― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Circle of Dead Children http://members.tripod.com/~circlegrind/ The google description Aural decimating grindcore possessing the perfect combination of extreme sickening brutality and emotion !
(sad isn't it)
Pig Destroyer
Anal Cunt
Festival of Dead Dear
.. there are hundreds of more, in grindcore/death metal.
― DJ Martian, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Greg, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Pete, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
moist
ladytron
yes
city-based names: boston, chicago, etc
ratt
― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Oh yes, Ned Raggetts Atomic Dustbin - f*ck*ng appalling name.
― The Jester, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Anyway, band names. The thing about band names is that so many of them have been worn down by endless usage and we forget how awful they are. eg.
The Beatles (apalling and irrelevant insectoid pun) The Beach Boys (to quote Tanya: "they are boys! they go to the beach!") Oasis (sounds like Alan Partridge's backing band)
Something I was thinking the other day - what was the first 'abstract' band name? Not a 'the [noun]s' name or something purely descriptive. Love was fairly early. Ditto Pink Floyd.
― Tom, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally C, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Def Leppard Motley Crue
And others are so uninspiring to hear, they have no imagination:
Girlschool Loudness Air Supply
Please give me a break from this jackassery!!!
― bonkers, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
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― Ally, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
a moon beneath the grindsludge.
― Kevin Enas, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― tupac shakur, Wednesday, 21 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
And Ladytron is a shockingly good name for the band (and it is an excellent song by Roxy Music...erm...wrong thread).
― Omar, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― gareth, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― cw, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
the worst of all is Soul Coughing
What's wrong with Ladytron?
― Nick, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Nothing of course...excellent band.
But I remembered another very bad band name (since were into the question of 80s revivalism): Johnny Hates Jazz.
― the-last-laugh, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
saidflorence - insisted on awful name being spelt lower case.
Fretblanket - no comment needed really.
― Tom, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― yvette burgess, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― alix, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
YES. I should think that Killing Jesus would be worse than Killing Joke. THERFORE, Killing Jesus is a worse band name than Killing Joke. Yes.
Yes, Virginia. There is a worse band name than Killing Joke.
Jester 86 Understands Something.....
Jester Eighty Six LOVES JESUS!
PEACE.
PS.....Cheese is Rice.
Yours In THEE LOVE of JESUS CHRIST,
CAL,
or in other words...
j86.
― Corey A Lyman, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― The Jester, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Apart from Taunton, of course. But then they didn't really exist ...
― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Steven James, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Grand Prize Winner for this category goes to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Papa Roach. The name is about as bad as the music.― Luptune Pitman, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Luptune Pitman, Thursday, 22 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― JM, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― D.Zarakov, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nicole, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Madchen, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Deep Blue Something (in the Sixpence None The Richer bracket)
Limp Biskit
(grim, but quite apt I suppose) Muse (hateful. conclusive proof that you can judge a book by its cover, unless it's by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and it's err.. not a book
Echoboy (yeah - cause that'll really make your band stand out)
The Style Council (was this self parody?)
Stereophonics (90s band name by numbers)
Dub Federation (might have been OK if there wasn't already a Dub Syndicate. at least ADF added an 'Asian' bit for interest)
Almost all those one-word names chosen by every shitpop chancer in mid 90s Britain.
― Nick, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Also, any 90's band name with "Super" in it.
― Patrick, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Radiohead.
Coldplay.
The Cranberry Saw Us.
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mog, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― The Jester, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
a) It's a Monty Python ref.
b) They represent the West Side. Goleta Power.
― JM, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
LOVE and TOMORROW are contenders.
but maybe THEM predates?
(non-rock answer - tho of course they played rock support slots at the key moment - wd be AMM: explanation of which acronym I notice Keith Rowe is still keeping shtumm abt, in current Wire)
― mark sinker, Monday, 26 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 26 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Duane Zarakov, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Also "Northern Uproar" did suggest boring meat 'n' 2 veg britrock of the most ZZZzzz-inducing sort. Fortunately.
x0x0
― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
By far, Car Seat Headrest is the worst one mentioned so far.
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:56 (one year ago) link
Beatles is a pretty naff functional name, pun on an earlier archetypal group name. But it got valorised into something by usage and the group being somewhat phenomenal.The Smiths, artisanal songcraft?THe Cure arrogant statement on their place in the world, Cure for their non existence? Can't remember where the original 2 word version of that came from Easy Cure .... is it a song or some other reference.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 January 2023 07:27 (one year ago) link
some DJ is calling themselves jichael mackson FFS
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
I dislike when a band is called something super basic, like "Cake" or "Live," but they have a convoluted explanation that "It doesn't mean what you think..."
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
There's a narrow range between basic (The Music, the Band, Television, Can, The The...) and too cute like Ululating Mummies, Pamplamoose, Squirrel Nut Zippers
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
I kinda wish modern bands would go for more ridiculous names like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, but I guess if everyone is an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, then no one is an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
― Vinnie, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I listen to a genre where there are a glut of bands that seem to be the founders looking for an obscure pretentious verb and a disgusting obscure medical condition and awkwardly sew them together. so my standards are low.
just no spoonerisms
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Hey, Adjective Noun is one of my favorite bands.
Surely you're familiar with their albums Promising Debut and Disappointing Followup.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link
obscure pretentious verb and a disgusting obscure medical condition
Ah yes, who can forget...
Flagellating Chlamydia
Defenestrated Buboes
Spatchcock and the Goiters
The Collating Hemorrhoids
Televangelize Pimple
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
I hated both the named Wet Leg and Dry Cleaning, and then was all bummed out when I liked each band's music.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 12 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Coming to your town together on the Wet & Dry Tour.
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
Bahaha
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Cal Rifkin
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
She's... back?!!
https://i.imgur.com/5oDect6.jpg
...Oh.
https://i.imgur.com/THxAfOX.png
― listened to "Mississippi" one take too long (morrisp), Thursday, 2 February 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Could mean the Whitney museum on tour too..
― Alicia Silver Stone (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
Oh, I wanna sit awkwardly on a bed with somebody
I wanna wear a shirt with somebody
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
“@“https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/at-mind-palace-music/
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
Not sure if it’s because their music is generally terrible but I hate the name “Imagine Dragons”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
Yeah me too. It's one of those superficially clever band names because one can read it in the imperative: "imagine (that there are) dragons." Or one can read implied punctuation such as "imagine... dragons!" as in sheesh, what the fuck are dragons doing here?
Ditto "Cage the Elephant," which has an imperative reading: "cause that elephant to be caged," as well as the slightly twee notion that there is an elephant named Cage, hence an implied comma: "Cage, the elephant, wishes to be fed more peanuts."
Lots of band names can just die in fire. Maybe bands should all just be issued a number like the Social Security system.
I am guilty too; during an especially weird part of the twentieth century I was in an experimental jazz band that spelled its name differently for every show. I vaguely wish I had kept some of the posters. Curds and Whey, Kurds n Way, Curds + Weigh, Kurds & Whey, etc.
― nat king cole slaw (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:17 (one year ago) link
Oh, I wanna sit awkwardly on a bed with somebodyI wanna wear a shirt with somebody
Underrated post
― pee change (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:34 (one year ago) link
It's one of those superficially clever band names because one can read it in the imperative: "imagine (that there are) dragons." Or one can read implied punctuation such as "imagine... dragons!" as in sheesh, what the fuck are dragons doing here?Ditto "Cage the Elephant," which has an imperative reading: "cause that elephant to be caged," as well as the slightly twee notion that there is an elephant named Cage, hence an implied comma: "Cage, the elephant, wishes to be fed more peanuts."
🤯 tbh
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Friday, 24 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
Hed PE
Is it a Public Enemy reference?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link
i always thought it was an abbreviation for "planet earth"
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
hey i was kinda right
Hed PE (also known as (hed) Planet Earth and stylized as (həd) p.e. or as (Hed)pe[12] or (Hed)PE[13]) or (həd) Planetary Evolution, is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California.
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link
also lol @ all those different variations and me still sitting here going, "so is it like, head pee or HEAD PEE EE?"
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link
Their / They're / There
― enochroot, Thursday, 4 May 2023 13:26 (eleven months ago) link
oh jeez
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 14:08 (eleven months ago) link
Makes sense considering the three members were previously in such bands as Cap'n Jazz, Into It. Over It., and Loose Lips Sink Ships.
― henry s, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:15 (eleven months ago) link
might as well name their next one Well, Akshually
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:17 (eleven months ago) link
Pretty good song titles
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:34 (eleven months ago) link
There's a local shit deathcore band called Catcher And the Rye
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 July 2023 19:13 (nine months ago) link
I am fairly sure they're just idiots that think that is the title of the book. They are humongous douchebags
probably for a different thread, but cant find one suitable, what's the most obvious band name that hasn't been "taken" yet? Taken by a somewhat notable band who would stop someone else using it I mean.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link
I have been thinking about this. Animal names are popular - Eagles, scorpions, Owls, Wolves, Coyotes, Worms, Otters, Bonobos, Giraffes, Zebra, Naked Mole Rats, Wallabies, Sloths, Tardigrades, Yellowjackets, Fruit Bats, Bandicoots? Apparently all taken.
But there are some still sitting out there unclaimed. I am not aware of a band called the Ring-Tailed Lemurs, or the Earwigs.
The sneakiest move would be to call your next band The Beetles. Technically it hasn't been taken.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:21 (nine months ago) link
Earwig has already been used - early 90s shoegazer band who later turned into Insides
― NickB, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:40 (nine months ago) link
I once read that the most common band names in America are Paradox; The Rain; and some third one I forgot. Googling confirms that Paradox is a top 10 name, as are Apollo, Atlas, and Zero.
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:43 (nine months ago) link
These are fun things to check out on last.fm, for example https://www.last.fm/music/Paradox
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 23:04 (nine months ago) link
The 1960s was a huge landgrab for common words. You just had to plant a “The” flag in front of it.
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:48 (nine months ago) link
xxxpost, I check every once in a while, but there's never been a hardcore band called Lifetime of Abusethere is Life is Abuse but I don't like the ring of that as well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:28 (nine months ago) link
I was pretty upset to discover Moni Jitchell recently - I thought we'd agreed to stop doing this shit
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:13 (nine months ago) link
Buckcherry should have been the last word in that nonsense
― henry s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
pro-tip - if you used to be in the band Saliva and you want to go on tour and do their songs, but Saliva still exists and you can't legally use their name, perhaps best not to use the naming convention "Josey Scott's Saliva"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 July 2023 13:55 (nine months ago) link
lol
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 July 2023 01:32 (nine months ago) link
i had a really good "worst band name" idea last night, but forgot it! it was 2 words and one of the words was 'Pizza'
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 July 2023 01:33 (nine months ago) link
Sounds like band-name trauma induced by this:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1F4B-7agAEotGg?format=jpg&name=large
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 17 July 2023 01:59 (nine months ago) link
Pizza Great Guy
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Monday, 17 July 2023 13:47 (nine months ago) link
The "ILM Best of 2023 Tracks Nominations" playlist just served me up a song by needanamebro.
― enochroot, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:12 (three months ago) link
they got a new name now bro
https://www.instagram.com/saynow
they're great but I'm glad they changed it that name wasn't doing them any favours
― Left, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:18 (three months ago) link
ruby the hatchet
― organ doner (ledge), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:44 (three months ago) link
...I had avoided "Amp Fiddler" until a couple weeks ago due to the truly dire choice of name, but turns out he's great!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:39 (three months ago) link