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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| 2 Skinnee J's | The two lead singers' names are J. Gueverra and Special J. Put two and two together. | Lily | ||
| AC/DC | I heard on a live intervies on VH1 that AC/DC said they got it off the back of a sewing machine. I also heard that the reason why Angus plays in a schoolboy outfit was because whenever he came home from school he was so eager to play his guitar that he never changed, and I heard it was his sister that gave him the idea. | Matt | ||
| Oleander | The band began casting about for a name during band practices. Ric Ivanisevich mentioned seeing some oleander bushes next to some railroad tracks near their practice space. Thomas Flowers and Doug Eldridge figured it was oblique enough to pass muster. As Thomas said, "It's so ambiguous that it could be a disco band or a death-metal band." | Raven | ||
| Pink Floyd | It is really a double meaning. The official reason was that both "Pink" and "Floyd" were part of the names of 2 of their record producers, but one part of the reason at that they chose this, is because when someone is very high on marijuana, their eyes become bloodshot and everything looks pink, which Im sure they have had plenty of experience with. | chris | ||
| Aerosmith | "Aero" refers to the air through which sound travels, and "smith" refers to forging, as in a blacksmith. They forge the air to make sound. I think it's clever really... | chris | ||
| Spandau Ballet | Martin Kemp says in his autobiography that the name was chosen after Bob Elms had seen the name scrawled on the wall of a toilet in Berlin. | Timoth | ||
| Head Space | Couldn't think of a name for the band so the bass player,Terry, said that it was doing his head space in trying to think of a name. | gib | ||
| Toy Box | Anila Mirza and Amir El Falaki both thought that there music sounded happy and bouncy and they thought that it was like stuff in a Toy Box. And they both said that their music came from inside their souls so they came up with....TOY BOX. | Heather | ||
| ZZ Top | I read somewhere (years ago) in an interview that "ZZ" was selected to be the last LP in the alphannumeric sorted row in a record store. So "ZZ Top" is something like "Last is first" | bernd hohmann | ||
| Linkin Park | Many speculate they named themselves after Lincoln Park in Santa Monica where most of the boys hail from...if they misspelled it, it would be easier to get a website AND since there seems to be a Lincoln Park everywhere, they'd always sound like a local band...though in an interview on their DVD, lead singer Chester said the name means nothing...go figure? | Sean Foley's Victim | ||
| Dido | Dido is her first name. She is actually named after a mythological creature. | Jessie | ||
| Slipknot | The song slipknot was on the bands first album - mate feed kill repeat. They just thought it was a cool name. | Bean | ||
| 311 | 311 is an Omaha police code for indecent exposure. One rainy day, P-Nut and some friends went skinny dipping in a public pool. They were apprehended by police. One of P-Nut's friends (Jim Watson) was arrested, cuffed (naked) and taken home to his parents. He was issued a citation for a code 311 (indecent exposure). They thought this was funny, so they took it as their band name. After the humor of the name wore off - they still kept it because they liked that it was just abstract and that it did not define them in anyway. The name did not describe there sound or politics, it just let the music speak for itself. Since most interviewers always ask us "What does 311 mean?", they have come up with lots of different answers over the years. Some include.... Nick - "five friends making music", Tim - "a number dictated to me by a higher intelligence", P-Nut - "knowing a little numerology and studying a little magic, which I do; in some factions, three is man and 11 is magic. So 311 is like male magic." | DJ Whiteboy | ||
| Metallica | Brian Slagel, a friend of drummer Lars Ulrich, was forming a metalzine and askes Lars to choose a name for it. He had 'Metal Mania' and 'Metallica'. Lars was looking for a name for his *to form* band, and was really into 'Metallica'. So he told his friend Brian to choose Metal Mania, so he could have Metallica for himself. | Sylvy | ||
| Creed | Creed's former bassist, Brian Marshall, had belonged to a band called Marshell's Creed (named after the street their garage band played on). So when he joined Creed, they were trying to use Marshall's previous band name but Phillip's Creed, Tremonti's Creed, or Stapp's Creed didn't sound right. So they just dubbed their band CREED. | Nicole | ||
| Goo Goo Dolls | Children's dolls that were packed with explosives in the Vietnam War were called Goo Goo Dolls. | mike | ||
| Captain Beefheart | Actually it's because Don's uncle had a party trick where he used to take out his penis and squeeze it so hard that it turned bright red. He did it in front of Don once and said "look at that boy! Doesn't it look like like a big old beefheart?" Source: Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Band Names round | Davey | ||
| Green Day | When the band announced they were dropping out of school, their principal said they would make it when there was a green day in hell. | Emily | ||
| Foo Fighters | Slang for UFO's in World War II | Emily | ||
| Megadeth | Dave Mustaine chose this because the name already had a history. It was the original name of Pink Floyd before they became Pink Floyd. | Kaptin Kirk | ||
| Smashing Pumpkins | unlike whate everybody has said, they are called the smashing pumpkins because when Billy Corgan was younger and not even in a band, he told everybody he was in one called the smashing pumpkins. so when he finally got in a band, the people he had told assumed it was called the smashing pumpkins and the name just stuck | sophie | ||
| Jesus Martyr | They got their name after making a song called "F**king Jesus Martyr" | Kiri | ||
| LFO | LFO is a common knob on an analog synthesizer. It stands for Low Frequency Oscillator. | Roderick | ||
| The Jam | According to "The Jam: The Authorised Biography," by Paolo Hewitt, Paul Weller's sister commented at the breakfast table that there was already a band called "Bread," but there wasn't a band called Jam. | Roderick | ||
| 10CC | The name used by this British band is derived from the averaged approximate amount of semen a man ejaculates on climax. (Editor's note: this explanation has been denied by the band on several occasions, I add it only so people will stop submitting it) | brett | ||
| Clash | Bassist Paul Simonon noticed that the word "clash" appeared over and over in the paper, referring to various riots and etc, and when he proposed it to the rest of the band as a potential name, they liked it for its strong (social) connotations. | Geoff | ||
| The Moody Blues | Around 1962 Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder (2 of the original band members) formed The Krew Cats and spent the next year or so touring in Hamburg before disbanding and forming The Moody Blues 5, shortening it to The M & B 5 when Mitchell and Butlers Breweries agreed to sponsor the band. When this sponsorship did not materialise they changed the name to The Moody Blues in 1964. (Source: Official Moody Blues website www.moodyblues.co.uk) | SteveDTM | ||
| Steppenwolf | From the book Steppenwolf, by Hermann Hesse, about a lonely suicidal man who is approaching fifty. He finds a lovely young girl who teaches him how to have fun and enjoy life. | Steven Dame | ||
| Oasis | Originally called rain, Noel said he'd join the band if they'd change the name to Oasis, something he'd seen on an inspiral carpets poster, for whom he was a roadie. | Gaz | ||
| Lowsound | After a small gig, under the name Shoeperb, a newspaper article said the band had a really "Beutiful Low sound". Gaz, the guitarist and singer, told Jim who said he loved it, and thus the bandname was born | Dave. | ||
| Notalent | One day the band was sitting around when they first started, and they wanted to pick a name. The original guitarist Danny Shannon blurted out NoTalent saying it was "funny....and honest". They decided to keep it until they found a better one but it just stuck. | Jeff | ||
| KYUSS | The band hates frat boys and called the band KYUSS to get over on fart-boys, Knowing Your Under Satan's Scrotum. | Bob Smoot | ||
| Drowning Pool | From an interview I did with the band at Ozzfest Stevie: The name came from my parents were out of town for spring break and I decided to stay behind so I could like party and have my friends over. One of those nights I just brought my girlfriend over, watching TV and I finally got laid! I’d been working on it for months and that movie happened to be on [Clint Eastwood’s The Drowning Pool] and years later I was thinking of a band name and I was like you know; thinking about playing in a band, thinking about getting laid and the two just kind of fell together. | Keavin | ||
| Aerosmith | A popular myth is that the name came from a respelling of the title of the Sinclair Lewis noval “Arrowsmith”. But in the group’s autobiography “Walk This Way” Joey Kramer tells the story of how when he was still in school he was sitting around with his girlfriend one day listening to Harry Nilsson’s “Aerial Ballet” and he and his girlfriend started thinking of cool band names that had “aero” in them, he thought up “aerosmith” and liked the way it sounded. He loved the name so much he used to write it all over his school books. But the band he was with at the time didn’t want to use it. So fast forward to a little after he had joined Joe Perry and Steven’s band. They used to sit around and watch old Three Stooges reruns, stoned. One day they had a band meeting after the “Stooges” to try and come up with a name, Kramer remembered the word he used to compulsively write on his schoolbooks. The band didn’t like it at first because they thought it was the title of the Sinclair Lewis novel they were forced to read in high school but Joey said “No, no, A-E-R-O” and it stuck because they liked the connotation of power and the lift their music gave off. | Keavin | ||
| The Replays | Originaly called Radio Replay as the band had heard that a group name with the word Radio in was more likely to be succesful. Shortened to The Replays because it fitted onto the bass drum skin better! | tony | ||
| Hootie and The Blowfish | Back in the college days of the band, they had two college buddies. One resembled Dizzy Gallespie with large cheeks who they referred to as Blowfish, and the other wore large glass and resembled a Hoot owl, thus calling him Hootie. One night they were playing in a local bar and the two guys walked in to which one of the members commented that walking in was Hootie and The Blowfish. | DJ | ||
| The Dixie Chicks | These gals got their name from a box with the words Dixie Chicken printed on it. They merely shortened it from "chicken" to "Chicks". | DJ | ||
| Backstreet Boys | The Backstreet Boys got their name from a very popular hang out in Orlando called "Backstreet Market." They added "Boys" because they feel that they're like brothers. "Backstreet Boys." | Celeste | ||
| The Who | They were The Detours until bassist John Entwistle saw a TV show in 1964 featuring an Irish group of the same name. "The Who" was suggested by Pete Townshend's friend (and later Who biographer) Dave Marsh. When the band was under Pete Meaden's management for a short time, they were The High Numbers to appeal to the Mod crowd, but reverted back to The Who when they switched to Kit Lambert & Christ Stamp's management. | SBAMKMFDMDFMK | ||
| Thompson Twins | They took their name from the characters of the Tin-Tin comic books. | Celeste | ||
| Clear White LIght | Lead guitarist Mick Barker chose it because of the drugs reference. CWL were a merger between Risky Stuff and Termite Reformation. | Dale Rumbold | ||
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | A couple of interesting details to add. First, Coach Skinner was a stickler for enforcing the hair policy at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, FL in the late '60s. Alan Collins and Gary Rossington were often the target of his wrath. Ronnie attended N.B. Forrest High, a few miles away. The band's original name was "The One Percent." When they changed it to Lynyrd Skynyrd they were very up front about the origin of the name. At first, this infuriated Coach Skinner. As the band grew in popularity he mellowed and sort of enjoyed the back-handed compliment. Leonard retired from teaching long ago and, last I heard, was a successful realtor in the Jacksonville area. | Racemedic | ||
| Good Charlotte | This band took their name after a book called "good charlotte" about a girl named charlotte who was always bullied and her grandma called her 'good charlotte.' the members were bullied (in school) as well. | punkon420 | ||
| All About Eve | Taken from the black and white film of 1950, of the same name, starring Bette Davis | Goony | ||
| Carter the unstopable sex machine | It was a headline in one of the British tabloids | ginger jon | ||
| Limp Bizkit | I heard in some interview that Limp Bizkit got its name cuz it was the stupidest thing they could come up with. Thats what Fred Durst said. | Amith | ||
| Faithless | As a Nicheren Shoshu Buddhist, Maxi Jazz's strong beliefs and the band's own strong individual beliefs, lead to the name Faithless (Source: Reverence CD booklet). | Jesse | ||
| Creed | Scott Stapp and the other band members tried to come up with a name. They tried Scott's Creed,and a bunch of other ones. So Scott said let's just stick with Creed. Creed means a belief in something, so since Scott was going through troubles in life,he struggled with what HE believed. | DARKSOUTHERNPOET | ||
| Five For Fighting | The lead singer liked hockey (and still does) and knew that if players got in a fight, they were given a penalty of five minutes for fighting, hence "five for fighting." This is how this band got it's name. | Christina & Lisa | ||
| Busta Rhymes | Buste*r* Rhymes was the name of a National Football League kickoff returner. | Rob |
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