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

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (326 of them)

I love the idea of just putting quotes around a band name to change it, not Morrissey, but "Morrissey" i.e.

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 21 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link

A friend of mine had a really great/annoying band for a while and they were booked to open for Wolf Eyes. I don't think Wolf Eyes were so into their set; the day after the show, they posted "thanks so much for coming to the show last night, apologies about the bum opener, but we had a great time with y'all" or however Wolf Eyes type these things.

My friend was like "...bum opener?" and we've been sitting on Bum Opener as a great future band name

flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 21 February 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link

Plz credit me if you put goatse hands on the bass drum, thx

Hot, Now, and Oh-So-Very Wow! (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link

"!!!"

jmm, Friday, 21 February 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link

Tubgirlschool

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link

You have to call your first track "Album Opener".

jmm, Friday, 21 February 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link

A friend's band made often brilliant but only semi-listenable noise music, they had one amazing track which everyone would ask about, so they renamed it "The Crowdpleaser" to throw some shade at it. I found this annoying, it was genuinely the best thing they did.

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link

stealing Chris L's typo from ILM:

Better Midler

bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link

Mac Sabbath
Ugly Kid Joe
Ill Smith

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link

Other real ones off the top of my head:

Lounge Against the Machine
Jichael Mackson
Crust Brothers
Peech Boys

thewufs, Friday, 21 February 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link

Camper van beethoven

ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link

Kirko Bangz

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link

Wevie Stonder first began making music in 1979 at the age of 6, by recording some chickens down an old army telephone onto a cassette recorder, accompanied by a 3 stringed acoustic guitar.

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Friday, 21 February 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link

lol at poor wevie stonder getting a kicking. has anybody even bought a wevie stonder album since 1999?

brimstead, Friday, 21 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link

Slack Babbath
Queen Cloudy Ade
Hobby Butcherson
Rapp the Chancer
Meetwood Flac
Wamasi Kashington
Buildings Without Life
Monolab
Damp Swogg
Big Richard
Goodfinger
The Old Pornographers
The Post-Modern Lovers
Malice Cooper

Some of these have to be taken already.

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link

Lone-Toc

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link

Voiced by Guides

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link

Ypres Chill

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link

Beto Goys

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link

For Edie

Οὖτις, Friday, 21 February 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link

Keith Perspiration

Har Mar Klobuchar (PBKR), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link

my new Rod Stewart tribute band featuring 4 heroin addicts, Nod Spewart

i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Friday, 21 February 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link

The Head Rot Pilly Cheppers

Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 21 February 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link

a band called Gringo Star is playing where I live soon. I actually like a couple of songs by Ringo Deathstarr. but come on

Joanna Gruesome were pretty good too

Colonel Poo, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link

I always thought Jefferson Airhead was quite a good name

― fetter

there's an old '60s band who called themselves "Hamilton Streetcar", the one song I know of theirs is pretty good

are there any good ones of these? i always thought "Beatless" was kinda funny in a MAD magazine movie parody kind of way, but now i can't seem to confirm that was a real band and not some record store joker's labeling of a used CD section divider.

― Doctor Casino

can confirm the existence of BeatlesS, have a couple of their tracks on a comp CD from the Wifflefist label. Good comp, even if i was more taken with Bicentennial Quarters.... it looks like Bicentennial Quarters' only other appearances on records are the comps Cognitive Mapping Volume II and a fairly expensive limited fundraising CD also including BeatlesS called... yes... Power of Tower!

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.

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs)

i think they're a visual kei band? the song of theirs i've heard is some pretty great power metal, i like it plenty

I hold the thread starter responsible for my having just remembered Master Musicians Of Bukkake.

― Noel Emits

...who i believe once appeared on a festival bill with the master musicians of joujouka! some real "slayer vs. slayer" shit going down there...

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 21 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link

All of these are the worst, but I think Joy Orbison should take it a step further and call himself Boy Georbison.

I’m still impressed that Kurt Vile isn’t a pun.

ed.b, Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link

Southern Culture Club Nouveau on the Skids Row

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:06 (four years ago) link

not a pun, just unimaginative mash

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link

-Gordon Ramsey

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link

Rim Jeeves

ymo sumac (NickB), Saturday, 22 February 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link

I was just thinking that Matching Mole is a pun based on another band name, so therefore this is officially good now.

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 22 February 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link

Gater Pebrial

Yonic Sooth could literally mean "female truth" so not necessarily terrible as long as you're Kim Gordon perhaps.

Noel Emits, Saturday, 22 February 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link

Bony Tanks

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link

Rad Beligion

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link

Slack Babbath

Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link

Lenny Koggins
Mikhail Mikedonald

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link

Boobie Drothers

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link

Droctor De

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link

Cleric Apton

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link

Dean Gray

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link

Bait Kush (aka Seeds n' Twigs)

Noel Emits, Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link

Bony Tenet

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link

Cannibal Lective

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:01 (four years ago) link

Ike Moldfield

Noel Emits, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link

Ian Breno

Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link

Lairy O'Stab

Noel Emits, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link

Stuffy Bint Marie

This is all kind of a sibling to

Results 1 - 10 of about 256 for gaydiohead. (0.28 seconds)

... (Eazy), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link

Biz Markie de Sade

sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link

Heh, I totally forgot that my buddy used to play a version of "Love Will Keep Us Together" with bluesy guitar licks, then introduce it as a song by Clapton & Tennille.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 February 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.