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Floydoid 
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:00 |
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There is a current topic about unimaginative album titles, which got me thinking about really awful names chosen by bands that were/are actually very good.
Two that spring to mind are:
The Flaming Groovies
Love Sculpture
Edited by Floydoid - July 04 2007 at 14:26
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Melomaniac
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:09 |
The worst band ever has the worst name ever :
Hootie and the Blowfish.
I loathe every single second of every song I've heard from them. Glad they no longer exist, they were polluting the airwaves at one point.
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:11 |
U2 is pretty stupid- I'm sure there is a lot more. ^^ Agree with Hootie 
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:13 |
 Drew wrote:
U2 is pretty stupid- I'm sure there is a lot more.
^^ Agree with Hootie
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I don't know.....I think U2 is an excellent name. Whats the problem with it?
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Melomaniac wrote:
The worst band ever has the worst name ever :
Hootie and the Blowfish.
I loathe every single second of every song I've heard from them. Glad they no longer exist, they were polluting the airwaves at one point. |
Amen
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:14 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Drew wrote:
U2 is pretty stupid- I'm sure there is a lot more.
^^ Agree with Hootie
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I don't know.....I think U2 is an excellent name. Whats the problem with it? |
U2 (you too) I don't know- just always fit me as Corny and Boring
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:16 |
It doesn't mean "you too" though.....
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:19 |
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Really? What does it mean?
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:20 |
Fine Young Cannibals
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rhapsody of Fire
Johnny hates Jazz
Scrittipolitti
Van Der Graaf Generator (I love them, but I find their name silply awful)
Black Vomit (that's an Italian punk band)
Preghiera di Sasso (Prayer of stone.... arrrgghh!!)
Prefab Sprout (I like them... but they cause you to spit everytime you say their name)
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Snow Dog
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:22 |
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Really? What does it mean? |
They are named after the U2 spyplane that flew over the USSR causing abig diplomatic incident. Back in the '50's or '60's I think.
I don't know the details. 
Hmm...yes I remember, it was actually shot down.
Edited by Snow Dog - July 04 2007 at 14:24
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:29 |
Drew wrote:
Really? What does it mean?
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'U2' is a long obsolete size of battery (here in the UK at least).
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Floydoid
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:30 |
Melomaniac wrote:
The worst band ever has the worst name ever :
Hootie and the Blowfish.
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Funnily enough they were in the back of my mind when I was making the topic, and yeah they were pretty naff.
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Floydoid
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 14:31 |
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Another one that springs to mind: 'Red Lorry Yellow Lorry' - it's even a tongue twister.
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 15:07 |
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idk. Tool sounds really...not good.. " i am a tool"
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 15:08 |
Hootie and the Blowfish 
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 16:35 |
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Crispy Ambulance always need to show up on this sort of list. Because they had a bad, bad name.
My least favorite band names (but they don't meet the requirement of having made decent music, if that is a requirement for inclusion here) have to be those of the plethora of contemporary pop-rock acts whose names are entire phrases or sentences. I wonder if this will be what we remember about mainstream music circa 2007.
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 16:44 |
The Mayors of Awesometown.
THE MAYORS OF FREAKING AWESOMETOWN.
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Posted: July 04 2007 at 17:03 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Drew wrote:
Really? What does it mean? |
They are named after the U2 spyplane that flew over the USSR causing abig diplomatic incident. Back in the '50's or '60's I think.
I don't know the details.
Hmm...yes I remember, it was actually shot down.
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I always thought they'd named themselves after a german submarine - Unterseeboot 2 (U-2). 
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