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
Yeah, The History of Apple Pie is a terrible name. Which is a shame, because I didn't mind that album they put out.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 11 December 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link
Toe Fat (memory of which people have suppressed as too horrible to contemplate)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 11 December 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, and Joanna Gruesome
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 December 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 11 December 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
How to Dress Well
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
Ducktails
Real EstateSunny 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
― marcos, Thursday, 11 December 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
BostonChicago
Huey Lewis & the News. (Just the "Huey Lewis" part.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 December 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
dan le sac vs scroobius pip
― (曇り) (clouds), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
If it had been Huey Lewis with the News that would have been better.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
What's wrong with this? As prog band names go, I mean. It's no Spock's Beard.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
Blues Traveller
― tobo73, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
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).
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 12 December 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
Ducktails― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkReal Estate― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Real Estate
booo
― Treeship, Friday, 12 December 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― 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.
― Treeship, Friday, 12 December 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
The The
― MarkoP, Friday, 12 December 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
The Music
― ledge, Friday, 12 December 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
My defense of Real Estate would be that they're going for a jangly Yo La Tengo/later day Feelies/ late 80s early 90s college rock vibe. I understand when people perceive them as "Indie Generic - version: Wilco" in the indie universe but I wouldn't say they are completely devoid of character. They stand out for a reason. Days is one of my very favorite albums of the last 10 years.
― Evan, Friday, 12 December 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
I hate "The Band". That's a bullshit name.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Friday, 12 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Better than ...
http://images.45cat.com/jaime-robbie-robertson-rick-danko-richard-manuel-garth-hudson-levon-helm-the-weight-1968.jpg
― Mark G, Friday, 12 December 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Hed PE (also known as (hed) Planet Earth and stylized as (həd) p.e. or as (Hed)pe or (Hed)PE) or (həd) Planetary Evolution, is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California.They named the group "Hed", which stands for "higher education".Legal issues forced Hed to change their name, adding "PE", which stood for "Planetary Evolution (later changed to planet earth) ".
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 May 2023 21:50 (eleven months ago) link
Butthole SurfersLimp Bizkit
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 21:53 (eleven months ago) link
Fat Chick From Wilson PhilipsJon Cougar Concentration Camp
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 16 May 2023 22:47 (eleven months ago) link
For me, nothing matches the sheer punchability of Shpongle
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 05:24 (eleven months ago) link
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 05:30 (eleven months ago) link
Strictly more bland crossover country-pop than rock, but Lady Antebellum is a strong contender.
― Bloody Snail, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 07:18 (eleven 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
Eyehategod
― 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