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LMFAO, whose name is an internet acronym for "Laughing My Fucking Ass Off", although it officially stands for "Loving My Friends And Others". Their original name was Sexe Dude, which is also pretty bad.
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies name was controversial before they hit it big in the late nineties. Once they hit it big, the amount of hosts and announcers who awkwardly announced their name on television was hilarious.
There is a record label in Portland called Cavity Search Records.
Snoop Dogg's first album, Doggystyle, was named after the sex position. Some of the songs also qualify, like "For all my Niggaz and Bitches", and "Gz Up, Hoes Down".
The Fugs, the name intentionally chosen to sound like "the fucks" were the pioneers of offending people. Their album It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest (1968) is another example.
The album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols from the The Sex Pistols, who themselves invoke this trope.
- Guess where the price sticker is usually found on the CD case for that album?
  - Soon after its release the album title was found to be officially not obscene due to "bollocks" also being an Anglo-Saxon legal term for the testicles of a bull. Nobody (the hearing included) was fooled, but there was nothing legally prohibiting it. The guy who won this case, by the way, was John Mortimer QC, perhaps better known as the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey.
The pornogrind band Cemetery Rapist, along with songs like Herpes Injection, Granny Panty Snatcher, and Dick Sucking Daughters for Cornfield Fun. This band is the embodiment of Squick.
Fuck, who are actually a not-particularly-aggressive indie-rock band. (Incidentally, KISS considered calling themselves Fuck when they first formed.)
A Taste of Dick Black, an album from accordionist Dick Black.
Nashville Pussy. Especially the Let Them Eat Pussy album, which must have been a fun one to announce at the Grammy Awards.
Anal Cunt (Often referred to as "AC" or "AxCx" as a result. When their record label would only print "A.C." on their album artwork, they started using a logo where the letters intentionally looked like the body parts that they stood for). The titles of virtually every one of their songs probably qualify as well.
Tit Wrench
Schlong
Prick
3 Way Cum
Pussy Galore
Pussy Riot, a Russian Riot Grrrl/Punk Rock collective of whom three members were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in a trial that attracted international attention.
There exist several bands with "bitch" in the name:
- At least two bands by the name "Bitch."
- Bitch Magnet
- Bitch Alert
- Bitchcraft
- Bitch And Animal
- Bitches Sin
- Bitchslicer
- Anvil Bitch
- Son of a Bitch
- Psycho Bitch
- Southern Bitch
- Little Bo Bitch
- 7 Year Bitch
- Atomic Bitchwax
Jack Off Jill (they were originally called 'Jack In Jill,' which isn't much better, before being renamed by lead singer Jessicka's close friend at the time, Marilyn Manson)
Jizz Janitors
Slutvomit
Excrementory Grindfuckers (just for a really obvious example)
Butthole Surfers, often shortened to BH Surfers by prudish DJs. Actually fairly tame in comparison to one of their earlier names: The Inalienable Right To Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole.
- When they appeared on The Late Show With Craig Kilborn, the host apparently wasn't allowed to introduce the group by name on-air: In order to still slip the band name by, he just played an audio tape of a voice saying "butt" and "surfers," then said "hole!" during a pause between the two words.
A few years back, Providence had a punk band called Violent Anal Death. Some of their fliers portrayed Bert sodomizing Ernie.
Alabama Thunderpussy
The Genitorturers
Me Mom and Morgenthaler
Dayglo Abortions. One story has it that they'd decided to pick their band name by looking at the next day's newspaper, taking whatever topic the front page story was about, and putting "Dayglo" in front of it - the news article in question turned out to be about abortion laws. Album titles include Feed Us a Fetus, Two Dogs Fucking, and Holy Shiite. Song titles include "Argh Fuck Kill", "Dogfarts", and "Religious Bumfucks".
Vaginal Croutons
Fucked Up. At least one print media profile of vocalist Damian Abraham opted to tiptoe around his band's unprintable name - the piece in question primarily focused on things like Damian's podcast and his then-recent role as host of Canadian music video program The Wedge, but whenever his musical career was mentioned, the actual name of his group was avoided altogether.
Porn (formerly known as Men of Porn)
The Master Musicians of Bukkake
Fuck The Facts
Some of the above names could have come right out of Jello Biafra's "Names For Bands" routine which also includes "John Wayne On Acid", "Tits, Ass and Money", "The Absentee Thought Lords", and "Bono's Charred Remains." After all, Why would you want to be the 350th band to call yourselves something like Bad Attitude?
Even a band name as comparatively tame as "Barenaked Ladies" sparked controversy in Toronto in 1991. The group is all-male and never performs naked, by the way.
Just before The Rolling Stones decided to found their own record label, they had to produce one more song for their current label to fulfill their contract. However, nobody ever said that the song had to be releasable, and so they wrote one called "Cocksucker Blues" from Exile on Main St.. It's pretty much about what it sounds like.
- The last song on Goats Head Soup was originally titled "Star Fucker". Ahmet Ertegün of Atlantic Records made them change it to "Star Star" (presumably because the "Star" stands for the censoring asterisks).
The Artist Formerly Known As the Artist Formerly Known As Prince has written and performed a song called "Pussy Control".
- He's also written and recorded a song called "Soft and Wet". Yes, it's an Intercourse with You song, and yes, the innuendo in the title is intentional.
Diablo Swing Orchestra does this quite a bit with their song titles. Most notably, "How To Organize a Lynch Mob".
There's also apparently a silly band called Ween, who released a series of download-only songs collectively called Craters of the Sack. These included titles such as "Big Fat Fuck," "Put The Coke On My Dick," and "Suckin' The Blood From The Devil's Dick."
- Ween also has several other odd titles throughout the rest of their discography: "Mushroom Festival In Hell," "Licking The Palm For Guava," "I Gots A Weasel," "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?" "Reggaejunkiejew," and "Strap On That Jammypac" (the song doesn't even tell you what a Jammypac is), just to name a few.
Arctic Monkeys also named their EP Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?, mainly to stop the disc from getting airplay and becoming widely known.
- Their album, Suck It and See also caused controversy in the US, where the meaning is not as clear as it is to UK audiences.
The The Bloodhound Gang song "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo". Record execs had to swap "Charlie" and "Uniform" in order for it to get any airplay, because people (especially uptight Moral Guardians) love to have Fun with Acronyms.
- Also note that this is not just an acronym, but also the Military Phonetic Code for the actual spelling of the F-bomb.
- The same band's album Hooray for Boobies was sold in some stores with an altered cover and the title shortened to simply "Hooray."
"Too Drunk To Fuck" by The Dead Kennedys actually placed on British radio charts. Of course, the DJs had to refer to it as "the latest song by The Dead Kennedys."
- Quite a few Dead Kennedys songs fall under this, with titles like "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" and "Let's Lynch the Landlord".
The Birthday Party's live EP Drunk on the Pope's Blood.
Later in Nick Cave's career, Grinderman's song "No Pussy Blues"
Jayne County's "(If You Don't Want to Fuck Me Baby, Baby) Fuck Off".
The band Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They later became Finger Eleven, which really isn't much cleaner if you think about it.
The Nine Inch Nails song "Starfuckers Inc." was usually referred to as "Starlovers Inc." in polite company. The bowdlerized single version changed it to "Starsuckers Inc".
- Adrian Sherwood's remix of "March Of The Pigs", featured on the "Closer" single, was titled "March of the Fuckheads".
The hip-hop group Niggaz With Attitude, also known as N.W.A. See also their album Niggaz4life - the album title appears in mirrored writing on the cover, so it's also sometimes referred to as Efil4zaggin.
The Beatles' Remix Album Let It Be...Naked. Often called "Naked" for short and to differentiate it from the original Let It Be. This trope makes it easier, alas, for "Naked" not to exist.
Warren Zevon's song "My Shit's Fucked Up". The song itself is about the narrator's terminal cancer.
"Niggerslut", "Rape the Angel", and "Kill All the Faggots" by Demoniac.
"Fuck This Shit" by Belle and Sebastian. Also counts as some weird form of Soundtrack Dissonance, because it's actually a relaxing, summery instrumental.
- Ditto (on both counts) "Judy Is a Dickslap"
Brazilian example: Rita Lee, "Tudo Vira Bosta" ("All Becomes Shit").
- Another ones from there: Ultraje a Rigor, "Filho da Puta" ("son of a bitch"), and Raimundos, "Esporrei na Manivela" ("I Ejaculated on a Handle")
Marilyn Manson has plenty of songs and albums like this, with to help of some puns. In addition, his stage name and many of the band member’s names could be this, as they base them off of a sex symbol AND a serial killer.
- For album titles, Antichrist Superstar, Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) and The Golden Age of Grotesque.
- Portrait of an American Family (which had a punny and awkward working title, The Manson Family Album) has "Cake and Sodomy", "Organ Grinder", "Dope Hat", and "Snake Eyes and Sissies".
- Smells Like Children has "May Cause Discoloration of the Urine and Feces", "Everlasting Cocksucker", "Fuck Frankie", "Shitty Chicken Gang Bang", "Dance of the Dope Hats", "Diary of a Dope Fiend", "Scans, Guns, and Peanut Butter", "White Trash," " Rock N Roll Nigger," "Kiddie Grinder"... pretty much every track on the album counts. "Dancing With The One Legged…" also counts since the full phrase is "Dancing With The One Legged Pimp."
- Songs from Antichrist Superstar include "Tied Up, Dried, and Dead to the World", "Deformography", the Title Track, and "Angel With The Scabbed Wings".
- Third album Mechanical Animals has "The Dope Show," "Great Big White World," and "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)".
- Holy Wood Inthe Shadowofthe Valleyof Death has "Godeatgod," "President Dead," the Title Track, "The Death Song," and "Kill King 33."
- The album appropriately called ''The Golden Age of Grotesque' has "This Is The New Shit", the Title Track, and "Slutgarden".
- Eat Me, Drink Me (which might be awkward, specially if you don't pick up on the Alice in Wonderland reference) has "Mutilation is The Sincerest Form of Flattery", "The Red Carpet Grave" and "You and Me and The Devil Make Three".
- The High End of Low has "Pretty as A Swastika", "I Wanna Kill You Like They Do In The Movies", and of course "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfucking-Geddon", which was made solely to troll the label by creating an obvious single that they couldn't market.
- Born Villain gives us "Lay Down Your Goddamn Arms", "Pistol Whipped" and "Murderers Are Getting Prettier Every Day".
- The Pale Emperor has "Killing Strangers," "Deep Six," "The Devil Beneath My Feet," "Birds Of Hell Awaiting," and "Cupid Carries A Gun."
- Heaven Upside Down has "WE KNOW WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE," "KILL4ME," and "Blood Honey."
- WE ARE CHAOS, the most recent album, has "SOLVE COAGULA."
- Remixes even sometimes get in on the act, with titles like "Next Motherfucker". Oh, and "Baboon Rape Party" from one of the singles.
Patti Smith's "Pissing in a River" from Radio Ethiopia. Try telling someone that there's a poignantly beautiful, heart-wrenching song by that name, and they'll probably laugh at you.... until they actually listen to it. Wow! (Look it up on YouTube. You're welcome.)
- Patti Smith was also responsible for "Hard Nipples," "Piss Factory," and "Rock n' Roll Nigger."
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World", where the title was regarded as a powerful social statement.
Averted by The Offspring's song "Stuff Is Messed Up", which despite its title features the chorus "Shit is fucked up".
Van Halen's album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge isn't an awkward title in and of itself, but since the title puts one in the right frame of mind to notice the acronym...
- The title is itself a reference to a popular folk etymology for the F-word.
Nas was planning to call his 2008 album Nigger, but due to stores refusing to stock it, it ended up being released with No Title. Meanwhile, Nas also put a mixtape online, called The Niggertape.
- Discussion of the album when Nas was interviewed on The Colbert Report led to the coining of the word "reggin".
Stone Temple Pilots were called Shirley Temple's Pussy for a short time before Executive Meddling made them change it.
The Venetian Snares album "Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole," an awkward enough title in its own right, contains a song titled, "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die." Ouch.
- Venetian Snares later came out with an album that's awkward to discuss for quite a different reason: the album, and all its tracks, are titled in Hungarian. It's not awkward for Hungarian speakers, of course, but for everyone else...
The band The The is a bit difficult to discuss.
- Michael McIntyre wondered what would happen if you tried to discuss The The in Yorkshire, where the word "the" is reduced to "t'" (as in t'Internet).
  - T'thee, of course. Just like certain American accents would render it as "thuh thee".
The drag queen Vaginal Cream Davis.
Somewhat more politely than most of the above, the Pet Shop Boys named their first album "Please," because they liked the idea of forcing people to ask, "Could I have the Pet Shop Boys' new album, 'Please'?"
Parodied in This is Spın̈al Tap (surprise, surprise) with a fragment of an unfinished song- a very sweet, lyrical piano solo. The name? "Lick My Love Pump".
- Real-life example/inspiration: Frank Zappa, who would intentionally give beautiful instrumentals titles like "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace", "G Spot Tornado", "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?" and "I Promise Not to Come in Your Mouth".
The Motion City Soundtrack song, "L.G. Fuad" is example enough given what it stands for ("Let's get fucked up and die"). But, to go further, the song begins with the titular lyric, followed by, "I'm speaking figuratively of course." Once you think about the figurative meanings of "die" ... Yeah.
Jimmy Buffett's "Why Don't We Get Drunk (And Screw)" was considered a novelty song and was a jukebox favorite for many years. When there are children in the audience, Buffett sings "Why Don't We Get Lunch In School."
And there's always "(I'd Just Like To Fuck You) One More Time" and the rest of David Allan Coe's "underground" repertoire.
In, 1967, The Monkees made a song called "Randy Scouse Git"^note (a phrase the band had heard on Brit Com Till Death Us do Part), which went uncensored in the US ...because most of us don't know Britsh slang. Everywhere else in the world, the tune was released as "Alternate Title".
There's a Japanese pop-rock band named Porno Graffiti. It comes from ''Pornograffiti'', an album by the (American) band Extreme; it's a portmanteau!
Nirvana's "Rape Me" from In Utero (labeled as "Waif Me") and it's B-side "Moist Vagina". Also, "Territorial Pissings" and the B-sides album Incesticide.
The Smashing Pumpkins' "Silverfuck" (labeled as "Silvercrank") from Siamese Dream.
Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra once teamed up to produce a somewhat splendiferous live album. The title was S&M, as in "Symphony and Metallica". Try telling people the S&M version of this one is great. Try it!
- And of course, they wanted to call their first album Metal Up Your Ass. An Executive Veto, so they named it after the bassist's reaction, Kill 'Em All.
The name of Big Black's second album, Songs About Fucking. Exactly What It Says on the Tin, albeit in the wrongest way possible.
- Jello Biafra took advantage of this after the Dead Kennedys were put on trial for obscenity. Following their acquittal, he refused to shake the DA's hand, and then gave him a copy of Songs About Fucking by Big Black.
Not actually a case now, but the names of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest got Moral Guardians in quite a stir back in the day.
Serj Tankian's "Beethoven's Cunt", which is also a Non-Appearing Title.
- In addition to his band, "The Flying Cunts of Chaos"
- "Beethoven's Cunt" is the only song in the Rock Band downloadable content library with a censored title, appearing as "Beethoven's C***" on the menu.
Nelly Furtado's "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (single is titled "...on the Radio")
Guns N' Roses named a leg of their Use Your Illusion Tour as "Get In The Ring Motherfucker - Round II" (a lyric of one of their songs).
Tori Amos' "Fat Slut"
KISS has "Burn Bitch Burn", which is one of the only times they ever actually swear.
- The Double Entendre titles might count ("Love Gun", "Naked City", "Down On Your Knees", "Lick It Up", "Dance All Over Your Face", "Young and Wasted", "Not For The Innocent", "Take It Off", "Seduction of The Innocent" and plenty more).
Neil Young's song "Fuckin' Up" was written "F* !#in' Up" on the Ragged Glory album. Young says he wrote the song — a loud, off-the-wall rocker about relationships — hoping to get a warning sticker from the Parents Music Resource Center. They didn't give him one. It's rumoured that one of his collaborations with Pearl Jam, "I Got Id", was originally named "I Got Shit" (because that's really in the lyrics).
- "I Got Shit" is the actual title of the song - "I Got Id" was a one-time alternate title for the "Merkinball" single.
Adrian Legg's "Pass The Valium" yields a predictable request at his live shows.
Liz Phair's "Hot White Cum", "Fuck and Run", and "Shitloads of Money".
Nazareth's Hair of the Dog (both song and album) was originally "Son of a Bitch", and the new title is a pun on this ("Heir of the dog").
There's a conceptual band called "Fuck Your Stupid Civilization."
On the not-filthy-but-really-awkward end of the scale, there's the band "!!!". Apparently pronounced "chk-chk-chk".
Similarly, there's the rapper A who chose that name to make it as hard as possible for people to find his work on Napster.
- A is also the name of a British Alternative Rock band - it's unknown as to whether they were also deliberately making their music hard to search for online.
There's also Meshuggah's album 'Nothing', which probably made some discussions of it resemble an Abbott and Costello routine. In Hebrew and Yiddish, their name may also count - it means "crazy".
The blink-182 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Peaches has loads of them. Some examples include "Slippery Dick", "Diddle My Skittle", "Suck and Let Go", and of course, "Fuck the Pain Away".
- As well as album titles that include Fatherfucker and Impeach My Bush.
R.E.M. subverts this with "Star Me Kitten", which is said in the song as "Fuck me kitten".
Holy Fuck
There's a reggaeton singer called Nigga, who's not black but a Hispanic from Panama. When he started releasing music in the USA, he changed his name to Flex.
Fuck Buttons
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Fuzzass
Machine Gun Fellatio, who brought us such classics as "Pussytown", "Butter My Arse With a Pigeon" and "Mutha Fukka On a Motorcylcle"
"I Might Be a Cunt, But I'm Not a Fucking Cunt", "Fuck 'Em, Fuck 'Em - The Lot of 'Em!", "Defecate on My Face", "The Penis is Mightier than the Sword" by TISM
"I Sucked A Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am" by Regurgitator
"We Hate You South African Bastards" by Microdisney
I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass by Yo La Tengo
The title of Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica was chosen to be awkward — there are clashing consonants in every word. The alternate title Mousetrap Replica, which does a similar thing, was used as part of the title of the song "The Blimp" which appears on the album.
- While we're at it, Trout Mask 's follow up album Lick My Decals Off, Baby is almost always referred to as Decals when talking about it to people because it guarantees funny looks when said in real life.
Even Britney Spears has one with "If U Seek Amy."
- In case you don't get that one, imagine that the title is spelling something out. F-U-C-K Me.
- A big band put out a record called "If You See Kay". In the 1940s.
The The Bonzo Dog Band have a best of called "The Bestiality of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band"
The Wildhearts have songs called "Thunderfuck", "Pissjoy", and "Shut Your Fucking Mouth And Use Your Fucking Brain" among others. (They got one S-word onto Top Of The Pops simply by censoring the lyric sheet and not singing too clearly.) They also released an album called "P.H.U.Q."
"What the name of Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album?" "It's (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)." "That's what I said!"
The Scissor Sisters, especially once it's learned that not only is there only one woman, but she's the only straight permanent member. This however, is toned down from their original name (the end result of an arms race of vulgarity) "Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters."
GWAR, or most of their songs anyway: "Fucking an Animal", "Sex Cow", "Sexecutioner", "Preschool Prostitute", "Bring Back the Bomb", "Gonna Kill U", "Knife in Yer Guts", and "Black and Huge". and, while we're at it...
- Their name is thought by some to be an acronym for God, What an Awful Racket. The band, however, have denied this, and said that it "doesn't actually mean anything". Their earliest performances had them billed as Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh, which would be awkward due to being The Unpronounceable.
Cannibal Corpse, with song names such as "Gallery of Suicides", "Meat Hook Sodomy", "Fucked With a Knife", "I Cum Blood", "Edible Autopsy", "Skull Full Of Maggots", "Butchered at Birth" (also an album title), "Addicted to Vaginal Skin", "Necropedophile", "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt, and so on in this vein.
Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You" made for an interesting Grammy nominations list in 2010.
The Cows' Sexy Pee Story, which has a title track as well as a song called "Shitbeard".
Test Icicles, anyone?
El-P has a song called "Tasmanian Pain Coaster"
The song "Constellation Dirtbike Head" by Tobacco
"Shit Towne" by Live. The band's Google-resistant name also counts.
My Penis is Made of Dogshit. What kind of music do they play? Mostly acoustic grindcore, with a bit of musique concrète.
Pornopop. And there are two bands with this name!
Cock and Ball Torture.
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs' "I Couldn't Spell !!*@!". (The chorus goes "I'd have wrote you a letter but I couldn't spell (Bronx Cheer)."
"Mother !*!*!* Boogie", an instrumental boogie-woogie piece by Mungo Jerry.
The band "Gary Glitter's Hard Drive," now a bunch of practical unknowns.
The Broken Penis Orchestra.
Mindless Self Indulgence. A number of their songs also qualify; one of their most popular songs is "Faggot", and one song is simply "Stupid Motherfucker".
Mudhoney's single "You Stupid Asshole". There's also "Run Shithead Run" from the soundtrack of With Honors: They titled it that way because they hoped their submission to the soundtrack would be rejected, but it wasn't.
A non-profane example would be The 6ths and their albums Wasps' Nests and Hynacinths and Thistles - Stephin Merritt has said he specifically chose the band's name and album titles because they would be difficult to say aloud (especially if one has a lisp).
The Bloody Beetroots give us "Fucked from Above 1985."
Believe it or not, there is actually a band called Child Pornography.
- In a different kind of awkward: Their second album is titled "The Beatles" and bears a blank white cover.
Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, a noise act featuring members of Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
Richard Ramirez (yes, that's his given name) has a real name that was unintentionally awkward and a lot of bands/nicknames that weren't: Priest In Shit, Black Leather Jesus, Anal Drill, Fuck Patrol, Last Rape, 12yr Old Proud Parent, Naked Girl Killed In Park, the list goes on and on...
While the name is relatively mild compared to some, there's The Urinals, who later changed their name to the less awkward to discuss 100 Flowers.
Joy Electric has an album called The Tick Tock Treasury. As he described it at a concert on May 1, 2003:
Ronnie Martin: I had a new record come out two weeks ago, and it's called the, uh, The Tick Tock Treasury. And, uh, that is the, uh, the fourth time I've had the guts to say that title in front of people. You know. Sometimes it takes a lot, you know? You take the risks, you pay the price.
The Fags. They're actually a perfectly accessible Power Pop band who happened to choose a name that pretty much guarantees them no mainstream radio play. They also played on the other, less offensive meaning of their name by calling an album Light 'Em Up.
Atlanta rapper Tity Boi, though he eventually started going by the more "family friendly" moniker 2 Chainz.
Perhaps in mockery of these tendencies, there is a hip-hop musician who records under the name "Cusswords."
Anthony Shaw, of such acts as Haemorrhaging Fetus, Teenage Strangler, She Said No, A Machine Called Orgasm, and Albert Fish Is My Hero.
The Polish Thrash Metal band Acid Drinkers, who have a song called "When You Say to Me 'Fuck You', Say it Louder". The chorus of the song is pretty much that.
- They have also a song called "Become a Bitch".
Dominick Fernow of Prurient is also part of Exploring Jezebel, whose albums and tracks all have very long and/or awkward titles involving male feminization, objectification and masochism.
The Fucking Champs. They originally wanted to be simply The Champs, but found that the name was taken (by the group best known for "Tequila"). Additionally, the band Trans Am did a couple of collaborative albums with The Fucking Champs - once as Trans Champs, and once as the somewhat more awkward to discuss Fucking Am.
Albeit to a lesser degree, Joy Division's name was this. They were named after the prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp from Ka-tzetnik 135633's novel The House Of Dolls. This often led to fascist fanatics attending Joy Division gigs, and the band are known to have often spat on said fascists in disgust. The fact the follow-up band to Joy Division after Ian Curtis' suicide were named New Order didn't really help matters.
One of the songs off punk band Pairs' second full length: "A Surgeon At A Hospital In Shanghai Severed A Nerve In My Groin." It's a Non-Indicative Name, much like several of the others in said album.
The New Pornographers. Unlike most of the bands listed here, they've only produced one song that could be considered sexually explicit, and that's only by their own description: "Entering White Cecilia". The title is exactly what it sounds like, but you'd never guess it from the rest of the lyrics.
My Dick, a novelty band who cover popular songs and change certain lyrics to "dick" or "my dick". This of course results in awkward song titles like "Don't Go Breaking My Dick" and "Dancing In My Dick".
Rapeman. Steve Albini also confirmed that it's sort of a Shout-Out to The Rapeman, as already mentioned in the anime section.
There's a canon in B flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart entitled "Leck mich im Arsch" (literally "Lick me in the arse".)
Morning Musume's 53rd single very nearly was released under the title "Buresuto" — which is short for "Brainstorming", but when said aloud, brings to mind something else. However, in the end the single was named "Brainstorming" after all.
The Crucifucks: (a.k.a. "Scribbles") When your opening bands consist of mostly high school kids at all ages shows, you need a back-up name for the fliers. After getting signed to Alternative Tentacles, The Crucifucks were the opening act.
The Pieces Of Shit, who are Talking Heads' Music/David Byrne and Will Oldham collaborating on songs for the film This Must Be the Place.
There is one artist called Fucky Fuck and the Fuckers; their only song is called FUCK THE FUCKIN FUCK.
The final studio album Badfinger recorded for Apple Records in 1973 was titled Ass. A painting of a mule walking towards a carrot on a stick (a Take That! at their financial troubles) as the sun sets ahead was featured on the album cover.
Early Skinless albums would name about half their songs this way. Memorable examples include "Pool of Stool", "Tug of War Intestines", and the crowner, "Tampon Lollipops".
Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles have a song named "El Disco Anal" ("disco" here meaning both "music album" and the genre from the 70s). It's a cleverly worded petition of a man to have anal sex with his lover for the very first time, without actually using naughty words or specifying the act, set to disco music. When the thing became a radio single, they cut the Title Drop in the beginning and contorted to call the song "El disco" or "Disco A". Also, a Korean band covered the song and renamed it "Disco Amor".
Math rock band Giraffes? Giraffes! is already an example, but most of their track titles are either surreal or long, usually both. The most awkward of which is most likely, "I am S/H(im)e[r] as You am S/H(im)e[r] As You Are Me And We Am I and I Are All Our Together: Our Collective Consciousness' Psychogenic Fugue."
Gangsta Bitch Barbie, who eventually became Nullset. Oddly enough the name was changed not because it was offensive, but because it infringed on Mattel's trademark.
Meatloaf collaborator Jim Steinman claims to have been in a band in college called The Clitoris That Thought It Was a Puppy. Meatloaf doesn't believe him. A popular misconception is that it was his high school band, which would put it somewhere in the mid 60s!
Shitdisco. There's probably a bit of Self-Deprecation in their name, as they're a Dance-Punk band who claim to have some unironic disco influences.
German Punk Rock band Big Balls And The Great White Idiot, who also have the notable song title "I'm Singing To You With My Finger In Your Ass".
"Leviticus: Faggot" by Meshell Ndegeocello.
Leftöver Crack is a fairly mild example, but with song and album titles like "Fuck World Trade", "One Dead Cop" and "Baby-punchers". Played straighter with Stza's side project "Star Fucking Hipsters".
Shit Robot.
Loverboy depending on the context.
Steely Dan is pretty much named after a strap-on dildo from Naked Lunch.
Abörted Hitler Cöck, who probably have the worst band name ever. As if that wasn't enough their songs and albums tend to be full of Black Comedy Rape, Toilet Humor, Vulgar Humor, and other related tropes. Wanna listen to "Using Rapebabies as Riot Shields" from "Erections at an Animal Autopsy"? This even extends to the band's members, a pair of masked luchadores named El Bukkake and El Fucko.
The early-80s British anarcho-punk band Flux of Pink Indians are now chiefly remembered for the Intentionally Awkward Title of their album The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks, which led to an unsuccessful prosecution of a record shop for criminal obscenity.
Alphaville titled their fourth album Prostitute even though the word doesn't appear in any of the song lyrics or song titles.
John Zorn has instrumental tracks called: "Igneous Ejaculation", "Fuck the Facts" (from "Naked City" (1990), "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh", "Jazz Snob Eat Shit", "Pigfucker" (from "Torture Garden" (1990)), "Sweat, Sperm + Blood", "Coprahagist Rituals"(from "Heretic" (1992)), "Sex Fiend" (from Radio (1993)), "Guts of a Virgin", "Handjob" and "Purgatory of Fiery Vulvas" (1991) with Painkiller.
- He also has an instrumental track called "Bone Crusher" on an album called Music for Children.
Kesha has performed as part of a band called Yeast Infection.
"Angels of Porn" by Nicole Dollanganger.
The independent music label Fire Records titled a compilation I Wouldn't Piss On It If It Was On Fire. The title is normally an expression meaning you strongly dislike someone/something, but using it in the context of a record label called Fire implies the opposite.
"Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued" by Fall Out Boy.
An Arkansas band had the name Ashtray Babyhead until signing a major-label deal and renaming themselves The Kicks.
The Pop Group has an album called For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, and their best-known single is called "We Are All Prostitutes".
Why did Primitive Radio Gods end up as a One-Hit Wonder? Might have had something to do with the follow-up single to "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" being called "Motherfucker" (complete with several Title Drops in the lyrics).
Aphex Twin. The worst bit isn't the fact that he has songs called things like "Cunt", "Death Fuck" and "Come On You Slags". Or even that he has songs called things like "Backdoor.Spybooter.A" and ""PWSteal.Bancos.Q". The worst bit is that he has songs called things like "Kladfvgbung Micshk" (one of a few in an album with titles in Cornish!), "Beskhu3epnm", and "s950tx16wasr10". Loads of them. Not forgetting the one that's a mathematical equation, or the entire album where all the titles are blurry photographs.
The Kendrick Lamar album DAMN.
Alex Chilton's album Loose Shoes And Tight Pussy, named after a crudely-insulting jibe about African-Americans that cost American politician Earl Butz his job. The American edition of the album was re-titled Set.
The Cure mostly avoid this trope, but one of their 80s albums is called Pornography. Have fun asking for that in a record store, or telling someone you downloaded it...
Another 80s Goth band went by the name of Sex Gang Children.
Noise Rock band AIDS Wolf. They've given differing explanations of the name: 1) there was a supposed Urban Legend about AIDS-infected wolves attacking pets, which would then pass it on to humans, 2) they wanted to make a convoluted Shout-Out to two of their influences, An Albatross and The Sick Lipstick, by putting both an animal and an illness in their name, or 3) it's "a message that we as humans must take care for our animal siblings as their health is a barometer of our own survival".
The British/Scottish indie rock band Dogs Die In Hot Cars.
"The Shark's Own Private Fuck" by Sunny Day Real Estate, which is a Non-Appearing Title.
"Lo Boob Oscillator" by Stereolab. Ironically, one of their most radio friendly songs, if only DJs didn't have to announce the title.
Knife Party's song "Micropenis" is an example of this.
Chris Janson's Take a Drunk Girl Home is about a man escorting a drunk woman to her house, turning on her hallway lights, leaving her keys and his number on the counter, and locking the door behind him. There's the line, "Let her sleep all alone". All-in-all a good message, but many people automatically recoil when first hearing the title due to a belief it'll be a song ignoring the fact the fact consent can't be given in such a situation and encouraging and glorifying sexual violence against a woman too intoxicated to defend herself.
Some band names can create a Who's on First? situation, including the band actually named The Who, as well as Yes and The Band. "I went to see The Band last night." "Which band?" "The Band." "Yes, but which band?" etc.
Melvins' Alive At The Fucker Club: It's a Live Album but the venue wasn't actually called that. Topped off with a roadkill dog on the cover artwork
The Weezer song "Zombie Bastards".
Green Day's Father of All Motherfuckers (the cover has a strategically placed unicorn◊ to make sure it's "presentable").
Lana Del Rey's "Fucked My Way to the Top", along with her sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
Diarrhea Planet, a Garage Punk band hailing from Nashville, Tennessee.
Smoke All Day, from Hawaii's Ka'ikena Scanlan. It's not about drugs. In fact, it's very specifically anti-drug, especially meth.
"Smoke meat, not drugs."
Raging Slab released albums titled Assmaster and (pronounced ēat-shït) - the latter also being a Shout-Out to (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) by Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band they were sometimes compared to.
The jan Misali album (disambiguation) was named that way as a joking reference to how That Other Wiki does disambiguation pages. They later realized why most people don't do that:
(trying to find things people are saying about my new album) hmm. maybe naming this something confusing and ambiguous as a joke was a bad idea
The Sugarcubes had a song called "Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow". It's a Non-Appearing Title; the closest the song gets to swearing is an exclamation of "Oh my God and Jesus as well!".
The B-Side to the title track to Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was a song called "Screw You", retitled "Young Man's Blues" in America to avoid offense.
Limp Bizkit intentionally named their band after a really gross masturbation activity to drive non-fans away. In the words of frontman Fred Durst, "A lot of people pick up the disc and go, 'Limp Bizkit. Oh, they must suck.' Those are the people that we don't even want listening to our music." A few of their album titles also invoke this, namely Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water and Still Sucks (which, of course, can also be read as "Limp Bizkit Still Sucks").
Steppenwolf have a song called "Fag", though it's an instrumental piece and named after the chords of the song (F, A, and G). One fan theory holds that this was also meant as kind of a prank on radio DJs - since it's instrumental, you could play it on air without causing offense, but then a listener might call in to ask what the song was called...
The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" (the title is one of the two lines heard in the song's recurring sample).
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Furry band Pepper Coyote's album Blast Radius is filled with this, containing songs that flip between extended double entendres and actual songs about the acts described. The worst ones include 'No Cock Like Horse Cock' and 'Step On My Face (And Tell Me You Love Me)'.
Buzzcocks' song "Oh Shit!". The band name itself was also deliberate double entendre: It stemmed from a review of the tv series Rock Follies that used the headline "It's the buzz, cock!", with "buzz" being the excitement of live music, and "cock" being Northern English slang for "friend", but the band were amused by the Accidental Innuendo about adult toys in that context, and member Pete Shelley had once worked in a sex shop.
Caravan Palace has an album called <|°_°|>. Because it's impossible to pronounce or type, most people just call it "Robot Face".
Will Wood has a few songs with really long or unpronounceable titles, like "2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.)" and "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave". The longest is "Big Fat Bitchie’s Blueberry Pie, Christmas Tree, and Recreational Jell-o Emporium a.k.a. “Mr. Boy is on the Roof Again” (Feat. Pasta by Sneakers Mc Squeakers) [From “B.F.B.’s B-Sides: Bagel Batches, Marsh-Mallows, & Barsh-Mallows”]".
Be Your Own Pet:
- They have a song called "Bitches Leave".
- The title of their 2023 album Mommy.
Castlecomer's "Make Love Make Music".
Your Neighbors has songs called "!!!" and "Rabies".
Saint Motel has an album called ForPlay.

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