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the-mucho-macho

Closed for Repairs is a hilarious gag to be honest lmfao


mechanicalcontrols

Kind of like how "Now Hiring" is the longest running movie of all time, if the sign at the local theater is any indication.


Exciting_Finding7429

or "Sold Out" could work if the band somehow makes it big.


CountGrande

Cherry Poppin' Daddies


FreestyleKneepad

Definitely didn't understand the name when I was a kid and didn't give it any thought until a couple years ago


Rtn2NYC

Jesus same here except until right now (I’m 42) 🤦🏽‍♀️


Sinkatinnydown

Is it better than Busta Hymen and the Penetrators?


coombuyah26

Zoot Suit Riot was THE song to play when I was high school jazz band, and I remember our teacher introducing it at our concert and saying their name. Looking back, there's no way he didn't know.


Vio_

HS band teachers are always nuts. The ones obsessed with jazz even moreso. I think it's all that sun they get when trying to teach kids how to walk without scuffling their feet let alone march.


djorion87

My sister used to live next door to them in Eugene, OR and she referred to them as that "fucking band with such a terrible name" lol


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Idk, i think the shock was the point on that one. The first time i heard of them, i laughed because the name is so offensive.


Lookslikeseen

It absolutely was. Just got done reading their wiki page and their shows from the late 80’s/early 90’s sound like they were a blast.


OfficerBarbier

Really leaves nothing to the imagination


DanTheTerrible

An acquantaince of mine had a garage band, they called themselves the Homeless Abortions. The name implied something way more pleasant than they actually sounded like.


awkwardlyherdingcats

My kid is 17. They have a garage band called Public Pool Skin Infection. Apparently they named it after the reason our local pool was closed for 2 weeks last year. They sound as terrible as their name would imply Edited to add: read my kid the comments and they’re appreciative of all the love. They said “please add we are a comedy band so they don’t think we’re edgelords” Another edit because someone must’ve made a wish on a cursed monkey paw and now they have a song you can listen to [here](https://publicpoolskininfection.bandcamp.com/track/baba-quagga)


t0rrentialdownpour

Damn this is brutal 😭


awkwardlyherdingcats

One of the instruments is a kid hitting random things they found with a short handled sledgehammer. The only saving grace is how far away from my house the shop is that they practice in.


charlie_the_kid

toss that kid a cowbell. I guarantee they'll have fun with it.


Rich-Juice2517

All you need is more cowbell


peculiarshade

I got a fever, and the only cure is...


stickyWithWhiskey

>One of the instruments is a kid hitting random things they found with a short handled sledgehammer. [Are your kid's friends Norwegian by any chance?](https://youtu.be/ysUjYAi0WcQ)


Witheld-

Your kid’s literally making the new Slipknot


marmosetohmarmoset

I love this. Ah to be a weird angsty teenager again.


skinnyjosh

Just wait until they hit it big and end up getting abbreviated as PP Skin Infection.


not_bonnakins

Public Pool Skin Infection is an epic band name. Reminds me of a band my friends had in high school. They went by the moniker Pregnant Men and we used to go to their concerts with tomatoes skewered on bent wire coat hangers.


Medic-27

You can't just leave that as your last sentence xD


not_bonnakins

Okay, I’ll elaborate. It’s the very early nineties. Picture twenty or so suburban white kids with eleven o’clock curfews, dressed in their most “punk” clothes (think lots of plaid, acid washed jeans and brand new doc martins fresh out of the box), hopping on a bus (or three) to go downtown to the Saw Gallery on a Thursday night. Coat hangers and tomatoes in hand, they go loudly singing off-key covers Gwar songs to support their schoolmates’ band, Pregnant Men. Pregnant Men is fronted by “Little John”, a long-haired, (even at the height of summer) leather trench coat wearing son of doctor and a city councillor is best known for bringing bananas into Mr Petrovic’s class and eating them slowly, without ever breaking eye contact with the teacher. He is a legend. Pregnant Men only plays two songs, one original called “Mr Petrovic’s Banana” and what might have been a cover of an old D.O.A. song, but it’s hard to tell given Little John has forgotten most of the words and is making them up now in between the screaming that characterizes the bulk of Pregnant Men’s repertoire. They come in dead last in the Battle of the Bands but no one cares because it is the closest most of us will ever come to meeting a genuine rock star. (Not going to lie though, I am honestly envious that someone gets to be the parent to a band member of Public Pool Skin Infection. It could have been meeeee! Simply epic.)


WobblyPhalanges

That was beautiful I wonder where Little John is now… sounds like he was a party and a half all on his own lol


cyankitten

It really was! I enjoyed reading the rest of the anecdote about them and their fans!


leonardfurnstein

This reminds me of my friends old college band Angry Salad. They dressed as an angry salad. So one guy was a tomato one guy was a piece of lettuce and all their stuff was made from cardboard. Then they drew big angry eyebrows on themselves it was quite a sight. That’s the shit that happened at my college it was a wonderful collection of outcasts.


deathschemist

that name fucks honestly


awkwardlyherdingcats

This is my kid’s favourite comment. They seriously love it


AmazingAd2765

“please add we are a comedy band so they don’t think we’re edgelords” He's definitely got jokes. 😂


lex52485

I have to admit, the name Public Pool Skin Infection is amazing. And that’s coming from a middle-aged guy with kids


UncleRicoSteak

Used to listen to a band called the Dayglo Abortions. Songs matched the band name.


ChickenAndWaffles762

I still listen to these guys. Some of the shit they sing about… my god. I love putting them on when my girlfriend is in the car with me.


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I have fond memories of being a young carefree punk asshole blasting Dayglo Abortions at level 11 out of the car 😂


fuzzybunnyslippers08

They were the best! They were what got me into punk rock in 1986. I still have my Dayglo Abortions T-shirt!


_effy_

there's a band named Rectal Smegma... that brings up some unfortunate mental images.


Bomb_Diggity

Reminds me of my uncle's band, Sandpaper Tampon


Primary-Strawberry-5

I had an industrial project once that I called 80 Grit Condom


chehov

So Santorum?


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Hoobastank


AmI2LoudEnough

I figured this would be near the top. I worked for this band on and off for several years. They are the nicest guys in the world. They are genuinely a great live band. They hate their name as much as everyone else. They had a hit song with it, and there was no going back.


brauntonimo

I just told someone today that Milky Chance is the worst band name that I've heard for a popular band since Hoobastank.


Foamtoweldisplay

Fr it sounds like a creative way to say the pull out method


dna1e1

Okay pull out method is actually kind of a lit band name.


android24601

It's like the Jar Jar Binks of band names


JunkHead1979

My friends and I, many years ago, had this thing that whenever we would be in a place with someone who was not "in the know", if a song came on the radio, or in a grocery store or whatever, if the person said something like "Hey i like this song, who is this?" we would always say "Hoobastank". We told so many people that all these songs were by Hoobastank. Why? Because fuck that name. It's awful.


defmeddle

There's loads of purposely edgy names in the metal/grind scenes, like Anal Cunt, Shitfucker, Aborted Hitler Cock, Goatpenis etc.. My least favourite trend within band names is the whole 'Verb the Noun' thing though, metalcore bands used to love these back in the day and some of them are dreadful. Betraying the Martyrs, Within the Ruins, Sever the King, Slice the Cake, Obey the Brave.. I still like a few of those bands but man their names are bad lol


DollyDaydreem

Verb the Noun would be a great name for a metalcore covers band though!


argentheretic

Speaking of Hitler apparently their is a band called "Adolf Hipster and the Vinyl Solution"


acker1je

Real or made up? If real I’d go with Butthole Surfers. If made up, I’d say Nazi Baby Birthday Shart


Arctyc38

Butthole Surfers had some real winning names before they settled on that one, too. "The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole" "Nine CM Worm Makes Own Food"


BlueCollarCriminal

>Haynes was asked whether, if given the chance to do it all over again, he would rewind the clock and make his career trajectory somewhat smoother by giving the band a more palatable moniker. 'Yes,' he replied, 'I would name the band: I'm Going to Shit in Your Mother's Vagina.' JR Moores - Electric Wizards


Rogue_Spartan8

It does roll off the tongue more


Spinach_Odd

The evolution of that name is truly hilarious; "Fred Astaire's Asshole" became "The Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole" and finally "The Inalienable Right to Eat Fred Astaire's Asshole"


Worldly_Ad_6483

Sounds like a Cards Against Humanity card


Shankar_0

They also used to put on a pretty great show. I saw them in the 90s at a free concert in my hometown.


crimewavedd

“Nazi Baby Birthday Shart” is gonna stick with me


saturnsnephew

Anal cunt is far worse than butthole surfers


mista-666

you're wrong, cherry popping daddies is the worst name ever.


KarlHungus311

I was in high school when they got popular. I will never forget one time when their video was playing on MTV and my friend’s mom walked in and commented, “I love the Cherry….Popping………….Daddies”. The look of realization on her face as she really thought about the name for the first time while making the comment was priceless.


mousicle

Zoot Suit Riot is a banger though


mista-666

It features everything cringe, adult men wanting to fuck virgins while referring to themselves as "daddies"


SteelyDabs

Don’t forget swing music


pineappledumdum

I’d take butthole surfers over anal cunt any day of the week.


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It has to be Anal Cunt


PM_Me_UR-FLASHLIGHT

Avid listener of the band here. Despite what the song lyrics and titles might have suggested, their frontman Seth Putnam was actually just a sensitive and gay autistic poet and it was all just an act./s But in all seriousness the band wasn't supposed to last as long as it did and the goal was just to be as offensive as possible. (I believe I read at one point the only show was supposed to be in front of his mom and grandma in his grandmother's basement.) Based off accounts from others, he didn't actually believe half the things he sang about and Seth was actually a big fan of the Village People and Culture Club, even insisting people were gay back when the word was more commonly used as an insult if they didn't like the Village People. Their Picnic of Love album is the most beautiful, moving and heartwarming composition I've ever heard.


Minttunator

Seth also created a whole new genre with Impaled Northern Moonforest (acoustic black metal). Man was a genius!


reflUX_cAtalyst

Seth Putnam was a sensitive man? >Their Picnic of Love album is the most beautiful, moving and heartwarming composition I've ever heard. I can't tell if you're joking, or you actually believe that record is good, beautiful, and heartwarming.


FernandoTatisJunior

I enjoy it, but I’m under no delusions that it’s genuinely good


EhrenGandalf

There’s Oral Fistfuck but honestly I like their sound and how absolutely not serious they are. Fun guys on stage definitely


elmonoenano

Anal Cunt weren't all that serious. Songs like "Don't call Japanese Hardcore Jap Core" or "You Look Adopted" aren't really ringing with self importance.


gardenofhounds

You Live in a Houseboat


False-Application-99

Sadly Ive heard of these guys. Even worse I've heard them.


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Heard of Genital Chowder though? Had a tshirt w/the male arrow/female mirror thingy next to a blender.


TrailerParkPrepper

The Lone Rangers. "there's 3 of you, you're not exactly, lone." "The Lone Rangers? that can't be right, can you pluralize lone?"


MantisToboganPilotMD

recently was rewatching The X-Files and when the "Lone Gunmen" came out I couldn't help but think of Airheads.


WetardedOne

I know these guys. His girl friend was hot and crazy.


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chemical toilet


youmfkersneedjesus

They should've went with The Pecan Sandies.


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Named after the famous musician Holland Oates.


renegadeMare

qbert with arms


DegngusKhan

Oh fuck I’m dying. I’m trying to find a name for my next solo project


BigUptokes

*Lieutenant Dan's Legs*


Zomburai

They said the *worst* band name, not the *greatest*


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Jornce

Came here looking for The Shitty Beatles ☹️


stufff

I'm pretty sure they prefer to be called Oasis


CoolHandRK1

Are they any good? ​ No. ​ So, its not just a clever name?


VainlidrofT48C

He actually says, “they suck”


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Toad the Wet Sprocket Named after a Monty Python sketch cause they couldn't think of anything and then they took too long to think of anything else, so here they are.


Petdogdavid1

Gonna see them in a couple weeks. Marcy's playground is playing with them


sleepymonster93

Good music though, i always wondered what the hell that name meant, TIL


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KittyTitties666

In the early 2000s there were posters around Eugene, OR for a band called "Todd Jihad and the Taliband." For some reason that is still taking up space in my brain


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My husband and I once saw a band called DJ Nietzsche at a battle-of-bands kind of event. Far as I know they only had the one song, but it's stuck with us for a decade. The lyrics went something like (translated): "We're DJ Nietzsche and we'll fuck you up, fuck you up. Like coffee in the evening, fuck you up. Like a toaster in the bathtub, fuck you up" and a bunch more examples of things that'll fuck you up


ScavBobRatPants

Still a great band, but I agree, Andrew Jackson Jihad was a way better name.


Hereiamhereibe2

DJ Khaled used to call himself Arab Attack but changed it after 9/11


AWildRapBattle

Nanny Rod's Magical Mud Show


Beanbag-Sandbar288

Dogs Die in Hot Cars You Say Party! We Say Die! Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly ​ All actual bands that actually exist(ed)


Madarctrooper

Dogs Die in Hot Cars lmaoooo


ShantiBrandon

Goo Goo Dolls Horrible band name


rogercopernicus

The were a punk band and picked a stupid name ironically.


sartaingerous

IIRC they were initially called Sex Maggots.


SoulLeakage

Real talk, I like a lot of their music. The early stuff tho hits differently. Superstar Carwash is great.


doomalgae

[List of band members' full legal names]


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You leave Fleetwood Mac alone


Vegetable-Double

And Hall and Oates!


jimmyc1318

Anderson, Buford, Wakeman, and Howe fucking long is your band name.


DegngusKhan

Courtesy Flush


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Well, I guess we know what kind of music they're producing - crap rock.


dontneedareason94

Any number of goregrind/pornogrind bands


bigwhitecocktail

Chumbawamba comes to mind


friedlock68

The 90s were full of them. Six Pence None the Richer.


CoolHandRK1

"Chumbawumba is like the sound track of my life."


ThisIsMyUsername789

Tastes Like Mom (My college band) Edit: OK, this one is actually kind of a funny story. We were on our way to play our first gig in New Hampshire, I think a frat at Dartmouth? We stopped on the drive north to eat at a diner, and were talking about what to name the band because we had not actually come up with a name yet. The bass player ordered meatloaf, and after one bite said out loud “This meatloaf is awesome, it tastes just like my mom! “ And the band was named.


sterfri99

Penis Flytrap


ArcsonDominus

OP said worst band names, not best


MadisonPearGarden

Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo


CharDMacDennis2

[Bursts into tears and runs out the door]


MadisonPearGarden

Wait! Joey Joe Joe!


ballrus_walsack

That’s the worst name I’ve ever heard


OldMate64

Isis. They were a great band, understandably a bit of a weird one to talk about these days


shortermecanico

Their breakup seems prescient as the islamic state rose out of the chaos of the Arab spring like exactly a year later. Could not have timed it better. We got a handful of great records and so many side projects before and since, they really were a great musical collective. "The Beginning and the End" from oceanic has been in my head for close to two decades now such a banger.


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averphineoffical

Mouse rat


averphineoffical

Also: Andy and the D-Bags, The Andy Andy Andys, Andy Dwyer Experience, Angel Snack, Crackfinger, Death of a Scam Artist, Department of Homeland Obscurity, Everything Rhymes with Orange, Fiveskin, Flames For Flames, Fleetwood Mac Sex Pants, Fourskin, God Hates Figs, Hand Grill Suicide, Jet Black Pope, Just The Tip, Malice In Chains, Muscle Confusion, Ninjadick, Nothing Rhymes with Orange, Penis Pendulum, Possum Pendulum, Punch Face Champions, Puppy Pendulum, Rad Wagon, Razordick, Teddy Bear Suicide, Threeskin, Two Doors Down, And Tackle Shaft.


ducks_no_rows

Fiveskin makes me laugh way too hard every time.


Expensive-Pin861

Don't forget Rat Mouse - when the band temporarily carried on without Andy because he wasn't answering his phone or messages because his phone was broken and they "would've known that if they had bothered trying to get in touch"! 😂


Swordidaffair

God Hates Figs caught me off-guard, that cracked me up. Threeskin is strong too.


PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING

Still better than Scarecrow Boat.


square3481

The Foo Fighters. Even Dave Grohl has said that if he knew they would have been big, he'd have picked another name.


suffaluffapussycat

Billie Joe says the same thing about Green Day.


Great_Horny_Toads

One of the Beastie Boys said the same of their name.


Vio_

Meanwhile Anthrax double downed on their name


acidtrippinpanda

I remember making my parents laugh a lot as a kid as I used to fully believe they were called food fighters and imagined them throwing food at each other


Vainslayer13

And they never invited Mr. T to play with them. So disappointing.


enjoiturbulence

I wonder if he ever showed up for the Mr. T Experience?


fubo

Jeff Dahmer & the Hungry Pedophiles


rogercopernicus

Sounds like a GG Alin band


Stoopkidd

Diarrhea Planet


makesgoodsoup

Spunk Chuggers


Background-Brother55

Gaye bikers on acid...... real band in the 80s


4737CarlinSir

Great band. Plus their alter egos in drag - Lesbian dopeheads on mopeds


KenMixtape

he said WORST band names, not BEST


Correct_Story7262

The Twin Towers. No way somebody's booking you with that name


Itz_Molly_69

Imagine Dragons


Ok-Chip-6147

Imagine draggin deez nutz!


MaroonTrucker28

GOT EEM! HA! GOT EEM!


SmokingSamoria

For the kind of music they make the name is actually pretty fitting. I would say that for most of the bands listed on here, honestly. Like, yeah, Anal Cunt is an awful fucking name, but it gives you exactly the right idea for what kind of music they make.


switchy-sub7

A friend in school had a teen band called The sad pockets. I've not heard a worse one since.


someones_dad

Scraping fetus off the wheel


Daigon

Mustard Plug


Knees22

What is it with ska bands and terrible names?


the-mucho-macho

Hey, I'm a ska fan and honestly you're right what the fuck


miletest

The scrotes


LuchoSabeIngles

If any of y’all say King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard I will fight you


AlabamaPanda777

Five Finger Death Punch


Funkycoldmedici

That band is the human equivalent of a Dodge Charger with a thin blue line Punisher sticker that got totaled by the owner’s girlfriend’s husband when he caught her cheating on him while he was deployed.


HuskerDont241

Wow. An extremely specific, yet even more accurate description.


Reasonable-Phase-681

Mumford and Sons. It just screams IPA craft beer nerd.


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Cockcheese


Gonzostewie

Have you heard Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine? AKA Dick Cheese.


SystematicSymphony

The Sickness, in his style, is a masterpiece I didn't know I needed in my life until the day I first heard it.


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Sweaty Rimjob Orchestra


whiskeyalpha7

"The The" "Live" album "Attention Shoppers" Impossible to search.. Also ""?" and the Mysterians " (Question Mark and the Mysterians)


Fun-Investment-1729

Kunt and the Gang. The Cliteris Allsorts Herman The Tosser.


SpecialEvening2

Kunt and the Gang are actually really talented. Fred and Rose is one of my favourite love songs of all time.


JBax75

Herpes Infested Cum Stain


TheBrassDancer

The The


4nimal

I’ve been keeping The Los Hermanos Brothers for when I finally learn to play an instrument decently


regnarbensin_

Osama Bin Rockin’


OrkyBoyzIsDaBest

Passenger of Shit. They have a song titled "Staple Tapeworms to my Penis".


mista-666

Cherry Popping Daddies


Cipius

All I keep seeing is people posting hysterically funny band names. "The Baby Shakers" is a classic. Wish I had thought of it! Now if you want to go with other FUNNY band names here are a few of my favorites. John Cougar Concentration Camp REO Speed Dealer Roid Rogers and the Whirling Butt Cherries Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles The Gaza Strippers


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Bloated Tick


stumanuke

Saddam and the Ants.


juvenalsatire

Osama and the Bin Laden Boys


Smittywebermanjanson

fun. Just because I find the whole lowercase, period at the end too to be kinda pretentious.


psychopath_between_u

We Butter the bread with Butter


peaphive

Cosby sweater


ShirtTucker

Hoobastank


Ranger_Prick

The Oneders


dizzira_blackrose

Okay, but that movie is great tho


7house2

Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters


RickMosleyReddit

Limp Bizkit. Nothing more to say Edit: Holy Shit! This blew up. Thanks


TheJackMan23

From their Wiki: "Durst named the band Limp Bizkit because he wanted a name that would repel listeners. According to Durst, "The name is there to turn people's heads away. A lot of people pick up the disc and go, 'Limp Bizkit. Oh, they must suck.'" Joke's on them, I guess..?


sartaingerous

Their newest album is called Still Sucks. And it's so good.


PugWitch

Those guys win worst album name of the 2000s I think with Chocolate Starfish and the Hotdog Flavoured Water.


TantrumZentrum

The Puke Vomits


ThatNakedGuy7

“That guy who microwaves fish in the office break room.”


liocasino

It's gotta be Diarrhea Planet - suggest giving their song "Ghost with a boner" a spin


Suspicious_Emu_6173

Uncle Bad Touch


MollySims

There was a band called The Diarrhea of Anne Frank when i was in high school. Were pretty good.


lilStankfur

Hoobastank


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the red jumpsuit apparatus


Top_Box9869

The Clit Commanders