To be fair, I have always been meaning to investigate George a bit more. But I have an instinctive aversion to the super-popular, so always found myself in pursuit of otherness. Bowie and Madonna are the only really massive stars (that transcent music itself) who have stood the test of time for...
Not sure the Grateful Dead are a great band. Boring shite more like. Yet.....the name is good. As is electric prunes. We differ to beg.
OK, here are a few really great bands with really shit names:
The Mothers of Invention
Mahogany Rush
Squeeze
Diary of Dreams
Klangstabil
The latter are a...
I put two 'best of' CDs on my ipod ten years ago, then took them off. I grew up with the Beatles. I loved them as a kid. Now I find them irritating. McCartney destroyed his cred with all that bollocks he released with Wings. Give Ireland Back To the Irish. Mull of Kin Tyre. FFS. I have 'Imagine'...
Nothing quite hits the lows when it comes to band names, and indeed moronic lack of taste, as this charmless outfit.
In fact, I had better not post the youtube link to 'Hitler was a very nice man' because it shows the band name, and a moderator would not unreasonably pull my post and give me...
I hope I'm not derailing, but the first thing that entered my head was really good bands with really shit names. Top of my list is 'toad, the wet sprocket'. I mean, what were they thinking?
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