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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| X | According to John Doe in "The Unheard Music," X's bassist/male singer happened upon the demolition of an Ex-Lax plant, and asked someone on the crew if he could take home one of the big "X" signs which once stood atop the plant. It sat in his apartment until it was time to name a band. | Roderick | ||
| New Order | Another thinly-veiled Nazi reference. C.f. Joy Division. | Roderick | ||
| Arcwelder | This Mpls band was originally named Tilt-A-Whirl, but after being threatened by litigation from the company that manufactured the carnival ride, changed its name. | Roderick | ||
| Marshall Tucker Band | Much like the Freddy Jones Band, the MTB named themselves after a non-existent bandleader. | Roderick | ||
| Laibach | This Slovenian band chose the German name of its hometown, Ljubljana. | Roderick | ||
| Fugazi | Fugazi is mafioso slang for "fake," likely a self-deprecating term implying that the band were poseurs. | Roderick | ||
| Rapeman | Named after a Japanese comic book (manga) "hero" who, well... | Roderick | ||
| NOFX | QUOTED FROM FAT MIKE IN AN INTERVIEW ON THE NOFX SITE: all the rest of the band liked other music as well as punk rock, but fat mike just liked punk rock so he was unaffected by his bandmates taste in music so there was no effects on him-so NOFX | Ryan | ||
| Oingo Boingo | The name Oingo Boingo has no specific meaning - well at least nothing that anyone involved will admit. Richard Elfman (brother of Danny Elfman) came up with the name. Originally known as the Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo, the name was shortened to Oingo Boingo in 1980 for their first album release. Shortened again with the release of their self-titled 1994 album, they were known by there more aerodynamic and environmentally friendly moniker - Boingo. For nostalgia's sake (and because the horns returned), they went back to Oingo Boingo for their final shows. "Oingo Boingo means 'the best' and now the best is no more!" [Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez]. | Carbon | ||
| Peter Goes Bowling | There was a local band in their town called Eric Goes Fishing so they just changed that name a little because they couldn't think of anything better - Pete was their ex-vocalist. | Kizzy Goodacre | ||
| Reel Big Fish | The name is referenced on how your just a little fish in the sea, and it is so hard to not be eaten (or to be famous) but when ever you get the chance, you should reel in a big fish | dunk | ||
| Cocteau Twins | The long-time rumor concerning the Twins' name origin is that it came from a very obscure Simple Minds song. | Bryan McNeely | ||
| Stereolab | A record label from the 50's, "Vanguard", formed a subsidiary named "Stereolab". "Stereolab's" purpose was simply to create records that test your speakers' alignment and left side-right side high-fidelity, etc. | Bryan McNeely | ||
| The Hollisters | After Rafe Hollister on the Andy Griffith Show | Big Ed | ||
| Queen | Freddie came up with the name after some really bad ones from Roger and Brian, and they liked the fact that it sounded regal, that it was almost a universal word, the simplicity of it and the risque humour behind it. John didn't join until a year after the band was named, so he had no say in it. | Aries | ||
| LFO | LFO Stands for Lyte Funkie Ones, The Lead Singer Rich Cronin was Dubbed the Lyte Funkie One In High School for his abilty to Rap and being White and this carried over to become the name of the group, It was eventually shortened to LFO becouse a band member left and the group wanted to start fresh | Chad | ||
| St. Lunatics | The St. Louis-bred rap group founded by superstar Nelly took the name "St. Lunatics" as an amalgam of "St. Louis" and "Lunatics". In 2000, Nelly said on the MTV series "Road Home" that he and his boyz do a lot of wild and crazy things in the Lou'... so "Lunatics" worked out perfectly. | Bo 'Ice' Bielefeldt | ||
| Green Day | Billy Joe wrote a song when he was really high and called it Green Day. The drummer got it put on a jacket and people thought it was the band name and it stuck, they were originally Sweet Children (Source: Behind The Music: Greenday) | Terry | ||
| Tears For Fears | Taken from Arthur Janov's primal scream therapy book. | Bryan McNeely | ||
| Cat Power | The female singer songwriter was at a bar on a pay phone with her band mates and they were discussing possible band names, so she looked around the bar and saw a guy with a hat that said "Cat Power" on it, after the Cat construction company. | southside johnny | ||
| Blancmange | From an interview with lead singer Neil Arthur. "We were at a party and one of the silly games was who could eat a blancmange the quickest. The name came from that. It could have been worse because one of the other games was to drink curry from pint glasses. So we could have been called Pint Of Curry" | Ripple | ||
| Mogwai | In the film 'Gremlins' the furry animal is called a Mogwai. | Cameron | ||
| Samhain | After the Celtic holiday which Halloween is based on. | Vanya Mir | ||
| The Kingsmen | The "Louie Louie" guys got their name from King's Men after shave, a brand that one of them was fond of wearing. | Mark Speck | ||
| The Statler Brothers | The legendary country vocal group took their name from a box of Statler tissues in a hotel room they were staying in. Obviously none of the guys were named Statler, but two of the original members were brothers whose last name was Reid. Interesting trivia: before they were the Statler Brothers. they were called the Kingsmen and were a gospel act. Many naive audience members thought that they were the "Louie, Louie" group, which led them to learn the song due to audience demand. | Mark Speck | ||
| White Zombie | An homage to the Bela Lugosi film of the same name. | MagFlare | ||
| L7 | They got the name from a lyrics in "Wooly Bully", the Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs novelty song. | shehateme | ||
| The Who | The Who were originally called Detour. They changed their name after they changed their style from a more bluesy, soulful sound to the sonic sound of Who's Next. The name was just brought up by Townsend during a drink. | Daniel | ||
| Right Said Fred | I saw on VH1 was the hook of a scottish or irish novelty drinking song.. the song would have several long verses but always go back to "And right said fred..." | amanda | ||
| Vertical Horizon | Well ACTUALLY, Keith was trying to think of a name one night before a gig. He was writing prospective names on one of those toy clipboards with a plastic pencil. The kind where you lift the piece of cellophane and it erases what you wrote. After seeing a kiddy pool lying on it's side, he had wrote down: Vertical Pool Then lifted up the page halfway to erase pool and wrote "Horizon." | ENR | ||
| Manic Street Preachers | Singer James Dean Bradfield used to busk in the streets of Cardiff, but would not accept any money. Somebody dropped a few coins onto the ground by him and Bradders hurled a tirade of abuse at him. The man replied: "What are you, boyo, some kind of manic street preacher?" (From "Everything - a book about the manics") | Jon the 1 | ||
| JJ72 | They were drunk one night and started talking bullshit, for which "jamjars" is dublin slang. They read in FHM that 72% of what people say is BS. | Jon the 1 | ||
| Poco | Poco was originally called Pogo after the Walt Kelly cartoon. However he didn't like the band using the name so he filed an injunction against them using it. Sence they had built up a good following in the LA area, it was decided that rather than change the name, they would merely take the -off the G and made it a C thus you have Poco! | Scott Erickson | ||
| Throb | Actually, Dick Danger was a joke. They were originally called Highschool Heart Throbs, and of course, that sounded stupid, so their bassist A Hood changed the name to tHROB. The letters are inverted to symbolize noncomformity. | Bassmaster A Hood | ||
| JJ72 | This is the definitive answer. Jamjars being an Irish slang word for bullshit, the group (as a foursome in their earlier days) got absolutely hammered and had a bullshit-speaking competition. During this night, they saw on an Irish TV advert that 72% of everything that people say is bullshit (jamjars). Decided the name that night, and the next day played a gig at the local hole, under the name of JJ72. Do you smell it? | The Rosk | ||
| Adema | An obvious misspelling of the ailment edema, which was what killed Bruce Lee in the 70s. | hard rock | ||
| The Spice Girls | The girls wrote a song called Sugar and Spice (it was never released) and then one of them got the idea to call themselves the Spice Girls. | Vicious | ||
| Deep Purple | Listened to an interview with Deep Purple at a Seattle radio station in the late 70's while working as an apprentice. The name is from the Nino Temple and April Stevens hit song from 1963, "Deep Purple". The others are incorrect. | Mark | ||
| HIM | HIM - His Infernal Majesty. Against popular believe it has got nothing to do with "Satan". His Infernal Majesty used to be Ville Valo's (lead singer) nickname, given to him by the band members and referring to the impact he has on girls and to his pulling power. | EMH | ||
| Jimmy Eat World | Tom Linton, the Jimmy Eat World guitar player, had two brothers, Ed and Jim, who were always fighting. Jim used to win, he was strong-er because he was overweight. Ed thought up what he believed was a revenge - he sticked a piece of paper to the door of Jim's room, and guess what that paper said... | Stephy | ||
| Dexter Freebish | DF was named after a roller coaster the band members used to ride as kids. There is a photograph of the roller coaster on the cover of the band's first album, "Life of Saturdays". (Unfortunately, the coaster was closed down.) | Elfee | ||
| S-Club 7 | The S in question stands for Simon's (as in Simon Fuller, former manager of the Spice Girls). Thus the group are called Simons Club of seven. (because there's seven of them suprisingly enough) | Niall | ||
| Toploader | A toploader (apart from being a style of washing machine) is a person who, when rolling a joint places all the "goods" at one end so when they get the first smoke they use most of the drugs leaving little for their friends to enjoy. | Niall | ||
| Starsailor | Before a gig the band's manager asked the lead singer, James Walsh, to name some of his favourite albums. One of these was "Starsailor" by Tim Buckley. The name was used for that gig, and kept on. | Stiff | ||
| John West | A shortened, more catchy version of "John West Go to Degoba" | Grandmaster Simon | ||
| Led Zeppelin | Keith Moon, drummer of The Who learned of this band forming, with the members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. As a joke he said the band would go down like a "lead balloon." It stuck! | Fred From Ace | ||
| Delirious? | It sounded similar to the redcord label run by Martin Smith Curious? along with the one Furious? - they liked it - so they ran with it! | Serenthia | ||
| Sex Pistols | Some of the band members (Jonnhy and Paul I think..) were working in a clothes store called "Sex", and the manager wanted to form a band with his employee and some of their friends for a publicity, so he took "Sex" for his store name, and "Pistols" because it sounded dangerous. | Heroin Remi | ||
| Barenaked Ladies | Ed Robertson picked the name after a phrase that he and his friends said when they found a Playboy magazine. (taken from vh1 behind the music) | kenny | ||
| Molly Hatchet | In a mid-seventies interview, I heard a band member say that he was trying to remember the name of the famous ax-murderess, Lizzie Borden, and came up with "Molly Hatchet" | Johnny Oh! |
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