception given for if anybody ever names their band "Die Bart Die".
― casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 8 October 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 8 October 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 8 October 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I win.
― gk, Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― R. Greene, Sunday, 9 October 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Jackie-O Motherfucker (still have never heard them only because of the name)The Von Bondies (pisses me off on a gut level, can't say why exactly)and everything of the Puddle of Korn ilk.
Yet to be mentioned (I think):
The Music
― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link
"The Von Bondies" pleases me on a gut level, can't say why exactly.
No one's mentioned Puddle of Mudd?WHY TWO D's?? WTF
-- Gear!
"Pudle Of Mud?"
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 7 January 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Shirk Circus.Weeping Tile.Deep Blue Something.Third Eye Blind.Boom Crash Opera.Mary's Danish.Blow Monkeys.Low Pop Suicide.Big Bam Boo.
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
It had the good taste to be inscrutable when the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed a song by the name of "Death Cab For Cutie" in the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. Credit where it's due, dammit.
The band DCFC is only inscrutable in that one wonders why a band would willingly write and perform music that sounds like background music for prescription drug commercials. Go on, try it: the next time you hear a DCFC song, say out loud, "Are you suffering from seasonal allergies?"
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
(BTW, sorry if I sounded smug, xero, wasn't my intention at all. Python fans can be a tiresome lot, can't they?)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I hate the name "Antony and the Johnsons."
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Soul CoughingWalt Mink (who were not altogether bad)Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― nancyboy (nancyboy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 8 January 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― blownspeakers (lucy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link
The exception being "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah". I've never heard their music and I'm not sure I even want to cause it might spoil my appreciation of their awesome name.
........
Jim CrowAnyone with "Lil" in their name.
― R. J. Greene, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― poodle puddle, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― caek (caek), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link
-- R. J. Greene
Actually, my personal specific exception was the awesome Nomeansno - a name that, in print, doesn't even LOOK like a full sentence.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 8 January 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rombald, Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sheryl, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan (Gah) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Cunninlynguists
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 24 April 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Fuck them.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link