Worst Band Titles to Search?

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What are the band titles most likely to screw up a search engine?
Only include real band/act titles.

Inspired by Woebots's inclusion of Underground Software in his ragga jungle mix.

Jedmond, Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

!!! and The The to thread.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Free, like the rapper.

Jole, Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What, like this?

Google Proof Bandnames!

ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

bands named after places

Schwingung (Damian), Saturday, 3 January 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

coil and can.

stirmonster, Saturday, 3 January 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, coil is fine on google but NOT on ebay.

stirmonster, Saturday, 3 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Machine. Considering their albums are out of print and their best one is eponymous, this makes searching for it on eBay or google total hell.

nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Anal Cunt.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Just use quotation marks

nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

So

Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Saturday, 3 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Manual
Limp
Console

Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 3 January 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas

dlp9001, Saturday, 3 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

X, -____

christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

A

Although I cannot imagine why anyone would actively seek them out.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead C

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

daddino otm

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Golden Showers

j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 3 January 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Love

Oliver Pyper (stickthrower), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Cake
Bush
Sky
War
The Streets

Jay Kid (Jay K), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Low, Can and Hood always present problems.

Stupid (Stupid), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The Books.

jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 3 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The microphones. Especially on Kazaa.

David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Thou probably wouldn't have been so bad until Oh Brother Where Art Thou came out, but that pretty much ruined things.

dlp9001, Saturday, 3 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Music

oscillatingocelot, Sunday, 4 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...
why would anyone want to search for "A"? oh wait a minute... because they rock, that's right.

Theophilus, Thursday, 19 February 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The Band.

mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

but do any of these but !!! actually BREAK things though?

insound: "Your search for !!! is improperly formatted."
amazon: oh crazy, it actually half-works in the search engine now--but don't you dare actually click on the provided band name link
amg: "Sorry, too many possible matches. Please adjust your search."
ebay: "No keyword was entered."

andrew s (andrew s), Thursday, 19 February 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Morgan...that's a toughie

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 19 February 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I.F. - Back in the day, "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" was one of my first mp3 searches. I wanted to hear more of their songs, but "IF" usually never produced any results in search engines. It took me a year or two before learning the title of one of their albums.

billstevejim, Thursday, 19 February 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cars

areallystupidguy, Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

P:ano
+/-
Summer Hits

Names that work surprisingly well:
OOO
OOIOO

Curt (cgould), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

the Truth

Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

X

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a band here in L.A. called ch1ld p0rnogr4phy... i wouldn't particularly want to be caught searching their name.

morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice-T and Ice Cube are a massive pain in the ass to search for.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)


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