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

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7,885 posts

291 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

3,027 posts

203 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Madonna

Mr Creosote

242 posts

15 months

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

Wheel Turned Out

2,378 posts

68 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

21,919 posts

296 months

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

Super Sonic

14,409 posts

84 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

31,264 posts

309 months

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

Panamax

9,781 posts

64 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:

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291 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

14,409 posts

84 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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They Might be Giants.

Grumbler

451 posts

138 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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The Thrills. So boring.

Super Sonic

14,409 posts

84 months

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

Super Sonic

14,409 posts

84 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

14,409 posts

84 months

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

thegreenhell

24,028 posts

249 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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291 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

1,181 posts

249 months

Saturday 11th October 2025
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Coldplay my arse
More like Tepidplay

InductionRoar

2,356 posts

162 months

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

Panamax

9,781 posts

64 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

7,134 posts

228 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)