Stupid band names

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that is a great one lol

Killing Joke

idk I guess their music is fittingly edgy and juvenile (in the nostalgic sense) so it kind of works but it's still a dumb name.

It might be a stupid name, but if you like Sabbath style Doom Metal, these guys are right up there with Sleep, Bongzilla, Electric Wizard and Appalachian Terror Unit. (And to a lesser extent, St. Vitus and Witchfinder General)

Car Seat Headrest
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band names are good filters

>Shellac
>Wire
>Television

What kind of names are those for a band?

Most engrish Japanese band names and Metalcore band names.

Metalcore is practically satire, people in metalcore bands are satire

pavement

the beatles
the feelies
beach boys
modest mouse
beach house
tom tom club
the triffids
the clean
the only ones
orange juice
blur
the halo benders
big star
oingo boingo
half man half biscuit
cleaners from venus

I don’t mean that the band is bad, it’s just the name that sucks.

Grimes

I can't believe somebody even knows who The Feelies were.

But yeah, bands names like Beach House, Pavement, The Clean, and Orange Juice are pretty stupid. You might want to add The Diodes to that list. There are others with names equally stupid, but they're not coming to me right now.

I figured as much.

get offe your high horse brother
the feelies are acclaimed
check out any greatest hits of the 80s there it is
like track number 6

furthermore
yeah
ill just ADD THAT TO THE LIST i keep in my fuckine pocket wont i
those names came to me i don't keep a list why would i in case
some nobody ever comes and makes this thread ill pull it out
ofmy pocket thanks for being so prepared so glad i made this
really cuts the time i use to post in to a small fraction

>radiohead
>noone has a radio on their head

a radio head is someoen who is a fan of radios
like a gear head
or a bucket head

You'd actually be surprised how many people DON'T know who The Feelies are/were.

Glad you appreciated my help in adding names to your list. Like you said, you never know when somebody is going to come up with a thread like this one.

Oh, I just thought of some other stupid names for bands that actually exist (or existed once upon a time)

The Kind
Husker Du
Huey Lewis and The News

What kind of names are those for a band? Huh?

Hope you appreciate the help, and will add those names to your list as well.

You're welcome.

Have a terrific Valentine's Day with your girlfriend.

husker ce husker du

This.

this
if a band has shitty name, I just don't bother

>Sleep, Bongzilla, Electric Wizard and Appalachian Terror Unit
all those bands are shitty Master of Reality copycats

dude The Feelies aren't obscure like at all lmao

>Appalachian Terror Unit
This is wildly off topic, but I looked these guys up because I didn't know anything about them and I like all of those other bands. Turns out, I used to work with their drummer. He used to hook me up with a bunch of good music that opened me up to all kinds of stuff I didn't even know existed beforehand. He's a good dude. I knew he was a drummer but I had no idea that he was in a band that actually toured around the world. The world is a strange place sometimes.

>rule 1: please stay on topic for all posts

Nine Inch Nails
NoMeansNo
Red House Painters
Talking Heads
Alt-J
Adult Jazz
BADBADNOTGOOD
Big L
Bolt Thrower
The Dead Milkmen
The Drums
The Fucking Champs
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Preoccupations (fka Viet Cong)
Power Trip
Rapeman
Talk Talk

Aw thanks bud, I nearly embarrassed myself there.

>Red House Painters
>Bolt Thrower
But these are pretty cool band names.

bolt thrower like nut tosser
its like limp bizkit

wrong

Whitney

>bolt thrower like nut tosser
Nice haha. I think the idea is more like Zeus throwing bolts of lightning.

corny af

>Talking Heads

so what the hell makes a band name good or bad...? Is it the reference to interesting/cool/good imagery, or sufficiently only the absence of reference to bad imagery? I'm talking about the images that pop into your head when you read the words. Is there really such a thing as an objectively tasteful set of words when together the words don't have any meaning?

faggot

Television is a great name

Talking heads is one of my favourite band names

Wire is a good name. It sounds very minimal and "taught" which fits the band's sound.

How could there be an objectively good name? If you accept there isn't, because you're definitely not going to get everyone in the world to agree on one, your question about what makes a band name good or bad is sort of redundant or at least individualised to the point that trying to trip people up with pedantic definintions/defintion related questions is almost pointless/useless. Unless you're actually asking that in good faith, which I didin't get from the way you phrased it.

Naw its a 40k thing. Still a little lame but it works well enough.

Me

>The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
>Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
>... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Anything that sounds like it could be a Chiodos song then?

>i wrote haikus about cannibalism in your yearbook

might as well just be called The Greenwood's 5

I suppose. Generally I dislike band names that are unnecessarily long or more of a sentence than an actual name

Pretty much every 3rd wave post-rock band

my bloody valentine is of course a very ridiculous and embarrassing name

Maybe an even a pothead

>BadBadNotGood
>Cymbals Eat Guitars
>Big Thief

I like the way BadBadNotGood sounds. Why is it you don't like it?

Interesting. Thanks for the info. I know nothing about 40k.

haha yes absolutely
the pleb filters are working

It sounds like something a minion or similar fictional creature would say in a corny family movie. Like the hero turns out to be immune to the villains tricks and then they cut to the minions saying >badbadnotgood
You know what I mean?

I do know what you mean. I've never considered it like that, I've always imaged it being said quickly in a normal voice to describe a situation. If I heard it like you did in a corny way I would definitely agree with you.
Interesting to know though, thanks.

Hard to top this one.

it's actually the best stupid band name

"kiss the anus of a black cat" is the worst I've seen, which is a shame cause the music is pretty good