The Best and Worst Band Names You've Ever Heard

"Rash of Stabbings" sounds like a really weird magical item from a Dn D game.

By far the best name for a band I ever heard is Sharks! On Fire!. I heard them on the radio once, and they were one of the few things on the radio I actually remembered, because a band called Sharks! On Fire! with an album called We Had A Dance-Off In A Lightning Storm is pretty memorable.

I just found out there's a band called OCD Soundsystem.

There's a Japanese rock band called Dirty Old Men. Were the record label sleeping when deciding the name?

...well, are they dirty old men?

Of course not.

I'm guessing the name is a reference to LCD Soundsystem, right?

In other news, once there was this cover band somewhere named "Reel Big Phish" (and in, they put the name of Phish and Reel Big Fish together.)

Do they play covers from those bands or is it completely unrelated?

Also, I remember seeing this terrible local band once. It was called "All Hope Is GUN" (all caps on 'GUN' not optional), and it was most likely a reference to the Slipknot album released a year prior. Plus it's a godawful pun.

edited 6th Aug '14 1:37:27 PM by Xeroop

I dunno, I didn't bother seeing them, but I'll assume yeah.

A challenger appears:

Married, With Sea Monsters

I'll never understand how a band with a name like "Limp Bizkit" ever managed to become popular.

Because a lot of white preteens were willing to listen?

Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Bad name, good music.

I'm generally not a fan of the "complete sentence" school of band names - back when A Good Name for a Rock Band was about the names of actual rock bands, that was a category; things like We Butter The Bread With Butter or Bring Me The Horizon. Although one of my favorite local bands is called Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, and I like their name ^note It's a reference to The Prisoner, which fits because everything they do is one extended reference to that show. Maybe in a universe where I didn't happen to see them open for another band, that same name would be an obstacle for me though.

edited 27th Sep '14 4:13:37 PM by MikeK

Best band name: "The Band"

What he said.

Other candidates for that would be Rush, Dream Theater, and Iron Maiden.

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Wolfmother is probably on of the more badass band names I've heard.

edited 27th Sep '14 8:53:55 PM by Zennistrad

Conversely, Korn is probably the stupid name I've ever heard for a band.

Think about it, of all the things, fucking KORN? (Then again, Korn sucks [except for their first album, not even gonna lie] so maybe the crappy ass name fits?)

edited 27th Sep '14 11:01:40 PM by RoboZombie

Some of the best names:

• Sad Lovers & Giants
• Wall of Voodoo
• Something Died in Memphis
• Men at Work
• Splashdown
• The Police
• Electric Light Orchestra
• Utopia
• Wishbone Ash
• a-ha
• Mew =^_^=
• Cook Da' Books
• Animal Logic

Worst? I don't care for the bands I don't listen to, but... Anal Cunt takes the cake. How am I supposed to like your music if your name is revolting? Unless... it was your intent to turn me away, in which case you succeeded!

edited 28th Sep '14 8:14:45 AM by KlarkKentThe3rd

I do a lot of music, but I think some of my favorite band names are:

Electric Light Orchestra, Spock's Beard (named for a band injoke, and Evil Spock's facial hair), Corvus Corax, Dream Theatre, The Protomen (note:a Megaman progressive rock band, based around a Dystopian Future. They rock), Snap!, Queen, Neu!, and a few others I know I'm missing right now.

Worst:

Limp Bizkit (really?), Korn, Rainbow (I still like their music), Breaking Benjamin, Rhapsody (of Fire)

P.S. I can not figure out how to do footnotes on the forum help.

edited 28th Sep '14 9:47:30 AM by Asuyuka

That's the point. They're very very very VERY much a joke band.

In the country music field, I always thought Pirates of the Mississippi was an awesome name. Shame they didn't really have a lot of hits.

To do footnotes, you type [[note]]some text[[/note]] without the equal sign and extra brackets. ^note Like so.

I've never understood why the Benjamin needs to be Broken. Or is Benjamin breaking something himself? So confusing.

Break-it Benjamin