Just wondering what everyone's favorite and least favorite band names were. It'd be nice if they were relatively well-known bands, but obscure bands or bands that you were in or never existed are fine too. :)
Winners:
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead (even though I don't really dig their music)
The Blood Brothers
Saves the Day
The Clash
The Postal Service
Sigur Ros
Queen (hah)
Losers:
A Static Lullaby
Say Anything (a shame, because their album is one of my favorites of 2004)
Taking Back Sunday
H2O
The Beatles (I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but it's one of the lamest puns EVER)
kahuna415
11-16-04, 08:19 AM
I don't know what one would consider to be a bad name, only bad music.
Associate a bad name with a bad song and its doom
The Beatles...good
Right Said Fred...bad
btw FatTony we had a Seattle Otters (DVDTalk Other Forum) meet last week.
atlantamoi
11-16-04, 08:26 AM
Worst names...
Hootie and the Blowfish
Leftover Salmon
Hot Tuna
Guess I don't like fish names! haha
Too many great names... The The is a good one.
Gdrlv
11-16-04, 12:20 PM
Jambands tend to have the worst band names...
Perpetual Groove
Psychedelic Breakfast
Hot Buttered Rum String Band
String Cheese Incident
Umphrey's McGee
moe. (not necessarily the band name but the punctuation)
The Big Wu
Zen Tricksters
...Of a Revolution
All horrible names...
dick_grayson
11-16-04, 12:21 PM
Penis Flytrap is pretty excellent
Rectal Thermomanddad is as well
auto
11-16-04, 12:36 PM
Good: Velvet Underground
Bad: Velvet Revolver
Shemp
11-16-04, 03:09 PM
The name Hoobastank always makes me cringe.
Captain Pike
11-16-04, 03:25 PM
Good - Echo & the Bunnymen
Bad - Toad the Wet Sprocket
wendersfan
11-16-04, 03:29 PM
Some names I've always liked:
Them
The Who
The Teardrop Explodes
The Yardbirds
Throbbing Gristle
Nirvana
Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
Einstürzende Neubaten
When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water
Talkin2Phil
11-16-04, 03:39 PM
Originally posted by FatTony
The Beatles (I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but it's one of the lamest puns EVER)
You really need to put "The Beatles" in the context of their time, along with Lennon's flaming pie vision.
my picks,
best: Throbbing Gristle
worst: Throbbing Gristle
gmal2003
11-16-04, 04:03 PM
likes: Hot Hot Heat
dislike: Puddle of Mudd
Turd Ferguson
11-16-04, 04:19 PM
I saw a band in college called "The Diarrhea of Ann Frank".
wendersfan
11-16-04, 04:35 PM
Originally posted by Turd Ferguson
I saw a band in college called "The Diarrhea of Ann Frank". Then check this out:
Originally posted by Turd Ferguson
I saw a band in college called "The Diarrhea of Ann Frank".
that's genius
RevLiver
11-16-04, 05:35 PM
Some I like, limited to bands in my own CD collection:
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Antipop Consortium
Boards of Canada
British Sea Power
Catherine Wheel
Cop Shoot Cop
The Dandy Warhols
Do Make Say Think
The Flaming Lips
godspeed you black emperor!
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Joy Division
Judas Priest
Kevorkian Death Cycle
Mouse on Mars
Nurse With Wound
O Yuki Conjugate
The Polyphonic Spree
Pop Will Eat Itself
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band
Soul Coughing
Stabbing Westward
The Tear Garden
Telefon Tel Aviv
Thievery Corporation
To Rococo Rot
Venetian Snares
Volcano the Bear
Zoviet France
slop101
11-16-04, 05:57 PM
Best:
John Cougar Concentration Camp
Worst:
Sigur Ros
if you can't pronounce it, it sucks.
Mr. Salty
11-16-04, 06:01 PM
Favorites:
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
NostrilGodStench
Not so much:
SR-71 (sorry, U2 already did the spyplane thing)
Fountains of Wayne
The The
Living in a Box (whose only hit was "Living in a Box" from the album "Living in a Box.")
Numanoid
11-17-04, 01:09 AM
What, no one's going to mention Anal C**t?
Rivero
11-17-04, 05:13 AM
Worst:
Hootie and the Blowfish
Subtle Buttock
Grandma's Horny
White Light/White Heat/ White Trash
Busted Hymen and the Penetrators
Jeraden
11-17-04, 08:46 AM
Bad: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
fallow
11-17-04, 01:32 PM
All good (sometimes great, occasionally perfect) bands...
Bad: Can, XTC, New Order, Kraftwerk, Basement Jaxx, Scene Creamers, Jessamine, LCD Soundsystem, the Juan Maclean
Good: Faust, This Heat, Ex Models, the Make Up/Weird War, Acid Mothers Temple, Comets on Fire, Crescent, Pale Saints, Angels of Light/Swans
Cusm
11-17-04, 02:02 PM
The best, my name sake - Carter:The Unstoppable Sex Machine. I always liked Foetus, and all of their names, Ben Folds Five, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion.
Hate Hootie and the Blowfish, on so many levels. Doobie Brothers, although in the late 60s/early 70s it might have been clever, most rap artist that try to get clever and play on other pop icons.
Turd Ferguson
11-17-04, 03:42 PM
Originally posted by wendersfan
Then check this out:
I came up with "The Diarrhea of Anne Frank" years back for an album name when a friend was in a band called "Anne Frankenstien"
Brain Stew
11-17-04, 06:19 PM
Originally posted by fallow
All good (sometimes great, occasionally perfect) bands...
Bad: Can, XTC, New Order, Kraftwerk, Basement Jaxx, Scene Creamers, Jessamine, LCD Soundsystem, the Juan Maclean
What's wrong with New Order? I realize that it was a slight allusion to the holocaust, but so was Joy Division.
Luther Heggs
11-17-04, 11:56 PM
Good band, bad name:
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Green Milk From the Planet Orange
The Supreme Dicks
Happy Apple
The Starfuckers
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Soul Coughing
OK band, great name:
The Full Fathom Five
Clotted Symmetrical Sex Organ
The Vulgar Boatmen
Cosmic Coincidence Control Center
Behead the Prophet No Lord Shall Live
Great band, great name:
Tyrannosaurus Rex
The Fugs
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Sweet
The Stooges
The Boredoms
U.F.O. or Die
Magma
Alboth!
The Residents
Marble Sheep and the Run Down Sun's Children
The Liquor Giants
Automatic disqualification
- names taken from Wm. S. Burroughs or Russ Meyer
- names taken from other musicians' albums or songs(with an exception for the Boredoms, taken from the Buzzcocks song)
- names combining a proper name with another name or term having a negative connotation
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