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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!" |
I think Panic at The Disco is actually one of the better band names there are.
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What about "The Thing That Floyd Ate?" Oh, I guess only bands that people have heard of made the list.
How about "Scary Kids Scaring Kids"?
What about 'Does It Offend You, Yeah?'. The way they go their name's pretty funny actually. And also: Gay For Johnny Depp.
hey, tmbg was actually a pretty cool title.
How about They Might Be Giants?
Call me crazy, but I kinda like the name of Russel Crowe's band. The music, however....
Nah I thought Henrietta Collins and The Wife Beating Child Haters was a good name. However, Butthole Surfers should definitely be on this list.
Hey, I like Chumbawamba!
I thought W.A.S.P. meant We Are Sexual Perverts. No?
not listed: Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters.
which could actually be the best name ever now that i think about it.
I've never heard any, but I know there's a band called :(
This one had me in tears I was laughing so hard!!
Dude, that's not even the real members of Def Leppard in that stinkin' picture.
Those are the actors from the movie ABOUT Def Leppard.
Take it from a guy who lived through the 60's: You have all your friends write adjectives on slips of paper, then have them write nouns ditto. Then you draw one adjective and one noun and there's the name of your band. We came up with Savage Peace back in 1968, but never got anywhere with it.
..wait.. there's a band called "Flight of the Conchords"???
that's hilarious!! going to go look them up on youtube now...
i want a band called "Owl Stretching Time" or "And Now For Something Completely Different"
i can recite the Holy Grail movie and own all the MPFC episodes available, but that only just barely rings a bell. way too vague to count as a reference.
Careful what you say about Russell Crowe there cracked. The staff might end up on a special epsiode of "Russell Crowe Fightin' 'Round the World" with his tugboat sidekick.
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Silly though their name might have been, there's no denying that Mott the Hoople totally rocked!!!!