band names that piss you off or make you cringe

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  • BreakSelfBreakSelf 2,925 Posts
    Most the band names in the weekly music paper make me cringe...

    They are usually made up of a Noun, a verb, an adjective, a day of the week and/or a bodily function.

    Saturday Looks Good to Me?

    I actually like that name

    are you from Michigan?

    Nah, but I was doing the college radio thing when their first EP came out, and everyone played the hell out of it.

    Imagine what it was like for me working at the local student station in Ann Arbor! They must have played the grooves right off that record.

    To be fair, WCBN had one of the best local music shows I've ever heard.

  • Blessed Union Of Souls.
    Toad The Wet Sprocket.
    The Samples.
    Blues Traveler.
    Moe.

  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts
    Blessed Union Of Souls.
    Toad The Wet Sprocket.
    The Samples.
    Blues Traveler.
    Moe.

    Hah! All from the same era/genre... Dawson Rock!

    SG

  • parsecparsec 5,087 Posts
    creed
    jimmy eat world
    good charlotte

    that you can think of these.

    How bout this one:

    Blink182

    haha

    I work at a used cd store so its pretty easy, I could do this shit all day. Pretty much name any band from the 90's

  • Blessed Union Of Souls.
    Toad The Wet Sprocket.
    The Samples.
    Blues Traveler.
    Moe.

    Hah! All from the same era/genre... Dawson Rock!

    SG

    hello i cannot get enough of your avatar


  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts
    Blessed Union Of Souls.
    Toad The Wet Sprocket.
    The Samples.
    Blues Traveler.
    Moe.

    Hah! All from the same era/genre... Dawson Rock!

    SG

    hello i cannot get enough of your avatar


    Thanks! I can't really take credit for it, though... I got it from one of mylatency's posts or something.

    SG


  • Killed By Death

    uh, this is a fantastic band name

  • An old housemate was into emo/angry white teen music and there were plenty of shitty band names that sprang up, "Funeral for a friend" being the worst.

  • An old housemate was into emo/angry white teen music and there were plenty of shitty band names that sprang up, "Funeral for a friend" being the worst.

    Ouch! You know you're in for some seriously wussy shit when the band is named after an Elton John song.

  • twoplytwoply Only Built 4 Manzanita Links 2,914 Posts
    I have been contemplating opening a service similar to the website name assingment deal. All bands would be required to submit their name to my organization (with some context info if necessary) and then we would make a determination up or down. I think It would be fun to send out a form letter for rejections.

    Dear Hoobastank, your name sucks. We're sorry but we have rejected your request for this name. You'll have go back to the drawingboard. After listening to your demo might we suggest American Garbage.

    Regards,
    Standards and Practices

    Awesome idea. I will even intern for the greater good.

    I can't believe you were the first and only one to name Hoobastank. That has to be in the top 5 worst names ever.

    I'd also like to add Phunk Junkeez to the list.

  • and band name that is a sentence fragment. theres way too many of these popping up and they all make me wanna fucking puke my pants

    FYI, this genre is called "verbcore."

  • Groove Collective.....

    Or any band that uses either of these words in any way shape or form.

  • MondeyanoMondeyano Reykjavik 863 Posts
    Co-sign on Audioslave

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts
    Groove Collective.....

    Or any band that uses either of these words in any way shape or form.

      



  • string cheese incident

    Yeah ... that name pisses me off. No incident involving string cheese is worth stamping yourself with.

    Then,

    The Jazz June

    Sounds like they put a quarter in the emo band name machine.

  • JimBeamJimBeam Seattle. 2,012 Posts
    fucking emo bands: "The Casket Lottery"

    Jesus. Just hang yourself.

  • Just hang yourself.

    Ditto for "Funeral Diner".


    We were trying to think of what we'd name a middle school aged emo band the other night. I came up with "No Recess" ...

    But I think I'd change it to "Rainy Recess"


    Emo.

  • twoplytwoply Only Built 4 Manzanita Links 2,914 Posts


    We were trying to think of what we'd name a middle school aged emo band the other night. I came up with "No Recess" ...

    But I think I'd change it to "Rainy Recess"

    Are you sure it wouldn't be "Meet Me Under the Tire Swing?"



  • Are you sure it wouldn't be "Meet Me Under the Tire Swing?"

    Or maybe ... "If You Want Me I'll Be Under the Tire Swing Crying About my Dad".

  • Or maybe ... "If You Want Me I'll Be Under the Tire Swing Crying About my Dad".

    Or maybe, to follow the standard three-word naming convention:

    Melancholy For Lunch
    Bully's Punching Bag


  • Or maybe, to follow the standard three-word naming convention:

    Melancholy For Lunch
    Bully's Punching Bag

    hee hee

    or

    Don't Need Girls
    Teacher I'm Innocent
    Lunch Money Losses
    Locker Breaks Nose
    Boys Cry Too
    Unrequited Schoolbus Crush

  • DJBombjackDJBombjack Miami 1,665 Posts

    Killed By Death

    uh, this is a fantastic band name


    It's also a fucking great Motorhead song too.

    And Eagles Of Death Metal is fucking great too - perfect name for meth-addicts recording their albums in a trailer in the desert.
    Their albums shit over 99% of recent rock music.

  • Prefab Sprout
    The Feeling
    The Ordinary Boys


  • list jacked from a friend's blog...

    Most Precious Blood
    Planes Mistaken for Stars
    Between the Buried and Me
    As I Lay Dying
    Division of Laura Lee
    From Autumn to Ashes
    Juliana Theory
    Hey Mercedes
    Matchbook Romance
    From Ashes Rise
    Somehow Hollow
    A Static Lullaby
    Bleeding Through
    Coheed and Cambria
    These Arms are Snakes
    Blood Has Been Shed
    Promise Ring
    Death Cab For Cutie
    Capture the Flag
    Time in Malta
    Armour for Sleep
    Curl Up and Die
    Hopesfall
    The Gloria Record
    How Like a Winter
    Saves the Day
    Pedro the Lion
    Order of the Fly
    Dismemberment Plan
    Poison the Well
    ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead
    Pretty Girls Make Graves
    Taking Back Sunday
    My Chemical Romance
    Dance Disaster Movement
    Soiled Doves
    Remembering Never
    Bedside Toxicology
    My Hotel Year
    Lyndsay Diaries
    Books Lie
    Prevent Falls
    Forever is Forgotten
    They Walk in Line
    Time Spent Driving
    The Soil Bleeds Black
    Boysetsfire
    Boys Night Out
    Swarm of the Lotus
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Count the Stars
    A Thorn for Every Heart
    Knife in the Water
    This Machine Kills
    Arms Bend Back
    The Icarus Line
    Blackheart Procession
    Premonitions of War
    Detatchment Kit
    Six Organs of Admittance
    Of Montreal
    Mates of State
    Saturday Looks Good to Me
    I am the World Trade Center

  • mylatencymylatency 10,475 Posts

    Thanks! I can't really take credit for it, though... I got it from one of mylatency's posts or something.

    SG



    damn straight
    I owe it to a google search for some image

  • twoplytwoply Only Built 4 Manzanita Links 2,914 Posts
    list jacked from a friend's blog...

    Most Precious Blood
    Planes Mistaken for Stars
    Between the Buried and Me
    As I Lay Dying
    Division of Laura Lee
    From Autumn to Ashes
    Juliana Theory
    Hey Mercedes
    Matchbook Romance
    From Ashes Rise
    Somehow Hollow
    A Static Lullaby
    Bleeding Through
    Coheed and Cambria
    These Arms are Snakes
    Blood Has Been Shed
    Promise Ring
    Death Cab For Cutie
    Capture the Flag
    Time in Malta
    Armour for Sleep
    Curl Up and Die
    Hopesfall
    The Gloria Record
    How Like a Winter
    Saves the Day
    Pedro the Lion
    Order of the Fly
    Dismemberment Plan
    Poison the Well
    ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead
    Pretty Girls Make Graves
    Taking Back Sunday
    My Chemical Romance
    Dance Disaster Movement
    Soiled Doves
    Remembering Never
    Bedside Toxicology
    My Hotel Year
    Lyndsay Diaries
    Books Lie
    Prevent Falls
    Forever is Forgotten
    They Walk in Line
    Time Spent Driving
    The Soil Bleeds Black
    Boysetsfire
    Boys Night Out
    Swarm of the Lotus
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Count the Stars
    A Thorn for Every Heart
    Knife in the Water
    This Machine Kills
    Arms Bend Back
    The Icarus Line
    Blackheart Procession
    Premonitions of War
    Detatchment Kit
    Six Organs of Admittance
    Of Montreal
    Mates of State
    Saturday Looks Good to Me
    I am the World Trade Center







    Your friend needs to patent that list and market it as an emetic.

  • mylatencymylatency 10,475 Posts
    can you make some more dolphins and gangstas jpegs? seriously

  • "!!!"
    "do make say think"

  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,952 Posts
    "Scraping Foetus of the Wheel" - The Scrapies was already taken?

    "Asbestosdeath" - as repped on the "Rep your Metal thread"

    "Megadeth" - sounds like a Top Trump card that would beat this one:



    "The Black Crowes" - most crows are black. Apart from 1/100000 albino ones.

    "? And the Mysterians" - good for pub trivia though.

    Pretentious champ for me was "Now Is The Time To Forget The Whimpering Child And Become The Warrior."


    Names I like:
    "Half-man, Half-biscuit". Genius. Before that, they were called "Attempted Moustache".

  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    I have been contemplating opening a service similar to the website name assingment deal. All bands would be required to submit their name to my organization (with some context info if necessary) and then we would make a determination up or down. I think It would be fun to send out a form letter for rejections.

    Dear Hoobastank, your name sucks. We're sorry but we have rejected your request for this name. You'll have go back to the drawingboard. After listening to your demo might we suggest American Garbage.

    Regards,
    Standards and Practices

    Awesome idea. I will even intern for the greater good.

    I can't believe you were the first and only one to name Hoobastank. That has to be in the top 5 worst names ever.

    I'd also like to add Phunk Junkeez to the list.

    Dear Phunk Junkeez, your music is not funky. Junky yes. My staff recommends that you adopt the nom de rock, American Garbage.

    Standards and Practices



    I**, my staff will be contacting you in the near future as we move forward with the opening of our operations. We are always looking for committed, enterprising young talent to further our quest to rid the world of stupid bands names. Just last week, we shut down distribution of recordings by Nickelback, Live and Rainbow ( a heavy rock outfit, fer christsakes). In the coming months we'll be sponsoring clinics across the nation, lead by bands with great names like Guided By Voices, Black Sabbath, Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers as well as Smegma. Looking forward to working with you.

    J^^^^^ B^^^^^^^^^
    Director of Operations
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