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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+157#25.
Porno for Pyros
The story: Former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell came up with the name while watching coverage of the LA riots on television. Presumably while jacking off.
#24.
Nickelback
The story: Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, and so approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got—waiiiit for it—a nickel back. (It was either that or We're Sorry About the Homeless Man Shooting Up in the Bathroom.)
#23.
The Alan Parsons Project
The story: Founder Alan Parsons started a "project" with other "project administration personnel" to "drill down" on this whole "music" thing he'd heard so much about. So he named it that.
#20.
Smashing Pumpkins
The story: More of a cautionary tale than anything else, bandmates Billy Corgan and co. reportedly dashed the name off quickly so they could get on with their lives, not realizing they'd be fielding lame pumpkin-based jokes about it for the rest of their lives.
#19.
Def Leppard
The story: Singer Joe Elliott thought of the name Deaf Leopard while he was in school (presumably while failing something). The spelling was later changed so the band didn't become confused with punk bands (who are known for their flawless spelling).
#18.
W.A.S.P.
The story: Eager for a cool-sounding metal band name, Blackie Lawless, Rik Fox, Randy Piper and Tony Richards decided to take the word "wasp," then for no reason punctuate the ***** out of it.
#17.
Puddle of Mudd
The story: The 1993 Missouri River flood left the band's practice space a muddy mess, which led them to this name—instead of the far better one, Missouri River Flood.
#16.
Of Montreal
The story: Frontman Kevin Barnes has told many conflicting stories about where this Athens, Ga. band got their name, but the one that seems to have gained acceptance is that he was dating a girl from Montreal and it didn't work out.
#15.
Goo Goo Dolls
The story: The band found the name in an issue of True Detective Magazine after a club owner balked at their original name, the Sex Maggots.
#14.
The The
The story: A British act decided to come up with a band name even more ironically detached than the Band, just to make Robbie Robertson feel like an *****.
#13.
Mr. Mister
The story: The band's name references a record by another band called the Weather Report, which had the line "Mister Fister" in it.
#12.
The Mr. T Experience
The story: The members saw Mr. T on television and thought, for some reason, it would be funny to name their band after him.
#11.
Panic! At the Disco
The story: Named after the Smiths song, "Panic," which includes a line about a disco burning down. Note that this offers no explanation whatsoever for the exclamation mark/typo.
#10.
Limp Bizkit
The story: Rumor has it that the name comes from the title of the masturbation game, "limp biscuit," in which a group of, no doubt, highly intelligent scholars stand around a biscuit and masturbate onto it. The last guy to ejaculate has to eat it. So in a metaphorical way, the American public has been losing this game every time Limp Bizkit released an album.
#9.
Chumbawamba
The story: A group of British "anarchists" with strong political opinions needed a band name that resonated with the passion of their views, and so picked a gibberish word that means nothing.
#8.
Enuff Z'nuff
The story: Founding member Chip Z'nuff's name rhymed with "enough." And so a legacy of reason was born.
#7.
Mott the Hoople
The story: When the band regrouped in the late 1960s, their new manager changed their name from Silence to Mott the Hoople, after a novel of the same name about a circus freak.
#6.
Hoobastank
The story: In an interview, here's what the band's vocalist, Doug Robb, had to say about the name: "It's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything."
#5.
Toad the Wet Sprocket
The story: The band named themselves after a comment in an Eric Idle monologue on a Monty Python album. This, then, is the musical equivalent of the A/V club nerds who recited the "Knights Who Say Nee" sketch over and over.
#4.
Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts
Story: There are competing origin stories for the name of Russell Crowe's band, neither of which anyone but writers of Worst Band Name Lists care about. Since we fall into that category, here's the one that sounds most plausible to us: Russell Crowe added up the collective height of the band members and then came up with the word that most closely approximated his nuanced vocal stylings.
#3.
Hootie and the Blowfish
The story: The band is named for two of singer Darius Rucker's college choir friends, nicknamed "Hootie" and "the Blowfish" because one looked like an owl and the other like a blowfish. Interesting note: That choir was named Darius the Black Guy & The Two Ugliest Dudes on Campus.
#2.
Archers of Loaf
The story: Because the band members apparently wanted to spend every single interview talking about their name, they came up with the stupidest one they could think of.
#1.
!!!
The story: aka Chk-Chk-Chk. In the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, the clicks in the Bushmen's native language were represented with exclamation marks in the subtitles. The band thought that was cool, apparently, and named themselves three clicks. (This also makes the second band that's completely unsearchable by Google.) - f4nt0m4s, on 10/22/2007, -1/+42any list of "ridiculous band names" that doesn't include The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza is weaksauce
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+32Any list that excludes: Anal *****, The Day-Glo Abortions, Elvis Hitler, and the Butthole Surfers is so weak.
- theblindman2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Hmmmm, I rather like the name Porno For Pyros, it says forest fire to me...
- mt066, on 10/11/2007, -4/+27Ha...Nickelback is so lame that even their name has a lame story behind it. They thought it up from $2 coffee at Starbucks? How can you not make fun of that band?
- Foenetik, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Revolting *****
???
there are waaaay better choices out there. - triplej, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23I love Porno for Pyros ... but the Nickelback is classically bad.
- trc0, on 10/11/2007, -9/+26no anal *****?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt - TheSwagger, on 10/11/2007, -5/+22Awesomely ridiculous band names that didn't make the list::
Spock's Beard
Swinging Utters
Mr Bungle
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Cake - TheUngod, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15How bout the Butthole Surfers?? Or Butt Trumpet? or anything with "butt" in the name.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Actually "weaksauce" would be a good band name.
- Bartboy919, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Limozeen?
- Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Butthole Surfers? C'mon, now!
- tehpyro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Rainbow Butt Monkeys.... nuff said... and if you come back and say "They arn't the rainbow butt monkeys anymore they are finger eleven" then i repeat myself and say nuff said
- wattznext, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Mr. Bungle comes from a goofus and gallant type film strip for 1960's elementary schools. Some guy always did his homework before going out to play, while "mr. bungle." never bothered to do his.
Doesnt make it good, just figured i'd share the trivia. - IvanB, on 10/11/2007, -7/+14http://www.cracked.com/print.php?sid=2145
All on one page. - DiggLord, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14Why the hell isn't Anal ***** on this list?
- imamessy1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10No Butthole Surfers?
- shmatt, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Mr. Bungle rules, though.
- TheSalmonThief, on 10/11/2007, -6/+13Since when is Panic! a real band?
- funkytaco, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I'm rather fond of the Circle Jerks.
- Spacecow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7There's a terrible grindcore band out there named Vincent Price's Orphan-Powered Death Machine.
I think that's a pretty sweet name. - chrisbtig, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8C) They suck
- Haapi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"Protestant", actually, not "person".
- h0merg0mez, on 10/11/2007, -5/+11A couple things about Panic! at the Disco...
A) I believe their name is stolen from a Name Taken song rather than the Smiths, and
B) They wouldn't be nearly as popular if they had some generic, one-word name. - wattznext, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10"If you're going to pick a band name that doesn't mean *****, there's an unspoken rule it should at least sound cool (Soundgarden, etc)"
Soundgarden is hardly a band name that sounds cool but doesnt mean *****. it's the name of a sculpture garden in seattle, where all the sculptures are of musical instraments. not a bad basis for a band name.
Now Audioslave...thats ***** terrible. - rayearth42, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9I'm curious, do you live under a rock or are you 10 years old?
At the risk of sounding like a douchbag myself, I knew all except The Mr. T Experience and Archers of Loaf. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+13Panic! At The Disco is rock? oO Wtf is with this list?
- catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7We heard you the first time.
- DarthTurducken, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Some of my favorite band names:
Pitbull Daycare
BumGravy
John Cougar Concentration Camp - amowls, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4terrible grindcore bands always have the best names.
my favorite is AIDS Wolf - techsmack, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What about 'Death Cab for Cutie'? It in no way captures any essence of the band, even the Ben Gibbard wishes they wouldn't have chosen it, over all the misconception it has brought.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4it was a copy and paste job from the site. i know what w.a.s.p. stands for
- howski, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Spock's Beard was great until Neal went crazy christian and quit.
- aurorous, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6As a barenaked ladies fan I'm slightly offended that BNL wasn't included on this list. great band but silly name.
Also "live" should be here too. - crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Anything with a jab at pitchfork = instant win
- discman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Does anyone remember The Electric Flag, The Electric Prunes, Atomic Rooster. The Ugly Ducklings ???
- timfitz99, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8Only problem, citing bands as choosing names you can't Google when the bands existed LOOOOOONG before Google (i.e. "The The").
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4There's a local band in England called 'Callum mixes paint' because "that's what he was doing"
- whatsupmtv, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Not to many people listen or even know what "grindcore" is.
- leethefilmer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3E) LOL
- DeadFly, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Bow as I unleash a list from a zillion years ago...
2 Live Stew
Abatior Calves
Angiosperms
BDSM - Big Dumb Slimey Mofo's
Babbling Professors
Barbie Bones
Barney Gone Bad
Barney and the Jurassic Tabernacle Choir
Bastards From Hell
Ben Gay, Bob Straight
Bill Clinton and the Bosstones
***** and Bubblegum
Bladder Infection
Bladder Polyps
Blood Fart
Blown Grits
Bob's Your Uncle(Canadian band)
Bosnian Cheer Squad
Bottom Feeder
Breakfast Missed List
Breast Fetish
Bull Dike Troll
Buy This ***** CD, You Cheap Bastard
Caution: Cars May Stop At Any Time
Cheesecake Truck(Bergen, Norway)
Chocolate Fetus
Chocolate Overdose(Bergen, Norway)
Chunderspew(songs: "Vaseline Machine-gun"/"Post-coital Drip")
Clownfeast
Concrete Clitoris
Consider, If You Will, The Wombat(formed by members of Fondling Wombats)
Contaminated Sludge
Conway Twitty Is Dead
Crushed Velvet Vivisection
Cunning Stunts
Dain Brammage
Dancing with Darwin
Dayglow Abortions
Deadstock
Desirable Indecency
Dog Vomit
Don't Worry - Bea Arthur
Dr. Goodfoot and The Toxic Socks
Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem
Dracula Was Gay
Dripping Seaweed
Driver Speaks No English
Elder Feces
Fat Lady at the Opera
Fondling Wombats
Four Out Of Five Doctors and The Nurses
Frankie Goes To Hell
Free beer(California band)
Freebase Barbie
Fuzzy Triangle
Graveyard Psychedelic
Holiday Botchalism
Hoof and Mouths
Hull Down in Tall Grass
Hulled Down in Tall Grass
If It's White - It's Yeast
If You Don't Like Our Music, Then ***** You
Ill Boot'n Gotti
Insect Surfers
Intestinal Gas
Jimi was a Junkie
Jokke and the Valentiners
LL Ice T Hot Cool Sir Screams A-Lot
Load Bearing Members
Locomotive Gangbang(Bergen, Norway)
Loud And Obnoxious
Low Booth Overhang
Macho Bee Keepers
Mary's Danish
Masochistic Beat
Mechanical Affection
Monkey Brains
Morally Unencumbered
Morons Who Can't Play Worth *****
Mouthful of Reason
OOPS!
On Ramp
PAP smear
Penetrated Nipples
Pluto's Gonads
Pogo Pops
Pointless Thievery
Politically Correct Gangsters
Potential Brain Damage
Psychotic Gell Cells
Public Access Patty
Pusilanimous Pygmy
Quagmire
Quivering Sphincters
Radio Free Idaho
Raga Rockers
Sally and the O-Rings
Sarcastic Jello
Schwarzenegger's Atomic Hemmorhoids
Screaming Hood Ornaments
Sexy Chocolate(Eddie Murphy movie "Coming to America")
Silies of the Valley
Skankin' Pickle
Slugs
Social Coyotes
Somnambulistic Dream
Spleen Bishops(seen in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)
Spontaneous Chubby
Staples 'N Soy Sauce
Steel Pigeon
Stiff
Stiff Nipples
Stump Stompers
Sven And Some Guys Who Don't Speak English
Tastes Like Chicken
The Bra Straps
The Bright Dimwits
The Dining Philosophers
The Fat Bitch In Winston Phillips(punk band in Los Angeles)
The Horny Goats
The Intestines
The Musical Dwarves(Bergen, Norway)
The Not-Sensibles
The Phallic Cymbals
The Rabbit Died
The Spewing Heads
The Superating Pustules
The Whatever Four
Tiger Lard
Tiny Desk Unit
Tipper and the Deadbeats
Tong Tango
Tragic Rabbit
Tranquilly Vertical to a Gurza
Trenchcoat Batmitzuah
Ulterior Motive
Understandible Idiots
Urge to Anthropomorphise
Vaginal Blood Farts
Valley Solo
Vas Deferens
Vomit and the Zits(Montreal)
Vomiting Corpse
We Like Gerbil Food
We Play ***** That Would Make A Deaf Man's Ears Bleed
Weeping Tile
Wet Mounts
Who Is That Girl In The Red Dress, And Why Does She Keep Calling Me Andrew?(British band from the 1980s)
Yeast-O-Rama
Yeah Love Swans(Bergen, Norway)
Ye Ha Wanna Have A Baba(Bergen, Norway)
Yesterday's Digestion - Klarth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
- yargthepirate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4D) Balls.
- tehgoatman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3barenakes ladies took their name so that people would see signs like "now showing barenaked ladies"
- nerditup, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2no one cares, go back to Oprah
- davestar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2How 'bout:
The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza - KrazyA1pha, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Heresy! How dare you drag the name of Tool through the mud!
- tdogg241, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That was the first band I thought of when I saw this list. The second was Anal *****.
This list sucks. - WoollyMittens, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Burried you for being a sour-puss.
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