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Terrible names of bands you were in when you were younger...

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by MethodMandrill

When I was about 13 I was in a band (I say band, we never played to anyone more than about 3 mates) called 'Deadly Medicine'. Beat that shit.

Since then, 'Our Ghosts' was fairly poor, as was 'Books on Tape'.

MethodMandrill | 30 May '08, 12:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Sushi Bar

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The Forensics

lol


sadly, not them

A good 10 years before them!


Poppers

I can't believe I thought it was a good idea.


Next on stage, my former band... 'The Broccoli Garden'

(supported by DisKord Utopia)


DisKord Utopia

has to be one of the worst I've heard.

The single worst being a really bad punky covers band called Ape O' Clock


There was a 90's punk band

called Motherfucking Titty Suckers. I think that takes some beating.


the Bambi-eyed 15yr old bassist for...

The Fireball Piglets


Beachyhead Optimists.

We thought we were so clever.


Slower Than Many Others

which was taken from a wall mural poster thing inside costa coffee. (something about the beans i think) quality


tHE sEXY dEVILS.

but not with the stupid caps
i dont know what that was
we were year 7.....
and i didnt choose it.

my new bands going to be called fenton and the fentonettes or ipso faggots

so it hasnt improved.


Buried Alive

which sounds like a death metal band, but the reality was actually a bunch of 16 year old virgins who did terrible covers of Wild Thing and Highway to Hell.


Bunnies On Smack

How edgy! How had no-one thought of it before!?


good

one.


Pay No Mind

That one was better, although it was a rock / punk band so when they found out I'd named the band after a Beck song they were none too happy. By that point though it was too late! My evil plan worked!


Kojack and The Longhairs

Mocambo, both consisted of the same band members. We used to practise in the middle of knowhere and still received complaints, mainly from farmers because the cows would graze at one side of the field.


Coma Diablo


Coma Diploma

would have been awesome.


Better Than The Last Act

We played one show. I wonder why...


ADVERT from T.V

great band though ;)


Scrofula

The October Revolution

The one I'm in now isn't much better.


Teenage Suicide

..and also Neon Black. Cringeworthy.

Also, a guy once wanted to call a band of ours the Cock-Smoking Masturbators...yewhat?!...safe to say we tossed (badum tschhhh) that one out.


AfterGlow

I still have the pages and pages of logo designs I did. My mate's was the Junkie Babies, which had to be changed to the Jelly Babies when they played at the school.


Rita's Psychic Workshop

along with Cow Dice and The Brothers of Freedom (We were young and had just discovered Guitars and White Lighting pretty much at the same time)

There was a band at my college called Emotional Suffacation and they had a song called 'I have S*** myself'. I think the singer got run over by a bus!


I really wanted to call my first band

Europlum!
shockingly, i was outvoted and we went for Podium instead. phhhrt!


back in the day

I was in Pasture.
jesus.
and then the guitarist wanted to change it to The Beautiful Freaks, even though he didn't like the Eels.
ha!


Hit For Six

Terrible terrible terrible punk band.


Visions of the Sublime

It was 1985...


not my own

but can you believe anyone would actually call their band 'looks like rain'?


Electrostasis

Er...yeah...shit name, shit band too...


Purploise

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J.A.B, Just A Band

A close compatriot of mine's mid-adolescent, grunge-rock three-piece. Wrong in a grammatical sense and an audible sense - cringeworthy.

(If you read this, i have nothing to apologise for :D)


im sure ive posted this before

DISTORTEDD!
Big in Germany
Tres Bien
Dead Men Don't Play Keyboards
How are You?


POWERBAND!

Was pretty bad...


I think

Big In Germany is a pretty top name actually!


Girth

the logo had an extra-long 'H'


inner peace project

stupid,stupid name


I was in...

Chemical Infection


Chocolate Starfish (pre-Limp Bizshit)

Clitris Breath (note - deliberate dropping of the 'o' - why?)


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Strumpet.

We were GASH.


:D :D :D


I think I might win

1p short of a penny sweet

we liked the fact it abbreviated to '1p soaps'


^this wins

I hope there wasn't even a Brian in the band.


nope

no Brian!

what a school assembly performance of 20th Century Boy that was....


Bog Eyed Monkey.

Although I wasn't really in the band, just turned up for practice and did vocals for a cover of Goldfinger's 'In My Head.' T-shirts were made as well, although the guitarist now denies them and band's existence.


i still enjoy a hearty chuckle over my band name

Death Threats In The Sand


The Flowerpot Men

said band are still carrying on, sans me.

Also, is it wrong to think that one or two of names listed here are kind of passable?


We were

Cosmic Meeting of the Riverside Ninjas


Penguins Penguins Penguins

We managed a few practices. The guitarist (who i saw for the first time in about 7 years last night) played like Van Halen. We wanted to be the Pixies haha.


Then we changed the name to

Ramp Ahead in a metal/road safety nod.


A Fistful of Fingers!

:-/


hush your mouth

that was an awesome name. haha. seriously. i'd use it again.


The College Bastards

Named after a frequently used insult


Anything with 'bastard' in the name

is automatically awesome.


The Ambush Ladies

After someone misheard me saying I was going to see Delays.

Lights At Amber (something to do with Morrissey, fuck knows what)


The Dilletantes

El Nombre :D


!!!

I just found the myspace of my old band I played guitar in.MEGALOLZ!!!

http://www.myspace.com/kojackmocambo

worst demos ever :D


Moneyshot

I was an innocent little 16 year old girl whose male bandmates had to explain what the band name meant. We supported the Wildhearts once though


haha

i once joined a band called 'the moneyshots', but i think i only played a couple of gigs with them before i went away to university...


Helium Goldfish


.

None of these are a joke. This happened.


this is a brilliant thread

My personal faves so far are:

Big in Germany

Poppers

Moneyshot

and finally

Penguins Penguins Penguins.

Not that far off Tapes n Tapes n Tapes or Cats and Cats and Cats. If it worked for them...


^

Definitely my absolute favourite.


submonkey


my band

was called that for a while, really


:

Messiah
Dreamcheesecatcher

pretty awful.


Pipehead

and Kil-joy

Both pretty random :$


I was in some corkers:

First band at 13 = "Chequered Rain". Fuck knows, but it had something to do with my black and white strat copy.

Aged 16: "Penitence" The vocalist wanted to call us 'Angst' but I insisted that it made me think of hormones and acne.

Aged 17: "Soma" Actually not that bad, but sadly taken by other bands now that there are fan sites about us and people asking for a re-release of our EP (3 stars from Terrorizer mag)

Aged 21: 'Magimix'/'Murdoch'/'Jonny and the Boys' - something different each gig. Mostly because they were all so shit.


hmm

Mike Hunt & The Jews
The Arnold Schlong Experiment
Robert
Burn, Spastic, Burn!


actually what am i saying

those were all really good names.


Practical Fun & The Now

think we're still up on Myspace or something. It was a holiday romance kinda band with a few Icelandic chaps.

We made page 4 of one of the Chinese national papers... big in China.