Bands with sh*t names

whisky_galore · 17-09-2014 4:24pm

Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers.

Miss Lizzie Jones · 17-09-2014 4:55pm

Nickleback.

The Domonator · 17-09-2014 5:00pm

Spermswamp.

Mars Bar · 17-09-2014 6:18pm

Boys Like Girls

I like the band but that's an awful name.

Say Your Number · 17-09-2014 6:25pm

Scouting For Girls, how did the thread go on this long without them getting a mention, awful name and even worse music.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 17-09-2014 6:27pm

The Blizzards is a truly woeful name.

Los Lobos · 17-09-2014 6:30pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers.

How very dare you! Leave jive bunny outta this!

Planet X · 17-09-2014 7:01pm

Budgie.

Titzon Toast · 17-09-2014 7:08pm

Lighthouse family.

DLMA23 · 17-09-2014 7:12pm

Ivor Biggun & The Red-Nosed Burglars

Son Of A Vidic · 17-09-2014 7:14pm

The The.

losthorizon · 17-09-2014 7:39pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

They might be giants (but they're not)

Heres what they say about your pay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNoxjUUyec

Akrasia · 18-09-2014 8:24am

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

this will be one of those threads where every band will be mentioned

Not the smashing pumpkins!!...

oops

Emmacash · 23-09-2014 9:03pm

Wet wet wet...how did that even come about?

comongethappy · 23-09-2014 9:13pm

They never quite made it big but Jeremy & Super Hans had some out there names for their band.
- The Hair Blair Bunch
- Spunk Bubble
- Mommas Kumquat
- Curse These Metal Hands
- Man Feelings

And of course who could forget: Danny Dyre's Chocolate Homunculus.

bnt · 23-09-2014 11:16pm

Kaiser Chiefs. Now there's a band who'll never get a gig in South Africa, since they stole the name from a soccer team there.

One Direction: a better name for them would be One Dimension. :cool:

But now I think about it ... a good band can transcend a bad name. Do we care that The Rolling Stones, The Who or The Smashing Pumpkins are daft names? Porcupine Tree? There's a band named Yes - yes, just Yes - that's been going since 1968. Tears For Fears and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, anyone? :P

GLaDOS · 23-09-2014 11:32pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zykLGUqr2CE

WoollyRedHat · 23-09-2014 11:37pm

The Strypes

The Kooks

Both invoke rage.

mikeyjames9 · 23-09-2014 11:40pm

dmc17 wrote: »

The The

the who?

Mars Bar · 23-09-2014 11:41pm

Almost any band name beginning with "The" is rubbish. Except The Rolling Stones. That's a class name.

Shakespeare's Sister · 23-09-2014 11:42pm

MGMT

The 1975

Serious bang of "Couldn't be arsed."

24-09-2014 12:02am

I hate really bland, nondescript names like The View, The Feeling, Keane etc.
Bombay Bicycle Club and Two Door Cinema Club are also dreadful names, and what makes them even more irritating is that I always mix them up.
The Naked and Famous is another band name I dislike, even though I do like their music.
Radiohead almost called themselves On a Friday - that would have been shít.

bnt · 24-09-2014 12:02am

mikeyjames9 wrote: »

the who?

The Guess Who.

Macavity. · 24-09-2014 12:17am

RoySeven

mikeyjames9 · 24-09-2014 12:19am

boyzone..

sounds like a gay porn website

AnonoBoy · 24-09-2014 12:24am

Ned's Atomic Dustbin!

Adyx · 24-09-2014 12:30am

They might be giants isn't a great name for a band but they did take it from the film where it's a reference to Don Quixote.

Rothko · 24-09-2014 12:33am

The Naked Brothers is another appalling name.

Grayditch · 24-09-2014 12:35am

mikeyjames9 wrote: »

boyzone..

sounds like a gay porn website

Ah, but it couldn't be further from the truth.

http://images.dailystar-uk.co.uk/dynamic/140/photos/637000/40637.jpg

Shakespeare's Sister · 24-09-2014 12:38am

dmc17 wrote: »

The The

Love them, but gotta agree - tossy name.

Emmacash wrote: »

Wet wet wet...how did that even come about?

An accurate description of their output?

Deleted User wrote: »

I hate really bland, nondescript names like The View, The Feeling, Keane etc.

Yeh, it just reeks of "Oh we're being all cool and not bothering to make an effort with our name." It was a popular thing to do in the first half of the 2000s. There was a band called The Music ffs, and The Darkness.

Other end of the spectrum is those stupid long names like And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (or whatever) and Godspeed! You Black Emperor.

Fun - suitably awful. The Coronas - does that not require ok-ing by the beer company?

GLaDOS · 24-09-2014 12:47am

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

Other end of the spectrum is those stupid long names like And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (or whatever) and Godspeed! You Black Emperor.

As much as I love the music, a large amount of post-rock bands seem to think band names need to be entire sentences. It's a weird trend.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
God is an Astronaut
If These Trees Could Talk
65DaysOfStatic
Explosions in the Sky
And So I Watch You From Afar
This Will Destroy You

And They're just the ones I Listen too :pac:

Shakespeare's Sister · 24-09-2014 12:52am

I like some of those names though - love Explosions In The Sky.

Yeh, I'm a fan of 80s/early 90s indie and that featured some right crappy pretentious names, like the aforementioned The The, also Throwing Muses and Miranda Sex Garden.
Smashing Pumpkins is a terrible name too, as is Ned's Atomic Dustbin (already mentioned).
I don't mind Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine though. I should think it's terrible, but I don't - can't explain why.

darkdubh · 24-09-2014 12:55am

comongethappy wrote: »

They never quite made it big but Jeremy & Super Hans had some out there names for their band.
- The Hair Blair Bunch
- Spunk Bubble
- Mommas Kumquat
- Curse These Metal Hands
- Man Feelings

And of course who could forget: Danny Dyre's Chocolate Homunculus.

Diden't they also have Free The Paedos or was that the name of a club or something?

darkdubh · 24-09-2014 12:57am

Some pretty interesting band names here.Suffice to say I don't think any of them are on the 2FM playlist.

http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/ByEJBvBIUAE_AFSsdfsdfdsf.jpg

0byme75341jo28 · 24-09-2014 1:02am

Deep Fried Abortion, wow.. :pac:

Wall of Smegma

Satriale · 24-09-2014 1:09am

Nin Huugen and the Huugen Notes

Summer wind · 24-09-2014 1:10am

The proclaimers.

Supertramp.

Mud.

The dancin bastards from hell.

Sexual chocolate.

Shakespeare's Sister · 24-09-2014 1:12am

Summer wind wrote: »

The dancin bastards from hell.

Sexual chocolate.

Yeh the Dancin Bastards were a real thing, not a myth as I thought.

Ah I love Sexual Chocolate - weren't they a comedy act and wasn't the name taken from an Eddie Murphy movie?

gammygils · 24-09-2014 1:14am

Wheatus
Hate the sound of it!

colmufc · 24-09-2014 1:15am

ceryibal ballsie

Shakespeare's Sister · 24-09-2014 1:17am

Checking out the metal and industrial sections of Tower Records will cause lols. Some of the names are absolutely hilarious.

Owldshtok · 24-09-2014 1:17am

wet wet wet

kajagoogoo

simple minds

the jesus and mary chain - when a band name is like a sentence it just doesn't work.

'The Band' - a solid name for a great band.

Shakespeare's Sister · 24-09-2014 1:18am

Owldshtok wrote: »

wet wet wet

kajagoogoo

simple minds

the jesus and mary chain

One argument for a No vote last week. :pac:

Summer wind · 24-09-2014 1:19am

Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

Yeh the Dancin Bastards were a real thing, not a myth as I thought.

Ah I love Sexual Chocolate - weren't they a comedy act and wasn't the name taken from an Eddie Murphy movie?

Yeah from the movie "coming to america". Love that movie.

Yogosan · 24-09-2014 1:23am

Armelodie wrote: »

DEADMAU5

ya look it's either Deadmouse or Deadmau Five.. chose one goddammit

Quit tryin to be elusive/faux intelligent with yer names and say wtf your name is.

e.g. The Cranberrie5 ..naa just doesn;t work does it?

Apparently he came up with the name when he joined an internet forum. There was a limit on characters so he had to shorten it down to '5'

Yogosan · 24-09-2014 1:28am

Bush

Ralf and Florian · 24-09-2014 1:58am

Just a random selection of Industrial band names.

Nurse With Wound:

Throbbing Gristle:

Surgical Penis Unit:

And if your talking about album titles:The Anal Staircase by Coil.

Absoluvely · 24-09-2014 1:59am

The Garda Band will never go platinum with a name like that. What were they thinking?

colossus-x · 24-09-2014 2:06am

u2, me3, him4, her5

darkdubh · 24-09-2014 2:09am

One irritating trend from a couple of years back were female solo performers with monikers that sounded like band names.Marina And The Diamonds and some other wan who called herself I Blame Coco were two that spring to mind right now but there were more.

Bands with sh*t names

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