Butthole Surfers have not been mentioned yet?
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The band ΓΆOoOoOoOoOo is a bit unwieldy.
Supposedly pronounced as "caterpillar" in whatever language you prefer.
I heard a song by an indie band called Purulent Vagina.
It sounded exactly how you'd expect it to.
IMO, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has an awfully high good band/dumb name differential
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
To be completely honest, I don't consider any name to be bad.Β
You may say AxCx is terrible name, but once you give them a listen it exactly fits the name. Same goes for Hijokaidan, who are actually named based on one of fan's suggestion claiming that "escape staircase" suits their sound more. Party Cannon is absolutely hillarious imo, when you look at the logo and the sound. Brojob also has a name that fits their lyrical themes.
In some cases the name may come out a bit lame, but bad names? Nah. I don't consider any name bad, most of them sound either fucking epic and/or hillarious when you look at the full picture.
Come on, let musicians have some fun.
Just one note. Unfortunate names do exist. If a band has name that is also commonly used to refer to other things, it is really tricky to find them unless they are popular enough. I remember trying to find some music from a band called "6 cylinder". You can imagine the struggle.
How about Shitmat? Great music but hard to tell people about it.
Imagine Dragons
No, Imagine Dragons is kind of cool... if you believe them when they say it's not their real band name. They originally came up with a phrase that meant something special to all of them, but they didn't think it would work as a band name, so they anagrammed it into Imagine Dragons (I assume some letters were reused or left off somehow). So there's this big mystery over what their real name is.
And that kind of plays into some dragon lore where if you know a dragon's true name, you have control over it. You don't know Imagine Dragons' true name β no one does. Perfectly acceptable if you think a band having a secret name is lame. They've said at some point they may reveal it, but they're afraid people will be disappointing, because as they originally said, it wouldn't make for a cool name.
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The band
!!! (Chk Chk Chk)
I love them as a band and the name makes sense once you know what it's representing, but it's terrible for searching or recommending to people.
Vertical Horizon
Yeah, their music, in general, does not move me but the main guy was friends with Neil Peart who played maybe 5 tracks with them so... I have those 5 tracks in my rotation
I am just trying to figure out what a vertical horizon would be. It sounds kinda badass at first but then I'm like... It's just contradictory!
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Nickelback
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)?
Local Santa Rosa band back in the mid to late 90's called Mother Teresa's Cunt
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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.
Job For a Cowboy
Hellyeah
Helloween
I don't care if they're good or not, but what the hell was going on behind those names?
There's a band called TaintStick
Keyboard drumset fucking werewolf
Invisible Boyfriend. They later restyled themselves as Reptar
Piss Bath.
Slobberbone.
Clam Jam. or. Hung Jury
There's a store I've seen called "skin laundry" the name grosses me out every time I see it.
I don't know "Deleted by Creator" has a certain charm to it... It's not that bad.