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Good Name\ Bad Name
Posted by DogFacedBoy on 20 April 2011 - 12:40am.
Adapted from a game played at the NW massive Mingle...
Good band name: Iron Maiden
Bad band name: Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
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Personally
I think you got those two the wrong way round.
No right to reply
just the facts, m'am.
Good game, good game, give us a twirl Anthea
Good Band Name : The Ramones
Bad Band Name : The Beatles
ok
GBN: The Buzzcocks
BBN: The Sex Pistols
here's a couple
good = Led Zeppelin
bad = Def Leppard
good = Steely Dan
bad = Prefab Sprout
Glam rock rools
GBN - Slade
BBN - Showaddydaddy
It's Showaddywaddy
But that's no better, either
The name says it all
GBN: The Band
BBN: System Of A Down
GBN: The Grateful Dead
BBN: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
GBN: Kraftwerk
BBN: Limp Bizkit
Good...
... Roogalator.
Bad... Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Good... Flamin' Groovies.
Bad... !!! or Chk Chk Chk which is, apparently, how it's supposed to be pronounced, which is even worse.
Does it Offend You Yeah?
Is the hands down winner to me for bad names. I'd like to hear some of the names they rejected.
Best, "The Rolling Stones" by a considerable margin.
That was the one I was trying to come up with!
I knew it ended in a "Yeah." Awful, isn't it?
It's a quote
from The Office.
ouch.
The irony gets jettisoned in the process.
I think...
... "He's Thrown A Kettle Over A Pub. What Have You Done?" would have been preferable as a band name.
Here's a couple...............
Worst: Staind (bad on every level)
Best: The Teardrop Explodes
my 2p
Bad: The Tragically Hip .......(toe curlingly bad in my opinion)
Good: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bad: Puddle Of Mud
Good: Echo & The Bunnymen
Don't forget the extra 'D'
in Puddle of Mudd for added annoyance factor
I may return to this all day
Good: The Damned
Bad: tUnE-yArDs
Nomination:
Good - Kraftwerk
Bad - Scouting For Girls
Good - Mothers Of Invention
Bad - Icicle Works
compare and contrast
Good - The Kinks
Bad - The Kooks
a few
good - Bogshed
bad - Shed 7
good - the Rain
bad - Smog
good - the Pop Group
bad - the Band (sorry Mojoworking)
good - ABC
bad - XTC
Some more
Good: The Wonderstuff
Bad: The The
Good: The Human League
Bad: A Flock Of Seagulls
Good: Nine Inch Nails
Bad: Rage Against The Machine
Mine
Good: The Four Brothers
Bad: Oxy and the Morons
GoodBad
Good
Bad
Thanks to those who helped me locate Freur....
Damn you...
...I was just about to look out the Freur logo.
I understand they tried initially to run the band without any reference to the helpful pronunciation guide version of the name but gave up when they realised no one knew what to ask for in record shops.
I loved "Doot Doot" and "The Devil and Darkness" at the time and recently bought a second-hand copy of one of those two albums on one CD doobries. Sadly everything else sounded very dated and uninspiring.
Freur
I used to work with one of the band members who didn't achieve global stardom as Underworld. He told me the word 'freur' was the phonetic spelling of what was essentially a flabbergasted raspberry. Kind of like the noise that horses make.
Freur
I used to work with one of the band members who didn't achieve global stardom as Underworld. He told me the word 'freur' was the phonetic spelling of what was essentially a flabbergasted raspberry. Kind of like the noise that horses make.
Good: Yeah Yeah
Good:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bad:
!!!
Good: Pixies Bad: The Field
Good: Pixies
Bad: The Field Mice
And again
Good:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Bad bad BAAAD:
Vintage Trouble
I didn't like them, but I HATED their name.
!
Good
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Bad
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Pedant
Not wishing to be pedantic, but going with it anyway I believe it is Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Good,The Boomtown Rats
Bad,Yuck
I thought this would be easier
Good: Love Tractor
Bad: Alien Ant Farm
Good: Crispy Ambulance
Bad: Fiction Factory
A few from me
Good: Camper Van Beethoven
Bad: The Style Council
Good: Tubeway Army
Bad: Tubeway Patrol
Good: Echo And The Bunnymen
Bad: And Also The Trees
Good: The Planet Wilson
Bad: Gee Mr Tracy
Good: Motorhead
Bad: Bourgeois Tagg
Off the top of my head
good: Spandau Ballet
bad: Kajagoogoo
good: Alien Sex Fiend
bad: Flesh for Lulu
good: The Sisters of Mercy
bad: Gene Loves Jezebel
good: Daisy Chainsaw
bad: Menswear
good. Kate Bush
bad: Phil Collins
Not exactly band names but
Good Tom Petty
Bad Bruce Springsteen
I saw these chaps on the same bill
Good - Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Bad - Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band
Very Much Of Their Time
Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Elvis Costello & the Attractions. Deliberately naff names as a reaction against something or other (the late '70s, man). If you didn't already know 'em, you'd plonk them firmly on the bad name list in a moment.
I give you Funkadelic. Best band name ever comprising the mystical four syllables, like Bacon Sandwich, Richard Thompson, Stratocaster, Ian Rankin, Six Feet Under, Douglas Adams, Martin Carthy and Terry Pratchett.
1980s version (pt.1)
Good: The Wake
Bad: New Order
Good: The Six o'Clock
Bad: Mr Mister
Good: Miracle Legion
Bad: Jason and The Scorchers
Not forgetting best band name ever...
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Cerebral Ballzy
Good - The Magic Numbers
Bad - Cerebral Ballzy
It's hard to think of the names and not the music.
Good: Yeah Yeah Noh
Bad: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Good: The Smiths
Bad: James
Bad: Southern Death Cult
Bad: Death Cult
Good: The Cu*t
Good: Sisters of Mercy
Bad: The Mission
Bad: The Sisterhood
SDC
For me, the shorter their name the worse it (and the music) became.
And good shout re Yeah Yeah Noh
hmmm. Nuancy
Bad: Verve
Good: The Verve
Good / Bad / Dreadful
Good - The Flaming Lips
Bad - Chase And Status
Dreadful - dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip
Some more
Good: Drive By Truckers
Bad: Hootie and The Blowfish
Good: Sunset Gun
Bad (but also Good): Sophisticated Boom-Boom
Good: Funkadelic
Bad: the P-Funk All Stars
Good (and Funny): The Brides Of Funkenstein
Hmmm
Good: Take That
Bad: The Sick Puppies
Good: Crowded House
Bad: The Fiery Furnaces
Good: The Wonder Stuff
Bad: Lady Antebellum
Birdlife
Good - Counting Crows
Bad - The Black Crowes
Good - The Jayhawks
Bad - The Eagles
Good bad
Good: Bad Company
Bad: Good Shoes
Good: Black Sabbath Bad:
Good: Black Sabbath
Bad: Sabbat
Good: The Strawberry Alarm Clock
Bad: The Chocolate Watch Band
Good: Comus
Bad: Fresh Maggots
Good: Mellow Candle
Bad: Mediaeval Baebes
Talking of bad names - every morning I pass a poster advertising a band called "The Airborne Toxic Event". I believe that's one of Adam & Joe's euphemisms for fart
Good
Good: Motorhead
Bad: Metallica
Good: The B52's
Bad: Shack
Good: ZZ Top
Bad: Dinosaur Jr
Good: Mink DeVille
Bad: The Travelling Wilburys
A pedant writes...
Erm ... shouldn't that be the Traveling Wilburys (with one l in 'Traveling'?)
Well done, Wilson
I wondered who'd be the first to spot that.
Nice to see a couple of
goods for the Wonder Stuff, anyway
Good: Swervedriver
Bad: Skrewdriver
Good...
... Be Bop Deluxe.
Bad (actually, the world's worst)... Grab Grab The Haddock.
Good...
... Buzzcocks, Roxy Music, Dr. Feelgood, The Undertones.
Bad... Elbow.
Some more
Good: Pretty Things
Bad: Quireboys
Awful: Kiss
Good: Bad Company
Bad: Good Charlotte
Good: Badfinger
Bad: The Goodies
My two penn'th
Good : Ministry
Worst. Ever. : Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Two more from me
Good: Gang of Four
Bad: Dananananaykroyd
.....and then there's these.
Goods:
World Of Leather
Cat Power
Blood Fire Posse
Dukes Of Stratosphere
Mott The Hoople
Funkdoobiest
Bads:
Ben's Brother
Biffy Clyro
Hamfatter
Yuck
Razorlight
Bloc Party
Good - The The Bad - Hootie
Good - The The
Bad - Hootie and the Blowfish
Very bad - Live (never did find out how it was pronounced)
Thus spaketh the Badger King...
Good - Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia...
Bad - Yes
Good - Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La Band With Choir
Bad - A
Good - Antipop Consortium
Bad - The Jam
Good - This Is Your Captain Speaking
Bad - Them
Some people can be so unimaginative...
Bad is good
Good: Bad Manners
Bad: Bad Lieutenant
Beyond redemption
Good: Bad Company
Bad: Color Me Badd
2 tone
GBN - The Specials
BBN - The bodysnatchers
Dig!
GBN: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
BBN: The Dandy Warhols
Nomenclatural brilliance
Good:
The Entire Population Of China
People With Chairs Up Their Noses
Flight Of The Conchords
Bad:
Does It Offend You, Yeah? [already mentioned, but bears repeating]
The Moldy Peaches
Sultans Of Ping FC
"The Entire Population Of China"...
... used to be listed in the NME gig guide every week in the late '70s, along with "Juan Foot 'N' The Grave."
Good & Bad
Good - Nightmares on Wax
Bad - Test Icicles
PSB
Good: The Pet Shop Boys
Bad: The Ordinary Boys
Good: Bombay Bicycle Club
Bad: Two Door Cinema Club
Good: The Strokes
Bad : The Courteeners
two penn'orth
Good - The Clash
Bad - The Floaters
...
GBN = Jamiroquai
BBN = Dire Straits
GBN = Happy Mondays
BBN = The Bangles
GBN = The Velvet Underground
BBN = Velvet Revolver
Surely ...
Good: Sonic Youth
Bad: Happy Mondays
Good: I Love You But I Have Chosen Darkness
Bad: Sex Pistols
Good: Southern Death Cult
Bad: Toploader
The best band name of all time is unquestionably
The Who. The symmetry, the symbolism and a perfect logo.
The worst by some considerable distance is Prefab Sprout. Because it is unpleasant, an in-joke that's not funny, and utterly misleading of the phantom beauty of their music. It also is the single reason that they did not achieve the monumental audience and recognition their work deserves.
Agree re the Sprout
Good points Sheev. There's another group that had a monumentally awful name that didn't reflect the music: Toad The Wet Sprocket. I heard Bob Harris play them once; they sounded quite good, but that name, oh god, I just didn't want to make the effort. It sounds like a Monty Python tribute band.
Re The Sprout Everyone on
Re The Sprout
Everyone on our school bus used to hoot with laughter when passing McAloon's Garage in Witton Gilbert, near Durham City, in the mid-70s. 'McAloony!' we shouted, often accompanied by our teacher in those pre-PC days when it was fine to laugh at anything to do with mental illness or indeed homosexuality or race. No-one hooted in 1979 when the support band for The Revillos announced itself as 'Prefab Sprout'. And yes, they were good, but that name indeed put everyone off.
Oh, and..
Good Names: Lori & The Chameleons, Gerry & The Holograms, The Silicon Teens, Queen B
Bad Names: Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Fiat Lux, Boots For Dancing
some proggers
Good - The Strawbs
Bad - The Nice
Good - King Crimson
Bad - Caravan
Good - Gentle Giant
Bad - Focus
Good - Curved Air
Bad - Moody Blues
Good - Van der Graaf Generator
Bad - The Soft Machine
Good - Jethro Tull
Bad - Yes
For your consideration....
Good: The Seal Cub Clubbing Club
Bad: Seal
Good: British Sea Power
Bad: Kid British
Good: Television
Bad: Terrorvision
Good: Supergrass
Bad: The Supernaturals
Good: UB40
Bad: U2
Good: Our Kid
Bad: Brother
Good - Half man half biscuit
Good - Half man half biscuit
Bad - Man