Bands that you love despite their silly names

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Bands You could never allow yourself to like, given their (to your ears) indefensibly stupid name.

Gorkys Zygotic Mynci
Swearing At Motorists
They Came From the Stars (I Saw Them)

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

Fountains of Wayne
Dukes of Nothing

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 30 November 2003 01:57 (twenty years ago) link

Split Enz

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

Eyehategod.

No, really.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 30 November 2003 02:29 (twenty years ago) link

My friend promises me that when he starts his metal band, they will call themselves Eyelovegod, which is even dumber.

A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
High On Fire
I Hate Myself

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 30 November 2003 03:14 (twenty years ago) link

the beatles

― elizabeth (elizabeth), Sunday, 30 November 2003 03:18 (twenty years ago) link

Love

― chad (chad), Sunday, 30 November 2003 03:49 (twenty years ago) link

High on Fire is a most excellent name

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 30 November 2003 05:51 (twenty years ago) link

Blur, and I'll second Gorky's
Super Furry Animals seems like it should be silly, but everyone I know who hasn't heard of the band just adores that name when I mention it.

― Poppy (poppy), Sunday, 30 November 2003 07:49 (twenty years ago) link

Radiohead

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Sunday, 30 November 2003 09:15 (twenty years ago) link

Agreed on Gorky's, but I think even they loathe the name by now.

― Schwingung (Damian), Sunday, 30 November 2003 10:40 (twenty years ago) link

My Morning Jacket

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Sunday, 30 November 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 30 November 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link

The Monsoon Bassoon
Girls Aloud
Sugababes (NO "r"? what's THAT all about????? EH???????!!!!!!!1111111111111etc)

surely the Pet Shop Boys 0WNZ this thread.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 30 November 2003 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

Mansun. I wouldn't say I love them, per se, but their first two albums had some cool stuff on them. The name, though, is crap (supposedly a truncation of a song by the Verve called "A Man Called Sun"). Whatever.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

I seem to remember an early Mansun interview where they said that they were originally Manson but early-ish in their career EMI asked them to change their name on the grounds that they already had Charles Manson signed to them (in some vague'n'nebulous capacity) and they didn't wanted two Mansons on the same label. CRAZY TIMES.

(is it probable that they were making this up and I should maybe question what I read sometimes? really, have no idea)

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Sunday, 30 November 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno....they just don't seem the type of band that would go the "hey, let's name ourselves after a murderous guru" route.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

echo and the bunnymen.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 30 November 2003 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

a flock of seagulls

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 1 December 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

Rubberoom

(What the heck was that supposed to mean?)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

Wee Bee Foolish

(tuomas, don't you know what a rubberroom is? it's where you put crazy people so they won't hurt themselves)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 1 December 2003 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, in Finnish it's called "the cushioned room".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

A lot of techno artists have pretty silly names, if you think of them for a while. For example:

µ-ziq
Bass-o-matic
Higher Intelligence Agency
XPQ-21
Ø
Jam & Spoon
Hardsequencer
Rythim Is Rythim (yes, it's lacking the first "h")
Syrinx 2600

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

I third/forth Gorkys Zygotic Mynci. Stupid name. Great sounds.

― Robby, Monday, 1 December 2003 12:27 (twenty years ago) link

Dalek I Love You.

I love the story that Alan Gill wanted to call the band "The Daleks", and Dave Balfe wanted to call the band "Darling I Love You", so they settled for a mix of the two.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

J-lo, anyone?

― Jole, Monday, 1 December 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

J-lo, anyone?

no thanks.

British Sea Power though.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

C'mon, you've gotta love her in a "I'm too ironic to be hip" way.

― Jole (Jole), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:30 (twenty years ago) link

anal cunt

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 05:33 (twenty years ago) link

twenty years pass...

i LOVE the instrumental doom/sludge band 5ive. i LOOOOOOve them. but that name. oh well. feel like they could have been bigger if they had been called Green Bonghorn or something. Greenweedface. Hevybongcretins. like, even those dumb names would be better cuz 5ive just reminds me of the 90s or something and who wants to be reminded of that? though they aren't from the 90s.

― scott seward, Friday, 3 May 2024 17:59 (two weeks ago) link

reminds of 5ive Style, specifically...

― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Friday, 3 May 2024 18:01 (two weeks ago) link

milf

― Evan, Friday, 3 May 2024 18:03 (two weeks ago) link

5ive totally makes me think 90s boyband.

― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 3 May 2024 18:09 (two weeks ago) link

Shitfucker
Bathtub Shitter
Dying Fetus
Fuck, I'm Dead!
Sanguisugabogg

― RICH BRIAN (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 May 2024 18:12 (two weeks ago) link

i'm just going to write Dark Bongstar on the covers of my 5ive CDs with a sharpie.

― scott seward, Friday, 3 May 2024 18:19 (two weeks ago) link

Diarrhea Planet

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:10 (two weeks ago) link

Michael Cera Palin

― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:11 (two weeks ago) link

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 May 2024 20:48 (two weeks ago) link

Illuminati Hotties

― alpine static, Friday, 3 May 2024 21:41 (two weeks ago) link

Prefab Sprout always wins

― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Saturday, 4 May 2024 02:09 (two weeks ago) link

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