Most inappropriately named bands!
Most inappropriately named bands!
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king arthur

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7,740 posts

286 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Rush - all their songs were 15 minutes long, they never rushed anything!
The Thompson Twins - there were three of them!
Small Faces - none of them had particularly small faces.

vetrof

2,900 posts

198 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Madonna

Mr Creosote

112 posts

10 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Neil Young is quite old now.

Wheel Turned Out

2,267 posts

63 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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The Spiders from Mars who were, to the best of my knowledge anyway, neither.

bad company

21,621 posts

291 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Did The Searchers ever find anything?

Super Sonic

12,952 posts

79 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Bauhaus. If they wanted to be named after an art and architecture style, surely it should be Gothic.

GetCarter

30,921 posts

304 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Simply Red should have been Simply Bad.

Panamax

8,651 posts

59 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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king arthur said:
The Thompson Twins - there were three of them!
Better than that, none of them were called Thompson.

See also Alabama 3. They're from Brixton and there weren't three of them.

And Shed 7. Nothing to do with a shed and there aren't seven of them.

U2. No, just don't ask...

king arthur

Original Poster:

7,740 posts

286 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Mr Creosote said:
Neil Young is quite old now.
Indeed. It reminds me of how Roger Daltry used to sing "Hope I die before I get old". Well, bad luck.

Super Sonic

12,952 posts

79 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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They Might be Giants.

Grumbler

400 posts

133 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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The Thrills. So boring.

Super Sonic

12,952 posts

79 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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The Voice of the Beehive. They don't just make buzzing noises.

Super Sonic

12,952 posts

79 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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A Flock of Seagulls. Never seen them mobbing tourists for chips and ice cream.

Super Sonic

12,952 posts

79 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Adam and the Ants. By the way, which one's Adam?

thegreenhell

22,419 posts

244 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Panamax said:
And Shed 7. Nothing to do with a shed and there aren't seven of them.
Or as Mark and Lard used to say, they started out as an eleven piece band but now there's only four of them...

king arthur

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286 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Super Sonic said:
Adam and the Ants. By the way, which one's Adam?
I think the lead singer would have said they were an appropriately named band, in fact he was adamant.

Mr. Potato Head

1,176 posts

244 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Coldplay my arse
More like Tepidplay

InductionRoar

2,301 posts

157 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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vetrof said:
Madonna
We have a winner

Panamax

8,651 posts

59 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Kid Rock - now 54 years old.

Greta van Fleet - might as well have called themselves Hertz van Rental.

The Ramones - no, they weren't related.

Bush - WTF? Kate Bush - fair enough.

Milli Vanilli - didn't even have the courtesy to be in their own band.


Hub

7,045 posts

223 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Barenaked Ladies

The Who (one of the more well known bands)

Fat White Family (actually pretty gaunt from the heroin habits)