Names -> Stupid Band Names -> Latest Entries
These are the band names that we feel are just plain stupid. Bands pick the most absurd names, who wants to be known as a member of the "Butthole Surfers"? We only accept entries for this page that make fun of a band name. Just saying a band is lame (no matter how lame they might be) isn't a good reason for entry.
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 597 Band Name Origin entries on the site.
Name | Description | Submitted by: | ||
| One Republic | I guess "One Democracy" would be too controversial. | MOR | ||
| The Buggles | Sounds like a parody on The Beatles. | Mads | ||
| Pearl Jam | Great band, and they supposedly named it after one of the guy's grandma's homemade jam. So why not *Pearl's* Jam? Does someone have a speech impediment? | Kelly Norman | ||
| Faster Pussycat | "Faster Cheetah", or even just shortening it to "Faster Cat" I could see, but "PUSSYCAT??!" That just sounds so sissyfied. Not what I'd pick for a rock band, let alone a hair-metal band. (which is what they were.) | Jonathan S. | ||
| Barcode Brothers | They aren't brothers and Barcode isn't their last names. | Mads | ||
| GOB | Gob is what farmers do on the sidewalk ! (nothing against farmers) | Lydia | ||
| Queen | A queen is 1 person and it's a female. This group is more than 1 person and none of them are females. | Mads | ||
| Foghat | Fog is gaseous, not solid, so it's literally impossible even try to make anything out of it, including a hat. | Jonathan S. | ||
| The Konks | Obvoiusly, it looks and sounds like they're trying (badly) to rip off of Ray Davies' band The Kinks. | Jonathan S. | ||
| Toadies | Oh, PLEASE. You'd really like to be known as someone's wormy servants? | Jonathan S. | ||
| D-A-D | It's the name they weren't allowed to have(Disneyland Affter Dark), just shortened. | Mads | ||
| Ghoti Hook | What's stupid about it is that they want you to pronounce the first word like "fish." Clearly it looks like it should be pronounced "goaty" instead...I bet 99 out of 100 people would agree. | Mr. Critic | ||
| Frou Frou | I never quite understood this band name. I mean, it sounds kinda dumb...but I'm sure it means something. | Mr. Critic | ||
| The Answer | If by taking this name they mean they believe their music is "the answer" to life's problems, then I'd say they're a little misled. | Jonathan S. | ||
| Alter Bridge | Sounds like what you'd tell someone if you wanted to change the Golden Gate. | Jonathan S. | ||
| Take That | Take what? | Mads | ||
| Get Up Kids | It sounds like a really bad syndicated children's TV show from the 1970's. | Todd W. Zimmerman | ||
| Cute Is What We Aim For | Dumb on two levels. First, the name is somewhat long-winded (that's SIX words, mind you!); second, they're a heavy metal band. Yeah, they were being sarcastic when they chose the name, but their so-called joke is lost on me; niether they nor any other metal band ever "aim for cute", so the name isn't even plausible. | Jonathan S. | ||
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | That's not a name, THAT'S INSTRUCTIONS. Couldn't they have made the sensible choice most bands do and just name themselves for some sort of noun? | Jonathan S. | ||
| Mr. Children | It would be weird to walk up to some guy and they'd say "Hey, my name's Mr. Children!" | Mitsuki |
New entries in this section are currently reviewed by nally. Previous editors (if any) are listed on the editors page.
| Chris | 38 |
| Mac | 19 |
| Bobo | 15 |
| Vic George | 15 |
| Jonathan S. | 15 |
| Billy Florio | 11 |
| pauhead | 10 |
| Mads | 10 |
| Mr. Critic | 9 |
| Suga' Baby | 8 |
Much like the stupid song lyrics page, I get a lot of submissions for this page. More than I can really handle. The problem is that I get a lot of "Blink 182 is stupid 'cuz I said so" submissions, which I have to waste time deleting (though not much). I also get a lot of submissions that just aren't funny. I guess the real problem is that the word stupid can mean so many things, and hence every band name could be considered stupid.
So in short, don't bother sending me stupid email about this stupid page, or you're stupid.
If you have a creative/humorous idea, please submit it.
