I demand punishment - who is responsible for the dumbest band-naming convention in music???

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Brian Jonestown Massacre
Camper Van Beethoven
JFKFC
John Cougar Concentration Camp
Nat King Kong
etc etc

DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY
what others are there? And who started this crap?

― my name is limitless, Monday, 10 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I love those band names.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Mao Tse Helen is another one

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorites I've ever heard was Magnum Jihad.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

etc etc

I've never heard of these guys though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

kathleen turner overdrive?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Some Canadian assclowns beat me to Kentucky Fried Children, which is what I WAS going to name my band.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Thelonious Monster

― briania, Monday, 10 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Magnum Jihad"? I don't get it...

― limitless, Monday, 10 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

REO Speedealer
Artimis Piledriver

― earlnash, Monday, 10 May 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Theres Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits, which so totally suits them that no fault can be found in it, actually.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

cream abdul babar
friends of dean martin[ez]

it's not so different from cover band names:
el vez
dread zeppelin
ac/dshe

― mig, Monday, 10 May 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, it might have been Jihad Joe. Yeah.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of these I've never heard of. Anyone older than CVB, or were they the ones responsible for getting this ball of dung rolling?

― limitless, Monday, 10 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Vampire State Building

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Kathleen Turner Overdrive

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(duh, xpost)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Girl Scout Heroin

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 May 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Screaming Monkey Boner

― pholm, Monday, 10 May 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't fucknuts mcgee, er Dave whatever talk about this in his Staggering Genius book, thereby making all subsequent discussion of it horribly sad and pathetic?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

dave matthews banned

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Some Canadian assclowns beat me to Kentucky Fried Children, which is what I WAS going to name my band.

-- nickalicious (nza2342...), May 10th, 2004.

They have some great (and by great, I mean by early 90s Calgary Alberta standards) songs on the Bloodbath at the Chinese Disco compilation. "I'm On Glue" roolz. Also on that comp are the great El Caminos and Pussy Monster and Huevos Rancheros.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

some others... REO Speed Dealer, the Dandy Warhols

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

fucknuts mcgee

gawd that's BRILLIANT

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

all of those godawful emo and screamo bands

taking back sunday
hometown hero
etc

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

guyana punch line!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Girl Scout Heroin"? That's priceless beyond words.

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 10 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the diarrhea of anne frank

― matilda mother, Monday, 10 May 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Some '80s Canadian band called Bugs Harvey Oswald allegedly received a bit of a hassle at the USA border due to their "controversial" name, which actually referred not to JFK's (alleged?) assassin, but to three fictional movie rabbits of the past: two animated ones plus the figmentary James Stewart co-star.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone mentioned Jackie O Motherfucker yet?

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

some others... REO Speed Dealer, the Dandy Warhols
REO Speeddealer be ownin' this thread

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And then there was The Sid Presley Experience, who later became The Godfathers, and whose name was chosen (I assume) to simultaneously evoke the 1950s, '60s and '70s. (There was nobody named Sid Presley in the band.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

John Cougar Concentration Camp
Nat King Kong

oh i laughed out loud at these, how silly

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Devil Lee Rot

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 10 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a great band formed by ex-member of Buttsteak (itself not the greatest of names) called the LEE HARVEY KEITEL BAND. If you can find their album, it's great. They broke up, of course, and the lead singer and drummer carried on as a duo under the name SPQR.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In Mario Party 4 there's a mini-game called Mario Speedwagons.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Duran Duran Duran

― GET TO THA' (PRICE) CHOPPA!!!!!!!! ROFFLE!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Not sure if this is applicable, but local faves and Alternative Tentacles signess Alice Donut were originally called...

Alice Donut Liver Henry Moore

geddit?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Winona Riders

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Urethra Franklin

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

excuse me, the Wynona Riders. you get the idea.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

For even more band name stupidity, click here:
Crap Band Name Watch!!!!
great band, shame about the name

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There was Deflator Mouse, and also the hands down winner:

Shitty Shitty Band Band!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

These band names are fucking great. I don't know what the guy that created this thread, this "my name is limitless" chap is thining.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 May 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Stock, Hausen and Walkman.

How many puns is that exactly?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mr T Experience

Then there's two even more wildly creative ones:
Charles Bronson
Sissy Spacek

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, wait,
Jackie O Motherfucker, Kentucky Fried Children, Stock Hausen and Walkman, and others...these are great names, and NOT what I'm complaining about.

I'm talking about the very specific convention, it's not really even a pun, of yoking two unrelated terms for no reason other than they share a word or an initial. Usually the first term is a celebrity of some sort:
JFK + KFC = JFKFC
Brian Jones + Jonestown Massacre = you get the idea. I don't like it because it's lazy and mistakes cleverness for wit. So there!

Didn't fucknuts mcgee, er Dave whatever talk about this in his Staggering Genius book, thereby making all subsequent discussion of it horribly sad and pathetic?

Yeah, what a shitty book, I couldn't get past the first chapter, and I guess I never read the part you mention. Now, you apparently liked it enough to read all the way through, so...wait, what were you saying?

I don't know what the guy that created this thread, this "my name is limitless" chap is thining.

Mr. Snrub can you rephrase this? If you're complaining about my Boredoms in-joke handle, I plead guilty.

― my name is limitless, Monday, 10 May 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Lee Harvey Oswald Motorway Experience

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently "Edgar Allen Coe" are playing at the Pilot Light this week.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah! I see. Sorry about that.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.