Stupid band names -

[Benoit Bals]

Hoobastank
The Shovels
Spock's Beard
Bathtub Shitter
The Tragically Hip
Bumilingus
Bunnygrunt
!!! (supposedly pronounced "chk chk chk", as if anyone would know that)
Job for a Cowboy

 

[The Great Citracett]

Hot Action Cop.

Or maybe that's a good band name? Best known for doing that one song in every damn early 2000s sex comedy that nobody ever knows the name of:

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

The The.
They were probably a decent band but that name is dumb.

 

[Smarmy]

Rhapsody of Fire. I get they had to change their name, but WHY “of Fire”?

Dream Evil

Savage Circus

 

[Anus]

Any band name that's a sentence. The worst one I can think of is "We Butter the Bread With Butter."

 

[Cable 7]

Car seat headrest. All I feel when I hear that name is "Car broke, phone yes?".

 

[Gordon Cole]

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
Archers of Loaf
The Dismemberment Plan
of Montreal
Rainbow Kitten Surprise

 

[doubledigitgendergap]

Any band name that's a sentence. The worst one I can think of is "We Butter the Bread With Butter."

"A place to bury strangers"
"You will know us by the trail of dead"

I hate those too.
Also ones that aren't words like: PKEW PKEW PKEW

 

[Big Nasty]

Bumping my old thread because I have discovered a 1980s garage band from my home town:

The Fags

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Bumping my old thread because I have discovered a 1980s garage band from my home town:

The Fags

Are they?

 

[Big Nasty]

Are they?

Not to my knowledge.

 

[Bloodbjorn]

Dew-Scented (an especially bad name for a death metal band)
Eyehategod
Forcefed Horsehead

 

[All Cops Are Based]

Deströyer 666

Very brave and stunning of these guys to let one of their 12 year old nephews name their band.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Elvis Hitler

I knew someone that worshiped Elvis Hitler during their edgelord years. He once brought a boombox with him to blast Elvis Hitler music inside the van taking him and others to an event... an event sponsored by a church's youth group.

Anything involving a random number after a random word

Even if the name comes from a fictitious band in A Clockwork Orange, Heaven 17 would be my contribution to this. To my then-young self, the name seemed random, arbitrary, and head-scratching. Additionally, the band seemed to be an over-hyped one-hit wonder who made their debut on a then-popular weekly Top 10 show only to be neither heard from nor mentioned on it again after being teased for a number of weeks leading up to their performance.

Theocracy.
(...)
The name sounds cool, but I wonder if they're trying to prove something.

Maybe they're trying to make the point that any form of music can be appreciated by anyone, even religious folks.
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My high school had a group of punk rockers that named their band Dog Phlegm. The only real reaction the name got from the rest of the student body was someone taking pity on the dog that presumably inspired the name.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat

 

[AbyssStarer]

I have some Japanese names for you and other random ones

• BEYOOOOONDS it's a pain to type out exactly five O's.
• Chica#tetsu putting a # right in the middle of the group name in current day and age?
• Ame no Mori Kawa Umi supposedly taken from the names of all the members, it's way too long and unstylish. Once in a while they shorten it as RFRO for the English equivalent of the words.
• Juice=Juice pronounced without the =, so why bother with it? I have been numbed to the weirdness of this name but I remember the extreme confusion when it was announced in 2013.
• ANGERME this is a mix of the French words "ange" and "larme" but it just looks like anger me.
• Morning Musume 'XX Every year they change the number. Currently it's Morning Musume '20 (pronounced two-zero). Makes cataloging a pain in the ass and most people ignore the 'XX anyway.
• ℃-ute it's hard to google this and search about it on social media, and it's hard to even type. It's just pronounced as "cute" so what's the point?
• T&C Bomber stands for Taiyou to Ciscomoon Bomber, their name was originally Taiyou to Ciscomoon. I don't know why they needed to change but any time they've come back after disbanding they don't call themselves T&C Bomber.
• AKB48 This originally meant 48 as in the amount of members but that number has swelled way higher so it's just an artifact title now.
• she it's hard to Google this name, usually he calls himself "she music."
• Idol School This is a Chinese girl group, their name is impossible to Google.
• Skeleton Metal is the name a swede uses when he does "skeleton metal" songs.
• Spongebob Vaporpants was a name almost used by vaporwave duo RUNNERS CLUB '95, thank god they didn't use it.

 

[Stormy Daniel's Lawyer]

FistFuck
Fuck
Hot Buttered Anal
Midget Handjob

 

[Doctor Placebo]

The The.
They were probably a decent band but that name is dumb.

On a similar note The Band or any other band that has a name that's so generic it's way more difficult to look them up than it should be. Ha ha irony. Very clever you fucking hipsters.

Any band name that's a sentence. The worst one I can think of is "We Butter the Bread With Butter."

I dunno, They Might Be Giants qualifies, and I think that's a decent enough band name. It really depends on the sentence.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

La'miss†fairy

There are various death metal bands called "Sarcasm," which was always kinda funny to me in its mildness.
Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Death, and... SARCASM!

 

[Anus]

I dunno, They Might Be Giants qualifies, and I think that's a decent enough band name. It really depends on the sentence.

They Might Be Giants is an exception. I guess Swallow the Sun counts too. that one's fine.