Guitar World recently offered up a list of the “Top 10 Stupidest Band Names of All Time” and I gotta say, it doesn’t look like they put a lot of thought into it, like someone had a good idea but didn't use enough brain power to carry it out properly. Here's the list:

1. The Beatles

2. Limp Bizkit

3. Boy Parts – Throbbing Gristle, Revolting Cocks, Iron Sausage

4. Girl Parts – Nashville Pussy, Bush, Pussy Galore, Hot Tuna

5. Scatological Names – Butthole Surfers, Fudge Tunnel, Butt Trumpet

6. Place Names – Nantucket, Boston, New York City, Europe, Asia, Chicago, Wakefield, Landale

7. Yes

8. Toto

9. The Presidents of the United States of America

10. The Band

First off, it’s not even an authentic Top 10 (see numbers 3 through 6). Second, The Beatles? You're a writer at a marginally well-known rag that covers music, solely, all the time, and you can't come up with a better bad band name than The Beatles? And you stick it up top, in the number one slot, as if to say it's the worst band name of all time, even though the list is supposed to be in no particular order. And if it really is in no particular order — The Beatles were the first band you thought of? Really? I don't want to judge, but I am. So I've made my own highly subjective, somewhat thoughtful list of awful band names in response. In no particular order:

This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2009.