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Worst Amateur Band names

The Tower Always Falls

00:49 / 04.09.02

The post requesting band names inspired this one. Mostly since some of those names aren't all that bad. But we know that most crap bands have equally crap names.

So... since I don't think I'm far off in assuming that many of us have, if not been in bands, then at least were acquainted with some, I wonder if we could dredge up some of the most painfully bad band names we ever saw fit to give ourselves in our misspent youth.

For instance, in seeing a friend's band- a band opened for them that announced that they were once called "Hate Street", but they had now changed their name to "Passion Quest".

Passion Quest. Sure, I'd like to think that maybe their first name was "Haight" and not "Hate", but somehow, their faded leather jackets, receeding hairlines in American Flag bandannas and terrible covers of Pantera songs led me to believe otherwise.

So drop them in. (I suppose we could include established bands as well, but there's something intrinsically more amusing to me about amateur bands with obviously amateur names)

11:45 / 04.09.02

Around my parts (Massacushetts), there's a long-running bar band that counts among its members two English expatriates. The band's name? The British Yankees.

Just... duh.

13:02 / 04.09.02

There's currently a band operating in the North of England going under the name of;

And After The Silence Came The Sound of Nothing

Which is just .. beyond the pale, frankly..

Also, residents of Leicester were last month treated to a punk triple bill featuring The Bus Drivers, Phat Bitch and Hundred Hand Slap. Um .. ok.

13:12 / 04.09.02

At a local battle of the bands some years ago I sat through a dreary set by:

Dolly Blue Bag

I don't know how but it manages to sound not only twee (I don't always mind twee but this is the worst sort of rag-doll, Rosie and Jim woolly nastiness twee) but worthy, in a crusty-bullying-a-bag-lady-into-a-jig sort of way. Ukk!

13:55 / 04.09.02

And After The Silence Came The Sound of Nothing

And after the sound of the band's name came inappropriate, uncontrollable laughter.

Please tell me name begins with an ellipsis (...). Oh, please. That 's the only thing that could possibly make it even better.

21:21 / 05.09.02

I am blessed to have known people in the following bands :

Calamity Sax
and
Electric Banana

in which there were neither Sax's nor Banana's.

11:07 / 06.09.02

Any inspection of the walls of The Dublin Castle in Caaaamden Town will reveal a myriad of band names all worse than these.

12:05 / 06.09.02

Talent scouts searching Shropshire for the Next Big Thing have, so far, failed to sign either Müllet or Fish Pie.

12:23 / 06.09.02

Triple bill in a pub in Oxford quite a while ago: Bastard, Shit Bastard, and Bastard Kestrel.

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14:05 / 06.09.02

The teen punk band Raging Buddha sticks in my mind. They were the support act for the charmingly named Office of Strangers, who specialised in Radiohead covers, and later became the more boringly pretentious Samsara.