The Best and Worst Band Names You've Ever Heard

Because I'm Bored.

Best band name I've heard: Hymns From Nineveh. Also, Guillemots for best one-word name.

Worst: Cerebral Ballzy.

Go.

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Best: 65daysofstatic

Worst: 666 corpses with extracted organs lying on bed filled with blood

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

Best: Megadeth, Led Zeppelin, Slayer, We Were Promised Jetpacks, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead

Worst: Arctic Monkeys, Seven Mary Three, Hoobastank, Wormphlegm, and almost anything with a number in it (Blink-182, Matchbox-20, etc.)

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We Were Promised Jetpacks = pretty awesome. The name and the band. Also, Wormphlegm? Really?

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Best: Abörted Hitler Cöck

I guess it is.

@Wicked - I've come across 666 corpses with extracted organs lying on bed filled with blood before. They are really not a very serious band.

anyway;

Best: Venetian Snares, Helios, Kvelertak, Wolves in the Throne Room, Strand of Oaks

Worst: Porcupine Tree, RX Bandits (amazing band, terrible band name), Vverevvolf Grehv

So Bad, It's Good: You Slut!

edited 24th Apr '11 6:48:10 PM by SunshineWerewolf

I considered mentioning You Slut!, but decided against it seen as I didn't know which category to put it in. So Bad, It's Good sums it up nicely. Same goes for Master Musicians Of Bukkake

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Did you witness the debacle that happened on their facebook page?

Whose, You Slut!'s or Master Musicians of Bukakke's?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

YS!'s.

Nooooooooo... colour me intrigued.

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Okay... their original page was simply entitled "You Slut!" and trundled along quite happily as a band page for a long while before the trend for 'liking' pages on Facebook started.

Then, somewhere down the line, someone mistook the band page for some kind of page glorifying sluts. Things snowballed quite a lot. Many people of questionable grammatical ability liked the page and plastered things such as 'SLUT HURRHERDURR' everywhere all over the page. Cue considerable horror on the part of the band and their fans; then cue considerable trolling by the band and their fans. Hilarity ensued. Amidst the chaos the band ended up having to move their band page to a separate one called "YS! Official" because their main page had spiralled out of control so much. Most of the real drama has long since been deleted but it was immensely entertaining while it was happening.

At the current count, the "You Slut!" pages is approaching 200,000 likes while the separate band page hasn't even got 500

Okay, that's pretty funny. Entirely foreseeable, but funny nonetheless.

Other shitty band names: Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, and, as much as I loved them back in the day, Test Icicles. I mean, really.

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Not sure what you're asking here, but: yes, it's a real band, and no, I don't like the name.

Oh, and My Chemical Romance is a terrible name. But Care Bears On Fire is So Bad, It's Good.

edited 24th Apr '11 7:27:25 PM by ImipolexG

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It was just a general expression of disbelief that such a terrible name could exist

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Ah. The name of their demo is better: In an Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin and Violated by Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism and Desanctifying the Pious

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Best: Black Sabbath (a Bava reference), AC/DC (taken from a vacuum but fits perfectly), Iron Maiden, Austrian Death Machine, The Tony Danza Tapdancing Extravaganza.

Worst: Squirrel Nut Zippers, any band with Against in it, Eden's Crush (not surprisingly, this was one of those reality TV bands), Hoobastank, Nickelback (with the dumbest name origin ever), most bands with numbers (such as Blink 182, Sum 41, S Club 7, etc.), brokeNCYDE, CKY (the full name of Camp Kill Yourself is a good name, but the official name of CKY is just stupid and looks like a misspelling of Sky), Dogstar, Linkin Park (learn to fucking spell), Breaking Benjamin, Dashboard Confessional

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Aw, how could I forget Breaking Benjamin and Dashboard Confessional? I hate those names with a passion.

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The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. Just say it. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza. Isn't that the most fun name to say ever? It's icing on the cake that Tony Danza himself made a joke about them.

There are snakes in the grass, so we'd better go hunting!

Best: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (more of a group, but whatever), I'm Gonna Stab You, Guitar Wolf, Sonic Youth

Worst: Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Gnarls Barkley, Weezer, Bad Religion, Panic! At the Disco (only with the exclamation point)

We must move forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

Best - Corvus Corax, because it just sounds badass. Worst - Dead Alcoholics with Boners. Really?

Insert vaguely inspirational quote here.

Oi, I'm a firm believer that band names ought to be misspelled. Def Leppard, Led Zeppelin, Megadeth, Gorillaz, Byrds, Kreator, Lynyrd Skynyrd....

Best naming convention: One ominous word that's spelled correctly, because I'm a hypocrite.

Worst naming conventions: Anything with numbers, Xs, or umlauts, anything that can be construed as a name, or any references to other bands' lyrics.

edited 24th Apr '11 10:15:34 PM by KitsuneInferno

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.

Best: Spastic Children (yes, a real band name, though I doubt they actually recorded anything), The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger! and NPTOLPQVISRT. Also: the original name of the band Freur, which was a loop followed by a squiggly line ending in a spiral. CBS Records forced their hand into naming themselves something that D Js and record buyers could pronounce.

Worst: Hoobastank. Also Limp Bizkit, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Cute Is What We Aim For, Panic! At the Disco, IWrestledABearOnce, When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water, NǽnøĉÿbbŒrğ VbëřřĦōlökäävsŦ, We Were Promised Jetpacks, I Am the World Trade Center and, perhaps worst of all, Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start. [groan] Also, any prog band with a two-part name in which half is comprised of one or two of the words “Beard” “Tree” and/or “Fish.” How did that naming convention start and how can we stop it?

But mostly Hoobastank. That name is so bad it almost inverts the universe. It’s like the black hole of bad band names.

Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883!

My personal favorites are !!! and Fuck. Oh, and Cathedral of Failure. And Cradle of Filth.

The funny thing is, I don't even listen to any of these bands.

edited 24th Apr '11 11:11:54 PM by annebeeche

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.

I recall hearing of a band named The The, I don't know if they're real though.

I do wonder how on earth Hoobastank came up with that name.

I like The Who and The Police.