Rocky Road: Only the girl-band from Nashville is upfront with their band's name... by kootenay

The rest they sort of named themselves after whatever they can think of, with which didn't set well with the critics or even with their fans....

1. If you're heard their music on the radio you'd know that B.C.'s The New Pornographers are as inoffensive as they come, but that didn't stop them from being kicked off a bill to play at a Michigan college in 2010 because of their name. (QMI Agency/Ernest Doroszuk)

2. The Butthole Surfers' name was initially a song title, but the story goes that an announcer at a show called them that after forgetting their name, and it stuck. (Wikimedia Commons)

3. Classic political punk band the Dead Kennedys needs to be on this list. Hasn't that poor family been through enough? (Wikimedia Commons)

4. Artsy alt rock band ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead have definitely ruffled some feathers, though I think the needlessly long name part is more irksome. (Wikimedia Commons)

5. Nashville Pussy -- what is there to say? (Jenny Feniak/QMI Agency)

6. Post-rock geniuses Explosions in the Sky were met with controversy in Boise, Idaho, last year when they were billed to play a show on September 11. (Wikimedia Commons)

7. Between their logo and the name, it's easy to see why Bad Religion has offended some. (ERROL MCGIHON/QMI AGENCY)

8. The name Porno for Pyros, the band which rose from the ashes of Jane's Addiction, has reportedly been connected to the L.A. riots and a fireworks ad in a porn magazine. (Handout)

9. What Fred Durst was thinking, we'll never know, but Limp Bizkit can refer both to a flaccid penis and a game where men ejaculate onto a biscuit, according to Urban Dictionary. (WENN.com)

10. Seminal punks The Circle Jerks, however, made the original 'limp biscuit' reference. (Handout)

11. It's an uphill battle being in a band with the F-word in the title. Just ask Toronto's F-- Up, Holy F--- or Ottawa's F-- the Facts. (Wikimedia Commons)

12. Remember 1997's swing revival hit "Zoot Suit Riot"? The Cherry Poppin' Daddies win the award for sleaziest band name ever. (Wikimedia Commons)

13. Not for the faint of heart, Canada's own Barenaked Ladies. (Handout)

14. Probably the most reviled well-known band name is Anal C--, but they get points for consistency because their material is similar in tone. (Wikimedia Commons)

15. Steely Dan has confirmed the band was named after a vibrator in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch. (Mark O'Neill/QMI Agency)

16. Toronto hardcore punk band Cancer Bats'name sounds like it was supplied by the anti-tobacco lobby, but they were thinking more along literal lines (i.e., a bat that gives you cancer). Apparently some people think it's a baseball-based cancer charity.

17. To the disappointment of mothers everywhere, The Killers were named after the logo on the bass drum of a fake band in the video for new Order's "Crystal," according to Rolling Stone. (Handout)

18. Post-punk pioneers Joy Division got their name from the Nazis sex slavery of Jewish women in concentration camps as depicted in the novella House of Dolls. (QMI Agency files)

19. Marilyn Manson and the earlier members of his band got their stage names by taking the first name of a glamour icon and the last of a serial killer. (DB/WENN.com