What's in a Name?
There is a fairly large pool of Nashville bands with whom I am familiar in name only. I see their names often, but, for whatever reason, I just haven't heard them yet. Sometimes it's because the name is really bad. Sure, there are tons of great bands with awful names—remember Archers of Loaf? At the same time, it's just hard to get excited about a band called Radical Face. With this in mind, I present to you my list of the worst band names associated with Nashville.
Disclaimer: I have a relatively long history of playing in questionably named bands. That fact alone either discredits my list entirely or qualifies me as a sort of bad band name expert. Hard to say.
Her Death Was So Silent
Just what metal needed, more misogyny.
Hail to the Keith
Should've gone with Bowin' to the Lowen. Too late now.
Tigers Con Queso
Tigers with cheese? Is this some sort of inside joke? If so, this is the worst kind of inside joke—one that doesn't include me.
Cantasy Famp
Ducking fumb.
The Nobility
Jetpack was an awesome name. Simple, straightforward and one word, which means that, after 50-plus years of rock and roll, of course the name's taken. The Nobility is also simple, straightforward and short, but for some reason nobody had already jumped on that one. Wonder why that is.
Look What I Did
I'm guessing you booked a show before naming your band.
F.U.C.T.
The singer's initials are A.S.S. He's phenomenal at arcade games.
JEFF
I guess it's clever if you're escaping Internet piracy along with, you know, all of the Internet.
The Cry Room
Just because I know what an actual cry room is doesn't make it sound any less lame.
Comments
You should look at some of Charleston, SC's band names:
Posted 06/28/2007 at 10:27:14 AMSwyrl
Spunjwurthi
Outformation
Consider yourself blessed.
Outformation! HA!
Posted 06/28/2007 at 10:29:09 AMImagine Asians, Matt.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:05:23 AMNow, imagine a band with the name "Imagine Asians."
Oh man, you're right. How did I forget about them?
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:13:18 AMCome on, Matt. You're not going to list the badly-named bands you were in? Not fair.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:14:48 AMI'll start. My first band was called Liquid Diet
Yeah Imagine Asians is bad, Atomic Blonde is gay, & anything that has the word SUPER, STAR, or MODEL in it is equally revolting.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:23:21 AMLet's go ahead and list all of Brian's terrible bands names:
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:24:54 AMDrywall
National Biscuit Company
Pink Mongoose
Three Hit Combo
Am I forgetting any? I'm still upset you never used my suggestion of Spankrag.
Whoa, you think SUPERdrag is/was a bad name? I disagree.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:26:11 AMThis isn't about me, Brian.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:29:49 AMI retract SUPER.. There are plenty of decent band neames with SUPER..
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:32:09 AMSuperchunk, Supersuckers, and Superdrag.
haha, my friend's ex is ryan from her death was so silent.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:35:36 AMgotta say i'm not a fan of happy birthday amy's name. good band, bad name.
besides, we all know totally snake is the best local name.
OMG! All of these a dreadful band names..
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:38:01 AMSoulShift
Ninth Day Sin
Guns-A-Go-Go
Livin' With Jack
Lee Harvey Griswold
xiii rizing
Bloodshot Fury
MONOLIATH
CHRISTINE
Destroy by Design [
O'Malley's Alley
RETURN TO SELF
Atomic Blonde
Chest Rockwell ]
Deadsun
Disarray
life in the sky
Point of Origin
Commander
Adrenaline Theory
Piranah
3minutes to live
Autumn Cross
two bad bands i was in...
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:40:08 AMherpes milkshake
beanwagon
I haven't heard of most of those.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:41:10 AMAnd Totally Snake rules.
BeanWagon is good;)
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:41:17 AMdon't even THINK about capitalizing beanwagon. it HAS to be all lowercase.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:52:36 AMI always wondered about Black Magic Markers. Is that a joke? My irony meter is broken these days, but I'm hoping so.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:56:35 AMMy first band was The Magneetos. 'Nuff said about that. Among the other names we considered: "Band...James Band" and "The Banned." I also played a few shows with a friend's band called Last Visible Dog.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 11:58:56 AMI'm sorry, but "Band...James Band" would have been pretty kick-asstic
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:03:55 PMHmmm...now I do a search and see there's a record label in Providence RI called Last Visible Dog. And when I played with the band Last Visible Dog, we lived in Providence. But that was 25 years ago... hmmmm... wonder where that label got its name....
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:04:25 PMOther good bands with "super" in their name: Supergrass, Super Furry Animals...both great in spite of their bad names. Another band great despite horrible name: Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:19:08 PMwell. i guess since i'm takin' it, it's cool if i dish some out...
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:25:42 PMMy Relationship with Gravity
The Process of Moving
The Most Amazing Century of Science
(seriously, are you guys just grabbing random library books and stealing their titles?)
Clist (seriously. that just sounds gross).
Ligion (i only recently found out this was pronounced "lee-jun" and not "lig-eeun")
The Lonely Planets (i seriously just couldn't come up with anything better at the time).
Meet Me in Montauk (we all know the rule about using movies less than 10 years old - personally i say it's 25).
Deadsun
Skullkin
Black Soul Choir
Not Before Noon (*cough*)
Biffs DeVille
(all these should go without saying).
and this is slightly off topic, but there's a band from like PA playing at rctkwn called The Devil Wears Prada... wtf?
and if it makes you feel any better, TCQ isn't in on this joke either.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:26:33 PMit was given to us upon demand by a fan unsatisfied with our previous name.
My Morning Jacket...great band, terrible name.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:27:11 PMThe Oneders was a great name! Whatever happened to those guys?
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:30:32 PMI could list bad metal names for days.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:38:02 PMDamn you Casio!
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:39:33 PMThis is fun! I was in Spaztic Colons and The Disgruntled Postal Workers Association. Yeah!
Posted 06/28/2007 at 12:57:35 PMHey, that Radical Face album is one of my favorites this year.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 01:23:40 PMAnd the two guys that came on my show Tuesday night LOVED Tigers Con Queso; they thought it was the best band name ever. But they're also driving across the country in an ambulance.
I'm mostly getting sick of all the band names with "horse," "bear" or "wolf" in them.
I want to start a band called Diarrhea Puppy, who's game?
Posted 06/28/2007 at 01:38:19 PMDon't forget BANG BANG BANG *vomit*
Posted 06/28/2007 at 01:40:50 PMBang, Bang, Bang does bite the big salami.
Posted 06/28/2007 at 01:46:54 PMligion is worse
Posted 06/28/2007 at 01:47:50 PM"I know I'm chiming in a bit late. Most Amazing Century of Science...MAC-OS...pretty clever.
Posted 07/01/2007 at 09:49:09 PMComment by Bingham (06.29.2007, 07:29 PM)"
i second this motion.
clever indeed.
also, not sure if any of you remember, but there was once a boro band called:
Posted 07/01/2007 at 09:50:30 PMYennis Pinwheel
yep.
Oh yeah, and while I love How I Became The Bomb...their name is an atrocity. Der Bomb Bomb Bomb was much better. Murkier. German-ier. Or something.
Posted 07/02/2007 at 10:17:47 AMin japan there is an entire industry devoted to creating meaningless names for products,i.e "datsun"
Posted 07/03/2007 at 09:03:08 AMthe ideal name is supposedly one or two syllables, and the word begins and ends with vowels.
on a personla note, i think "tigers con queso" is brilliant, the absurdity of juxtaposing an animal which could eat you with food is hillarious, not mention it is in two languages!
We played with a band from Evansville once called "The Pre-Delorian Doc Browns" -horific
Posted 07/10/2007 at 07:58:12 AMNot bad... Not bad.
Posted 11/11/2008 at 05:19:14 PM