Pandabear 414 Posted August 24, 2015 Like the tittle says, what are some stupid and cool band names you've come across? For me band names are important, they can determine whether someone decided to listen to your music, how your indexed online, and should more or less reflect the genre of music you play. I'll stick to purely Japanese just to keep it simple and relevant. The Cool Asian Kung Fu Generation Blood Stain Child - Intriguing and disturbing. Boom Boom Satellites - This just sounds cool. Dir en grey Fade Galneryus - Is it an alien planet? An intergalactic spaceship? Who cares it sounds cool. Lost Eden Luna Sea Deathgaze - Simple but cool. Too bad the band rips off songs and their original content is mediocre at best. Oblivion Dust T.M.Revolution - Takanori Makes Revolution. Nice usage of acronyms. Pay Money To My Pain - I would be rich if this was a thing. The Bad Babymetal - I love this band and everyone behind it, but it sounds like they spent 5 minutes to come up with that name. Screw - So apparently no one in the band thought about online search index? 9goats Black Out - Too VK-ish. I actually love this band, but the name kept from wanting to listen to their music at first because I found the name off putting and thought they were just another generic vk band. That being said, at least 50% of vk bands have really godawful band names. That's about it for me. I don't really listen to vk anymore, so I'm spared some of those atrocious band names, and the rest of the bands I know don't really have bad enough or cool enough names to make the list. 2 CAT5 and PsychoΔelica reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evilcoconut 109 Posted August 24, 2015 There's stupid and then there's the generic-ass names that make searches difficult and tagging on hell.fm also difficult. Give me some bizarre name like Mix Speaker's Inc any day over Seed, Gossip or Rogue lol. Names that are cool tho: the god and death stars Hilcrhyme SPYAIR Base Ball Bear Nothing's Carved in Stone 9mm Parabellum Bullet Mouse on the Keys Sekai no Owari This is Not a Business Luna Sea Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 25, 2015 Sonic Youth, The Jesus and Mary Chain and 'X' (either the LA band or pre-X Japan) have always sounded 'cool' to me. Prolapse is either the greatest name or the worst. I like the group but can't make up my mind on the name. You just don't go around and say "yeah well I listen to this and that and some Prolapse too" Don't search for the name and expect band pictures in your internet endeavors. DragonWAPPPPPPPPPER, give or take a few P's, is a definite candidate for worst band name ever. Randy & The Rainbows School Food Punishment The Slits (I like the group, not the name) Butthole Surfers Galneryus sounds like an STD rather than a planetThere's plenty of monstrosities to choose from. You can have a field day with this topic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aferni 2381 Posted August 25, 2015 Cool Names ___________________ THE BLACK SWAN Arlequin Pentagon Halienju NEGA Thousand Leaves DADAROMA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chemicalpictures 1888 Posted August 25, 2015 Cool-ass: believe in style Sibile Bashir amber gris Ap®il BVCCI HAYNES thee michelle gun elephant SRASH NOTES GARDEN RADIO CAROLINE Fake? Chemical Pictures WING WORKS Stupid-ass: SambomasterUVERworldOGRE YOU ASSHOLE THE SOUND BEE HD GOTCHAROCKA ONE OK ROCK YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz xaa-xaa wonder[Age]plus＋ Administrator Dirty Old Men 1 Serox reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flame-X 441 Posted August 25, 2015 Cool names: LUNA SEA Janne Da Arc T.M.Revolution D'espairsRay alice nine Bad: abingdon boys school D girugamesh YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz D is like the worst name to me because of the difficulty searching a band like them on google. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
violetchain 912 Posted August 25, 2015 Dirty Old Men I still say Dirty Old Men was gold. SHIT HAPPENING, on the other hand, is impossible to take seriously. 1 PsychoΔelica reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeithX252 1266 Posted August 25, 2015 Stupid: My Eggplant Died Yesterday (WTF man, your cock died yesterday??? XD) THE ORAL CIGARETTES (is there anal cigarette or something? lol) 2 emmny and Anne Claire reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emmny 4139 Posted August 25, 2015 cool: amber grisd'espairsraydeadmandeathgazeemmuréethe god and death starskageroukuroyuri to kagelament.lynch.malice mizermorannüe stupid: gotcharocka +1the micro heads 4ds or whatever their name is9gbo +1sukekiyombhi (W t f ??)dadaroma (dad aroma? no thx)cocklobin (dont ask)angrayse (wat)liphlichla'mulekeelholyclockthe gazettedishdummy-xd95% of new visual bands with names that make no sense 2 Anne Claire and PsychoΔelica reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peace Heavy mk II 7200 Posted August 25, 2015 Any band names that don't abuse apostrophes, tildes, or math, suck. Also, "Dog in the Parallel World Orchestra" makes me irrationally angry. 4 emmny, Muma, Serox and 1 other reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deathtopi4 428 Posted August 25, 2015 Stupid: My Eggplant Died Yesterday (WTF man, your cock died yesterday??? XD) I respectfully disagree, this is one of my favorite band names ever xD I feel like everything good's been mentioned, what else can I find... Cool: Angry Frog Rebirth Ashley Scared the Sky Before My Life Fails Develop One's Faculties Foreground Eclipse Further Ahead of Warp Hymn Above Traumatic Emotion Imperial Circus Dead Decadence Kissing the Mirror My Bacteria Heat Island (Although I'm not a fan of the weird capitalization it's supposed to have..) Undead Corporation Vaguedge Dies for Dies Irae Vermillion-D Alice Syndrome Why I Killed My Girlfriend Stupid: Black Gene for the Next Scene Dio - Distraught Overlord Draw the Emotional Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas (because the movie always comes up in searches...) A Ghost of Flare Regnum Caelorum Et Gehenna (sounds cool, but I can never remember how to spell it) Sadie (They're my fav band, but while searching for them I have come across various other artists named Sadie, stephen universe porn (like wtf it's a children's show), regular porn, tons of dogs, and so on...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoΔelica 648 Posted August 25, 2015 Cool: Acid Black Cherry Aliene Ma'riage Gram∞Maria Guru Guru Eigakan Fatima Deluhi Dead Can Dance Suicide Ali Metronome The Candy Spooky Theater Manic Street Preachers Anti Feminism Siva Bad/lame: Lycaon 4 non blondes BULL ZEICHEN 88 The Beethoven Black Gene For The Next Scene Gotcharocka 9GBO keel Glay Far East Dizain One Ok Rock The Underneath My BACTERIA HEAT IsLAND scanch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
evilcoconut 109 Posted August 25, 2015 Wrong. Keel is totally cool. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
violetchain 912 Posted August 25, 2015 ^Whenever I see the name KEEL I assume it's this one and get incredibly confused about why people are talking about them here 2 Anne Claire and Des reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lestat 2167 Posted August 26, 2015 Heh. I've been listening to the 80's KEEL for years now and each time Ryo's band pops up in a conversation I can't hold back from confusing people with Ronnie's band. 1 Des reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 26, 2015 80's KEEL is trve KEEL. Ryo listen up man, we live in the year two thousand fifteen and you couldn't do a quick internet search on your band name to see if it wasn't already taken? Shame on you. 3 Anne Claire, Lestat and CAT5 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 26, 2015 From my libraries Cool names for one reason or another:13th Floor Elevators Psysalia Psysalis Psyche Altered Images Flying Saucer Attack Teenage Jesus and The Jerks Strawberry Switchblade The StranglersBlack Sabbath The Velvet Underground Not so much:The Feelies The Buggleslovesliescrushing Blind Mr. Jones 1 Tokage reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
indigo 389 Posted August 26, 2015 Cool: Rentrer en soi (I don't care if it's grammatically correct or not, sounds cool to me anyway) the god and death stars Meiso Cult of Luna Uncool: cocklobin (great band but that name WHYYYYY?) Beastmilk Before my life fails Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peace Heavy mk II 7200 Posted August 26, 2015 Another bad one is Gay for Johnny Depp because why couldn't they pick a better looking person??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Des 289 Posted August 26, 2015 Still sounds better than 'Gay for Steve Buscemi'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bear 1817 Posted August 26, 2015 Cool:SOme of my favourites: Ghost Black Sabbath Blood Feast Frightmare Ghoul Summoning Misfits Black Magic Bathory Necromancy Varathron N.W.A. Awful: Paracoccidioidomicosisproctitissarcomucosis Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ito 2438 Posted August 26, 2015 Can we talk about how terrible the name "D" is? If you couldn't get past the first letter of naming your band, you should re-evaluate your life. 4 Deathtopi4, Anne Claire, Seimeisen and 1 other reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bear 1817 Posted August 26, 2015 What about I? Good band, awful name. Not sure what they were thinking. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peace Heavy mk II 7200 Posted August 26, 2015 Vkei alone seems to have a good chunk of the alphabet. A, C, D, M, N, S, X There's also a post-punk band named "z", a touhou circle named "Y", and and some random doujin girl called herself "B." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bear 1817 Posted August 26, 2015 A few more that I came to think of: 78424325 (The numbers 78424325 spell out the word "suicidal" when dialed on a phone.) Make a Change... Kill yourself I'm In A Coffin ... |||_-_||| (The band's name is supposed to represent a razor blade. It can be pronounced as either "razor blade" or "busco la muerte" (which is Spanish for "I seek death").) ██████ (The band has no name; a solid bar is often used instead. On websites limited to ASCII input, they have also used the name "nic" (Czech for "nothing/null/none").) ...Aaaarrghh... Some of these band names are just too god damn stupid to be real, yet they are. How on earth someone thought any of those names were a good idea is beyond me. 1 Deathtopi4 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
