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’.
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”
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.
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! 
Didn’t there use to be a band called ** The Day Glow Abortions**?
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?
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
- Destruction Song
- Stepping Stone To Hell
- Pek-Yr-Ass
- Bombay Duck
- NxDxQxC
- Cheese Puff Death Squad
- March Of The Metal Ducks To The Ponds Of Hell
- Rod, Jane & Freddys Total Noise Anihilation
- Der, Der, Der
- Ooerr I’ve Got A Sore Throat
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.
This is a song, and was done by a one-hit wonder guy named (surprise!) Lucas. Cite
I sorely miss the old stoner thrash band Iron Monkey, who had one of my favorite song titles of all time: “666 Pack”.
**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”).
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).
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).