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I think 'Lubricated Goat' wins it.

Although 'Scraping Foetus off the Wheel' was always a favorite.

― Dave225, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Umm, I love them completely, but how can they write such wonderful lyrics & still have decided to call themselves the Pet Shop Boys?
Don't most jam bands have atrocious names?
Cutesy riot grrl band names get on my nerves, for the most part. Emily's Sassy Lime.
Superchunk is a terrible name.
the Murder City Devils. sounds like hockey night to me.
Tortoise being named what they are, I ought to have known what I was getting into.

― daria gray, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Two words: Vaginal Croutons

― cybele, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Blendband
The Church (love the band, hate the name)

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

In the internet age the worst possible name is definitely "The The". Impossible to find them on the web with Google (which ignores the article "the" in the query) or to find them on Amazon (same reason). Matt Johnson should seriously think of a new name. "TheThe" would be ok with me.

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

As a New Yorker of semitic extraction, I could never quite get my head around the idea that there was a rapper called "The Lox.

― Marcel Post, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

he shoulda been called the finelox!

― Kim, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"people I knew in high school and college who, among other things, believed that Pythonesque absurdity could be had merely by putting together incongruous adjectives and nouns."

An Emotional Fish. Nggh.

― OleM, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Simply Saucer=fruitiest name ever. Thimply Thauther, dahling.

― Arthur, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

There are a couple of incredibly stupid band names I've came across...

- Scary German Guy - Anal Blast - The Meatshits - Old Lady Drivers - Asshole Parade

― Bryant G., Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Try this on for size:
The Canonical List of Weird Band Names

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, waitaminute. Try this one. It's more up to date.
The Even More Canonical List of Weird Band Names
Go nuts.

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Coldplay. What the fuck is it meant to mean anyway?

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

No Time for Talking was Campbell Kneale's [Birchville Cat Motel etc] band when he was a teenager in my hometown, Nelson.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wet Wet Wet
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Throbbing Gristle
Mike and the Mechanics

New Zealand bands: Pumpkinhead
The Dribbling Darts of Love
Betchadupa
Crowded House
Fuck Off Cuntface
Straitjacket Fits
Semi Lemon Kola
S.P.U.D. [society for the protection of unborn dogs]
Cassandra's Ears
Proud Scum (hmmm...actually I'm not sure about this one...maybe i'm just used to hearing it, or i'm silly/stupid enough to maybe like it)
Love's Ugly Children
i heartily second An Emotional Fish for worst, but i defend Def Leppard!

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ah the Dribbling Darts of Love. Their hideous moniker prevented a significantly younger me from going anywhere near their record, despite the fact it was actually quite good

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

See Elizabeth i told you there would someone else in the world who liked the Dribbles' first EP.

― hamish, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

HOOBASTANK.

― kevin enas, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Proud Scum is a fucken choice band name! yr right about all those others tho

― duane, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Friends of Dean Martinez - So, they had to change it from Friends of Dean Martin. Why not scrap the whole briliiant concept? Pan sonic they're not.

Songs: Ohia - This manages to be bad is so many ways. "Songs" - oh really, you do those? The colon, you just know has some tedious anecdote to explain it. Ohia, too. (He's from Ohio, you see.)

That's what bugs me about so many of these wacky band names - the yawnsome stories you suspect are behind them. They're like lapel buttons saying, "Ask me about my band name!"

― Curt, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

men without hats
toiling midgets
gaye bikers on acid
severed heads
weezer
xtc
bow wow wow
truebliss
blind melon

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dalek I Love You. Belching Penguins. Video Free Europe.

There may be worse examples, but my brain is prolly mercifully hiding them from me.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Severed Heads is a great name! Even before I heard them I somehow knew exactly what they sounded like. Although maybe that was more because of the LP sleeve..

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't decide if Renaldo and the Loaf should be under best or worst names. But I always imagine some fancypants Spanish dandy next to a steaming pile of poo. Maybe that was their intention.

― Arthur, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The Beatles (doh! I guess it’s kind of easy to overlook among all the hyperbole and adulation, just what a thoroughly beguiling and quite frankly absurd/shit name it actually is. Imagine having a band called The Cockroaches turning up today and being proclaimed the greatest thing since sliced bread and saviours of popular culture as we know it. You just simply wouldn’t be able to take them seriously. Fancy naming themselves after such festering, squalid, useless f**ing vermin. Even if they are from Liverpool....)

Anyhow, since when did the name get in the way of anything. Taking a step back and forgetting what you know about them, here’s another illustrious roll-call of acclaimed bands/personal faves, who maybe thankfully spent more time on the tunes, than on the name....

The Who Pixies Pink Floyd Smashing Pumpkins The Police Sex Pistols Pet Shop Boys Echo and the Bunnymen Motley Crue Queen Husker Du The Beach Boys The The Nirvana Fleetwood Mac The La’s The Byrds Ned’s Atomic Dustbin Oasis Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Bryan Adams

(Alright, so there’s nothing wrong with LIVERPOOL and what a great name it is for a city, isn't it)

― Robbie Fowler, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There was a band called the Cockroaches. They were huge in Australia for a while. They are now called The Wiggles and they are the largest grossing act that makes children's music.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

apparently there's a band playing around Camden these days called ANAL BEARD.

if names are an accurate reflection of a band's talent then Anal Beard are clearly men too consumed by genius to be able to use it in any kind of constructive way.

― Wyndham Earl, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Did I imagine this or was there a bandin the early 90's called Fflaps??

― Kris England, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I can't believe I hadn't already posted 'Chilliwack'

― Dave225, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The Easy Cure.

― Flowersdie, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Psycho Ph*nkfish. I don't want them googling themselves but I think you can guess what the asterisk is hiding, yeah?

Problem #1: Psycho? Ah yes, because you are SO FUCKING CRAZY, right? Kooky, quirky, zany fuckwits. Problem #2: Funk. Yes, indeedy, funk. I don't really need to say anything else, do I? Problem #3: Fish? Ah yes, because it's not the most used pseudo- surreal cack-handed way of expressing once more that you are FUCKING CRAZY is it? You need to be fucking institutionalised, do you? You fucking loop-di-looped CUNTS?

*ahem* Excuse me.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like the fact that there is a band called Anal Beard and a band called the Anal Beard BARBERS?!?!?! Wow.

This Canonical List of WEIRD Band Names is a riot. Actually all these names are really funny. Terrible and funny.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

They have this conversation in '24 Hour Party People' and Tony Wilson says he once knew some bloke who wanted to start a band called Barabas so that all the crowd would be shouting 'Barabas!'.

A swift cdnow search has revealed that there is indeed a band called Barabas and they perform such songs as 'Pulleys Against The Breeze' and 'Come And See My Stamen'. Barabas!

― N., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Psychofunkepus!

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"I Am The World Trade Center". Up through 9/10/01 it was really just lame. Now it's horrific.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That would be why they changed it, perhaps?

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yes. To "I Am". Way to go, guys.

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, but supposedly they changed it back again. Erps.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Slutarded!

(not really, that's a fantastic name)

― Kim, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Puppy Piss,and N'SYNC !

― James H., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

Neo Cyber Christ

― tits arthur, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

THAT PETROL EMOTION. Never has the mediocrity and pointlessness of a band name felt so much like a swift kick to the groin!

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Danny Wilson. Because none of them were actually called Danny Wilson. A-ha-ha-ha.

In modern parlance, it's difficult to see past The Electric Soft Parade.

― Mr Swygart, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

You can close this thread now. Holland's number one nu-metal band is called Dreadlock Pussy. I am not making this up.

― JoB, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

OK why does it matter if they have a bad name? I think that Rainbow butt monkeys, and Ween are cool names cause they're funny! And besides they're probably inside jokes or they just wanted a funny name.

I have alot of friends that play in bands and they all have funny names; to name a few: 69cent burito, 3 chord special, The Buckleys, Death by defection, and 749 damage. Now see these names would be considered crappy by the stupid anoying people that dont understand but to my friends and I they are funny as hell. So what I'm trying to say dont judge the bands name cause they all mean something to someone.

― JAY ROY OLSEN, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Curiosity Killed The Cat

It's one short step away from naming your band 'A Stitch In Time Saves Nine' or 'Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining'.

― Ray Manston, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

No one has mentioned Sheep On Drugs.

Also Bum Cello; Chicks On Speed; Sub Sub; Jam and Spoon; Tok Tok; Fridge; Tortiose.

― Anna, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sheep On Drugs is a great name! Sixpence None The Richer is not, though.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Tortiose' - they sound a bit more grandiose than Tortoise ? ;)

― Ray M, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sissy Prozac

― Indieholic Anonymous, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

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