Worst band names of all time

[NightTrain]

Mind you, this is not necessarily a comment on the music of any of the acts listed below. I simply think they could have done a better job of naming themsvles!

Air Supply
Bananarama
Boffalongo
Brand New Heavies
The Buggles
C & The Shells
Cream
Def Leppard
Digable Planets
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Divinyls
En Vogue
Eurhtymics
Funkdoobiest
The Germs
The Hooters
It's A Beautiful Day
Jefferson Airplane
Jo Mama
Johnny Jates Hazz
Killer Pussy
Klaatu
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
Mashmakhan
Mr. Mister
Moby Grape
New York Rock and Roll Ensemble
Oingo Boingo
The Pork Dukes
Porno For Pyros
Revolting Cocks
7 Year Bitch
The Slits
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Supertramp
10,000 Maniacs
The The
Thin Lizzy
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Tony! Toni! Tone!
Ultimate Spinach
Vanilla Fudge
Was (Not Was)
Weerzer
Wham!
Wiggy Bits

[CanuckAmok]

1. Where's "Psychofunkapus"?

n/t

[LiviaOlivia]

2. The Dead Kennedys

[SiobhanClancy]

11. I agree with that..

I've always hated that name:(

[Piperay]

37. Joe Nosepicker and the Snots...

I'm not kidding. :puke: With a name like that it's no wonder they faded into obscurity, thank goodness. :evilgrin:

[Piperay]

38. Ops, placed above post in wrong spot

it meant to be a reply to the original. :argh:

[Catshrink]

3. October Country

WTF?

[VolcanoJen]

4. Counting Crows, Ultravox, Scritti Politi...

... just to name a few. :-)

[CanuckAmok]

5. Wide Boy Awake n/t

[CanuckAmok]

6. Kajagoogoo n/t

[sendero]

7. Actually....

... I like many of those names :)

[Kenneth]

8. What about "Better than Ezra"

I think they named themselves that just to make Ezra feel bad.

[NightTrain]

9. I once read a hilariously damning review of their debut album in which...

...the critic said, "Ezra must really suck."

[CanuckAmok]

42. I remember an Norm MacDonald line from SNL:

"Topping Bilboard's top ten singles of the week: Number 1, Better than Ezra. At number 2, Ezra".

[nuxvomica]

10. Eurhtymics

Hard to pronounce and sounds too much like another band called "The Eurythmics" ;-), whose name was, I believe, inspired by "The Music Man". I actually like most of the names you listed. Favorites are "Porno for Pyros" and "Toad the Wet Sprocket." BTW, wasn't Klaatu the band that was rumored to be The Beatles in disguise?

edit: after another look, I vote for "Toni! Toni! Tone!" That really sucks.

[AmandaRuth]

12. loverboy

only thing worse than the name was the music

[Rooktoven]

13. agreed --nt ;-)

[Rooktoven]

14. some more

Romeo Void
It Bites
Right Said Fred
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Foghat
King Diamond
Gary Numan and Tubeway Army
Rose Royce
Raydio
Mahogany Rush

[Sting]

15. Culture Club

[Norbert]

16. Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beeky, Mick and Tick

Hole
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
Eve's Plumb
The You Know Who Group
Nashville Pussy
Deep Blue Something
Just Us

and my favorite "worst" names

The Presidents of the United States of America

[eileen_d]

17. Sweaty Nipples!

I used to see flyers for this band in my Seattle neighborhood, and it always made me want to puke...

[KFC]

18. Hootie and the Blowfish

Absolute shit.

The worst name for a college band: Self-Cleaning Pussy

[Spirochete]

19. Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Wishbone Ash
Mother Love Bone
Guns and Roses

[Skittles]

20. Sharon Tate's Baby

I am no prude but, dear God.

[kyrasdad]

21. Pshchodelic Furs

[mitchum]

22. Ointment

[Doc_Technical]

23. ???

Chocolate Watchband.

Lothar and the Hand People.

[RandomKoolzip]

31. Hey, love your name! Another Firesign fan?

We got a buncha y'all here! Gird your grid for a big one, Malmborg in Plano, etc...

[newyawker99]

40. Hi Doc_Technical!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[psychopomp]

24. The Spin Doctors

n/t

[Aristus]

25. The Butthole Surfers.

I like their song "Dracula from Houston", but how to tell people the name of the band that performs the song? Can't do it. Just can't.

[psychopomp]

27. Sure you can!

Do it in your best Pavoratti voice!

[Meshuga]

26. Echo and the Bunnyman

[jobycom]

28. 30 odd ft of grunt, Beatles.

What the heck's a beatle? Doesn't even work as a pun.

[AntiCoup2K4]

35. Don't blame them.... it was the guy on the flaming pie's fault!!

John Lennon said he had a dream where a man on a flaming pie appeared and said You shall be Beatles with an "a"

And this was 6 years before he'd ever heard of LSD!

[rppper]

29. faster pussycat......

and like loverboy, the only thing worse than the name was the music...

they were named from an old russ meyers T& A flick....

[rucky]

30. Kagagoogoo

or Haircut 100

[RandomKoolzip]

32. "The New Faggot Cunts" were a local band here in Nashville....

I'm serious! They really pissed people off with that name. Then one of the guys left and they renamed themselves "Tan as Fuck." Good musicians, though...

Here are a few more really 'orrible band names:

The Phunk Junkeez (ugggh, please...)
Jimmy Eat World
Taking Back Sunday
Girls at our Best!
Mighty Lemon Drops (oh, how precious!)
Flesh for Lulu
Just Water
James
All4One
Doll by Doll
Voodoo Grove
The Insiyderz (I hate intentionally misspelled band names)

[Kat45]

33. A band in the Boston area called "Anal Cunt"

When I wrote for a local music magazine, I had to review their disc, which, by the way, sucked just as much as their name does.

[theemu]

41. You realize that AC is a joke, right?

The entire act - all of the furious blasts of hardcore and death metal, the inane lyrics about how "Pottery is gay... So take a clay dildo and shove it up your ass" is a huge joke.

[AntiCoup2K4]

34. Bush

Whatever you think of Gavin Rossdale's band and their music, just the fact that they share the name with the First Family of Fascism is enough to keep me away from their albums.

[CandyCrim21]

36. I thought Bowling for Soup was bad........

But Porno for Pyro's. DAMN I must have missed that one somewhere. LOL

[HEyHEY]

39. Adam and the ants n/t

[saoirse]

43. Scritti Politti