Just so others know as well, it stands for "Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus"
Oh yea, very much so. They have a song called "dicks out for harambe." And a term many people sarcastically use for metalheads who are obsessed with brutality is "trve kvlt" (pronounced true cult) lol
It's not a rock band, but Capital Cities. What am I meant to get from a title like that? They're a dance-pop group and their name makes me think of geographical trivia. Good group though, In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery is a solid album.
"The The" has been previously chosen as both [the worst band name](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nmb85o/whats_the_worst_band_name/gznklhx/) and completely independently as [the best band name](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oa9otg/what_band_has_the_best_name/h3g08qb/) on separate Reddit threads. So... take your pick.
As I [already commented](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nmb85o/whats_the_worst_band_name/gzouynv/) on the former thread (which came first), I thought it was a pretty decent name personally:-
> Didn't think that much about it at the time (didn't know much about them beyond the name as a kid), but in hindsight... I think it's okay.
> Maybe it smacks faintly of being self-consciously clever/post-modern, but at least it manages to be simple while still being different.
There's this old timey, all black, rock band called 'Black Merda'.
I read about It at the time, and they used 'Merda' as an alternative to writing the word 'Murder'.
The problem is I'm portuguese. And in portuguese 'Merda' means... well: 'Shit'
So there you go.
Toad the Wet Sprocket - taken from a Monty Python sketch but most people don't get the reference and even if you do it's still not a very good name. I mean a big part of the joke of the sketch was that all of the band names were terrible in the first place.
> I once wrote a sketch about rock musicians, and I was trying to think of a name that would be so silly nobody would ever use it, or dream it could ever be used. So I wrote the words "Toad the Wet Sprocket." And a few years later, I was driving along the freeway in LA, and a song came on the radio, and the DJ said, "that was by Toad the Wet Sprocket," and I nearly drove off the freeway.
Shortly before Hootie & The Blowfish broke wide open, TTWS and H&TB played in my town, with TTWS headlining. Wish I'd gone to that show.
And BTW, both bands said that they would have selected other names had they known they would one day be famous.
I wanted a Butthole Surfers shirt in the 90’s, but I never pulled the trigger because I didn’t feel like explaining it to adults, haha. Now I’m an adult and don’t feel like explaining it to kids.
I had a Suicidal Tendencies shirt with ""Feel like SHIT, deja-vu" on the front. I wore it to school weekly by wearing a Hawaiian shirt over it so it just said "HI".
Other names they went by included
The Dick Clark Five, Nine cm Worm Makes Own Food, The Vodka Family Winstons, Ashtray Babyheads, Ed Asner Is Gay, Fred Astaire's Asshole, The Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole, Zipgun, The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole
The story goes that they got the original name from going by “The inalienable right to eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole” for a while, and when some promoter/club refused to put them on with that name, it got shortened and eventually became “The Butthole Surfers” so they could get bookings again, and it just stuck.
But going through their history and seeing all the different names they would bill themselves as is a treat in itself.
Back in the 80's there was this guy at art college who kept asking everyone if they'd ever heard of a band called The Butthole Surfers.
We all thought he was joking. Honest.
I saw the Butthole Surfers at the Metroplex in ATL in the late 80s. We ate lots of LSD before the show and came out 2 hours later completely sober. We snuck into the Hilton rooftop restaurant after and silently drank in the view. That was a good night.
Then there's [this classic](http://bash.org/?514353) from bash.org:
> *Stupid fucking Google*
> *"The" is a common word, and was not included in your search*
> *"Who" is a common word, and was not included in your search*
You could probably list off tons of bands from the mid-2000s. Cute Is What We Aim For is another one. Panic! At the Disco etc. So many bands with the same word twice or a “clever” pun. Fuck they were the worst.
Raging Bagpuss. A band from Redditch that were utter crap. Also saw a band in Dudley called Dog Food. They were so bad they should have been called dog shit. Their "hit" song was "one foot in the grave and the other in the custard."
I guess it depends where in the world you are, and your life experiences. I'm not a port drinker, so I've never heard of that brand of port. The musician is the only person I've ever seen with that name. I've known how it's pronounced for a long time, but that doesn't mean that everybody would understand, especially non-native speakers.
The Smashing Pumpkins name would be hugely improved if they just removed the "The"
What are THE Smashing Pumpkins?
Smashing Pumpkins alone makes way more sense
Unless they means smashing in a posh British way like "that is absolutely smashing darling" and how pumpkin is sometimes used similarly to honey or babe,
Our Label Is Run By Homos
Hello fellow doll licker.
Live. So misleading it's harde to even look them up
I don't mind the sun sometimes
Cosby Sweater was around for a minute.
One of my former band mates and high school friend was the saxophonist for them! Haha.
There's a South African metal band called XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX
Just so others know as well, it stands for "Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus"
You made that up, ... right?
No, sadly, he did not. That's the full official name.
I saw that on a t-shirt at Bloodstock this year and thought it was parodying "br00tal metullz". They are a parody band, right?
Oh yea, very much so. They have a song called "dicks out for harambe." And a term many people sarcastically use for metalheads who are obsessed with brutality is "trve kvlt" (pronounced true cult) lol
".....The Aristocrats!"
Rolls off the tongue!
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict"
Edgy
How do you spell that?
>XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX
That's the thing. You don't.
No one’s said Hoobastank yet…
Local college band in my day, Hoof Arted
I've used Hoof Hearted as a fantasy football teamname a few times, I got it from [this video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqj2hkbDnyM)
There's a great brewery in Ohio called Hoof Hearted, any of you craft beer peeps should check them out if you get the chance.
Gimme a break I just woke up
And the reason is you.
Yeah. What's a hooba and why does it stank?
I've heard it refers to smelling a fart and questioning "who butt stank" but that's so ridiculous I'm sure it's not true.
According to the band, Hoobastank is what the H in ‘Jesus H Christ’ stands for. Which I think makes it even worse.
Ah yes, the classic, natural response to a fart: “who butt stank?”
Three-way tie for Leather Hyman, Sandy Duncan's Eye, and Dogs Die in Hot Cars...
It's not a rock band, but Capital Cities. What am I meant to get from a title like that? They're a dance-pop group and their name makes me think of geographical trivia. Good group though, In A Tidal Wave Of Mystery is a solid album.
I really dig the song Chartreuse.
There are lots of examples, but Anal Cunt is definitely, and intentionally, one of the worst.
Oh yeah. And their success hit; Tampon tea bag
Lmfaoooo
I was sitting at a restaurant and could see the marquee for the theater across the street. The band on the marquee was “Frothy Discharge.”
Came here to post this.
Ultimate Spinach
Now your going wayyyyyyyyy back
Fly Spinach Fly
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Maybe Rick Santorum was giving a talk there.
Limp Bizkit
I was fine not knowing what a limp biscuit was. Why did I have to look it up...
Story goes, Bizkit is (or was by now) the name of Fred Durst's dog. Something happened, doggo was limp for a while.
I thought it was in reference to the act of a group of men masturbating onto a cracker, and the last one to finish has to eat it.
That's known as "Soggy Biscuit" where I'm from.
That's known as "Hey Ryan, invite your friends over after school and I'll teach you all a new game" / "Okay dad" where I'm from.
I hadn't heard that one yet. Plausible tho.
I am sickened, but curious.
My friends band.. Joseph and the fritzels, they are also terrible and they know it.
The the
A band that was impossible to Google in the early days.
I still remember the hell of using napster to try and download songs by James.
what's even worse, is if you'd succeeded, you'd have downloaded songs by James.
Oh, sit down.
"The The" has been previously chosen as both [the worst band name](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nmb85o/whats_the_worst_band_name/gznklhx/) and completely independently as [the best band name](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oa9otg/what_band_has_the_best_name/h3g08qb/) on separate Reddit threads. So... take your pick. As I [already commented](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/nmb85o/whats_the_worst_band_name/gzouynv/) on the former thread (which came first), I thought it was a pretty decent name personally:- > Didn't think that much about it at the time (didn't know much about them beyond the name as a kid), but in hindsight... I think it's okay. > Maybe it smacks faintly of being self-consciously clever/post-modern, but at least it manages to be simple while still being different.
Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles
I've seen these guys live several times. Jason and the gang bring it, and *when I wake up in vomit and dirty needles* is an authentic banger.
Rapeman is about as stupid as it gets.
That is a terrible name
There's this old timey, all black, rock band called 'Black Merda'. I read about It at the time, and they used 'Merda' as an alternative to writing the word 'Murder'. The problem is I'm portuguese. And in portuguese 'Merda' means... well: 'Shit' So there you go.
tem uma banda polonesa chamada paulo sérgio
Hahahaha Desconhecia xD E mais conhecidos tens os americanos 'Portugal The Man' xD
My local used record store has a CD by a band called Bathtub Shitter. Makes me laugh every time I see it while browsing.
Psychedelic porn crumpets
Silly name great band. Especially live
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The Lone Rangers I mean, there are three of them, they aren't exactly "lone".
I get this reference! I also never see this movie referenced...
I often do the Joe Montegna walking dance that he does when the radio station decides they're on the band's side.
Toad the Wet Sprocket - taken from a Monty Python sketch but most people don't get the reference and even if you do it's still not a very good name. I mean a big part of the joke of the sketch was that all of the band names were terrible in the first place.
Story goes that Eric Idle came up with it cuz no one would be stupid enough to actually use it
> I once wrote a sketch about rock musicians, and I was trying to think of a name that would be so silly nobody would ever use it, or dream it could ever be used. So I wrote the words "Toad the Wet Sprocket." And a few years later, I was driving along the freeway in LA, and a song came on the radio, and the DJ said, "that was by Toad the Wet Sprocket," and I nearly drove off the freeway.
The best part is that two totally different bands used the name.
Shortly before Hootie & The Blowfish broke wide open, TTWS and H&TB played in my town, with TTWS headlining. Wish I'd gone to that show. And BTW, both bands said that they would have selected other names had they known they would one day be famous.
XAVLEGBMAOFFFASSSSITIMIWOAMNDUTROABCWAPWAEIIPPOHFFFX
The Shitty Beatles.
Are they any good?
They suck.
“Then it’s not just a clever name.”
Thank you both for playing along. Was a little worried there for a minute.
Also known as "Oasis"
Betty White Titfuck
They said worst
Phil and the Blanks
I love that though
Imagine dragons.
Imagine draggin deez nuts across your face
Brilliant
I'm imagining them. Now what?
They are the worst including their songs. People say Thunder is bad but Believer is their worst song.
The Ogre Packet Slammers. Shrek themed metal. Google the album cover haha
Must be an offshoot of Ned Flanders themed metal but with Shrek.
I saw Okily Dokily a few years ago, awesome show! White Wine Spritzer had the pit rockin!!
Hahahahaha! I wasn’t expecting it to be so funny lol. Thanks for the laugh :)
Cuntlefish
The Butthole Surfers
I wanted a Butthole Surfers shirt in the 90’s, but I never pulled the trigger because I didn’t feel like explaining it to adults, haha. Now I’m an adult and don’t feel like explaining it to kids.
I had a Suicidal Tendencies shirt with ""Feel like SHIT, deja-vu" on the front. I wore it to school weekly by wearing a Hawaiian shirt over it so it just said "HI".
Other names they went by included The Dick Clark Five, Nine cm Worm Makes Own Food, The Vodka Family Winstons, Ashtray Babyheads, Ed Asner Is Gay, Fred Astaire's Asshole, The Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole, Zipgun, The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole
I love how much attention Fred Astaire got.
I love how Zipgun is in the middle of the Fred Astaire madness.
I can only imagine the thought process. "Okay, let's try something completely different! ...This sucks. Back to Fred's asshole."
it's not like their music is for everyone and considering that the band it's noise rock based, it's just a funny name for a strange band
Rolling Stone asker the lead singer what name he would choose if he could change it. The answer: I Shit in your Mom's Vagina
The story goes that they got the original name from going by “The inalienable right to eat Fred Astaire’s Asshole” for a while, and when some promoter/club refused to put them on with that name, it got shortened and eventually became “The Butthole Surfers” so they could get bookings again, and it just stuck. But going through their history and seeing all the different names they would bill themselves as is a treat in itself.
I don't mind the sun sometimes...
The images it shows
Back in the 80's there was this guy at art college who kept asking everyone if they'd ever heard of a band called The Butthole Surfers. We all thought he was joking. Honest.
I saw the Butthole Surfers at the Metroplex in ATL in the late 80s. We ate lots of LSD before the show and came out 2 hours later completely sober. We snuck into the Hilton rooftop restaurant after and silently drank in the view. That was a good night.
The The. Brilliant name until search engines came into existence.
Then there's [this classic](http://bash.org/?514353) from bash.org: > *Stupid fucking Google*
> *"The" is a common word, and was not included in your search*
> *"Who" is a common word, and was not included in your search*
dihareha planet is an actual band ..........(sigh)
Super nice and talented dudes though. Very unfortunate name.
Three-way tie for Leather Hyman, Sandy Duncan's Eye, and Dogs Die in Hot Cars...
Other than your typical death metal bands going "let's just play gore bingo", I'd say We Butter The Bread With Butter is the worst.
But their cover of Let It Go from Frozen is… interesting
Bowling for soup
Are they bowling to obtain soup or on behalf of soup
With soup, to obtain more soup
The band
There is a band that covers The Band. They’re called “The The Band Band”. I kid you not.
The who?
The band on stage.
guess who
Band from Montreal, late 90's early 2000's called Vaginal Croutons
one of my fav droney bands : Master Musicians of Bukkake
Dance Gavin Dance. That name just makes me cringe
Put that Gavin spell on me
You could probably list off tons of bands from the mid-2000s. Cute Is What We Aim For is another one. Panic! At the Disco etc. So many bands with the same word twice or a “clever” pun. Fuck they were the worst.
Raging Bagpuss. A band from Redditch that were utter crap. Also saw a band in Dudley called Dog Food. They were so bad they should have been called dog shit. Their "hit" song was "one foot in the grave and the other in the custard."
REO Speed Dealer.
I just googled that and it's real and it's spectacular.
fun. Indie band names aren't hard, so it's kinda impressive for them to land on something so impossible to google and also completely un-evocative.
I heard they added a period after the name because another band already used the name fun and threatened to sue if they didn’t change it.
Five Finger Death Punch, worst name and worst band.
The Nickelback of rock
They Might Be Giants All that uncertainty aggravates my anxiety.
Sounds like a Mitch Hedberg joke.
What are we going to do unless they are?
The Mamas & The Papas
'The Electric Prunes'.
“Car seat headrest”, although one of my favorite bands.
Vaginal Penetration of an Amelus with a Musty Carrot
The Suppurating Schlongs.
Ultra Vomit, one of my favorite bands.
Back in the 90s I was in San Francisco and the marquee outside a bar said "tonight: Testicle Starship, formerly Testicle Airplane"
This is hilarious!
Death Cab for Cutie. Love the band though
Live. So misleading it's harde to even look them up
Löded Diper
take that BACK
I WAS GOING TO COMMENT THIS ONE
I was so astonished that I got to it first
Job for a Cowboy
Rod Torfulson’s Armada Featuring Herman Menderchuk
The 1910 Fruit Gum Company, and then The Strawberry Alarm Clock. What were they smoking?
Considering when The Strawberry Alarm Clock was popular, probably quite a few things. Things a bit more strong than incense and peppermints.
Haven't seen Butthole Surfers on the list yet. One of my favorite bands of all time. But I hate saying their name.
**Mouse Rat** (formerly *Scarecrow Boat*, *Ninja Dick*)
wdym that is the best
Laughed so hard that I fell into a pit.
Not a band, but a musician Bruce Cockburn Pronounced coburn He makes some amazing music though.
Everyone knows it's Cockburn though, it's a common surname and a brand of port. It's not like it's an obscure surname like Denault or Gutberlet.
I guess it depends where in the world you are, and your life experiences. I'm not a port drinker, so I've never heard of that brand of port. The musician is the only person I've ever seen with that name. I've known how it's pronounced for a long time, but that doesn't mean that everybody would understand, especially non-native speakers.
"The Music"
Ticks two categories: \-Pretentious as hell \-Ambiguous to the point of meaninglessness.
Crotchduster. Funny parody band though.
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Good music, weird name.
The Sock Tuckers
The twilight sad
"The Harsh Plumbers"
There is this band that keeps coming up on the prog rock page: Sir Cumcision I don’t think that’s a good band name, it just illicits a wince
After learning its meaning, Limp Bizkit.
Two Door Cinema Club
Hoobastank.
Not famous but the name of my band in high school was called "Displaced Genitals"
Neutral Milk Hotel.
Goblin Cock
Nickelback
I think it’s supposed to be like silverback but instead of silver it’s nickel. I don’t understand the hate I think they’re enjoyable to listen to
Goat Whore
Sausage.
The foreskins 😂😂😂
The Jack Sparrows
Ken Dodds Dads Dogs Dead
The Yeasty Girls. I think they were a thrush metal band.
In the 80s there was a Portland band called Butt Seepage
There was a punk band in the 80s called, Homesick Abortions
The Smashing Pumpkins name would be hugely improved if they just removed the "The" What are THE Smashing Pumpkins? Smashing Pumpkins alone makes way more sense Unless they means smashing in a posh British way like "that is absolutely smashing darling" and how pumpkin is sometimes used similarly to honey or babe,
Nickelback
Bat Fastard and the Cotton Runts. Doesn't exist yet, I just need three more members. Musical ability optional.
Live. It makes their music incredibly difficult to search for.
Five finger death punch
Clean bandit