Topic: Really shite band names.. (Read 45555 times)

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #50 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 08:20 »

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.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #51 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 08:40 »

Don't blame My Bloody Valentine, they existed long before all that shit was popular. Instead, punch a kid with an asymmetrical haircut.

Ernest · « **Reply #52 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 09:14 »

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The Hammered · « **Reply #53 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 09:53 »

Got some more.
Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Goo Goo Dolls
Guns N' Roses
The Guess Who

Caspian · « **Reply #54 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 09:56 »

Quote from: ekmesnz on 18 Jan 2007, 04:03

Quote from: Caspian on 17 Jan 2007, 11:18
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.

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.

Ernest · « **Reply #55 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 09:58 »

You're a terrible band. Pavement are tizzight.

Caspian · « **Reply #56 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 09:59 »

Quote from: Flaming Ostrich on 18 Jan 2007, 09:58

You're a terrible band. Pavement are tizzight.

Your mother is a terrible band!!

Ernest · « **Reply #57 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 10:10 »

Your mother is Jack Johnson.

thehollow · « **Reply #58 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 10:21 »

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 18 Jan 2007, 02:16

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.

Caspian · « **Reply #59 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 10:31 »

Quote from: Flaming Ostrich on 18 Jan 2007, 10:10

Your mother is Jack Johnson.

Johnny C · « **Reply #60 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 10:47 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 18 Jan 2007, 08:40

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.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #61 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 12:39 »

*blush*

Oh you guys

Ernest · « **Reply #62 on:** 18 Jan 2007, 19:29 »

I quoted it and put it in my signature. David_Dovey can come over to my house for lunch anytime.

Yakob · « **Reply #63 on:** 19 Jan 2007, 07:45 »

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 18 Jan 2007, 02:16

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!

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #64 on:** 19 Jan 2007, 10:46 »

<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.

Will · « **Reply #65 on:** 19 Jan 2007, 19:34 »

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.

Patrick · « **Reply #66 on:** 19 Jan 2007, 20:11 »

Quote from: 10101110 on 18 Jan 2007, 02:42

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.

Johnny C · « **Reply #67 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 01:39 »

Quote from: 10101110 on 19 Jan 2007, 19:34

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.

valley_parade · « **Reply #68 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 02:13 »

I would see a band called Wowls, regardless of if they sucked or not.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #69 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 06:07 »

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.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #70 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 06:08 »

i also came across a band called Fuck. creative, no?

Sporky · « **Reply #71 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 06:28 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 20 Jan 2007, 06:08

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #72 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 06:35 »

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.

Sporky · « **Reply #73 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 06:51 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 20 Jan 2007, 06:35

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!

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.

Hat · « **Reply #74 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 07:04 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #75 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 07:27 »

I like girls medium rare with some pepper sauce.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #76 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 07:50 »

Quote from: imapiratearg on 20 Jan 2007, 06:08

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.

Scytale · « **Reply #77 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 08:43 »

"Misantropical Painforest" is one I can't decide if i'ts incredibly bad or incredibly awesome.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #78 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 11:40 »

Quote from: Hat on 20 Jan 2007, 07:04

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.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #79 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 19:30 »

Quote from: Storm Rider on 18 Jan 2007, 03:11

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.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #80 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 22:33 »

yeah, actually they're screamo or hardcore/post hardcore or something like that. metalcore is something like Atreyu. who kicks muchos ass.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #81 on:** 20 Jan 2007, 23:33 »

Quote from: Sam on 18 Jan 2007, 20:18

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!?"

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #82 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 02:04 »

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.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #83 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 02:15 »

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.

Thrillho · « **Reply #84 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 02:19 »

Quote from: NiMRoD420 on 21 Jan 2007, 02:04

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.

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #85 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 03:35 »

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.

QueenAingeal · « **Reply #86 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 04:40 »

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.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #87 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 07:42 »

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.

Hat · « **Reply #88 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 07:56 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #89 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 08:02 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #90 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 08:23 »

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'.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #91 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 10:39 »

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.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #92 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 10:58 »

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.)

Kai · « **Reply #93 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 11:12 »

FUCK YOUR MOTHER

David_Dovey · « **Reply #94 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 12:16 »

Quote from: öde on 21 Jan 2007, 07:42

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #95 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 13:03 »

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.

Snorlaxor · « **Reply #96 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 13:04 »

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.

fish across face · « **Reply #97 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 13:56 »

Quote from: Snorlaxor on 21 Jan 2007, 13:04

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.

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.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #98 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 17:31 »

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"."

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #99 on:** 21 Jan 2007, 22:01 »

i think porcupine tree is a pretty good name. mainly b/c i like porcupines though. but how could one not??

i mean, come on....

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