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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| Jamiroquai | Being a Jamiroquai fan and an Australian, I can tell you that I've never heard anyone here use the term "Jamiroquai" as a meaning for 'one hit wonder'. I think the suggestion about the Indians is much more believable. | OZ | ||
| Poison | They started as a cover band called Paris, then one day they heard a preacher on the radio saying how rock n' roll was POISONing the world...so they decided to go with Poison instead of the much queerer...Paris. | acidmilkshake | ||
| Sevendust | You are correct that they picked their name by throwing out random names, and that they used to be called Crawlspace. But Crawlspace was already taken by another band somewhere on the west coast, and they threatnened to sue Sevendust, so they changed it. | Richard McAleer | ||
| Creed | fist they tried the naked todler but they said it scared people so they got the name creed from the definition of creed which means the conffesion of faith scott stapp wanted the name to mean something about him and his life of confussion with faith so he wanted to confess his faith | K Wade | ||
| S Club 7 | The S stands for "Spastics" | Jordan Begley | ||
| Peyote | Many ideas were thrown about and they were all pretty good. David the bass player and main lyricist never did drugs but scored with all the girls. When they offered him pot he said " I only eat Peyote and they laughed and changed the name from Sleaze Alley to Peyote. | papuyo | ||
| Radiohead | Name of a Talking Heads song | bill | ||
| B2K | Boys of the New Millennium.....first they thought of Y2K, then they went thru the alphabet and stopped at B (replacing the "Y" for "B") they came up with B2K. . .Boys of the New Millennium | NeNe | ||
| Limp Bizkit | there guitarist was dunkin his biscuit in his tea and it went "limp" go figure | yob | ||
| Something Corporate | The guys were trying to think of a band name when Josh started to make fun of "corporate" bands, bands that are just in the business to make money. So Andrew, (I think), said they should name the band "something corporate", meaning name the band after an object that had corporate meaning. They just liked the way Something Corporate sounded. | Melissa | ||
| Insane Clown Posse | Their first group name was Inner City Posse, which was a gang Violent j and Shaggy 2 dope were involved in when they lived in Detroit. Members kept dropping out of the gang because the true Detroit city gangs were kicking their a**es. When it was down to just 2 members, j and shaggs, they decided to get out of the gang and start a rap duo. they then changed their name to insane clown posse since they often wore clown make up to their shows | Ninja101 | ||
| Slipknot | The word Slipknot means something like a knot and it can also mean a runner's knee. | Whitla | ||
| Pantera | Definitely nothing to do with Christ. There are a number of reasons quoted by drummer Vinnie Paul, among them their hometown of Pantego, but chief among them is the sports car called Pantera. | Malachi | ||
| Opeth | Was taken from an old sci-fi book Mikael Akerfeldt really liked. In the book, opeth meant "City of the Moon". | Malachi | ||
| ZZ Top | They're from down South, as most of us would know. And they were looking at the back of barn doors, and they noticed the Z's that the doors make. And that's how the name stuck. That's at least what I read in Rolling Stone. | Am | ||
| Silverchair | This is actually a misspelling of A Nirvana Song, and another song called, "Something Chair". When this misspelling happened, they thought that the name had sounded cool, so they kept it. | Am | ||
| Hole | One day Courtney Love was arguing with her mother about something and near the end of it, her mother yelled "Courtney, you can't go through life with a big hole inside of you just because you had a bad childhood!". Hence, the name "Hole" was born. I read this in Courtney's biography by Poppy Z Brite and Courtney also confirmed it in Rolling Stone a few years ago. | RIOTGRRRL | ||
| Limp Bizkit | Anyone familiar with this bands music will agree that the lead singer is oftenly angry and seemingly full of rage. Could the name have come to be because of the cause of all this anger? Perhaps the lead singer has a bit of a problem "down there"? | RIOTGRRRL | ||
| Marilyn Manson | The other explanation here is right, but I just wanted to add that Marilyn Manson also chose this name to enforce the theory that society is only obsessed with two powerful things. | RIOT GRRRL | ||
| N'SYNC | The last letters of the first names of the band members | Shadow Phoenix | ||
| Backstreet Boys | From the Backstreet Market in Orlando, some of the boys' original home. | Shadow Phoenix | ||
| D12 | D12 stands for Detroit 12, since they a) come from Detroit and b)there are 6 of them, but they claim to each have alter egos. | spong_of_the_century | ||
| New Found Glory | Originally called "a new found glory". aparently jordan and one of the other guys worked together and they decided to go into a band with a few other guys from their high school, but they just couldn't think of a name form the band . So one day they decided to write a few random words on paper and put them into a hat and hope what they chose made sense.they drew 4 pieces of paper which read , A NEW FOUND GLORY, in the end they droped the a and just stuck with the neew found glory part. make sense? | AGENT HAVOK | ||
| A Fire Inside | commonly know as AFI. their original name was a fire inside your heart but it then got shortened down to a fire inside and then even shorter to AFI. | AGENT HAVOK | ||
| Linkin Park | Dude, even if they were called Lincoln Park they'd be near Limp Bizkit. The reason that holds most water is cos Lincolnpark.com was taken (although it appears to be free). Maybe they just wanted to be different. | Steve-O | ||
| The Prodigy | The word "prodigy" means to be endowed with exceptional or superior qualities. Obviously their superior ability is their music. I tend to agree with this and feel that it is a very fitting name... And just a note to all you ignorant, annoying grungers/goths/metlers/whatever you want to call yourselves, the prodigy are not a metal or grunge band! Are not, never have been, never will be! They will always be hardcore dance!!! Listen to some of their older songs! | Alex | ||
| Green Day | A green day is a day where you just lay around, have no worries, and do nothing but smoke marijuana and goof off. The band used to smoke pot even more than they do now, hence that is how they chose the name. | Justin | ||
| AC/DC | what the hell does it matter if it was off a sewing machine or vacuum!it means ALTERNATE CURRENT or DIRECT CURRENT!!! your house is ALTERNATE CURRENT meaning that current flows one way then goes the other and DC is DIRECT CURRENT like in a vehicle! from your alternator it is ac and then goes through a diode to change to direct current what your vehicle operates on. | Ryan | ||
| REO Speedwagon | (This is a correction to what's already listed.) From their Behind the Music special | Bren | ||
| Black Sabbath | Actually, Geezer was the Bassist, and Black Sabbath was a real horror movie i.e. full unedited not purchasable in USA | RandyRhoads | ||
| Placebo | Everyone at the time were nameing their bands after drugs, so they decided to name theirs' after one that didn't work. | B-J Warren | ||
| Nirvana | Actually, you are all wrong - for Kurt Cobain, punk-rock was heaven. With his music, punk-rock was the style he was looking for, and as Nirvana is a Buddhist term for Heaven, and a better name for a band, this is the name he (and the other members of the band) decided on. | *girlfromthestars* | ||
| Five | The FIVE members of the band were placed in a hotel room by the record company until they came up with a name that would reflect their artistic flare, after two solid weeks in the room with no outside contact the boys finally emerged to announce that after great deliberation and many alternative names (4&1 - 2&3 - 3&2 - 1&4) they settled for FIVE!!!! | Gezza | ||
| Seven Mary Three | "Seven-Mary-Three" was the radio handle for Ponch and John from C.H.I.P.S. | Tony Sculati | ||
| KoRn | I don't know where the hell you people got that homo story but on WHO, THEN NOW they explain quite clearly that is was randomly devised by........Dave, John, or Feldy (can't remember) | Blackfoot | ||
| Counting Crows | From an old English poem. The first part of the poem is mentioned in the song "Murder of One" "One for sorrow, two for joy, three for girls and four for boys...." | E | ||
| Sting | This is probably wrong but I had a thought. Sting could be a reference to the police tactic of planting evidence on a suspect and observing their reaction (as far as i know). So...The Police-Sting. | RubyTuesday | ||
| Led Zeppelin | The name originated from the British term, "like a lead zeppelin". In other words "like a lead balloon." When asked about the bands performance "How did you go over? if poorly, the answer would be "like a lead zeppelin" | Bryan | ||
| Sum 41 | They called their band this because it was formed on the 41st day of Summer | Amy | ||
| Dexys Midnight Runners | heard this one a nation wide radio show ... Dexadrine ... also known in some circles as Midnight Runners ... speed ... hmmmm | Bo | ||
| Liberty X | They were originally called Liberty, but were taken to caught by the another band, also called "Liberty" so they changed it to Liberty X | WeGirlsAreTooBitchy | ||
| Limp Bizkit | Iit's a game in england where guys gather around a bizkit and try to 'whack' it (if u get what i mean..). whoever whacks it last has to eat it. | Dj | ||
| Simple Plan | They were recording their last demo and were thinking of stupid names and they were thinking of the movie "A Simple Plan". And their plan was to go on tour and travel the world so they thought that was a "Simple Plan" of their own. | Dave | ||
| GlassJAw | Daryl's father was a boxer. He wanted to pick a name that had something to do with boxing and alot of names were already taken. So he decided on glassjaw which is a term in boxing for somebody who is easily knocked out. The capital JA has no significance. | Keva | ||
| Sevendust | Sevendust's original band name was Crawlspace. However. there was another band out there called Crawlspace, and they had a copyright. Since they had a show coming up soon, they needed a band name. While searching through a garage, a can of "Sevindust" was found, and when they changed the spelling a little bit, the name "Sevendust" was born. | Dave Bishop | ||
| Sex Pistols | Actually, they had a manager that named them. He said he wanted them to be dangerous and sexy or soemthing like that so he came up with "Sex Pistols". I heard of that on VH1 or whatever. | Zippy | ||
| Korn | Its from a book that Jonathan Davis read the book was called *kids from the korn* | Dan | ||
| Wings | Paul McCartney fought a lot of harsh criticism to have his wife (Linda) in the band, and given that the name "Wings" came to him while his daughter Stella was being born. Linda had hard difficulties while she was pregnant and Paul had visions of angel?s wings. (from TV-document "the story of Wings"). | Imppa | ||
| The Vines | Craig Nicholls (lead singer and guitarist for the Vines) named the band after a band his father had in the '60s, called the Vynes. | Sean Stapleton | ||
| Fugazi | 'Fugazi' is an acronym for 'F***ed up, got ambushed, zipped in'. It's an acronym used from some war, used in meaning if you were hiding and got ambushed, then zipped up in a body bag. | Sean Stapleton |
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