here's a few:

velvet revolver
talking heads
yes
death cab for cutie
relient k
hoobastank
goo goo dolls
barenaked ladies
yeah yeah yeahs
the the (wtf)
the band
hootie and the blowfish (anyone who seriously likes this name is gay)
dead kennedys
los lonely boys
hed(pe) or however its spelled
to rococo rot (just my opinion)
boy sets fire
seether
mudvayne
jet
anything with ... before it cuz its so frickin annoying to say
really long band names for the same reason

I know there are a ton more but thats all i can think of

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Originally posted by LordSmoogsbottomIII:
hootie and the blowfish (anyone who seriously likes this name is gay)

Thank you for informing me.

My list:

Meat Puppets
Broken Social Scene
::thinkstandard::
Butthole Surfers(probably the worst ever)
Bloodhound Gang
I love You but I've Chosen Darkness
Goo Goo Dolls
Panic! At The Disco
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Death From Above 1979
Harvey Danger
Ladytron
Les Savy Fav(i can't say this name without sounding like an asshole)
Living Things
Nine Inch Nails
The New Pornographers("mom, I want to see the New Pornographers in March" - not fun)
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Say Hi To Your Mom
Sunset Rubdown
Korn
Mott The Hoople
Death Cab For Cutie
most rappers come up with some dumb names.
and every stupid, angsty emo name ever.

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Also, any full-sentence band-name is terrible.

falloutboy-what the hell does that mean

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Originally posted by jasminishot:
falloutboy-what the hell does that mean

I'm sure that's from the Simpsons.

Fall Out Boy is comic book hero Radioactiveman's sidekick, which Milhouse is cast to play in the movie version.

The Smashing Pumpkins

That Darknes LMAO. I mean c'mon The Darkness...ooooh

hmm i kinda like the name the darkness

here are some i dont like:
Maroon 5
Panic! at the disco
Bands named after places (boston, chicago)
AFI
Thursday
Flyleaf
HIM
Ashley Parker Angel (sounds like a girl, i know, but it's actually a guy)
Velvet Revolver
All the misspelled rap group names are getting pretty old
Coheed and Cambria
I love you but ive chosen darkness
The pussycat dolls

New bad name:
Arctic Monkies

Still good names:
Butthole surfers
Fall Out boy (simpsons fame)

Anyone catch that VH1 show "Supergroup"? They get Ted Nugent, Sebastian Bach, Jason Bonham, and some other guy (excuse my ignorance) to be in a band together.
Bad ideas they had:
God War
Savage Beast
What they settled on (the worst offender):
DAMNOCRACY.
To paraphrase Larry the Cable Guy, I don't care who ya are, that's terrible right there.

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Originally posted by Tenacious Z:
Anyone catch that VH1 show "Supergroup"? They get Ted Nugent, Sebastian Bach, Jason Bonham, and some other guy (excuse my ignorance) to be in a band together.
Bad ideas they had:
God War
Savage Beast
What they settled on (the worst offender):
DAMNOCRACY.
To paraphrase Larry the Cable Guy, I don't care who ya are, that's terrible right there.

Damnocracy is pretty bad, but I'm not sure it's worse than Godwar. Either way, you'd think five (I'm assuming they're pretty creative) guys could come up with something better.

The fifth guy is Evan Seinfeld from Biohazard, who also doubles as porn-star Tera Patrick's husband and pimp.

hawthorne heights. WTF does that mean!?

Talk Talk is an interesting name to say the least but I do have to say Laughing Stock is a beautiful album.

Maybe this doesn't fit so well in the Rock category, but I think "Say Hi to Your Mom" is about the lamest band name EVER.

"Clap Your Hands Say Yeah," that name prevented me from buying their great album for months because I thought that it would be similar to another horribly named group, "the Go! Team." however, both bands I am into now.

Also, bands that repeat a word of phrase in their name: "Man Man" and "Chin Up Chin Up" come to mind.

Both are good bands though, and I'm thinking of other bands that I love also have terrible names, such as Wolf Parade, and The Arcade Fire.

Moral: don't judge a book by it's cover, don't judge a band by it's name.

My Favorite Band name of all time goes to Yo La Tengo! It's such a kickass name!

TV on the Radio is a cool name....

It's funny I was thinking Godspeed You! Black Emporer was one of the worst names. I'll say Destroyer and Death Cab just because I expected hard rock from the name. Ester Drang because I can't remember that. Spank Rock because, while it doesn't focus a lot on the gluttimus maximus, there is no rock. Centro-Matic? WTF. Girl Talk made me wanna run away from the Album fast. And finally, FINAL FANTASY. I don't want to think about a dumb videogame that has nothing to do with this guy's musical prowess. It's really annoying.

Most of the names listed here I don't have a problem with, but I gotta agree with Say Hi To Your Mom.

Worse than anything I've seen, though, is I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business. God, that's awful.

Also, one of my favorite bands had an awful name: Songs: Ohia.

Pitchfork's newest Best New Music entry is called 'I'm from Barcelona.' I dunno about that one either.