Worst band/musician with a name that is pun based on other bands/musicians

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god I hate this shit

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Wevie Stonder	11
Chet Faker	3
Other	2
Buckcherry	2
Ringo Deathstarr	2
REO Speedealer	2
Run DMT	1
Dread Zeppelin	1
Brian Jonestown Massacre	1
Joy Orbison	1
Kathleen Turner Overdrive	0
Joanna Gruesome	0
RJD2	0

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:50 (five years ago)

Dunno who to vote for as the ones I've heard I like. Also Duran Duran Duran.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:52 (five years ago)

i thought RJD2 was a Star Wars pun?

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:52 (five years ago)

imo Joy Orbison and BJM are good names. I feel like I knew Buckcherry was a pun at some point and then forgot again, man they really just suck.

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:54 (five years ago)

yeah I should've left RJD2 off, opens the door to including all the other non-musical pun names (Dandy Warhols etc)

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:55 (five years ago)

I have never heard Buckcherry, not in any way interested to.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:57 (five years ago)

Wait, is Joy Orbison supposed to pun on Joy Division also?

― jmm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:57 (five years ago)

spoonerisms are amongst the lowest shorms of fit in band names and oh so hilarious twitter accounts.

― calzino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:58 (five years ago)

there are more of these, but I hate them so much that I've blocked them out of my head and can't recall the names

― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 16:58 (five years ago)

Hey y'all I just came up with one, feel free to use it if you want people to hate your band and its name: Yonic Sooth

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:00 (five years ago)

gahhhhhh

https://www.discogs.com/artist/6561460-Yonic-South

― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:01 (five years ago)

xpost And lol of course a quick googling reveals that someone has already run with that terrible idea.

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:01 (five years ago)

I've never heard a note of their (her?) music, but Joanna Gruesome sounds so much like a 70s Hanna Barbara cartoon parody of Joanna Newsom that I love imagining the world in which such a thing might exist.

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:10 (five years ago)

Do Mary Tyler Morphine count?

― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:10 (five years ago)

Wevie Stonder fails in every way.

― jmm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:10 (five years ago)

Joanna Gruesome = Scooby Doo villain iirc

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:11 (five years ago)

Yes, Wevie Stonder exudes such a depressingly-fundamental lack of effort it kind of makes me sad for those band members. You okay, boos?

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:13 (five years ago)

Buh Theatles

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:14 (five years ago)

Look I switched the letters. Look. Lookit.

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:14 (five years ago)

Just learned altered zones era RUN DMT changed his name to Salvia Plath to avoid confusion with a dubstep duo also called Run DMT but that another different person was already using Salvia Plath as an artist name at the same time, too. Truly an innovator in terrible already taken drug puns.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:15 (five years ago)

dread zeppalin is a tribute band, feel like we should make an exception for those?

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:17 (five years ago)

are there any good ones of these? i always thought "Beatless" was kinda funny in a MAD magazine movie parody kind of way, but now i can't seem to confirm that was a real band and not some record store joker's labeling of a used CD section divider.

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:17 (five years ago)

Cannabis Corpse

Bet that already exists.

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:17 (five years ago)

Yes, and they are actually kinda good.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:18 (five years ago)

The big one missing here is Fats Domino / Chubby Checker.

Isn't Kathleen Turner Overdrive a proposed joke name of the band in "High Fidelity"?

I would submit that Lez Zeppelin is about as inspired as Dread Zeppelin.

But as voodoo chili notes, it's also kinda not fair to fault tribute bands for punning on the name of the band they are a tribute of. I mean if you buy a ticket to "Bruce in the U.S.A." you pretty much know what you're getting.

― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:18 (five years ago)

Dr. C, you are otm wrt the Mad Magazine comparison. Even as a kid it used to drive me nuts that the altered names in their movie parodies were so completely tossed off. RAIDERS OF THE LOST BLECCH! or whatever. Come on, man, you're getting paid for this shit.

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:19 (five years ago)

xps saw duran duran duran the same day i saw black abba :)

― nxd, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:20 (five years ago)

ok fine nobody vote for Dread Zeppelin (or AC/DShe or Lez Zeppelin or Petty Theft or whatever)

The big one missing here is Fats Domino / Chubby Checker.

Dats Fomino? Chebby Chucker? not sure what you're getting at

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:20 (five years ago)

The big one missing here is Fats Domino / Chubby Checker.

IIRC I set my ILX dn to 'Portly Backgammon' for a while but I don't know if anyone got it.

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:21 (five years ago)

Of these, Wevie Stonder is unquestionably the worst. Just fucking pointless all around.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:22 (five years ago)

Buh Theatles

Still better than Wevie Stonder, which doesn't even rhyme naturally with the original.

― jmm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:22 (five years ago)

Honorable mention to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Phillips_(musician)

― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:23 (five years ago)

xp was just gonna post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGhpUAHP1c

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:24 (five years ago)

another one i loathe is elvis depressedly

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:25 (five years ago)

lol @ portly backgammon

― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (five years ago)

Joanna Gruesome is some Treehouse of Horror gravestone shit

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (five years ago)

Kind Buddy Holly

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:26 (five years ago)

I feel almost certain that the college jam band circuit is liberally sprinkled with these shits.

Bong Iver

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:29 (five years ago)

Dats Fomino? Chebby Chucker? not sure what you're getting at

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:20 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wasn't the name 'chubby checker' already a play on the name 'fats domino'?

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

also, lol at chebby chucker

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:30 (five years ago)

oh, duh

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:31 (five years ago)

I can understand being drunk/high enough to come up with names like these and think they were really great but I don't understand how you remain drunk/high for long enough to like register a domain name and plaster the name all over your merch etc.

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:33 (five years ago)

Joanna Gruesome
Tame Impaler
Sharon Von Eaten
Snail Maul
Soccer Mummy
Carseat Headrestinpeace

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:35 (five years ago)

Pomplamooseandsquirrel

― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:37 (five years ago)

Tonight, the Gender Rifles will be opening for the Reproduction Handguns

― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:38 (five years ago)

Spruce Bringsteen. Not a real thing, just had to get it out of my head. I'm sorry. The funny thing about this one is that if you say it quickly enough, it's easy to miss.

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:39 (five years ago)

Wevie Stonder (wow my autocorrect hates that name) is a bad name but the music was sometimes good.

The Beatless were a big beatles tribute band in the 90s.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:39 (five years ago)

Celibate Rifles? xps

― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:40 (five years ago)

Hey Dio Red

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:40 (five years ago)

I just remembered that there's a Japanese band called Sex Machineguns? Which I admit I find amusing. Don't know what they sound like though.

― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:42 (five years ago)

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(xp) Yes, we have that over here.

― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Monday, 20 July 2020 09:19 (five years ago)

https://www.discogs.com/artist/2260190-Philip-D-Kick

*sigh*

― StanM, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 11:40 (five years ago)

that's a genuinely cool Om Unit side project that remixes old jungle tunes in a footwork style. I rate it

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:01 (five years ago)

yeah i really like PDK

― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:20 (five years ago)

plus unlike a lot of these, it's a pretty good pun

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:25 (five years ago)

TS: Wevie Stonder vs. Jichael Mackson

― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:27 (five years ago)

jichael mackson had some ok bobbins

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 18:43 (five years ago)

dibs on bolar pear

that's a legit typo i made because i'm drunk and i don't sleep anymore

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 00:00 (five years ago)

oh how about beat pest

that's a clever one

let's see, according to discogs beat pest exists and they're finnish

https://www.discogs.com/artist/4579619-Beat-Pest

― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 01:06 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Ina Garden Nachtmusik

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 August 2021 16:37 (four years ago)

Smelliott Ith

― Dexter Holland's Opus (Deflatormouse), Friday, 13 August 2021 17:11 (four years ago)

Is there a band called Teh Teh or Duh Duh yet?

― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:05 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Timothy Eerie

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 16:03 (three years ago)

How quickly we have forgotten Gnarls Barkley.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 17:45 (three years ago)

Why am I not getting that Buckcherry is a pun on somebody else's name?

― henry s, Monday, 17 October 2022 18:23 (three years ago)

It’s a Spoonerism

― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:26 (three years ago)

Think Huddy Bolly

― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:27 (three years ago)

I prefer datsfomino and rittlelichard

― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:28 (three years ago)

Bion and the Delmonts

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:33 (three years ago)

Kill Baley & the Homets

― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:36 (three years ago)

Amazing - I never got that!

― henry s, Monday, 17 October 2022 18:40 (three years ago)

I guess it's actually pretty good, now that I think about it.

― henry s, Monday, 17 October 2022 18:40 (three years ago)

I don't agree but dsfdf

― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:46 (three years ago)

Lary Gewis and the Bayploys

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:50 (three years ago)

thing about these bands is, they all had to (probably still have to) go around telling all their friends and family and peers what the name of their new band was, and they stuck to their guns. for which they get some grudging respect from me

henry cow is technically one of these bands (they lied about their name) but they're too good for the rest of these jokers - I assume, having heard of none of them before this poll

― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:54 (three years ago)

What is Henry Cow a pun of?

― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 18:57 (three years ago)

Henry Cowell?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 17 October 2022 19:04 (three years ago)

yes - band denies it but they're full of shit

― Left, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:09 (three years ago)

Chuck Bear

― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Monday, 17 October 2022 19:16 (three years ago)

They deny it? I hate that

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 17 October 2022 19:21 (three years ago)

Hurl Maggard

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Monday, 17 October 2022 22:04 (three years ago)

seven months pass...

Moni Jitchell

― nate woolls, Thursday, 25 May 2023 20:30 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

Boy Harsher, a riff on Roy Harper do we reckon?

― Maresn3st, Monday, 15 April 2024 09:20 (one year ago)

i certainly hope not

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Monday, 15 April 2024 09:30 (one year ago)

I wonder what the first example of this was? The first I remember was Jefferson Airhead, who had to change their name to Airhead when Grace Slick & co threatened to sue.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 15 April 2024 09:44 (one year ago)

John Cougar Concentration Camp got booked unheard in Bloomington at Rhinos back in the day.

― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Monday, 15 April 2024 10:13 (one year ago)

Fleddy Melculy, Belgian metal band

― StanM, Monday, 15 April 2024 10:49 (one year ago)

I wonder what the first example of this was?

Chubby Checker

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:05 (one year ago)

I imagine there were pre-rock and roll examples.

― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:07 (one year ago)

“Count” Basie was a play on Duke Ellington and Earl Hines.

― President Keyes, Monday, 15 April 2024 13:13 (one year ago)

Interestingly. Blossom Dearie (who I knew about) postdates Blossom Seeley (who I didn't) by 30 years.

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:14 (one year ago)

this is a really good record, by the way. put out by pals of mine on a pal's record label. #westernmassaction

https://www.discogs.com/release/2335180-Schurt-Kwitters-Schurt-Kwitters

― scott seward, Monday, 15 April 2024 13:25 (one year ago)

one year passes...

TS: Wevie Stonder vs. Jichael Mackson

https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/moni-jitchell-unreal-review/

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 26 May 2025 09:13 (five months ago)

Well this was a timely thread bump seeing as Spotify just recommended me something called Gringo Start

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Monday, 26 May 2025 11:37 (five months ago)

Gringo Starr goddamnit!!!

― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Monday, 26 May 2025 11:38 (five months ago)

I like that whereas I refuse to listen to one second of a band called Moni Jitchell.

― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Monday, 26 May 2025 11:48 (five months ago)

Wasn’t there a band called Rage Against the Coke Machine?

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 26 May 2025 11:53 (five months ago)

Of course

https://dialsmavisgroup.com/

― Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Monday, 26 May 2025 15:01 (five months ago)

not really the same, but feels really odd that there is a female pop star called DYLAN at the moment. who clearly decided, probably against advice of many many people, that it made sense to call herself DYLAN in a field where there is already a DYLAN who people refer to as DYLAN.

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 26 May 2025 16:03 (five months ago)

I believe that the singer/songwriter Sam Phillips based her stage name on her childhood nickname, against advice that the recording industry had a somewhat prominent Sam Phillips.

Speaking of Dylan, the singer/songwriter Wesley Stace's use of the stage name John Wesley Harding was, I believe, intentionally annoying.

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 May 2025 16:19 (five months ago)

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