Worst band name you have ever heard.

[J_Bass]

Seems like most people here think that worst names are those containing profanity
To me, worst names are those bland and trivial such as, for example, "Radiohead". Geeez. It's difficult to imagine something with less personality. Boring like their music.

Couldn't agree more. Makes me want to slap his face.

 

[Duder]

There was a band in Raleigh/Durham named The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers. It was inspired by all the ridiculous "The *somethings*" garage-rock bands of the 2000s and taken from "The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida" and appended with a character from The Big Lebowski that has no lines and is only seen for a moment.

 

[Richland123]

Chocolate Watchband
Moving Sidewalks (Billy Gibbons was in this band before ZZ Top)
13th Floor Elevators
Fever Tree

 

[DanGroove]

Rod Torfelson's Armada featuring Herman Menderchuck

 

[LBS-bass]

Paper Cup.

And it was among the most popular bands in town. Go fig'r.

I remember that band. My friends all called them "Paper Cut."

 

[Pops OB]

Aluminum Marshmallow.

 

[Coolhandjjl]

Meat Puppets
Captain Beefheart

 

[crios]

The Ding Dongs

 

[pablomago]

Hot Lead Enima

 

[Sugarskull54]

I knew of a band that had the name Topdaeh. It was inspired by heavy cannabis abuse. Luckily, the name changed after a few months of ridicule. An honorable mention is Tongue N' Groove. But my favorite bad band name is Hot Pocket Dingleberry Disease.

 

[underwhelmist]

Carseat Headrest is not a great name, but I like the story about how it came about, and I love their (his?) music.

I love Prefab Sprout but now somebody mentioned it, yeah it's an odd name. Geographical term to describe the rapid building of prefabricated housing in the UK after the war apparently.

How about this - Joy Division (IMO just about the perfect band name) were nearly The Slaves Of Venus.

 

[BakerStreetMuse]

Certainly not worse than many (most) of the bands in the thread but the weirdly-placed exclamation point bands make my brain twitch.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Panic! At the Disco

It also pains me to add My Favorite Band Ever to the list of bad band names: Jethro Tull.
Ian Anderson was never too fond of it either, so at least I'm in good company.

 

[bigjohnyeti]

Up in Smithville Flats NY there was a band called "The F***OFFS"..they were around for a coupla years, played all original stuff, much of it off color, played in local bars..

 

[NOVAX]

Crank Sonata

 

[biguglyman]

I was in a punk band back in the 80's called The H-roids. Our female singer liked to say: "rock and roid"...

 

[instrumentlevel]

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

Actually, you do have it. A1 is the American version of HP Sauce.

 

[Duder]

Certainly not worse than many (most) of the bands in the thread but the weirdly-placed exclamation point bands make my brain twitch.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Panic! At the Disco

It also pains me to add My Favorite Band Ever to the list of bad band names: Jethro Tull.
Ian Anderson was never too fond of it either, so at least I'm in good company.

Don't forget Captured! By Robots

 

[BakerStreetMuse]

Don't forget Captured! By Robots

*brain twitch*

 

[DDXdesign]

Don't forget Captured! By Robots

At least that one makes me think of some sweet vintage scifi movie poster.

 

[Gunga Din]

Hootie and the Blowfish.