[Music] Successful Bands With Really Bad Names

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U2 - worst of the lot, what were they thinking?

Hot Chip - nothing needs saying

Coldplay - see Hot Chip

Oasis - a band desperate to be seen as cool with bags of attitude call themselves...Oasis!

 

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Not sure they were that successful though.

 

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Bananarama
The Spice Girls
Pink Floyd

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The Beatles. What were they thinking?

 

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Pink Floyd

 

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Take That.

 

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Boyzone

 

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St Winifred's School Choir

 

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A1X said:

Boyzone

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That really, really is a terrible name, for a group.

Unless you actually WANT people to think you're a gay strip club, obviously.

 

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Goldstone1976 said:

The Beatles. What were they thinking?

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Apparently...

Cynthia Lennon said:

John loved ‘Buddy Holly and the Crickets’, so they toyed with insect names. It was John who came up with ‘Beetles’. He changed it to ‘Beatles’ because he said if you turned it round it was ‘les beat’, which sounded French and cool. They settled on the ‘Silver Beatles’

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Elbow - if you care so little about your band name, how can you care about your music?

 

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I guess by 'bad' names the OP means 'bad' as in 'rubbish'. The band with the really BAD (as in grim) name, is Joy Division.

 

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I had a discussion about names with someone ages ago (possibly on here, possibly on FB), but in this case about a pub (Piston Broke in Shoreham-by-Sea - they didn't like it). My view was that I couldn't give a crap what it was called as long as it was good. Same applies to me about music.

This thread alone is evidence that it doesn't really matter what a band is called. People like what they like.

 

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Boyz II Men

 

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John Cougar Concentration Camp
Reo Speed Dealer.

 

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Metal bands often have interesting names. Pig Destroyer and Cattle Decapitation are two names which amuse me.

 

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hans kraay fan club said:

I guess by 'bad' names the OP means 'bad' as in 'rubbish'. The band with the really BAD (as in grim) name, is Joy Division.

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I'd argue that Aussie band Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel trumps Joy Division in the grim department, than again maybe not. New Order was also a tasteless successor to Joy Division.

 

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Skids ?

 

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The Lovin’ Spoonful

 

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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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZ4FZHEZAI