This week’s Monday Listicles is “10 worst band names.” I found an awesome “bad band name generator” online, which allows you to create your own bad band names. For example–this is what it did for me:
- Nautical But Nasty
- Love Me or Heave Me
- Despina’s Lovely Baubles (I actually like this one!)
- The Obscenities of Dr. Scholl
- Nuns Are Funny
- Renegade Teacosy Collectors (like this one, too!)
- 1000 Screaming Headmasters
- Dalek Humbug Principle
- The Nippleclamp Operators (um, yuck!)
- Exoteric Bananas
I found some truly awful actual band names (Lake of Anal Mucus, anyone? Or “F-ck Her, or the Terrorists Win”? Ugh!!). On the other hand, many band names people hate I think are kind of creative. So because I’m a writer/editor by day and spend a lot of time correcting other people’s spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors, I thought I’d focus on band names that have deliberate typos in them. I’m leaving out Limp Bizkit because so many people list that one…ugh. Here they are (I could list far more!):
- Korn, Kreed, Thousand Foot Krutch, and Uncle Kracker (can’t stand K perversions of words)
- Plain White T’s (apostrophe errors are one of my biggest pet peeves!)
- Teh Soup Rebellion (what the heck happened with “the”?)
- Dear and the Headlights (no dear, it’s “Deer in”)
- You Love Her Coz She’s Dead (now that’s just sloppy!!)
- We Versus the Shark (Us, please…not we)
- Teehn Bwitches (who don’t know how to spell)
- The Monkees and the
Byrds (clearly, we had a spelling-challenged zookeeper) - Phish (my 16-year-old and I have different opinions on this band, but one thing we can say for sure…”phish” is not the correct spelling!)
- The Beatles (this has become such an accepted name that we’ve forgotten that it’s actually a misspelling. Beetles is spelled with two “e”s, remember?)
Enjoy this listicles of band names? Check out the others at Stasha’s blog, The Good Life!
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