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The 25 Most Ridiculous Band Names in Rock History
Here's a scenario: You start a rock band, which you just happen to name after spending several hours huffing paint and drinking bleach. You spend a few years playing small clubs until you're discovered by a major label and start selling a lot of records. And suddenly you realize that the stupid name you thought up when you were huffing all that paint is going to follow you around for the rest of your life. Here are the 25 bands who, regardless of their own musical quality, have the stupidest names on record. #25-#23: Stealth Ridiculous
These band names aren't as laugh-out-loud idiotic as some of the others we'll get to-in fact, several of our staff admitted that Porno for Pyros was actually a pretty cool name. They're ridiculous in the sense that the more you think about them, the more they make no sense whatsoever. #25.
Porno for Pyros
The story: Former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell came up with the name while watching coverage of the LA riots on television. Presumably while jacking off. Why it's ridiculous: Pornography for pyromaniacs is, for all intents and purposes, regular pornography. Sure, there are maybe a few crazy people out there getting sexual pleasure from watching videos of people setting fires-but your garden variety pyromaniac isn't renting College Slut Matches & Gasoline Party VII. He's out burning down the neighborhood Costco. It turns out they just really like burning stuff. #24.
Nickelback
The story: Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, and so approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got-waiiiit for it-a nickel back. (It was either that or We're Sorry About the Homeless Man Shooting Up in the Bathroom.) Why it's ridiculous: Asking cashiers at franchise coffee shops for career advice can only end in tragedy. (Kroeger suffered similar woes after getting a Wal-Mart greeter to do his taxes for him, resulting in the repossession of his house.) If you walk up to the cashier behind a Starbucks counter and, instead of ordering a Tall Sumatran, ask them to name your shitty band, odds are you're going to get something giving-people-change-for-coffee-based. #23.
The Alan Parsons Project
The story: Founder Alan Parsons started a "project" with other "project administration personnel" to "drill down" on this whole "music" thing he'd heard so much about. So he named it that. Why it's ridiculous: It's one thing to just name your band after yourself, like ego cases Dave Matthews and Ben Folds did. But once you've made the choice to be lazy, you're not allowed to get all clever with it afterwards. Besides, it makes the band sound like the sort of after-school activity all the kids who didn't make the basketball team got stuck with. "Today, class, we're going to build Alan Parsons... from common household items!" |
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Hey everyone, my band is called Remembering Friday. What do you guys think about that?
lol no fuckin kidding
Why isn't the devil wears prada on the list? they are a metalcore band named after a fucking chick flick!
Goatwhore, Goblin Cock and Butthole surfers should be here.
You know that farting sound you make when you stick your tongue out and blow? Now THAT'S a band name.
Where's "Lymphatic Phlegm"
MATCHBOX 20 the best band ever????? HELLO !!!!! YOUR LOSER !!!!! NIGGA' PLEASE !!!!
I think all 25 are ridiculous but why nobody mentioned The BUZZCOCKS is beyond me. maybe it's because it's not ridiculous at all but maybe the it's BEST NAME EVER !!!! Great pnk band too, ask Eddie Vedder
I agree with speakerbox75, where are the Butthole Surfers? Also, where is Buckethead?
I know this news. People on a celebrity and millionaire dating site called Wealthy Kiss.c o m have been talking about it.
panic at the disco's first album was good but their second is really gay except for '9 in the afternoon'.
MATCHBOX 20 IS THE BEST BAND EVER!!! and the story of how they named it is totally wrong. rob thomas's father used to keep a $20 note in a matchbox for safe keeping, and thats what they named the band after. Thats a really old picture of them too. Because Adam Gaynor [the guy furthest to the left] left the band in 2005. The picture is one from 1995 or 96. And theyve changed it form Matchbox 20 to Matchbox Twenty.
WHERE ARE THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS!?!?!?!?
It was put down as "name of the person who set up the gig" - Band, rather.
Dave Matthews wasn't an ego case... they were to perform somewhere and didn't have a name and it was put down as Band, yielding Dave Matthews Band. They just ended up deciding to keep the name.
I always thought that W.A.S.P. stood for "We Are Satan's Peons" or something. Just my 2 cents worth.
While Tubthumping is certainly a ghey song, and Cumbawamba is clearly a ghey name, I'm reminded of Gene Wilder's rendition of Willy Wonka when he says: "A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men." And you are, actually, partly correct. Tubthumping did _become_ a political statement: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2002/480/28840 These guys are legit, no matter how ill-conceived their moniker.
uh actually fall out boy got their name from a fan at a local gig who screamed out: "fall out boy", pete, patrick, andy and joe didn't know that the simpson's had fallout boy and were surprised when matt groening approached them about it.
May I Please pont out that "Panic(!) at the disco" is actually a line from the song "Panic" by Name Taken. (Hehe, A bit ironic =D) panic at the disco/sat back and took it so slow/are you nervous? are you shaking? etc. Please, before you go off your head about the fact that "At least fall out boy is a SIMPSONS REFERENCE" (so you wouldn't care if they were Radioactive man! at the disco?? >=\) RESEARCH. As for the exclamation mark, What's the harm in some extra punctuation? You don't have to pronounce it, nobody even bothered to write it half the time (I DID. T_T). But it's gone now, Happy? Bottom line: Panic(!) are a fantastic band with too many idiot fans, and a cool name. Peace.
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