I submit Anal Cunt
I’m thinking about bands where I wouldn’t wear their shirt in public despite liking the band.
Lamb of God was originally “Burn the priest” which while very metal, could be awkward in public.
Other notable mentions are Snapped Ankles, Pissed Jeans, Wet leg, and the Cherry poppin daddies.
It’s probably one of those ironic names, but Psychedelic Porn Crumpets always makes me die a little when I’m trying to tell people about 'em. Great band, dumb name.
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
Relevant Todd in the Shadows that came out just a few days ago.
I remember when I was a pre teen and I wanted a Limp Bizkit CD for Christmas, my mother said that the name of the band sounded vulgar and she wouldn’t get it for me. Instead she got me a Cherry Poppin’ Daddies CD… Smh
I’m sure it was never about the band name. She probably heard Limp Bizkit on the radio and later in the day heard “Zoot Suit Riot” and was like “I know what will make my son fit in at Middle School. Big band swing music”
Sigh…
“It’s swing music so it’s okay” was probably what she thought
I like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies tribute band, the Hymen Bustin Fathers
They’re still touring, too!
But they played at the Super Bowl halftime show once so they are okay /s
Did they really? That may have been peak 90s
Jimmy Eat World should be part of the conversation due to their acronym.
Who ever called them J.E.W.? Or when did they ever use that acronym themselves?
Perhaps tried to and then realised
I think it is a bit funny to see this question, I was in a thread just now finding out there is a band named Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx And apparently is it a abbreviation for “Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated by Mass Amounts of Filthy Fecal Fisting and Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside the Infected Maggot Infested Womb of a Molested Nun Dying Under the Roof of a Burning Church While a Priest Watches and Ejaculates in Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus”,
Or for short, The Aristocrats
Or as they call it in the Vatican, “Tuesday.”
Holy, and I thought “Vöedtæmhtëhactått” was bad
Or The Band.
Amazing band though
The Band
Honestly one of the best! An excellent lyricist and songwriter as well - although a little heavy handed on the harmonica.
Incorrect. It’s understandable because we all make mistakes. But the assignment was “worst band name ever”, not “best band name ever”. When you’re older you’ll understand why he did it
What is that? Seen it on someone’s wall near me too
Prince had a legal fight with his record label over ownership of his music. As a protest, he changed his artist name from “Prince” to this symbol.
And had floppy discs with the character code sent out to all the music magazines so they could print it. As Charlie Murphy put it, dude could ball.
Prince, formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince” (this symbol), formerly known as Prince.
panic! at the disco
If you’re a Rust developer
Hoobastank
The worst band names are the ones so generic that when you look up the band, you can’t find them.
It’s, in my experience, especially bad in black metal where there are several bands named something akin to Death, Kill, Suicide and so on. It’s like having a rapper calling themselves Rap or Money or Hip-Hop. I’m sure that is an actual possibility, come to think of it, because a lot of rappers also have painfully generic stage names for their genre.
It is a nightmare to search for. I think the only band I can think of, that’s gotten away with naming themselves something generic is Kiss, but it kinda works for them because their name somewhat clashes with their genre. Also they are super mainstream and everybody knows them, so eh. I guess if you hit the lottery as an artist and go mainstream, your shitty, generic band name is not an issue.
However, in black metal it’s a nightmare because many artists are underground (by choice) and doing themselves no favors having super generic names. I literally came across a black metal band once named Black Metal. Like wtf am I supposed to do with that?
Then again, if I have understood the BM culture correctly, it is probably a deliberate troll because it’s avangarde to be inaccessible in this genre. The fewer people who know your music and the fewer fans you have, the cooler you are. That’s my understanding at least. They take the snobbery of “they were better when they weren’t mainstream” to the extreme.
Vaporwave went one better by putting symbols in the band name. Sometimes the band name is just a bunch of triangles or something.
Of course, there was that time that Prince changed his name to a symbol, and there’s also a band called !!! (pronounced “chik-chik-chik”)
Oh no xD you’re right! I have seen similarity trends in the Witch House genre, though most artists are kind enough to replace for example A with a V and E with and X or stuff like that. That’s doable at least. But weird symbols or exclamation points is just madness lol
Butthole Surfers have not been mentioned yet?
hey… i was a butthead in the 90s.
Yeah, the title of the thread is worst names ever. That’s on an orthogonal axis with most likely to make an 11 year old boy giggle
For some reason they’re always intertwined in my head with another terribly named band, Diarrhea Planet.
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Such a pain in the arse when you have to refer to them.
Do you just say “seven pigs” or “Pigs 7”? Or do you literally say “pigs” seven times?
Are there seven of them?
(Looked it up, there are five of them and they abbreviate it to “Pigs x7”.)
There was a band called Pigface for a bit who were actually good
queen is actually a bunch of guys
Oh honey, Freddie was a bigger Queen than Elizabeth, Danaerys, and Latifah rolled into one.
Next you’re gonna tell me The Police isn’t a group of cops
no they are real police, they watch every step you take
every move you make, they’ll be watching you.
That played concerts at sun city in apartheid south Africa and have heavily glossed over the fact afterwards
The band öOoOoOoOoOo is a bit unwieldy.
Supposedly pronounced as “caterpillar” in whatever language you prefer.
Imagine Dragons
No, Imagine Dragons is kind of cool… if you believe them when they say it’s not their real band name. They originally came up with a phrase that meant something special to all of them, but they didn’t think it would work as a band name, so they anagrammed it into Imagine Dragons (I assume some letters were reused or left off somehow). So there’s this big mystery over what their real name is.
And that kind of plays into some dragon lore where if you know a dragon’s true name, you have control over it. You don’t know Imagine Dragons’ true name — no one does. Perfectly acceptable if you think a band having a secret name is lame. They’ve said at some point they may reveal it, but they’re afraid people will be disappointing, because as they originally said, it wouldn’t make for a cool name.
This sounds even more dumber and pretentious.
if you know a dragon’s true name, you have control over it.
I thought that was Devils??
