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There's no telling if Van Halen would have still become one of the most successful rock acts of the 1980s if they had settled on their original choice of band name, "Rat Salad."
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A number of other famous bands initially intended to go by names that were equally questionable or cringe-worthy.
From the banal "On a Friday" (Radiohead) to the offensive "The Young Aborigines" (The Beastie Boys), we turned to a comprehensive Billboard article on the subject for this list of some of the many terrible names that bands wisely avoided.
Here are the 19 worst original band names of famous bands:
