― JM, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― D.Zarakov, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nicole, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Madchen, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Deep Blue Something (in the Sixpence None The Richer bracket)
Limp Biskit
(grim, but quite apt I suppose) Muse (hateful. conclusive proof that you can judge a book by its cover, unless it's by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and it's err.. not a book
Echoboy (yeah - cause that'll really make your band stand out)
The Style Council (was this self parody?)
Stereophonics (90s band name by numbers)
Dub Federation (might have been OK if there wasn't already a Dub Syndicate. at least ADF added an 'Asian' bit for interest)
Almost all those one-word names chosen by every shitpop chancer in mid 90s Britain.
― Nick, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Also, any 90's band name with "Super" in it.
― Patrick, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Radiohead.
Coldplay.
The Cranberry Saw Us.
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mog, Friday, 23 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― The Jester, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
a) It's a Monty Python ref.
b) They represent the West Side. Goleta Power.
― JM, Saturday, 24 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
LOVE and TOMORROW are contenders.
but maybe THEM predates?
(non-rock answer - tho of course they played rock support slots at the key moment - wd be AMM: explanation of which acronym I notice Keith Rowe is still keeping shtumm abt, in current Wire)
― mark sinker, Monday, 26 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Monday, 26 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Duane Zarakov, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nick, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Also "Northern Uproar" did suggest boring meat 'n' 2 veg britrock of the most ZZZzzz-inducing sort. Fortunately.
x0x0
― Norman Fay, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fred solinger, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― K-reg, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Killing Joke is actually a pretty good band name.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
But hands down, the two most unforgivable band names I've ever heard are oddly enough, both 'soul' related - The Soul Attorneys & Blessid Union of Souls. p.s. Soul Coughing is a really bad name too.
― Kim, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kim, Wednesday, 30 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Also, Third Eye Blind is a bad bad name.
― Fidelma Maher, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bnw, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tarden, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And yes, Led Zep certainly doesn't count (besides, they did this so as cleverly not to be mispronounced: as in Lead Zep and all the little follow-up Zeps).
Um, nor do the Beatles, tho I can't think why not.
― mark s, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
[incidentally, d'you actually work near Islington Sainsbury's car-park? Cuz so do I... ]
― Kim, Thursday, 31 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Kim: I wasn't trying to score a point (erm, no, not at all) — I was just certain that misspelling went back some way before the Enz era, even. So "one of" would be misleading.
This all only counts if we also discount the Surfaris, of course.
― mark s, Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane z., Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
they might not seem so bad for the non swedes but just trust me on this one mkay?
― Anders Loco, Saturday, 2 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Trying to name a band is hard as hell; to pick something out that conveys a bit of what you do -- but without sounding pretentious or jokey or nondescript -- is amazingly difficult. The more serious your band is, the harder it gets.
― Phil, Sunday, 3 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― scott, Monday, 4 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Paul Westerberg stole that one too ;)
― Larms, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Gotta love them metal bands.
― Nathan, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lindsey B, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― David, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― nathalie, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
dalek beach party
― flowersdie, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jedeye Jonzee, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I have been thinking about this. Animal names are popular - Eagles, scorpions, Owls, Wolves, Coyotes, Worms, Otters, Bonobos, Giraffes, Zebra, Naked Mole Rats, Wallabies, Sloths, Tardigrades, Yellowjackets, Fruit Bats, Bandicoots? Apparently all taken.
But there are some still sitting out there unclaimed. I am not aware of a band called the Ring-Tailed Lemurs, or the Earwigs.
The sneakiest move would be to call your next band The Beetles. Technically it hasn't been taken.
― pomplamoose and circumstance (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:21 (ten months ago) link
Earwig has already been used - early 90s shoegazer band who later turned into Insides
― NickB, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:40 (ten months ago) link
I once read that the most common band names in America are Paradox; The Rain; and some third one I forgot. Googling confirms that Paradox is a top 10 name, as are Apollo, Atlas, and Zero.
― Josefa, Saturday, 8 July 2023 22:43 (ten months ago) link
These are fun things to check out on last.fm, for example https://www.last.fm/music/Paradox
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 8 July 2023 23:04 (ten months ago) link
The 1960s was a huge landgrab for common words. You just had to plant a “The” flag in front of it.
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 July 2023 12:48 (ten months ago) link
xxxpost, I check every once in a while, but there's never been a hardcore band called Lifetime of Abusethere is Life is Abuse but I don't like the ring of that as well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 9 July 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link
I was pretty upset to discover Moni Jitchell recently - I thought we'd agreed to stop doing this shit
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 9 July 2023 14:13 (ten months ago) link
Buckcherry should have been the last word in that nonsense
― henry s, Sunday, 9 July 2023 15:13 (ten months ago) link
pro-tip - if you used to be in the band Saliva and you want to go on tour and do their songs, but Saliva still exists and you can't legally use their name, perhaps best not to use the naming convention "Josey Scott's Saliva"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 July 2023 13:55 (nine months ago) link
lol
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 July 2023 01:32 (nine months ago) link
i had a really good "worst band name" idea last night, but forgot it! it was 2 words and one of the words was 'Pizza'
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 17 July 2023 01:33 (nine months ago) link
Sounds like band-name trauma induced by this:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1F4B-7agAEotGg?format=jpg&name=large
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Monday, 17 July 2023 01:59 (nine months ago) link
Pizza Great Guy
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Monday, 17 July 2023 13:47 (nine months ago) link
The "ILM Best of 2023 Tracks Nominations" playlist just served me up a song by needanamebro.
― enochroot, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:12 (four months ago) link
they got a new name now bro
https://www.instagram.com/saynow
they're great but I'm glad they changed it that name wasn't doing them any favours
― Left, Friday, 5 January 2024 17:18 (four months ago) link
ruby the hatchet
― organ doner (ledge), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:44 (three months ago) link
...I had avoided "Amp Fiddler" until a couple weeks ago due to the truly dire choice of name, but turns out he's great!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:39 (three months ago) link