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u/BenovanStanchiano May 22 '24
The Shitty Beatles
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u/MCBusStop May 22 '24
Are they any good?
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u/Oenonaut May 22 '24
They suck.
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u/uwill1der May 23 '24
the Oneders
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u/CapitalRadioOne May 23 '24
Didn’t they open for Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters?
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u/Automatic_Salary_845 May 22 '24
Tim Staffell, the original lead singer of Queen, or as it was known then “smile”, left the band to pursue a more successful career in “Humpy Bong”. They released two songs.
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u/Tiredohsoverytired May 23 '24
It's okay - he ended up becoming the chief model maker for the first series of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Less well known, but very cool contribution nonetheless!
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u/AstonVanilla May 23 '24
He was also the guy who designed all the models for Thomas the Tank Engine
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u/MintyGame May 22 '24
Hoobastank
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u/Mr_Auric_Goldfinger May 23 '24
This. I worked with a guy who's brother is in that band. I said "it's shame about their name" and he was truly offended. I don't think they understand how off-putting the name is. It sounds like something a bunch of drunk and high guys would say after one of them farted - "Hoobastank, bro!".
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u/Smorgas_of_borg May 23 '24
Hoobastank is wish.com Incubus.
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u/Photonomicron May 23 '24
Incidentally, incubus openly regrets their own band name, which they picked out of a dictionary when they were 15-17
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u/wildcard174 May 23 '24 edited May 23 '24
I immediately thought of this and was delighted to see it as the top comment.
Honorable mention to Puddle of Mud and all the names with a noun and a random number - Eve 6, Stroke 9, Matchbox 20…
Yes I went to high school in the 90s.
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u/FuzzelFox May 23 '24
You forgot the extra D in Mudd which just makes it worse lol.
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u/wildcard174 May 23 '24
Lmao (1) you are right and (2) yes it does. I don’t think I’d ever seen it written.
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u/Ham__Kitten May 23 '24
I like the name Eve 6 but it's also a reference to the X-Files so that helps
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u/PacSan300 May 23 '24
In fact, I think the band's frontman himself said that he got it from The X-Files, and that he was a big fan of the show.
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u/nickfree May 23 '24
Blink 182
Sum 41
Powerman 5000
Eiffel 65
Seven Mary Three
98 Degrees
311
....all from the 1990s
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u/Lucas_The_Master May 23 '24
I can’t speak for the others, but Blink 182 was called Blink but had to change their name because of another band named Blink and I believe the number is the day in the year that they got a contract or something.
Sum 41 is named because they got a record deal on the 41st day of summer.
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u/Baeker May 23 '24
I heard Sum 41 was called that because it was the sum of their ages when they started.
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u/solongamerica May 23 '24
Cherry Poppin' Daddies (god I wince just typing that)
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u/shaidyn May 23 '24
They're on record as saying they regret the name.
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u/solongamerica May 23 '24
Can’t blame um lol
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u/AFineDayForScience May 23 '24
I just now put it all together in my head. Like I used to group the words in my head as Cherry and Poppin Daddies or something.
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u/DiaDeLosMuertos May 23 '24
I blurted that out when our music teacher asked if we knew any jazz groups. I knew what "cherry popping" was but still didn't make the connection until the room for a bit cold when I said that and my teacher was like ... Ok...
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u/mrjpb104 May 23 '24
Scarecrow Boat, at least until they changed their name to Mouse Rat
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u/Swicket May 23 '24
I was a bigger fan of Everything Rhymes with Orange.
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u/DillyDally_24 May 23 '24
Nah man. They're nothing compared to Nothing Rhymes with Orange.
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u/youdubdub May 23 '24
Don’t tell anyone, but if you say “jorn” over and over again, you’ll also be saying “orange.”
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u/ConcentricSD May 22 '24
The Lone Rangers
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u/BirdsAndBeersPod May 22 '24
How can you pluralize The Lone Ranger?
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u/dudeondacouch May 23 '24
There’s three of you. You aren’t exactly lone.
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u/satans_bootyhole May 23 '24
“We have no idea what you’re saying…”
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u/CountChoculasGhost May 23 '24
Bands that are so difficult to search for.
The The
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u/queen-adreena May 23 '24
At least !!! have an AKA of "Chk Chk Chk" which makes it slightly easier for them.
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u/notmyidealusername May 23 '24
And Yes. And a much lesser known band once called No (who eventually changed their name for that very reason) And yes, the guy from No once met one of the guys from Yes, I can only imagine how the conversation went!
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u/SecondHandWatch May 23 '24
Those 60s bands really should have thought ahead to search engine optimization. Bunch of fools for not seeing 50 years into the future.
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u/barneyrubbble May 23 '24
Live
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u/Cameronbic May 23 '24
I don't remember a definitive answer on whether it's Live, or Live.
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u/SincerelyGlib May 23 '24
It’s Live.
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May 22 '24
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u/Yellowbug2001 May 23 '24
There's something so perfect about that though, lol. In a movie if the teenage daughter comes home in the first scene and tells her parents "Johnny is the drummer from Unrelented Redemption and WE'RE IN LOVE" you just know some ridiculous shit is about to go down.
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u/youdubdub May 23 '24
We wrote a song in 1992 or so in high school called “thriving abhorrently.” I’m pretty sure our singer must have been recently gifted a thesaurus not long before that one was written.
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u/LeutzschAKS May 23 '24
Mine was called Treazon… Not sure why we thought the letter Z was cool
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u/SousVideDiaper May 23 '24
Using Z instead of S was trendy as fuck in the 90's and early 2000's.
There's been a more recent trend of using V's to replace U's and even A's. Also using X's for those and other vowels, or just not using vowels at all. At least that's somewhat of a trend among electronic music producers and beat makers.
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u/LeutzschAKS May 23 '24
As a lacklustre Green Day tribute band, Treazon was very much a product of its time.
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May 23 '24
Haha! I was in a band with a dumb name too! Strange Occurrence. Nice to be part of the dumb name club.
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u/megagirthyguapoboi May 23 '24
Goo Goo Dolls
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u/IEnjoyVariousSoups May 23 '24
But then we'd have missed it on their tour with Lady Gaga. You know, the Goo Goo Gaga tour.
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u/ceilingscorpion May 23 '24
Portugal. The Man - the band
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u/Michael_DeSanta May 23 '24
PTM is such a great band. The period is odd, but it really fits the band’s style. They have one of the most distinct/unique personalities in indie rock, imo
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May 23 '24
Used to listen to them and minus the bear a lot.
It's complicated being a wizard is such a good album. Especially if you're high as fuck.
I remember I got my cousins iPod full of wacky stuff like that and listened to its complicated being a wizard and at first I was like "this is weird and bad" but it grew on me and man now I need to listen to it again.
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u/Jackoff_Alltrades May 22 '24
Diarrhea Planet
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u/Fiendish_Jetsanna May 23 '24
I saw them and they were great.
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u/Jackoff_Alltrades May 23 '24
That’s why it’s such a dumb name!!! It’s a good band!
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u/metallizepp May 23 '24
Scrolled through all the comments...
Was surprised no one has mentioned "Day-Glo Abortions"...
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u/pkfag May 23 '24
Foo fighters are the term WW2 airman gave to unexplained encounters... later it became just UFO for unidentified flying object. Him saying he had read it in a UFO book would be correct.
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u/krazykieffer May 23 '24
It's a fun name I think, also they were probably thinking of merchandise with the UFO. Those alien stickers and posters were everywhere in the mid 90s.
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u/GameOverMan78 May 23 '24
Remember, the accent is on Fighters. The foo-FIGHTERS
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u/marcus_ohreallyus123 May 23 '24
Christopher Walken has entered the conversation.
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u/TildaTinker May 23 '24
TBF I've never seen a Foo in my life, so they're doing a good job.
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u/Jewboy-Deluxe May 22 '24
The The
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u/LemmingLou May 23 '24
Russell Crowe had a band called "30 Odd Foot of Grunts"
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u/Bizzlebanger May 22 '24
Buster Hymen and the Penetrators
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u/TheRealSzymaa May 22 '24
Butthole Surfers has to be up there
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u/SciFiXhi May 22 '24
Better than all the names they originally chose like:
Fred Astaire's Asshole
The Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole
The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole
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u/Megamoss May 23 '24
Fits pretty well given their material and audience.
If they were a doo-wop wedding cover band, they might have a claim.
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u/Joshfumanchu May 23 '24
The Nonces.
Who the fuck is going to call themselves "child fuckers"?
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May 22 '24
"This Show Has Been Cancelled," the name of one of the bands that bassist Murdoc Niccals ran before he founded Gorillaz. No one ever came to any of the band's shows.
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u/Drew-Pickles May 22 '24
My friend was in a band called "Exit only" and he told me when they had a gig, the event room was in the downstairs floor, so they put a sign up pointing the audience in the right direction, and nobody showed up
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u/SqwertyJungleBees_ May 23 '24
Various Artists
Curse These Metal Hands
Danny Dyers Chocolate Homunculus
The Hair Blair Bunch
Spunk Bubble
Mumma's Kumquat
Executioners Bong
Grandma's Boner
Man Feelings
Chemical Toilet Brothers
One of them maybe
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u/_BabyGod_ May 23 '24
If you thought “Finger 11” was bad, before that they were called THE RAINBOW BUTT MONKEYS.
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May 23 '24
Goblin Cock. Like it’s funny the first time you hear it, but after that, come on man.
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u/Bman409 May 23 '24
Toad the Wet Sprocket.. I could never get past how dumb that is to listen
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u/OneTreePhil May 23 '24
I believe they got it from a list of fake bands in a month python script
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u/Iron_Nightingale May 23 '24
Eric Idle, Rock Notes:
Rex Stardust, lead electric triangle with Toad The Wet Sprocket, has had to have an elbow removed following their recent successful worldwide tour of Finland. Flamboyant, ambidextrous Rex apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle. "Fell off the back of a motorcyclist, most likely," quipped ace drummer Jumbo McClooney on hearing of the accident. Plans are already afoot for a major tour of Iceland.
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u/pseydtonne May 23 '24 edited May 23 '24
Now for the turns: it was Eric Idle's way to make fun of the band name Mott the Hoople. That, in turn, was a spin on We the People.
There, I did it. I carried the news.
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May 23 '24
Came to post this one! It's so cringe. Psychedelic Crumpets would've been fine lol
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u/HeadFit2660 May 22 '24
Chumbawumba
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u/Simple_Carpet_49 May 23 '24
How. DARE. You. Those weirdos are an international treasure.
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u/Possible-Source-2454 May 23 '24
The first version of Chumbawumba was such a sick crass style anarchist punk band. Look up the early eps, if was greaf first wave punk
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u/BronzeEast May 22 '24
The Testicicles
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u/elSpanielo May 23 '24
Test Icicles? The name is silly, but dang, their one and only album is amazing.
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u/SincerelyGlib May 23 '24
Not really a band but I had wandered into Palm Springs one weekend when the wind got too violent for camping at Joshua Tree and saw a sign in front of a bar that said ‘Dark Sunday’ and thought “cool, gotta be a Sabbath cover band or something”. It just meant they were closed.
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u/Robotshark420 May 22 '24
Puddle of Mudd
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u/rubber_hedgehog May 23 '24
I can't hear about Puddle of Mudd without thinking about their cover of 'About a Girl'.
I was unfortunate enough to have heard this, so now you all have to too.
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u/Hi_There_Im_Sophie May 23 '24
Wes Scantlin has a pretty interesting past. He has, variously, been arrested for domestic abuse (twice), been legally pursued for debts to the state and American Express, got banned from Graceland for swimming in the off-limits pool, been arrested for driving while high and without a license, been kicked out of Denver airport for riding the luggage carousel, charged with vandalism for wrecking his neighbour's patio with a buzzsaw, caused an emergency landing on a flight for being drunk and disorderly, got kicked out of another airport for being drunk and disorderly, went on a 100mph police chase, was arrested at an airport (again) for trying to take a BB gun onboard the plane, and has tried to break into his former Hollywood home twice.
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u/saanity May 22 '24
Miike Snow. No one in the band is named Miike Snow.
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u/rusurethatsright May 23 '24
I had no idea! I had to do some research: “"When we sat down to come up with a name one of us got an email from a mutual friend by the name Mike Snow. We liked it and added the extra "I" because we liked the look of it.”
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May 22 '24
Imagine Dragons
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u/DoofusMagnus May 22 '24
Between the name and some clunky lyrics I assumed they were a European band that performed in English and so I cut them some slack. Turns out nope, they're all very American and have no excuse.
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May 23 '24
Not a "band" per se, but a group - Infected Mushroom. I'm pretty sure it's named like a circumcised wanger with a vicious STI
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May 22 '24
Panic! at the Disco
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u/saanity May 22 '24
It would be an alright name without the stupid exclamation mark.
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u/conman987 May 23 '24
They did drop the exclamation mark around 2008 and added it back after backlash like the next year. I think it just became too much a part of their whole vibe.
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u/DeltaBelter May 23 '24
Death Cab for Cutie
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u/CaptainNipplesMcRib May 23 '24
Would have been better if they just got rid of “for Cutie.”
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u/trojan_man16 May 23 '24
The problem is that even then, their music is not exactly what I'd associate with a band called "Death Cab". I'd imagine a heavy metal band, not the softest indie rock known to man.
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u/I_might_be_weasel May 23 '24
Cradle of Filth. A real cradle of filth would be terrible.
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u/Fresh-Hedgehog1895 May 23 '24
From a financial point of view, probably The Butthole Surfers. I remember reading how radio stations wouldn't play them for the longest time because of the name.
KISS considered FUCK as a band name, but Gene had enough business sense to know they'd never capitalize on that name.