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Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| HP. Lovecraft | Named after the reclusive horror writer by the same name | Bobo | ||
| Huge Arthur | Huge Arthur was the name of one of the freaks in the credits of the movie "Basket Case 2." | Milsna | ||
| Huka | From the Native American phrase meaning "I am not afraid" or simply "Fearless". | johnblues | ||
| Human Error | After a year of cycling through bad band names, the group decided on naming it Human Error, because one of the members' sister suggested it and they were out of ideas. | Will | ||
| Human League | they got there name from the uk comic 2000ad which featured Judge Dredd. In one Dredd story the human league were a band of civilians who hated robots and used to smash them up | scottian | ||
| Human League | After briefly considering ABCD, they chose The Human League, a name taken from a science-fiction board game called "Star Force". Martyn Ware: "There were all these scenarios in the back for various wars in the future, and one of these, for a stage 'round about 2180, where there were two main empires - The Pansantient Hegemony and The Human League. The Human League centred around Earth and the scenario was called The Rise Of The Human League. So we stole it." (source: http://blindyouth.co.uk/) | Eric Svoboda | ||
| Human League | The first band to go #1 on the US charts with syntho-pap took its name from a video game set of characters. | Khalil | ||
| Humble Pie | From the phrase, "eating humble pie", which meant either "to apologize" or "accept defeat". The band chose that moniker to escape the media tag of "supergroup". | oldschool | ||
| Hundred Reasons | The drummer and lead singer were meeting up to go out some where. One picked the other up from a leisure center in his car. (I forget which way round). As they were leaving they noticed a poster reading, "A thousand reasons to swim regularly". The band decided that Hundred Reasons sounded better. | John Barry | ||
| Huns & Dr. Beeker | Jon Hunsbusher, nickname Huns, and Eric Erickson, nicknamed Dr. Beeker from an old television adventure series. Incredibly talented duo! | Chris Impens | ||
| Huphter | It's the music version of Hustler Magazine. | GB | ||
| Husker Du | This Minneapolis band took their name from a Danish board game, name translates into "do you remember?" | Buck | ||
| Husker Du | It's both Danish and Norwegian for "Do you remember?", and was the name of a board game in the 70s. | rocky | ||
| Husker Du | Wasn't it from Swedish rather than Danish. But then these Scandinavian tongues all sound the same to me... | Dave Doughnut | ||
| Husker Du | Husker du is danish or norwegian. Not swedish. If they would have taken there name from Sweden they rather would have been "Minns Du" than "Husker Du". | Dingo | ||
| Husker Du | I happen to have a book on band name origins and Husker Du in fact is Scandinavian for "Do You Remember?" It's from a children's board game! | Alana | ||
| The Hype | It is prison slang from inmates and it means the leathel injection for death row. | cezar | ||
| Hyuna | From her name Kim Hyun-A, a former member of the Korean girl band Wonder Girls | Robert D. Arndt Jr. | ||
| Hüsker Dü | It was a product seen only on TV, only in the winter. It was not sold in any store: it was a snow sled with a seat attached to it. | Tim Horrigan | ||
| Hüsker Dü | Originally without umlaut. The name Husker Du was taken from a DANISH board game. It's translated to "Do you remember?". | Marie V.T. | ||
| Hüsker Dü | The band was looking for a name, and asked a Norwegian rocker about the worst expression in Norwegian. He replied "Husker du", meaning "do you remember?". It's also a name of a TV program for pensioners. | Anders Frihagen |
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