Sniff ‘n’ the Tears. I never get tired of their hit song, Driver’s Seat.

I'd like to add Puddle Of Mudd

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies comes to mind. Doesn’t look good a on a T-Shirt

Hoobastank 🤮 Blink 182 Limp Bizkit

According to Tony Wilson of Factory Records the worst band name ever was Crispy Ambulance.

I am not even lying there was a band in Dallas in the late 80s menstrual gravy. Worse name I ever heard in my life.

Butthole Surfers - LOL!!! (Have some cool songs, though.) Hootie & The Blowfish - Corny as hell.

Rage Against The Machine... Awful name, Awful band

- 'Negro Eyes' (REM was called Negro Eyes when they first started out 😂) - 'The Pedophiles' (This was Paul DiAnno's punk band before he joined Maiden)

Mid 2000s metal/math core and grind core band names are 90 percent awful

In the 70’s, we had a lot of law firm bands, eg Emerson Lake and Palmer, but the recent trend is to do the same but semi-abbreviate the names into a frankenstein band name, eg HoBoLeMa. Terrible!!!

When I was a teenager back in the early 80's, my friends and I formed a garage band in the Bronx...we thought we had the coolest name ever!!! "Volume Control".....but, after a few months we decided it was kind of lame so we changed it to something else....."Slutt" ...But, after a while we decided that name wasn't too good either so we settled on "Mad Axes".... but, then we found out that was actually a slang term for rappers...so, we changed it once again to The Bronx Maniax....which was the worst one yet! Eventually we said fuck it and broke up the band and that was the end of that....but, I sometimes wonder if we would have been successful if he had taken the time to think of a very good name.

I've got a few "favorites" to share: 1. Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade 2. Indignant Senility 3. Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat 4. Let me Introduce You To The End 5. The Electric Prunes 6. And in reserve, Thunderthighs or Starfucker (not STRFKR, the original from the '70's)

I was listening to Spooky Tooth in the car when my then-teenaged nephew asked who it was. When I said Spooky Tooth, he laughed and said it was the dumbest name he had ever heard. I had to agree, but the album (Spooky Two) is incredible!

You could go on for days with those early to mid 2000s pretencious sounding metalcore band names. Dont even get me started.

- Hoobastank - Toad The Wet Sprocket - We Butter The Bread With Butter (and most other sentences-as-band-names too) - Metalium - Panic! At The Disco ( not necessarily a bad band name in itself, but mid-phrase exclamation points definitely are dumb) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor (see above) - Any and all of those pointlessy-long-name-just-for-the-sake-of-it band names, a la Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum (aka just "Eximperitus", if one's not into the whole brevity thing)

Great job you guys. I was laughing all the way through, and had to catch myself a couple of times!

Thank you guys for your opinion RANT- Awful Band Names!🎤🎸🎵🥁

EXE was short for Executioner. They shortened it to EXE because there were so many bands with the name Executioner.

Could never understand how the band members could possibly agree on Echo and the Bunnymen

If you haven't looked them up Bathtub Shitter do a hilarious cover of Priest's Painkiller. It's a mix of Elmo on crack and Cookie Monster vocals. My new favorite song. And I typically don't like long band names either, but I do like: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead Also a shout out to Jon Cougar Concentration Camp.

Squirrel Nut Zippers would be one of mine

E-X-E were originally called Executioner, but were forced to change their name in 1986 after signing to Shatter Records, so as to avoid being confused with the Boston band Executioner. (It's also worth nothing that the renamed band's logo, stylised as 'E-X-Ǝ' in jagged metallic lettering, resembles an axe-blade when rendered on album covers.)

Keep these videos coming. Love ‘me! Remind of a couple of my buddies and I talking music.

Death Angel, Morbid Angel, Fifth Angel, Seventh Angel, Iron Angel, Dark Angel, Fallen Angel In Belgium we've got a band called 'Kiss the anus of a black cat'

One name I could come up with is squirrel nut zippers

Love your videos man🤘I saw your guitar work you did a little while ago and think you should do more and I feel others would love it

Speaking of those sentence names...When People Were Shorter and Lived by the Water Then those 80s alternative names...Scruffy the Cat, Pop Will Eat Itself, Yo La Tengo, Dumptruck, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, Prefab Sprout, Clan of Xymox And of course...Kajagoogoo

Eagles of death metal

These guys are becoming "MUST SEE TV" for Monday nights. Absolutely awesome!

Late sixties terrible band name, terrible album....Ultimate Spinach.

I remember seeing Dee Snider on Letterman one night and band names came up. Twisted Sister? And Dee told about a band member who was all excited, saying he has the perfect name for their then unnamed band. " I got it! We'll call the band "This", he proudly announced. Dee replied "This"?? "Yeah! Think about fans. Think about writers. "This" is awesome. "This" is great! To which Dee replied "How 'bout "This" sucks!?"

Nickelback.......that’s it

This is my favorite Rants line-up. Great work guys 🤘🏽😂

Off the top of my head I can think of, Van Der Graaf Generator, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Mungo Jerry, Atomic Rooster, The Hootenanny Singers, Katzenjammer. Even some artists made up weird band names for album titles. Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow - T. Rex Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John.

For some reason Butthole Surfers, Faster Pussycat, Winger, Green Jello(Jelly), and Corpse Vomit comes to mind.

Hopefully next topic will be albums with "bad titles".

Btw, Ryan, it's just a guess but the band you mentioned Exe, is it possible it's short for the computer-speak command of execute?

Also digging the mention of E-X-E. Have Stricken by Might on vinyl and cassette. Awesome!

Limp Bizkit Korn Hootie and the Blowfish Toad the Wet Sproket Puddle of Mudd King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Matchbox 20 Panic at the Disco

A few that spring to mind... The Beatles Lemon Jelly Weezer Limp Bizkit Def Leppard Counting Crows Toad the Wet Sprocket Scouting for Girls Corrosion of Conformity Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine Chris Alo’s point about the band name looking good on T-shirts is so true, when one considers that many acts will make more from merchandise sales than their music. A bad name and / or graphic design is really shooting yourself in the foot.

Awful band names by order 1. Limp Bizkit (I don't like the band either. If people know Behind Blue Eyes because of Limp Bizkit's version, I'm gonna be like... NO!!!! YOU'RE LYING XD) 2. Chumbawamba 3. Puddle of Mudd 4. Hootie and the Blowfish 5. Mott the Hoople 6. Screaming Trees 7. Oingo Boingo 8. Hoobastank 9. Jethro Tull (I love this band, but the band name is awful) 10. Mr. Big (I really love this band, but the band name's kinda lame tbh)

It is the most I have laughed at a SoT video. I would love to see more of these!!!!

Pete, you need to a show on the origins of band's names and how they came about.

Some that come to mind: The flying burrito brothers, Faster pussycat, Dead Kennedy’s, king gizzard and the lizard wizard, Suicide silence, Cannibal Corpse, Rhino Bucket, Blue Oyster cult, Hootie and the blowfish

I always remember the novelty song from the late 50s Camp Grenada.

great topic - Would you consider doing a similar discussion on what names you would give to a new rock band? - I keep thinking that all the good names are taken - I mean there are no animals left (after Wasp, Lion, Leppard, Budgie, Scorpions, Tiger, Snake). By the way I'm not in a band that is looking for a new, cool, name or anything like that. Take care

Limp Bizkit, Korn....uuurgh. 😏

Remember seeing the album cover of a band called Split Beaver back in the day.

We did a little tour in Germany in the '90s and one of our local support bands was Willie and the Wankers!

I'm in the UK, in my 30s, and I first started collecting hard rock records as a kid in the late 90s and I remember encountering Lynyrd Skynyrd's name for the first time. I just assumed they were named after maybe a native America place or something.

Welcome 🙏 all 4 of you tremendous guys !!👍💯

Love Alabama Thunderpussy! Saw their former guitarist Asechiah Bogdan a few years ago when he was still playing with Windhand.

I've heard of the band Alabama Thunderpussy. There was a rather obscure Midwestern band calling themselves Thunderpussy who released an album called Documents of Captivity in 1973, which was a heavy rock band that touched on prog and psych.

In Germany, there was a casting band called BroSis. Not a good name. There is a geat band called GPS. Looking for that band on the internet can really be a bother. And then, there are some weird ones: - We butter the bread with butter - Vampires on Tomato Juice (awesome, sounds a little bit like System of a Down) - Japanische Kampfhörspiele (Japanese battle audio dramas)

Budgie is an awesome band but never got that name. Chris is hilarious should be a stand up comedian.

Off topic but might be a cool change of pace and I have a feeling the crew would handle it well - personal top 3 best horror movies ever made. Understood if this is a no go because it’s not about music.

Before Flied Egg the band was called Strawberry Path. And despite another weird name, their one album "When the Raven Has Come to the Earth" is a nice dose of early 70's hard psych.

I'm 62 now but in my 20's I played drums in a band called Bad Riffs, my friends band was The Electric Tent Pegs.. We were featured in a local magazine with another band called Sheila and the P### Flaps!!!

Greta Van fleet, anthrax, five finger death punch. All awful in my opinion

Here are a couple more gems. (Different genres) : 1) “Sweaty Nipples” - Seattle band during the grunge era 2) “The Crazy World of Arthur Brown”- British ‘60’s psych band 3) “Badfinger”- Great British band from the early ‘70s 4) “The Fatback Band” - good ‘70s funk and soul band 5) “*NSYNC”- no words needed

My addition would be a band called the rods, great first album, saw them support iron maiden on the number of the beast tour. Still love their music to this day

I always thought the band name "Eyehategod" was a pretty stupid name

The Melvins is one named after a high school janitor I believe. I thought there were some pretty generic names for 80s bands. White lion, zebra, stryper, Cinderella, great white, black and blue. To name a few. Maybe not the worst names but just no imagination.

Got one.... Dumpy's Rusty Nuts. [80's British band] Love all 4 of those shirts you guys are wearing !

The UK indie scene of the 80s spawned some terrifically bad band names, but one of my favourites was the band who (presumably inspired by the name Frankie Goes to Hollywood) decided to call themselves 'Paddy goes to Holyhead' as they had a few Irish members (and Holyhead is a coastal town in Wales). They were formed in 1984, but even more remarkably, they are still touring today. To this day, I haven't listened to a single song of theirs, so I've no idea if they are any good or not. There were many others including Throbbing Gristle, Half Man Half Biscuit (who were great), and Cactus World News

Great set, guys... I'll submit bands who have names that kept me from checking them out, who turned out to be great/influential: Uriah Heep and Be-Bop Deluxe (how is Bill Nelson not a more known name in guitar circles?)

I'm going to have to go check out some Fuzzy Duck😮 Sleaze Beez Beau Nasty Chumbawamba? Hoobastank??

“...And You Will Know Us by The Trail of Dead” is what I thought he said long name 😂

"There is a song called Chocolate Piano" For some reason I really laughed at that ..!

Back in about '92 or '93, while listening to the Friday Rock Show on Radio 1, I heard the DJ comment, "We'll play another track by 'Dearly Beheaded' in a minute." Made me laugh when I heard the band name. 😁

Todd Bridges and the Whatchu Talkin About Willis Experience.

Plenty of names I think are actually terrible: Pearl Jam, Toad The Wet Sprocket, and most recently Imagine Dragons. But the one I always wondered about, and I liked the band, their logo and how the name sounded, was Def Leppard. I mean, it was Deaf Leopard after changing from Atomic Mass, which was awful too. Then they changed it too look like Led Zeppelin. But who would name a band after a deaf leopard ? that doesn't make any sense to me. Then there is always this band called Cattle Decapitation, lol. Edit: Thanks for recommending Lucifer, I hadn't heard of this band before. Pretty cool retro sound. But yeah, no idea why they named the band Lucifer.

Orang-utan was almost a spit your drink out moment for me. Priceless. Especially the way it was thrust into the camera lens for the reveal while being announced deadpan at the same time. Pure comedian timing gold. Hilarious. You couldn't have planned that better if you'd tried 😂

I’ve always heard that story about where Lynyrd Skynyrd got their name, but isn’t it an incredible coincidence that the name is also mentioned in Alan Sherman’s “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah,” which predates the band: do you remember Leonard Skinner?/He got Ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner

I honestly believe Fanny could have been so much bigger if they hadn't decided on that awful name. Khruangbin is also pretty terrible. There are too many pop band names from the 80s to even mention (Bananarama, Duran Duran, Wang Chung...) but hey its a rock channel.

My list of bad names: The The Toad The Wet Sprocket 10,000 Maniacs Fine Young Cannibals Träd Gräs Och Stenar (Swedish for Trees Grass And Stones) Camper Van Beethoven They Might Be Giants

Just listened to the first couple of tracks on that Flied Egg album,surprisingly good 😀

My wife’s late ex husband played in a band called the Pork Hunts.Best pub band names ,Free Beer and Topless Waitresses.They bought the punters in when advertised on board outside the pub

The Eagles of Death Metal. Trash band/name

Of the bands I grew up with: Mott The Hoople.

Re: “Black Bonzo”- released 3 great albums from 2004 - 2009. They then changed the band name to “Gin Lady” and since have released 5 more great albums from 2012 - 2019. Definitely a band worth checking out! 🎸

Bands I like that friends dismissed simply by hearing the band name: Tucky Buzzard, Atomic Rooster, Starcastle (I prefer their pre-contract name, Mad John Fever), Uriah Heep

I actually like these 3 bands. But these names are brutal! . 1, Loverboy. 2.Cinderella. 3, The Goo Goo Dolls

Kajagoogoo. Hoobastank. Dead Kennedys. Panic! At the Disco. Porno for Pyros. Brian Jonestown Massacre. Chumbawamba. Mr. Mister. Dishwalla and Five Finger Death Punch come to mind.

My late friend,a veteran of the Isle of Wight festival was always convinced that Budgie was a pop band and never listened to them.When I played them to him he loved them but could never get over the name.Then I told him there was Oz hard rock band called Finch(Dutch as well).Those bands had more balls than the Eagles

"The Babys" - Not only the most un-rock-n-roll name ever, it's not even gramatically correct!

Presidents Of The United States of America

Helmet, Soundgarden, Billy Talent, The Band

I saw a band back in '02 at Metal Meltdown 4 in Asbury Park, NJ called...Dick Delicious & The Tasty Testicles. And the album they had at the time was called "Bigger Than Ron Jeremy." They actually weren't that bad!

Dogs Die in Hot Cars- Saw the name in a newspaper years ago, no idea what kind of band they were. Barenaked Ladies- Love their music, but it's just too silly of a name. I also feel it's why a lot of people never took them seriously. Bread- probably the perfect name for them though.

All I know is with all the bands I have been in...I could never got them to use the name "Urban Lunchmeat". Wonder why? LOL!

I was once in a garage band called 'Blistered Clit'..

Nick! You mention Karyn Crisis. Awesome vocalist. She's probably my favorite female metal vocalist ever! Her and Masha from Arkona.

Black Bonzo - Saw them at ROSFEST. Great band. Someone had stolen one of their keyboards so the audience took up a collection to help them out. There was a Hammond B3 for all bands to use. All I know about the name is someone outside of the band gave it to them.

The Master Musicians of Bukkake has to get a mention here.

The more intelligent a band is, the more stupid is their band name! Spock's Beard 🤔 Porcupine Tree 🤔

Three. I saw Three open for the Scorpions in 2007 or so. They were terrific - super proggy - but their name is un-Googleable so no one could ever learn anything about the group. They later started to style it as Thr3e, but that doesn't help because no one knows how to spell the name when they hear people mention the band.

(1) Pink Cream 69 Great hard rock band founded by future-Helloween frontman Andi Deris, still active to this day, they've never changed that horrible name. (2) Vulvectomy Death Metal band from Italy, with some *amazing* song titles such as "Gangrenous Testicular Deformity", "Grotesque Prosthetic Prolapse", and "Putrescent Clitoral Fermentation".

Clinging to the trees of a forest fire is pretty dang cool. Sounds like a post-metal band.