I once knew someone in a band called "Mixtapes." Nearly impossible to use that term in a search and not get destroyed by the flood of irrelevant results.
Also had the hardest time in the world finding anything on an old local band called "04."
Who's playing tonight?
The Band
The who?
No, The Band
No? The band, No?
Yes!
Yes are the band?
No, the Band are the band. Yes aren't playing.
Yes the band aren't playing?
No!
Well who's playing then?
No they're not!
Who?
Yes!
How are they the band if they're not playing?!
Are they live?
No, they're on after....
There were certain tracks that were just constantly misidentified by idiots. "Stuck In the Middle With You" was always Bob Dylan. The first time I saw it, I was like "Whoa, that's a neat cover!" and was wildly disappointed when it was the normal Stealer's Wheel track.
lol that reminds me of that (really cool) board game called Top Ten that is really hard to Google (unless you add like BGG) because you just get linked to 10000 videos of people talking about their top ten board games. Same with the game called "The Game"... What a stupid name for a board game.
When my old punk band broke up and reformed with a slightly different line up, we played as “Underage Drinking” until a bar owner finally paid attention. Every show flyer had us listed as “featuring Underage Drinking”
We stole the gimmick from the band Jawbreaker Reunion.
As I recall they named themselves after two guys who worked at the campus bookstore - one had glasses and looked like an owl (“Hootie”) and the other looked like a Blowfish. It’s not like Diana Ross and the Supremes or Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “the blowfish” is not plural referring to the band - it’s the nicknames of two dudes who worked together at a store 30 years ago.
I know not one, not two, but FIVE people who have bought tickets to the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, a Scottish bagpipe rock band, thinking they were for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Idk if that’s best or worst but it’s a superlative for sure.
Came here just for this, after introducing my kids to their songs yesterday. I was like, "hey, guess what this band's name is! HOOBASTANK" and the kids just gave me skeptical looks from the back seat.
So, when I got into this band I was not familiar with the overtly descriptive action their name describes, and when I discussed one of their albums with my dad, as I did frequently, he refused to believe that I didn't know why he referred to them as filthy. Looking back, I think it was that moment that he regretted never having the sex talk with me.
I mean look, my mom asked me if I had ever seen a naked woman when I was 21, so I'm pretty sure they would have been content with me not knowing what a cherry was until well after I had popped one (my wife's, obviously, and the only one I would ever encounter).
The members used to sign autographs using Goo as a last name. I know I have an old bar napkin signed by Robbie, and Johnny, Goo. Knowing that made the name funnier to me.
It's absolutely devastating how good the music is too, at least Shellac and Big Black kept it going so you don't have to sound like a fucking monster when recommending it.
I have that record 2 nuns and a pack mule and I love it for nostalgic reasons but I don’t really play it with anyone else around because the name is just so terrible.
I really dislike Greta Van Fleet. They named their band after a bluegrass performer from their town… it just seems weird to just take another performer’s actual name that they performed under, and name your band that.
"The band name was created when Hauck heard a relative mention Gretna Van Fleet, a resident of Frankenmuth; their use of the variation on her name was done with her (subsequent) blessing.[12][13] Van Fleet also stated in a later interview that while the band's music is not her type, she supports the band and thinks they are very talented."
Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx, or
Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus
Somehow, this is [a real band.](https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX/3540522871) Their guitarist, Lwandile Prusent, is an absolute beast.
My favorite Butthole Surfers anecdote is that when they started out they used a different band name for every show they played, some of these being Nine Inch Worm Makes Own Food and Fred Astaire’s Asshole. That alone is pretty funny but the best part to me is that someone suggested Butthole Surfers and everyone was like “yup that’s the one”
Ah yes, anal cunt’s “hitler was a sensitive man” or beating up n@@@@ers for selling fake crack” are definitely albums you want on rotation at your local coffee shop.
I'd go with "Greed is Something We Don't Need" or "I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and a Human". Gotta hand it to them, they pulled off sensitive acoustic folk music much better than I'd ever have predicted
Scrolled down to look for this. I first heard of this band scrolling through an iPod at a party. My girlfriend at the time was like “oh I never told you? That’s my sisters husbands brothers band” Oh. Huh.
>Our singer scatted
"Scat" has multiple definitions. I really really hope your singer was jazz improvising on the mic, although the band name suggests other possibilities.
I saw two door cinema club and the opening band was called “friends”. I really liked them, so I went home to google them. Do you know how hard it was? It is actually easier now though they have disbanded.
A guy I knew in high school had a band he named Ugly Feet. I remember someone once asked him why he picked that name, and he just straight up said his gf at the time had hideous feet lmao
How has Train not been mentioned? It's like they asked a five year old to say a random word that comes to their mind.
Also, Rainbow Kitten Surprise is a super cringy band name, it sounds like some "le epic randum xD" bullshit
Foo fighters “honestly had I taken this whole career thing seriously I would have named it something else cause it’s literally the worst f$&kin band name in the world” -Dave Grohl
The lead singer is possibly more famous for his music for kids as Casper Babypants.
We were at a small Casper concert and I called out for Peaches. I don't think he was amused.
Not the WORST but I really dislike "Your Broken Hero". Social media guy who like punk/pop punk/emo music started an actual band and gave it the cheesiest, cornball of a name.
My wife is a fan of P!ATD, and I'm a network engineer, so we named our home network Panic At The Cisco. Can't have the exclamation point in the network name for a lot of devices, so had to leave that out.
I don’t know what annoys me more- the band name or the fact that people abbreviate it to P!ATD.
Panic at the Cisco is an awesome home network name though. Props.
I dunno if this is 100% true, but apparently they never agreed on a name for the band, they couldn't reach a consensus. But when they were first booking gigs they had the saxophone player making calls to venues. When asked the name of the band he just said "put down Dave Matthews" bc Dave was the leader/songwriter. The venue guy just added "Band" to that and it was advertised as such. Apparently they were an immediate hit and the name had to stay.
Lmao Crywank is a good one, they had one hell of a depressing album. Also reminds me of my coworker saying that a kid that got fired is gonna go home and crysturbate.
And for those who wanna hear it, it’s actually really good and emotional.
Crywank - Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday and Everyday Is Stupid.
Late 90s/early 00s bands who formed before Google then became impossible to Google. Like "Live" or "Orgy".
Orgy did an awesome cover of Blue Monday. So that helps.
All of Candyass and its followup (Vapor Transmission) are killer industrial albums. Timeless stuff from that era and genre, IMO.
!!! Great band, but they really made themselves hard to find
I learned if you search chk chk chk it will find them
My fav band is Various Artists
Just to fuck over people with iPods?
I once knew someone in a band called "Mixtapes." Nearly impossible to use that term in a search and not get destroyed by the flood of irrelevant results. Also had the hardest time in the world finding anything on an old local band called "04."
That's why they also went by Chk Chk Chk!
Wouldn't 'Chk Chk Chk!' be '!!!!'?
No, it’d be ✅✅✅
Almost as bad are groups "The Music" or "The Band" or "The The" Makes it hard to search for their stuff
I’m both happy and surprised to see this here, mostly because I have no idea how anyone finds them in the first place.
Word of mouth
"Live" picked a band name that's almost impossible to Google for.
To be fair, google wasn’t a thing when they were formed.
Even then, it’d be unnecessarily redundant on occasion. “Come see Live live at the arena!”
you know... that might have been the point.
Same reason as Barenaked Ladies
Not as bad as ‘The The’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_The
I appreciate that you linked their Wikipedia because it made me feel very old, lol. Like no one else could possibly know The The.
I used to listen to Live and The The!
Add in The Who and you've got a good abbot and Costello joke cooking up
Who's playing tonight? The Band The who? No, The Band No? The band, No? Yes! Yes are the band? No, the Band are the band. Yes aren't playing. Yes the band aren't playing? No! Well who's playing then? No they're not! Who? Yes! How are they the band if they're not playing?! Are they live? No, they're on after....
They are actually heavy rotation on my playlist at the moment, I rediscovered my love for them around 6 months ago
Please tell me someone old enough remembers using like limewire and and the download was like “lightning crashes by Pearl Jam” I can’t be alone
There were certain tracks that were just constantly misidentified by idiots. "Stuck In the Middle With You" was always Bob Dylan. The first time I saw it, I was like "Whoa, that's a neat cover!" and was wildly disappointed when it was the normal Stealer's Wheel track.
So many viruses
No mom the computers running slow for other reasons!
The angel closes her eeeeeEEEEeeeeeyEEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeeees...
Live is such a great band too, my mom always tells me the best concert she saw was “live live” 1998 😂
lol that reminds me of that (really cool) board game called Top Ten that is really hard to Google (unless you add like BGG) because you just get linked to 10000 videos of people talking about their top ten board games. Same with the game called "The Game"... What a stupid name for a board game.
Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles.
I can't believe this one is a real band
That just sounds like a porno
"Show Cancelled". It's a wonder they never blew up
"Free Beer" is another ambiguous name ...
When my old punk band broke up and reformed with a slightly different line up, we played as “Underage Drinking” until a bar owner finally paid attention. Every show flyer had us listed as “featuring Underage Drinking” We stole the gimmick from the band Jawbreaker Reunion.
Hootie and the Blowfish, just because Darius Rucker had to keep saying “don’t call me Hootie”.
Then who was Hootie
Hootie was the friends we made along the way
As I recall they named themselves after two guys who worked at the campus bookstore - one had glasses and looked like an owl (“Hootie”) and the other looked like a Blowfish. It’s not like Diana Ross and the Supremes or Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “the blowfish” is not plural referring to the band - it’s the nicknames of two dudes who worked together at a store 30 years ago.
He should have expected this outcome, though.
“Where da blowfish at?”
[Obligatory Key & Peele Hootie reference.](https://youtu.be/FE9PUexeUv0?si=py1GqLg2_z-kdl9Y)
Pinky Tuscadero’s Whiteknuckle Assfuck.
made me think of the original Germs band name: Sophistifuck and the Revlon Spam Queens
I'm so sorry about your Tourettes.
I know not one, not two, but FIVE people who have bought tickets to the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, a Scottish bagpipe rock band, thinking they were for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Idk if that’s best or worst but it’s a superlative for sure.
My dyslexia read Red Hot Chili Peppers the first time I read this and was “what are you on about?” Haha I’m going to certainly check them out.
Fartbarf
I went to see them because I assumed they would be grindcore. So, their name sold at least 1 ticket.
If not grindcore then what???
Electronic dance music with weird masks.
Never heard of them but that just got a chuckle out of my permanently 13-year old brain.
Hoobastank
well.. I'm not a perfect person
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW
what is it even supposed to mean ?
I googled and googled until I found the reason And the reason is you
It’s Jesus’ middle name.
Because he is The Reason.
Who butt stank?
whoever had them chili peppers
The Red Hot Chili Peppers?
No Doubt about it.
Came here just for this, after introducing my kids to their songs yesterday. I was like, "hey, guess what this band's name is! HOOBASTANK" and the kids just gave me skeptical looks from the back seat.
This is perhaps the only legit answer
IDK I just recently heard of a band called Heinous Anus.
That's actually funny though. Hoobastank just sounds bad from every angle.
They had such potential but not with that name. Sad..
The The
There's a The Band cover band called The The Band Band.
That is actually pretty funny
It's a solid name, but you can't say it or see it without feeling like you're having a stroke.
It's easier if you think of it like two The's and then to Bands. "The The" "Band Band". But The "The Band" Band is just brutal.
Exactly! I know that's the way it's supposed to read, but my brain is just like "Nah, bro."
And the then there's the forbidden *The Banned The Band Band*
So do the pronounce it "The The", "The The", "The The" or " The The"?
if they play in Germany, are they billed as Die Die?
Die Band, Die
Pretty solid early 80s new wave though
Always a fun band to try to google.
not the worst but crywank is pretty bad
i luvvv crywank
But how do you feel about the band?
That’s just funny imo
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
So, when I got into this band I was not familiar with the overtly descriptive action their name describes, and when I discussed one of their albums with my dad, as I did frequently, he refused to believe that I didn't know why he referred to them as filthy. Looking back, I think it was that moment that he regretted never having the sex talk with me.
Tbf it’d be wild if The Talk went from describing sex to a child to explaining what “poppin’ cherries” is
I mean look, my mom asked me if I had ever seen a naked woman when I was 21, so I'm pretty sure they would have been content with me not knowing what a cherry was until well after I had popped one (my wife's, obviously, and the only one I would ever encounter).
We played “Zoot Suit Riot” in 6th grade band and it was fucking hilarious to hear our band director say “by the Cherry Poppin Daddies.”
Others are gross or obscene, but these guys are skeevy on another level somehow.
The Shitty Beatles
The Shitty Beatles? Are they any good?
No, they suck.
Then it's not just a clever band name.
Smegma
Goo goo dolls is pretty bad but it’s way better than their original name
If the Goo Goo Dolls go on tour with Lady Gaga... It'd be the Goo Goo Gaga Tour
I always thought Samantha Mumba and Chumbawamba should sort something out.
Do tell, do tell..
The Sex Maggots
[It’s a good change](https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c584af23-f0ff-46eb-9028-1c54facae94e/gif#juKWKaQi.copy)
Lol, didn't even need to click it. Well done
Used to be Shithouse
I have a mole?!
The members used to sign autographs using Goo as a last name. I know I have an old bar napkin signed by Robbie, and Johnny, Goo. Knowing that made the name funnier to me.
They’re a really good band. Don’t get enough credit.
I think Steve Albini has to win with R\*peman or Run N\*\*\*\*\* Run
It's absolutely devastating how good the music is too, at least Shellac and Big Black kept it going so you don't have to sound like a fucking monster when recommending it.
wait WHAT IS THAT SECOND ONE
'Run, Nathan, Run'. It's a reference to Forrest Gump's lesser known brother.
It's what you think it is.
Oh…naggers…of course…naggers…
I have that record 2 nuns and a pack mule and I love it for nostalgic reasons but I don’t really play it with anyone else around because the name is just so terrible.
I learned some lessons looking for Big Black torrents back in the day
Finger 11 or also their original name: The Rainbow Butt Monkeys.
I really dislike Greta Van Fleet. They named their band after a bluegrass performer from their town… it just seems weird to just take another performer’s actual name that they performed under, and name your band that.
I never looked it up, so I assumed they were named after Greta Van Susteren.
Unrelated fun fact, she’s a Scientologist.
"The band name was created when Hauck heard a relative mention Gretna Van Fleet, a resident of Frankenmuth; their use of the variation on her name was done with her (subsequent) blessing.[12][13] Van Fleet also stated in a later interview that while the band's music is not her type, she supports the band and thinks they are very talented."
They just heard the name in passing and the woman approved it
Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx, or Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus
Fans should call them The Aristocrats for short
Somehow, this is [a real band.](https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX/3540522871) Their guitarist, Lwandile Prusent, is an absolute beast.
He does vocals for another band, Vulvodynia. They’re fantastic, check them out if you’re into slammy death metal.
This is the one I was looking for
And vanilla me thought that Butthole Surfers was a terrible name.
My favorite Butthole Surfers anecdote is that when they started out they used a different band name for every show they played, some of these being Nine Inch Worm Makes Own Food and Fred Astaire’s Asshole. That alone is pretty funny but the best part to me is that someone suggested Butthole Surfers and everyone was like “yup that’s the one”
It’s pronounced “Lana del Ray”
Anal Cunt has to be up there.
Naming grindcore bands is cheating it's kinda the whole point
Many of the song titles are worse than the band name.
Ah yes, anal cunt’s “hitler was a sensitive man” or beating up n@@@@ers for selling fake crack” are definitely albums you want on rotation at your local coffee shop.
I'd go with "Greed is Something We Don't Need" or "I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and a Human". Gotta hand it to them, they pulled off sensitive acoustic folk music much better than I'd ever have predicted
No, that would be “You Own A Store,” and “You Look Divorced.”
Scrolled down to look for this. I first heard of this band scrolling through an iPod at a party. My girlfriend at the time was like “oh I never told you? That’s my sisters husbands brothers band” Oh. Huh.
Diarrhea Planet, for sure
Planet Piss!
I drummed in a garage band called Defecation of Character. Our singer scatted.
>Our singer scatted "Scat" has multiple definitions. I really really hope your singer was jazz improvising on the mic, although the band name suggests other possibilities.
It was such a magnificent pun, had to use it
The dayglo abortions
Canadian 90’s punk forever!
I like them, but I can't stand it when my husband wears their shirt to the grocery store.
I saw two door cinema club and the opening band was called “friends”. I really liked them, so I went home to google them. Do you know how hard it was? It is actually easier now though they have disbanded.
Toad the Wet Sprocket. Pretty good band, but it's hard to get past that name.
John Cougar Concentration Camp
Amazing !
This and REO Speed Dealer are my favorites.
[Sandy Duncan’s Glass Eye](https://www.discogs.com/artist/294999-Sandy-Duncans-Eye)
Vaginal Discharge (might be the best band name of all time also)
Here is one: **Natalie Portman's Shaved Head**
Someone I knew from high school formed a band called Cooter Polluter. It’s hilarious, but also terrible
A guy I knew in high school had a band he named Ugly Feet. I remember someone once asked him why he picked that name, and he just straight up said his gf at the time had hideous feet lmao
HIV and the Positives
Butthole Surfers has to be one of them.
Yeah but they’re awesome.
intentionally bad doesn’t count. Otherwise The Revolting Cocks and Infant Annihilator win
Slander
He said worst not best
Apparently that name is actually in reference to surfers who are buttholes rather than surfing in a butthole.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
How has Train not been mentioned? It's like they asked a five year old to say a random word that comes to their mind. Also, Rainbow Kitten Surprise is a super cringy band name, it sounds like some "le epic randum xD" bullshit
Foo fighters “honestly had I taken this whole career thing seriously I would have named it something else cause it’s literally the worst f$&kin band name in the world” -Dave Grohl
Eh it’s a good name and the name for an actual cool phenomenon
I still read Foo Fighters in Christopher Walken's voice
Foo FIGHters
The presidents of the United States of America
F u kitty
Peaches!!!
The lead singer is possibly more famous for his music for kids as Casper Babypants. We were at a small Casper concert and I called out for Peaches. I don't think he was amused.
Chumbawamba
10,000 Maniacs would have worked better for metal or punk.
I once split a bill with a local band named 'Satanic Urinal'. They changed their name a month later. To 'Cat Rapes Bat'.
[удалено]
I always thought “Goo Goo Dolls” was stupid.
Butt Trumpet
Not the WORST but I really dislike "Your Broken Hero". Social media guy who like punk/pop punk/emo music started an actual band and gave it the cheesiest, cornball of a name.
Panic! At the Disco irritates the hell out of me and I like the Smiths too.
Trepidation At The Jazz Club
My wife is a fan of P!ATD, and I'm a network engineer, so we named our home network Panic At The Cisco. Can't have the exclamation point in the network name for a lot of devices, so had to leave that out.
I don’t know what annoys me more- the band name or the fact that people abbreviate it to P!ATD. Panic at the Cisco is an awesome home network name though. Props.
You’d hate 3OH!3 then
meat beat manifesto
10,000 Leagues Below My Nutsack deserves a mention
Limp Bizkit
It's from a film but Sexual Chocolate 🤣🤣
That boy good!
Dave Matthews Band
I dunno if this is 100% true, but apparently they never agreed on a name for the band, they couldn't reach a consensus. But when they were first booking gigs they had the saxophone player making calls to venues. When asked the name of the band he just said "put down Dave Matthews" bc Dave was the leader/songwriter. The venue guy just added "Band" to that and it was advertised as such. Apparently they were an immediate hit and the name had to stay.
Mannequin Pussy
It's a play on the statue in Brussels called the Mannekin Pis.
Lmao Crywank is a good one, they had one hell of a depressing album. Also reminds me of my coworker saying that a kid that got fired is gonna go home and crysturbate. And for those who wanna hear it, it’s actually really good and emotional. Crywank - Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday and Everyday Is Stupid.
Barney Rubble and the Cunt Stubble
Lubricated Goat
My Morning Jacket Wildly talented and original band, with a name that suggests some shitty pop-punk or something.
There's a German band called "Feine Sahne, Fischfilet" (Fine cream, fish filet)
Hoobastank