What do you think are some of the worst music group or band names ever?

AKB48, Pussy Riot. Circle Jerks, Dildo Butterfly, SMAP. To name a few.

Anal Vomit.

"Pussy Riot"

Putin hates them too, enough to jail them for criticizing him.

ANYTHING from Johnny's Jimusho.

Candy Coloured Rain...

"U2". That it? A letter and a number (and terrible music)?

U2 is a play of words "you too" and I do like their music

As for Japanese: Bump of Chicken, Flumpool, and Kis-My-Ft2 (it makes me thing of kissing feet too)

Non Japanese: Scissors Sisters (It makes me think of the Movie by Tim Burton)

The Troggs.

LMFAO

Japan : Bump of chicken / sexy zone (featuring 12 year old boys)

Overseas: toad the wet sprocket (also because it was nicked from a Monty Python sketch)

Best band name ever ; Ken Dood's dad's dog's dead.

"Evil Edna's Horror Toilet."

"Five Finger Death Punch" bugs me. Pretty sure we have four fingers and one thumb. "Puddle of Mudd". One D not enough? Speaking of One D: "One Direction", and yet their singing is all over the place. Far from one direction. "Staind" Missing the E. "So Solid Crew" that just sounds lame. "The Pussycat Dolls", I can't take that name seriously "Steps", why exactly did they choose that name? "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", also a movie starring Johnny Depp I believe, but a frigging long band name On the opposite end of the spectrum: "U2". That it? A letter and a number (and terrible music)?

I'm sure I could name more, just not off the top of my head.

Hoobastank Butthole Surfers

Spread Beaver

Is this list limited to Japan only? If not, how about the band named ''scaphism''? For those unfamiliar with what it means, google it.

"Piss Kids." Which is a translation of Mannekin Pis, the famous statue in Belgium, but it's still a dumb name.

Pussy Riot

Me, Mom and Morgentaler. Clever name, but a little bit too cute for comfort.

Sexy Zone- because they are kids

-Pornograffiti

-BBQ Chickens and Teriyaki Boyz

-Monkey Majik- and 2 of the guys in that group are Australian who should know better

High and Mighty Color

-Skoop on Somebody

Greeeeen

Aqua Timez

Orange Range

Flumpool

Kis-my-Ft2

Boom Boom Satellites

Maybe I've been in Japan way too long to think of these names.

SHARAN Q great band bad name likewise with some western counterparts BLINK 182 and Porno for Pyros (named after a guy on a bus reading a magazine about fireworks) come to mind. Some great ones people are thinking of above - more threads like this please !

mocheake - actually I like the zaniness of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's name. And I like their music too. A real guitar band.

Do you know how they got their name - one of the members (I think) heard mentioned the name of The Damned album, " Machine-Gun Etiquette" and thought it to be michelle gun elephant.

Makes it even better.

And imo Plastic Ono Band couldn't have been named better.

"toad The Wet Sprocket"

Truly absurd but I loved this band back in the day.

(Re-post for clarity!)

Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits

The Cunnin' Lynguists

Lots of weird J-band names, already named so I will head outside these isles:

toad The Wet Sprocket

Meat Loaf

Puffy.

Pussy Riot ...

Flying Around Uranus

NY City Punk Band

Flumpool : "The band's name is derived from the English word "four", since there are four members, they took the first letter "F", along with the word meaning mass, "lump" and the word "pool"."

Hysteric Blue

Orange Range

Sons of All Pussys, abbreviated as S.O.A.P.

and the marvelous Morning Musume

Kis-My-Ft2. You can read it as, "Kiss my feet, too."

The eminently forgettable Kajagoogoo.

Blind Melon

Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits The Cunnin' Lynguists

hide with SPREAD BEAVER

Pretty much anything under Johnny's, but yeah, Bump of Chicken is one of the top. Lot's of foreign bands as well (definitely Dayglo Abortions!), except when they're somewhat self-depricating titles/groups like Gwar or Ween.

Big in Japan

Bread

Chumbawamba

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant

Mr. Children... that name always seemed a bit pedobear-ey to me.

***48

I always though "Kinky Kids" was a lame one.

Goo goo dolls

Dayglo Abortions

Ogre You A**hole.

Plastic Ono Band

Funky Monkey Babies

Sports Music Assemble People.... aka SMAP

Glay. They intended to call themselves "Gray," but misspelled it (true story)

Bump of Chicken