How about band names taken from children's books ... like a friend's, that was named A Dog for Jonathan.

Absolute shocker.

INXS was pretty bad too, until you got the joke. Great band though, mostly

I committed the acronym sin in the 80's, with the band name OPM. At the time, I thought it was damn clever: OPM (Other People's Money), but the joke was "Opium". Needless to say, the band went nowhere.

How about bands named from lyrics from other, more talented people's songs?

I've seen a LOT of bands out there, both nationally and locally, that take their names from lyrics either by Bob Dylan (i.e. Cowboy Mouth) or Tom Waits. I remember one town I lived in had a band named Dragstrip Courage. There music was so appallingly bad that I wanted to just smack them with an open hand for sullying a Tom Waits song ("Goin' Out West") by their very existence.

On the last point, there's a lame-ass indie rock band that calls themselves Portugal. The Man. They say the period and second clause are there to differentiate themselves from, you know, the country. The title of their debut album takes the punctuation abuse to new lows: Waiter: "You Vultures!"

Still, it's not worse than Deep Blue Something.

I agree that it's a sin to name your band after someone else's much better song/lyrics/book/movie. Faster Pussycat would be a good example. Not that the movie was even remotely good, but then, neither was the band. Grapes of Wrath is another. Other examples?

KLF escapes any criticism, if only because they mention themselves so much on record: "KLF! uh huh, uh huh-uh huh! KLF is gonna rock you! justified! ancients of mu-mu." damn skippy.

Exceptions: Actual religious bands...

See, but that's still a hard one to debate because any of the decent Christian metal bands didn't get any credit and they didn't incorporate Christ's name in their moniker,i.e. Devastation,Believer,etc..

But, ofcourse their are the shitty supposed Christian band who sell out: Creed, Jars of Clay.
Granted they didn't use his mane they still sucked ass..LOL!! Jars of Clay... Now that's the shittiest band name ever!!

*oops* Granted they didn't use his MANE they still sucked ass

Duh..Name

Hey..what would you think if someone named their band with an acronym with umlauts *Smirk*

fun Stuff here...

i can't believe you actually know who "Godspeed" are, they are from my olde stomping grounds, and used to open for my last band before they got signed by Geezer Butler's wife and toured Europe..then promptly fell apart...only viewing of them i am aware of is on the original "Beavis and Butthead" when they used to watch videos and talk about them as they played... great band whose name was taken from the olde English "fare well" blessing...

oh yeah..good life decision not to fuck with Lemmy, he's geting up there in years, but those hands can still crack walnuts like they were grapes... and i think they may be the band that started the whole unlaut thing in the first place...at least they were the first i'de ever seen in the late 70's

besides, Motorhead still kicks the shit out of everybody in live performance...

Excelsior?

don't know if "Godspeed..." is a bad bandname or not but they were a great band.

heh..only band i'd ever seen with a guitar, drums, singer and TWO bassists...

talk about a "heavy" sound...

Excelsior?

There are several bands with two bassists including the quite popular Tortoise. And, of course, Spinal Tap's "Big Bottoms" was performed with three bass guitars and the keyboards may have been playing a bass line, too.

Also Ned's Atomic Dustbin. They had two bassists and one horrendous band name. How did I leave them out of my first Worst Bands post?

How about

:Umlauthead

.........?

I bet nobody's done a side Umlaut yet.


Or, ala ?and the Mysterians -

: and the Umlautians.


Ach du lieber, I'm reaching now. Geshundeit.

um... gonzo? godspeed used to open for your band? you are talking about godspeed, you black emporer, right?

there must be two godspeeds, or i am reading you wrong.

if godspeed opened for you... much respect...

well now, i only know of one Godspeed, they were from the Jersey shore

if the band has an "ugly" singer and two bass players, then it is the one i'm talking about..if not, i stand corrected... i think there was only 1 album, and like i said the appearence on the original Beavis and Butthead before they were a series

and back in the early to mid 90's..if you went down the Shore and wanted to see a "heavy" show there were 3 locals hero bands that played together a lot...

Daisey Cutter and Godspeed being two of them... Rope being the one i was in, and we got close, but never got signed before breaking up

hope that clarifies

oh yeah..."and the Umlautians" made me spew soda out of my nose...thanks Vern!

Excelsior?

ahh, different godspeed. godspeed ybe! is a montreal-based postrock group... their songs are usually quite long and follow a pattern (to a fault) of slowly building up the sound before what is usually a motherfuckin huge crescendo.

looked up your godspeed though. also looked up rope, but only found a polish group. you aren't polish, eh?

nah, and there won't be anything on Rope, we were heavy underground at the time..tho we played everywhere in our "scene" from the Stone Pony to CBGB's

all that thanks to one of the True Punk's who lived by the Ethic hepreached..Jacko, former singer for Dirge.. the drummer of which was in Rope and the bassist formed Daisey Cutter...

but enough hijacking this Thread...

my bad

Excelsior?

How about:
T.Ï.E. (The Improv Experiment)

Glad you got a smile outta that, gonzo. Actually, the article itself and this whole thread are both pretty hilarious.

How about the Steve Wilson (of Porcupine Tree - and that name is probably a contender right there, I regret having to mention it among those who don't know their incredible music) side project, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck? It has to be abbreviated in stores, obviously, to simply IEM.

Next time instead of saying that your words are irrefutable fact you should realize that all of what you have written is basedentirely on personal opinion, and the criteria and organization of this entire [grouping of words] is objective

Please do point me to the passage where I say my words are irrefutable.

More bands with TWO bassists: Strawberry Alarm Clock (up until '68), the UK band Marmalade (which had 4-string bassist & a 6-string bassist), and the French band Magma (which had an "earth" bassist & an "air" bassist).

i laughed out loud, kudos and extra applause.

I can see where you'd hate Velvet Acid Christ for violating both the gratuitous Jesus reference and dadaist collage rules, but I happen to think that Combichrist is a cool name.

And other entries in the "too much punctuation" category include :Wumpscut: and Tack>>Head.