The latest ..for me....is mumford and sons
what awful uninspiring name.

yeah yeah yeah's
wet wet wet
the the
scouting for girls
showaddywaddy

Yep.. sounds like West Country Removals Firm

Scouting for Girls
Arctic Monkeys
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

Does It Offend You Yeah? Ugh!

Surely it's !!!

Butthole Surfers...

That was my first thought as well. Even worse today in the "must be googleable" category.

I swear they're just trolls, trying to get random people to tell them that "piscine" is french for swimming pool.

Mutya Keisha Siobhan. MKS is much better.

Spotted punk band The C**ts in a festival flyer last year. Probably not the best name if you want to make it in the music business (which they probably don't).

Alt-J

I just think of Control-Alt-Delete

Death Cab For Cutie.

Decent band but awful name.

The History of Apple Pie.

Great band, terrible name.

Most of these are pretty inventive I think.

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool had a great song with 'Dance the Way I Feel'. Shame their lead singer committed suicide.

That's the point as it represents a keyboard shortcut. I'm not that keen on it but I suppose it's somewhat inventive.

The worst band names for me are the completely uninspired, mundane ones like "The Music" or "Girls".

I remember reading something about a band called "Free Hot Lunch"... a bunch of senior citizens were misled by the marquee.

If we can open it up to individuals then I will go for rappers. Pick one at random.

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci

Named after a (rather great) song by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. I think they might qualify for this thread too!

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine also, especially if you've ever seen photos of them. *shudders*

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
QUEEN!
Genesis
Jimmy The Hoover

I actually like most of the names mentioned so far on the thread. Yes, some of them may be a little daft but they do show great imagination.

The ones I don't particularly like tend to be unimaginative (imo) single word seventies band names, such as:-

Bread
Dawn
Kenny
Mud
Pilot
Queen
Sailor
Slade
Slik
Smokie
Sweet

That's what I was going to say!

People think QUEEN was a bad band name?


Seriously, check yourselves.

One Erection is quite a bad name too. I wonder who came up with it (Simon).

On the subject of some more bad band names: Mumford & Sons takes the cake. Also it must have taken some creative prowess to come up with Girls Aloud.

On the whole I think bands actually make up really good names. Some of them can be a bit odd like Mamas and Papas, Lawson and Take That but they're not really bad (in fact they work) but they're just a bit odd.