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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| Fugazi | Don't think the band knew it, but the band marillion named an album 'fugazi' years before the band started. | elroy | ||
| Four Tops | They were originally the Four Aims, but an early producer (years before they were signed by Motown and became legends in the Sixties) told them they couldn't use the name, because they would be confused with the white pop group the Ames Brothers. The producer asked where they got the name. They said, "We're aiming for the top." So the producer suggested "The Four Tops." It took a while, but the rest is history. | Michael Pacholek | ||
| Bubba Sparxxx | Born and Raised in Georgia. He was always the youngest, running around, getting dirty. His family started calling him Bubba. Like, "Bubba, get yo' ass in the tub." He also thought, "What better name for a white dude from the South than Bubba?" Sparxxx is the hip-hop side. Like, "Let's spark it." The xxx is the unknown variables, expect the unexpected. | Wolveroses | ||
| Brides of Destruction | Nikki Sixx, bass player in Brides of Destruction (also Motley Crue), said in an interview that they didn't use their first name pick, Cockstar, because record company CEOs didn't like it, second pick Motordog was taken, and "Brides of Destruction is about the coolest name since Lords of the New Church." | Marianne | ||
| ArnoCorps | Inspired by the emotional vocal delivery from bands in the genre of "Emo-Core". The band writes and sings songs about Arnold movies, so they called their music "Arno-Core". On-stage presence includes commando fatigues and a militaristic theme, so the phonetically identical word "Corps" was substituted for "Core". ArnoCorps!! | Chet | ||
| OMC | Famous for the summer anthem "How Bizarre", OMC named it's group after where they were from, Olitaire, New Zealand. Being the only people from this very impoversed city to ever make decent money, OMC stands for Olitaire Millionaire's Club. | Phat Tuesday | ||
| The Lit-Up Goose | The band was hanging out in one of the member's basement, looking through a pile of old toys, when they found a plastic goose that would light-up when you push a button on it ... and The Lit-Up Goose was born ... | alchemist | ||
| Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy | Stephen was nicknamed Tin Tin cause he looked like main character in the the comic of the same name. He still does. | Stace | ||
| Supertramp | Taken from W.H.Davies' book " The Autobiography Of A Supertramp" published in 1910. | Bun | ||
| Celibate Rifles | Their name is a play on the Sex Pistols. | sanraab | ||
| Sativa Luv Box | Ex-member of the band Kommunity FK named his new band after a certain part of his girlfriends anatomy | sanraab | ||
| A*Teens | They were originally going to be called the ABBA Teens, but they also wanted to sing other kinds of songs besides ABBA, so they changed it to just A*Teens. | Robert Poole | ||
| Wheatus | Brendan, Peta and Liz were all called 'Wedus' by their dad when they were kids so Brendan modified it | Me | ||
| PYT | A lot of people think their name means "Pretty young things", but they said on their official website that it means "Prove yourself true" | ishbufallon | ||
| Small Faces | The lead singer was looking through a magazine which had an article on insects. And he happenned to comment that the brazilian cockroach depicted in the picture had an extremely small face and a large pair of bollocks. So two days later they decided to call the group the cockroaches bollox but later decided to call themselves the small faces. | Gary Reynolds | ||
| Stabbing Westward | Stabbing Westward shows up in history books as being the name givin to the movement of the american settlers as they slughtered the native indians in their westward path towards california in search of gold and land. Hence the stabbing of indians while traveling westward. | Brandon | ||
| Jamiroquai | An Australian term for "one hit wonder" im australian, and no. not as far as ive ever heard. | undone | ||
| Cast | because john power always wanted a band named cast - it could be casting off something or casting something new. interestingly, the last word on the last song of the la's album. | foz | ||
| Led Zeppelin | (I can't believe I am the first to post this!) when Jimmy Page was re-organizing the "Yardbirds" and calling the band the "New-Yardbirds",Page was disscusing the details and of the new members of the band with his friend Keith Moon. At one point in thier conversation moon had replied "that will go over like an led zeppelin",and the rest is history! | musicmaker0128 | ||
| Shoes | Named by the band's bassist, John Murphy. His brother Jeff told me that it was picked simply because it was something common. Many believe that the band picked this name because the Beatles, when asked why they picked their name, said that they could have called themselves the Shoes. Well, the Beatles indeed said that, but the guys in Shoes (never has been a 'the" in front of their moniker) weren't familiar with this quip and were later startled, and pleasantly surprised, by it. | Rick Gregory | ||
| ZZ Top | The band picked this name so that their records would always be last in a record store (who's gonna beat ZZ?), making it easier for fans to find them. | Joshua Self | ||
| Led Zeppelin | The band name came from a reference that someone made that they thought the band would go over like a LEAD ZEPPELIN. It was shortened to LED Zeppelin. | JRK | ||
| Erasure | Erasure confirmed in a interview on a local station in Houston during the Spring of 1994 that they sent their demo to a record company to be reviewed, and since they had chosen 'Erasure' as their name..and without any other identifying markings, it was tossed in a bin for 'Erasure' | melshgeek | ||
| New Order | Depending on how you look at it, on 1993's New Order Story video, Barney and Gillian cast jokes about the Nazi reference thing, but then got serious and said that they looked at the name as a logical thing | melshgeek | ||
| Little River Band | They originaly named themselves Mississippi, but were told that their name sounded too American. So they changed it to The Little River Band. | Rich | ||
| Insane Clown Posse | They originally had 3 members, Shaggy 2 Dope, Violent J, and Violent J's brother, they were the Inner City Posse. When J's brother left to pursue another career, they changed their name. | Juggalo | ||
| Wings | When Paul McCartney's wife Linda, was giving birth to their second child together, Stella, it was a more difficult birth than thier first child Mary. Paul recalled interviews, that he was sitting there praying, and he had a vision of angels' wings, and he thought, "Ah, what a comforting image.... Wings" and he decided to name his newly formed band after this vision! | Maccamaniac | ||
| Jethro Tull | Jethro Tull was the man who invented the seed drill. A sad, pointless fact I learned studying the industrial revolution in sophmore world history, his contributions revolutionized farming and blah de blah, the industrialized world we live in today. Why they picked to name their band after a farming mechanic from the 1880's escapes me | luc | ||
| Depeche Mode | this name was introduced by David Gahan when he joined the band once called Composition Of Sound whose members were Vincent Clarke, Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher. He took it by a french magazine dealing with fashion. Everybody thinks that its meaning is "fast fashion" but David explained that its real meaning is "news about fashion". | Mrs_Gahan | ||
| 311 | Actually, 311 is what the cops wrote on the ticket when one of P-Nut's friends was arrested for skinny-dipping in Omaha. They also have a bunch of other explanations. Like in mythology, 3 is man and 11 is magic, so "male magic". And they used to say that 3 minutes and 11 seconds is the perfect length for a song. There's no ONE explanation. | pixie | ||
| Biffy Clyro | When at school, the boys had a pen with Cliff Richard on it, so they called it 'Cliffy Biro'. One drunken night, one of them messed up his words and said 'Biffy Clyro'...and that name just stuck! | Laura G | ||
| insane clown posse | The duo was originally called Inner City Posse, but when Violent J claimed that he was visited by the Dark Carnival, they changed their name to Insane Clown Posse because they thought it would help them relay the messages of the Dark Carnival | april | ||
| Led Zeppelin | When they were first starting out, one of the people at the record label said that they would go down like a lead zeppelin, so they changed it into Led Zeppelin | Obsidi0n | ||
| Pink Floyd | I was in London in 1966-67 and had friends in a multilevel brownstone house--a commune, really--at 101 Cromwell Road in southwest London. The house had two cats, Pink and Floyd, and I was told that it was from the cats that Pink Floyd got its name. I didn't believe the story until I went to a swarming psychedelic party at the house and members of Pink Floyd showed up. That convinced me. I've since heard that Pink Floyd took its name from the first names of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. I've wondered whether the cats weren't originally named after Anderson and Council, but I'm quite certain that the group more immediately took its name from the cats. | Rick Abrams | ||
| The Band | They could think of nothing better to call themselves. | Aaerni | ||
| REM | the name rem stands for Rapid Eye Movements, which you aparently have a lot of when you are dreamingso REM is about dreams! | abi | ||
| Chevelle | The members of Chevelle are brothers, whose father passed away, so they named their band after his favorite car, a Chevelle. | Pdog | ||
| Salmon | In an interview a few years ago with their hometown paper The Gilroy Dispatch (in California) one member was quoted as saying when they were on the phone talking to one another instead of asking "ya have the weed" they would say "ya have the salmon" Hence the name Salmon | barry meyer | ||
| Slipknot | has to do with suicide !u tie the knot in the wrope and slip off the chair SLIPKNOT! | god | ||
| AFI | Stands for "A Fire Inside" Represents the feeling inside when you hold in your emotions. | Dave Taillon | ||
| 311 | Actually 311 is from Nebraska. "311" is police radio code for indecent exposure-- used pretty much everywhere. | Justin Rhodes | ||
| Thin Lizzy | I read this in an old interview years ago, but Thin Lizzy was another nickname for "Long" Liz Stride, a victim of Jack the Ripper. Thin Lizzy later wrote a song about Jack the Ripper (Killer on the Loose) on their "Chinatown" LP. | Ken | ||
| Poe | Annie Danielewski dressed up as Edgar Allen Poe for a Halloween party with her parents. The name Poe stuck. | Avery | ||
| Bad Religion | Point blank, the lead singer Greg Graffin said they were young and just wanted to piss people off because they were an angry young punk band. | Avery | ||
| 311 | This band is from Omaha, Nebraska, not Florida | bill tuttle | ||
| Queensryche | Their EP, featuring Queen of the Reich was released and it took off, so the band, pressed for time, had to decide on a name. Queensryche was created from the song title, and the name has stuck ever since. Contrary to a comment elsewhere on amiright.com, it has nothing to do with a gay dictatorship. | Stu Cazzo | ||
| Pantera | Early 70's Italian sports car with US Ford engine, made by coachbuilder DeTomaso. | ISurvivedThe70s | ||
| Toto | The rock band name was named after Dorothy's pet dog from the movie "Wizard Of Oz". Named by the late, great Jeff Porcaro. | Mike Hack | ||
| Down/phil anselmo | it was the depressing down feeling Phil anselmo came up with the name | richard b long | ||
| Soilent Green | the named there band after a sci-fi movie from back in the day called soilent green | jack frost |
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