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Off-Putting Band Names

Started by Rev+, April 18, 2021, 12:31:11 AM

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Sean Ymphs

Hard-Fi was pretty egregious, especially for such bland music.


ProvanFan


jobotic

Terminal Cheesecake

Brilliant band in their day and important to me, but a bit embarrassing to mention to others as they sound like a load of whacky students.


The Mollusk

Whoever nominated Butthole Surfers can fuck off, it's one of the best lowbrow band names of all time.

Pauline Walnuts

Yeah, it's a good name. Bit homophobic though. Throbbing Gristle is still a funny and good name.


Famous Mortimer

I remember there was an awful name on a Cherry Red compilation, and a quick look reveals it's Grab Grab The Haddock. Won a competition on Mark and Lard's old show for the worst band name of all time, apparently. Would it have put me off them? Maybe I'd have assumed they were some weird Japanese thing and been more into them.

Yussef Dent

Quote from: Joe Oakes on April 18, 2021, 02:37:52 PM
John Legend.

His real name is John Roger Stephens, what an arrogant prick. He's not even a rapper.

I always thought it was rather arrogant and a bit strange as he generally comes across as a decent guy. Apparently it's a nickname attributed to him by his music teacher which just stuck, everyone called him that so he decided to adopt it as a stage name.

jobotic

Think John Legend thought it would help him get that coveted Sutcliffe Jugend slot, as they look so good together.

DrGreggles

Bite The Wax Tadpole would have probably been a perfect fit for this thread, but I quite like the story behind it.

Camp Tramp

Scouting For Girls

Truly a dreadful band, how fitting they should have a dreadful name.

The Feeling

I felt nothing at all. Even worse, the letting agents who I used to have to pay my rent to had their album as their 'on hold' music.

phantom_power

Quote from: iamcoop on April 18, 2021, 02:32:15 PM
There's a great stoner/doom pop band that I love called Goblin Cock which is not funny OR gross enough. Terrible artwork as well.

Rob Crow has form with this. Other bands of his include Anal Trump, Heavy Vegetable, Optiganally Yours, Other Men, Gloomy Place and Thingy. Pinback is pretty much the only decent band name he has come up with, and he nicked that from Dark Star (and I am not sure how good a name it is either)

Pauline Walnuts


Thomas

Took me ages to listen to any My Bloody Valentine. Must have unconsciously presumed they were a My Chemical Romance sort of thing.

Dusty Substance


For all I know, Olly Murs might be the most talented and charismatic singer since Scott Walker but I'm never going to listen to him because his name is Olly Murs - The kind of name that a proper popstar would've changed and done everything they can to prevent it from becoming public knowledge.

Olly fucking Murs.

holyzombiejesus

There's a house near me that has a piano or keyboard next to the window and there's always an Olly Murs songbook on the little sheet music stand on top. So many questions...

Dusty Substance


Just looked him up to ensure it's his real name. His full name is Oliver Stanley Murs, which makes me wonder if his parents were fans of Laurel And Hardy. Also, his Mum is named Vicky Pollard.

Captain Z

Quote from: Thomas on April 19, 2021, 11:34:33 AM
My Bloody Valentine

I only ever hear their name sung a la Janice from Coffee Friends doing 'my funny valentine'.

Simple Minds

Scritti Politti  (glottal stop or no glottal stop, that is the question)

Goldentony

Quote from: Johnny Yesno on April 18, 2021, 07:24:12 PM
No one's mentioned Goldentony favourite Sutcliffe Jügend yet.

Would you stop in Rough Trade to check our their new LP? would any of us, experts say
Spoiler alert
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND
[close]

Rev+

Quote from: DrGreggles on April 19, 2021, 09:19:41 AM
Bite The Wax Tadpole would have probably been a perfect fit for this thread, but I quite like the story behind it.

Wax-Flattened Mare would be a great band name, though.

jenna appleseed

!!! - still totally ungoogable unless you remember it's meant to be pronounced Chk Chk Chk

SullySullivan85

Let's Eat Grandma
Porridge Radio
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Everyone You Know
Dry Cleaning
The Snuts
Shopping
Sorry
JOHN

The last few years have been a race to the bottom in many things, but none more so than musical nomenclature. 

Naturally, many of these terribly named bands are quite decent, especially the first two and seventh on this list.






buzby

Quote from: SullySullivan85 on April 22, 2021, 03:57:06 AM
Dry Cleaning
They discuss where the name came from in this early interview (one of the other candidates was The Puffy Stickers) and how their first EP and T-shirt ended up with 'Cleaning' in Kanji (クリーニング) on them by mistake.

Chriddof

Quote from: Thomas on April 19, 2021, 11:34:33 AM
Took me ages to listen to any My Bloody Valentine. Must have unconsciously presumed they were a My Chemical Romance sort of thing.

You're not the only one, loads of people get those two confused. There's tales on places like rateyourmusic where people tried to get their friends to listen to My Bloody Valentine and they refused, because they thought they're talking about the shit emo-y gothy teenybopper[nb]Is that a correct description of them? All I recall for sure is that I didn't like them, and also I was in my twenties at the time which didn't help[/nb] rock band. I've got personal experience of this; years ago a friend at work was baffled by me stating that I was a fan (of My Bloody Valentine). I mentioned the album Loveless, they brought up "Only Shallow" on a laptop and were even more baffled.

The Mollusk

Let's Eat Grandma is a good shout. I love their second album and whenever I stick it on in company people ask who it is we're listening to and I have to add a disclaimer of cringe every time I say the name.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is another one. First album is absolutely bloody lovely sun-kissed jangly indie pop finery but that name can fuck off.

iamcoop

Quote from: The Mollusk on April 22, 2021, 11:35:35 AM
Let's Eat Grandma is a good shout. I love their second album and whenever I stick it on in company people ask who it is we're listening to and I have to add a disclaimer of cringe every time I say the name.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is another one. First album is absolutely bloody lovely sun-kissed jangly indie pop finery but that name can fuck off.

I quite liked the name "Let's Eat Grandma".

I always thought as it was two relatively young women doing electronic stuff then they kinda got away with it. No idea what my logic is there but there you go.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: phantom_power on April 19, 2021, 10:56:08 AM
Rob Crow has form with this. Other bands of his include Anal Trump, Heavy Vegetable, Optiganally Yours, Other Men, Gloomy Place and Thingy. Pinback is pretty much the only decent band name he has come up with, and he nicked that from Dark Star (and I am not sure how good a name it is either)

Oo, I rather liked Pinback. I didn't realise Rob Crow had all these other projects. If I'm honest, shamefully, I didn't even know the name Rob Crow until now. Actually, I do have both Optiganally Yours albums (aptly named because it was an Optigan based concept), they're most enjoyable. I think you are the only person I've ever communicated with who's ever heard of 'em.

Brundle-Fly

A few C.B.G.B.s types' band names were a bit 'trad R&R', a bit prosaic for a snobby me getting into British New Wave in my teens some forty years ago.

ie Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers, Johnathan Richman And The Modern Lovers, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Patti Smith Group, The New York Dolls.

You had to be called something like The Sniffles or Porkchopz or Stinkbomb Holiday to be in my good books. Richard Hell only crept into my good books because of the science-fiction B-movie alien evoking Voivoids.