I just couldn’t resist when I found this list. Here are some of my favorites:
Arthur Loves Plastic
Chickens On Smack
Electric Vomit
Ethyl Meatplow
Flatutory Rape
Fuck Me, Suck Me, and Call Me Helen
The Go Kill Yourselves
Hitler Stole My Potato
Iowa Beef Experience
Prison Rape Scenes
Too Fat to Skate
Uncle Bob Touched Me
Voodoo Meat Bucket
And while we’re at it, this list of worst names for Australian bands has links to some of their websites. Be warned.
Ken Carroll
The best band name has to be ‘Sick On The Bus’.
Corky & the Juice Pigs
Anal Cunt
Vomit Launch
Dayglo Abortions
Karaoke Vomit
The Chemo Kids
Butt
7000 Dying Rats
Wack Ass Egyptians
Pop Cult Vomit
Membrane Conspiracy
Ass Ponies
Cornhole
Shat
To Live and Shave in L.A.
Rancid Vat
Bad Livers
Disco Cunt
Snot
Impeach My Bush (I like this one)
Holy Fuck
Leftöver Crack
Kill the Hippies
Fuck
Butt Boy
Puke a Rama
Famous but still bad:
Butthole Surfers
Dead Kennedies
I can see this being another controversial topic. Maybe a little censoring is required for the benefit of younger readers?
“Sirhan Sirhan and the Lee Harvey Oswald Choir”. (My brother’s college band two decades ago)
Bad Livers is a great name. And a great band.
While It is bad, alright, I can’t help but love the name “Leftöver Crack”. Must be the umlaut.
The worst bad band names aren’t just offensive without merit, they are just BAD. About 50% of bluegrass bands have cringe-inducing names.
Bazza, The younger readers are the ones who actually own this music.
I’m amazed at the number of these bands that I’ve seen live (the Aussies at least). Sounds like Chicken, Something for Kate, Icecream Headache, Machine Gun Fellatio (commonly known as MGF - great live act, you’d like them, Aric)… In fact, I think the first gig I ever saw was an Icecream Headache free show…
I’m with bazza here - the “f” word and simliar have no place on a modern website trying to gain traction in the marketplace. If I’m the international sales manager for a Fortune 500 company and I’m checking out the site to see if I want to recommend it to the CEO, I’ve just found reason not to do so.
but that’s just my humble over 40 opinion.
Ma Ding/Bazza.
I agree. You’ve just prompted a kind of policy decision!
I would never use the ‘f’ word directly in a post, not necessarily becasue of what the CEOs might think, but because it is inappropriate and in poor taste. In this case it was quoting the name of a band, but it’s still inappropriate. I won’t delete it (a whole other story), but I will think hard before using it again!
Ken Carroll
You could just partially **** the more offensive words, no need to delete them.
The words that are more offensive… to whom?
The word “fuck” has a long and honoured history in English literature. It is allowed by our national public broadcaster while other words might not be. If you’re worried about its meaning, stop and think, you owe your very existence to this word. But no need, it’s not being used with its meaning here. It’s just a word, quoted as being used by others.
Far more offensive are certain disgusting words that people from the USA bandy about as if they’re nothing, such as f*nny, a derogatory word for female anatomy similar to c*nt, and if we were to impose restrictions I would absolutely demand that word also be eliminated. People from some countries would have serious problems with “eggs”. And where would it stop?
Nobody here is using the words as expletives in anger, nobody is turning this into a discussion of the acts that are alluded to. We’re simply discussing a social phenomenon sensibly as adults. I can say much nastier things without using any words that would ever be considered bad by anyone. Surely it’s what you do with them that counts more than the words themselves.
“If what I’m saying causes you urgent defacation, and you take the opinion that users of certain words would be in the habit of inappropriate closeness with their mothers, then perhaps you have your eyes fixated on the interior of your lower intestinal tract. Over-reaction to these matters is rather like hand-induced nocturnal fun, and I have no red-stained time for it.” Now I ask you, is that any less crude than a commonly used word being used without those meanings? I don’t think so.
Let’s consider the Robustness Principle which is the basis of how TCP/IP and therefore the Internet works:
Be conservative in what you transmit, and liberal in what you accept from others.
Well I was bought up to believe that the f word was the worst swear you could use and I still think that, despite it’s very common use in movies now, I remember a time when you’d only here it in 18s but now you occasionally even get it in PGs. I think it’s overused far too much now.
Personally I never swear in conversation or at another person, in fact usually the only time I do swear is at my computer when it’s doesn’t do what I want it to, but even then I usually say ‘Frak’ instead, being Battlestar Galactica fan.
Ha! The list is missing my old 80s punk band, Constant Vomit.