Is there a shitter, more smug band name...

[Hank Venture]

Tokyo Police Club

[Hank Venture]

Seriously though

IRON & WINE

[Puce Moment]

Clark Cunt

Most of these shitty, smug band names are comprised of careerist, middle-class, Thames Valley arseholes with a very nuanced idea of marketing and getting record deals, often thanks to Daddy. A name like Clark Cunt is always going to leave a band in the echelons of obscurity so I find it hard to dislike it, despite being a pun.

[PaulTMA]

There's now a band from Birmingham called Fuck Right Off.

It's such a fine line with other lame 'sweary' names like FO Machete etc, but I think I approve this time.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Where do we stand on Camper Van Beethoven then?!

Wow, something of a Ja Danketies moment for me there, as the penny finally drops.

[thraxx]

David Devant and his Spirit Wife.

[lazyhour]

Aww, but they're just named after a real (and highly respected) Victorian magician and his act.

[Crabwalk]

David Devant and his Spirit Wife.

Fuck Right Off.

[holyzombiejesus]

I remember about 20 years ago, The Bastards, Hell Bastard and Bastard Kestrel all played a show together which was call Night of the Living Bastards. Glory be!

Anyway...


FUNKDOOBIEST.

Lock the thread.

[Puce Moment]

I remember about 20 years ago, The Bastards, Hell Bastard and Bastard Kestrel all played a show together which was call Night of the Living Bastards. Glory be!

I once owned a Bastard Kestrel t-shirt and it was in a size S and when I wore it I looked like a kind of weird euro-boy. Fantastic band that morphed into Headbutt.

[Phil_A]

One i just saw listed on the NME website:

Cerebral Ballzy.

I mean, really. No idea what they sound like and I already just want them to fuck off.

[Morrison Lard]

Cerebral Ballzy.

No idea what they sound like

Fucking rubbish over-hyped load of wank.

See also : Fucked up.

[Johnny Yesno]

I once owned a Bastard Kestrel t-shirt and it was in a size S and when I wore it I looked like a kind of weird euro-boy. Fantastic band that morphed into Headbutt.

Oh, that's what became of Bastard Kestrel. I never knew that. Thanks for the info.

[The Masked Unit]

FUNKDOOBIEST.

Lock the thread.

There are no bad rap group names. Everyone knows that.

[Morrison Lard]

There are no bad rap group names. Everyone knows that.

Swollen Members
Cunninlynguists
Botany Boyz
Knucklehedz
69 Boyz
Da Bush Babees
The Tea Bag Boyz
Kidz in the Hall

[Sam]

Seriously though

IRON & WINE

Everything's shit if you think about it for long enough.

[The Masked Unit]

Swollen Members
Cunninlynguists
Botany Boyz
Knucklehedz
69 Boyz
Da Bush Babees
The Tea Bag Boyz
Kidz in the Hall

Fine! No classic era rap groups then. Anything up to '96 let's say.

[doppelkorn]

Waterbed Kev?

[alan nagsworth]

I really like the name Iron & Wine. It makes my mouth think of blood. You know, like, the taste of metal, the colour of wine. Is that intentional? Either way it's better than the music they make.

Fucking rubbish over-hyped load of wank.

See also : Fucked up.

Fucked Up are total piss aren't they? I don't get on with them at all. I imagine the name is meant to be deliberately blunt but don't they make concept albums and big long tunes? Even for a hardcore band that would be a shit name.

Speaking of hardcore bands and shit names, Charles Bronson has to be one of the most unimaginative kneejerk "WE'RE NUTTERS" band names out there.