Band names are like the oft-quoted line from Shakespeare: Some are as sweet as a rose, but some just plain stink. Whether a group’s name aptly represents its image and sound or simply serves as a way to alphabetize their discs in a record store, all bands must come up with one – for better or worse.
What are some of your favorite band names? Which ones should have been left on drawing board?
To get the ball rolling, here are just a few for each column from this blogger’s perspective:
Sweet – Radiohead, Soundgarden, The Replacements Stinks – Death Cab for Cutie, Hoobastank, Limp Bizkit
Submitted by writers bloc on March 24, 2008 - 10:55am.
Sweet: Big Star, Public Enemy, Happy Mondays, The Meat Puppets
Stink: Paul Revere and the Raiders, The La's, Animotion, Quicksilver Messenger Service (good band though)
Sweet: Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Megadeth, Metallica, Nonpoint, Pantera, Seether, Staind, Soil, Stone Sour, Three Days Grace.
Stink: Lil Wayne, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy, Birdman, Akon, Baby Bash, MIMS, All American Idols, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus,and so on. I think my point has been made.
Submitted by kaytee3212 on April 2, 2008 - 12:56pm.
Sweet: Green Day, Sick puppies, suicidal tendencies, psychostick,my chemical romance, social distortion,bowling for soup, red jumpsuit apparatus, disturbed, cheap trick
Stink: black eyed peas, wham, muse,linkin park,five for fighting,finger eleven, modest mouse,korn
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Stinks: Goo Goo Dolls,
Stinks: Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies, Butthole Surfers.
Sweet - Jackson 5. Stinks -
Sweet - Jackson 5.
Stinks - Any other band name that includes a number, except for Nine Inch Nails.
Stinks - And You Will Know
Stinks - And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Sweet - Creedence Clearwater
Sweet - Creedence Clearwater Revival, (which also works nicely as CCR).
Sweet - Rage Against the
Sweet - Rage Against the Machine.
Sweet - Low (because it
Sweet - Low (because it totally describes the band's sound)
Sweet - Motley Crue, The
Sweet - Motley Crue, The Doors, The Pixies, The Cult, R.E.M., The Violent Femmes, The Clash
Stink - Handsome Boy Modeling School (too long), Death Cab For Cutie, P. Diddy, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Please Do Not Touch Hair
Sweet: Big Star, Public
Sweet: Big Star, Public Enemy, Happy Mondays, The Meat Puppets
Stink: Paul Revere and the Raiders, The La's, Animotion, Quicksilver Messenger Service (good band though)
Stink: (+44) based solely on
Stink: (+44) based solely on the name being a real pain to type.
Stink: names such as The
Stink: names such as The Steve Miller Band, Dave Matthews Band, etc., for their sheer lack of originality.
Sweet: Avenged Sevenfold,
Sweet: Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Megadeth, Metallica, Nonpoint, Pantera, Seether, Staind, Soil, Stone Sour, Three Days Grace.
Stink: Lil Wayne, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy, Birdman, Akon, Baby Bash, MIMS, All American Idols, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus,and so on. I think my point has been made.
Sweet: Green Day, Sick
Sweet: Green Day, Sick puppies, suicidal tendencies, psychostick,my chemical romance, social distortion,bowling for soup, red jumpsuit apparatus, disturbed, cheap trick
Stink: black eyed peas, wham, muse,linkin park,five for fighting,finger eleven, modest mouse,korn
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