List added by Grand Assault on 4 January 2009 11:52

The worst band names ever conceived...

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4.5

1. Chk Chk Chk (!!!)

The absolute worst. The name of this band is !!!. After realising that with such a stupid name, they would be impossible to both pronounce on the radio and find on the internet, they made up the word Chk.

Exclamation mark exclamation mark exclamation mark is how you pronounce their name, they can't just make up phonetics!

2. Dananananaykroyd

Great actor... stop taking his name in vain!

3. Giraffes? Giraffes!

You cannot be serious!

4.3

4. The Pigeon Detectives

Pigeons don't have sphincters which causes them to defecate uncontrollably whenever they get the urge. The Pigeon Detectives don't have talent which causes them to defecate uncontrollably whenever they get near a mic.

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5. Simian Mobile Disco

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7.5

6. Get Cape Wear Cape Fly

5.2

7. New Young Pony Club

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7.5

8. Dogs Die In Hot Cars

9. Portugal. The Man

5.4

10. Cute Is What We Aim For

Couldn't you aim for talent?

5.6

11. Panic! At The Disco

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12. The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

13. Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

14. Bananarama

6.5

15. Death Cab for Cutie

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16. AIDS Wolf

17. Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies

6.7

18. Neutral Milk Hotel

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19. Yourcodenameis:Milo

20. Minus the bear

3.8

21. Fountains Of Wayne

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3.7

22. Insane Clown Posse

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23. Test Icicles

24. Marmaduke Duke

6.8

25. Throbbing Gristle

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Kollane Ö:

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jan 5 12:41

Panic At The Disco is kind of nice name, now they have panic without !

Rayquan

Posted : 10 months, 3 weeks ago at Jan 6 16:47

dese crackers obviously spent too much time in school and not enough time on da street. whats wrong wiv your real name, no gimmicks, like 2pac?

Nonfictionguy

Posted : 10 months, 2 weeks ago at Jan 12 17:24

Could be worse, remember the artist formerly known as prince who wanted to be know as that icon squiggle thing!

classyfied

Posted : 10 months, 2 weeks ago at Jan 14 11:19

I personally think there's much worse out there, especially when you take a look at Asian bands. Some are just numbers like 001 (Thai), 13 (Japanese), 566 (Japanese), and tons more. There's also a trend to name the band after a letter of the roman alphabet - D (Japanese) is the first one that comes to mind. The Name (Korean) is also a band name I find particularly stupid.

nimimerkillinen

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Jan 20 4:30

Actually I think these are kind of good names. They are original which is funny.

Worst ones are imo for example Dragonforce etc.

oliper

Posted : 10 months, 1 week ago at Jan 20 6:48

Panic at the disco is a crap name. Girafee on the other hand...

NIGHTTHING

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 13 21:06

Looking at the comments above one could imagine a similar list - The Worst User-Names Ever Conceived...

And "nimimerkillinen" would probably put my own somewhere near the top.

Abhi

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 14 8:19

Rilo Kiley anyone? It's completely meaningless. Or Bananarama, wtf is that?

Natália

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 15 20:31

yeah, Bananarama is totally WTF haahhaha
but I think Natalie Portman's Shaved Head is funny and different... it makes me want to hear them xD

Natália

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 15 20:33

there's also Say Hi To Your Mom, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Bullet For My Valentine, 30 Seconds To Mars... I think the first and the second one are cute, but kinda WTF too xD

Natália

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 15 20:35

oh, and there's a brazilian band that is called Peixeletrico, that means "electric fish" but with the two words united. TOTALLY WTF?? :)

Natália

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 15 21:20

there's one called Be Your Own Pet (I've just listened to one of their songs that I have HAHAHA) I'm feeling like all the bands I listen to have stupid names now xD

Grand Assault

Posted : 8 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 15 21:26

Bananarama added by popular demand. I also tried to add AIDS Wolf, possibly the worst band name ever, but for some reason it's not letting me.

A lot of these other suggestions aren't as bad!

Zé

Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at May 10 22:19

Test Icicles is really bad.

Charis

Posted : 3 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 12 17:18

These are funny. I think Cracked.com did a list similar to this, which featured "Hootie and the Blowfish," which personally is a great band but terrible name XD

monclivie

Posted : 3 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 12 17:44

This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb!

Abhi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rilo_Kiley#Origin_of_the_band.27s_name

Mari

Posted : 3 months, 1 week ago at Aug 17 19:26

I couldn't stop laughing... especially with your comentary about the Pidgenons... :)) very funny!
I wonder where does people get those names...

Description

Nothing screams desperation and 'We're actually really untalented!' than a band name that needs to be remembered for their name rather than their material.

Instead of building a reputation through the pub and concert halls of the world, an increasing number of dreadful bands have just thrown up an NME flare by naming their band with some sort of scenester jappery bullshit.

Here's a selection of the absolute worst.

See also: The Greatest Band Names Ever


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