Super winners … and losers
The 10 best and worst local band names of the past 30 years
The best …
Land of the Wee Beasties
Fat Chick From Wilson Phillips
The Dik Diks
Deathstar
La Fin du Monde
Nothing Rhymes With Orange
Birds of Fire
Kick ’em
The Abominable Iron Sloth
Bitchin’ Collegiates
… and the worst
Jordhuga
Treebeard
5 Cattle Butt
Parangatang
MADMOM
Ten Pound Brown
Red With Envy
Road Raisin
Vomit Launch
Socially Retarded
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