Comments on: How to Spot a Shitty Ska Band Name

By: howie bledsoe

howie bledsoe — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:33:10 +0000

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…

By: arlene

arlene — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:00:15 +0000

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

By: Matt Wixson

Matt Wixson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:57:36 +0000

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

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By: DTN

DTN — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:44 +0000

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).

By: brem

brem — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:05:50 +0000

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? :)