DeadSplinter Up! All Night: Worst Band Names

11/10/21 MegMegMcGee 29

Did you guys see this Twitter thread of Rolling Stone’s 500 Worst Albums that this guy just made up?

There’s a lot of commitment here to a bit and I LOL’d pretty hard.

What are your worst band names? Real or imaginary?

I’m going with The Band, for lack of imagination…

And Hoobastank, which the Internet tells me means “a slang term for someone who has a shoe fetish“.

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  2. There are a lot of bands with terrible names whose music I do not like (U2, for example), but I’m challenging myself to pick a bad name band that I really enjoy.  

    Here’s some Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, which is a bad name, but probably looks great on a marquee.

     

     

     

  3. There’s a very popular local EDM artist that I like but she goes by the name Jeanne Vomit- Terror. It feels like it’s trying too hard, and I really hate the word vomit.

    Jokes Come True

     

  5. Most of the worst band names are so obviously meant to shock and provoke, which only makes me shrug deeply and move on … so two just bad ones:

    Toad the Wet Sprocket (a Monty Python joke gone on way too long)

    And Lynyrd Skynyrd (Note their album cover had to spell out how to say it! Not great!)

  10. Fuck. Fuck, fuck fuck!

    I once read a review for this album that more or less said “you have to hand it a band whose name so clearly indicates they’ve decided to rule out mainstream success”. Also, searching for a video of this track with the words fuck never alone was a bit cringey.

    Fuck, “Never Alone”

    There’s also Holy Fuck and the Fucking Champs.

    Back in the day, I like this band (but I abandoned them when The OC turned them into a household name). I bought a tee from their merch table when I was a teen and one of my professors later commented about it “your shirt makes no sense”.

    Death Cab for Cutie, “President of What?” 

    I actually kind of like this name, but hey, I’m on the fence.

    Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, “Oregon Girl”

    • Also, genuine apologies to anyone who liked the pseudo-/nu-metal glut that sprung out of alternative radio payola and media consolidation in the late ’90s, but Meg’s inclusion of Hoobastank <shudders> in the intro reminded me of these two bands with terrible names I’d rather forget.

       

      Puddle of Mud –> I believe my friends and I referred to this group as “Bucket of Shit”

      Incubus –> We [or rather, I] called them Suck-ubus and waited for people to catch on when they went in to correct us. Having a “good-looking” singer doesn’t make your music any more listenable.

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