Worst Band Names

Bellycaster

Nose to the Bacon Slicer























OK, they don't exist.

TTBZ

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Low hanging fruit would be more apt.

r0nn0cast3r

AlexC said:

When you stop and think about it The Beatles is a rubbish name - terrible pun.
And what the bleeding hell does Lynrd Skynyrd mean? (Waits for following explanatory posts).

Well... it was based on the name of his high school gym teacher leonard skinner 

JAYJO

Pussy Riot
Prefab sprout

fields5069

MagicPigDetective said:

Menswear

Ahem, it was actually Menswe@r IIRC, which is even worse.

Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel

kaypeejay

King Creosote

Phil_aka_Pip

Sporky said:

Trousershock BC.

Were they the ones who put out cassettes on their own Vadge Pop 'label'?

Another related act was Ver JJ Death Experience?

EricTheWeary

I was having some delirious dreams last night which for some reason included the band White Spirit ( early vehicle for Janick Gers, I saw them circa 1980) so if that hasn't been mentioned yet then that.

Clarky

Kissing The Pink

Blueingreen

wrt to Scouting for Girls (a band I know absolutely nothing about) -

In the early 90s there was a Bristol band, mainly or exclusively female (I have a vague recollection that the drummer may have been male, but not sure) called Scouting for Boys.  The lead singer/guitarist. a blonde, was very conspicuously easy on the eye.  Musically they were nothing special but they were obviously having loads of fun and I thought for them it was a pretty good name.

Clashman

The Sex Pissed Dolls

Placidcasual79

Dopesick said:

The The
American Football
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LMFAO
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Kooks

Also 99% of the NME-bumming mid-2000s indie-dance-student stuff had absolutely shite band names. So shit.

I am going to have to agree with The The.....

 WTF - is it supposed to be ironic? Post modern? 

Actually when you think about it most bands names are pretty shit aren't the?

Philtre

Vicky Haler and the Nasal Sprays

EricTheWeary

Clashman said:

The Sex Pissed Dolls

They come up an awful lot on my Facebook feed. Reminds me that locally we used to have Monkeys Punk. 

TonyR

Chumbawamba - WTF?!!

EricTheWeary

TonyR said:

Chumbawamba - WTF?!!

Wasn’t that something to do with a chimp and a typewriter? I can’t remember the detail but someone tried to teach a chimp to type ( as in if you have enough monkeys and enough typewriters you’ll event get the works of Shakespeare) and the only thing that looked like a pronounceable word was Chumbawamba. 

Emp_Fab

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

If cannabis wasn't involved in the creation of that name, I'm Mable Clutterbuck.

EricTheWeary

Emp_Fab said:

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

If cannabis wasn't involved in the creation of that name, I'm Mable Clutterbuck.

From Wikipedia:

While in the band, Childs said that one of the most frequent questions he was asked was about the origin of the band's name. After struggling to come up with one, they decided "we might as well stick with the most ridiculous crap name we could think of."

Neill

I think it's a minor tragedy that "The La's" couldn't come up with a better name.

They are almost universally referred to as "The Laars" because you can't pronounce the name correctly unless you have a thick scouse accent. 

I bet a lot of members on here have their one and only album and wonder why they didn't go on to conquer the world.  it's because of the crap name, that's why.

Bridgehouse

Neill said:

I think it's a minor tragedy that "The La's" couldn't come up with a better name.

They are almost universally referred to as "The Laars" because you can't pronounce the name correctly unless you have a thick scouse accent. 

I bet a lot of members on here have their one and only album and wonder why they didn't go on to conquer the world.  it's because of the crap name, that's why.

Maybe if they were from the Home Counties they would have done better - as the Lah Di Dahs