are you a cassette?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Has there ever been a worse band name than Killswitch Engage?
― anagram, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Al Qaeda Sound System.
― suggestzybandias (jim), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, Vortis might not be the worst, but everything about the band stinks (and it is a bad band name, don't get me wrong). I am sure some of you know exactly why this band reeks, but if you are curious just go check them out. The bio and explanation of the name kinda say it all.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I just got a Facebook invite for a gig, and the band playing there is called Bloodshit Gutsfuck. I declined.
― Tuomas, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn't there also a band -- a different band -- called Killswitch click?
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 26 June 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Dub Narcotic Sound System is pretty bad, though Calvin Johnson would probably tell you it's supposed to suck.
― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Friday, 26 June 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
There's this local band who named themselves The Heinrich Maneuver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtDrJ-hQQxI
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually my country is a heaven for bad band names. Other examples:
The RockPeterpanJ-RocksMocca
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 7 August 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
whoever oops was, was really off the money on this thread. i guess people were too busy thinking of their own to argue.
agree that Hoobastank is probably still the worst name ever.
― Highly trained BBQ chef (rockapads), Friday, 7 August 2009 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually my country is a heaven for bad band names.
You need to provide Myspace links or whatever for these characters.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 August 2009 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sqrv6IsBYE
Peterpan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jH5Y1LMwJA http://www.newpeterpanband.com/main.php
J-Rocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWzpnYc9ib0
Mocca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkJTr3POP68 (I hate this band. see for yourself.)
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 7 August 2009 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Some screamo/metalcore/whatever bands:
She Has a Fashion ViceAttack Attack! I See Stars I Explode LikeAsking AlexandriaBlood On The Dance Floor The Devil Wears PradaDead by Aprilnevershoutnever!I Set My Friends On FireAugust Burns RedAn Ocean Between UsMemphis May FireOne Morning LeftWe Are The Emergency2 0' Clock GirlfriendI, The Skyline...Watchout! There's Ghosts
COULD YOU FUCKING BELIEVE THAT?!
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 8 August 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a great local band in Portland right now called Mongoloid Village. They rock, but everyone wishes they would change the name.
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
They just need to add "People" to the end.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Access to most of the material on The Devil Wears Prada's website requires a subscription. It's $9.99 for a first tier subscription acscending up through 6 subscription levels that culminate in Big Wiggly Style ($49.99). Here's what you get:
1 Year Interactive MembershipTDWP Member Pack that includes:Set of TDWP drum sticksSet of signature TDWP picksTDWP Member LaminateExclusive TDWP Fan Community T-Shirt (Limited Edition)Copy of With Roots Above and Branches Below LP Record
SKU #TDWP-SUB-0006
DUDE! YOU GET A LAMINATE! I didn't know people fucked with those since Rockabilia ads in the back of Metal Maniacs.
All this from a band that "derives its name from an anti-materialistic mindset as stated by vocalist Mike Hranica, instead of directly refering to the novel with the same title."
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 8 August 2009 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Emo/screamo bands really do excel in this category.
― adamj, Saturday, 8 August 2009 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
pie chart of a dump
― new balls please (whatever), Saturday, 8 August 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
new worst band name ever: Municipal Waste.
― anagram, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
They have already been mentioned upthread.
The first name that popped into my head was Archers of Loaf. Such a criminally poor name for such a great band.
Names of solo artists are rubbish too eg. Andrew Bird, John Vanderslice etc.They are their real names right?
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ditchcroaker
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:35 (fourteen years ago) link
They have already been mentioned upthread
Municipal Waste? Not according to my Ctrl-F, they haven't. Archers of Loaf, on the other hand, have.
― anagram, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
XposT - apologies _ i was referring to my Archers!
Municipal Waste is terrible - the HC band? Here in England that would translate as Council Dump or something.terrible
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh I see, apologies.
I'm English as well and Municipal Waste sounds like a fairly normal British English phrase to me, though.
― anagram, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Ok anagram . You probably right. I need to brush up on my shit.
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
personal & the pizzas
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 16 June 2010 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I always say mu-NI-cip-al.
― anagram, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:33 (fourteen years ago) link
The correct answer is obviously:"Does It Offend You, Yeah?" Urgh.
― Pheeel, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
almost there , I reckonFucking 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
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
The Strange Death Of Liberal England
^ I would like to nominate these guys
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Also has anyone said iLiKETRAiNS yet?
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies wtf?
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start
^ okay let's kill these people
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
cats and cats and cats is probably the worst of all those
― sugar fuckup (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda don't understand. the Cs i mean. why.
― rabbis (arby's), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
they're a bunch of c----s
― psychrock...? (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Always hated Cherry Poppin' Daddies for it's horrible rapey invocation.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw, I like the name "personal and the pizzas" - because, well, pizza
― sarahel, Thursday, 17 June 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
disk jokke
― gay sauna manthems (LOLK), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 17 June 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
TV on the Radio is quite a bad name.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 17 June 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― useless chamber, Thursday, 17 June 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"Hold Your Horse Is" is also the name of a Hella album.
What about - Gay Against You ?
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 18 June 2010 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I've seen Cats and Cats and Cats and they seemed like a nice bunch of kids.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 18 June 2010 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
That makes it worse! "Why has your band got such a bad name?" "well we copied it off someone else."
― useless chamber, Friday, 18 June 2010 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 18 June 2010 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link