{"id":1383,"date":"2011-12-10T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T19:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:31:51","slug":"terrible-band-names-i-came-up-with-that-youre-welcome-to-use-when-naming-your-terrible-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2011\/12\/terrible-band-names-i-came-up-with-that-youre-welcome-to-use-when-naming-your-terrible-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrible band names I came up with that you&#8217;re welcome to use when naming your terrible band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the AV Club released its annual list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/2011-the-year-in-band-names,66284\/\" target=\"_blank\">worst band names<\/a> its contributors have come across in the last year. It is something I truly look forward to every year, and this year&#8217;s list didn&#8217;t disappoint. It included such contenders as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/SLUTEVER\/293916556989\" target=\"_blank\">Slutever<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awvfts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Winged Victory for the Sullen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youbredraptors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">You Bred Raptors?<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fr-fr.facebook.com\/pages\/Kikiilimikilii\/143648142362282\" target=\"_blank\">Kikiilimikilii<\/a>, along with some truly painful bio excerpts (&#8220;In a cellar where anxiety and blind confidence collide, desperate sounds are set to flame.&#8221;) and videos so horrendous you&#8217;ll swear that the next generation is beyond help.<\/p>\n<p>(WARNING: Do not play the following video. You will regret it.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/trhh6EOLSkc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(I told you so.)<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, this all reminded me that I myself had a list of terrible, terrible band names that I came up with over the course of the last year. You see, when my own band was trying to come up with a name, I started keeping a list of odd word combinations that I&#8217;d read somewhere or that had come up in conversation. Most of them were so ridiculous that I never even considered presenting them to my bandmates. I saved them only for my own amusement. And now I present them here for your amusement.<\/p>\n<p>Now that my band has settled on a name (Strangelove Labs, if you must know), these names are all up for grabs. Feel free to use them if you have a band who&#8217;s goal is to make the AV Club&#8217;s annual list.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1385\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vrempire.com\/art\/creative-photography-optical-illusions-using-unique-camera-angle.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1385\" title=\"TurboBird\" src=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TurboBird-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TurboBird-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/TurboBird.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Album art for Bird Fart&#39;s self-titled debut. (via vrempire.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glittersaurus Rex<\/li>\n<li>Tricerapops<\/li>\n<li>Stegadorus<\/li>\n<li>Jungle Pals<\/li>\n<li>Lover Squirrel<\/li>\n<li>Bird Fart<\/li>\n<li>Payola Monkeys<\/li>\n<li>Raised By Sloths<\/li>\n<li>Train to the Zoo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Food<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queen Bean<\/li>\n<li>Hot Wheat<\/li>\n<li>Sad Watermelon<\/li>\n<li>The Cupcake Situation<\/li>\n<li>Undigested Hummus<\/li>\n<li>Condiments from the FUTURE!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fun with portmanteaus!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Blingston Trio\" href=\"http:\/\/blingee.com\/blingee\/view\/127142091-Blingston-Trio\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Blingston Trio\" src=\"http:\/\/image.blingee.com\/images19\/content\/output\/000\/000\/000\/794\/751155784_480714.gif\" alt=\"Blingston Trio\" width=\"390\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Blasphememe<\/li>\n<li>Blingston Trio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Mildly offensive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collective Penis<\/li>\n<li>Butt Pundit<\/li>\n<li>ASCII Porn<\/li>\n<li>Boatload of Bitch Money<\/li>\n<li>BARTCOP<\/li>\n<li>Robocock<\/li>\n<li>Slutty Ninja Costume<\/li>\n<li>Blackface Zombie<\/li>\n<li>Testicle Head Bosom Beaver<\/li>\n<li>Knees 4 Nipples<\/li>\n<li>Glitteris<\/li>\n<li>Teat Milk Err (it&#8217;s an anagram!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Spot the cultural reference<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McKetrick Supplicants<\/li>\n<li>Gallio Hoop Hoop<\/li>\n<li>Big McLargeHuge<\/li>\n<li>Inverse Tachyon Pulse<\/li>\n<li>Lemon Zester of Destruction<\/li>\n<li>Squigglevision<\/li>\n<li>On Notice<\/li>\n<li>Gourd Disciples<\/li>\n<li>Herd of AT-ATs<\/li>\n<li>Corpse Garden<\/li>\n<li>Electric Risk<\/li>\n<li>Spitzer Blitzer<\/li>\n<li>Backstreet Boys II Men at Work<\/li>\n<li>Timerobber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Just plain dumb<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1386\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jleibovitch.tripod.com\/cf0b2180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1386\" title=\"hbc\" src=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hbc-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hbc-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/hbc.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hermetic Bubble Car (via jleibovitch.tripod.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Your Regular Doubtcast Program<\/li>\n<li>Oonce Oonce Oonce<\/li>\n<li>Killjoy with a Point<\/li>\n<li>Rummy Tub<\/li>\n<li>Hot Lotion<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity Tweet Company<\/li>\n<li>Sparkle Pilots<\/li>\n<li>Trashed Roommates<\/li>\n<li>Heaviest Beam in the Universe<\/li>\n<li>Eye Crud<\/li>\n<li>Red Sensation<\/li>\n<li>Streaming Colossus<\/li>\n<li>Hermetic Bubble Car<\/li>\n<li>Swimmer&#8217;s Pits<\/li>\n<li>Real Pretend Tunnel<\/li>\n<li>That One Thingy<\/li>\n<li>McGuffin Sanctuary<\/li>\n<li>Fog Storm<\/li>\n<li>Underlying Chuckleheads<\/li>\n<li>Harshed Mellow<\/li>\n<li>Pots Pots<\/li>\n<li>The Squibs<\/li>\n<li>Steampop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!-- Share-Widget Button BEGIN -->\n<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" myshare_id=\"mys_shareit\" myshare_url=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2011\/12\/terrible-band-names-i-came-up-with-that-youre-welcome-to-use-when-naming-your-terrible-band\/\" myshare_title=\"Terrible band names I came up with that you&#8217;re welcome to use when naming your terrible band\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\" return false;\" style=\"text-decoration:none; color:#000000; font-size:11px; line-height:20px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-widget\/img\/share-button-white-small.png\" height=\"20\" alt=\"Share\" style=\"border:0\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\nvar _myssmw=true;\n\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<!-- Share-Widget Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my own band was trying to come up with a name, I started keeping a list of odd word combinations that I&#8217;d read somewhere or that had come up in conversation. Most of them were so ridiculous that I never even considered presenting them to my bandmates. I saved them only for my own amusement. And now I present them here for your amusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,836,4,77],"tags":[81,577,581,579,580,578],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}