The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa is indeed one of the better band names out there.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Snow Patrol for best. The Clash too, probably.
Deep into that darkness, peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.I used to confuse Snow Patrol and The Postal Service a lot for some reason. Both have good names, though.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.I somewhat wish that Slowdive had called that album Souvlaki Space Station, partially because of alliteration, partially because I tend to get confused when an album is almost-but-not-quite named after one of it's songs... The only other specific example of such a thing I can bring up is with Chumbawamba: their biggest hit is "Tubthumping", but the album it's from is Tubthumper.
K-pop has some really terrible band names, like H.O.T. (High-five Of Teenagers) and TRAX (Typhoon of Rose Attacks on Xmas). In their defense, they aren't fluent in English, but I don't think I've seen any band name that could top these as the worst.
I don't know about the best though.
Hey, I've moved to a new account! I go by Silver Glyph now.The problem with K-Pop band/singer names is that many of them seem to think that all-caps = cool. Thus we get names like BIGSTAR, BIKINY (seriously? They couldn't spell-check that?), EXID, EXO, INFINITE, and VIXX.
Ooh, almost forgot PSY for a second.
edited 15th Feb '14 11:04:23 PM by PhysicalStamina
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Frequently transliteration in Korean and Japanese fails to take into account the mechanics of capitalisation because that distinction is not native to those languages. Neither has much of an equivalent to "the" or "a," either. So it goes. It looks weird in English, but it's understandable.
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It's very hard to make that sort of thing work in a band name, although in the right context it can be mildly amusing... if only in knowing the context. For example, the industrial musician Anal Sadist took his name from a friend's assertion that his fixation on chess strategy was "the worst kind of anal sadism"—in this case meaning anal-retentive, or extremely fussy. But even then, context is key.
Although it can provide for some decent song titles now and then: "The Shit of the Alchemist" by Ramleh, for example.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Good: iwrestledabearonce (even though they sound awful), Behemoth, Fiction Junction, The Minibosses, Metallica, Queen, Pantera, t.A.t.u., etc... If stagenames for a single person count, add Skrillex because the phonetics of that are stupidly good and Weird Al Yankovic because it fits the music.
Bad: Sunn O))) (naming your band after an amplifier brand? Seriously? They're good, though), Broken CYDE (even worse than their name), 3OH!3 (no comment) aaaaaand I can't think of many more bad names.
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I actually like iwrestledabearonce...
Skrillex does have a weirdly fun-to-say name, though.
It really does sound like a fanfic, doesn't it?
I really like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Queens of the Stone Age, Avenged Sevenfold, Mastodon, Them Crooked Vultures, Iron Maiden, The Sword, Soundgarden, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, and Anthrax.
Five Finger Death Punch, Atreyu, Sum 41, and blink-182 though, not so much. At least regarding band names.
EDIT: Breaking Benjamin and especially Oingo Boingo are also pretty shit in that regard.
edited 24th Feb '14 11:50:44 PM by XJTordecai
On my wave, passing oooooooonOingo Boingo were originally called The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (bold-text because why not), which is a pretty decent name, but the reduced one is a bit meh.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
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I think Oingo Boingo is still a good name but I think the name got worse when they shortened it again to just Boingo.
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre Adventure

Has Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
been mentioned here already?
edited 31st Jan '14 10:45:02 AM by Quag15