Why do bands have such shit names nowadays?
I've just had a look through the NME's top 50 new bands thing and I've also noticed looking through the lineups from smaller stages at festival that loads of new bands just choose one boring noun for their name that doesn't seem to have any meaning or significance.
Examples: Cults, Braids, Tribes, Spark, Fixers, Towns, Fiction, Mazes, Alpines, Brother, Flats, etc.
They're really forgettable and extremely annoying as it takes a few seconds longer to google them. If bands like Cerebral Ballzy and Fist Fuck Deluxe can put some effort into coming up with a good name there's no reason why other bands can't.
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As opposed to
Nirvana, Pixies, Blur & Pavement?
yes
those are vaguely interesting words, except maybe Pavement but they're shit anyway
i raise you suede, oasis & doves
Doves is a suitably dull name for a dull band
Oasis and Suede are still mildly more interesting words than the bands listed above
id probably say doves are the least dull out of the 3 i mentioned
No, I think the reason you think that is because you associated the words with the music
I think you feel exactly the same about them if they had just surfaced
nope
and cerebral ballzy is the worst name i have ever ever heard.
stop kidding yourself
I used to think this,
but then I read the same NME list^ and saw some band called Christian AIDS.
but you remember Christian Aids
if they were called Pegs or Beige or Biro you wouldn't
I'd remember any of those names if I liked the music...
I disagree
get fucked
it's amazing.
my pet hate is band names with capitalization/punctuation/symbols
tUnE-yArDs, i'm looking at you.
also band names with not enough vowels
either because theyre welsh (Y Niwl) or otherwise (Sbtrkt)
There's three vowels in the first one
How many do you need?!
I see but one
I can only see two, if you count Y as a vowel, which it is fair to do.
w and y are vowels in welsh
along with aeiou
my name is Gwyn
I ought to have realised this
DD/MM/YYYY is one of the worst of these.
Basically anything you can't actually SAY until you look up how you're supposed to say it.
Day day, month month, year year year year?
How hard was that if you ever worked with computers?
(If you didn't ever work with computers then this is the 21st Century and you need to get with the programme.)
I used to like The Beatles as a name
until I realised, literally the other day, that it's a pun
?
It's a pun. It's beetles but with a 'beat' in it.
I'm not sure anyone who thinks Fist Fuck Deluxe is a good name can openly opine on other band names
^Not this!
Cults, Braids, Tribes, Mazes
these are good names ^^
they aren't though
they are the best of a huge number of dull names, but they pail in comparison to Fist Fuck Deluxe
While the list you gave is pretty dull
Names that shock, and only shock, are worse.
why so?
Because do you still think that spontaneous swearing is funny?
Its laregly the same thing.
I think the name Fist Fuck Deluxe is amusing yes
I disagree that it is spontaneous though, I imagine it required some thought
There is something mildly hilarious about the 'deluxe' part.
Cults isn't.
Reminds me of The Cult. The others are good though.
Doesn't Spark
remind you of Sparks?
No.
I don't know who Spark are.
Cyclcl
Yeah and what's with the dropping of letters? MSTRKRFT? Weeknd?
It's cyclical, obviously, but the cycles keep getting shorter. I mean, really, Crystal Fuck Giraffes wouldn't haven't been so out of the question a few years ago.
oh yeah Weeknd is an awful, awful name
it makes me a bit angry in fact. If Cyclcl is a band then that is also a terrible name.
*Crystal Fuck Pandas
*With* the asterisk?
Hell yes. **KRYSTL FKK PNDS**. And you must insist that the punctuation be kept intact for all press releases, advertisements, and interviews. In fact, I think the interviewer should have to say "Asterisk, asterisk, kay, arr, why, ess..."
Sonic Youth is clearly the best name.
Wavves is runner up.
Archers Of Loaf
will always remain nonsensical
AIDS Wolf always made me chuckle.
And remember when the Reading posters always had a Where's Wally-esque Chelsea footballers name buried somewhere in the line-up?
http://img141.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc24&image=79226_Reading2002.jpg#
That was the only image I could find (see if you can spot the player) but Joe Cole was definitely on one as well
its amazing how many of those bands are playing Reading this year
in
hindsight, SOOOO many bands i wish i'd seen that weekend, but didn't. what a dolt i was.
Alec Empire, right?
Anal cunt
ANAL CUNT.
please don't post this filth in my thread
Yeah, please stick to fisting and mental diseases only.
Isn't cerebral palsy a physical disability rather than a mental one?
Your ignorance is very offensive
No. It is caused by brain damage and affects the nervous system.
Though, it does manifest itself physically.
And what are you angry about anyway?
You 'this'd'my comment!
Im just sick of the ignorance
exactly
?
it's not a mental disease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt
this was so not meant to be here
you can tell i'm new
ahhhh i'm making such an embarrasment of myself
i hate myself ;(
I think you should leave
me too
i like this
just leave it he's gone
i'm sorry for ruining your thread. i could tell this was going to be brilliant until i brought the tone down
this thread was a disaster
thankyou for creating this distraction. Let's never fight again xx
i'm sorry. i'm new here.
lets be friends x
don't reject me
You just reminded me of a very sad death.
every human interaction always ends up like this
with me pleading to be loved.
elbow, thats a shit name iniit
that IS a shit name
you may stay
The worst band name of all is The Last James
They're great and all, but I spent a long time trying to find one of their long-lost albums on CD, and was driven crazy by the fact that every time I entered their name in a non-Google search engine (i.e. one where you can't search for exact phrase), I got bombarded with hits for James Last albums.
And I've always thought Rage Against the Machine is an impossibly naff name
They Might Be Giants also shits me because it so perfectly sums up everything that's annoying about that supremely annoying band - i.e. try-hard "weirdness"
How about The National? Boring as hell...The name, not the band.
stupid names for stupid bands
flaming lips - just plain stupid
odd future... - tick tock, fellas
ass ponys - actually, they were good
all bands with the "f" word - ooh, you're naughty
It's no different to five years or so ago when every band was "The" something,
bullshit.
as someone says though, citing Cerebral Ballzy and fist Fuck Deluxe as good examples is not a good place to start
why is everyone in this thread obsessed with Cerebral Ballzy and Fist Fuck Deluxe?
Coldplay
has to be the worst band name ever. Even more boring and vacant than the band themselves, which is some achievement.
Cool opinion bro.
if you think band names nowadays are terrible
you obviously haven't heard of turbowolf.
Turbowolf are great!
And the name sums them up really well imo.
Yeah I know!
I love them and I think they have an amazing name, I saw them supporting Dinosaur Pile-Up's album launch last year and just ended up doing Jager shots with their singer whilst he signed my EP. They're a really awesome rock band, got the right mix of punk and hard rock to keep me happy.
there's a band called 'the crucifucks'
just throwing that out there
Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth used to play with them I think..
Cock Goblin
genius
Isn't it...
Goblin Cock? The Rob Crow metal band with the hilariously bad cover art (goes with the name, I suppose).
The most annoying one I've seen recently is 3oh!3
I thought the 3 was like a YOOF capital B so it was pronounced B'oh!3.
Stupid teenagers.
CONCENTRATION CHAMP
Concentration Champ are a brain-dead wasp's version of Lightning Bolt
Most band names are shit
I think the early 90s pretty much nailed it when it comes to really awful band names:
Kitchens of Distinction
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
...and so forth.
nowadays?
Never heard of them.
godspeed you! black emperor
have a terrible name.
nope
that's an excellent name
but they spawned the highlight of the imaginary niche tribute bands thread
How many good band names really are there?
Seriously.
I'll adore the name of a band for quite some time. In many cases, i've found some wonderful music through intelligent, insightful, or well-thought out names. Four months later, and i'm somewhat embarrassed to have to 'fess up to say "yeah, Pretty Girls Make Graves wrote some great songs". PGMG is a perfect example, now that I think about it. I loved it's early connotations: girls cause heartache. The usage of "graves", for me, complimented the sound and themes of the band. Even having "pretty girls" was a nice juxtaposition. Yet, a year later, I despised it - I'd known of its Smiths-stealing throughout, but it's quite lame in a lot of ways.
Often the sentiment of a name can outweigh the actual name itself. Franz Ferdinand has a cool story. Their want for their bands name to become more synonymous with music, rather than a major catalyst for the second world war, is quite smart and endearing. They might've even done that. But the name itself is really quite poor. It sounds like some bedroom DJ with a rasta hat, a feminine Jonny Greenwood-circa 98 body, with trashy parents... but hey..
I've written many lists of many possible band names. I even thought of 'Cults' in 2008, according to a Word document. Though, I guess that's just an inditement on how poor some band-naming is...
Band names like Anal Cunt and Fist Fuck Deluxe are the ultimate worst
types of band name. Adults with 14 year old brains.
All the good ones are taken
Fact
nope
you suffer from a lack of imagination
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4285796
band names are awesome nowadays
mine is called The Jim & Dave Trio
theres only two of us and neither of us is jim or dave.
i like it.
newly named*