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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| Pantera | Spanish for panther. | Syph0n | ||
| Oingo Boingo | I read once that Oingo Boingo actually is Swahili for 'Dancing While Thinking'. I have yet to personally confirm this as I am not acquainted with anyone fluent in Swahili. | Kahlo | ||
| Nine Days | This is how long it took the band to make their first album. | drummerboy | ||
| Glass Onion | The original band name of Travis, taken from an old Beatles song. | Andy Dunlop | ||
| 10cc | The popular explanation is that the average amount of male ejaculation is 9cc, and that of course the band members were greater than the average man. Actually, the REAL story is that producer Jonathan King had a dream where one of his bands had hit #1 on both the album and single charts, and the name of the band was 10cc. | plasket | ||
| T-Boz | The "T" stands for Tionne, her name, and "Boz" stands for boss. "Tionne is being the boss". She was always bossing around people and was called "The Boss". One time she and some friends did some graffiti and they came up with "T-Boz". | SaRiZ | ||
| Left Eye | Left Eye got her nick name from a guy that told her that her left eye was prettier than her right eye. "I'm Left Eye cause the eye is right". | SaRiZ | ||
| Chilli | To keep the name of the group (TLC) after Chrystal got kicked out, they re-named Rozonda to "Chilli". She's saucin' it up. | SaRiZ | ||
| U.P.O | It stands for ultra pure overload | Punky | ||
| Ned's Atomic Dustbin | They were named after an "Atomic Dustbin" belonging to a Goon Show (BBC Radio show) character called Neddy Seagoon (Ned) Played by the late Harry Secombe. Apparently Jonn Penney (lead singer) remebers it from his childhood as his mum was a big fan of the Goon Show. | Lozwalker | ||
| Sixpence None the Richer | It actually comes, from the C. S. Lewis book, "Mere Christianity" - that's according to Leigh Nash evrytime they're asked the question. | kalrysta | ||
| Papa Roach | They stated on MTV's TRL that they chose the name because the lead singer's gandfather's name was Roach (pronounced Ro-ach 2 syllables)and he was his "papa" so to speak. They named thier band in memorial to him. | Dan The Man | ||
| Just William | A band from Perth, Western Australia. they were interveiwed in local radio. they said that thier lead singer has the same birthday as John Lennon, who's favourite books had a character called Just William | djurti_jhokson | ||
| Bush | The real story is that there is a park near Gavin Rossdales house in London called Shepherds Bush. | Chris | ||
| East 17 | It's not after a particular street, but after their postcode (UK equivalent of a ZIP code). | Jenny Turner | ||
| Enya | A phonetic spelling of her first name, Eithne. | Jenny Turner | ||
| The KLF | An all-purpose set of initials. Originally they were going to change what it stood for on each release, but they only got as far as "Kopyright Liberation Front" then gave up and just stuck to the three letters instead. | Jenny Turner | ||
| New Order | From a newspaper article about the "new order of architecture". | Jenny Turner | ||
| Frankie Goes To Hollywood | From an old newspaper headline about Frankie Vaughn (not, as many people assume, Frank Sinatra). | Jenny Turner | ||
| Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine | From a friend of the group called Carter who reckoned he was... well, you can fill in the rest, I'm sure. | Jenny Turner | ||
| Right Said Fred | This was indeed the title of a Bernard Cribbins hit. It's also a play on the names of the brothers who front the band, Richard and Fred ("Richard" sounds a bit like "Right Said"... not a lot, I grant you, but just enough). | Jenny Turner | ||
| Blink | The group who had the name originally (and forced the other Blink to add 182 to their name) got it from a Cocteau Twins song. | Jenny Turner | ||
| Queen | I was watching a show and they asked how Queen picked there name. They said they picked because alot of people in countries would understand it. | **JEANETTE** | ||
| Styx | It's from the mythlogical river in the underworld. | **JEANETTE** | ||
| Nirvana | Kurt eventually came up with this name after going through several other options: Pen Cap Chew, Poo Poo Box, The Incompetent Fools, Pukearrhea, and such. | Emily | ||
| ZZ TOP | I read once it was was actually to recreate the BB-King name feeling. 2 same letters + word. | Fred | ||
| Foreigner | Actually. Lou Gramm(atico) is from ROCHESTER NY, not New Rochelle. | Dr. Bristol | ||
| Chubby Checker | A takeoff on the then-popular Fats Domino. | Dr. Bristol | ||
| Travis | That "cabdriver from Hollywood" was actually the Robert DeNiro character from the movie TAXI DRIVER. (that's like calling Godzilla "some lizard from Japan!) | Dr. Bristol | ||
| Notorious B.I.G | His original name was "Biggie Smalls." However, his name had to be changed because of another unknown rapper, who never succeded in the industry,had that name first. Therefore, Puffy had it changed to Notorious BIG. | Funk Doctor | ||
| U2 | U-2 (Utility 2) is an American plane developed by sailplane enthusiasts at Bell Aircraft (NY) after suggestion by American infantryman in Korea to build a light, efficient plane that would (they hoped) fly above SAM altitude. Prior to completion, concept was commandeered by Clarence "Kelly" Johnson and finished by Lockheed (CA). It's nothing to do with Germans. | David Lewis | ||
| Green Apple Quick Step | 1970s slang for diarrhea | David Lewis | ||
| Fleetwood Mac | According to Mick Fleetwood's autobiography, from label on demo tape container "Fleetwood-MacVie" The lead guitarist slot was experiencing turnover and Lindsay Buckingham/Stevie Nicks hadn't joined yet | David Lewis | ||
| Savage Garden | They got the name from the Anne Rice book 'Interview with a Vampire', not from 'Vampire Lestat', if you've read the book you'd know. | S.G's #1 fan | ||
| 1910 Fruitgum Company | As the story goes, the group was named by Frank Jeckell after finding an old bubble gum wrapper while going through an old trunk in the attic. | Bobo | ||
| Pantera | I very much doubt that Pantera picked their name because it was Spanish for Panther. Some older Jewish texts hold that Jesus was not immaculately concieved and was instead the illegitamate son of a Roman soldier named Pantera. I'm pretty sure this is where the band got its name. | Daewoo | ||
| Sixpence None the Richer | Reported by Leigh Nash : "It's from Mere Christianity ( by C.S. Lewis) and there's a story where a child asks hisfather for a sixpence to buy his father a gift. The father gives the son the money and is happy with the gift that he gets. But he realizes that he’s not any richer, because he gave the child the money in the first place. So C.S. Lewis is comparing that to his belief that God gave us the gift that we have. And that’s to serve in the way that we should. We should be humble about it and know where the gifts came from." | Nicole | ||
| The Flaming Lips | Named after either, a drug reference, porn movie, or a dream from one of the band members that had a flaming kiss. | Eoj | ||
| N'SYNC | The 'N' is from Lance, whose name is James LanceteN Bass. Lanceten is his middle name, not a nickname. | Suzanne | ||
| Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts (TOFOG) | When shooting "Virtuosity' Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington had to record over and over some dialogues, cause they always screwed up laughing or caughing or talking bullshit when doing it. So, the tape was so long that Russell got the idea for his band | lilica | ||
| ABBA | It was simply named after the band members.. Benny, Bjorn, Agatha and Aunty Mary. | Wink | ||
| HIM | Stands for His Infernal Majesty. | DamRho | ||
| Sepultura | Sepultura is the portuguese word for "Grave", or a place where people are to be buried. | DamRho | ||
| U2 | It's the emigration form for their homeland. | Mark M. Young | ||
| King Adora | Being the irriverantly smutty young men they are, King Adora took their name from an advert they saw for a dildo called, yes you guessed it, 'King Adora'. | DarkFiend | ||
| Throbbing Gristle | A "throbbing gristle" is slang for a man's genitals. | brit | ||
| Adeva | A simple pun on her musical ambitions: Adeva = a diva. | Jenny | ||
| John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band | I heard John Cafferty in a radio interview describe how they were drinking and getting silly while trying to come up with a name for their band, throwing off names such as "The Doorknobs" and "The Television Sets," and somebody spotted a can of paint labelled "Beaver Brown," and that name got chosen. | Tom Radigan | ||
| Oasis | Noel had a poster promoting an Inspiral Carpets gig at some place with the word 'Oasis' in it. Liam saw it and liked it. | Amanda | ||
| Grateful Dead | After it was discovered there was another band called the Warlocks, Jerry Garcia opened up a dictionary, and picked a random page and pointed to the first word he saw. He happened to point to the Grateful Dead. | John |
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