Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.

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I win.

― gk, Saturday, 8 October 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Atreyu. Sure, I like The Neverending Story, but I'm going to steer well clear of bands who name themselves after its characters.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 October 2005 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Digable Planets
The String Cheese Incident

― R. Greene, Sunday, 9 October 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Flaming Sideburns
New Pornographers (seconded)
Hoobastank (seconded)
As The Poets Affirm (jesus god!)
Supreme Beings of Leisure
The National

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 9 October 2005 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolute worst I've seen mentioned so far:

Jackie-O Motherfucker (still have never heard them only because of the name)
The Von Bondies (pisses me off on a gut level, can't say why exactly)
and everything of the Puddle of Korn ilk.

Yet to be mentioned (I think):

The Music

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Monday, 10 October 2005 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

The Von Bondies (pisses me off on a gut level, can't say why exactly)

"The Von Bondies" pleases me on a gut level, can't say why exactly.

No one's mentioned Puddle of Mudd?
WHY TWO D's?? WTF

-- Gear!

"Pudle Of Mud?"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Toad The Wet Sprocket

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link

TTWS was actually borrowed from a Monty Python sketch called "Rock Notes", so the stupidity was kinda the point.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Wacky.

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

jezus christ - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL to thread !

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 7 January 2006 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

So many terrible band names to choose from ...

Shirk Circus.
Weeping Tile.
Deep Blue Something.
Third Eye Blind.
Boom Crash Opera.
Mary's Danish.
Blow Monkeys.
Low Pop Suicide.
Big Bam Boo.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Death Cab for Cutie passes, not because it's clever, but it at least has the good taste to be inscrutable.

It had the good taste to be inscrutable when the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed a song by the name of "Death Cab For Cutie" in the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. Credit where it's due, dammit.

The band DCFC is only inscrutable in that one wonders why a band would willingly write and perform music that sounds like background music for prescription drug commercials. Go on, try it: the next time you hear a DCFC song, say out loud, "Are you suffering from seasonal allergies?"

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

With maybe an exception or two, ALL full-sentence names are awful.

(BTW, sorry if I sounded smug, xero, wasn't my intention at all. Python fans can be a tiresome lot, can't they?)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Blonde Redhead - sounds like Four Non Blondes.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Blonde Redhead are good though!

I hate the name "Antony and the Johnsons."

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Alanis Morrisette
Fiona Apple
Jack Johnson

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

xxxpost: Please -- that didn't even register on the ILM Smug-o-meter™. I just hate that name, and it being cribbed from Monty Python only makes it worse.

Soul Coughing
Walt Mink (who were not altogether bad)
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

― xero (xero), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link

deja voodoo

― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

ILM & The Threads

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link

babyshambles

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 8 January 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

WTF is so bad about the name sloan? it's not that crazy.

― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 8 January 2006 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link

crotchduster

― blownspeakers (lucy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link

"With maybe an exception or two, ALL full-sentence names are awful."

The exception being "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah". I've never heard their music and I'm not sure I even want to cause it might spoil my appreciation of their awesome name.

........

Jim Crow
Anyone with "Lil" in their name.

― R. J. Greene, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Tits on The Dashboard

― poodle puddle, Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Suburban Kids with Biblical Names and any band with typographical a typographical or orthographic conceit in their name: Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia..., (Smog) (although they've dropped the parentheses, so now they're OK), k.d. lang, et cetera (not, to my knowledge, a band name).

― caek (caek), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

the vulnerable cardigans

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago) link

"With maybe an exception or two, ALL full-sentence names are awful."
The exception being "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah". I've never heard their music and I'm not sure I even want to cause it might spoil my appreciation of their awesome name.

-- R. J. Greene

Actually, my personal specific exception was the awesome Nomeansno - a name that, in print, doesn't even LOOK like a full sentence.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 8 January 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

My Cat is an Alien
Green Milk from the Planet Orange

― Rombald, Sunday, 8 January 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Anthrax
Megadeth
W.A.S.P
Venom

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Please Inform the Captain This is a Hijack

― clotpoll, Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

so many HORRIBLE band names, lol
pussy galore is a horrible name, but theyre not that bad
one of my fave band names is misled youth, my friend is in it, but theyre good
I LOVE THE BUZZCOCKS! but the name is a little weird

― Sheryl, Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

audioslave
velvet revolver
test icicles

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think Death Cab For Cutie can be mentioned enough here.

― Dan (Gah) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I was listening to an online radio station, and they played a band (that sounded a lot like Spoon) called "The Dammitheads"

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

'tis a good thing I heard My Bloody Valentine's music before I knew their name...gotta admit people, it's a crummy name, was a lame-o movie, and I hate hearing myself vocalize it whenever asked to rattle off some of my all-time favorite albums...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Cunninlynguists

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 24 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Fuck them.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link

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