Worst Band Name Ever

[Bush League]

Goo Goo Dolls, Bananarama, Fine Young Cannibals, Oingo Boingo, Men without hats, Flock of seagulls, Ah-ha, Wham, Frankie goes to Hollywood, pretty much most of the bands from the 80's

There was a band awhile back called Disney after Dark, but I read Disney Corp. sued. I also read that Lynard Skynard was named after a gym teacher that told them they were never going to amount to anything.

I had a friend in college that had a band called "Ponchos Pilot and the Naildrivers" Ten "our father's" and ten "hail mary"s"
BL

 

[canon]

Martha and the Muffins...no offence MuffinMuncher.

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Dead Monkeys...

 

[i_am_good]

...how about...

...Ten Seconds To Japan...

A great cover band from the 80s. Never really got the true meaning. They were all Canadian and had never been to Japan!

 

[genx25]

Rainbow Butt Monkeys (who later became Finger Eleven)

 

[homonger]

I don't think this is a bad band name, but I have always wondered:

What the hell does 'Toad the Wet Sprocket' mean?

 

[DenWa]

There is a band called The Tony Danza Explosion, from Ann Arbor, MI. I think that may be the funniest name I've ever heard for a band.

http://www.angelfire.com/punk/TDX/

DW

 

[DenWa]

then there's this guy.

www.y2khai.com

enjoy...

DW

 

[VincenzoTurismo]

Here's all the bands that I think have the worst names:

Backstreet Boys, N*SYNC, NKOTB and Spice Girls.

Ciao,

VT

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Dead Monkeys are to split up again. They've been in the business now ten years, nine as other groups.

Originally the Dead Salmon, they became for a while, Trout. Then Fried Trout, then Poached Trout In A White Wine Sauce, and finally, Herring. Splitting up for nearly a month, the re-formed as Red Herring, which became Dead Herring for a while, and then Dead Loss, which reflected the current state of the group. Splitting up again to get their heads together, they reformed a fortnight later as Heads Together, a tight little name which lasted them through a difficult period when their drummer was suspected of suffering from death. It turned out to be only a rumor and they became Dead Together, then Dead Gear, which lead to Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, and the inevitable split up.

After nearly ten days, they reformed again as Sole Manier, then Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Baith, the Places, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon In A White Wine Sauce, Salmon-monia, and Helen Shapiro. This last name, their favorite, had to be dropped following an injunction and they split up again. When they reformed after a recordbreaking two days, they ditched the fishy references and became Dead Monkeys, a name which they stuck with for the rest of their careers.

Now, a fortnight later, they've finally split up.

 

[Goober Mcfly]

Worst ever?

Hootie and the Blowfish
The Spice Girls
Chumbawumba
Echo and the Bunnymen
Hole
Meatloaf

Best ever?

Barstool Prophets

 

[DenWa]

Husker Du is a pretty bad band name.

 

[VincenzoTurismo]

Oh I almost forgot, remember that cheesy band from the late 80's The Fine Young Cannonballs???

Now what the fuck does their name mean???

Ciao,

VT

 

[homonger]

Oh I almost forgot, remember that cheesy band from the late 80's The Fine Young Cannonballs???

Now what the fuck does their name mean???

Ciao,

VT

It's Cannibals, not Cannonballs. Although that wouldn't be a bad name either.

 

[the rusty tromb]

The Somoan Chest Hair Experience was a pretty bad band name.

 

[Sasha Jones]

Pearl Jam. What a disgusting name. And their first album finished with a song called 'Release'.

LOL I never really thought of ot that way!

 

[biff_magumba]

OK seriously...nobody mentions freakin' WANG CHUNG !!!
"...everybody have fun tonight, everybody wang chung tonight "

THE VILLAGE PEOPLE....I wouldn't be caught dead in THAT village...

Echo and the bunneymen...great band though. Echo was the name of the drum machine I think.

Images In Vogue

Of course the greatest name of all time is a band that used to play metal/rap in Toronto called WIGGAZ !!!

Followed by...The Kinks, Alien Sex Fiend, Joy Division, Steely Dan, Supertramp, Teenage Head...do you see where I'm going with this ??? After all this poll is on Terb...And the greatest name of a fictional band from the movie Hi Fidelity...
Kathleen Turner Overdrive !

Bad names again...Boston, Chicago, Toronto...especially Toronto, Get a name already...of course Chicago was the Chicago Transit Authority...even worse.

 

[pool]

Revolting Cocks

1000 homo DJ's ( I kinda like it though )

Dirty Rotten Imbiciles

uuuh, forget it ...

 

[canon]

The 80's had a lot of bands with lame names:
Frozen Ghost
Platinum Blonde
Mister Mister
Psychadelic Furs

Lame names but, pretty good bands for the eighties!
Also "Sergio Galli" was my next door neighbor from "Platinum Blonde", so I had to support them. Plus good times with them!

Best name though from the 80's..... U2! And still rocking! (start another thread)...

 

[JohnDoe]

"And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead" is the worst band name I've come across.