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Jimmy Eat World should be part of the conversation due to their acronym.
Who ever called them J.E.W.? Or when did they ever use that acronym themselves?
Perhaps tried to and then realised
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
I like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies tribute band, the Hymen Bustin Fathers
They’re still touring, too!
I remember when I was a pre teen and I wanted a Limp Bizkit CD for Christmas, my mother said that the name of the band sounded vulgar and she wouldn’t get it for me. Instead she got me a Cherry Poppin’ Daddies CD… Smh
I’m sure it was never about the band name. She probably heard Limp Bizkit on the radio and later in the day heard “Zoot Suit Riot” and was like “I know what will make my son fit in at Middle School. Big band swing music”
Sigh…
But they played at the Super Bowl halftime show once so they are okay /s
Or The Band.
Amazing band though
Incorrect. It’s understandable because we all make mistakes. But the assignment was “worst band name ever”, not “best band name ever”. When you’re older you’ll understand why he did it
What is that? Seen it on someone’s wall near me too
Prince had a legal fight with his record label over ownership of his music. As a protest, he changed his artist name from “Prince” to this symbol.
And had floppy discs with the character code sent out to all the music magazines so they could print it. As Charlie Murphy put it, dude could ball.
Prince, formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince” (this symbol), formerly known as Prince.
Butthole Surfers have not been mentioned yet?
Yeah, the title of the thread is worst names ever. That’s on an orthogonal axis with most likely to make an 11 year old boy giggle
For some reason they’re always intertwined in my head with another terribly named band, Diarrhea Planet.
Hoobastank
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Such a pain in the arse when you have to refer to them.
Do you just say “seven pigs” or “Pigs 7”? Or do you literally say “pigs” seven times?
Are there seven of them?
(Looked it up, there are five of them and they abbreviate it to “Pigs x7”.)
There was a band called Pigface for a bit who were actually good
The Beatles
The Oneders?
Dying Fetus get a shout, as do The Child Molesters, and The Length Of The Nails That They Used To Crucify Jesus, but they’re just offensive.
Worst as in most uninspired band names have to be The Band or The Music.
The Length Of The Nails That They Used To Crucify Jesus
Is this a for real band name or a joke about the band Nine Inch Nails (or both)?
Good old Xavleg
That’s the one i was thinking of - for anybody who hasn’t heard of them: that’s not the band name. That’s the acronym of the band name. Each one of those letters belongs to a word
Not as visceral as a lot of the other options, but it is very annoying when bands (especially smaller bands) formed in the last 15-20 years choose names that make it difficult to find their music online. Saw a band as openers once called “1,2,3”. Similar for bands choosing very simple words like “Apartment”, “Paint”, or “Basement”. Even bigger bands like “Shame”, “Wednesday”, and “Idles” are tricky IMO.
Name your band whatever you want, of course, but understand the consequences of your actions!
There’s this band that I like called 3 - easy enough to Google if you search “3 band” - But if I’m driving in my car and I want to use voice commands to play music by them, well too fucking bad. I’m also not going to take my phone out of my pocket and look them up while driving. So I guess they won’t get the plays.
I miss having a CD player in my car with my sun visor CD slip.
IMO, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has an awfully high good band/dumb name differential
Intentionally bad or unintentionally bad?
I’m reconsidering if it is actually a terrible name for a band. I saw Piss Bath supporting Dead Kennedys a couple of years ago. It’s probably the only support band name I’ve remembered, so in that respect it’s quite effective.
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Oh honey, Freddie was a bigger Queen than Elizabeth, Danaerys, and Latifah rolled into one.
Next you’re gonna tell me The Police isn’t a group of cops
no they are real police, they watch every step you take
every move you make, they’ll be watching you.
That played concerts at sun city in apartheid south Africa and have heavily glossed over the fact afterwards
