Apr 142010
In the history of rock ‘n roll has any band had a less-appealing name than Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich? Until Townsman Hrrundivbakshi presented us with his latest Thrifty Music selection, I’d always purposely avoided hearing a lick of this band’s music for no other reason than the turn-off of the band name. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich struck me as the dream playdate for The Monkees’ Davy Jones and his bestest grade school buddies.
The Apples in Stereo
Haven’t we had this discussion before? I’ll say it forever and always: Hoobastank.
TB
Maybe we have, TB, and maybe you’ve identified the least-appealing band name in the history of rock ‘n roll. Ha!
Geez, maybe theirs is the hardest to remember, but it’s nowhere near as unappealing as all of the bad puns, dumb obscenities, childish jokes and purposeful msispellings of so many bands of the 90s and 00s, and even earlier?
Can you honestly say it’s more unappealing than Starz, or the Revolting Cocks, or Porno for Pyros, or Limp Bizkit?
Now that I think of it, is there really any band name lamer than “the Doobie Brothers?” Or is their music even lamer than their name?
As much as I despise those names, I almost hate to even think about the word Hoobastank. Whoever thought that would be good name for their band needs to be shot in the face. Repeatedly. If I were a member of that band, I would tell someone something else if they asked me what band I was in.
“What band are you in?”
“Hoo…I mean…Huffamoose….”
TB
From Wikipedia:
Brinsley Schwarz is a really bad name for a band. There’s nothing comfortable about saying those two words together. Rod Torfulson is a better name.
The Pooh Sticks
This made me think of this- http://www.hulu.com/watch/113213/saturday-night-live-underground-festival
Which features a band called “GUNT”
My favorite part of that Hoobastank Wikipedia quote is “…and we were like yeah.” As Pee Wee would say, “I love that story.”
Don’t forget Surgical Penis Klinik, later shortened (ouch!) to SPK.
It’s only my opinion, pudman13, but yes, the thought of little Davy Jones and his bestest playmates in the whole wide world running around a playground is seriously unappealing – to me, in my opinion, etc. 🙂
I’d never stopped to ponder the lameness of the name “The Doobie Brothers” before. It’s pretty stupid.
I’ll have to think on this. “Apples in Stereo” is dumb, for sure. How about any one of those 21st-century bands with nonsensical multi-word names, like, I don’t remember — shit like “Loud, Loud, Loud” or “Bang, Bang, Kiss” or whatever.
Yours grouchily,
HVB
p.s.: “Goldfrappe” is pretty dumb. “Thin Lizzy” is lame, too.
Frankly, I’m a smidge revolted by the moniker of Singaporean surfpunkers Force Vomit, but their song “Liberator” spins out at least four decent hooks before they even start singing and adds one or two more as it progresses. If interested, go to the following and scroll down to “Singapore.” http://bit.ly/1ahN6o (Mr. Mod: I got the link tag code to work in another blog format but couldn’t make it work here. Suggestions welcome. Feel free to contact me offline.)
Hey pplist,
I believe the blog is set to not allow the posting of active URLs. It prevents against spam. When The Back Office or I see someone has posted a URL that’s relevant to the thread at hand (or funny or informative) we can make it into a direct link, as I just did your link. Thanks!
That makes sense, Mr. M. Many thanks!
Recently there was a story on a *legendary* Melbourne band from the 1990s. I must confess I had never heard of them. They were called GOD. Yes, capital letters. Apparently it was meant to be ironic. No, lads, it was lame. Obscurity beckons.
I think that is hard to beat, though Prefab Sprout, though I loved the band, isn’t much chop, either.
There was a band in Memphis called The Diarrhea of Anne Frank. Ugh. Talk about putting yourself into a box.
We once played a show with a band called Dropping Trou.
TB
I’m not sure if I’m getting these right but:
Clap hands say yeah
And they will know us by the trail of dead
I’d kinda like to front a band called “Log.” Would this be lame?
Todd Bridges Unchained.
this is the greatest hardcore band name of all time.
I don’t think a box is where I’d want to put that band, TB!
I always thought Revolting Cocks was so stupidly, aggressively hostile that it removed itself from repulsion in a way that Hoobastank cannot.
I still remember Michael Aaron coming back from a show at the East Side Club, and saying, “There weren’t 10,000 of them, there were, like four or five. And all of them tediously sane.”
Favorite metal abum name of all time: 668 The Neighbor of the Beast.
Favorite band name from a bill in Austin in 1990: The Stoic Chinese Waiters.
Worst band name ever, by virtue of depressing the bejesus out of me with their music so often: the Eagles.
I always loved the name that they were going to use in the movie High Fidelity, Kathleen Turner Overdrive… but it isn’t a real band.
I’ve always thought the name (hed)p.e. makes no sense.. its pretty stupid..
I also hate the Black-Eyed Peas guy Will.i.am
I should divide my name up.. S^^%ea@@(!!.n.
what about Butthole Surfers?? i know some people here like Gibby and the gang, but it is a pretty revolting name…
oh.. just thought of another one.. TB will remember these guys from our record store days..
Insane Clown Posse
Yes. And Cannibal Corpse. Both dreadful names.
There was poster for a band that still hangs in the (private employee) bathroom of the (second) record store I worked at. The Bloody Stools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17EnT9xOr0
Ugh.
There was also the famous band called Shat. Complete with compelling song titles. My friend bought the disc. Listened to it and had to get away from the rest of his records. He left it with me. Whereupon I listened to it. I then threw it away, not even saving the jewel case for a replacment. It was just tainted.
I hope nobody here is in any of these bands we’re talking about. If you are in Hoobastank, I suppose you wouldn’t to talk about it.
TB
TB
Any band name that is the names of the members (and is more than a duo) is lame. IE, “Hall and Oates” is fine, but “Anderson, Bruford, Wake and Howe” is not.
But this is “least appealing” and not “worst” or “not memorable” so I’m going to say “Lubricated Goat.”
Prostitute Disfigurement
Lubricated Goat, indeed, an outlet for Tex Perkins and Beasts of Bourbon (there’s another shocker).
And speaking of band names that make no sense, one sign that I’ve lost touch with modern music is the increasing frequency with which I can’t tell band name from song title. I’ll pick up compilation discs on indie labels and can go thru the entire 15 or 20 song track listing and by the end not know if the track is listed first and then the artist or vice versa since both artist and song title are nonsensical.
I’m expecting I’ll see a few of these on Saturday if I can find an indie store to go to on Record Store Day.
Hmmm. I kinda liked GOD.
None of the “trying-to-be-offensive” band names have ever really bothered me, but here are two that just piss me off, and only because of the way they sound, completely removed from their mediocre “music”:
Mary’s Danish
&
Mary My Hope
I just hate ’em. And I’ve got no issue with the name “Mary”, but I want to punch whomever it was that named those bands.
I don’t really go for bands just using punctuation marks and such for names; it’s just a little too precious.