Worst Band Names

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.

Also, any 90's band name with "Super" in it.

Radiohead.

Coldplay.

The Cranberry Saw Us.

a) It's a Monty Python ref.

b) They represent the West Side. Goleta Power.

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)

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

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Killing Joke is actually a pretty good band name.

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.

Also, Third Eye Blind is a bad bad name.

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.

[incidentally, d'you actually work near Islington Sainsbury's car-park? Cuz so do I... ]

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.

they might not seem so bad for the non swedes but just trust me on this one mkay?

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.

Paul Westerberg stole that one too ;)

Gotta love them metal bands.

dalek beach party

The 1960s was a huge landgrab for common words. You just had to plant a “The” flag in front of it.

xxxpost, I check every once in a while, but there's never been a hardcore band called Lifetime of Abuse

there is Life is Abuse but I don't like the ring of that as well

I was pretty upset to discover Moni Jitchell recently - I thought we'd agreed to stop doing this shit

Buckcherry should have been the last word in that nonsense

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"

lol

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'

Sounds like band-name trauma induced by this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1F4B-7agAEotGg?format=jpg&name=large

Pizza Great Guy

The "ILM Best of 2023 Tracks Nominations" playlist just served me up a song by needanamebro.

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

ruby the hatchet

...I had avoided "Amp Fiddler" until a couple weeks ago due to the truly dire choice of name, but turns out he's great!