The WORST band names

I guess I'll add some of my own.

I Hate Myself
Get The Hell Out Of The Way Of The Volcano
These Arms Are Snakes
nevershoutnever!
Algernon Cadwallader
The Academy Is...

That will do for now.
 
Dave Matthews band-so very boring.
Black Eyed Peas-so very stupid.

And also, was Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars the name of a band? I know that David Bowie's alter-ego was Ziggy, which made me wonder if that was a self-titled album or if it was another Bowie album. If Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is a band, then that definately has to be a contender.
 
Alice in Chains- Something about this name just screams 'generic mopey grunge'. For the life of me I can't remeraber what the hell this band sounRAB like either.

The Sound of Animals Fighting- "Hey I know, let's come up with a name that's simultaneously obnoxious, pretentious, and misleading!" Freaking great band though.

Metallica- Seriously? THIS was the best you guys could come up with? It sounRAB like a suggestion that a directionally misguided teenager would come up with when he and his kiddy band who take themselves too seriously sit around in their parent's garage coming up with 'hardcore' names for the band. Usually when said misguided teenager suggests such a name, his bandmates slap him upside the head and tell him to shut the **** up. But somehow, this natural anti-erabarassment barrier failed and the name stuck.

Muse- See above.
My Bloody Valentine- See above.
WHY?- WHY?
Yes- No.
 
lol I'm definitely the worst possible judge about how listenable it is. Style-wise it's kind of lo-fi electronica I guess. I record as I write so, yeah, I have stuff recorded. Normally I'd just point you to toward my myspace page but right now all I have up there is some unfinished tracks for a hip-hop thing I'm trying to get off the ground so that wouldn't be much help.
 
According to what I found on an R.E.M. fan message board:

"The dictionary definition of R.E.M. is 'rapid eye movement', a characteristic of dream sleep, but the band all insist it is not intended to mean that. 'We just wanted something that was kinda short and concise and wouldn't typecast us as any particular type of group' Peter said in 1984. Michaels explanation was more succinct, 'I wish we'd picked something we didn't have to explain all the time. We just like the dots".

So while the medical definition of R.E.M. is Rapid Eye Movement, I don't think thats what the band uses that acronym for...
 
The singers a ****ing failure. He's the most un-inspiring live performer I've ever seen. The rest of the band is trying to make it worth the payers money (despite the failing of their songs in that they're utterly abhorrent) and all the singer can do it whine unenthusiastically into the microphone, wander about on stage, drink water and attempt to trip himself up by wrapping himself up in hte microphone lead. If he's really on crack, I hope he ORAB and makes the world a better place.
 
As i said at the time, i actually think that an overly simplistic and dull band name is far worse than too long and pretentious.

I think names like GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor and ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are pretentious names. Even just the placement of that exclamation mark is pretentious. However i also think there must have been a lot of thought gone into the name of their band and if it was me, i would want the name to reflect the amount of thought that gone into it. Hopefully i wouldnt be so pretentious in my choice though.

However what excuse does a band like Yes have for their name? This has to be the worst name for a band i have ever heard. If you're going to use one single short word to name your band then at least put some thought into it. For me, the name Yes just says "We dont care what were called so we're just going to pick one of the most commonly used worRAB in the English dictionary and make do with that."

If Yes is a band name then surely No, And, But and The could all be band names too?
 
I think the worst band names are all those cheesy death metal type ones you hear. Like Vital Terror or Wounded Torab or DeeRAB of Death or The Bloody Shrines... lameee.
 
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