Worst Band Titles to Search?

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What are the band titles most likely to screw up a search engine?
Only include real band/act titles.

Inspired by Woebots's inclusion of Underground Software in his ragga jungle mix.

― Jedmond, Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

!!! and The The to thread.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link

Free, like the rapper.

― Jole, Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

What, like this?

Google Proof Bandnames!

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

bands named after places

― Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

coil and can.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 January 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

actually, coil is fine on google but NOT on ebay.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 January 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

Machine. Considering their albums are out of print and their best one is eponymous, this makes searching for it on eBay or google total hell.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

Anal Cunt.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

Just use quotation marks

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

Manual
Limp
Console

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 3 January 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

Christmas

― dlp9001, Saturday, 3 January 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

X, -____

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link

Although I cannot imagine why anyone would actively seek them out.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

Dead C

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

daddino otm

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Golden Showers

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

Love

― Oliver Pyper (stickthrower), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

Cake
Bush
Sky
War
The Streets

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

Low, Can and Hood always present problems.

― Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

The Books.

― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

The microphones. Especially on Kazaa.

― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

Thou probably wouldn't have been so bad until Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out, but that pretty much ruined things.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

The Music

― oscillatingocelot, Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

why would anyone want to search for "A"? oh wait a minute... because they rock, that's right.

― Theophilus, Thursday, 19 February 2004 01:15 (twenty years ago) link

The Band.

― mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

but do any of these but !!! actually BREAK things though?

insound: "Your search for !!! is improperly formatted."
amazon: oh crazy, it actually half-works in the search engine now--but don't you dare actually click on the provided band name link
amg: "Sorry, too many possible matches. Please adjust your search."
ebay: "No keyword was entered."

― andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

Morgan...that's a toughie

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 19 February 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago) link

I.F. - Back in the day, "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" was one of my first mp3 searches. I wanted to hear more of their songs, but "IF" usually never produced any results in search engines. It took me a year or two before learning the title of one of their albums.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 19 February 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago) link

The Cars

― areallystupidguy, Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

P:ano
+/-
Summer Hits

Names that work surprisingly well:
OOO
OOIOO

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago) link

the Truth

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:36 (twenty years ago) link

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

there's a band here in L.A. called ch1ld p0rnogr4phy... i wouldn't particularly want to be caught searching their name.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Ice-T and Ice Cube are a massive pain in the ass to search for.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:00 (twenty years ago) link

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