#25.Porno for Pyros

Former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell came up with the name while watching coverage of the LA riots on television.

#24. Nickelback

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.

#23. The Alan Parsons Project

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.

#22. Stone Temple Pilots

One of the band members thought the logo on the STP car treatment spray bottles was cool. So yes, in case you were wondering: a lot of thought went into this.

#21. Matchbox 20

Explanations range from the name being the title of a song from an earlier band to the band's drummer seeing the word "matchbox" and the number 20 on a guy's shirt in a restaurant.

#20. Smashing Pumpkins

More of a cautionary tale than anything else, bandmates Billy Corgan and co. reportedly dashed the name off quickly so they could get on with their lives, not realizing they'd be fielding lame pumpkin-based jokes about it for the rest of their lives.

#19. Def Leppard

Singer Joe Elliott thought of the name Deaf Leopard while he was in school (presumably while failing something). The spelling was later changed so the band didn't become confused with punk bands

#18. W.A.S.P.

Eager for a cool-sounding metal band name, Blackie Lawless, Rik Fox, Randy Piper and Tony Richards decided to take the word "wasp," then for no reason punctuate the **** out of it.

#17. Puddle of Mudd

The 1993 Missouri River flood left the band's practice space a muddy mess, which led them to this name

#16. Of Montreal

Frontman Kevin Barnes has told many conflicting stories about where this Athens, Ga. band got their name, but the one that seems to have gained acceptance is that he was dating a girl from Montreal and it didn't work out.

#15. Goo Goo Dolls


The band found the name in an issue of True Detective Magazine after a club owner balked at their original name, the Sex Maggots.

#14. The The

A British act decided to come up with a band name even more ironically detached than the Band.

#13. Mr. Mister

The band's name references a record by another band called the Weather Report, which had the line "Mister Fister" in it.

#12. The Mr. T Experience

The members saw Mr. T on television and thought, for some reason, it would be funny to name their band after him.

#11. Panic! At the Disco

Named after the Smiths song, "Panic," which includes a line about a disco burning down.

I've heard alot worse than this, I hope this isn't another one of those ridiculous MSN lists. :rolleyes:

#10. Limp Bizkit

#9. Chumbawamba

A group of British "anarchists" with strong political opinions needed a band name that resonated with the passion of their views.

#8. Enuff Z'nuff

Founding member Chip Z'nuff's name rhymed with "enough." And so a legacy of reason was born.

#7. Mott the Hoople

When the band regrouped in the late 1960s, their new manager changed their name from Silence to Mott the Hoople, after a novel of the same name about a circus freak.

#6. Hoobastank

In an interview, here's what the band's vocalist, Doug Robb, had to say about the name: "It's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything."

#5. Toad the Wet Sprocket

The band named themselves after a comment in an Eric Idle monologue on a Monty Python album. This, then, is the musical equivalent of the A/V club nerds who recited the "Knights Who Say Nee" sketch over and over.

#4. Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts

There are competing origin stories for the name of Russell Crowe's band, neither of which anyone but writers of Worst Band Name Lists care about. Since we fall into that category, here's the one that sounds most plausible to us: Russell Crowe added up the collective height of the band members and then came up with the word that most closely approximated his nuanced vocal stylings.

#3. Hootie and the Blowfish

The band is named for two of singer Darius Rucker's college choir friends, nicknamed "Hootie" and "the Blowfish" because one looked like an owl and the other like a blowfish.

#2. Archers of Loaf

Because the band members apparently wanted to spend every single interview talking about their name, they came up with the stupidest one they could think of.

#1. !!!

aka Chk-Chk-Chk. In the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, the clicks in the Bushmen's native language were represented with exclamation marks in the subtitles. The band thought that was cool, apparently, and named themselves three clicks. (This also makes the second band that's completely unsearchable by Google.)

http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2145

#22. Stone Temple Pilots

One of the band members thought the logo on the STP car treatment spray bottles was cool. So yes, in case you were wondering: a lot of thought went into this.Did you know that there's a more provocative reason behind the band's name? Early on, their name was a reference to a certain part of the anatomy of veteran child actress Shirley Temple. :eek: The band had to change that name pretty quick. So therefore, the letters in the anacronym STP became one of the lamest names in all of rock and roll.


Did you know that Shirley Temple's daughter actually became a bassist for legendary Seattle grunge band The Melvins? :cool:

Other stupid band names:

And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of the Dead

Too long. I've been told that anything over four words is generally not a good idea for a band name.

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head

Yes, an actual band name--and it's STUPID!!! :mad:

Bands with numbers arbitrarily part of the name with no significance are irritating: Matchbox 20, as we've seen (they've actually spelled out the name to the word Twenty), Jurassic 5, Maroon 5, Blink-182 (which I suppose means something, I don't know), etc. What do these numbers mean, anyway?? :confused: 3 Inches of Blood is the exception to this rule.

The Dead Milkmen?

Other stupid band names:

And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of the Dead

I always found the name of this band to be pretty amusing. I don't know, it's just so lengthy and over-the-top. Especially since they also have the ... in the beginning.

Anyways, a similarly long and ridiculous band name: I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness.

There were a lot of stupid names in the '80's:

Oingo Boingo
Wham!
Milli Vanilli
Fine Young Cannibals
Go West
Echo and the Bunnymen
Wang Chung

#7. Mott the Hoople

When the band regrouped in the late 1960s, their new manager changed their name from Silence to Mott the Hoople, after a novel of the same name about a circus freak.
I always thought this should have been Moot the Hoople, not Mott.

Other stupid band names:

And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of the Dead

Too long. I've been told that anything over four words is generally not a good idea for a band name.

Same goes for TV show names.

There were a lot of stupid names in the '80's:

Oingo Boingo
Wham!
Milli Vanilli
Fine Young Cannibals
Go West
Echo and the Bunnymen
Wang Chung
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Johnny Hates Jazz
Breathe
Flock of Seagulls
Icicle Works
OMD....not typing all that out
Spandau Ballet

Albino Toilet Boys
Bill Bixby's Big Ass Communist 18 Wheeler
Cap'n Crunch and the Cereal Killers
Dancing French Liberals of 1848
Elvis Hitler
Four Nurses of the Apocalypse
Goo Goo Dolls
Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives
Impaled Nazarenes
Jesus Manson and the Starvation Army
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
Leave It To Beaver Conehead Immolation
Mary Kay and the Cosmetics
Norman Bates and the Shower Heads
Ozzy Beard Spaghetti
Psychic Buddhist Gorillas
Quasimodo and the Eunuchs
REO Speed Dealer
Spaceman Bill and the Groovy Gravy
They Tried To Frame OJ
Unidentified Rocking Objects
Veronica Cartwrights
Whorehouse of Representatives
X
Yams from Outer Space
Zombies Under Stress

Foghat (The Yams from Outer Space made me :rofl:, btw.)

My pick is Stawberry Alarm Clock.

Albino Toilet Boys
Bill Bixby's Big Ass Communist 18 Wheeler
Cap'n Crunch and the Cereal Killers
Dancing French Liberals of 1848
Elvis Hitler
Four Nurses of the Apocalypse
Goo Goo Dolls
Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives
Impaled Nazarenes
Jesus Manson and the Starvation Army
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
Leave It To Beaver Conehead Immolation
Mary Kay and the Cosmetics
Norman Bates and the Shower Heads
Ozzy Beard Spaghetti
Psychic Buddhist Gorillas
Quasimodo and the Eunuchs
REO Speed Dealer
Spaceman Bill and the Groovy Gravy
They Tried To Frame OJ
Unidentified Rocking Objects
Veronica Cartwrights
Whorehouse of Representatives
X
Yams from Outer Space
Zombies Under Stress
:rotflmao: :rofl: Those are real?! :lol: What people will think of.

A search for Bill Bixby's Big Ass Communist 18 Wheeler :lol: led to this website:

http://brainwashed.com/bandnames/


God that's hilarious.

Thought of 4 more:

Barenaked Ladies
Bowling for Soup
Butthole Surfers
Squirrel Nut Zippers

Barenaked Ladies

That was actually my first B-choice but I changed it.

That was actually my first B-choice but I changed it.
The one you picked is funnier.

The one you picked is funnier.

:lol: My thoughts exactly

:lol: My thoughts exactly
I think I laughed at it for 5 minutes. :lol: Maybe they got it from the Incredible Hulk episode where they Hulk drives a semi. Though I don't remember any Communists. lol

Whorehouse of Representatives


I knew one of the members from that band over ten years ago!! I always liked that name. :cool:

I'm amazed at how many actors and other famous people inspired band names:

Agnes Morehead
Barbara's Bush
Barry White Boys
Betty Ford
Bill Bixby's Big Ass Communist 18 Wheeler
Bob Barker's Sweaty Sack
Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre
Cindy Brady's Lisp
The Dead Body Guards of Abraham Lincoln
Dennis Franz's Ass
The Dick Clarks
Don Knotts Overdrive
Doris Daze
Drew Barrymore's Dealer
Ethel and the Mertzkillers
Ethyl Merman
Frank Snotra
The Fred Mertz Experience
Helen Keller Plaid
Hornets Attack Victor Mature
The Hugh Beaumont Experience
The Jack Nicholson's Toilet Seeds
Jodie Foster's Army
John Cougar Concentration Camp
John Denver's Co-Pilot
Kathleen Turner Overdrive
Kerrigan's Knees
Lee Harvey Keitel
Mama Cass' Ham Sandwich
Minnie Pearl's Jam
Mr. T Experience
Naked David Hasselhoff
Sandy Duncan's Eye
Ted Bundy's Volkswagon
Vic Morrow's Head
Van Gogh's Ear
Vic Tayback and the Violent Payback
Willie Nelson Mandela
Wynona Ryders
Yoko Ono's Ass

And don't forget Eve's Plumb.

I actually heard of a band in the late 80's/early 90's called Helter Skipper and the Gilligan Mansons. (Not related to the former Brian Warner.)

:lol: