# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/81 "2004-02-27T20:30:37Z")
**The Dandy Warhols** reigns as the ultimate supreme stupid band name. **Spoon** is a strong contender, and **Smashing Pumpkins** ranks up there as well, at least from the day on I learned it’s not supposed to be ‘Smashing Pumpkins’ in the sense of ‘Billy and Ted were merrily smashing pumpkins in the backyard’ but in the sense of ‘These pumpkins are quite smashing, dear’. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/82 "2004-02-27T21:07:44Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > 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. For some reason I thought that bit was done by Michael McKean and David Lander (Lenny and Squiggy). Those are the voices that I recall, anyways. They were in some comedy group but I never knew the name. My vote is “30 Odd Foot of Grunts”. Just awful name. One that is unusual but I like is “Ed’s Redeeming Qualities” ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/83 "2004-02-27T22:19:28Z")
In the early 80’s, there was an underground metal band called **Satan’s Penis**. Actually, come to think of it, that’s a great name. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/84 "2004-02-27T22:44:22Z")
> [@Bomzaway](#): > > 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. As I said before, I know irreverence was what they wanted to convey. And I’m not really pissed off, I just think they’re assholes for the way they went about it. No, I take that back…I \*know \* they’re assholes for the way they went about it. End of story! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/85 "2004-02-27T22:53:30Z")
Didn’t there use to be a band called \*\* The Day Glow Abortions\*\*? ---
**Author:** ![metanet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@metanet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metanet)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/86 "2004-02-28T00:47:29Z")
I sort resumes at a large company in Toronto; one day I came across a guy whose credentials included being Musician and Band Manager with 5 poorly named (imo) bands: **The Pop Shove Its** **Mushroom Explosion** **Weakling** **The Waxies** **King Kung** ugh. anyone ever heard of **Moxy Früvous**? ---
**Author:** ![SAustinTx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@SAustinTx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SAustinTx)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/87 "2004-03-01T00:41:57Z")
[From Rockdetector:](http://www.rockdetector.com) METAL DUCK LINE UP Andy Parker Tortoise Gore (vocals), Fozzy Daniels Tarbuck Monkhouse Disneyland (guitar), Keith Tractor Safari 25 Minutes Robot (bass), Glam Dyno Rod Piella (drums) A bizarre, yet shortlived Liverpool based humourous Thrash band, METAL DUCK were quickly eclipsed by LAWNMOWER DETH and ACID REIGN. Having started life in 1985 as RAMPANT DUCK before adopting the METAL DUCK title and releasing ‘Quack core’ demo in 1987. The group issued another demo with vocalist Andy (ex ELECTRO HIPPIES) in 1988 before sharing a split LP on the Leicester based RKT label with LAWNMOWER DETH, featuring the line-up of: Dave (drums / vocals), Hutti (vocals), Fozzy (guitar / vocals) and Keith (bass / vocals) QUACK EM ALL 1989, RKT CMO 192 TRACK LISTING 1. Destruction Song 2. Stepping Stone To Hell 3. Pek-Yr-Ass 4. Bombay Duck 5. NxDxQxC 6. Cheese Puff Death Squad 7. March Of The Metal Ducks To The Ponds Of Hell 8. Rod, Jane & Freddys Total Noise Anihilation 9. Der, Der, Der 10. Ooerr I’ve Got A Sore Throat ---
**Author:** ![SAustinTx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@SAustinTx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SAustinTx)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/88 "2004-03-01T00:49:23Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > The Barenaked Ladies were called “Free Chicken and Beer” but they couldn’t get put on a marquee anywhere. Speaking of bands that had marquee problems, I once interviewed a metal band named Pissing Razors that had the same problem. They named themselves after a fateful visit to a Mexican whorehouse. They’re still around and doing fairly well in the metal underground. > [@](#): > > Lucas with the Lid Off (this may just be a song title) This is a song, and was done by a one-hit wonder guy named (surprise!) Lucas. [Cite](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040402270504562025&sql=A5267gjuro6in) ---
**Author:** ![SAustinTx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@SAustinTx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SAustinTx)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/89 "2004-03-01T00:51:15Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > In the early 80’s, there was an underground metal band called **Satan’s Penis**. Actually, come to think of it, that’s a great name. I sorely miss the old stoner thrash band Iron Monkey, who had one of my favorite song titles of all time: “666 Pack”. ---
**Author:** ![SAustinTx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@SAustinTx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SAustinTx)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/90 "2004-03-01T00:56:12Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > !!! > > Yea, that is right, !!!. > > I do not even know how to say it, but there you go!!! [From allmusic.com](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040402270504562025&sql=Byf9ss32la3bg) \*\*The curiously named !!!, whose moniker can be pronounced by repeating any one-syllable percussive sound three times (e.g., “chk chk chk”), \*\* I think they’re probably shooting themselves in the foot album-sale wise, since I couldn’t even pull them up by band name. Luckily I knew the name of one of their songs (“Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard”). ---
**Author:** ![SAustinTx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@SAustinTx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SAustinTx)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/91 "2004-03-01T01:00:54Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Oh! I actually know the story behind this one. They did an interview on MTV a year or so and explained the name. Seems that when they were first playing together, they’d played a lot of hopscotch (really) while trying to figure out the lyrics. Wherever they were while doing this, they upset a grounds and roads-type employee who didn’t speak English. Apparently he’d point at the chalked hopscotch set up and scream at them in another language. The best aproximation of what he was yelling is Hoobastank. They said they never did figure out what language it was, or if he meant hopscotch or was berating them about a mess. Not how I’d pick naming a band, but… Ugh. That’s what I hate about so many “alternative” bands these days. They choose things like lyrics, song titles, all the way up to the name of their band by stupid inside jokes that only the band members would know, and we’re supposed to think that’s “deep”. Just sounds like laziness to me. But then, I grew up listening to heavy metal, and despite the inherent cheese factor in the genre, with a few exceptions you could usually expect decent album artwork, band names, album titles, etc. (that is if you didn’t find the whole aesthetic of 80s metal ridiculous in the first place). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995/92 "2004-03-01T01:04:18Z")
> [@Bomzaway](#): > > What if one could make jam out of pearls. What do you think it would look like? > _coff coff_ sperm _coff coff_ For the record, this connection has been denied by Pearl Jam. The official story is that the name really has no meaning, although early in the band’s career they made up a fanciful tale about the famous preserves of Eddie Vedder’s great-grandmother (who was, in fact, named Pearl). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-stupid-band-names-of-all-time/230995.md?page=4)