Worst band name you have ever heard.

[TheSeagoats]

We Butter The Bread With Butter

 

[MegaSwing]

No, it was a Nazi reference to Jews being hanged / getting raked with machine gun fire, kicking their feet "dancing like the Spandau Ballet"...

and yet somehow that band has never been required to explain / justify / apologise for that name.

Apparently gold lamé suits, and insipid yuppie pop, are the acceptable face of casual anti-Semitism.

I guess Joy Division would have caught a lot less flak if they'd had a wardrobe change, and started churning out odes to rare metals.

Among the dumbest band quotes of all time came from Spandau Ballet, when one of the members said, "We play music for people who dress like us." Gimme a break. Say no more.

 

[MegaSwing]

Ha!

They were obviously a ripoff of the briefly successful UK boy band, of the same era :

A1

And yes, their name always made me think of paper too.

Not steak sauce?

 

[BassinCT]

Roid Rogers and the Whirling Butt Cherries.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Not steak sauce?

I don't think we have that here - in some respects, the UK is still in the post-war rationing phase.

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

And I was in a punk band called The Sphincter Crickets. I still wish I had the T-shirt!

Dope! I want one too


I had another band I called "The Unofficial Fish Tacos." Officially, we were "Wet N Wreckless" then later "151" but when it was just me and the guitarist, "Unofficial Fish Tacos."

 

[Remoman]

This was near and dear second choice to most everyone in the band, and was kind of our secret name, but we went with something safer in the end...

"He bitch and the slut puppies"

 

[Ironbar]

Pitbulls on Crack.

 

[Bemo]

I was in a punk band in the 80s called Date Rape (I know, not my proudest moment)

I also played sax in a horn rock band called Nebrasska (Not my idea)

 

[Pops OB]

Vomit Toast.

 

[DDXdesign]

Hey! The Butthole Surfers were great!

A band who's name I can't repeat here, but A*** C***.
Bet they had a time booking gigs.

Hey, "Anal" isn't a swear word that needed censoring, at least... (Yep, I picked up what you put down, there)

 

[Budbear]

Yeah, I figured someone would mention ‘The Beatles’, but it’s a misspelling that had a backstory, and considering the state of the art of show-biz presentation in that day, the more innocent times in general, and the then lack of rock culture, and ‘deep meaning’, it was fairly clever. They played a type of rock’n’roll known in the U.K. as ‘Beat music’, and as they were huge fans of Buddy Holly and his Chirping Crickets(that name a whole tale unto itself), crickets inspired beetles with an ‘a’, as a pun. The rest of those names have a backstory themselves, some egotistical, some mystical, some just stood out on an advertising poster.

Back in 1964 my first band got the Beatles pun, so we thought we were even more clever than that and called ourselves "The BumbleBeats". The best part of that was, we did covers, but no Beatles tunes.

 

[ThinCrappyTone]

Fried Water.

i kinda like that!

 

[DDXdesign]

Space Chuck and the Ray Guns

Excellent.

... the current fad of misspelling/altering really unsubstantial words/names in an unclever, unimaginative manner, like Alvvays, Chvrches...

This is, according to a couple of said bands, like Chvrches, because the regular spelling would not get anyone to their content when doing an online search. I thought that was interesting.

The Electric Prunes.

Hey I met their guitarist (Steve Kara) at NAMM a couple months ago! Still doing it, too! Their latest album was in 2014!

I'll co-sign on Toad the Wet Sprocket... And what's with the "VERB the NOUN" band names? Walk the Jewels? Run the Moon? Hide the Salami?

Agreed, ***?

Dananananaykroyd
(Which I assume is said to the theme tune of the 60's Batman show)

THAT IS AWESOME

The Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo.

I still call them this sometimes just for shiggles. What an amazing freaking band.

 

[_One//Man//Mutiny_]

The ps2 conspiracy
The ps2s
Eventually settled on The Living Daylights

 

[DDXdesign]

Forgot to add my own:
As a teenager - "Jack Nasty", "The Eyeless", and I think we tried to use "Klymaxx" at one point without realizing that was already a thing at least a decade earlier. We came up with "Mr. Blofish" as well (the album was going to be One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blofish) but apparently another local band stole it, or something. Hard to remember, been awhile, but that last one I didn't think was too bad a name.

As an adult I was briefly in a cover band called "The Reflectors" (booooo) and I keep trying to call a band 'Crankenstein' for some masochistic reason.

 

[Snibborwocky]

And yet, one of my favourite bands (the The). Try doing an internet search on them!

andddd this is where I knew my post would get misunderstood. I've been waiting all day for this lol. I didn't say they're music was bad, just the name of the group, as the OP was asking.

 

[backin82]

Fried Water.

This one made me lol!

 

[Michedelic]

The Doors
The Cars
The Bengals
Asking Alexandra
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Cranberries
Air Supply

What’s wrong with “The Doors”? That quote from Huxley was perfect for what they were doing.

 

[dkelley]

Imagine Dragons and Breaking Benjamin are fairly wretched names (and bands, imo).

Imagine dragons are ridiculously good musicians. They met at music school and can play pretty much whatever style they feel like. I don't love their choices always, but every album has very diverse and seriously well played stuff on it.

And i like their name lol