Just got the Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats album after being introduced to them by El Toro occasionally of this parish. I have to say the music is great but the band name is just awful.
What other examples are there of great music by awfully named bands?
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Mousey says
Anything by The Doors
Johnny Concheroo says
Just a fire blanket and a bucket of sand. (© Tim Vine)
Johnny Concheroo says
Always absolutely hated the name The La’s.
The scouse reference is way too parochial and that apostrophe plays havoc with my punctuation OCD
Steerpike says
Prefab Sprout?
Johnny Concheroo says
Similarly, Moby Grape.
Both sound like the punch-line to long-forgotten schoolboy jokes.
Steerpike says
At a Festival in the Summer this year, I was accosted by an ageing Punk who assured me that ‘Gimp Fist’ were a punk band par excellence.
This may be so but that name is a hard one to get past.
James Blast says
Controlled Bleeding
Public Image Ltd
The Brian Jones Town Massacre
Friendly Fires
Simple Minds
Rosbif says
Toad The Wet Sprocket are quite good from what I’ve heard. That name though.
Jim Cain says
You’ve heard wrong. Toad The West Sprocket are absolute shite!
davidks says
I love Spoon but that is a really bad name.
chilli ray virus says
The Beatles – crap name
Robbie1112 says
I’ve always hated My Morning Jacket and King Creosote. Quite fond of their music though.
Never knowingly listened to The Smashing bloody Pumpkins
Super Furry Animals but these are really crap names. Their music is probably fine and one day I may get over my prejudice.
Bingo Little says
Oh blimey, you’re missing out.
They are crap names though.
Mike Hull says
I’ve always thought Martin Stephenson & The Daintees is a fairly crap name for a very good band.
As for crap bands with crap names…the worst band names at a gig that I ever went to were Splodgenessabounds, supported by Anti-Pus. Gig ended early with tear gas going off and the band having beer glasses lobbed at them. Sheffield Poly in 1980.
Gary says
Lambchop is a bit of a dodgy moniker for such a good band. Really doesn’t suit their music.
duco01 says
I feel the same way about Teenage Fanclub.
Gatz says
They were originally called Teenage Fanny until it ocurred to them that the name might be hampering AirPlay. Of the two, I think I prefer Teenage Fanny. Great band whatever you call them.
Jim Cain says
That’s amazing! Hahahaha.
SteveT says
There is a band called Yuk – don’t know if they are any good because I couldn’t get past their name. Wouldn’t have got past the Night Sweats moniker if I hadn’t heard the music first so I might be missing out.
Baron Harkonnen says
All band names are daft.
The music is great.
From some of them.
thecheshirecat says
They really were running out when they got to Elbow.
retropath2 says
The name of the band has been discussed ad infinitum but I never know how to pronounce the 4th LP title:
http://i1347.photobucket.com/albums/p703/11sLament/led_zeppelin_stairway_by_harveymckenna-d4fisw0_zpstlsj2v6u.jpg
Mousey says
When it was released in NZ and “shot to the top of the charts” it was called “Runic Symbols”.
Clive says
Shit name x Quality of music coefficient…
The The – 100
Live – 10
Nickelback – 0
Simonl says
I always liked the’ Beatles playing jazz funk’ musique of that band of chaps Haircut 100. But blimey, that is a crap name.
Hipsway is possibly my favourite band name. But so many names are shite really aren’t they? The multiple word names are the worst though. Electric Light Orchestra, The Style Council, Big Audio Dynamite (although I quite like that, especially as B.A.D.). And Sigue Sigue Sputnik….ouch.
JQW says
Fortunately the music of Grab Grab The Haddock is just as terrible as their name:
Junior Wells says
the unthanks
even if it is their surname
stoopid surname too
Bingo Little says
Jim Cain says
Let’s stick to the topic at hand. He wants good music by bands with *bad* names.
Bingo Little says
When you could have been called “Bloodfart”, anything else qualifies as a bad name.
retropath2 says
I can be as easily put off by a name as attracted thereby, sadly much as I choose my liquid vittles. Cowboy Junkies doesn’t instantly grab as purveyoys of low key canadiana, sio I am glad I resisted my prejudice, yet I cannot find it in my heart to seek out Anal Cunt.
Works both ways tho’ as I am always drawn to names like the Jivebombers, Wrekin Havoc and the Tex Pistols, not all of whom were worth the investment.
Jim Cain says
I can’t think of any.
If a band’s good, they tend to grow into the name. I think Half Man Half Biscuit is a funny name, but if Scouting For Girls were called Half Man Half Biscuit, I’d think they were being wacky try-hard knobheads.
Jim Cain says
Spoke too soon.
Shack are a great band with a shit name.
Rigid Digit says
The Smiths covers both ends of the spectrum.
It is a rubbish name, yet also a brilliant name
Jorrox says
When I use to do Emusic I came across this band. I think they are a two-piece; studio types. Did a track or two with Dave Edmunds. The name……”It’s Only Roy”. Dreadful. But the music is great. This one is somewhere Brian Wilson and a gentle Paul Weller. I love it.
Cry Myself To Sleep – It’s Only Roy
Declan says
That lot with the exclamation marks (!!!!! or similar). What wankers.
Also that lot written upper case then lower case the whole way throiugh their shite name. Dear oh dear.
Declan says
Dreadful name only, not suggesting anything about their output, which I have no need to know.
thecheshirecat says
Would that be B*witched you’re thinking of?
Sewer Robot says
A House: fine band, but committing the twin crimes of a “don’t-buy-our-records” name and posing an alphabetising dilemma for both record shops and home pedants.
Redeemed somewhat by the fact that drawing the “A” large and broad, so that it made a roof over the word “House” was a pretty cool logo for your school bag. And the fact that their guitarist Fergal Bunbury gave his name to one of my soft toys..
thecheshirecat says
All the Vaughans in the world and all who sail in them.
A few years ago, my big brother bought me this album.
thecheshirecat says
Oops wrong thread!