Worst Band Names of 2007
The Onion AV Club has posted an extensive and excellent list of redonkulous band names in 2007. I am fond of the "ANIMALS" section of this list:
Pistol Whipping Party Penguins
SuperHeavyGoatAss
Baboon Torture Division (Their site proudly boasts that it ranks "1 for Baboon Torture Porn on Google.")
Those Fucking Unicorns
Unicorn Dream Attack
Sex Rat
Penguins With Shotguns
Tigers Can Bite You
Link to full list, which includes links to real live band myspaces and websites on some of the internets. (thanks, Paul Hoffman)
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I love the Onion! Especially the AV club.
Chevy Metal is pure genius.
Though Chevy Chase Metal would rock harder.
Some of these bands are actually really good (Psychedelic Horseshit, Stay Fucked, To Live And Shave In L.A.), and if The A.V. Club is being smug with this, they sorta have no right to complain after their dreadfully boring and safe year-end music lists.
Actually, it's kind-of bizarre they included To Live And Shave In L.A. since they've been around forever (first album in the early 90's). Hell, their last album even had Thurston Moore and Andrew W.K. as members, so I'm surprised whoever wrote this list had never come across them.
I'd go to see:
# Pistol Whipping Party Penguins
# SuperHeavyGoatAss
# Those Fucking Unicorns
I might not stay long, but I'd go, just to get the t-shirt, anyway!
:D
Mexican Foley Dog Slaughterhouse!
Though I am biased.
"Those Fucking Unicorns" seems like an awesome name... I wonder if they knew about the pre-Islands band The Unicorns.
I liked this upcoming live lineup at Shuba's in Chicago:
Holy Fuck
with A Place To Bury Strangers
and Fuck Buttons
Date: Sunday 2/17/2008 9:00 PM 18+
I'm a big fan of Dance Me Pregnant. The name, that is. And DD/MM/YYYY is pretty hilarious.
Bi Furious is just perfect.
I like "Butt Stomach," myself.
Holy Fuck is also totally awesome, which makes the bad name even better.
I love Grand Theft Bus myself...
Oops, you typo-ed the headline, I'm sure you meant "Best Band Names" evaaaar
I was a little annoyed when I first heard that my band was on "the list", but I was highly amused once I saw the article. It's not like we don't know our name is dumb . . . we're the ones who came up with it! Besides, if you're in a band and don't have a sense of humor, you may as well quit now--you're in the wrong business.
Also, it was pretty cool of them to link to each band's website--I bet a lot of sites wouldn't have bothered.
IRA from My Precious, Precious Gun (we're in the "Looooooong" section). :-)
My old band name was "Electric Kitten Vomit," which made it into the Chronicle of Higher Education two months running-- a true story!
http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/itsname/
Sadly they don't list this band I saw in Santa Cruz, "Captain Arab and The Taliband". Also, "Ima [Fucking] Gymnast" is totally lame, since there's already "Ima Robot." Lame and Unoriginal.
I live in Bellingham, and not too long ago I saw a flyer for:
Nude Loaf
Muppet Fetish
The Vomiting Vaginas
...all on one bill.
My little brother and my ex-roommate are in Jews and Mexicans. (they are a jew and a mexican, respectively) When I saw the title of the article, part of me knew that they had to be included on the list, and sure enough, there they are on the third page. It was still a bit of a surprise to see the name on the list.
Just listenin' tae fuck buttons -they rock!an come on boingboingers when are you gonna cover the great
DAN DEACON,I,m sure you guys will love this stuff
http://www.myspace.com/dandeacon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvoXgTEaLT8
I,m not spammin, just found out about this guy,thought ye wid like.....
he,s playing on Hogmanay in Glasgow at Optimo
http://www.optimo.co.uk/
These band names are funny. Here's a band that regularly plays in Tempe, AZ: The "Flying A$$holes"! Notice they're too modest to use a real "s" in their name. I suspect they have image issues. Also, my son used to play in a band in NJ named the "Urban Buffalos"; their business card had a characterture of a rat playing a guitar. Fairly lame by todays "standards" for band naming.
Some of these sound like rock band names Dave Barry came up with.
Zenu, TWBAGNFARB! B^)
Hah. Amazing list. Gotta say..."Unicorn Dream Attack"...oh hell, I would be all over a shirt from a band with a name like that.
I offer up my favorite, as yet non-existent band name: Controversy Dogs.
This is from a headline I had to read more than once to get:
"Controversy dogs closed nuclear power plant."
Ah, the power of those Controversy Dogs!
It was long time ago, but if i remember right, Jello Biafra had a list of great Names For Bands in the sleeve artwork of one of the Dead Kennedys LPs....
can anyone come up with it?
I saw him speak once and he delivered a list that must have cracked the triple digits.
I think one of them was Muppets.
I kid, I kid. Muppet, I declare a unilateral flame truce.
huh? what flames?
I was referring to some other threads, not this one.
Rock on, Muppet. (Not sarcasm.)
Naming a band can be an arduous task. The moniker a band gives itself will ultimately convey an idea to their listener about what the music will sound like even before they’ve heard a note. Interestingly, this does not explain why the guys in "Slobberbone" decided to give their terrific band such an extraordinarily lousy name. For some unknown reason, each of the real bands or performers listed below decided to name themselves something that is a little off the beaten path. Below is a document featuring a list of the funny band names that we have been keeping a running tally on. —Zac Johnson, AllMusic.com
Bunnygrunt
Bubble Puppy
Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives
Temporary Darkening Of The Stool
Yoko Homo
Blind Lemon Pledge
Chixdiggit!
The Four Foodgroups of the Apocalypse
Man Scouts of America
The Ska Baios
Mike Love Not War
Horny Hombres
Harry Chronic Jr.
Shit Pants John
Small Fish With Spine
Diaper Gym
Diddle Dumpling Diddle
Butterscotch Tuna
Captain Groovy and His Bubblegum Army
Anus the Menace
Three Orange Whips
The Whistlebinkies
The Amazing Shitheads
Ben Folds Laundry
Freddie Kaboodleschnitzer
Spam Grenades
Shower Scene From Psycho
King Uszniewicz and His Uszniewicztones
Lee Harvey Keitel
Get The Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano
Tight Bros. from Way Back When
The Inaliable Right to Eat Fred Astaire’s Ass
Bad Tuna Experience
Shag Motor Pony
White Courtesy Telephone
The Four Freshmen of the Apocalypse
Stark Naked and the Car Thieves
Onward Crispin Glover
Jive Talking Robots
Chick Crumpacker
The Little Blue Crunchy Things
Ass Baboons of Venus
This Bike Is A Pipebomb
Blood Sledge Electric Death Chickens
Heisenberg’s Uncertain Tea Principle
The Cockadoodle Dudes
MC Glockamolie
Reagan’s Polyp
Green Milk From Planet Orange
Fat Jon, The Ample Soul Physician
Joan of Arse
Jelly Roll Moron
Reality D. Blipcrotch
Shirley Temple of Doom
It Bites
Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company
Ugly Mustard
Ashtray Babyhead
Fourteen Iced Beers
Pinhead Gunpowder
Chester Copperpot
Ed’s Redeeming Qualities
Brothers From Other Mothers
Bucky Weiner
Rich Kids on LSD
Chuckle Butt
Mussolini Headkick
Sweep The Leg Johnny
Couch of Eureka
Lost T-Shirt of Atlantis
Nine Inch Elvis
Ed Banger & the Nosebleeds
Shock Headed Peters
Assfort
Herculon Velveteen
Bon Von Wheelie
Drimble Wedge
Splat Winger
Giggling Heap
Hoaky Hickel
Smokin’ Lord Toot
Uncle Klickie
Richard Smoker
Ray Strange
Garth Vader
Mario Speedwagon
Parker Squirt
Barak Schmool
Sookie Sook
Doc Sausage
Emerson Scabby Robe
Riff Rudfinn
Tex Sattershite
Hindenburgo V. Borges Pereira
Wee Willie Reefer
Sprocket J. Royer
Lola Poobash
Stickey Sky-Juice
Boomer Oinkwell
Moishe Oysher
Diamond Wookie
Army Of The Twenty Three Monkeys
Beer For Dolphins
Poptart Monkeys
Poopiehead
Thick Nickel McPickus
Humpy Bong
I Can Lick Any Son Of A Bitch In The House
DataWhat/Zac Johnson (28), I haven't seen anything quite so fine since the list my mother-in-law used to keep of the names of small independent Southern congregations. "Shag Motor Pony" was the one that made me laugh out loud, but I also liked Giggling Heap, Ass Baboons of Venus, Herculon Velveteen, Ed's Redeeming Qualities, and Pinhead Gunpowder -- most of which, I just now noticed, are found names.
(I collect funny rose names.)
I don't remember ALL of the ones Jello mentions on that disc, but he builds up to "John Wayne on Acid," which gets a big laugh..
I've seen this trend a lot here in Austin. I think Superheavy Goatass is from here. There seems to be a trend toward what I'd call 'disposable' band names, almost as if they don't really expect the band to last very much longer than a few months and naming it something that is
a) offensive to the average 'square' citizen
b) a copyright infringement
c) uses some pop cultural reference
or d) a combination of a through c.
@snakefarmer: Too true! Do you remember a band here in Austin in the late 80's / early 90's called The Beat Meters? (If you don't get it, please look up Spoonerisms.)
Robert Anton Wilson's _Schroedinger's Cat_ had a truly wonderful list of band names near the end. My personal favorite was "The Weird Made Flesh", although "The Aluminum Bavariati" isn't bad either.
If you need more weird band names(and who doesn't?), check out the 1200-plus entries at The Canonical List of Weird Band Names at http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/weirdbandnames