best name: Optimus Rhyme (if hiphop group counts as band)
worst name: Dave Mathews Band (I do like the band.. but it's just ostentatious)
worst name: Dave Mathews Band (I do like the band.. but it's just ostentatious)
Best & Worst named bands
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Butthole Surfers, before settling upon that name, wanted to call themselves either The Dick Gas Nine, Nine-Foot-Worm Makes Own Food, or The Inalienable Right to Eat Out Dick Clark's Asshole.Sacman said:
Best band name? I'd have to say probably... Total Fucking Destruction.
Worst? Probably Attack Attack!, but they just sorta bother me in general.
There was a band called Rage Against the Machine (so-so name). Zach de la Rocha left and Chris Cornell of Soundgarden (awesome name) joined. De la Rocha had written most of the lyrics and made them politically charged, but the new band was going to be apolitical, so they changed the name...to Audioslave. I cannot figure out why, that name is just awful.
Special mention goes to bands that follow the "The [person's name] Band" template. I.e, Allman Brothers, Derek Trucks, etc. Just lazy, though those bands themselves are good.
Special mention goes to bands that follow the "The [person's name] Band" template. I.e, Allman Brothers, Derek Trucks, etc. Just lazy, though those bands themselves are good.
Dunno about the best, but the worst I can think of that hasn't been stated yet would have to be Between the Buried and Me.
If I had been drinking coke or something when I first heard of that band on Youtube, I would need a new keyboard. And monitor. And mouse.
EDIT: Oh yeah,
If I had been drinking coke or something when I first heard of that band on Youtube, I would need a new keyboard. And monitor. And mouse.
EDIT: Oh yeah,
I still can't decide whether I think the name Audioslave is awesome or complete shit.Avatar Roku said:
Best: Propaganda Machine, which is the name of my hypothetical band.
Real Best: I Wrestled a Bear Once, a name I just saw on this thread.
Worst: The Beatles.
Real Best: I Wrestled a Bear Once, a name I just saw on this thread.
Worst: The Beatles.
I'm not a fan of bands named after historical figures or documents. Franz Ferdinand for example. In high school me and my friends made a game out of coming up with band names based in history, mine was "The Monroe Doctrine". The sad part is, it sounds like a name a band would actually use.
Also don't like band names like Neutral Milk Hotel or Arcade Fire because seriously what do they mean? I guess the band just thinks it sounds cool?
Actually I don't particularly LIKE any band names, so I can't answer the other half of this.
Also don't like band names like Neutral Milk Hotel or Arcade Fire because seriously what do they mean? I guess the band just thinks it sounds cool?
Actually I don't particularly LIKE any band names, so I can't answer the other half of this.
Best band name: Blind Guardian or DragonForce
Worst band name: Escape The Fate, Design The Skyline or maybe Bring Me The Horizon.
Worst band name: Escape The Fate, Design The Skyline or maybe Bring Me The Horizon.
I can only think of a worsed, A.C (two curse words, use your imagination as too what they are! I aint risking a ban from the any moderators 
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I think there are no "best" or "worst" names, but there are good and bad names.
Good: Metallica, Clawfinger, Korn, Rammstein, Soulfly.
Bad: 30 Seconds to Mars, Bullet for my Valentine, Panic! at the disco(absolute shit), The Butthole Surfers, I wrestled a bear once. They are not "clever" as band members probably want them to be, absolutely meaningless, and they are too fucking long.
The ones having word "boys" in it are usually pretty bad.(Except maybe for Beastie Boys)
Oh, and also death metal names.Even though i love death metal, i kinda find the names of the bands rather ridiculous, silly, and childish.I mean, come on, "Suffocation"?"Decapitated"?That's the kinda thing an eleven year old kid would come up with to sound more frightening.
Good: Metallica, Clawfinger, Korn, Rammstein, Soulfly.
Bad: 30 Seconds to Mars, Bullet for my Valentine, Panic! at the disco(absolute shit), The Butthole Surfers, I wrestled a bear once. They are not "clever" as band members probably want them to be, absolutely meaningless, and they are too fucking long.
The ones having word "boys" in it are usually pretty bad.(Except maybe for Beastie Boys)
Oh, and also death metal names.Even though i love death metal, i kinda find the names of the bands rather ridiculous, silly, and childish.I mean, come on, "Suffocation"?"Decapitated"?That's the kinda thing an eleven year old kid would come up with to sound more frightening.
A few of my besties:
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[*] "Broken Note" - Simple, elegant, their music is not for the faint of heart.
[*] "Infected Mushroom" - hardcore electronic on shrooms, and the music is not far off.
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A few worsties:
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[*] "Turmion Kältilöt" - Meaning "Midwives of Ruin" in finnish... Just no.
[*] "Project Pitchfork" - Yeah... You thought hard about that one?
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[*] "Broken Note" - Simple, elegant, their music is not for the faint of heart.
[*] "Infected Mushroom" - hardcore electronic on shrooms, and the music is not far off.
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A few worsties:
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[*] "Turmion Kältilöt" - Meaning "Midwives of Ruin" in finnish... Just no.
[*] "Project Pitchfork" - Yeah... You thought hard about that one?
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