What is the worst rock band name ever?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_Ball_Torture

Hell Yeah

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.

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.

Dr. Dog

relient k

Cock and Ball Torture is a fantastic name

I always kind of regret not buying the tape by Barney Rubble and the Cunt Stubble that I saw in 1991.

lb otm

On the same note,

The Genotorturers

"They proclaim themselves to be 'The World's Sexiest Rock Band'."

Whoops, Genitorturers.

Cock and Ball Torture is afantastic name

I have the genitorturers' first album.

I'm not proud of this.

Beatles. Well, there's a band here called Engineers from Hawaii and they are nearly as awful as their name

cerebral ballzy

cerebral ballzy

G. Love and Special Sauce

Hoobastank

cerebral ballzy

― 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

Without question Hoobastank

Raging Speedhorn

Reminds me of piss, wrong coloured denims and drastic hair

Paranomastic Elan

boiled sick

Barf Martyr

Foxygen

tUnE-yArDs

Elvis Depressedly

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
Japan
Wang Chung
Huang Chung

&

Gentle Giant (who I love but wow that name never gets better)

əkoostik hookah

the history of apple pie

Joy Orbison

Yeah, The History of Apple Pie is a terrible name. Which is a shame, because I didn't mind that album they put out.

Fat Mattress (people by contrast avoid mentioning them in any form)

Toe Fat (memory of which people have suppressed as too horrible to contemplate)

Yeah, and Joanna Gruesome

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

How to Dress Well

Ducktails

Real Estate
Sunny Day Real Estate

really if you name your band Real Estate you are just telegraphing that you are a boring as shit indie rock band

Boston
Chicago

Huey Lewis & the News. (Just the "Huey Lewis" part.)

dan le sac vs scroobius pip

If it had been Huey Lewis with the News that would have been better.

Gentle Giant (who I love but wow that name never gets better)

What's wrong with this? As prog band names go, I mean. It's no Spock's Beard.

Blues Traveller

yes! blues traveller ghastly name

the major English prog names are comparatively good I think: King Crimson, Yes, Genesis. Gentle Giant isn't a terrible name but it's faintly embarrassing, which might be worse. Probably just bugs me because they are the only major prog band I still listen to. I can't stand looking at that first album cover (or looking at them though either).

If it had been Huey Lewis with the News that would have been better.

If they had put out an album called "I'm Huey Lewis, Here Now the News," they could have ruled the "Horrible '70s Album Titles" thread.

Ducktails

― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Real Estate

― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

booo

wait, i meant to boo this one

really if you name your band Real Estate you are just telegraphing that you are a boring as shit indie rock band

― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the new real estate album is good. it's definitely unobtrusive and "boring," sure, but in a melancholy, wistful way. a lot of chillwave-affiliated music is in the tradition of satie and (ambient) eno -- it's not supposed to be exciting.

The The

The Music

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

― 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