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Rage Against the Machine

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:34 (twenty years ago) link

george

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

N.E.R.D.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link

Love Spit Love

― turkey (turkey), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link

Love Spit Love was correctly descibed in a music magazine as a 'godawful' name.

Robbie wrote:

"Imagine having a band called The Cockroaches turning up today and being proclaimed the greatest thing since sliced bread"

You could've experienced this, Robbie, had you been in Sydney i9n about 1985. They later became The Wiggles, who are indeed the greatest thing since sliced bread if you're three years old.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

Bite The Pillow

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:49 (twenty years ago) link

Plaid, if only for the number of people who don't know how to pronounce it.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:08 (twenty years ago) link

Tangerine Dream

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:15 (twenty years ago) link

Dokken.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:17 (twenty years ago) link

excellent, colin

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:22 (twenty years ago) link

I never understood why anyone would call their band Abysmal, but yes, they exist.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

Pinback
Lucy's Fur Coat
Green Apple Quickstep
Ugly Kid Joe
Suddenly, Tammy!
Live
Carissa's Weird
Bush

There were tons more of those crap 90's altrock names, but I have blocked most of them out.

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 06:47 (twenty years ago) link

Bananarama

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:13 (twenty years ago) link

µ-Ziq

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 07:15 (twenty years ago) link

Death Faeces (seen on one of those 'review your demo' pages in a music mag)
Bikini ('new wave' group based in Hungary, around 1990?
The Ordinary Boys (NME choice from 2 weeks ago. Less potential than the Roaring boys from a few years ago)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 08:10 (twenty years ago) link

loose fur
the specimens

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:09 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmmm, there have been loads of bands with really *horrible* names:

Flash & the Pan
Mental As Anything
Def Leppard
REO Speedwagon
Wang Chung
Mott the Hoople

And loads more with just plain old *stoopid* ones:

Liberty X
Jimmy the Hoover
Oingo Boingo
Splodgenessabounds
Mr Mister
Sniff'n'the Tears

But let's face it, NO-ONE is EVER really going to beat these fellers:

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BIG BALLS AND THE GREAT WHITE IDIOT (God bless 'em!)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

Captain Crunch & Let's Do Lunch.

Got a demo tape by them back in the early '90s, though I can't remember a thing about it.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link

Turbonegro
XPQ-21
Butthole Surfers

Lots and lots of metal bands with "gloomy" pseudo-Latin or otherwise "poetic" names (Altaria, Apocalyptica, Solitude Aeternus, On Thorns I Lay, Stratovarius, Dark Tranquility etc.).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

Lasting Legacy
Celebratory Rape
Sniffschitz
Humpy Boogle
The Secrets of Colorchange

― Ben K., Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:47 (twenty years ago) link

Grannysample
Shoebert
Sweetbelly Freakdown
Cloud Around the Biffy
Toad the Wet Sprocket

― Ben K., Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

I think you'll find Turbonegro is an unquestionably brilliant name actually, my Finnish friend.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

Really? I never understood what the word "negro" has to do with pasty-faced, pseudo-gay Norwegian rockers. Worst of all, the Turbonegro fan clubs around the world call themselves "Turbo Jugend", and they wear "Turbo Jugend" badges on their shoulders. Before I've heard of the band, I saw a guy with such a badge, and thought he was some sort of Neo-Nazi.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

delicious mind garden

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

I was going to mention Crabby Appleton but have decided I love it - Tucky Buzzard however still sucks

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link

My Friend the Chocolate Cake

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

You could do a whole sub-thread comprised of only Maryland bands. Dying Fetus! Audio Rapists! Meatjack! Buttsteak! Cex! Fugazi Osborne! Objection to Oppression! The Pee Tanks! Liars Academy (no apostrophe)! Good Charlotte! Laughing Colors! Jimmie's Chicken Shack! Kix! Let the Horse Guide You!

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

Which makes me think of Godspeed You Black Emperor!

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

GYBE isn't bad its just obnoxious.

But Im going to see thee worst named band tonight:

BEEFTERMINAL

Who are pretty damm good.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

Metallica

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

Fun Lovin' Criminals
G-love and Special Sauce

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

I Mother Earth

― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

Da Band is somehow even worse than The Band.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 19:16 (twenty years ago) link

Our Lady Peace
Copyright/Circle C/©

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 19:17 (twenty years ago) link

Worst of all, the Turbonegro fan clubs around the world call themselves "Turbo Jugend", and they wear "Turbo Jugend" badges on their shoulders

Um, I have a Turbojugend NYC pin that I wear on my jacket. Don't go knockin the darkness!! [Throws devil sign in air, flicks tongue, grabs own ass.]

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

Venom
Megadeth
Anthrax

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

yeah megadeth. horrible.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

"Um, I have a Turbojugend NYC pin that I wear on my jacket. Don't go knockin the darkness!! [Throws devil sign in air, flicks tongue, grabs own ass.]"

Innit! It's a perfectly normal German word. Most of these clubs seem to have started in Germany anyway

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 08:55 (twenty years ago) link

Flying Burrito Brothers

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:51 (twenty years ago) link

The Eagles is a pretty bad name. It's like, why?

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

Buttmoan, hands down.

― riley n., Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link

The Shirts. It's pants.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 23:54 (twenty years ago) link

Doobie Brothers

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 16 October 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

"Um, I have a Turbojugend NYC pin that I wear on my jacket. Don't go knockin the darkness!! [Throws devil sign in air, flicks tongue, grabs own ass.]"

Innit! It's a perfectly normal German word. Most of these clubs seem to have started in Germany anyway

Now don't you even try to claim that "Turbojugend" doesn't bring to your mind any connotations towards a certain Fascist regime and it's youth organization. "Jugend" is a perfectly normal German word, yes, but naming a fan organization "xxxx-Jugend" and making badges which bear that name is hardly innocent.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 16 October 2003 08:21 (twenty years ago) link

Kitchens of Distinction... which makes me think of Interpol too !
Well, any band name can be qualified as bad by someone, I'm afraid.

― Olivier (anagrama), Thursday, 16 October 2003 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

Also "Northern Uproar" did suggest boring meat 'n' 2 veg britrock of the most ZZZzzz-inducing sort. Fortunately.

Actually, at the time, I thought the name sounded more like a really whizz-bang happy hardcore bunch of ravey-Daveys from Cumbernauld!!!!!!

As you can guess, I was most disappointed when I finally heard their tunes!

BTW In terms of "interesting" band names, I don't think you can get better at the moment than The Excrementory Grindfuckers!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 16 October 2003 09:39 (twenty years ago) link

Ween should be a horrible band name but because it's a verb they win.

I must disagree with something Dastoor said like 2 years ago: Soul Coughing is a wonderful band name.

A band I was in in high school once shared a bill with a band called Thunderchicken which was like the Screaming Trees but with Gavin Rossdale in place of Mark Lanegin.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 October 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

When People Were Shorter and Lived Near Water

― Russ, Friday, 17 October 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

T-Rex

― , Friday, 17 October 2003 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

Phish

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 18 October 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

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