Worst Band Names

Ok anagram . You probably right. I need to brush up on my shit.

personal & the pizzas

I quite like the name Archers of Loaf.

There's a local band called Fanny Burger Face. This is so resolutely terrible that it may border on genius.

(Also, I believe it does refer to the British English meaning of 'fanny' rather than the personal name or the American English version.)

I kind of like the name Municipal Waste, but find it hard to intonate correctly in everyday speech, especially with a British accent. Mun-I-cipal Waste, MUN-i-CIP-al Waste... hmmm...

I always say mu-NI-cip-al.

The correct answer is obviously:
"Does It Offend You, Yeah?"
Urgh.

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almost there , I reckon
Fucking shocking and irritating to the extreme.

Where they any good? I avoiding them because of their name.

Who wouldn't?

Crunching kick into the balls

The Strange Death Of Liberal England

^ I would like to nominate these guys

Also has anyone said iLiKETRAiNS yet?

Actually every single band that last.fm says is similar to TSDOLE has a shitey name:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Strange+Death+Of+Liberal+England/+similar

Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies wtf?

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^ okay let's kill these people

cats and cats and cats is probably the worst of all those

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i kinda don't understand. the Cs i mean. why.

they're a bunch of c----s

Always hated Cherry Poppin' Daddies for it's horrible rapey invocation.

Aw, I like the name "personal and the pizzas" - because, well, pizza

disk jokke

The worst thing about Cherry Poppin' Daddies is, at a Warped Tour, I once saw a girl walking around, holding her mother's hand, and she couldn't have been older than ten or so, wearing a Cherry Poppin' Daddies t-shirt. Unto the pure all things are pure, I guess.

TV on the Radio is quite a bad name.

Went to see Future Of The Left the other week, and one support was Ice Sea Dead People, and I really couldn't see how it could get worse, but the first band were called Hold Your Horse Is.

"Hold Your Horse Is" is also the name of a Hella album.

What about - Gay Against You ?

I've seen Cats and Cats and Cats and they seemed like a nice bunch of kids.

That makes it worse! "Why has your band got such a bad name?" "well we copied it off someone else."

It seems that crappy sub-pun phraselike band names are the order of the day. I don't know what's more irritating, things like Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies, uninspired NRR names like The Hives, The Strokes, The Drums etc or early 90s band names that sound as though they were made to put you off like Toad The Wet Sprocket, Pity The Small Thumbs etc.

I always hated The Dandy Warhols as a name.

I kind of like the name Municipal Waste, but find it hard to intonate correctly in everyday speech, especially with a British accent. Mun-I-cipal Waste, MUN-i-CIP-al Waste... hmmm...

― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:56 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I always say mu-NI-cip-al.

― anagram, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:33 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What on earth y'all?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?munici01=municipal

Or, if you would rather:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/municipal

It's just that the phrase doesn't roll off the tongue very easily when referring to them as a band.

Same as Acrimony - is it pronounced "acri-many" or "acri-moan-y"?

Fischerspooner
Blossom Toes
The Academy Is...
Jump 'N The Saddle Band
The Mama's and the Papa's (complete with inappropriate possessive apostrophes!)
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult

Also, so many early rock bands from the late 1950s to early 1960s had incredibly mundane, unimaginative names.

Goo Goo Dools, bar none. Come on.

Dolls, that is.

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i kinda don't understand. the Cs i mean. why.

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a lot of these terrible band names are actually great band names

Tame Impala

I can't think of any bands I really like that have an animal in their name.

the Beatles?

Oh yeah, but at this point "The Beatles" is just a set of phonemes that represent nothing in my mind other than four British dudes.

Shad
Anti-Pop Consortium

Lali Puna

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i kinda don't understand. the Cs i mean. why.

― rabbis (arby's)

And I was all WHAAAAAAA?! because

this

Also, Neutral Milk Hotel. *barf*

Any later-day post rock or emo sounding shite like None Of Us Knew We Were Robots or Dust Of A Thousand Charred Pylons or anything with Robot, Bear, Captain or references to ships.

you do realise we're officially called Captain Robotic Bear and the Dying Embers Of His Burning Galleon now

None of Them Knew They Were Robots is a Mr. Bungle song.

Whatevs.

Velvet Velvet Spice Rack

Ugh, I just had to look.
http://www.myspace.com/andnoneofthemknewtheywererobots

We Were Promised Jetpacks
The Twilight Sad
The The. Everyone thinks it when they're 13. No need to do it.

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