Worst Band Names Ever!

In my opinion, of course....

Afghan Whigs
Air Supply
All4One
G.G. Allin and the Scumfucks
Bananarama
Better Than Ezra
Boffalongo
Brand New Heavies
The Buggles
The Butthole Surfers
C & The Shells
Chocolate Watchband
Counting Crows
Cream
Deep Blue Something
Def Leppard
Dickey Dell and the Bing Bongs
Digable Planets
Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Divinyls
Doll by Doll
En Vogue
Eurythmics
Eve's Plumb
Everything But The Girl
Faster Pussycat
Flesh for Lulu
Foghat
Funkdoobiest
Garbage
The Germs
Girls at our Best!
Haircut One Hundred
Hole
The Hooters
Hootie and the Blowfish
The Insiyderz
It Bites
It's A Beautiful Day
James
Jefferson Airplane
Jimmy Eat World
Jo Mama
Johnny Hates Jazz
Just Us
Just Water
Kajagoogoo
Killer Pussy
Klaatu
Korn
Let’s Active
Lothar and the Hand People
Loverboy
Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
Mashmakhan
Mighty Lemon Drops
Mr. Mister
Moby Grape
Mother Love Bone
Nashville Pussy
New York Rock and Roll Ensemble
Oingo Boingo
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions
The Phunk Junkeez
The Pork Dukes
Porno For Pyros
The Presidents of the United States of America
Psychedelic Furs
Ratt
Raydio
Revolting Cocks
Right Said Fred
Romeo Void
Rose Royce
Scritti Politti
7 Year Bitch
The Slits
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Supertramp
Taking Back Sunday
10,000 Maniacs
The The
Thin Lizzy
Toad The Wet Sprocket
Tony! Toni! Tone!
Ultimate Spinach
Vanilla Fudge
Voodoo Grove
Was (Not Was)
Weezer
Wham!
Wide Boy Awake
Wiggy Bits
Wishbone Ash
The “You Know Who!” Group

Crispy Ambulance. Oh, yeah, and Anal Cunt.

Limp Bizkit, Staind, Linkin Park and any other cookie cutter jock rock bands with intentionally misspelled names.

I'm proud to say that was the name of my college band.

We played straight, classic country (Hank, Waylon, Merle, et al).

Proto-punk feminist rockers covered in mud...what else would you call them?

Personally, I can't stand all the alphanumeric cooki cutter bands:

311, Finger 11, Blink 182, etc...

simply dreadful.

How gay. :eyes:

Band band, bad name.

Another bad band, bad name.

along with several others on your list, but maybe I'm just used to them. There's a band called Hobostink which gets my vote for worst band name ever.

the singer from Nashville Pussy. :7

Lord knows I'm no prude but I found that unbelievably ugly and tasteless.

My all-time favorite is "Titty Bingo".

best concert marque ever:

SQUEEZE
HOOTERS

honest, it was a real show!
i actually went to this concert in austin, texas and it was a VERY good show.

you might as well throw in the Dead Kennedys. However, I think the names fit the music, so I wouldn't include them.

Dickey Dell and the Bing Bongs is pretty hilarious!

That would be a long thread in itself.

Johnny and the Self-Abusers, anyone? (Bonus points for knowing who they're better known as.)

"Saliva" and "Snot" - both rock bands from 2001

But the pictures on their CD covers are worse than the name!

That was back in the mid-eighties. I do believe there is/was a band by that name since, so I happily take credit.

Now what in gods name is that supposed to mean?

Ba dah bee ba dah bah.

and other Foetus variations

So K.M.B.!

You Rang?

Phranc before she became a folk singer

It's Northern English slang for an erection.

I think the main thing with a bands name is that it should be distinctive, and hopefully not tie them to a certain genre too much. I mean, Courtney Love could do an ooey gooey love song, but they aren't going to play it on Adult Contemporary stations because her bands name is "Hole". So if you're going to choose something like "Nashville Pussy", you're going to have to accept that certain radio stations are going to play your music, just because of your name.

Then there are the names that, while distinctive, make absolutely no sense like Toad the Wet Sprocket, Better Than Ezra and Hootie and the Blowfish. I would add Fountains of Wayne and Bowling for Soup to that list.

Ernie Stires - guitar, Jim "Boom Boom" Hite - fretless bass, Steve Bajor - drums, Hunter Starbird - vocals, Jimmy Warren - keyboards, Warner Yullthorton - percussion

With a doopy name.

Or Blibber and the Rat Crushers (early Toronto punk band)?

:-)