Unless you’re willing to name your band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, it is difficult to avoid the dilemma of being hard to Google. Imagine pouring all of your sweat and energy into a band name, only to see your MySpace and Wikipedia pages stranded in some soulless Google Siberia below a corporation website or porn. Final Fantasy apparently ran into this problem many times; Owen Pallet recently lost the stage name in order to avoid confusion with the popular video game series.
A few bits of advice: No animal names, especially birds. Geography is not cool. Sports equipment, household tools, food items, body parts, and abstract emotional concepts are also dangerous Google territory. Finally, steer clear of any name with a hint of sexual innuendo. You never know what might pop up when you search for Girls, XX, or Junior Boys.
Read our list of the most annoying and difficult bands to Google after the jump.
1. !!!
2. Air
3. Air France
4. Alabama
5. America
6. Battles
7. Beach House
8. Beirut
9. Booker T.
10. Boris
11. Brainiac
12. Broadcast
13. Burial
14. Can
15. Caribou
16. Chic
17. Cinderella
18. Clinic
19. Cream
20. Cursive
21. Delorean
22. Doves
23. The Drums
24. Earth
25. Elbow
26. Europe
27. Final Fantasy
28. Flipper
29. Genesis
30. Girls
31. Grizzly Bear
32. HEALTH
33. High Places
34. Hole
35. Illinois
36. Interpol
37. Javelin
38. jj
39. Joker
40. Justice
41. Kansas
42. Liars
43. Lightning Bolt
44. Lush
45. Meat Loaf
46. My Bloody Valentine
47. The National
48. Panda Bear
49. Parliament
50. Pavement
51. Love
52. Phoenix
53. Poison
54. The Postal Service
55. Real Estate
56. Rush
57. Scientists
58. Sleep
59. Smog
60. Spoon
61. Suede
62. Suicide
63. Swans
64. T. Rex
65. Television
66. Tool
67. Underworld
68. The Very Best
69. Why?
70. Wire
71. Wives
72. Woods
73. Women
74. X
75. XX
76. YACHT
77. Yes
Did we miss any?
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but all you have to do is add “band” in the end: XX band
How about “The The”?
hahahahaha love it.
except for !!! all you need to do is add “band” to any of the above. magic.
Brazilian Girls always brings up lots of fun images
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This is great. How’s about: Lemonade, Yuck, Summer Camp, Horse Shoes, Princeton, Fiction, Stagecoach, Body Language
beach house has given me to much trouble.
also, it is pretty much impossible to find grizzly bear t-shirts. all that comes up are actual grizzly bear t-shirts, which are awesome in their own right, but not what i am looking for.
Discovery! Awful.
I vote for “Adult.”
i remember looking through Google found nothing harder than the music, from leeds, uk
sarahana thanks for the tip
Chicago
- American Football
- Drunk
- Rex (with album names like “Rex” or “3″ or “C”) this one is a killer
- Low
- Spain
- American Music Club (actually easy to google, but good name for the list…)
*sigh* :))
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the black. you can’t even type band alongside because you still get. The black eyed peas. black sabbath. and the black lips. It’s quite annoying to find them.
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