Worst band name you have ever heard.

[biguglyman]

Australian band - King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Great band and worth a listen. I like the Flying Microtonal Banana album especially. Subtitled Explorations into Microtonal Tuning, Volume 1, the album is recorded in quarter tone tuning, where an octave is divided into 24 (logarithmically) equal-distanced quarter tones; it was originally conceived to play on a baglama, so the band members used instruments specifically modified for microtonal tuning. The name "Flying Microtonal Banana" comes from Stu Mackenzie's custom-built yellow guitar, fitted with additional microtonal frets.

 

[Beej]

Local punk band in the '80s were called SNFU. Wow... edgy...

You from Edmonton? I'm guessing you didn't know the guys or see them play or you probably wouldn't blow them off like that. Society's No F'in Use... arguably one of the more influential Canadian punk bands... SNFU - Wikipedia

 

[lat]

You from Edmonton? I'm guessing you didn't know the guys or see them play or you probably wouldn't blow them off like that. Society's No F'in Use... arguably one of the more influential Canadian punk bands... SNFU - Wikipedia

I just think the band name is stupid, as per the thread title.

 

[SgtHulka]

Incubus and Green Day.

Why would someone want to name themselves after a demon that rapes women?

 

[NZBassman]

Hanky and the Chiefs

 

[BurnOut]

Went to a farm party about 30 years ago. The crowd was slightly younger than us. A mediocre band called Scorcher was playing. We heard several people say "Scorcher Rules!"
3 decades later we still break out laughing when one of us say Scorcher Rules.

 

[Tom Bomb]

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[mrjim123]

Another TB member mentioned this one earlier on another thread - Sister Mary Rotten Crotch.

 

[stonetone7]

I was in a band (for years!) called Big Marge.

 

[Shalto]

Don't think I've seen "Crash Test Dummies" here yet, but I could be wrong. They could win a double title with the worst song name, too.

I once got asked by a colleague "what's the name of that crash test dummies song? You remember the one that goes mmmmmm"

My response "um it's actually called mmmmmm"

 

[jeffbrown]

TL;DR - - My band has morphed through three names since I joined up, none of which *I* voted for. Sadly.

#1 Medicine. Our rhythm guitar, the guy who invited me in, called this one. He and I have known each other since 4th grade. He's part Native American, and thought it was "heap big medicine" (HIS words) that we were finally in a band together.

#2 FunHouse. We had to ditch Medicine per our drummer, who had a loved one with substance abuse issues. I got that part, but still! I kept threatening to show up with a red clown bulb nose and big floppy shoes....

#3 Chalkboard Monkeys. Seriously?! We are all educators/former educators/ed admin survivors. This one I kinda get, but still. Monkeys? Just, no.

Before I joined, they were going by "The Ball Street Boys" for a while. Glad I wasn't around for THAT one.

What's a bass player to do?

 

[mrjim123]

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What's a bass player to do?
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Go solo. Guitar players do it all the time.

 

[David Jayne]

I was in a band in high school that was called 'The WORST.' For real. We weren't really that terrible but never got asked to play the school dance again because as it turns out we were a hardcore punk band.

 

[Michedelic]

I was in a band (for years!) called Big Marge.

Shouldn’t that have been ‘Large Marge’? Your promo catch phrase could have been “Large Marge is in charge!”(I’ll just show myself out....).

 

[Michedelic]

Tijuana Bible Salesmen

 

[Gunga Din]

Several:-

• Hootie and the Blowfish
• Clean Bandit
• Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
• ****
• Coldplay

 

[Ooba Tooba]

Harrison Ford Escort Service

 

[Bassdirty]

seems to me the worth of the name depends on the level of band success. There's nothing magical about The Beatles (a misspelling, for chrissakes), The Who, Yes, Cream, Grateful Dead, etc, etc, except that each of them achieved worldwide fame. If those bands had been duds, we'd be talking about how stupid their names were.

World wide fame doesn't stop a band name from being stupid by any means, IMO.

T$

 

[Bassdirty]

There used to be a band called Mass Connection, featuring dudes from Massachusetts and... Connecticut. #bridgethegap

But no, really, worst band name ever was "Chubby Nothin' and the Bone" from Chicago.

There was also "MASS - CONN - FUSION" from the same area..I actually thought that was kinda clever though..

T$

 

[Michedelic]

Skillet...just lame