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Every local rock band in my town has a terrible name they think is so clever. At least the TX Country kids just use the singers name.
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Worst band name you have ever heard.
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Great list so far.
I was in a band called the T.I.T.S. which was for Technology In the Totalitarian Society.
And a good friend and fellow band mate had tried multiple times to get us to use the following names:
Uncle Daddy and the Cousin Jumpers
The Cunning Linguists
Dirk
I was in a band called the T.I.T.S. which was for Technology In the Totalitarian Society.
And a good friend and fellow band mate had tried multiple times to get us to use the following names:
Uncle Daddy and the Cousin Jumpers
The Cunning Linguists
Dirk
There were a bunch of bad band names in the 60s. Help me out with more.
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Some other stupid band names...............
Goo Goo Dolls.
Stone Temple Pilots
Puddle of Mudd
Porno for Pyros
Nickleback
Matchbox 20
Smashing Pumkins
Limp Bizkit
Hootie and the Blow Fish
Counting Crows
10,000 Maniacs
The list gets to be endless for worst names.
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Some other stupid band names...............
Goo Goo Dolls.
Stone Temple Pilots
Puddle of Mudd
Porno for Pyros
Nickleback
Matchbox 20
Smashing Pumkins
Limp Bizkit
Hootie and the Blow Fish
Counting Crows
10,000 Maniacs
The list gets to be endless for worst names.
That one's pretty bad too, the thing that was funny about "Mass Eruption" was that the drummer thought it was a good name and had no idea why I used to laugh about it. A lot of these bad names that are posted here are obviously bad names that were done on purpose, the Mass Eruption guys were dead serious.
Yep. That is the all time worst band name I had ever heard. Seriously how do you promote your shows?
I always thought U2 was a really stupid name.
My college band was named Grandma Slamhog
"The Band with No Name"
But that was a LIE! They actually had a name!
But that was a LIE! They actually had a name!
I actually like that one, sounds like a play on a 60's garage rock band.
I played in a band with the guy who later formed The Meatmen. The band was called Space Chuck and the Ray Guns. Both are awful names and I can’t believe I’m admitting this.....
I hear ya. I played in a blues band called the Blues Gurus and someone introduced us as the Blues Goobers.
Maybe not THE worst, but one I find very annoying, We Are Scientists, an alterna-nerd band from the oughts. Just a little too precious for my taste. Additionally annoying as there was a great Australian garage rock outfit, The Scientists, who are still around as far as I know. In addition, the current fad of misspelling/altering really unsubstantial words/names in an unclever, unimaginative manner, like Alvvays, Chvrches(hello, already a band from, again, Australia called The Church, still active as well), and the like. Not even deep enough to be ironic, just lame.
The great New Orleans band Galactic started as Galactic Prophylactic.
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.
Ha! There were a bunch of purposely bad punk rock band names from that era that were hilarious in their dumbness, like the Dayglo Abortions. And don’t forget Jim Thirwell, and all his variations based on “Foetus”...
Dead or Alive, Hole, Green Day, Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, 38 Special, Boston, Chicago, REO Speedwagon, Black Crows, Bare Naked Ladies...
The parenthetical irony is boring, and unimaginative.
The parenthetical irony is boring, and unimaginative.
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.
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