# Most Stupid Band Names of All Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995 "2004-02-24T22:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/61 "2004-02-26T11:57:52Z")
Wang Chung Band names I’ve considered… Orthodox Taramites Amorphous Mushroom Men Pangean Goat Lords ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/62 "2004-02-26T13:51:56Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Lucas with the Lid Off (this may just be a song title) The artist was just called Lucas. IIRC, the song and the album was called “Lucas with the Lid Off”. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/63 "2004-02-26T13:57:37Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > The Gaye Bikers On Acid, Gaye Bikers used to have an alter-ego band, where all the band members would wear drag. This band was known as “Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds” ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/64 "2004-02-26T14:09:25Z")
> [@RainGrowsBrite](#): > > I am curious why Linkin Park would be considered a bad band name- espeically after naming things like Krispy Ambulance or The Sea and Cake. Is it because they spelled Lincoln incorrectly? Its probably more to do with the fact I hate them, and other bands that spell their names in a wacky way. Except hiphop bands. for shizzle. ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/65 "2004-02-26T18:34:48Z")
OK. I must be a moron. What is the pun in The Beatles? ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/66 "2004-02-26T18:49:45Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > I never said they capitalized on the Kennedy’s deaths. They just thought it would be funny and irreverent to adopt the name and I think they’re assholes for doing it. Being punk doesn’t give you the right to shit on people without consequence. Undoubtedly, there are people who think it does, and you are probably one of them, but it doesn’t! They are assholes! The Right? No, but if you knew anything about the Punk movement, you’d know that extreme irreverence was paramount to the whole thing. “The Dead Kennedys”? Doesn’t get much more irreverent than that. If it pisses you off, then they’ve accomplished exactly what they intended. ---
**Author:** ![Tech\_Sass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Tech\_Sass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tech_Sass)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/67 "2004-02-26T18:51:15Z")
Here’re a couple of local band names I like: Oklahomos Dung Beatles Here’s a real conversation I had with someone once: Him: You’re going to see Who tonight? Me: No. Yes. Him: Who? Me: Yes. Him: Oh. Yes. Arrrrgh! The SXSW music festivalis starting up soon, and the site ([http://www.sxsw.com](http://www.sxsw.com)) has the band listings up. Haven’t heard of most of them myself, but get the giggles reading some of the names. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/68 "2004-02-26T19:05:18Z")
Actually I kind of like “The Presidents Of The United States Of America” for a name. But for some stupid names: All those 70’s bands that sounded like science fiction movies, e.g. “The Alan Parsons Project”. Or like law firms: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer. Hall and Oates Names that don’t seem to mean anything at all. There was, may still be, a local band in Santa Monica called “Monkafust”. At first I thought it was “Monkeyfist”, at least that made a weird sort of sense. But “Monkafust”? What’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/69 "2004-02-26T19:06:16Z")
> [@joshmaker](#): > > OK. I must be a moron. What is the pun in The Beatles? I honestly didn’t notice it until I was almost 30, but the pun surrounds the fact that the correct spelling for the insect is “beetle”. They just replaced the “beet” with “beat”. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA ha ha…ha…ahem. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/70 "2004-02-26T19:11:14Z")
> [@joshmaker](#): > > OK. I must be a moron. What is the pun in The Beatles? Buddy Holly had the Crickets. The lads punned that to the Beetles, but with a rock and roll _beat_. Hence, The Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/71 "2004-02-26T19:18:08Z")
> [@Tech Sass](#): > > Here’s a real conversation I had with someone once: > > Him: You’re going to see Who tonight? > Me: No. Yes. > Him: Who? > Me: Yes. > Him: Oh. Yes. This reminds me of an episode of Eight is Enough (yes, I’m old) where the father (Dick Van Patten) and the youngest son were doing a skit that paralleled the old “Who’s on first?” bit. The two characters in the skit were attending a concert with three stages. On stage one was The Who, on stage two was Yes, and on stage three was The Band. Hilarity ensued. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/72 "2004-02-26T19:57:34Z")
> [@joshmaker](#): > > OK. I must be a moron. What is the pun in The Beatles? Much like the term ‘rock-n-roll’, the popular term at the time for The Beatles style of music was beat music. They were a beat group - hence “The **Beat** les” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Raven\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven_1)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/73 "2004-02-26T20:14:54Z")
Howyadoin, There’s a local act called something like “The Paul Richman Duo”… Kinda sucks to be the other guy, eh? I’ll betcha he thinks his band’s name is _really_ stupid 🙂 -Rav ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/74 "2004-02-26T20:21:29Z")
Way before Eight is Enough, in the late 60s or early 70s, one of the classic comedy groups of the time did a parody using “Who” “Guess Who” and “Yes”. I want to say the Ace Trucking Company, which featured a very young Fred Willard, but I can’t find confirmation of that. ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/75 "2004-02-26T20:44:51Z")
What, no Pearl Jam? ---
**Author:** ![slu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@slu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slu)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/76 "2004-02-26T23:17:30Z")
Five for Fighting is pretty stupid. Especially for such a pussy band. Although the name of my band is Sex Power, so I am not really one to talk. ---
**Author:** ![hipdadiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hipdadiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hipdadiddy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/77 "2004-02-26T23:49:58Z")
Only glimpsed it briefly about fifteen years ago… but it’s _(shudder)_ never left me… a local band advertising itself on a xeroxed poster stuck on a utility pole in Lakewood, Washington… Give it up, ladies and gentlemen, for the _Defecated Corpses!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/78 "2004-02-27T14:42:35Z")
> [@quixotic78](#): > > What, no Pearl Jam? What if one could make jam out of pearls. What do you think it would look like? _coff coff_ sperm _coff coff_ ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/79 "2004-02-27T15:05:56Z")
!!! Yea, that is right, !!!. I do not even know how to say it, but there you go!!! ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/80 "2004-02-27T18:55:36Z")
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