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Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
I like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies tribute band, the Hymen Bustin Fathers
They’re still touring, too!
But they played at the Super Bowl halftime show once so they are okay /s
Did they really? That may have been peak 90s
I remember when I was a pre teen and I wanted a Limp Bizkit CD for Christmas, my mother said that the name of the band sounded vulgar and she wouldn’t get it for me. Instead she got me a Cherry Poppin’ Daddies CD… Smh
I’m sure it was never about the band name. She probably heard Limp Bizkit on the radio and later in the day heard “Zoot Suit Riot” and was like “I know what will make my son fit in at Middle School. Big band swing music”
Sigh…
“It’s swing music so it’s okay” was probably what she thought
Relevant Todd in the Shadows that came out just a few days ago.
Jimmy Eat World should be part of the conversation due to their acronym.
Who ever called them J.E.W.? Or when did they ever use that acronym themselves?
Perhaps tried to and then realised
Or The Band.
Amazing band though
The Band
Honestly one of the best! An excellent lyricist and songwriter as well - although a little heavy handed on the harmonica.
Incorrect. It’s understandable because we all make mistakes. But the assignment was “worst band name ever”, not “best band name ever”. When you’re older you’ll understand why he did it
What is that? Seen it on someone’s wall near me too
Prince had a legal fight with his record label over ownership of his music. As a protest, he changed his artist name from “Prince” to this symbol.
And had floppy discs with the character code sent out to all the music magazines so they could print it. As Charlie Murphy put it, dude could ball.
Prince, formerly known as “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince” (this symbol), formerly known as Prince.
Butthole Surfers have not been mentioned yet?
Yeah, the title of the thread is worst names ever. That’s on an orthogonal axis with most likely to make an 11 year old boy giggle
For some reason they’re always intertwined in my head with another terribly named band, Diarrhea Planet.
hey… i was a butthead in the 90s.
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. Such a pain in the arse when you have to refer to them.
Do you just say “seven pigs” or “Pigs 7”? Or do you literally say “pigs” seven times?
Are there seven of them?
(Looked it up, there are five of them and they abbreviate it to “Pigs x7”.)
There was a band called Pigface for a bit who were actually good
Hoobastank
Good old Xavleg
That’s the one i was thinking of - for anybody who hasn’t heard of them: that’s not the band name. That’s the acronym of the band name. Each one of those letters belongs to a word
The band öOoOoOoOoOo is a bit unwieldy.
Supposedly pronounced as “caterpillar” in whatever language you prefer.
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Oh honey, Freddie was a bigger Queen than Elizabeth, Danaerys, and Latifah rolled into one.
Next you’re gonna tell me The Police isn’t a group of cops
no they are real police, they watch every step you take
every move you make, they’ll be watching you.
That played concerts at sun city in apartheid south Africa and have heavily glossed over the fact afterwards
Imagine Dragons
No, Imagine Dragons is kind of cool… if you believe them when they say it’s not their real band name. They originally came up with a phrase that meant something special to all of them, but they didn’t think it would work as a band name, so they anagrammed it into Imagine Dragons (I assume some letters were reused or left off somehow). So there’s this big mystery over what their real name is.
And that kind of plays into some dragon lore where if you know a dragon’s true name, you have control over it. You don’t know Imagine Dragons’ true name — no one does. Perfectly acceptable if you think a band having a secret name is lame. They’ve said at some point they may reveal it, but they’re afraid people will be disappointing, because as they originally said, it wouldn’t make for a cool name.
This sounds even more dumber and pretentious.
if you know a dragon’s true name, you have control over it.
I thought that was Devils??
It’s pretty common across a lot of fantasy creatures tbh.
Though it’s often True Name as in a fantasy idea that everyone and everything has a secret name that even they don’t know, one that the universe gave them. Rather than just knowing their given name.
Another common thing is that dragons speak True Speech, a magical language that’s understood by every living creature with a brain
I already disliked them, you didn’t need to make them even more unlikeable
IMO, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has an awfully high good band/dumb name differential
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I love them as a band and the name makes sense once you know what it’s representing, but it’s terrible for searching or recommending to people.
Nickelback
To be completely honest, I don’t consider any name to be bad.
You may say AxCx is terrible name, but once you give them a listen it exactly fits the name. Same goes for Hijokaidan, who are actually named based on one of fan’s suggestion claiming that “escape staircase” suits their sound more. Party Cannon is absolutely hillarious imo, when you look at the logo and the sound. Brojob also has a name that fits their lyrical themes.
In some cases the name may come out a bit lame, but bad names? Nah. I don’t consider any name bad, most of them sound either fucking epic and/or hillarious when you look at the full picture.
Come on, let musicians have some fun.
Just one note. Unfortunate names do exist. If a band has name that is also commonly used to refer to other things, it is really tricky to find them unless they are popular enough. I remember trying to find some music from a band called “6 cylinder”. You can imagine the struggle.
