What band names make you cringe?
What band names - from any area past or present - that make you shake your head in utter disbelief?
Personally, I thought that The Butthole Surfers and The Cherry Poppin' Daddy's were pretty cringe-worthy.
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1) The Dick Gas Three (I'm going to pretend that I'm referring to someone named Richard here, so that Mahalo doesn't boot me for profanity. :p)
2) Another name the band had prior to their current one, I can't even write uncensored, without violating terms of service. So here's the censored version: "The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's A***ole"
Seriously. Those guys had some messed up names. :p
Besides that, though, I think the worst names ever in the history of music are the ones that are two words joined together into one (like Nickelback, Switchfoot, Yellowcard, Chumbawumba, et all). Seriously, those names are so horrible, they not only make me cringe, but just hearing them or seeing them gives me an almost irresistible urge to smash my head into the nearest brick wall.
On the other end of the spectrum, there's bands that have names that sound like diseases,. They have really cool band names, like Anthrax, or the Dave Clark Five (sorry, I really couldn't resist that last one. :p).
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1. Smashing Pumpkins-- that is just a really lame one!
2. The goo goo dolls-- Okay, who thought up that one??
3.The The-- Wow.
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Thank you. Glad to help.
Chumbawumba - horrible name!
I think the idea of picking such ridiculous names is for the "shock value" - they think people will remember the name and it will help their careers. However, it seems to me that these types of bands are usually one hit wonders.
Ironically enough, they get remembered by people like us for their crappy names. :p