Let's make fun of ugly band names!

reddy2Bplayd · Post by **reddy2Bplayd** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:12 pm

Unkle Fucker. They aren't as ugly a band name as some of the ones I've read, but, Jesus on a stick, they suck!

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 5:23 pm

azulmagia wrote:Smegma
Lubricated Goat

HA-HA-HA. Good ones.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 8:57 pm

azulmagia wrote:Some real names of bands:

Bollock Brothers
Carnivorous Buttock Flies
Bloody Mess and the Scabs
New Roger Diarrhea
Smegma
Yeastie Girls
Freddy Foetus & the Abortions
Lubricated Goat
Throbbing Gristle

Source: "Offensive Rock Band Names: A Linguistic Taxonomy" by J. Salmons and M. Macaulay, in Opus Maledictorum

Yeah, now this is what I'm talking about!

Took me a moment to think of what was disgusting about the Yeastie Girls, and then I remembered Bob and Tom's song "Feminine Hygiene." Ewwww!

Wasn't there also a band called the Yeastie Boys? As I recall, they were this bunch of fat guys, and they were a parody of the Beastie Boys.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:00 pm

reddy2Bplayd wrote:Unkle Fucker. They aren't as ugly a band name as some of the ones I've read, but, Jesus on a stick, they suck!

The name kinda says it all, you ask me. As George Carlin once said, "They're just busy words."

taeli · Post by **taeli** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:06 pm

And slightly off topic, but post-feminist female rapper Peaches has an album called Fatherfucker.

Splendidly unnerving.

shai-hulud · Post by **shai-hulud** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:37 am

Confusion of a Raped Animal.

Bloddy Anal Yeast Infection.

Never heard the music of these bands, but I can assume the genre name has "gore" in it.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:49 pm

SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote: [Blasphemy].

YOU'RE.

A.

[Obscenity]

MORON.

NEXT.

TOPIC.

PLEASE.

Looks like someone needs a nap!

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:13 am

Rorschach wrote:
SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote: [Blasphemy].

YOU'RE.

A.

[Obscenity]

MORON.

NEXT.

TOPIC.

PLEASE.
Looks like someone needs a nap!

I need a whole lot of things, and a nap is definetly one of them.

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 2:45 am

"And there were all sorts of mean nasty ugly people sittin' next to me on the bench there. There was father-stabbers. Mother-rapers. Why there were father-rapers sittin on the bench next to me and the meanest one - the ugliest father-raper of them all pull up next to me and said..." - Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant.

Last I heard, KISS was an acronymn for Knights In Service of Satan. Not that pretty a name, when you think about it, but perfect for a 'bad-ass' glam band.

Incubus is a name much uglier than than band that goes with it.

Nirvana and The Zombies also both had names that really didn't fit their sound.

At my school there was a band (that lasted for a single performance, and which only picked up their drummer while I was setting up the stage for that performance) called Vampyres Suck.

Actually, Vampyres Suck is a pretty awesome name, if only because it gave them subject material for a three-minute Abbot and Costello style routine that really warmed up the crowd before they had to play.

So, is the name supposed to be an insult to Vampires, or just an observation of their behavior? The world will never know.

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The oversized-guitar thing is actually a Warr guitar, an instrument with a whole lot of extra strings designed to be played by two-handed "tapping" (hitting the strings over the fretboard with the tips of the fingers), as opposed to the normal fret-and-pluck method.

There is a similar (and older, I believe) instrument called the "Chapman Stick" that is essentially a giant fretboard with some pickups and 10 or 14 strings that is also meant to be played by tapping. You can play most piano music on one of those things.

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Fri Apr 30, 2004 5:13 am

rose4emily wrote: Nirvana and The Zombies also both had names that really didn't fit their sound.

Thats an example of juxtaposition. Their name is nirvana but it was mildly depressing grunge rock.