― david h (david h), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 8 November 2002 23:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Juan (Juan), Saturday, 9 November 2002 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Saturday, 9 November 2002 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack, Saturday, 9 November 2002 03:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 9 November 2002 04:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Evan, Saturday, 9 November 2002 08:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
and other 'ironic' mis-spellings
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 9 November 2002 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
I mean, is the concept of an angry speedhorn supposed to scare me or something?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 November 2002 12:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
The name "Toad The Wet Sprocket" was thought up by Eric Idle, as a deliberately bad and stupid band name title.
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Callum (Callum), Saturday, 9 November 2002 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 9 November 2002 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 11 November 2002 06:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jq higgins, Monday, 11 November 2002 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
RATT
Lynyrd Skynyrd
― gabriel (gabe), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 05:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_Ball_Torture
― nsuomy (ramon cora), Sunday, 14 February 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Hell Yeah
― Evan, Sunday, 14 February 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Some friends of mine at one point in time were talking about starting an 'erotic grindcore' band and I don't recall the hypothetical name but it was somethin like that.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Sunday, 14 February 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean if I had moved into a place and found a shoebox full of erotic poetry that would have been my first inclination too but just sayin, the idea doesn't really lend it self to really good band names.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Sunday, 14 February 2010 03:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Dr. Dog
― SourPatchCorpse, Sunday, 14 February 2010 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
relient k
― lukevalentine, Sunday, 14 February 2010 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Cock and Ball Torture is a fantastic name
― da Wesley CRUSHER (latebloomer), Sunday, 14 February 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I always kind of regret not buying the tape by Barney Rubble and the Cunt Stubble that I saw in 1991.
― joygoat, Sunday, 14 February 2010 07:44 (fourteen years ago) link
lb otm
― twice remembered / twice removed (electricsound), Sunday, 14 February 2010 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
On the same note,
The Genotorturers
"They proclaim themselves to be 'The World's Sexiest Rock Band'."
― nickn, Sunday, 14 February 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Whoops, Genitorturers.
― nickn, Sunday, 14 February 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Cock and Ball Torture is afantastic name
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 14 February 2010 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I have the genitorturers' first album.
I'm not proud of this.
― m the g, Sunday, 14 February 2010 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Beatles. Well, there's a band here called Engineers from Hawaii and they are nearly as awful as their name
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 14 February 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
cerebral ballzy
― livin' next door to phallus (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
G. Love and Special Sauce
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoobastank
― livin' next door to phallus (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:06 (43 seconds ago)
that's a neat deconstruction of the alt/bro, apollonian/dionysian schism of ROCK, and not without paranomastic elan
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Without question Hoobastank
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Raging Speedhorn
Reminds me of piss, wrong coloured denims and drastic hair
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Paranomastic Elan
― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
boiled sick
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Barf Martyr
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
Foxygen
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
tUnE-yArDs
― marcos, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Elvis Depressedly
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
My Bloody Valentine (people call them MBV all the time so they don't have to)
Fat Mattress (people by contrast avoid mentioning them in any form)
Asia JapanWang Chung Huang Chung
&
Gentle Giant (who I love but wow that name never gets better)
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
əkoostik hookah
― Monarch of the Murder Chair (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
the history of apple pie
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
Joy Orbison
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 11 December 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
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.
― No, 𝘐'𝘮 Breathless! (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 19:58 (ten months ago) link
came here to post king gizzard or w/e but its taken so i will offer:
infected mushroom
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:27 (ten months ago) link
I guess (hED)PE is more “horribly formed” than “bad”. I should have started a new thread.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:36 (ten months ago) link
the jam band world is littered with terrible names (apologies to those already covered by astute ilxors):
Deep Banana BlackoutThe Disco BiscuitsDopapodekoostik hookahGooseHypnotic ClambakeLeftover SalmonPigeons Playing Ping PongShpongleString Cheese IncidentTwiddle
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 21:58 (ten months ago) link
Rage Against the Machine
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 22:15 (ten months ago) link
genuinely great band name imo
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 23:10 (ten months ago) link
Spoon
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 23:23 (ten months ago) link
Fucking awful imo, but then again I hated their music too. The Clash without the wit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 18 May 2023 19:32 (ten months ago) link
i just encountered BlueBucksClan
― budo jeru, Monday, 22 May 2023 16:49 (ten months ago) link
Theory Of A DeadmanJoe Lean And The Jing Jang JongThe TheTherapy?Get Cape Wear Cape FlyPortugal. The ManPretty Girls Make Graves
My favorite bad band name is Ralph Macchio And The Steaming Dumps
― ♪♫ you can’t Shazam a memory ♪♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 22 May 2023 16:55 (ten months ago) link
A local band that was widely derided for having a terrible name (that I always thought was great, imho): Hamburger Hotdog
― ♪♫ you can’t Shazam a memory ♪♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 22 May 2023 16:58 (ten months ago) link
Bathtub Shitter is an amazing band name.
Fatuous Rump, on the other hand...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 22 May 2023 17:03 (ten months ago) link
Hypnotic Clambake
Agreed, but I loved these guys' accordion-driven hijinx.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 May 2023 17:13 (ten months ago) link
The Front Bottoms.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:00 (ten months ago) link
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
I always liked this name, it reminds me of text adventures.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:10 (ten months ago) link
i thought it was an intentional reference! particularly since the name is I think "get cape. wear cape. fly."
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:19 (ten months ago) link
Drink potion
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:20 (ten months ago) link
Oh yeah, I think it probably is intentional, I just wasn't sure so didn't want to assert it as fact.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:23 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 15:29 (two years ago) link
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:29 (ten months ago) link
Gay witch Abortion
― ian, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:35 (ten months ago) link
Just "Gay Witch" would be pretty good.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:36 (ten months ago) link
good band!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:41 (ten months ago) link
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Tuesday, May 23, 2023 2:00 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this one makes me cringe more than any other
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:42 (ten months ago) link
Audioslave
― beamish13, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 19:47 (ten months ago) link
Eyehategod
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 21:43 (ten months ago) link
It really may be the Front Bottoms
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 21:50 (ten months ago) link
idk someone pointed out "ekoostik hookah" and now I'm not so sure
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 May 2023 21:52 (ten months ago) link
Has anyone said Perfect Pussy yet?
― ian, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:14 (ten months ago) link
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.
― ian, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:19 (ten months ago) link
Gay Witch Abortion is one of the best band names, wtf?
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 22:20 (ten months ago) link
Just got a promo email about an artist (not a band, just a guy) named Cautious Clay.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 13:19 (ten months ago) link
Perfect Pussy is a great band name
Imperfect Penis is not as good
― ♪♫ you can’t Shazam a memory ♪♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 13:47 (ten months ago) link
And yeah Audioslave is a really bad band name
― ♪♫ you can’t Shazam a memory ♪♫ (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 13:53 (ten months ago) link
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, May 23, 2023 5:43 PM bookmarkflaglink
ahem u meant this for 'best band names' thread
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 May 2023 13:56 (ten months ago) link
yall weird af
― ian, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:37 (ten months ago) link
i'd say 'does it offend you, yeah?' has to be up there
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:21 (nine months ago) link
yes omg terrible
does it offend you to clap your hands and say yeah yeah yeahs?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:27 (nine months ago) link
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
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:34 (nine months ago) link
Came across this one last nite: http://thebellwetherla.com/events/mild-high-club-230726
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:35 (nine months ago) link
(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
― your original display name is still visible (Left),
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
― sarahell, Thursday, 22 June 2023 17:36 (nine months ago) link