What is the worst rock band name ever?

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)

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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

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.

I hate "The Band". That's a bullshit name.

Better than ...

http://images.45cat.com/jaime-robbie-robertson-rick-danko-richard-manuel-garth-hudson-levon-helm-the-weight-1968.jpg

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) ".

Butthole Surfers
Limp Bizkit

Fat Chick From Wilson Philips
Jon Cougar Concentration Camp

For me, nothing matches the sheer punchability of Shpongle

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Strictly more bland crossover country-pop than rock, but Lady Antebellum is a strong contender.

T/S Lady A vs The Chicks

The other thread on this subject was also revived recently:

Worst Band Names

Still annoyed with The Dixie Chicks for stealing the name of / effectively erasing Chicks.

Dogs Die In Hot Cars

I mean what else was on the shortlist for the vote?

maybe Humpy Bong or the Butts Band

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

I used to hate Wet Leg, Dry Cleaning and Pissed Jeans all because of their names -- and then I heard their respective music, and love them all.

Name I'll never abide by:
- Car Seat Headrest (I mean, seriously, fuck you!)
- Diarrhea Planet (again, go fuck yourselves)
- King Gizzard and the blah blah fuck off back to Dr. Seussville with that bullshit.
- Deer Tick (eww)
- Deerhoof (yawn)
- American Football (please go die)

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

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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