Fan of the show, and cryptic emailer, John, reminded me of this embarrassingly effective formula for judging a Ska band solely by their name. Adam Coozer’s list of violations goes a bit far, but his talent for creating phony shitty ska band names is where this link really shines. It’s as if MAD Magazine was sending up Ska.
Here’s just a few of my favorites, but you should check out the whole post at ReadJunk. Link
International Pancake House of Rhythm
The Go Go Bots
Jerks Like Us
Obi-Wan Ska-Nobi
The Skinhead Oi 2Tone 10 Year Olds
The Honda Accords
Mento Commercials
Skinhead Kickboxer 7
Spider Nick & the Italians
The Utah Mormon Ska-Crap Ensemble
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Doh. Guess we chose a shitty band name for our band :-) Has “tone” in it… to our defense, it was already a name with a “tone” in it and we didn’t make it up.
Anyhoo, my favourites are:
The Defecators
And we almost chose “The Syncopaters”. Glad we didn’t! :-)
But that assessment can’t be always true…
I mean… Dave Hillyard and the Magnifidude 7… they’re not crap, are they? :)
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 am
That article is hilarious. In 1995 or 1996, Jafo and I came up with the name for a bad ska band (or maybe OI!, I don’t remember) that followed Adam’s rules almost exactly. It was called “Skinhead Abby and the Route 69ers.” (Which reminds me, at one point some of the ‘Voovies recorded an as-yet unreleased Oi song once [as the Newcastle Stompers] called “Down at the Pub.” It’s sucktastically excellent.)
I think my favorite band name in that list is “Punch the Band.” However, I can think of one band with a SUPER unfortunate name that was actually pretty good–”Shrimp Skampi and the Skallops” from Philly. Terrible name (I think they changed it), but not at all a band band (I think they chose their name when they were really, really young).
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
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July 22nd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
I have found what I believe to be the worst band name ever imagined, and it happens to be a ska band. Allow me to present to you Llama Tsunami & the Without Helmet!
http://www.myspace.com/llamatsunami
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I have to say i like llama tsunami. It makes you think twice, and shows that naming a Ska band is an art. When i think of a llama in a tsunami, i can really enjoy the band’s creativity
December 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Come to Germany sometime, hehehe…
talk about shitty ska band names, JESUS!!!
Granted, some of the bands arent bad, just the names, like,
ska face
ratatuska
skaski and hutch
ska-rab
not to mention a czech ska band, the dices, whom I think the irony was lost on, as they couldnt speak english…