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Butthole Surfers is a great band name

Worst:
Milli Vanilli
Dave Mathews Band
Gay Dad
Papa Roach
Limp Bizkit
C&C Music Factory
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Wilson Phillips

Best:
The Plasmatics
Sonic Youth
The Who
Blondie
Atoms For Peace
Ataxia
War Paint
Alice In Chains

LuNY wrote:Worst:
Milli Vanilli
Dave Mathews Band
Gay Dad
Papa Roach
Limp Bizkit
C&C Music Factory
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Wilson Phillips

Best:
The Plasmatics
Sonic Youth
The Who
Blondie
Atoms For Peace
Ataxia
War Paint
Alice In Chains

I'd swap Gay Dad with Atoms For Peace

Best:

The Band


Worst:

Drive-By Truckers
Hoobastank
Balmorhea
Juggaknots
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Gay For Johnny Depp
Youth Pictures Of Florence Henderson

Best: the Smiths

Worst: ned's atomic dustbin

Blaine Ryan wrote:Best:

The Band


Worst:

Drive-By Truckers
Hoobastank
Balmorhea
Juggaknots
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Gay For Johnny Depp
Youth Pictures Of Florence Henderson

Those are certainly some terrible band names

what's wrong with Balmorhea?

the big dicks

it was a band at my high school and they had 2 tall kids named richard. unfortunately word got out that one of the dicks wasn't that big and the band didnt survive the revelation.

Heathen wrote:what's wrong with Balmorhea?

I know it's pronounced "bal-mor-ray." I know that. But every time I read it I think "diarrhea."

Which reminds me that I forgot to mention Diarrhea Planet.

Gods' Die wrote: The The, The National, The Band, Television...though to be fair a couple of these probably didn't have the foresight of the power of an internet search browser when they came up with their name.

"The Who" is the most annoying example of this. You gotta know where to look.

Good:
Black Flag
The Sex Pistols
X
Anal Cunt
Insane Clown Posse
The Rolling Stones

Awful:
Pearl Jam
The String Cheese Incident
Crazy Town
Staind
MU330
MGMT
Korn
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Chumbawamba
The Beatles

'the band' is a great name with completely clear google search results

Wendy Carlos's Twin wrote:

Gods' Die wrote: The The, The National, The Band, Television...though to be fair a couple of these probably didn't have the foresight of the power of an internet search browser when they came up with their name.

"The Who" is the most annoying example of this. You gotta know where to look.

Have you actually tried to google any of them? They all come right up.

warehouse wrote:'the band' is a great name with completely clear google search results

PryTo wrote:Good:
The Rolling Stones

I thought of that one right after I posted. To be honest, most band names are pretty stupid in and of themselves. But that's one of the few genuinely good ones.

rapeman

bodysnatcher wrote:Butthole Surfers is a great band name

I think so too.

Fat White Family.

bart wrote: Have you actually tried to google any of them? They all come right up.

No. I'm just talking about general search engines that either give you every result of "the" and "who" in the database, or they give you nothing.

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