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I'm sure we all know about plenty of really terrible band names, names that don't mean anything, are really boring, or don't fit the genre of music (case in point: Destroyer.) Anyway, here are some terrible band names (I'm not sayng all these bands are crap, just saying their names are crap):
Elbow
Pavement
Four Tet
I killed the Prom Queen (and it's a band from Australia. We don't even freaking HAVE prom queens over here)
Oh No! Oh My!
I'm from Barcelona
The Strokes
And the worse one ever (local emo band): Left hand cuts the Right. :-o
Post really terrible band names here!
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Radiohead (Even though I like them)
Rise Against (What? What do we rise against? The Man?)
Panic! At the Disco
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I heard about a band called Here Comes Old Vodka Tits. That's probably not so much "worst" as it is "best", though.
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I would say Avenged Sevenfold, but that doesn't really work because I actually mean their guitarists' stage names. Zacky Vengeance? Synyster Gates? I can't believe that they actually think that sounds cool. I'm fairly certain that those along with the Beast and the Harlot video are intentional acts of comedy. They couldn't be that stupid, could they?
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They could and they are.
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Hot Hot Heat.
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we alrady had this conversatin before
let me go find it
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Twodeadslutsonegoodfuck is either the worst name ever or the best, I go back and forth on this one. Of course my vote for one of the worst band names EVER (even thought it's fun to say on the air at work) is Hoobastank.
Seriously, what the fuck is that all about?
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Sister Double Happiness. I think they did what every other band on earth does, they just played madlibs with their name.
"Okay, a noun. Okay, adjective. Okay, abstract noun. Okay that's our band name!"
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Anal Cunt
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You speak lies, sir. Anal Cunt is not a shite band name. Anal Cunt is band-name GOLD.
Now Assuck on the other hand, that's pretty awful
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My girlfriend was actually duped into seeing Hoobastank a few years ago and it's still one of my favorite jokes she's ever made, such a simple punchline, but so good... "Hoobastank hoobastunk!"
As far as bad band names, I tend to usually hate any band names with numbers in them. 311, Seven Mary Three, Three Doors Down, Matchbox Twenty. They all strike me as so unoriginal. Only exception for me is Sevendust, because it's a word that already exists, and because I do guiltily enjoy their music. Ironically, I used to be in a band with a number name. But it was based off of Linux code or something, so that's all good.
Back in the '90s, my brother and I used to complain about alternative bands just looking for nouns and naming their bands after them. One day, we were looking at things in our bedrooms and coming up with intentionally bad band names. My favorite, a name that I took off a bag of store-bought cookies in my bedroom, was The Fudge-Covered Grahams.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Think about how egotistically retarded that sounds.
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I fail to see how Four Tet is a shite band name.
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Shite is in the eye of the beholder. Might wanna wipe that outta there.
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Aren't you the beholder saying that Four Tet is shite, though?
Remember, do not point out the blemish in others' eyes when there is a log in your own!
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Xiu Xiu. I am alright with their music but where the hell did they pull that one?
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Is there going to be a thread on awesome band names?
Leftover Crack
Son of Dork
Crevis (sic) Inspection
Strumbrellas
The View
The Strokes
The Rakes
The Music
A
Audiovent
Audiogene
Audioslave
Bonebox
Breed 77
Emmerhoff And The Melancholy Babies
From Autumn To Ashes
Kasabian
I could go on.
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Get Him Eat Him
And I'm From Barcelona is a great name.
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!!!
Broken Social Scene
Cat Power
Cream
Echo and the Bunnymen
Gnarls Barkley
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Ariel Kill Him is both a mediocre band and a stupid band name!
Grindcore bands almost always have weird, semi-retarded names. Some of these bands I like, some of them I don't care about, but the names are pretty dumb:
The Great Redneck Hope
Sawtooth Grin (though they get bonus points for naming their album "Cuddlemonster")
Bodies In The Gears Of The Apparatus
Cream Abdul Babar...this one's actually pretty damned funny, now that I think of it
Dance Floor Justice (I think this is a tough-guy hardcore band, but it's a stupid name anyway)
Find Him And Kill Him
GunsLikeGirls...
I'll stop here, but if you want to see more awful band names, just check out the "Bands" page at Lambgoat.com
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Leftover Crack
Very wrong.
Some pretty bad names would include
The Mars Volta (like some of their musics, but until that name is explained it stays on this list)
Anal Noun/verb (AC are excempt to this rule)
Circle of Dead Children (not bad tunes though)
At The Drive-In (see "The Mars Volta")
Mr. Bungle (great band, name sucks)
HIM (just bad)
Dillinger Escape Plan (why on earth?)
The Who (almost clever, but not quite there)
Wham! (exclamation marks ftl)
Original poster still owns this thread though.
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Aren't you the beholder saying that Four Tet is shite, though?
Remember, do not point out the blemish in others' eyes when there is a log in your own!
I figured he meant the original post referencing Four Tet. Technically, I guess he could be referring to my post about band names with numbers, but at least Four Tet is a pun and a play on words of Quartet. Matchbox Twenty, on the other hand, is just crap for no good reason to have been named that. I mean, watch this... Going by the Noun Number formula, "Hey guys, let's name a band Electrical Outlet Seventeen!" Even my example sucks, because they all suck.
But if the shite in my eye still be there, then I shall subsuquently wipe it away.
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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hole yet.
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At The Drive-In (see "The Mars Volta")
It was a lyric from one of their early songs when they were trying to come up with a name. I think it's a fantastic name. I mean, when considering Cedric's lyrics, it could have been something like "Smokestack Cerebral Parking Lot" or "Frontal Lobe Manufacturer" (holy shit that one's actually pretty cool) or "Cadaver Arbitrary Outlet."
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the the
the band
rock plaza central (awesome band though)
the album leaf
don't mess with texas (really great croation post rock band oddly enough...)
the shins
blueneck
death cab for cutie
the hives
nice nice
set fire to flames
murdered by death
spoon
we're from japan (american post rock band. or canadian maybe.)
made me think, if you were in a band and could name it, what would you call it?
for some reason i often find myself making up random band names....it could be b/c i have nothing better to do. but anyway:
tin parliament
eskimo truck
igneus sill
milo (i know 'mylo' and 'yourcodenameis: milo' already exist, but i like the right spelling on its own more)
caducifer (synonymous with the god mercury. means the staff bearer since he was god of shepards. obscure ovid reference i guess...)
the isosceles umbrella parade
this one is from the simpsons but i thought it was pretty funny: the premarital sextet (good for a jazz group).
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Megadeth
Big Black (yes I agree that they kick ass, but their name is ridiculous)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
CKY (sounds stupid, but not as stupid as what it stands for: Camp Kill Yourself)
The Decemberists
Bright Eyes (blegh!)
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Don't agree with that one >.>
Only one I can think of that hasn't been said:
Chumbawamba
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Holy Molar. That name has always bothered me for some reason.
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza.
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CKY (sounds stupid, but not as stupid as what it stands for: Camp Kill Yourself)
oh good god, i never knew that. wow....that is so bad it hurts.
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I'm fairly certain that those along with the Beast and the Harlot video are intentional acts of comedy.
I was curious, so I went on the youtoobs. I am now so very disgusted. This shit actually made me angry. I knew their names were dicktarded, but JESUSFUCKINGCHRIST! At least Dragonforce is entertaining.
Also, Cradle of Filth. It's accurate, but...
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EYEHATEGOD.
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I'm surprised that nobody linked to this article yet. Seems appropriate enough.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/57488 (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/57488)
I always thought if I had a band, it would be called 'Butt Attack' or 'The Moms'.
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Hot Hot Heat.
Oh man, totally agreed.
Also, pretty much every metalcore band ever. Between the Buried and Me, From Autumn to Ashes, As I Lay Dying, A Life Once Lost, Hatebreed, Unearth, Bleeding Through, and so on ad nauseum.
But I think the band name I hate most has got to be Death Cab for Cutie. Fucking horrible on every level.
And Ryan, I enjoy that band somewhat but even I have to agree with you. It's embarassing to even type it.
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I second Eyehategod.
My Bloody Valentine.
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my bloody valentine is indeed an awful awful name. it's worse than some of the 'emo' and 'screamo' and so-called 'metal core' bands mentioned above. a lot worse. what were they thinking?
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I'm surprised that nobody linked to this article yet. Seems appropriate enough.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/57488 (http://www.avclub.com/content/node/57488)
I always thought if I had a band, it would be called 'Butt Attack' or 'The Moms'.
I was going to link to this, but the forums was broke. Besides, how else am I going to jack my postcount? I'm no Joe Hocking, that's for sure!
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I'm sure we all know about plenty of really terrible band names, names that don't mean anything, are really boring, or don't fit the genre of music (case in point: Destroyer.) Anyway, here are some terrible band names (I'm not sayng all these bands are crap, just saying their names are crap):
Elbow
Pavement
Four Tet
I killed the Prom Queen (and it's a band from Australia. We don't even freaking HAVE prom queens over here)
Oh No! Oh My!
I'm from Barcelona
The Strokes
And the worse one ever (local emo band): Left hand cuts the Right. :-o
Post really terrible band names here!
Man, too bad you have no idea what makes a good band name! Four Tet and Pavement are pretty original names!
Now, The Snake The Cross The Crown is a terrible name. Good band, though.
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wait a second, are you suggesting 'original' and 'good' might somehow be synonymous? b/c that's what i'm reading...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
No worse than Chilly Willy and the Red Hot Peppers.
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I love this band to death, but everytime I think of the band Hot Cross, that damned "Hot cross buns" song starts playing in my head, and for that I curse them.
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Collective Soul (blegh)
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Posted this earlier in the wrong thread. Sorry.
Rainbow Butt Monkeys (now Finger11).
I did like some of the Butt Monkey's songs though although all my friends thought I was weird.
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Guys, you're not getting it. ALL band names are pretty stupid. I mean, when you actually objectively look at any band name, it's pretty stupid.
Come on, The Beatles? What the fuck?
Also this thread was done not very long ago.
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all band names are stupid? soooo for example
sufjan stevens
ted leo
dave brubeck
david bowie
joanna newsom
johann johannson
lou reed
pj harvey
neko case
man, those are such stupid names. where did they come up with them?!?!?
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Well, seeing as they're not bands, I hold to my statement.
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au contraire, they are collectives of various individuals who compose, perform and record music together. sounds like they're bands to me.
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Au contraire, they're the name of a solo artist. Whether they have a backing band or not is beside the point. Also, Ted Leo's band is named The Pharmacists, and band or not, Sufjan Stevens IS a stupid name.
EDIT: Take for example, if you were a professional musician who who was given a gig playing with Neko Case. Would you tell people "I'm in Neko Case"? No, you'd say "I'm in Neko Case's band"
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Jethro Tull is not a stupid name. Of course, it is the name of an agriculturalist. But My Disco isn't a stupid name, possibly because it's the name of a Big Black (stupid name) song.
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The Music.
Also, concerning MBV - it kind of sucks that it's so bad because if you've somehow never heard of them, "My Bloody Valentine" is an awfully misleading name.
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i'm often annoyed when people scroll through my ipod artist list and say to me, "what the hell? my bloody valentine? you must like such fucking emo music." and i have to explain to them how ignorant they are. tisn't enjoyable.
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Don't blame My Bloody Valentine, they existed long before all that shit was popular. Instead, punch a kid with an asymmetrical haircut.
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signatured
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Got some more.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Goo Goo Dolls
Guns N' Roses
The Guess Who
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I'm sure we all know about plenty of really terrible band names, names that don't mean anything, are really boring, or don't fit the genre of music (case in point: Destroyer.) Anyway, here are some terrible band names (I'm not sayng all these bands are crap, just saying their names are crap):
Elbow
Pavement
Four Tet
I killed the Prom Queen (and it's a band from Australia. We don't even freaking HAVE prom queens over here)
Oh No! Oh My!
I'm from Barcelona
The Strokes
And the worse one ever (local emo band): Left hand cuts the Right. :-o
Post really terrible band names here!
Man, too bad you have no idea what makes a good band name! Four Tet and Pavement are pretty original names!
Now, The Snake The Cross The Crown is a terrible name. Good band, though.
Pavement is a terrible name- as befits a terrible band.
I guess Four Tet isn't that terrible, but it's still not a very good name. You think guys with that much creativity would be able to think up a better band name.
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You're a terrible band. Pavement are tizzight.
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You're a terrible band. Pavement are tizzight.
Your mother is a terrible band!! :mrgreen:
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Your mother is Jack Johnson.
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murdered by death
It's Murder by Death. They took it from a 70's mystery film by Robert Moore. I think it's a good name.
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Your mother is Jack Johnson.
:-(
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Don't blame My Bloody Valentine, they existed long before all that shit was popular. Instead, punch a kid with an asymmetrical haircut.
So anyways, this is a fantastic quote. Aspire to this level of wit, everyone. I'm serious. I read this and laughed heartily.
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*blush*
Oh you guys
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I quoted it and put it in my signature. David_Dovey can come over to my house for lunch anytime.
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death cab for cutie
They're named after a song of the same name preformed by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (wow, now theres a terrible band name) on the Beatles' experimental film Magical Mystery Tour, which automatically makes it awesome. Plus, it was played during a striptease (edit: in the movie).
You Lose! Good Day Sir!
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<3 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...
I like the band, but Drive By Truckers is a stupid name! Get Hustle doesn't make any sense, and I don't get Japanther or The Vaselines. Love is actually a pretty fitting name, but I really wish it was something else. A band named Love? Magnolia Electric Co. is terrible, and Papas Fritas means french fries, I think.
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There is a "screamo" band called Wow! Owls! It's the first known case in which the band name is actually MORE ridiculous than the genre label that is used to describe it.
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Holy Molar. That name has always bothered me for some reason.
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza.
My friend's one-man band is called the Tony Danza Strap-on Extravaganza. I think that qualifies for the best band name ever.
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There is a "screamo" band called Wow! Owls! It's the first known case in which the band name is actually MORE ridiculous than the genre label that is used to describe it.
"Wowls," on the other hand, would be awesome.
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I would see a band called Wowls, regardless of if they sucked or not.
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i like some of the bands you guys have said on here (Rise Against, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab, etc.) :/
anything rediculous or different/creative as a name i like though, but here's a few i bet somebody find something shite about.
HORSE the Band
30 Seconds to Mars
Against Me! (i don't really care for them all too much :/)
the Alkaline Trio
blink-182 (actually that is a pretty dumb name...)
BOYS LIKE GIRLS
Boys Night Out
Circa Survive
Daphne Loves Derby (i love that name haha)
Jimmy Eat World
Jack's Mannequin
The Juliana Theory
Lagwagon
Less Than Jake
The Mad Caddies (wee!)
Matchbook Romance
My Chemical Romance (bleh. they're sophmore album was better than their new stuff)
Minus the Bear (great band)
Plain White T's (i love them)
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Red Lipstick Letter (the most nasaly singer ever... >.<)
Run Kid Run
Something Corporate
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Southcott
The Spill Canvas
The Super Pineapples (i freaking love that name)
A Thorn for Every Heart (awesome band)
We Are Scientists
X's For Eyes (they have a really cool sound)
there you go. have at them.
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i also came across a band called Fuck. creative, no?
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i also came across a band called Fuck. creative, no?
Reminds me of a band name that columnist(sp) Dave Barry saw while visiting Japan:
King Fucker Chicken.
Also, out of all those names, the one I think I hate the most is BOYS LIKE GIRLS.
What kind of name is that?
A shitty one.
And a painfully obvious and elementary-level name.
I mean seriously.
BOYS LIKE GIRLS???
Come ON.
Just... just...
So STUPID.
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Some boys do not like just girls, and some boys do not like girls at all! They like other boys and in thankfully much rarer cases sheep.
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Some boys do not like just girls, and some boys do not like girls at all! They like other boys and in thankfully much rarer cases sheep.
Yes, but still. Many of them do like girls.
Don't forget the asexuals! :P
Anyway, what really bothers me about the name is that it's incredibly juvenile. "Like" is a word fifth-graders use when talking about romance. Plus, I mean... it just SUCKS.
But I do see your point.
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Why do you assume they are talking about making face babies? I like a lot of things I dont want to fuck.
Sandwiches, for example.
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I like girls medium rare with some pepper sauce.
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i also came across a band called Fuck. creative, no?
there's fuck, and there's the surprisingly good 'holy fuck' as well. both awful names to be sure, but the latter is pretty cool musically.
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"Misantropical Painforest" is one I can't decide if i'ts incredibly bad or incredibly awesome.
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Why do you assume they are talking about making face babies? I like a lot of things I dont want to fuck.
Sandwiches, for example.
(http://www.bustedtees.com/bt/images/BT-silf-gallery-479.jpg)
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Also, pretty much every metalcore band ever. Between the Buried and Me, From Autumn to Ashes, As I Lay Dying, A Life Once Lost, Hatebreed, Unearth, Bleeding Through, and so on ad nauseum.
Now I think I have a wrong image of what metalcore really is, because I classify half of these as screamo.
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yeah, actually they're screamo or hardcore/post hardcore or something like that. metalcore is something like Atreyu. who kicks muchos ass.
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The Frets
WE PLAY GIUTARS GET TI1!!
The Pickpockets
The Frets does suck. I think your comment on it would have been a much better name. I would totally see a band called "WE PLAY GUITARS, GET IT!?"
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Atreyu have moments of decent-to-good musicianship, and the clean vocals are exactly what "good" pop-metal anthems should be. But! The screamy hardcore vocals are shit! Fuck that!
Listen to Avenged Sevenfold instead.
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i never really liked A7x idk why. i haven't heard much besides "Bat Country", "The Beast and the Harlot", and "Seize the Day" or whatever that acoustic one was called. i just never really could get into them, but the solo in "Bat Country" was good. besides, i like the hardcore screaming shit.
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Atreyu have moments of decent-to-good musicianship, and the clean vocals are exactly what "good" pop-metal anthems should be. But! The screamy hardcore vocals are shit! Fuck that!
Listen to Avenged Sevenfold instead.
Or, neither.
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Yeah, the A7X songs you've listed are all off of "City Of Evil" which is by far their worst album.
Try "Waking The Fallen." Much better, in every way.
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I have a list...
- The Band
- Harvey Danger
- Now That's What I Call Music!
- Supergrass
- Appetite for Distruction
- Maroon 5
Maroon 5 sounds like some sort of cheap lipstick colour.
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To clarify the "every band name with a number in it" thing:
Every band name with the amount of artists musicians people dickasses in it.
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I think Supergrass is a pretty reasonable band name.
Maybe I'm just high though.
Also, in the "Great bands with terrible names" category, I have to put Death From Above 1979.
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That's not so bad if you're an Apocalypse Now fan who gets the reference, though it is bad if you think the band suck and are insulting a great film by referencing it in their name, like what I do.
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Oh man, why do people on this forum fellate Converge so much, they are not really that superior to any other metalcore band I remember hearing.
Indeed, I believe they are, how you say, 'not good'.
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I gotta agree with Khar. Converge is better than most metalcore bands, but that's not really a distinction you want. It's sort of like being called the friendliest pedophile.
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Now, watch as we stalk the wild qc music thread. There it goes, running down the corridors of the forums with its arms flailing in the air as if it wants to, hell, I don't have a clue what it's trying to do.
And another thread starts to deteriorate.
Let's all talk about metalcore in a thread about bad band names!
(Although I must say it keeps things interesting around here.)
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FUCK YOUR MOTHER
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To clarify the "every band name with a number in it" thing:
Every band name with the amount of artists musicians people dickasses in it.
I'd like to add the qualifier that this is only true if you're not a lounge/soft jazz/small-time Delta blues band
EDIT: Also, it's funny how Jurassic 5 suck now that are only five guys after Cut Chemist left.
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Current 93, Front 242, 23 Skidoo, 1349, Assemblage 23 and 999 roundly disprove anything about numbers in band names. Unless you think that those are bad names, which I don't. And they're certainly good bands. Each number has some sort of meaning, and I think they do add something to the bands image normally.
Although, am I the only person who thinks Current 93 would be cooler if they were called 93Current93 like on the very early albums.
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I'm like a kid in a candy store...
We're from japan (I can't tell you were they're from, but I can tell you where they're NOT from. Japan.
Animal Collective (Clever for their type of music, but just rather foolish)
Islands (I like there stuff, but your guess is as good as mine)
Hoobastank (Way to ask a eight year old for inspiration)
Clor (Just dumb)
The Kooks (?)
The Arctic Monkeys (Funny, but dumb)
Architecture in Helsinki (Why not aubudaubi?)
Spoon (Verb or noun?)
Herbert (No comment)
Daft Punk (As random as their music)
The Band (Well thats bias)
That was fun.
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Herbert (No comment)
It's just his surname. I think that disqualifies it from being "really shite", because it's not like he was wracking his brains all night and that's the best he came up with.
I've always hated:
Inspiral Carpets
The Electric Prunes
The House of Love
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Pop Will Eat Itself
The Teardrop Explodes (haha.. "My Bloody Valentine" isn't nearly as emo as this)
Porcupine Tree
The Boo Radleys
I do like some of those bands. The House of Love are bloody great for any of you who might like Echo & The Bunnymen or whatever.
And in general I'd agree with earlier sentiments about using other people's song titles as your band name. Funniest / saddest in that regard being Shakespears [sic] Sister. :-P
Also, really boring tangent to resurrect, but PJ Harvey was a band name, at least for the first couple of albums, a la Sade. For some reason this doesn't bother me as much as James, above.
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Of course some of these bands have silly names on purpose, like Porcupine Tree, although I've yet to work out if this makes it worse or better.
Also, Daft Punk isn't random at all. Quoth Wikipedia: "The name Daft Punk was derived from a review in the British music magazine Melody Maker, which dubbed their first collaboration, the Beach Boys-inspired guitar group Darlin', "a bunch of daft punk"."
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i think porcupine tree is a pretty good name. mainly b/c i like porcupines though. but how could one not??
(http://z.about.com/d/saltlakecity/1/0/F/1/porcupine.jpg)
i mean, come on....
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I have to agree, you're kidding yourself if you don't like porcupines.
Oh, and the name Takka Takka...
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Although, am I the only person who thinks Current 93 would be cooler if they were called 93Current93 like on the very early albums.
I gotta wonder, how do you stand their vocal style?
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Here's a bad band name for you:
'Cide Project.' They're apparently supporting my band at a gig in November.
They're... not to my taste.
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The New Pornographers
Weezer
Destroyer (Nothing wrong with the name in and of itself, but whenever I mention it people assume I'm talking about a death metal band).
Any popular hard rock band whose name references body parts that don't get sunburned, or effects thereof.
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You mean a butt? :-o
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I gotta wonder, how do you stand their vocal style?
Dave Tibet is my third favourite vocalist of all time, second favourite male vocalist of all time, behind Martin Walkyier. Rose McDowell, sometime female vocalist, is in my top five female vocalists list. His voice is expressive, despondent and at times achingly beautiful. I thought that pretty much from the first line of the first song I ever heard by them ('A Song For Douglas After He's Dead') a track I literally then played fifty times in a row. Lyrically, he's a fucking genius, the poetic imagery is unbelievable. I can see why they're starting to get a bit of indie attention, they were out-doing Neutral Milk Hotel before they even got going.
So, I stand it very well, thank you.
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The Mad Caddies (wee!)
Least they're good though ^__^
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As much as I love this band, and I mean love, it really makes me feel pretty goddamn dorky when I say I like the band "Kamelot." No way, man, it's not like King Arthur. It's Kamelot with a K. That makes it kool.
Something I just realized... for all my derision of band names with numbers, when I did my own little solo project self-produced album, I called it "AuKo's Flabbergasted 5 presents: Handicapitated." And I think it's quite possibly the best worst overly-pretentious thing ever. The band name of course being AuKo's Flabbergasted 5, the album being Handicapitated. AuKo formed from the first two letters of my first and last names, Flabbergasted because I love that word, and the number five because I have a sick fascination with the number (I've stenciled it on t-shirts) and for irony's sake because I HATE BANDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEIR NAME. Unless it's for a reason, like Khar said.
For those playing along at home, my next album, if I ever make it, will be "AuKo's Flabbergasted 5 presents: Dr. Sticky, the Explosionologist."
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I'm reasonably sure Kamelot adopted that spelling because of copyright issues surrounding the soundtrack of the 1967 musical, rather than to be 'kool', though I may be wrong.
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But... but... it's only a model! (Wrong Camelot, I know.)
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The Mad Caddies (wee!)
Least they're good though ^__^
yes they are!
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It was a lyric from one of their early songs when they were trying to come up with a name. I think it's a fantastic name. I mean, when considering Cedric's lyrics, it could have been something like "Smokestack Cerebral Parking Lot" or "Frontal Lobe Manufacturer" (holy shit that one's actually pretty cool) or "Cadaver Arbitrary Outlet."
The way he perverts phrasing, I'd just assume it's a turn on volta do mar.
my bloody valentine is indeed an awful awful name. it's worse than some of the 'emo' and 'screamo' and so-called 'metal core' bands mentioned above. a lot worse. what were they thinking?
My best guess. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082782/)
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I have been spending far too much time trying to figure out which one of these is the worse band name.
Dragonland, or Dragonforce?
I still have not reached a definate conclusion, so I am going to just have to say both.
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Black metal is a gold mine of this stuff, some of them really are hilarious.
I'll post a list later.
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I have been spending far too much time trying to figure out which one of these is the worse band name.
Dragonland, or Dragonforce?
I still have not reached a definate conclusion, so I am going to just have to say both.
dragonland is a lot worse. dragonforce at least has something of a flow to it. dragonland falls off the tounge like a bag of concrete.
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Black metal is a gold mine of this stuff, some of them really are hilarious.
I'll post a list later.
It's a pity Misantropical Painforest has already been mentioned.
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Honestly I don't think a band name can be "shite" as long as it's original, and not too long for normal purposes... to say nothing of "And you will know us by the trail of dead."
my first band was a crappy hardcore band. we didn't know what we were called, so the singer announced we would be known as "step into my office." ...that band didn't last long.
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Oh shit, that is nowhere near the ridiculosity of my band's original name. We couldn't agree on anything, so one day the bassist came up with "Manic Panic." The guitarist liked it, and I bit my tongue, so that's what we were known as for the first few shows. We eventually decided to change it. I wanted to call us "Anthropology," and the bassist liked it, but the guitarist didn't like it, so we're now known as "For China."
I'm in another band called the "Stuperious Twins."
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My current band is Bad Karma... we're pretty much set on the name. The other guitarist wanted his band to be called that since he's been playing guitar, and I likes it a lot.
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Any of these bands called Bad Karma yours?
This one (http://www.amazon.com/Sick-Burlesque-Bad-Karma/dp/B000IAX5AY/sr=1-1/qid=1169527281/)
or
this one (http://www.badkarmamusic.com/)
or
this one (http://www.badkarmarocks.com/main.htm)
... or maybe
this one (http://www.badkarmaonline.com/)?
If hot web sites are anything to go by you're in esteemed company.
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My band was playing a show once for a bunch of depop scenester kids that hated us...so we told them we were called "Throw Down That Hammer Fist Of Fucking Fury" which would be a godfuckawful name for a band, if someone were to actually use it
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It's a pity Misantropical Painforest has already been mentioned.
...is there really such a band? Gosh.
A Retch of Blood
Aarmaroth Nathrath
Abasbaron
Abhorrence Dementia
Abnegatum Christus
Absinthebolik
Abysmal Desolation
Afsprengi Satans
Agathodaimon
Agathothodion
Aichmophoba
Akhkharu Noctis
Amputated Christ
Anal Blasphemy
Anal Putrefaction
Anal Vomit
Ancient
Ancient Art
Ancient Ceremony
Ancient Cult of Pandemonium
Ancient Curse
Ancient Darkness
Ancient Death
Ancient Hatred
Ancient Malus
Ancient Mystery
Ancient Poetry
Ancient Rites
Ancient Rune
Ancient Sadness
Ancient Season
Ancient Sign Glorify
Ancient Skin
Ancient Summoning
Ancient Supremacy
Ancient War Spirit
Ancient Wargod
Ancient Winds
Ancient Wisdom
Ancientblood
Ancienthorn
Anhkrehg
Animal Hate
Anno Domini Mortus
Anthropophagus
Black Vomit
Blasphemous Noise Torment
Blasphemophagher
Cold Northern Vengeance
Commitment to Darkness
Daemon Est Deus Inversus
Zodiacalius Pathologoanatomos
...and so on, and on, and on, and on...
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Some friends and I were out having coffee the other night, and my one friend mentioned this new band he was into; their name alone was enough to sour me to the idea of listening to them - Black Rose Burial.
So I decided to apply the Color+Flower+SpookyWord formula, and I came up with something better - Blue Orchid Exsanguination. I think this is a marked improvement, no?
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most definitely
Bam!
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the black heart procession, while an awful and terribly emo sounding band name, is actually a pretty good band with some of the three mile pilot/ugly cassanova people in it (also both horrible names). names can be so misleading.
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Any of these bands called Bad Karma yours?
This one (http://www.amazon.com/Sick-Burlesque-Bad-Karma/dp/B000IAX5AY/sr=1-1/qid=1169527281/)
or
this one (http://www.badkarmamusic.com/)
or
this one (http://www.badkarmarocks.com/main.htm)
... or maybe
this one (http://www.badkarmaonline.com/)?
If hot web sites are anything to go by you're in esteemed company.
Nope, none of those ultra-spiffy sites are ours. We have an old crotchedy myspace (http://www.myspace.com/badkarma619) that hasn't been updated... ever...
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Any band with a number in their name has a lame band name. ie: 3 inches of blood, 12 stones 33 crazyfist, 67 special, A18
As I Lay Dying is also a stupid name. Namely because we wish they whould lay down and die...Coz their shite.
Bleeding Through. Couldn't be a much more emo name if it tried.
(PS: Shite is the best word I've heard all morning)
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As I Lay Dying is a novel by William Faulkner.
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Hey yer! It is too! I've read that I'm sure. The mother dies and they take her body to some place as her last wish. I just remember them crossing some river and almost loosing the old girl when a log crush's some guys leg. I really can't remember much of that book. It's been about 2 years since I read it I think. Stupid drugs making my short term memory into badness. :cry:
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Knight Area
Mythological Cold Towers
Ignorant Misfortune
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Any band with a number in their name has a lame band name. ie: 3 inches of blood, 12 stones 33 crazyfist, 67 special, A18
We've been through and refuted this.
And 3 Inches of Blood is a brilliant band name.
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But I still think it's safe to say that most names in that category are pretty rotten, Khar. There are some exceptions, but once again, I direct you to Matchbox Twenty.
Oh, and...
So I decided to apply the Color+Flower+SpookyWord formula, and I came up with something better - Blue Orchid Exsanguination. I think this is a marked improvement, no?
How about Purple Petunia Putrification? :)
It's amazing the pointless shit I come up with at work at 6:45 in the morning.
Also, a band name I always thought was pretty lame and emo-sounding, My Dying Bride, actually turned out to be a pretty okay band when I decided to check them out.
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I avoided listening to Broken Social Scene for several months because I thought they'd be an emo band.
Ditto for I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, who definitely win the "best band with the worst name" award in my book.
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It's a pity Misantropical Painforest has already been mentioned.
...is there really such a band? Gosh.
A Retch of Blood
Aarmaroth Nathrath
Abasbaron
Abhorrence Dementia
Abnegatum Christus
Absinthebolik
Abysmal Desolation
Afsprengi Satans
Agathodaimon
Agathothodion
Aichmophoba
Akhkharu Noctis
Amputated Christ
Anal Blasphemy
Anal Putrefaction
Anal Vomit
Ancient
Ancient Art
Ancient Ceremony
Ancient Cult of Pandemonium
Ancient Curse
Ancient Darkness
Ancient Death
Ancient Hatred
Ancient Malus
Ancient Mystery
Ancient Poetry
Ancient Rites
Ancient Rune
Ancient Sadness
Ancient Season
Ancient Sign Glorify
Ancient Skin
Ancient Summoning
Ancient Supremacy
Ancient War Spirit
Ancient Wargod
Ancient Winds
Ancient Wisdom
Ancientblood
Ancienthorn
Anhkrehg
Animal Hate
Anno Domini Mortus
Anthropophagus
Black Vomit
Blasphemous Noise Torment
Blasphemophagher
Cold Northern Vengeance
Commitment to Darkness
Daemon Est Deus Inversus
Zodiacalius Pathologoanatomos
...and so on, and on, and on, and on...
I love Animal Hate. That is an awesome band name! I also love those anal themed ones. Seriously, who would think of Anal Vomit? I also remember bands called Anal Stench and Morbid Anal Fog. THey should rename themselves "smelly fart" because thats so much cooler.
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I think 36 Crazyfists get a pass just for taking their name froma Bruce Lee flick...
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It's a pity Misantropical Painforest has already been mentioned.
...is there really such a band? Gosh.
A Retch of Blood
Aarmaroth Nathrath
Abasbaron
Abhorrence Dementia
Abnegatum Christus
Absinthebolik
Abysmal Desolation
Afsprengi Satans
Agathodaimon
Agathothodion
Aichmophoba
Akhkharu Noctis
Amputated Christ
Anal Blasphemy
Anal Putrefaction
Anal Vomit
Ancient
Ancient Art
Ancient Ceremony
Ancient Cult of Pandemonium
Ancient Curse
Ancient Darkness
Ancient Death
Ancient Hatred
Ancient Malus
Ancient Mystery
Ancient Poetry
Ancient Rites
Ancient Rune
Ancient Sadness
Ancient Season
Ancient Sign Glorify
Ancient Skin
Ancient Summoning
Ancient Supremacy
Ancient War Spirit
Ancient Wargod
Ancient Winds
Ancient Wisdom
Ancientblood
Ancienthorn
Anhkrehg
Animal Hate
Anno Domini Mortus
Anthropophagus
Black Vomit
Blasphemous Noise Torment
Blasphemophagher
Cold Northern Vengeance
Commitment to Darkness
Daemon Est Deus Inversus
Zodiacalius Pathologoanatomos
...and so on, and on, and on, and on...
I love Animal Hate. That is an awesome band name! I also love those anal themed ones. Seriously, who would think of Anal Vomit? I also remember bands called Anal Stench and Morbid Anal Fog. THey should rename themselves "smelly fart" because thats so much cooler.
The thing about "Animal Hate" is the it makes you (or me) think "wait a second, is it some kind of weird animalic hate och simply hate towards animals NURR". The Anal ones are just great. Seriously "Anal Vomit" is one of the greatest names I've heard. I'll name my child that. "Anal Stench" is, compared to "Anal Vomit", pretty logical.
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I feel I must interject here, you're getting carried away, feeling sorry for yourselves.
Anyway, IMHO, most band names are good or bad depending on how the artist carries the name.
Like, if a band is called Shite McShite, but create the best music ever recorded, the band name can become cool too.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience is cool because of the fact that Jimi kicked some great ass. If it was "the nickelback experience" it would be THE worst bandname ever.
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The problem is that people who come up with sille names often make silly music, probably like "Anal Vomit".
I really can't picture Anal Vomit making good music.
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I don't know, Anal Cunt isn't that bad of a band.
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But I still think it's safe to say that most names in that category are pretty rotten, Khar. There are some exceptions, but once again, I direct you to Matchbox Twenty.
Oh, and...
So I decided to apply the Color+Flower+SpookyWord formula, and I came up with something better - Blue Orchid Exsanguination. I think this is a marked improvement, no?
How about Purple Petunia Putrification? :)
It's amazing the pointless shit I come up with at work at 6:45 in the morning.
Also, a band name I always thought was pretty lame and emo-sounding, My Dying Bride, actually turned out to be a pretty okay band when I decided to check them out.
Purple Petunia Putrification sounds like the super power of the gayest super villain ever.
"Quick Evil Lord Gayhomo! Use your Purple Petunia Putrification on Mr. Ironicallybadsuperheroname!"
I don't know, Anal Cunt isn't that bad of a band.
I'm still trying to work out what an Anal Cunt is...even if it is an imaginary thing. I just can't...how it would...NO! I wish you had never said those 2 words in secession
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No, Anal Cunt is not a good band.
As far as I can't imagine what an anal cunt is, try imagining anal vomit.
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Afsprengi Satans
Ancient
I fail to see the shiteness of these names. Afsprengi Satans is a great name, better than the Momentum moniker they go under these days (although Momentum are much better). And Ancient is a simple one-word name. Not gonna win an originality contest, but there is nothing wrong with it.
Also, in case noone said it yet; Portugal the man and Horse the Band are pretty dire.
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Ancient is meant to be together with the 20 other Ancients.
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Purple Petunia Putrification sounds like the super power of the gayest super villain ever.
"Quick Evil Lord Gayhomo! Use your Purple Petunia Putrification on Mr. Ironicallybadsuperheroname!"
Would Evil Lord Gayhomo be the nemesis of the great ones, Ace and Gary?
(http://www.yanowhatimean.com/art/art_rossduo.jpg)
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Think about how egotistically retarded that sounds.
Maybe in the past, Jimi had been dissapointed with tribute bands of his favourite acts, so pre-empting his own death, put together the greatest tribute to himself possible. Because it was actually him.
On another point, how about "Elvis Hitler"?
My mates got me a cd by that band as a joke. The album is called "Supersadomasochisticexpialadocious"
I think it wins at both worst band name, and album name.
Just the cover aswell sort of adds to it all http://www.songlyricscollection.com/lyrics/e/elvis-hitler/supersadomasochisticexpialidocious/supersadomasochisticexpialidocious.jpg (http://www.songlyricscollection.com/lyrics/e/elvis-hitler/supersadomasochisticexpialidocious/supersadomasochisticexpialidocious.jpg) (Just to be safe, ill link it instead of post it here)
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Purple Petunia Putrification sounds like the super power of the gayest super villain ever.
"Quick Evil Lord Gayhomo! Use your Purple Petunia Putrification on Mr. Ironicallybadsuperheroname!"
Would Evil Lord Gayhomo be the nemesis of the great ones, Ace and Gary?
(http://www.yanowhatimean.com/art/art_rossduo.jpg)
I dunno. Um...you decide. He can be if that gets your goat but...yeh ok.
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i really don't find anything emo about Broken Social Scene as a name. or a shite name for that matter. i thought it made sense. :/
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I'm with imapiratearg.
Broken Social Scene=not very emo at all.
Unlike, Bleeding Through which sounds incredibly emo. I realy have a vandetta against that name... :|
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Unless I didnt read everything but how did
fucking
HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH NOT GET MENTIONED.
I MEAN REALLY NOW.
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Pretty much everyone I know thinks Broken Social Scene sounds like an emo band name. It's just so... highschool/drama.
I believe the name Anal Cunt is more supposed to mean "anal" as in "anal retentive" and "cunt" as in when a Scottish guy calls another guy a "stupid cunt".
You know, like, "Shite, you are one fooking anal cunt."
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Unless I didnt read everything but how did
fucking
HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH NOT GET MENTIONED.
I MEAN REALLY NOW.
Amen.
although they are one of my fav indie bands: Stars...i mean, can we come up with something a little more thought provocing and less bland IMO?
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Unfortunately "bland" band names are here to stay. Stars, Books, Islands, Shins, Kills, Dears... it's getting quite out of hand.
Of course we've always had them... Clash, Smiths, Fall, etc., but it seems like it's more annoying now.
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She Wants Revenge is indie??? i thought they were like...industrial/alternative...
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She Wants Revenge are on a sub label of Geffen.
So not really.
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i was going to say...they're like...alternative, or something.
another odd name: Forgive Durden
i think the name Durden is funny. it rolls off the tounge a little strangely
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Unless I didnt read everything but how did
fucking
HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH NOT GET MENTIONED.
I MEAN REALLY NOW.
Fuck yes. Blowfish=possibly the most suspect animal ever.
Pretty much everyone I know thinks Broken Social Scene sounds like an emo band name. It's just so... highschool/drama.
I believe the name Anal Cunt is more supposed to mean "anal" as in "anal retentive" and "cunt" as in when a Scottish guy calls another guy a "stupid cunt".
You know, like, "Shite, you are one fooking anal cunt."
When you put it that way it makes sense. Thank you for creating some clarity in my otherwise foggy existence. You're a gift to the human race. No I'm serious. That actually makes sense now.
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The Darkness.
Fuck those guys.
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Never heard anything by them, I'll judge once I've heard.
Allthough the doors have some good songs, I had to laugh out loud the firsttime I found out a band namen themselves after a wood-carved object which humans push out of their way to get somewhere
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Um, they shortened it from "The Doors of Perception", which from memory is a Huxley reference. You could easily find out, anyway, but they didn't name themselves after ... doors. Which is a pity. :-)
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That does make sense...
I never really got into them, so I didn't really know. It's kinda like a lot of new Slayer fans these days don't know that Slayer is short for: "Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot"
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The Darkness.
Fuck those guys.
their lead singer has some pretty gross looking teeth. and wtf was up with that video for "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"? it's messed up... O.o it has scarred me...
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Anal Cunt has no meaning at all. Seth Putnam simply wrote out a list of swear words and tried to find the most offensive combination. If you consider the design of their logo, the meaning really does become all too plain.
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Strawberry Alarm Clock. Seriously, for all the good the psychedelic movement did, fuck everybody who named their band after an acid-induced dream sequence.
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the music, only this post could make me remember their substandard brand of crap, topped of by a perpetually annoying lead singer that thought he could dance and the single least imaginative name ever.
way back when people listened to them they were on my room 101 list, seriously that bad.
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No, Anal Cunt is not a good band.
As far as I can't imagine what an anal cunt is, try imagining anal vomit.
Explosive diarrhea, I would think.
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Kills, Dears
These two actually really suit each band's music, though. The Kills is short and unadorned. The Dears is a very romantic-sounding, almost baroque sort of name.
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The Cr?xshadows. Hell, any band with those umlauty things in their name.
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The Cr?xshadows.
ahahha. ahAhahahahahahahaha. Oh god. Those guys.
I saw them once. Rogue hugged me. I am really not sure I should ever share that with anyone ever again because I feel like I've just incriminated myself terribly.
>.>
<.<
It never happened.
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The Swirlies and Rage Against the Machine. Eww, ick, yuck, etc. I fail to see how those are good band names.
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how has the screaming trees not been mentioned?
and i'm not gonna lie, anal cunt is possibly the worst band name i've ever heard of
either that or ...and you will know us by the trail of dead
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Shit house Band Names:
Panic! At The Disco (goddamn emo sunsabitches [just to let you know, i have nothing against emo's themselves, i happen to know many likeable emo's, it's just the music makes MY BRAIN EXPLODE!!!!])
I Killed the Prom Queen... THERES NO PROMS IN AUSTRALIA!!! WE HAVE DANCES!!!! yargh
KISS...theys an alright band, but when they started making disco, it just kinda added to the whole...gay...ting
AWESOME Band names:
Sounds Like Chicken...w00t aussie indie Christian skacore
Frenzal Rhomb...named after someones pet rat...who in turn was named after some guy who invented...something
Beasts Of Bourbon...I'm gonna make it HARD FOR YOU! HARD FOR YOU!!!!
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i suddenly remebered a band called necro-tampon i once saw.
if your gonna think about it though bad names apply to all things,especialy 80s and 90s kids tv
think about it
BIKER MICE FROM MARS
what!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
STREET SHARKS
i have as much nostalgic love for these shows as the next guy but these are proof should we ever need it that all tv executives were way too on crack in the 80s.
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AWESOME Band names:
Sounds Like Chicken...w00t aussie indie Christian skacore
Frenzal Rhomb...named after someones pet rat...who in turn was named after some guy who invented...something
Beasts Of Bourbon...I'm gonna make it HARD FOR YOU! HARD FOR YOU!!!!
Honestly these names are worse than the bands you listed under awful names.
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indie Christian skacore
The worst genre names thread is somewhere a little further down.
Actually I'm kind of horrified that you would lump two fine Australian bands in with that.
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Def Leppard.
Intentionally misspelling words with "ea" in them has already been done. Get your own gimmick, fuckasses.
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I like the 'indie' in front of indie christian skacore. It seems to imply that EMI and Universal have been snapping up a lot of christian skacore bands lately.
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I know of a band called Twisted Wings, i knicknamed them Spastic Seagulls. oh and Demon Seed, I called them Devil Spunk. and I was in a band once called Faded Glass. Our new name is pretty awfull as well. Fuzz. We're trying to thin of a decent one.
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Gay for Johnny Dep
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
On another day I could think of loads but Im in too good a mood atm. :-)
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Turbonegro.
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That Dog
Vengeance at Dawn
any rapper with young or lil in front of it
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is one of the silliest ones I've heard for a long time.