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Pain of Salvation is the one that always comes to mind first. But there are many others equally bad or worse.
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Green Carnation makes no sense to me. I'm enjoying their music so far though. :)
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Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie
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Points: 2760 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 17:20
Symphony X is a pretty cheesy band name to me.  

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Dumb names are great - Who is going to remember a dull named band - am I right? Yes?
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Points: 6890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 17:11
Originally posted by king of Siam king of Siam wrote:

Originally posted by moebius moebius wrote:

The Flower Kings?? Asia??

Those two are horrible.
I actually like the name Porcupine Tree.Tongue
 
I also like porcupine tree... and asia, THE NAME
 
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Points: 16310 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 15:48
Originally posted by moebius moebius wrote:

The Flower Kings?? Asia??

Those two are horrible.
I actually like the name Porcupine Tree.Tongue
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Points: 160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 15:35
The Flower Kings?? Asia??
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 14:01
Beggars Opera and Isildurs Bane really, really get on my nerves.
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Points: 6890 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 13:49
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

I avoid bands that use Months, days of the week and seasons as part of their names, because they almost always turn out to be ultra mellow snoozefests. I'm not too fond of numbers as part of band names either.
My initial reaction was, "Nah, that's not right, what about..." then the best I could come up with was Novembre, Wednesday 13 and Mostly Autumn - so, "Yeah, that's sooo right" Thumbs%20Up
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I avoid bands that use Months, days of the week and seasons as part of their names, because they almost always turn out to be ultra mellow snoozefests. I'm not too fond of numbers as part of band names either.

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Hapshash and the Colored Coat  featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids.
A German band named "Scheiss die Wand an" ("Sh*t against the Wall").


BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Points: 846 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2007 at 12:56
Pineapple Thief is another bad PT. 
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Points: 384 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2007 at 06:50

Time to play "What were they smoking??"

In all genres there are some pretty atrocious names that almost always make you laugh and shake you head.  Sometimes, they actually stop you from wanting to listen to them, and sometimes, it's the reason you check them out.  Prog has som beauts, as does death/black/grindcore.
 
What are the worst/funniest/wtf ones you can think of???
 
I always thought Porcupine Tree was a pretty awful name for a band...and Sweden's Friendship Time, Mecki Mark Men, Baby Grandmothers all had me asking that question.  What were you lot smoking??? LOL
 
I'll give some more that aren't prog in a moment...along with the translations of the names, because therein lies the comedy.
 
 
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