Worst band names

**Aaron GUFC** · 23/07/2005, 3:34 PM

...has to be THE RADIATORS FROM SPACE.

Wtf like? also Status Quo sucks aswell.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 23/07/2005, 3:42 PM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Never knew he was dead CTID. I used to like Cannon...a bit. He was no spring chicken even in Cannon....at least 55 or 60 and that was in 60s or early 70s so he must have been a great age when he died.
Another fella I just remembered.....Joe Mannix.

Don't know what happened to Mike Connors(Mannix) you might want to Google the name. Fancied his secretary big time myself

Most of those old shows actually do have Websites set up by fans or in some cases by the production companies or networks that used to show them. There is at least one MAN FROM UNCLE website for example, which has all the episodes and plots of them all and explains a lot of behind the scenes stuff.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 23/07/2005, 3:45 PM

Originally Posted by sirhamish

Showband from the 70s:

Eamonn Cannon and the Headliners.

Do you honestly think that is worse than Shaun O'Dowd and Ding a Ling?

**hamish** · 24/07/2005, 3:50 PM

Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie

Do you honestly think that is worse than Shaun O'Dowd and Ding a Ling?

Yeah, I'd forgotton about that lot.

I remember the Headliners 'cos I saw them at Ballygar Marquee Carnival - hard to see them much 'cos of the mass brawls and flying bottles - Jeez those marguees.

They had a unique take on a lightng system - during an instrumental solo, Eamon Cannon would reach for a switch and you had red/blue, red/blue etc. -you really had to be there.

**hamish** · 24/07/2005, 3:56 PM

I mentioned a Beeslow punk band from late 70s in another thread way back - band called Vomit.

Met one of that set up on Saturday - Dixie (also ex Athlone Town Reserves) and told him I had mentioned Vomit in Footie. We had a great laugh about it.

One thing he told me I didn't recall and it's perfect for this thread. Vomit changed their name to................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ...........Methodist Torpedoes. LOL

**liam88** · 24/07/2005, 5:01 PM

Ah saw Chumbawamba as a lad-legendary stuff! (what the heck am I on about I sound old I still am a lad!!)

Anyways FLOGGING MOLLY is a great name for a band!!

GErry and the PAcemakers was a bit suss

**Gerrit** · 25/07/2005, 4:16 PM

The Smiths

great band, dull name... One of the most uninspired things Morrissey came up with, unlike many song titles (who else could come up with "Don't make fun of daddy's voice" ?

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in Belgium there used to be a band caled "Biljarten na half tien" which means 'Playing pool past 9.30 pm"

**Gerrit** · 25/07/2005, 4:18 PM

and risking my life by saying this on an Irish forum, but the name of the band is probably the worst thing U2 ever came up with

Bananarama is quite a dull name, and The Beach Boys sounds a bit of dull-macho to me.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 26/07/2005, 9:41 AM

Originally Posted by Gerrit

The Smiths

great band, dull name... One of the most uninspired things Morrissey came up with, unlike many song titles (who else could come up with "Don't make fun of daddy's voice" ?

)

in Belgium there used to be a band caled "Biljarten na half tien" which means 'Playing pool past 9.30 pm"

Just off on a wee tangent - I noticed this phenomenon in Holland too -when the Dutch say "Half Ten" they actually mean 9.30 or "half way to Ten" whereas when we say it we mean 10.30 or "half an hour past Ten"

**Schumi** · 26/07/2005, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Just off on a wee tangent - I noticed this phenomenon in Holland too -when the Dutch say "Half Ten" they actually mean 9.30 or "half way to Ten" whereas when we say it we mean 10.30 or "half an hour past Ten"

German is the same. "Halb 10" means 9:30.

**noby** · 26/07/2005, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Gerrit

The Smiths...dull name...

I always thought that was kind of the point.

As for U2, it works on a purely image/marketing point of view. I'm sure early posters etc. were pretty striking and unmistakable.

**Gerrit** · 28/07/2005, 9:03 PM

Yeah, but since when is music is about commerce ? I'd say too few artists care about artistic dignity and ideals.

And about the "half ten": yes, in Dutch or German it would mean 9.30 = half an hour to ten.
Pretty confusing it was in my first week in Ireland...

**jofyisgod** · 29/07/2005, 9:32 AM

Anyone remember the Cartoons. Had the 'Witch Doctor' song as a hit. That's a bad name, and look them up on Google Images if you want a laugh.

**speedking** · 03/08/2005, 2:10 PM

Cannibal Corpse.

**sligoman** · 27/08/2005, 3:20 PM

Just thought of an another-Goldie looking chain. That is terrible

, sh!it band too

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**CollegeTillIDie** · 31/08/2005, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by speedking

Cannibal Corpse.

Yes and their music is also an acquired taste too.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 31/08/2005, 11:18 PM

Franz Ferdinand is a naff name... the band are ok the name sucks.

Maybe I should call my next band Gavrilo Princip?

**TonyD** · 01/09/2005, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by De Town

what about "jerry fish and the mud bug club"? really p�sses me off every time i hear it for some reason

Too true. That guy has previous form too "An Emotional Fish" for crissakes. Muck band too.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 01/09/2005, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by TonyD

Too true. That guy has previous form too "An Emotional Fish" for crissakes. Muck band too.

Ok there is an English expression as Cold as a Fish... implying Fish do not have any emotions.... Jerry Fish decided to turn that notion on it's head and given his surname was Fish... the rest is history