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Cherry Poppin’ Daddies
I like the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies tribute band, the Hymen Bustin Fathers
But they played at the Super Bowl halftime show once so they are okay /s
Did they really? That may have been peak 90s
I remember when I was a pre teen and I wanted a Limp Bizkit CD for Christmas, my mother said that the name of the band sounded vulgar and she wouldn’t get it for me. Instead she got me a Cherry Poppin’ Daddies CD… Smh
I’m sure it was never about the band name. She probably heard Limp Bizkit on the radio and later in the day heard “Zoot Suit Riot” and was like “I know what will make my son fit in at Middle School. Big band swing music”
Sigh…
“It’s swing music so it’s okay” was probably what she thought
Honestly one of the best! An excellent lyricist and songwriter as well - although a little heavy handed on the harmonica.
IMO, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has an awfully high good band/dumb name differential
Butthole Surfers have not been mentioned yet?
Yeah, the title of the thread is worst names ever. That’s on an orthogonal axis with most likely to make an 11 year old boy giggle
For some reason they’re always intertwined in my head with another terribly named band, Diarrhea Planet.
hey… i was a butthead in the 90s.
The band öOoOoOoOoOo is a bit unwieldy.
Supposedly pronounced as “caterpillar” in whatever language you prefer.
To be completely honest, I don’t consider any name to be bad.
You may say AxCx is terrible name, but once you give them a listen it exactly fits the name. Same goes for Hijokaidan, who are actually named based on one of fan’s suggestion claiming that “escape staircase” suits their sound more. Party Cannon is absolutely hillarious imo, when you look at the logo and the sound. Brojob also has a name that fits their lyrical themes.
In some cases the name may come out a bit lame, but bad names? Nah. I don’t consider any name bad, most of them sound either fucking epic and/or hillarious when you look at the full picture.
Come on, let musicians have some fun.
Just one note. Unfortunate names do exist. If a band has name that is also commonly used to refer to other things, it is really tricky to find them unless they are popular enough. I remember trying to find some music from a band called “6 cylinder”. You can imagine the struggle.
Nickelback
That’s the one i was thinking of - for anybody who hasn’t heard of them: that’s not the band name. That’s the acronym of the band name. Each one of those letters belongs to a word
Intentionally bad or unintentionally bad?
Keyboard drumset fucking werewolf
Local Santa Rosa band back in the mid to late 90’s called Mother Teresa’s Cunt
There’s a punk band who were called Slaves. After a free years of people saying “are you sure that’s the name you want to go with, being a couple of white guys?” They decided no they were not and changed it to Soft Play
There’s a band called TaintStick
How about Shitmat? Great music but hard to tell people about it.
