What’s The Worst Band Name, Like, Ever?
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Danny Elfman, the main guy behind Oingo Boingo, is like THE major player in Hollywood as far as film scores go. He certainly parlayed his minimal 80's success into an awesome career. I'll always love Oingo Boingo for Goodbye Goodbye from the Fast Times At Ridgemont High soundtrack. I could watch that movie 100 times a year and not get sick of it.
Doug
Danny Elfman, the main guy behind Oingo Boingo, is like THE major player in Hollywood as far as film scores go. He certainly parlayed his minimal 80's success into an awesome career. I'll always love Oingo Boingo for Goodbye Goodbye from the Fast Times At Ridgemont High soundtrack. I could watch that movie 100 times a year and not get sick of it.
Doug
DITTO!
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Mungo Jerry
Mr. Mister
Mott the Hoople
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You are soo correct about elfman and of course the boingo..
oddly he quit doing the band thing because of the touring and he had a live performance anxiety thing..sucks because while thye have a silly name..they had some great zany tunes...dead mans party my fav to spin at halloween
and if you are a tim burton fan...i am on the fence..but watch his movies because he ALWAYS uses elfman
best score..dont laugh ...pee wees big adventure..the music gives it a adult ...odd..scary..intense vibe..
checj it out..but burtons films would be total crap without the elf man.
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Question: What did the dude at the Grateful Dead concert say when his acid trip wore off?
Answer: This band sucks!
Cool album covers, a crowd more interesting than the band and music.
Question: What did the dude at the Grateful Dead concert say when his acid trip wore off?
Answer: This band sucks!
Cool album covers, a crowd more interesting than the band and music.
I don't know some of their straight forward pop stuff off the ALBUMS is pretty good. Went to about 10 dead shows. I went in the first time, sold my ticket the other ticket 9 times. Even under the influence, it was not that good. Now go see a Kiss concert on acid, the funniest thing in your life. I couldn't stop laughing for 3 straight hours. Their shows are so ridiculous their is nothing else to do but laugh. Kiss are piss poor musicians.
Oh the name
The Alan Parsons Project
Luck is Tim Couch. Big, Dumb Goofy, slow thinking QB - Ghoolie, 2-28-12 -
Eek a mouse is a sh*tty name.
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Danny Elfman, the main guy behind Oingo Boingo, is like THE major player in Hollywood as far as film scores go. He certainly parlayed his minimal 80's success into an awesome career. I'll always love Oingo Boingo for Goodbye Goodbye from the Fast Times At Ridgemont High soundtrack. I could watch that movie 100 times a year and not get sick of it.
Doug
Danny Elfman, the main guy behind Oingo Boingo, is like THE major player in Hollywood as far as film scores go. He certainly parlayed his minimal 80's success into an awesome career. I'll always love Oingo Boingo for Goodbye Goodbye from the Fast Times At Ridgemont High soundtrack. I could watch that movie 100 times a year and not get sick of it.
Doug
ahhh the mystic knights of the oingo boingo........actually Danny's brother Richard's original incarnation.
i just watched the FoRBiddEN zone this week lol. speak of the devil.
the film marks the moment he took over the band, and explains where it was now heading. Danny also parlayed his genes into a beautiful daughter Jenna of Dharma and Greg fame.
Nick, given the band's full name can the artist get a pass?
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Question: What did the dude at the Grateful Dead concert say when his acid trip wore off?
Answer: This band sucks!
Cool album covers, a crowd more interesting than the band and music.
Question: What did the dude at the Grateful Dead concert say when his acid trip wore off?
Answer: This band sucks!
Cool album covers, a crowd more interesting than the band and music.
album covers? fans more interesting than the band? any deadhead worth the mud between his toes knows it's all about bootlegs w/ the Dead.
you obviously know nothing about them. if you're interested start by googling "the wall of sound" and finish by understanding that in 35 years they never played the same song the same way twice.
cool album covers.......wow.
maybe pick up a tom wolfe book too.
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Question: What did the dude at the Grateful Dead concert say when his acid trip wore off?
Answer: This band sucks!
Cool album covers, a crowd more interesting than the band and music.
I don't know some of their straight forward pop stuff off the ALBUMS is pretty good. Went to about 10 dead shows. I went in the first time, sold my ticket the other ticket 9 times. Even under the influence, it was not that good. Now go see a Kiss concert on acid, the funniest thing in your life. I couldn't stop laughing for 3 straight hours. Their shows are so ridiculous their is nothing else to do but laugh. Kiss are piss poor musicians.
Oh the name
The Alan Parsons Project
I don't know some of their straight forward pop stuff off the ALBUMS is pretty good. Went to about 10 dead shows. I went in the first time, sold my ticket the other ticket 9 times. Even under the influence, it was not that good. Now go see a Kiss concert on acid, the funniest thing in your life. I couldn't stop laughing for 3 straight hours. Their shows are so ridiculous their is nothing else to do but laugh. Kiss are piss poor musicians.
Oh the name
The Alan Parsons Project
straight forward pop stuff?
it's a little known fact that the dead single-handedly kept salvation armies and soup kitchens alive through tough times. they would donate to approx. a 50 mile range surrounding each show they did, positively affecting huge areas. they wanted no publicity for this, the same went for their music.
the entire In The Dark album was recorded in an entirely pitch-black studio, hence the name. fun fact: this was after Jerry's stroke-he had no recollection of his former self and had to completely relearn to sing and play from scratch. although this album had some success with touch of gray, and truckin, casey jones, and sugar mag get radio play this band had no pop tunes. those songs rank overwhelmingly low with all deadheads, possibly for those reasons.
try these:
scarlet>>fire
china-ryder
aiko-aiko
he's gone
althea
their name was chosen by flipping open a dictionary and pointing.....and there was grateful dead. so maybe they deserve to be included in this thread, but their music is certainly not on trial. execs can only dream of a band having a following like the Dead have.
btw, they're touring this year. maybe try them sober this time Kosar...........or just get ur sheets from the lot and head home, whatever ur thing is.
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i have some coworkers in the band the jumpin' bald headed jesus, or JBHJ for short. i still haven't decided if it genius or.....other.
one of my favorite bands from the 90's, rage against the machine deserve this list for falling off and putting down the torch.
where'd ya go guys? we need you now more than ever. here we are!
other bad names? anything currently playing on pop radio. especially emo. sorry, no gems to share. maybe Rusted Root? nah, i'm just picking on pittsburgh.
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Question: What did the dude at the Grateful Dead concert say when his acid trip wore off?
Answer: This band sucks!
Cool album covers, a crowd more interesting than the band and music.
album covers? fans more interesting than the band? any deadhead worth the mud between his toes knows it's all about bootlegs w/ the Dead.
you obviously know nothing about them. if you're interested start by googling "the wall of sound" and finish by understanding that in 35 years they never played the same song the same way twice.
cool album covers.......wow.
maybe pick up a tom wolfe book too.
any deadhead worth the mud between his toes knows it's all about bootlegs w/ the Dead.
I'm a huge fan and NEVER listen to the studio stuff. Same goes for Phish...it's all about the live shows.
Luckily, with all of the Dick's Picks etc, we have a shitload of high quality soundboard stuff.
Between Dick's Picks soundboards and all of the aud stuff I got from archive.org before they "closed it down," amongst other stuff, I have like every show from May '77, which was like the epitome of live music.
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Hootie and the Blowfish.
Something about that name bothers me to no end. Could you imagine a band like Led Zepplin being called "Hootie and Blowfish"?
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Flash in the Pan...yep, that was their name; they had a so-called hit in the early 80's called Heh St. Peter.
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@hiwaygal said:
Now I thought for sure the best name was Bare Naked Ladies!!! LOL!Worst name...I thought some of the names of the 50's groups were pretty stupid. The Platters, The Moonglows...they were all trying to follow some formula and I guess they were. At least some of the other names mentioned here needed some creativity or something.
yah the 50s stuff ..very silly...but they could not be edgy back then as the explosion was just beginning
The the! hah..i thought of them..as it is a band name that is whacky but they produced some great new wave synth tunes like "Its my life" covered in 2002ish by No Doubt...so i give them a pass.
how about art rock band "And you will know us by the trail of dead" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%A6And_...ead...hmm..just because of the stupid weird name i have always turned them off...they my have talent...who cares.
how about art rock band "And you will know us by the trail of dead"
that name owns and that band is awesome... one of the best ive ever seen live... they're intense.
As far as bad names go.... you can't get much worse muscially or name-wise than "Brokencyde"
Any of the nu-metal mispelled names of the 90s were pretty bad too -> Korn, Limp Bizkit, etc.
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Eek a mouse is a sh*tty name.
Eek a mouse is a sh*tty name.
Great reggae! "has anybody seen da virgin girl"
Not sure if their the worst, but "The Dead Kennedys" "Buzz Cocks" "Flaming lips" are all kinda shocking.
We were once going to call ourselves "Free Pizza" just to get people to come.
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I don't know some of their straight forward pop stuff off the ALBUMS is pretty good. Went to about 10 dead shows. I went in the first time, sold my ticket the other ticket 9 times. Even under the influence, it was not that good. Now go see a Kiss concert on acid, the funniest thing in your life. I couldn't stop laughing for 3 straight hours. Their shows are so ridiculous their is nothing else to do but laugh. Kiss are piss poor musicians.
Oh the name
The Alan Parsons Project
straight forward pop stuff?
it's a little known fact that the dead single-handedly kept salvation armies and soup kitchens alive through tough times. they would donate to approx. a 50 mile range surrounding each show they did, positively affecting huge areas. they wanted no publicity for this, the same went for their music.
the entire In The Dark album was recorded in an entirely pitch-black studio, hence the name. fun fact: this was after Jerry's stroke-he had no recollection of his former self and had to completely relearn to sing and play from scratch. although this album had some success with touch of gray, and truckin, casey jones, and sugar mag get radio play this band had no pop tunes. those songs rank overwhelmingly low with all deadheads, possibly for those reasons.
try these:
scarlet>>fire
china-ryder
aiko-aiko
he's gone
althea
their name was chosen by flipping open a dictionary and pointing.....and there was grateful dead. so maybe they deserve to be included in this thread, but their music is certainly not on trial. execs can only dream of a band having a following like the Dead have.
btw, they're touring this year. maybe try them sober this time Kosar...........or just get ur sheets from the lot and head home, whatever ur thing is.
straight forward pop stuff?
it's a little known fact that the dead single-handedly kept salvation armies and soup kitchens alive through tough times. they would donate to approx. a 50 mile range surrounding each show they did, positively affecting huge areas. they wanted no publicity for this, the same went for their music.
the entire In The Dark album was recorded in an entirely pitch-black studio, hence the name. fun fact: this was after Jerry's stroke-he had no recollection of his former self and had to completely relearn to sing and play from scratch. although this album had some success with touch of gray, and truckin, casey jones, and sugar mag get radio play this band had no pop tunes. those songs rank overwhelmingly low with all deadheads, possibly for those reasons.
try these:
scarlet>>fire
china-ryder
aiko-aiko
he's gone
althea
their name was chosen by flipping open a dictionary and pointing.....and there was grateful dead. so maybe they deserve to be included in this thread, but their music is certainly not on trial. execs can only dream of a band having a following like the Dead have.
btw, they're touring this year. maybe try them sober this time Kosar...........or just get ur sheets from the lot and head home, whatever ur thing is.
i'm going to see them on sunday in cincinnati. my 3rd furthur show this year. they are ripping shit right now.
and those 'pop' dead songs are pretty low on the deadhead totem pole. gimme an estimated prophet from 1978.
speaking of reggae, i have no idea how gregory issacs has escaped me all of these years. i heard phish's cover of night nurse from their show 2 weeks ago and it is awesome. i'm definitely going to be digging up some of this guy's back catalog.
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Top 3:
3. Porno for Pyros
2. Chumbawamba
1. !!! <------ Yes, thats actually a band. How the hell did they announce them when they walked in the ampitheatre? "Now, here comes the main attraction, Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point!"
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Eek a mouse is a sh*tty name.
Great reggae! "has anybody seen da virgin girl"
Not sure if their the worst, but "The Dead Kennedys" "Buzz Cocks" "Flaming lips" are all kinda shocking.
We were once going to call ourselves "Free Pizza" just to get people to come.
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Top 3:
3. Porno for Pyros
2. Chumbawamba
1. !!! <------ Yes, thats actually a band. How the hell did they announce them when they walked in the ampitheatre? "Now, here comes the main attraction, Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point, Exclamation Point!"
Colt12 said:
3. Porno for PyrosGreat band.
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