Best Band Name: Maggot Twat
Best Band Name
The Reader’s Choice: Maggot Twat
I’ve been compiling the Reader’s music listings long enough for “best band name” and “worst band name” to have become basically mirror-image categories for me. I admit I rarely find myself impressed with a name because it gracefully reflects a band’s aesthetic or creates a provocative poetic juxtaposition—the names that stick with me are the awful, raunchy, or ridiculous ones. Telling your 82-year-old great-aunt over Thanksgiving dinner that your band’s name is Slutbarf takes guts, and I appreciate that. In the course of my job I’ve found several worthy candidates—the exuberantly incoherent Lasers and Fast and Shit, the sketch-showy Let’s Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop—but after careful consideration my vote goes to comedic thrash-metal duo Maggot Twat. No other band in the city can match the blunt ugliness of their name—and song titles like “A Vampire Bit My Balls” and “I Fucked a Train” seal the deal. 
maggottwat.com. —Kevin Warwick
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