Bands that you are adamant they wont be heard by you
 

The raconteurs
Bright eyes

Jaga Jazzist

My Dying Bride.

Turmion Katloot.

Terrible names all. I would go so far as to say that any band with 'jazz' or 'funk' in its name really should be shot if they are formed in the last 15 years (obviously funkadelic are both exempt and utterly brilliant)

No chance of me sending you a promo video of Jaga Jazzist that has spent many a dark sojourn on shelves and floors because i couldn't even be arsed to throw it away.
Another band that these ears can't bring themselves to listen:
imitation electric piano

you should add bands with the word 'ska' on their names.

but how about funkadelic?

funkadelic rule!

The Skatalites rule!!!!

they are the exception

exception to the rule, maybe?

yes, they indeed rule.

Yes, I'm there with the ska thing. And yes, Funkadelic rule. As do the Skatalites.

I'm pretty sure you can make a case for any band with the genre/ sub-genre they belong to in their name being shite, unless they were formed back in the early 80's (at the very latest).

foo fighters
new guns n roses

I'm generally not prone to listen to bands that have clever-clever,ironic names.Let me have a fag and i'll come back and think of some.

that's very true.

(forgot about the skatalites for a minute there, they were indeed great)

British sea power-Here's the name of a band that is trying to be clever to hide the very fact that they are pure and unadultered drain sewage.

And i've never even heard them.

Ska Patrol,


Erm, only one I could come up with at the moment. For the record Glice, Jaga Jazzist is great, check em out, even though they have a lame name.

They came from the stars - I don't know why but they don't sound appealing.

dinosaur jr

The Libertines

Absolutely not. No matter how good they are, bands must be punished for having shit names. They might be the best thing since my ass, but with a name like that they ain't gettin' no love from me.

DemonBox,that Jaga Jazzist video is yours if you want it.They might be a good band but i don't get them at all.

I like your style man, a real snob:D I can understand your way of thinking, but the matter of liking a bandname or not is highly subjective.

And I'd wager, Mr G Mcporky, that you would've been a lot more generous to the band, and listened/ watched that video more often if they had a decent name - am I correct?

I had to TREPASS the name if you get what i mean.

Ah, seriously, would you send it in the mail to me? That would be great.

With pleasure.Send me pm with your address and i'll do my best.

Oh and it's limited too!hehe.

Huh???
Why do I bumb into this name (which you misspelled btw) here, on the sonic youth message board? You never fail to surprise me... Bizarre.

prokmarras: you're a really great guy, thanks!

Glice: When giving it a little thinking, I somewhat agree with you. I sometimes review records for a website, and once, I was being send a cd of a band called ENOLA. A lame ass pop/rock band from denmark, who call themself ENOLA. Why? Because it means the opposite of alone, the feeling you should get while listening to their album. I'm sorry but, jeez, what a lame-o name.

And it's really ironic that one of the US bombplanes that dropped atomicbombs over Japan was named Enola Gay.

Bandnames do matter, I would have given them a better chance if their name was better.

Too many strange characters for me to spell it right. Pretty awful band. I'm not sure if their name is slightly less crap in other languages, but all the silly characters in it really annoy me.

Read them out loud and tell me the one that sounds right and the one that sounds wrong:

xilinsupreme
hard-fi

Band names with X's in are usually good: Xinlisupreme, Xhol Caravan, Xasthur, X-ray Spex, Xiu-xiu (never heard them, but good name). Conversely, names with Z's in are usually crap (especially when it's one of those Z's that does the same job as an 's', but in a more 'street' way.

Well, in english their name means "The Midwives of Perdition", which pretty much is just as bad. There was a scandal involving them and oral sex being performed in all ages show. I haven't really heard their music but it's rubbish, from what I remember.

It is also in the pronunciation of the X at the start of the name that it transpires that the band might have something to offer instead of,say,bands that have names that start with a H.I might be wrong on this one(and i'm never,ever wrong i tell you) but i'll think about it a little bit more.

Another case in point are bands that have the word generation in their name like:
Generation x

You don't like listening to Dinosaur Jr? Are you nuts? They're one of the best bands of the past 40 years! J Masics is one of the most innovarive guitarists since Hendrix!

I don't listen to any emo-punk (My Chemical Romance, Thursday, Senses Fail, AFI, all that shit). It's just plain bad music. It sucks. Pure and simple shitty, fucking music.

Steven Malkmus

Giant Drag.

As I lay dying and Everytime I die- I can immediatly tell what kind of music they play, and they chose retarded names for their bands

there's that group jazzfinger though who are supposed to be good.

generally speaking if a band's name has for than either 3 words or 5 sylables i will avoid them. it's just wanky.

I found out recently that there's a band called "I love the september parts of my diary".
Beat that.