Best/Worst Band Names

[meruizh]

Favorites

The Who
Joy Division
Sex Pistols
A Tribe Called Quest



Worst

Sixpence None The Richer
Chumbawumba
The Pigeon Detectives
Nickelback
Matchbox 20
Of Montreal
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[HoldenM]

Good band names
-Neutral Milk Hotel
-Joy Division
-The Microphones
-The Replacements
-Sonic Youth
-Talking Heads
-Teenage Fanclub
-Animal Collective
-Echo and the Bunnymen
-The Postal Service
-Memory Tapes
-My Bloody Valentine
-Godspeed You! Black Emporer
-Deftones
-The Mars Volta
-Brand New

Bad band names
-Skillet
-Nickelback
-Four Non-Blondes
-Barenaked Ladies
-Red Hot Chilie Peppers
-Dredg
-Imagine Dragons
-Jimmy Eat World
-Roxy Music
-Band of Horses
-Death Cab for Cutie
-Gnarls Barkley
-tUnE-yArDs
-My Morning Jacket
-At the Drive-In

[Listmeister]

Here are tonight's Top Ten lists:

Lousy names (counting down to the worst)
10. Radiohead (How come we never hear them on the radio then? Huh? How come?)
9. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (now, the Mighty Bosstones would have been a good name, but that second Mighty is just trying too hard)
8. Neutral Milk Hotel (I'm confused, is it a Milk Hotel of no political affiliation? Or a Hotel that also sells Neutral brand Milk products? "When you're in that Airplane Over the Sea, try Neutral Milk with your Tea or Coffee, and stay at one of our fine hotels!")
7. The Wu-Tang Clan (they are neither Tangy nor Wu-y. I'm not even sure they're a clan.)
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd (taken from a line in Allan Sherman song Hello Muddah Hello Faddah, 1963)
5. The Jesus and Mary Chain ('Scuse me, the what chain? the Jesus and Mary what?)
4. Pink Floyd (none of them are named Floyd. For that matter, none of them are pink. BTW, wouldn't it be awesome if P!nk recorded an album with Gilmour. Wright and Mason? They could call it Extra Pink Floyd or Pinker Floyd or even Floyd--Now With Real P!nk !!!)
3. Pavement. Weezer. Coldplay. (These names do not inspire a desire to listen to music)
2. Suicide (I've ranted about suicide as a theme in pop music before)
1. Yuck (I was predisposed to hate their album, but it turned out to be pretty good. Think how much more I would have liked it if the band had been named, well, anything else. Worst. Band name. Ever. )

Honorable mention: Oasis. Just a question, would one member of the band be called an Oasi?

Awesome names: (counting down to the best)
10. Any name based on geography. Chicago. Boston. Kansas. The E Street Band. The Ohio Players. Kentucky Headhunters. Flo Rida. Can't think of a name for your band? Look at a map.
9. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. (There are lots of great sixties bands of the format X Y and the Z. Big Brother and the Holding Company. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Bonus points to Zappa's band because The Mothers of Invention by itself would be a great band name.)
8. The Presidents of the United States of America
7. Arctic Monkeys (monkeys are tropical, except for the Monkees, which were in California. There's no such thing as an Arctic one, which is why it's such a good name)
6. Bowling for Soup (What do we want? Soup! How are we going to get it? Bowling!)
5. The Bangles (girl Beatles... with big 80's bangs. I see what you did there.)
4. Led Zeppelin ("This band's going to go down like a lead balloon" --Keith Moon, Who)
3. Metallica (exactly what it says on the tin)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience (it's not just Jimi Hendrix, those other two guys make it an experience)
1. Barenaked Ladies (Hey Ed, what can we name the band that will really get people to come to our shows?)

Honorable mention: Duran Duran, The The, Mr. Mister, Was (not Was)

[meccalecca]

[Kiki]

Manic Street Preachers is the best band name!

[Johnny Flynn]

Best name: Easily the Alan Parsons Project. I mean that shit is so cool. Not to mention I was the only one who laughed out loud in Austin Powers when Dr. Evil named his laser The Alan Parsons Project.

Worst Name: The correct answer to this question is easily Hoobastank. Totally vomit worthy.

Runner up worst: Lady Ga Ga. Who would name their band Lady Ga Ga?

[meccalecca]

[bonafini]

I think Arctic Monkeys is a pretty messed up name. Sounds like the next Discovery Kids hit.

[Seth]

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