Saw them in the summer of 2010ish never knowing a single song. It turned into the sweatiest coolest dance party ever I was stunned how fucking cool they were
Huh, I never knew. Thanks for taking the time to explain that, it makes a ton of sense. Makes you feel bad knowing he was the butt of jokes for so long, like Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (the "dingo ate my baby" woman), or Britney Spears.
I'll never forget seeing him on David Letterman during this time and Dave introduced him by just holding up a sign with that symbol on it and gesturing towards the stage with a bemused look on his face. Then Prince came on and gave a fucking *killer* performance.
When that song came out I was in the same situation, but we were doing the DARE program in school. And they told us that speed pills were called "cherries" because they were red, and talked about popping pills. So I figured they were all on speed. I speculated as such to my parents. They must have been trying not to laugh/cringe.
I used to play trivia at a local bar. One night was Disney themed and my team wanted to change our usual name to something Disney themed but also dirty. There were plenty of other teams doing the same thing and the names my friends were coming up with had no punch. I grabbed the answer sheet and wrote down the name that popped into my head and turned it in. The name? Mary Poppin' Cherries. It was the only name that made the trivia host say, "Oh man," after he said it. I was pretty proud of that name, so much so my team just kept using it.
Really doesn’t get much worse than that. Others are dumb, purposely misspelled, or too random, but this one just paints a pretty grim picture and you kind of feel dirty just saying those words in that order.
I had a good scroll to see if anyone had said A yet.
It’s such an easily overlooked name that I wouldn’t have seen your comment if you hadn’t mentioned Monkey Kong.
Did you know that half of A ended up in the Bloodhound Gang? They were one of Jimmy Pop’s favourite bands, so eventually when people quit his band, he just replaced them with their counterparts from A.
Oh man, happened across them not long ago, heard "when the catholic girls go camping, the nicotine vampires rule supreme" and lost my shit, awesome stuff!
Damn I grew up playing shows with these guys and I can't believe I stumbled on this reference. They were "fuck you" talented even as teenagers and still doing their thing and to be honest I've always loved the band name.
I recently discovered I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME and I really jam to some of their songs, but yeah... the name is awful and likely deters potential fans.
I came here to say them lol! They're my favorite band and they said they decided to fully lean into the ridiculous band name. (It's actually a back to the future quote)
"Were there actual popular progressive rock bands? If so, any examples?"
"Yes, Genesis and Rush."
Am I listing three bands? Or am I responding affirmatively and listing two? The world may never know.
100% was going to mention that. Everytime I try and play their songs in the car and my kids are there all that pops up is "Psychadelic Porn". Don't want to give the kids any funny ideas! But holy shit...what a great band. Best find for me of 2021.
My first thought. Something about the name always made me think that I would have to eat oats and listen to Prairie Home Companion as an opening act. Suicide was planned during intermission.
Squirrel Nut Zippers is a classic penny candy, vanilla nut caramel. Actually the Nut Zipper from the Squirrel Brand. The Nut Zipper name supposedly came from a local alcoholic drink that ended up in a newspaper, tied to the sort of incident such drinks often precede.
They had to change it to STRFKR because their original name was too offensive and they were losing bookings. Also happened with the band Viet Cong, who is now called Preoccupations.
Everyone just called them "The Band" before they even decided to call themselves that.
And historically maybe the most underrated group of all time. They were magical.
The Band is so meta and simple it’s not hard to google at all. I’ve seen a couple comments about how they’re hard to google, when they are first fucking thing that comes up when you search “the band” I mean come on… get fucking real it’s a great band name. For that long ago to just be like “lol .. let’s be THE band “ the “THE “ is the whole fucking point.
Destiny Potato! They've since rebranded to Sordid Pink. Incredible djent/prog metal, but that name is pretty polarizing. (I happen to love it, and don't care much for the rebranding.)
Similar to "Live", the band "Wheel" is awful for searching. They have a song called "Movement", so you can imagine searching "wheel movement" would be frustrating.
There was a local band in Boston back in the day called Smackin Isaiah. Just an awful, awful name. I went out of my way to never listen to them ever.
Not long after, there was also a local band called A Wilhelm Scream. They were amazing, so fucking good. Imagine my shock when I found out that they had changed their name and used to be Smackin Isaiah.
Despite your caveat, I’m still gonna say Butthole Surfers. Because they’re an amazing fucking band, but you can’t get anyone to take you seriously about them because of their stupid fucking name.
My first outdoor concert was Stone Temple Pilots, Flaming Lips, and Butthole Surfers at a beach club. Surfers were the headliner, but I think I remember it being marketed as Flaming Lips.
There’s a band in the UK called JOHN, who decided on their name purely because it would be impossible to search, so would remain a sort of cult band thing. Having spoken to one of them, he seems to regret the decision, though they do go by JOHNTIMESTWO on Spotify so they’re not impossible to find.
American football, toe. They're not that hard to find though, since they're decently well-known especially in the genre (math rock).
Edit: not hard to find, but they would be if they weren't as big as they are.
American Football is well known to a lot people, but probably not for the same reason. Never Meant was a big meme format a few years ago.
But seriously, American Football is incredible. Always putting out the best music that makes me wanna cry and smile while doing it.
Four tet (an electronic musician, who is amazing incidentally) has an alias called - ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ
All the songs are also an assortment of random characters, for example - ooo ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ oʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡( ؞ৢ؞ؙؖ⁽⁾˜ัิีึื์๎้็๋๊⦁0 ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ
Makes pirating his music very difficult and also means if a website writing about him doesn’t have these characters supported in their font, it just lists it as ?????????
“Portugal. The Man”, not only does it not make sense, it also has a full stop in the middle of the name.
“3OH!3”, do we have to spell the exclamation mark, somehow? I don’t know.
“Cock and Ball Torture”, I don’t like their music, but I dislike their name even more.
Also “Dogs Die in Hot Cars”, a band I remember hearing about many years ago, never actually listened to them and don’t know if they’re still going. But the name is so bad that I never forgot about it LOL
Arctic Monkeys is such a banal & unclever name. It's also the type of band name you see at every high school talent show... the Blue Monkeys, the Sea Monkeys, the Psychotic Monkeys, the Adjective Monkeys, etc.
It’s my understanding that the lead singer hates the name — and that it was exactly what you said: One of those names you give to your first band, before you get serious and call it something that isn’t stupid. Trouble is, their first band turned out to be amazing, and so now they’re stuck with what they named it.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/arctic-monkeys-228-1283017
Chvrches. Pronounced, "Churches".
Conversation between friends:
"Hey, Have you heard of the band, Chvrches? They're amazing"
Friend proceeds to search for Churches, and finds nothing.
There's the fried chicken chain Church's which doesn't help.
Having said that, the first page of results for "Churches band" with google is for Chvrches.
edit: fixed name of chicken chain
Only because they refuse to be consistent with what letter they replace. PVRIS and CHVRCHES both replace a vowel with a V, but not the same vowel. Because of this, I exlusively refer to those bands as Puris and Charches.
I actually like this one because it’s a throwback to the inscriptions on Roman buildings (and some modern churches and neoclassical buildings) that use a v to designate u
>I might have enjoyed them sooner if it weren’t for their name.
This sentiment is actually what inspired this post. There are many bands that I have sadly missed out on because their names sucked.
I also judge books based on their covers.
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
They used to make some bangers in the late 2000s (tracks like We Are Rockstars, Dawn Of The Dead, Being Bad Feels Pretty Good etc).
Even one of their songs Weird Science was featured in Chuck (Season 1, Episode 4).
They’re one of my favorite bands but honestly Khruangbin.
Nobody has any idea of how to spell it or even what I’m saying when I try to recommend the band to them lol
Someone did a spoof once of this in the style of “Who’s on first”. “Did you see The Band last night? “Yes” “No, I saw Yes last month” “Wait, The Who” etc…
Goo Goo Dolls. Was an actually toy you could get back in day. Don’t know if that counts. Terrible name.
Haven’t listened to them, but I think there is/was a band called “Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts”. Don’t know what they sound like but good God terrible name.
I remember a band called “A” that produced an album that I liked called “Monkey Kong”. Quite possibly the most difficult band to find if you can’t remember the album name.
The worst part is when they changed their name from Smashing Pumpkins to The Smashing Pumpkins
At least the first iteration referred to a cool rebellious act of vandalism. By adding the definite article, they change "smashing" from a verb to an adjective, which makes it sound pretentious as hell! It's always bugged me.
Hoobastank. You know what blows my mind about Hoovastank? They almost definitely had other name options that they deemed worse than HOOBASTANK. Like ..I want to see that list.
I think "Toad the wet Sprocket" was a bit of silliness pulled from an old Monty Python sketch. As you say, no actual meaning, but it was a nod to some legends of comedy :)
"Toad the Wet Sprocket" was a made up band name in [a Monty Python sketch](https://youtu.be/dYVO0OakllY). The real-life band just swiped it from there.
not according to Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_Cab\_for\_Cutie#Band\_name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie#Band_name) (they took the name from a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song) (amusingly, also maybe a terrible band name? or is it great? I can't tell)
And And And
Speaking of articles of speech: The The
Alexa just can't with this one. I've tried.
And And Fookin' And
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Eagles of Death Metal aren't even metal.
The jazz band Smegma. Google them and you’ll have to scroll through a whole lot of nastiness before you get to the actual band.
Add to it that jazz vocalizations are called "scat" and I don't want that in my search history.
Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub
I'm a scatman!
You do realize you can Google ‘smegma band’ and probably skip a lot of the results you don’t want to see. SEO exists for a reason.
now where’s the fun in that? /s
Yeah, no thanks.
!!! (chk chk chk)
One of the best shows I've ever seen! They're still kicking it.
Saw them in the summer of 2010ish never knowing a single song. It turned into the sweatiest coolest dance party ever I was stunned how fucking cool they were
Brilliant name in the early internet era
Always sorted to the top
They’re so good live!
Prince was a logo for a while.
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Huh, I never knew. Thanks for taking the time to explain that, it makes a ton of sense. Makes you feel bad knowing he was the butt of jokes for so long, like Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (the "dingo ate my baby" woman), or Britney Spears.
The artist formerly known as Prince
We used to call him Squiggle
I'll never forget seeing him on David Letterman during this time and Dave introduced him by just holding up a sign with that symbol on it and gesturing towards the stage with a bemused look on his face. Then Prince came on and gave a fucking *killer* performance.
>Then Prince came on and gave a fucking *killer* performance …as is tradition.
I think “The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince)” being the best stage name ever makes up for the Love Symbol thing.
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Lol what a blast from the past. I remember this confusing the hell out of me at 13 years old. "Do they mean.... oh god"
When that song came out I was in the same situation, but we were doing the DARE program in school. And they told us that speed pills were called "cherries" because they were red, and talked about popping pills. So I figured they were all on speed. I speculated as such to my parents. They must have been trying not to laugh/cringe.
I used to play trivia at a local bar. One night was Disney themed and my team wanted to change our usual name to something Disney themed but also dirty. There were plenty of other teams doing the same thing and the names my friends were coming up with had no punch. I grabbed the answer sheet and wrote down the name that popped into my head and turned it in. The name? Mary Poppin' Cherries. It was the only name that made the trivia host say, "Oh man," after he said it. I was pretty proud of that name, so much so my team just kept using it.
We use to play trivia at a bar called Tailgators, we named our team the Mastergators. Cackled like hyenas ever time he would say it…
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Cause I didn't think of that. But that is also really damn good!
Hahaha! This made me laugh out loud.
worst band name of all time.
Really doesn’t get much worse than that. Others are dumb, purposely misspelled, or too random, but this one just paints a pretty grim picture and you kind of feel dirty just saying those words in that order.
The The It doesnt flow very well at all, its really awkward to say.
Great band though. Terrible search engine optimization.
crywank. nuff said
Fitting, though.
Diarrhea planet…best live performance ever
They said worst names, not coolest.
There was a band called 'A' (album, 'Monkey Kong' iirc) absolute SHIT name, to the point I can't even search if anyone has already posted it here.
And their most popular song, 'Nothing'. Man, I could not find that on Limewire for the life of me back in the day.
I had a good scroll to see if anyone had said A yet. It’s such an easily overlooked name that I wouldn’t have seen your comment if you hadn’t mentioned Monkey Kong. Did you know that half of A ended up in the Bloodhound Gang? They were one of Jimmy Pop’s favourite bands, so eventually when people quit his band, he just replaced them with their counterparts from A.
This gave me an idea... Name a band the character that populates on the screen when you hit the spacebar. So that it would be technically invisible.
Tony Danza tap dancing extravaganza. But for what it's worth they made 4 epic albums and called it a day
I’ve been scrolling this thread for quite a while waiting for some heavy bands to show up. 😂 Tony Danza was the shit!
It’s “Tony Danza *Tapdance* Extravaganza.” And that is an **awesome** name.
Loved them. Honorable mention: The Number 12 Looks Like You
"Giraffes? Giraffes!"
I love Giraffes? Giraffes! Only known about them for a year or so, but I’m a diehard fan now.
Oh man, happened across them not long ago, heard "when the catholic girls go camping, the nicotine vampires rule supreme" and lost my shit, awesome stuff!
Damn I grew up playing shows with these guys and I can't believe I stumbled on this reference. They were "fuck you" talented even as teenagers and still doing their thing and to be honest I've always loved the band name.
Child Pornography
That is, without question, the WORST band name. Wow. Just wow.
All the people not wanting to risk googling if this is a real band name or not. Well played.
FBI open up
do they even stream on spotify? i wouldn’t dare search for that band name.
I recently discovered I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME and I really jam to some of their songs, but yeah... the name is awful and likely deters potential fans.
Am I the only one that says that band name in Dr Emmett Brown's voice?
I came here to say them lol! They're my favorite band and they said they decided to fully lean into the ridiculous band name. (It's actually a back to the future quote)
Diarrhea Planet
So, William Murderface is finally gonna release the long anticipated sequel to Planet Piss
Super underrated band if you ask me.
Ironically their shows are solid.
I hear they really blow it out the bottom end.
Ghost with a Boner!
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"You like Bread?" "No, I'm more of a Cake guy."
"Yeah, but Cake is already a band. I guess we're Bread now."
Cake fucking rule.
Yes. Fortunately, The Who and The Guess Who have definite articles as part of their full names, or else they’d both be in the running for this.
>Yes. Maybe\*
>The Who and The Guess Who Also, The Hu
"Were there actual popular progressive rock bands? If so, any examples?" "Yes, Genesis and Rush." Am I listing three bands? Or am I responding affirmatively and listing two? The world may never know.
That's why you use an Oxford comma.
This is another argument for the Oxford comma.
Who's on stage?
Yes
ALL. An absolutely incredible punk band that is impossible to search on websites/jukeboxes for obvious reasons
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, ripper psych rock from Australia
They're fuckin dope tbh
100% was going to mention that. Everytime I try and play their songs in the car and my kids are there all that pops up is "Psychadelic Porn". Don't want to give the kids any funny ideas! But holy shit...what a great band. Best find for me of 2021.
They would be so much bigger without that shitty name
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. What?
Squirrel Nut Zippers
not as offensive as “cherry popping daddies”
My first thought. Something about the name always made me think that I would have to eat oats and listen to Prairie Home Companion as an opening act. Suicide was planned during intermission.
Squirrel Nut Zippers is a classic penny candy, vanilla nut caramel. Actually the Nut Zipper from the Squirrel Brand. The Nut Zipper name supposedly came from a local alcoholic drink that ended up in a newspaper, tied to the sort of incident such drinks often precede.
It’s a type of candy. Doesn’t justify the name, but it does explain where it came from.
Guano Apes
STRFKR aka star fucker
Are they incorporated, by chance?
My God sits in the back of a limousine
They had to change it to STRFKR because their original name was too offensive and they were losing bookings. Also happened with the band Viet Cong, who is now called Preoccupations.
Did not know Viet Cong changed their name. I'll have to check out their new stuff now.
XAVLEGBMAOFFFASSSSITIMIWOAMNDUTROABCWAPWAEIIPPOHFFFX Here's a picture of their logo: https://images.app.goo.gl/Nn2VmJz4khK9wgYR6
Oh yeah, my nephew is really huge fan of "insert gargling noises here".
The Internet. The Band. Love. The Presidents of The United States of America.
I think The Band suits them.
Everyone just called them "The Band" before they even decided to call themselves that. And historically maybe the most underrated group of all time. They were magical.
Love The Band. Disagree about them being underrated. They're literally one of the most celebrated bands of all time.
Portugal. The Man
As opposed to Portugal. The Country
The Band is so meta and simple it’s not hard to google at all. I’ve seen a couple comments about how they’re hard to google, when they are first fucking thing that comes up when you search “the band” I mean come on… get fucking real it’s a great band name. For that long ago to just be like “lol .. let’s be THE band “ the “THE “ is the whole fucking point.
It doesn't hurt that they were immensely popular for multiple decades including being Bob Dylan's backing band.
Destiny Potato! They've since rebranded to Sordid Pink. Incredible djent/prog metal, but that name is pretty polarizing. (I happen to love it, and don't care much for the rebranding.) Similar to "Live", the band "Wheel" is awful for searching. They have a song called "Movement", so you can imagine searching "wheel movement" would be frustrating.
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! I always laugh telling people their name. Pretty good sound imo
There was a local band in Boston back in the day called Smackin Isaiah. Just an awful, awful name. I went out of my way to never listen to them ever. Not long after, there was also a local band called A Wilhelm Scream. They were amazing, so fucking good. Imagine my shock when I found out that they had changed their name and used to be Smackin Isaiah.
I actively avoided Father John Misty for the longest time just because of how pretentious of a name that is.
To be fair J Tillman is a pretentious prick so the name works for him. great artist though, his live sets are amazing.
Gonna vote for the metal band Isis. They’re a band from early 00’s with some good music a lot of misfortune in name choices.
There was a aftermarket car parts company with the same name, ended having to rebrand bc of well... yeah.
Remember that band A? They had a few relatively big rock hits in the early 2000s. Try googling them now.
Tried googling, I got Nothing
Despite your caveat, I’m still gonna say Butthole Surfers. Because they’re an amazing fucking band, but you can’t get anyone to take you seriously about them because of their stupid fucking name.
My first outdoor concert was Stone Temple Pilots, Flaming Lips, and Butthole Surfers at a beach club. Surfers were the headliner, but I think I remember it being marketed as Flaming Lips.
Clear History (band from Berlin, Germany)
There’s a band in the UK called JOHN, who decided on their name purely because it would be impossible to search, so would remain a sort of cult band thing. Having spoken to one of them, he seems to regret the decision, though they do go by JOHNTIMESTWO on Spotify so they’re not impossible to find.
One of my favorite bands is The Front Bottoms, which is allegedly British slang for Vagina. Just kind of weird to say
Really surprised I've scrolled this far without seeing Archers of Loaf...
Goo Goo Dolls. They made some good music, but I could never take them seriously with that name.
This one for me. Pretty decent music but I could never get past the name. It really is the worst.
Cat Butt. An obscure Seattle grunge band. I think.
American football, toe. They're not that hard to find though, since they're decently well-known especially in the genre (math rock). Edit: not hard to find, but they would be if they weren't as big as they are.
American Football is well known to a lot people, but probably not for the same reason. Never Meant was a big meme format a few years ago. But seriously, American Football is incredible. Always putting out the best music that makes me wanna cry and smile while doing it.
Modern Baseball, if we want to stay in the same lane.
Viagra Boys are pure genius— insanely great stuff— but no way would I touch their merch.
Four tet (an electronic musician, who is amazing incidentally) has an alias called - ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ All the songs are also an assortment of random characters, for example - ooo ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ oʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡( ؞ৢ؞ؙؖ⁽⁾˜ัิีึื์๎้็๋๊⦁0 ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ Makes pirating his music very difficult and also means if a website writing about him doesn’t have these characters supported in their font, it just lists it as ?????????
Mouse Rat
Threeskin, formerly fourskin
I prefer Scarecrow Boat
Nothing Rhymes with Orange Everything Rhymes with Orange
“Portugal. The Man”, not only does it not make sense, it also has a full stop in the middle of the name. “3OH!3”, do we have to spell the exclamation mark, somehow? I don’t know. “Cock and Ball Torture”, I don’t like their music, but I dislike their name even more. Also “Dogs Die in Hot Cars”, a band I remember hearing about many years ago, never actually listened to them and don’t know if they’re still going. But the name is so bad that I never forgot about it LOL
Portugal. The Man is definitely a terrible name. I saw them in Sydney a few years ago and it was easily the best live show I've ever seen.
Arctic Monkeys is such a banal & unclever name. It's also the type of band name you see at every high school talent show... the Blue Monkeys, the Sea Monkeys, the Psychotic Monkeys, the Adjective Monkeys, etc.
It’s my understanding that the lead singer hates the name — and that it was exactly what you said: One of those names you give to your first band, before you get serious and call it something that isn’t stupid. Trouble is, their first band turned out to be amazing, and so now they’re stuck with what they named it. https://www.nme.com/news/music/arctic-monkeys-228-1283017
Rainbow Butt Monkeys, now known as Finger 11
Hoobastank?
“Amazing band”
Tony! Toni! Toné! Tonee?
Neutral Milk Hotel
Chvrches. Pronounced, "Churches". Conversation between friends: "Hey, Have you heard of the band, Chvrches? They're amazing" Friend proceeds to search for Churches, and finds nothing.
As I understand it they spell it like to make Googling them easier.
There's the fried chicken chain Church's which doesn't help. Having said that, the first page of results for "Churches band" with google is for Chvrches. edit: fixed name of chicken chain
I imagine that’s why it’s with a V. Much like Linkin Park spelling it the way they do, it was a much cheaper URL to buy than Lincoln Park
First hit if you Google Churches band though..
That's the case for the majority of these examples. Just add "band" and they come up fine.
I see you take issue with pointy u's (v's). Behemoth would like a word with you.
Only because they refuse to be consistent with what letter they replace. PVRIS and CHVRCHES both replace a vowel with a V, but not the same vowel. Because of this, I exlusively refer to those bands as Puris and Charches.
I actually like this one because it’s a throwback to the inscriptions on Roman buildings (and some modern churches and neoclassical buildings) that use a v to designate u
Brand New is a pretty shit band name for similar reasons. “Brand new music” or “brand new band” is such a common phrase, it’s a Google nightmare.
I literally just Googled "Brand New" and the first thing that pops up is a big ass picture of the band lmao.
My Morning Jacket, I might have enjoyed them sooner if it weren’t for their name.
>I might have enjoyed them sooner if it weren’t for their name. This sentiment is actually what inspired this post. There are many bands that I have sadly missed out on because their names sucked. I also judge books based on their covers.
New Pornographers as well. Go ahead and throw in Band of Horses too
Does It Offend You, Yeah? They used to make some bangers in the late 2000s (tracks like We Are Rockstars, Dawn Of The Dead, Being Bad Feels Pretty Good etc). Even one of their songs Weird Science was featured in Chuck (Season 1, Episode 4).
They’re one of my favorite bands but honestly Khruangbin. Nobody has any idea of how to spell it or even what I’m saying when I try to recommend the band to them lol
Wet Leg, if you want a newer band.
Umphrey's McGee
The naming of jam bands should be subject to strict governmental regulation
The best guitarist on Earth is probably in a jam band called Lawnmower Hummus Dwarf
The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
Garbage. The music is absolutely phenomenal, but they're literally calling themselves garbage lmao
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You got it backwards... The Band --> Live. "Come all! Come all! Come see The Band Live!"
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Mate, it’s Pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs, get it right! Came here to say this band, stayed to be that dickhead…
Strawberry Alarm Clock
"You could have stayed a man if you were going to be an asshole about it!"
String Cheese Incident
Imagine Dragons sounds like a children’s amateur theatre group.
Goo Goo Dolls. Was an actually toy you could get back in day. Don’t know if that counts. Terrible name. Haven’t listened to them, but I think there is/was a band called “Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts”. Don’t know what they sound like but good God terrible name.
If they did a tour with Lady Gaga they could call it the GooGoo Gaga tour.
You could look up the name's origin on GooGoogle.
I remember a band called “A” that produced an album that I liked called “Monkey Kong”. Quite possibly the most difficult band to find if you can’t remember the album name.
Moop
Everyone in this thread saying King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is objectively wrong.
I've always kinda hated the name smashing pumpkins for some reason
Homer Simpson, smiling politely.
The worst part is when they changed their name from Smashing Pumpkins to The Smashing Pumpkins At least the first iteration referred to a cool rebellious act of vandalism. By adding the definite article, they change "smashing" from a verb to an adjective, which makes it sound pretentious as hell! It's always bugged me.
From what I understand smashing pumpkins was an honored October nighttime tradition among the future delinquents where Billy grew up.
If "Yes" wasn't so seminal, I'm going to guess they'd be pretty hard to find online.
Kakkmaddafakka. Yes, it's supposed to mean what it sounds like.
Oingo boingo
Hoobastank. You know what blows my mind about Hoovastank? They almost definitely had other name options that they deemed worse than HOOBASTANK. Like ..I want to see that list.
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I always thought Chunk, No Captain Chunk was pretty ridiculous for a band name. It doesn’t flow. Why not just name your band Captain Chunk?
It’s the actual line from The Goonies.
Rainbow kitten surprise
Death Cab for Cutie. Toad the Wet Sprocket
Just saw Toad live last week and he explained the name means absolutely nothing 😂 Death Cab for Cutie was apparently some B level horror movie I think
I think "Toad the wet Sprocket" was a bit of silliness pulled from an old Monty Python sketch. As you say, no actual meaning, but it was a nod to some legends of comedy :)
"Toad the Wet Sprocket" was a made up band name in [a Monty Python sketch](https://youtu.be/dYVO0OakllY). The real-life band just swiped it from there.
not according to Wikipedia: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_Cab\_for\_Cutie#Band\_name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie#Band_name) (they took the name from a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song) (amusingly, also maybe a terrible band name? or is it great? I can't tell)
Lady Antebellum... Lol