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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 00:39
I always thought Burning Red Ivanhoe was a stupid name, 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 02:26
So many bad one's, how to choose? And so many of them are bands that I truly love.

Bands I love:

Gentle Giant
Behold...The Arctopus
Coprofago
Bondage Fruit
Pain of Salvation


Bands I don't love so much:

Atomic Rooster
Happy the Man
Khan
Marillion
Acid Mother's Temple
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 23:34
An 80s band in my area came up with the supremely stupid name of TBA.  Funny how they never developed a following.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 23:37
There are far more absurd names that good ones. Too many to list (the bad ones)



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 10:48
The first name that comes to mind is The Flower Kings... korky
then, there's 1000 metal bands with horrible names...
- Shadow Gallery,
- Beyond Twilight,
- Seventh Wonder,
- Threshold,
- Liquid Tension Experiment (worse: liquid trio experiment),
- Andromeda,
- The Beatles (not metal but lame!)...

I like short and simple names (Yes, Death, Rush...) and long and/or complicated ones à la post-rock (GYBE!, The Pirate Ship Quintet, This Will Destroy You...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 11:31
Originally posted by POSW POSW wrote:

IMO, post-rock band names win this thread. Easily.
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This One Will Destroy You (fixed)
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There are some pretty terrible ones on your list, but also some very good ones - This Will destroy You and GY!BE are a few i actually like.

on to the bad . . .

Van der graff generator
Yes
Camel
Egg
Porcupine Tree
Mr. Bungle (i only say this because i feel uncomfortable every time i bring them up, i like the name for the band)
Kansas (same goes for boston)

The Entire Prog Metal Section barring a few odd balls. They might be able to play their instruments but they sure as hell shouldnt write lyrics or be allowed to give themsleves a name. (Kamelot?)

And basically any band that just tries too hard. ie bands that use any of the following words (combinations just make it exponentially worse): death, die, dying, blood, Bloody, decapitation , Napalm, the Letter "X",  fetus or references to violent acts or overly gross imagery.
examples ... Cattle decapitation, Rancid Meatflaps, Anal c**t, Napalm death, Symphony X, dimmension X, eternity X, Alchemy X, XSavior, and Dying Fetus





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 21:42
Morte Macabre is pretty lame ... and wtf is a Procol Harum.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 23:32
PROCOL: language
A parallel object language with protocols, constraints and distributed delegation by J. Van Den Bos of Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Harum:
elevated, (1 Chr. 4:8), a descendant of Judah.
 
makes perfect sense Wink


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2009 at 11:05
Originally posted by POSW POSW wrote:

Flying Saucer Attack


What are you talking about? That's an awesome band name.
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