Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.

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One thing I'm sure we can all agree on is that "Boymerang" is beyond a doubt the worst stage/band name in the entire history of music.
-- John Darnie11e (editor@lastpla...), January 16th, 2002 8:00 PM

I chuckled over this on the "Lost Generation" thread the other day. He may have a point.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Bands Who(m) I Have Never Heard Note One Of, But The Name Tells Me All I Need To Know

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 18 July 2005 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

― zeus, Monday, 18 July 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Its weird when people put completely awesome band names down because they don't like the band. "My Chemical Romance" is a pretty awesome name for a band.

― deej.., Monday, 18 July 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link

1.Quite a preponderance of bandnames that are full sentences, or at least phrases. Yeah, I hate 'em too.

2.Of course it's stupid to entirely dismiss a band's unheard music based on their name alone - even tho 89% of the time you'd be RIGHT.

Having said that...call me a prude, but I REALLY hate "Anal Cunt". I mean, at least their song titles are HUMOROUSLY offensive.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

clap your hands say yeah

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 July 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Kitchens of Distinction. Everything else on this thread is OTM except for Sunn 0))).

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 25 July 2005 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link

the band called the band
their song was "the weight"

― retroman, Monday, 25 July 2005 07:23 (eighteen years ago) link

SUNNO))) -> I mean, for fucks sake, if that isn't a name just invented to appear in Wire magazine then...

Not.

http://www.sunnamps.com/images/sunn_amp.jpg

― Venus Glow (1411), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:28 (eighteen years ago) link

....and a little closer.

http://www.richbriere.com/images/sunn_logo.gif

― Vg (1411), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Vigilante Shipbuilders!!!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Any band names with unalphabetic symbols in them, like the aforementioned Sun&#¤&#&)), makes me immediately suspect such bands are pretentious bores. The only exception to that is maybe µ-Ziq, though he can be a pretentious bore too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you hate V∞redoms? :D

― Tumililingan (ex machina), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Soulwax and Millionaire.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

KIX

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Bands, rappers, whatever:

The BOO-YAA T.R.I.B.E.
The Game
50 Cent
Tony Yayo
Da Back Wudz
Three 6 Mafia
OutKast (with a "K", get it?)
J-Hova
Mobb Deep
Naughty by Nature
The Notorious B.I.G.
P.M. Dawn
The Brand New Heavies
Urban Dance Squad
Vybz Kartel
Coolio

― Rob Upt1ght, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

stuff i would probably like, but can't force myself to check out because of their names:

No-Neck Blues Band
The Fucking Champs

i hate the name 'Clap Your Hands Say Yeah'. OMG i hate it so much.

SunnO))) made me want to hear them. maybe i am a pretentious Wire reading fuck. i didn't like them all that much, but i will probably try again just because i like so much on Southern Lord. how could i not like the flagship founding group?

― ugly and mean, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

the estimable ILMer bimble has e-mailed me enthusing about funkapolitan (for whom peter saville designed the sleeve). personally, i can't see how anyone called funkapolitan could do anything except honk ... but bimble is a man of taste and distinction, so i may have to accept i'm wrong here. fuck.

joy zipper. i hate that name too, and have never bothered to check them out because of it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Skinny Puppy used to really bug me, name-wise, but I got over it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Oingo Boingo

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

funkapolitan

... is nice. I think the song I like is "Run Run Run" -- my main man August Darnell producing. Was this a British band? I think so.

― Rob Upt1ght., Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Final Fantasy

― feminazi (feminazi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

silver jews

― dff, Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

You need to check out This thread. Goodies Especially the cover art.

Alex you especially need to see it.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

You need to check out This thread. Especially the cover art.

Alex you especially need to see it.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

oops can someone remove that 1st post please.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a Beautiful Day

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Green Jello/y

btw...

death before dying refers to a spiritual concept in Sufi, Muslim and Western Mystery Traditions, in case you didn't know and maybe that makes it sound a little less ridiculous. Otherwise, yeah, it sounds like they wanted to be even deadlier than death or something.

― Eye Am, Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

A lot of metal & hip hop, signs & numbers, pseudo-poetic gibberish (the random bits of phrases trend is annoying as hell). Use of the word "super". Good Charlotte (good grief!), Godspeed!You Bloody Asshat, The Bevis Frond, Hoobastank, Babyshambles, Chumbawamba, Evanescence, Circle Jerks, Die Toten Hosen, Pedro The Lion, INXS, Marianne Faithfull.

And regrettably, both Red Lorry Yellow Lorry + And Also The Trees (trendsetters in the annoying trend) were un-hateable. I had the 1st stylishly sprayed on my Maxi-Puch 50cc motorbike.

Rapeman is the only indefensibly stupid name I see on this thread so far, I remember it caused a protest at the distributor's office.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh and Turbonegro sucks too but as I speak spanish & italian it didn't hit me right away.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

There are 3 or 4 band names from the '70s like Stackwaddy and Chilliwack that make me wince every time I hear them. I can't remember what the others are but there are definitely a couple more in that vein.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link

ouch walter

i'm sure i've mentioned this one before but there's a folky uptempo hippy outfit called - wait for it - Shooglenifty

that name just makes me want to go out and strangle puppies

― john clarkson, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, Showaddywaddy is another one I was trying to think of.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

p. diddy, anal cunt, pretty willy, phallus, throbing gristle.

― cujo bass, Friday, 7 October 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link

these arms are like snakes

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 7 October 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Color Me Badd (Really badd music too)
Crystal Pistol
Eyehategod (SO bad)
Paul Wall (Other members of his crew - Ned Ceiling, Karl Floor)
Red Umbrella
Rascal Flatts
Yaz
OK GO
The Stretch Marks (Okay, that one's made up)
Bad Religion (Reminds me of a Caveman talking)
The Goo Goo Dolls
Slim Thug
Everytime I Die
The Von Bondies
Boys II Men
All 4 One

― Erock LAzron, Friday, 7 October 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

OK Go is a good one. I'm wondering as I scroll through this if there even any bands listed here that I like at all? Not finding any at first glance.

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

Paul Wall (Other members of his crew - Ned Ceiling, Karl Floor)

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

Queens of the Stone Age is a great name

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

Yeah, Ned Ceiling and Karl Floor were all me. I was pretty pleased with that one, actually.

― Erock Lazron, Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link

The Velvet Underground. Wait wait wait nvm oh shi... *MUSIC TASTE PARADOX*

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link

For years, I avoided The Flamin' Groovies, based on their name alone. Then I heard "Shake Some Action" and found they weren't half as bad as their name would have led me to believe.

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The Arcade Fire. It sounds like they came up with that name using that emo band name generator web page that was all the rage around 1997. Before I heard them, I knew that they could only be so good -- if there were any truly original or creative people in the band, they would've vetoed such a lame ass name.

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

Muddle of Pud

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 8 October 2005 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, I just made that up, thought it was knda funny.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 8 October 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Songs: Ohia

I win.

― gk, Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Atreyu. Sure, I like The Neverending Story, but I'm going to steer well clear of bands who name themselves after its characters.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Digable Planets
The String Cheese Incident

― R. Greene, Sunday, 9 October 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Flaming Sideburns
New Pornographers (seconded)
Hoobastank (seconded)
As The Poets Affirm (jesus god!)
Supreme Beings of Leisure
The National

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

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