Worst Band Names

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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.

Deer Tick

We Were Promised Jetpacks

What, this is good.

I'm sick of willfully unpronounceable and google-proof names like OOOooO or whatever it is (see also !!!).

Arctic Monkeys is a duff name. Put me off checking them out for ages, then irritated me because I had to then say I liked a band with a crap name.

The The. Everyone thinks it when they're 13. No need to do it.

― paulhw, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:41 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not in the eighties.

Oozing Goo

Tame Impala

― margana (anagram), Monday, September 27, 2010 11:00 AM Bookmark

Yeah this. If you're going to come to the table three years late with a band that sounds a little too much like Dungen, do not also put the word "tame" in your name.

Maudlin the Well
...really?
why not Sappy the Pump? Gloomy the Culvert? Morose the Cistern?

Ursine Vulpine

Pop's Cool Love

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

This. eg Frightened Rabbit ffs.

Echo and the Bunnymen?

The CuELEPHANTre?

Bunnymen are not animals, they are men.

The AV Club's Year In Band Names is up. Could make a poll thread.

anything from first person (i.e. 'I am' 'I did' and all that shite) is pretty annoying.

a friend of mine once said he'd start a band called the droneas brothers.

triple post and everything but i just spat out my earl grey snorting derivatively at this from the AV list:

(facepalm)
Faith And The Muse
A Rose By Any Other Name
Change We Still Dream
Children Of The Almost
Sundried Truth
Dance Of The Mourning Child
A Sonnet To Silence
Fragile Utopia
Angels Of Babylon
Backseat Dreamer
A Crush On Yesterday
Shroud Of Despondency
Destruction Of A Rose
Romance On A Rocketship
The Loveable Tulips
Wishpenny
Coping
Teen Daze
The Love Hangover
Raven Nevermore
Barefoot Truth
Retards In Love
Shaman’s Harvest
Lying Naked With The Stars

i really like the band, but seriously: Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam

Times New Roman

Someone named a band after the font?!

font was actually named after the band's stately, accessible, familiar sound

http://www.myspace.com/timesnewroman

at least they shouldn't have any problems deciding on the typeface for their album cover

the fact there's already been a Times New Viking makes this even fucking worse

Mushroom's Patience

My least favourite band name - echobelly I mean, who ever thought that was a good one?

is it a Patti Smith reference? a semi quote from Kimberly?
It was dawn & the storm ECHOed in your BELLY? Think that's the line anyway

The Beatles (doh! I guess it’s kind of easy to overlook among all the hyperbole and adulation, just what a thoroughly beguiling and quite frankly absurd/shit name it actually is. Imagine having a band called The Cockroaches turning up today and being proclaimed the greatest thing since sliced bread and saviours of popular culture as we know it. You just simply wouldn’t be able to take them seriously. Fancy naming themselves after such festering, squalid, useless f**ing vermin. Even if they are from Liverpool....)

It's actually a pretty good name for the time & a tribute to The Crickets the Buddy Holly band. I think it's a household word now so has a life of its own. Near sui generis associative link once you know who they are, or certainly for a few generations. In short, I think name pretty much = object so any possible shortcomings are outside the picture.
& I like the name anyway.

It might fall into the trap of band name is from an era before the band became themselves, as in not just a local band playing to local audiences and possibly wanted to rename after moving to next level.
Bit like Bark Psychosis (way too juvenile Goth/indie for the Che & later work, but were like 14 or 15 when they coined the name) or Live Skull (similar reason, bit too Goth/Indie for the band in later stages. Though they were a lot older than BP) & I'm sure there are others who pretty much outgrew the bandname but stuck with it cos that's what they were already known as or whatever.

I like The Beatles though.

Did I imagine this or was there a bandin the early 90's called Fflaps??

no, singer went out with Fat Mark singer of Dandelion Adventure, later manager of Cornershop. Fflaps came from Wales, might be why they have 2 fs in the name.

I think I went to school with Fat Mark.

I kind of like the name The Electric Assholes (from The Onion list)

I think there's a band called PDF Format. Not only is it the most boring, insipid thing you could name your band after, it's redundant to boot. Whether they didn't realize that or they thought it was extra-clever, it still SUCKS.

Psychedelic Horseshit

Conquering Animal Sound

Com Truise

Ringo Deathstarr, tho I take solace in that their really nothing more than an MBV homage band.