# Worst possible band names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 2, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025 "2006-10-02T19:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/101 "2006-10-04T04:24:38Z")
Tonsil Hockey The Fisters Spank the Munki ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Pageant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Silver\_Pageant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Pageant)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/102 "2006-10-04T05:20:07Z")
The Zip Code Rapists were a really great band. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgiaBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GeorgiaBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GeorgiaBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/103 "2006-10-04T12:20:11Z")
Actual band names I just gotta mention: **The Hungry Midgets** **The Yehudi Mormons** (of “Cross Dressing with my Dad” fame) **The Jet Cake Tins** ---
**Author:** ![Carlyjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/104 "2006-10-04T13:37:25Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Oh, and I forgot the band I’d still go see: **IM IN UR FRIDGE STEALIN UR FOODZ** With that cat on the poster. [/QUOTE] If the cat made an appearance, I’d pay an additional $20 per ticket. If they had the fridge, door open and cat inside snacking, displayed on a rising trap-door stage with a spotlight and smoke, I’d pay an additional $75. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/105 "2006-10-04T17:32:02Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] That was a truly inspired piece of darkness. I concede the thread. [/QUOTE] Thank you, thank you! 🆒 Satan is saving a special place for me. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/106 "2006-10-04T18:42:25Z")
**Bloody Tongue and the Thalidomide Babies** was a real band name, now that I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/107 "2006-10-04T19:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] …I mean **Milk Makes Muc_o_us** of course. [/QUOTE] No no, you were right first time. Mucus = noun, mucous = adjective. Nobody ever gets that right. My favourite so far was “WTF & the OMGLOLs”. On a similar note: **1337 + teh Suxx0rZ** and, of course, the band that seems to crop up on every bill this side of Christendom: **E&OE** ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/108 "2006-10-04T19:22:23Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Uncle! [/QUOTE] I’ll do you one better. **Uncle Ned’s Old Sock Drawer** Yes, that was the name of a real band. Yes, I was in that band. Yes, we were good. Damned good. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/109 "2006-10-04T22:46:49Z")
So **Mohammed & The Atta Boys** would be not-so-good? **Black Trench Shooters** **Bloody Stools** **Maggot Therapy** **Bloodstained Panties** I LIKE Tragically Anonymous, personally. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/110 "2006-10-05T00:06:22Z")
Well, if raunch is what the people want… **Drunk Girls Are Easy** **The Sandpaper Condoms** **LoveSexNecrophiliaRunHide** ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/111 "2006-10-05T05:20:37Z")
Well this is about the zillionth band name thread in which I’ve participated. As someone else said, this makes the $15 subscription worth it. Okay, in the realm of _extremely_ poor taste: **Mother F** _ing Theresa_\* or **F** _ing Mother Theresa_\* **The Station Fire** (In February, 2003, a fire erupted in _The Station_, a Rhode Island nightclub which featured rock bands. 100 people died.) **Baby Seal Club** (also, a great name for a nightclub huh?) Let’s see, for names that would get you into _serious_ trouble and/or death: **The Bloods and the Crips** (I’m sure members of these two organizations would express their dismay about copyright infringement). **Hell’s Angels** (See above) **Mafia Informants** **Up With NAMBLA !!!** And let’s not forget a certain US Rep who recently resigned: **That Mark Foley Feeling** ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/112 "2006-10-05T11:17:45Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] Okay, in the realm of _extremely_ poor taste: **Baby Seal Club** (also, a great name for a nightclub huh?) [/QUOTE] Or just a private members’ club. Heck, I’d join in a heartbeat! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/113 "2006-10-05T11:21:10Z")
Although, inevitably, it’s already been [done](http://www.myspace.com/babysealclub)… ---
**Author:** ![GeorgiaBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GeorgiaBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GeorgiaBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/114 "2006-10-05T12:06:03Z")
\*\*The Whom The Paul Butterfield Temporary Affective Disorder Band Anderson Council Ralph in Chains A Dirigible So Heavy It Couldn’t Possibly Fly Marshall Applewhite and the Comets Buddy Holly and the Giant Hissing Cockroaches The Young Funky College Boys Who Have Gathered No Moss \*\* ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/115 "2006-10-05T17:30:43Z")
In the movie “School of Rock”, Jack Black’s students come up with names that are not very applicable to a rock and roll band. (For example, the Koala Bears, the Bumblebees and so on). He says those names are kind of “sissy”. So, with that in mind, how about these “kickass” names? **Casper and the Friendly Ghosts** **The Daffodills** **The Cowardly Lions** ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/116 "2006-10-06T01:18:34Z")
Disney’s Amazing Sounds of Goofy, Pluto, and the Dwarf Planets. Thomas Kincade’s Anus. Jimmy Page and the Foley Artists. No Vacancy. Hoobastank. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/117 "2006-10-06T21:01:39Z")
There actually are bands named the Gloryholes (hardcore punk band from Seattle) and Bloods & Crips (rap act formed in 1992 from members of both gangs during the post-Rodney King riots “cease fire”). I do remember one of the members of the Butthole Surfers being interviewed in Rolling Stone and saying if he had to do it all over again, he would name the band I Shit in your mother’s vagina ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/118 "2006-10-06T21:48:30Z")
[QUOTE=wolf\_meister] **That Mark Foley Feeling** [/QUOTE] Not **The Mark Foley Experience**? Or maybe **Mark Foley and the Pedo Priests** Oh, yea, going to hell for that one. Going the other direction … **Watching Paint Dry** **Dullest Speeches of the United States Congress** **I Know Where The Term ‘The Whole Nine Yards’ Comes From No Really** **Reciting Over A Trillion Digits Of Pi** ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/119 "2006-10-06T21:56:22Z")
I think “Everybody Wants To Rule the World” is a great song, and I groove out to it every time it comes on the iTunes, but really, **Tears for Fears** is one of the lamest band names ever. Does that say “fun, dangerous, and sexy” to you? No, it doesn’t, because they got their band name from their love of primal scream therapy. Hell, **On The Couch** would have been a better band name, because there’s some modicum of sexual inuendo there. I want my rock bands to make me crazier, not saner. That’s kind of the point. “It’s got a good beat, and I can really bug out to it!” not “It’s got a good beat, and it really stabilizes my emotions and helps me come to terms with my mother issues.” ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025/120 "2006-10-11T16:34:27Z")
Some of these band names are pretty good, actually. I think the worst names would fall into one of three categories: **Names that would be confusing on a marquee** Closed for Renovation Welcome Pipefitters Local 182 Hospitality Industry Career Expo Langley - Collins Wedding Collegiate Battle of the Minds **Names that would get you sued** Scientology is a Sham The Oprah Winfrey Experience Walmart Sucks (just about any big corporation name will do) In Synch **Names that are controversial (in a bad way)** Allah and the Jihadists Pedophile Junction Dead Amish Schoolgirls Oppose our Troops [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-possible-band-names/375025.md?page=7)