# Band names that prevent a career **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471 "2008-04-08T16:07:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/41 "2008-04-08T20:08:15Z")
Going out of Business Free Puppies to Good Home Ballroom Dance Lessons Hamlet ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/42 "2008-04-08T20:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] [The Airborne Toxic Event](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJi2z3tGKIg&feature=related) is playing a free concert in Culver City tomorrow night. [/QUOTE] Damn beat me to the link. I think that Closed for Repairs is my favorite choice so far. I just can’t see it working on a marquee. My entry is Welcome Nebraska Salesmen. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/43 "2008-04-08T20:12:21Z")
How about - Christians Rock Out! Saving Ourselves for Marriage Chastity & the Abstainers Your Parents’ Band the All Nude Rock Show (starring Sandra Bernhardt, Mama Cass and…Liza!) the Yoko Ono Tribute Band ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/44 "2008-04-08T20:12:48Z")
Various Artists. They may want to buy your CD, but they’ll NEVER find it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/45 "2008-04-08T20:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] You’d think that Biohazard and Municipal Waste would’ve had some problems, but they’re both doing all right. I’d eat my hat if there was no metal band named Condemned. [Fortunately, my hat is safe.](http://www.myspace.com/condemneduk) (Fair warning, that’s a link to a MySpace page with sound. Also, I’m not impressed.) [/QUOTE] And they join Saves the Day, Severe Tire Damage, and Avatar as bands that I thought would make a great band name before I knew they really existed. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/46 "2008-04-08T20:13:43Z")
[QUOTE=ZebraShaSha] It’s a valid point, though. For a few weeks I had no idea how to announce “Caribou and the.. umm.. F Buttons!” on the air for promo. Lots of promo is difficult with that kind of name. What’s worse is when your band is simply called F. [/QUOTE] There is a great band called Jackie O’MotherF\*\*r (censored for the family friendliness of it all) and I have always wondered about how they got billed when they play live. ---
**Author:** ![Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ersatz_Shmoe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/47 "2008-04-08T20:14:05Z")
I saw a band in this one tiny club in Gainesville in 2001, and while they were pretty good, and all really nice guys, I felt bad for them. After all, how is a band ever going to get much of an audience with a ridiculous name like Death Cab for Cutie? ---
**Author:** ![Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ersatz_Shmoe)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/48 "2008-04-08T20:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] [The Airborne Toxic Event](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJi2z3tGKIg&feature=related) is playing a free concert in Culver City tomorrow night. [/QUOTE] A reference to the novel _White Noise_, which is itself a problematic band name. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/49 "2008-04-08T20:18:00Z")
In a similar vein, our theoretical band when I was out of college (Theoretical Band wouldn’t be a bad name, at that) was going to have annoying album names. We were going to start with “Greatest Hits”, go on to “The Tribute Album,” then perhaps “Selftitled”. Around five or six we were going to have “Their First Album”. I feel comfortable enough leaking this information as we will probably never actually put the band together (people moved away, drummer died, nobody really plays appropriate band instruments) but I refuse to give away the name of the band because it’s the best rock band name ever. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/50 "2008-04-08T20:32:29Z")
Jehovah’s Witnesses ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/51 "2008-04-08T21:06:44Z")
Accordianocity. ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/52 "2008-04-08T21:07:00Z")
Abba ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/53 "2008-04-08T21:09:20Z")
More student suggestions: Whites Only Going Out of Business ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/54 "2008-04-08T21:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=ZebraShaSha] What’s worse is when your band is simply called F. [/QUOTE] I’ve heard that Simmons and Stanley wanted to name their band F\_\_\_, but were told they’d never get airplay, and probably some store bannings, so they settled for KISS. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/55 "2008-04-08T21:13:02Z")
Services at 10AM each Sunday ---
**Author:** ![been\_lurking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@been\_lurking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/been_lurking)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/56 "2008-04-08T21:14:32Z")
I always thought Hatebreed would kill them after a certain point, but they got further than we ever imagined. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/57 "2008-04-08T21:15:38Z")
[QUOTE=Dumbguy] Abba [/QUOTE] Why is this so confusing and club owner maddening? ---
**Author:** ![TonyF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@TonyF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonyF)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/58 "2008-04-08T21:23:01Z")
I recently went to a show, listed as: 8:00 PM The Pillows Noodles • All Ages ($21/$26) I was really surprised that there were three bands… ETA: my nomination would be something along the lines of “Doors Open at 7” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/59 "2008-04-08T21:35:38Z")
Broken Toilets No Heat Tonight ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471/60 "2008-04-08T21:43:38Z")
[QUOTE=Cardinal] I’ve heard that Simmons and Stanley wanted to name their band F\_\_\_, but were told they’d never get airplay, and probably some store bannings, so they settled for KISS. [/QUOTE] Check out their [Wikipedia.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck_(band)) 8 albums, 9 different labels. They recorded their latest album in January 2007 but have not yet found someone to release it. They were even told by Matador to change their name.. or else. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/band-names-that-prevent-a-career/444471.md?page=4)