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.
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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")
panic! at the disco
If you're a Rust developer
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 as they call it in the Vatican, "Tuesday."
Cherry Poppinβ Daddies
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...
βItβs swing music so itβs okayβ was probably what she thought
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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 Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx for short.
Honourable Mentions: Anthrax (less bad than others but still awkward when mentioning the band in casual conversation), Shotgun Willy (solo artist)
Hoobastank
Jimmy Eat World should be part of the conversation due to their acronym.
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Not technically a band but I have always thought the DJ called 'Breakfast' was a terrible choice
Lots of problematic song titles too.
My favourite is "I rescpect your feelings as a woman"
"Problematic"
No, thatβs a good name.
Not as visceral as a lot of the other options, but it is very annoying when bands (especially smaller bands) formed in the last 15-20 years choose names that make it difficult to find their music online. Saw a band as openers once called "1,2,3". Similar for bands choosing very simple words like "Apartment", "Paint", or "Basement". Even bigger bands like "Shame", "Wednesday", and "Idles" are tricky IMO.
Name your band whatever you want, of course, but understand the consequences of your actions!
There's this band that I like called 3 - easy enough to Google if you search "3 band" - But if I'm driving in my car and I want to use voice commands to play music by them, well too fucking bad. I'm also not going to take my phone out of my pocket and look them up while driving. So I guess they won't get the plays.
I miss having a CD player in my car with my sun visor CD slip.
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
Butthole Surfers have not been mentioned yet?
hey... i was a butthead in the 90s.
For some reason they're always intertwined in my head with another terribly named band, Diarrhea Planet.
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
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".)
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Thatβs the one i was thinking of - for anybody who hasnβt heard of them: thatβs not the band name. Thatβs the acronym of the band name. Each one of those letters belongs to a word
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Milky Chance
To be completely honest, I don't consider any name to be bad.Β
You may say AxCx is terrible name, but once you give them a listen it exactly fits the name. Same goes for Hijokaidan, who are actually named based on one of fan's suggestion claiming that "escape staircase" suits their sound more. Party Cannon is absolutely hillarious imo, when you look at the logo and the sound. Brojob also has a name that fits their lyrical themes.
In some cases the name may come out a bit lame, but bad names? Nah. I don't consider any name bad, most of them sound either fucking epic and/or hillarious when you look at the full picture.
Come on, let musicians have some fun.
IMO, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has an awfully high good band/dumb name differential
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