Okilly Dokilly is a perfectly reasonable name for a Ned Flanders themed metal band
A Ned Raggett themed metal band, now that would be something.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
"With Portugal, it just ended up being the first country that came to mind. The band's name is 'Portugal'. The period is stating that, and 'The Man' states that it's just one person."
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
A Boogie Wit da Hoodie has to be up there (or down there).
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
This makes it slightly clearer, not less shit
BB: Where does the name Portugal, The Man come from? I kind of get puzzled looks when I say your name.PTM: It’s an interesting name, I guess. It is kind of an alter ego like Ziggy Stardust and Sgt Pepper. It’s our character to represent us as a band. In picking a country’s name, it was one name that represents a group of people. It made sense for a while, but we have regretted it ever since that day (Laughs).BB: Is there a reason for the pronunciation and spelling of Portugal, period, the Man?PTM: We did that to state that Portugal was the man’s name and he is the man; he’s the shit.
PTM: It’s an interesting name, I guess. It is kind of an alter ego like Ziggy Stardust and Sgt Pepper. It’s our character to represent us as a band. In picking a country’s name, it was one name that represents a group of people. It made sense for a while, but we have regretted it ever since that day (Laughs).
BB: Is there a reason for the pronunciation and spelling of Portugal, period, the Man?
PTM: We did that to state that Portugal was the man’s name and he is the man; he’s the shit.
https://blanknews.com/2011/06/get-name-portugal-man/
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Just one misplaced definite article
― Dunty Reggae party 🎉 (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
.Gif From God
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4803123-Gif-From-God
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
Pink Cream 69
jesus fucking christ......
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Sunday, 31 January 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
Psychedelic Porn Crumpetshttp://www.psychedelicporncrumpets.com/
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I've listened to them and think they're amazing, but the name pretty much ensures I'm never going to recommend them to anyone.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
There needs to be a sub-thread of band who've changed problematic names, but don't want to rebuild an audience from scratch, so settle on some strained compromise:British Sea PowerThe Dixie ChicksLady Antebellum
― enochroot, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
Friends of Dean Martin(ez)
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
The Blessed Madonna
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
"Chicks" is problematic too should just change to "The"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
seriously though the Dixie Chicks name change is just baffling to me, I get why they changed it but this is like Beastie Boys changing their name to Boys
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:28 (two years ago) link
why is there no sign on this fish shop?
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link
The Virgin Prunes came up recently – I realized I have zero interest in ever hearing their music, based solely on that name.
― Not Dork Yet (alternate toke) (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2191626-The-Toten-Crackhuren-Im-Kofferraum
― meisenfek, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:43 (two years ago) link
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
Yoko Pwno
― enochroot, Saturday, 7 May 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
Billy Strings
― peace, man, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 12:09 (one year ago) link
not *my* lover
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
Ghost piss
― /asarco (AcnalbasacNoom), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
Crywank
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 09:19 (one year ago) link
I've recently been made aware of bands called Ritt Momney and San Holo.
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
Hobo Johnson
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 10:57 (one year ago) link
someone else on here pointed it out on their thread but I do think "Big Thief" is a really bad band name, but not because it's gross or a bad pun or obnoxious like the other ones on this thread, it's just meaningless and unmemorable. if someone told me "check out this band Big Thief" I would forget about it 5 seconds later. it is like the opposite of "Nine Inch Nails".
― frogbs, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
Also easily confused with one-time SubPop band Big Chief!
https://i.discogs.com/GWMQWbOiQ982iKBlXRYbpKYOyUavmu4Fp9PSPa6qp2s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:536/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExMDEx/MTYtMTY3MTE1NTg0/Ni03MTgwLmpwZWc.jpeg
― peace, man, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
“Nine Inch Nails” is a corny band name on its face (IMO). “Big Thief” may be a little nondistinctive but I don’t think it’s bad.
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:10 (one year ago) link
(At least it’s a novel phrase, unlike a name as unmemorable as Beach House or whatever)
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
Many indigenous North American languages have a distinction between the head of a band or tribe and a leader of a confederation of tribes. At various times and in various places you might have a weroance (tribal chief) and a mamanatowick, sagamore, or sachem (big chief, indicating a chief with subordinate chiefs).
At least some 17th-century English colonists expressed the distinction by referring to their monarchs as "Big Chief Elizabeth" or "Big Chief James," to indicate that the Queen or King was hierarchically above other rulers.
― I got two Clark Gables and a slide trombone (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
OK but the band name is “Big Thief”
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Chief Theef
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
International Chief Thief
― peace, man, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Big Thief is the worst band name I could imagine. It simultaneously doesn't mean anything, and it lacks visual description, and it sounds like a shitty cover band. It's a combination of small words that leads you... nowhere. So I assumed the music would do the same thing. And, to be honest, they're not my thing at all.
― paulhw, Tuesday, 10 January 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
what's the deal with indie rock bands having such drab functional names these days? it beats the worst excesses of the hipster era but it's way too much of an overcorrection and doesn't really inspire me to give their music a fair shot
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
the beths, the national, dry cleaning, car seat headrest
some of them might even be good idk but come on try a bit harder
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
I guess it's nothing new since most of the classic indie and postpunk band names are either boring or ridiculous if you think about them too much
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
Ah yes,the halcyon days of highly meaningful band names like The The
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
The SmithsThe Cure The Police
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:26 (one year ago) link
I hate the name Beach House and have never wanted to listen to them for this totally understandable reason (though I did hear Depression Cherry once)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 11 January 2023 00:27 (one year ago) link
The Hood Internet
― Publicradio (3×5), Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:42 (one year ago) link
By far, Car Seat Headrest is the worst one mentioned so far.
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Thursday, 12 January 2023 06:56 (one year ago) link
Beatles is a pretty naff functional name, pun on an earlier archetypal group name. But it got valorised into something by usage and the group being somewhat phenomenal.The Smiths, artisanal songcraft?THe Cure arrogant statement on their place in the world, Cure for their non existence? Can't remember where the original 2 word version of that came from Easy Cure .... is it a song or some other reference.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 12 January 2023 07:27 (one year ago) link
some DJ is calling themselves jichael mackson FFS
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
I dislike when a band is called something super basic, like "Cake" or "Live," but they have a convoluted explanation that "It doesn't mean what you think..."
― Vexatious litigant (morrisp), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
There's a narrow range between basic (The Music, the Band, Television, Can, The The...) and too cute like Ululating Mummies, Pamplamoose, Squirrel Nut Zippers
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
I kinda wish modern bands would go for more ridiculous names like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, but I guess if everyone is an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, then no one is an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
― Vinnie, Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
I listen to a genre where there are a glut of bands that seem to be the founders looking for an obscure pretentious verb and a disgusting obscure medical condition and awkwardly sew them together. so my standards are low.
just no spoonerisms
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Hey, Adjective Noun is one of my favorite bands.
Surely you're familiar with their albums Promising Debut and Disappointing Followup.
― everybody was tofu fighting (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 12 January 2023 17:17 (one year ago) link