and would it kill you chumps to pick a fucking album name?

[rone]

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is, by far, the stupidest band name ever.

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[foaf.livejournal.com]

My vote's for "I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that is bad.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

Dumber than Toad the Wet Sprocket?

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

TtWS gets a pass for being a Monty Python reference.

Please.

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

One of my music theory profs produced a record for a band called illbeonthefönetoyou. It was as boring as it sounds.

Also, a treasure trove of stupid names

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

is in lists of CCM (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:205~T1) artists. While there aren't all that many real clunkers in AMG's "top" list (one that stands out to me is "MxPx," which was an already crappy name "Magnified Plaid" restyled à la D.I.), you can follow chains of "similar artists" and become very sad. You'll also find intriguing claims like "Christafari is the first Christian reggae band."

as punctuated

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

Worse than "Godspeed You! Black Emperor"?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Close, but as doctroid put it, it gets a pass because it's a reference to a Japanese movie. And Death Cab for Cutie, which is also pretty damn stupid, is a reference to some obscure `60s song.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

Obscure for you, maybe, but not every pop song qualifies for its own Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Cab_for_Cutie_(song)).

Jello Biafra's rant "Names for Bands", mostly given as an excuse to rant about the lack of creative skills among the youth of today, has become a resource for band names (http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:iv-uO455t9IJ:rateyourmusic.com/list/JohnBuckWLD/jello_biafras_names_for_bands__new_and_improved___he_writes_them_down__hasnt_anyone_else_+%22jello+biafra%22+%22names+for+bands%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari) as well. I don't know what to think about that. I just don't know.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"67 Video Sex Pope"

I did always wonder where vspope got his handle.

Re: as punctuated

[wisn.livejournal.com]

They somewhat notoriously (and obnoxiously, if you're trying to keep these things organized in iTunes) moved the bang once or twice, because in the middle there apparently best matches its position in the original title.

A spinoff band with the vague and mysterious-sounding name A Silver Mount Zion changed it to The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band for the second album.

[marknau.livejournal.com]

The "Yeah Yeah Yeahs." Checkmate.

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Worse than Kajagoogoo? The 80's was a cavalcade of bad band names.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Kajagoogoo's pretty bad, but at least it's just one nonsense word. Plus, the bassist plays in John Paul Jones's band, so he can't be all bad.

[kodi]

I've carefully reviewed the more than 5,000 artists I have in iTunes, and I'm voting for "Rapider Than Horsepower."

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but I just can't ever really get over "Strawberry Alarmclock." Because I blame them for (name-wise) every GODDAMN 90's alternoband.

[eb-oesch.livejournal.com]

It's not Burgess's fault that so many people ripped off his band name "A Clockwork Orange", and "Strawberry Alarmclock" isn't original enough to have ripoffs. But for saying "We want to be different but couldn't figure out how" in two words, I think they win. "Clap your hands say yeah" ("party music in English for people who don't understand it") and "I love you but I choose darkness" ("David Gahan is a songwriting GENIUS, compared to 10,000 bands just like us") aren't as tight.

A bad band name saves time like a bad trailer. A good bad band name says, "We may say a lot of words, but don't listen to them because we couldn't find two good ones in a row." Not that that always stops people, or even should. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"'s got something going for it, I guess, and it ain't the lyrics. (Even Cobain apparently knew that -- he didn't mumble so much on other songs whose lyrics weren't so bad.)

My "boring" alarm is going off, so I have to leave now. (It's not true that I like to listen to myself talk. I just don't know how to block out the noise.)

[dpk.livejournal.com]

Worse than Metallica?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

To be fair, Metallica only became a dumb name once Load came out.

How about AC?

[(Anonymous)]

Stands for "anal cunt".... they're noise-core with classic song titles like "You're a Trendy Fucking Pussy" and "I Snuck a Retard Into a Sperm Bank." Horrible music, but I love it when people pick up the case and drop it in near revulsion.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Anal Cunt is a great name for that kind of band. It's revulsive, but it's far from stupid.

[glaucon.livejournal.com]

reminds me of a graffiti gag from the backstage room at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle. the door is covered with various band names where someone has replaced a strategic word in the name with the word "poop":

Poop Floyd
The Talking Poops
Clap Your Poop Say Yeah (or Clap Your Hands Say Poop)
etc.

but the best two by far are:

John Spencer Poop Explosion
and
And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of the Poop

(sidenote: an overly exuberant foray into playing this little game caused someone to flee my Thanksgiving Dinner in 2005 in a fit of rage. his parting line was "I could write you a doctoral dissertation on why scatalogical humor isn't funny".

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Oh, braVO, sir, braVO.

[justjenine.livejournal.com]

we've all been making bizarre "band name" suggestions for years, and it's nice to see the sea change towards the non-silly. silly band names are all well and good until you're trying to come up with something that you, and three other guys are going to have to live with and defend for years to come. t'ain't easy, brother. t'ain't easy at all.

[gallifreyan.livejournal.com]

Be ready for your head to explode in three part harmony, for I give you...

Hear'say (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear'Say)

I never understood the name of Wet Wet Wet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_Wet_Wet) but I loved their first album, 'Popped In, Souled Out'. You might even like them. And you tell people about them and they almost always respond with "what what what?" No, Wet Wet Wet.