Worst band/musician with a name that is pun based on other bands/musicians

xps saw duran duran duran the same day i saw black abba :)

ok fine nobody vote for Dread Zeppelin (or AC/DShe or Lez Zeppelin or Petty Theft or whatever)

The big one missing here is Fats Domino / Chubby Checker.

Dats Fomino? Chebby Chucker? not sure what you're getting at

The big one missing here is Fats Domino / Chubby Checker.

IIRC I set my ILX dn to 'Portly Backgammon' for a while but I don't know if anyone got it.

Of these, Wevie Stonder is unquestionably the worst. Just fucking pointless all around.

Buh Theatles

Still better than Wevie Stonder, which doesn't even rhyme naturally with the original.

Honorable mention to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips_(musician)

xp was just gonna post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGhpUAHP1c

another one i loathe is elvis depressedly

lol @ portly backgammon

Joanna Gruesome is some Treehouse of Horror gravestone shit

Kind Buddy Holly

I feel almost certain that the college jam band circuit is liberally sprinkled with these shits.

Bong Iver

Dats Fomino? Chebby Chucker? not sure what you're getting at

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wasn't the name 'chubby checker' already a play on the name 'fats domino'?

also, lol at chebby chucker

oh, duh

I can understand being drunk/high enough to come up with names like these and think they were really great but I don't understand how you remain drunk/high for long enough to like register a domain name and plaster the name all over your merch etc.

Joanna Gruesome
Tame Impaler
Sharon Von Eaten
Snail Maul
Soccer Mummy
Carseat Headrestinpeace

Pomplamooseandsquirrel

Tonight, the Gender Rifles will be opening for the Reproduction Handguns

Spruce Bringsteen. Not a real thing, just had to get it out of my head. I'm sorry. The funny thing about this one is that if you say it quickly enough, it's easy to miss.

Wevie Stonder (wow my autocorrect hates that name) is a bad name but the music was sometimes good.

The Beatless were a big beatles tribute band in the 90s.

Celibate Rifles? xps

Hey Dio Red

I just remembered that there's a Japanese band called Sex Machineguns? Which I admit I find amusing. Don't know what they sound like though.

Ok. Anyway tomorrow it's the Thankful Alives, with surprise special guest Vartha and the Mandelas.

I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this one would already exist:

Urethra Franklin

there's probably lots of overlap with/inspiration to be found in this Whiney joint:

creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera

Com Truise

I like this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Music#/media/File:Kane_West_-_Western_Beats.jpg

Let's try again

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Kane_West_-_Western_Beats.jpg/240px-Kane_West_-_Western_Beats.jpg

Brian Jonestown Massacre can get grandfathered in, also the name sort of works for their particular brand.

"Todd Terje" is quite funny imo

Ean Brino
Fryin Berry
Bourtney Carnett

Mother John Fisty

Doy Jahvision

Early entrant:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/6/62/Polly_Darton.jpg

Oko Yono
Clue Wang Tan
Nillie Welson
$hoe Tort
Melonious Thunk
R. Tex
He and Shim

Wetty Fap

Vurt Kyle

Smock Pope

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cougar_Concentration_Camp

Oh No Ono

Like I'm sure a million other people I assumed Kurt Vile was one of these when I first heard of him

Myron Aiden

there's a chicago-based rap producer named Smoko Ono

Wank Hilliams
Chasey Trapman

^ both of these have discogs listings

kill them all

https://www.discogs.com/artist/6561460-Yonic-South

^^ noted upthread already, also terrible and bad

Hugh Reed & the Velvet Underpants - who, amazingly, have their own Wiki page.

Bion and the Delmonts

Kill Baley & the Homets

Amazing - I never got that!

I guess it's actually pretty good, now that I think about it.

I don't agree but dsfdf

Lary Gewis and the Bayploys

thing about these bands is, they all had to (probably still have to) go around telling all their friends and family and peers what the name of their new band was, and they stuck to their guns. for which they get some grudging respect from me

henry cow is technically one of these bands (they lied about their name) but they're too good for the rest of these jokers - I assume, having heard of none of them before this poll

What is Henry Cow a pun of?

Henry Cowell?

yes - band denies it but they're full of shit

Chuck Bear

They deny it? I hate that

Hurl Maggard

Moni Jitchell

Boy Harsher, a riff on Roy Harper do we reckon?

i certainly hope not

I wonder what the first example of this was? The first I remember was Jefferson Airhead, who had to change their name to Airhead when Grace Slick & co threatened to sue.

John Cougar Concentration Camp got booked unheard in Bloomington at Rhinos back in the day.

Fleddy Melculy, Belgian metal band

I wonder what the first example of this was?

Chubby Checker

I imagine there were pre-rock and roll examples.

“Count” Basie was a play on Duke Ellington and Earl Hines.

Interestingly. Blossom Dearie (who I knew about) postdates Blossom Seeley (who I didn't) by 30 years.

this is a really good record, by the way. put out by pals of mine on a pal's record label. #westernmassaction

https://www.discogs.com/release/2335180-Schurt-Kwitters-Schurt-Kwitters