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band/record names that are so bad you just want to punch your nan

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by explosionsunderwater

im going for does it offend you, yeah?
i mean - what the fuck is that. they just strike me as wankers. proper wankers.
and keane - they name themselves after the hardest footie player of all time, and then proceed to be the weakest tea sipping bunch of fags ever to grace a tory party conference

explosionsunderwater | 26 Mar '08, 13:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Keane named themselves after the singer's nanny

so it is more appropriate than you'd think.


well i dont know their grandma

but she must be a pussy to have spawned that runny faced gimp


nope

i think he means nanny as in 'au pair'. even worse...


^ This

It's possibly the most horrifyingly twee name ever.


it's a fantastic band name!!

and does exactly what it says on the tin with a tongue firmly placed in it's cheek (at least for the earlier stuff)


im sure ill get pummelled for this but

dananananackroyd. its terrible surely! its just bad


The Kills - No Wow

a double header of scenester bullshit.


plus

CTFTPA is a great name! You people talk about twee as if it's a bad thing.


Twee is a bad thing!

It makes me want to ram mittens and books on ornithology down people's necks.


Mittens and ornithology = good

Twee = bad.

I like mittens and birds, ok?

So long as the mittens aren't joined together by a long piece of string. I WON'T LOSE THEM AGAIN I PROMISE.


Or, worse still,

a short piece of string.


they are awful

that new single doesn't sound like a real song, it sounds like a jingle for a cosmetics advert.


i agree

but correct you will probably get pummelled for this so i can not support you in any official sense.


the twang

i wish someone would egg them onstage.


Foo Fighters

Not many people seem to notice what a dreadful name this is.


Arctic Monkeys

Surely? SURELY?


one that dropped through my letterbox..

Kunt and the Gang - One Last Wak And One Last Cry


*wank


Scouting for Girls

Just...why? Why did anyone think this would be a suitable name for a band? Why??


Ting Tings

they're just as rubbish as their name


How come?

when there is a bad band name thread and when there is a good band name thread, the same bands appear on both?


Most of the

2007/2008 class of tepid "indie rock" have pretty awful names.

The ones that really annoy me though are those who put a swearword of somekind in for no apparent reason.


Dananananananananakyroid

Jo lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Ting Tings
Does it offend you, yeah?
Shitdisco
Cats & Cats & Cats
Get Cape Wear Cape Fly

Fuck off please


I agree

Dananananananananakyroid is a completely woeful name for a band!!


Shitdisco

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong


yes

it sure is


Shitdisco

I'd almost forgotten about them


Yep yep yep


i love looking at names on drum an bass posters

Roger F!!
Nicky D!!
Bassline Smith!!!
IC3!!!
Hazard!!
Nicky Blackmarket!!!
Fearles!!!

not tryin to have a pop at the music by the way as i dont mind the odd bit of dnb but the names make me laugh


good

call.


Does anyone remember Bum Gravy?

John Peel used to play them alot, I always wondered how far they thought they woul go with that name.


The Feeling

It's just so

"hummmmmmmmbleurghhhhhhh"


oh

and their faces also make me want to punch my nan


Blistering Anal Skin

I saw them live and they made me punch my nan.


i hate the feeling

with a passion.
especially having been subjected to watching them on tv doing never be lonely at some shit festival and breaking it down in the middle to have all the girls sing and all the guys sing. it was sickening. absolutely disgusting


Yeah, because people enjoying themselves

is fucking horrible, innit?


yes

yes it is


The Psychedelic Reaction

Their album "Genre Music Is The Enemy" and my nan's kidney. GRRRRRRR


hmmm

Does it offend you, yea- oh, already mentioned, but it's the sound of someone throwing chips at you on the bus, just waiting for you to fight back so they can stab you. See also people that lunge at you in the streets and laugh at you for being scared/think it's funny to drive through puddles and soak pedestrians/stamp on kittens. It just encapsulates that sort of violent stupidity that so many people seem to accept as passable behaviour.
<rant over>

oh and Cute Is What We Aim For, Rosetta Stone, Rosa Fears and Girls Like Boys. Bad names, so says the guitarist from the band Amy Blue.. :D


Glam Chops

clearly.


I love you but I've Chosen Darkness

Good, go away.


^

this always makes me laugh


^^

also I


^^

also I


^^^

learn to DiS


gothsicles

crappy music and name. Ohhh i'm a clever with my nintendo refrences, and shitty keyboard backbeats.


The followeing

Fuck Buttons
Selfish Cunt
Piss soaked jeans or whatever the fuck they are called
Black Kids


There should be a band called

NAN PUNCHER

that would be good.


The Strange Death of Liberal England

The murder of Rosa Luxemburg.

Wow you can read books and maybe went to university.

Go fuck yourselves


Bloc Party...

...is just as studenty and objectionable.


Reading and Education = Bad.

You heard it here first, folks.

Music may only be made by the Illiterati Un-smarty Nazi Party from now on.

Actually, that's a great name. I'm going to make a band just to annoy the cunts in this thread.


No

Trite references to literature or politics without actual literary or nuanced,political creative output=trying too hard


oh, and future for the left

I don't think they're trying too hard or pretentious.

but...I mean why???


*of


Cute Is What We Aim For

Is probably the most disgusting band name I've ever had the displeasure to hear, it forces me do a little sick in my mouth

Emo bands have to worst names, I'm sure there's one that has 'Prom' in the title? Vom.


I killed the prom queen?

never heard what they sound like but they have prom in the name


Metalcore.


the nintendos

.


LAWL

are they playing capitol soon, innit?


I forgot Cannibal Corpse

Each and every album/song title is ridiculous. Here's a snippet of their typical lyrics:

Stick it in
Rip the skin
Carve and twist
Torn flesh
From behind
I cut her crotch
In her ass I stuck my cock
Killing as I cum

hahahahahaha


my friend's band :(

"english steel"
they sound like they should be sheffield based. they're really not.


actually my friend's band too

J..o.n..ny g.e;t''s a g'.un

I've iserted all the punctuation so they don't find this page when they google their band name.

Which, they do often.


did he get the gun to shoot the jazz?

he hates that shit


so its

jonny gets a gun?

whoops!


you are a tit

sir


kasabian


any band with

boy does something in it:
boy hits car
boy sets fire
boys like girls

i met a guy once who told me he was in a band called love kills boy or something like that, and it made me want to punch him in the face.


boy kill boy

ugh


and did you?

i hope so


brendan o'hare

wot was in macrocosmica and fanclub n that has a noise project entitles SNEAKY PENIS.
also at his recent gig, SCROTAL TUNIC played.


haha

wrong thread - both of those are brilliant.


Test Icicles

It's not even a shit pun. And it's really hard to spell.


How about

Brown Windsor.


22-year-old Asshole

I can't stand people who use the tern 'fags' to disparage.  You say you're twenty-two; I'd say 8 or 9 -- and mostly likely gay yourself.


We Smoke Fags!

Completely forgot about that dire dire name


Massive Attack

I love the band. I LOVE the band. But, they really chose a quite meaningless, empty name. At least I think so. I'll ask Wikipedia. That's where I get my opinions.


Bullet For My Valentine

Keane
The Killers
The Kills
The The
(Most names starting with "the" that follow with one more word only).
Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong
!!! or chk chk chk
Fall Out Boy
Boy Kill Boy
The Strange Death Of Liberal England
Bloc Party
Fuck Buttons
The Feeling
Test Icicles
The Long Blondes
Cradle Of Filth
Slipknot
Korn
Linkin Park
Limp Bizkit (probably the single worst band name ever)
Radiohead (I'm sure if they were a shit band lots of people would say the same)

No doubt I will have more later.

There is also this local band near where I live called "Tricycle Fucking Death", now what the hell seriously, it's not even catchy, witty, it doesn't even make sense. I remember making a joke to my friend and saying how does a tricycle actually fuck death, a tricycle, the grim reaper, no I don't see it.


tricicle fucking death

its just silly enough to be absolute genius

i saw a band called the unstoppable undiscovered robot


Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

sounds like a racial slur.


i just found one called

raped baby's corpse

but on the other hand, i found a really good one: Jovial Cunt


Red Sparowes have some awful track titles

"Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through The City Walls And Everyone Reveled In The Their Ignorance"

"Sixth Extinction Crept Up Slowly Like Sunlight Through The Shutters As We Looked Back In Regret"


a review

of my own band once opened by saying our name was 'christ-punchingly