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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incubus | Greek creature that had sex with women while they slept. | Al Greely | ||
| Eazy E | He went by the name Casual before it was Eazy E because he was a laid back quiet kind of guy who didn't say much. | madscientist | ||
| Frenzal Rhomb | named the band after the lead singers rat who in turn had been named after a french scientist - augustus fresnel - whose contribution to he world was the invention of a light refracting box - the fresnel rhomb. they couldnt be bothered to say fresnel so they said frenzal instead. | kim frenzal freak | ||
| Right Said Fred | It was from a song by Bernard Cribbins, a children's TV 'entertainer'. It's about two guys shifting a piano. | Lawrence of Her Labia | ||
| Glistened Red | A Christian Rock band... Glistened Red for the blood He(Jesus) shed. | Lindsey | ||
| Serial Joe | There was a guy named "Sergio" who lived down the street, and a little girl couldn't pronounce it... She called him "Serial Joe". | Kristin | ||
| ZZ Top | Billy Gibbons said that "ZZ Top" was a play on his favorite guitarist, "BB King" | Todd | ||
| Pearl Jam | the band originally named themselves mookie blaylock, after the basketball player, but were forced to change their names. pearl is the name of eddie's grandmother, and she was known for her peyote jam. | kristin | ||
| ZZTop | The actual ZZTOP website says that Billy Gibbons wanted the band's albums to be at the very back of the record stores! Hence, the name that would guarantee them end-of-alphabet status. | Pete | ||
| Transmatic | This Indianapolis band juxtaposed and shortened "automatic transmission". | indyhick | ||
| Dr Dre | He took his name as his own version of a footballplayer he liked; "Dr Jay". His name is Andre (Dre) Young. | Tim Camrbrant | ||
| The Pogues | No great Mystery here. After starting out as the "Millwall Chainsaws", Shane and co. changed their name to "Pogue Mahone" on a suggestion from Peter "Spider" Stacy. They truncated the name to "The Pogues" shortly before their first record deal. "Pogue Mahone" is Gaelic for "kiss my @$$". | JimBobNatureBoy | ||
| Jay-Z | At first he was called Jazz 'cos he's a big jazz fan then he just changed it to Jay-z cos Jazz didn't sound rap enough! | 2QT | ||
| Jimmy Eat World | The band member Tom has two younger brothers and one of them has the name Jim. Well, his two brothers got in a fight and the younger one got so mad at Jim that he called him fat. Then he drew a picture of Jim being so fat that he could eat the world, and at the bottom he wrote, "Jimmy Eat World" and thats how they got their name. | Cat | ||
| Drowning Pool | The band was named after the 1977 movie "The Drowning Pool" with Paul Newman, not Clint Eastwood. | j.c. | ||
| Question Mark (?) and The Mysterians | The lead singer, nicknamed Question Mark, wanted to remain anonymous. The Mysterians were from an old 50s science-fiction movie. | oldsong | ||
| Three Nails | The number of nails used to crucify Jesus. | Christian | ||
| Utopia | The band fronted by Todd Rungren took the name from the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby picture "The Road to Utopia". Utopia is not a real city, but a generic name for a paradise. | j.c. | ||
| Alien Ant Farm | They chose this name because their guitarist had a dream where aliens put him in a giant ant farm so they could study him | snarbulex | ||
| Rammstein | As a native German, I have to say: Ramming Stone??? No way! The story about the plane show is right. Rammstein even made a song about it. Not only the pilots died, but many spectators. | eyes of ruby | ||
| Fenix TX | They were originally called RiverFenix, after the late actor River Pheonix. The actor's family forced them to change their name, so they dropped the River and added TX, as they are from Texas. | GTT | ||
| Black Sabbath | Black Sabbath rehearsed in movie theatres and Boris Karloffs movie "Black Sabbath" was shown there and that's how Black Sabbath got it's name. | Jimmy Jazz | ||
| Sunna | It was picked cos Jon Harris (lead singer) believes that organized religion is shameful so Sunna meaning faith without religion was an ideal name for them | neon-flame | ||
| Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine | There are two founding members in the band: Jim Morrison (aka JimBob) and Leslie Carter (aka Fruitbat). They both liked to party rather hard, and so it's what Jim sometimes called his friend, Leslie, and they eventually kept it for their band. Note that these guys come up with some of the worst names in music history: after disbanding Carter USM, LC went on to form Abdoujaparov (named after a Yugoslavian bicycle racer who was known for dirty racing tactics) and Jim went on to form Jim's Super Stereoworld (great music, all around, but the names??). | gmo | ||
| Limp Bizkit | I heard someplace that Fred used to have this dog named Bizkit. It got hurt or hit by a car or something, so it couldn't walk right. Hence the name Limp Bizkit, b/c it limped around. | Lana | ||
| The Benjamins | The group's name comes from Puff Daddy's pro-money paean. (A paean, by defination, is "a song of joyful praise or exultation".) | Alice | ||
| G2 | There is two girls in the band so G2 stands for girls two | kelly and sam | ||
| Gorillaz | Two Reasons: 1.Lead Singer 2D (Damon Albarn from BLUR) was attacked by a chimp when he was young. 2.Animator and co-creater Jamie Hewlett was the creator of the cult comic book TANK GIRL and in the last issue he has the lead character (Rebecca) get killed by a mechanic Gorilla. And the spelling just looks cooler than the real spelling. | Aaron Shanley:Gorillaz Freak | ||
| 3lw | There name means 3 little women because there are 3 women in the group | Beth | ||
| Take That | They didn't know how to name the band so one day they saw a magazine with "Madonna" on the cover and the title said "Madonna: Take That & Party" so they thought it was cool "Take that & Party", then they found out there was a rapper named "The party", so they cut it to Take That....(And that's why their first album's name was "Take That & Party") | Markyslover | ||
| Happy The Man | The name comes from a Genesis song "Happy The Man." | Jake Small | ||
| Right Said Fred | After Bernard Cribbins 1962 top-ten-hit "Right Said Fred". Richard and Fred Fairbrass confirmed this in several interviews.The song is about three guys shifting a piano. Bernard Cribbinssings with accompaniment directed by Johnnie Spence. Words and Music by Rudge-Dicks. This informastion is from a record called "Just for Laughs" by EMI. | Bernhard Hausner | ||
| Alice Cooper | While playing with a ouiji board a witch named Alice Cooper came through from the 18th century who was burned at the stake | Terry Tucker | ||
| Tamerton | The town were they recorded there first demo was called Tamerton. | dave | ||
| KitZler | One day the lead singer was looking for a way to talk s**t to people in the middle of school and not getting in trouble. He came accross German slang terms online and his band needed a name and its great for their highschool talent shows. Whats better than the principal saying clitoris on stage in front of the student body? KitZler = Clitoris | Jonathan | ||
| Youngstown | No suprizes here... their hometown was Youngstown,Colorado. | ~mick~ | ||
| Train | Rob thought of it: In an interview with Echo & the Bunnymen, they said there was nothing left in the US that was romantic. Rob disagreed and thought that the most romantic thing about the US was the train. | Trainiac | ||
| UMA - Unqualified McDonald's Applicants | They all applied to McDonald's, but all got turned down. They're a now-defunct band from the suburbs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | midwestkimchi | ||
| Ned's Atomic Dustbin | Named after an episode from seminal BBC radio show- "The Goons" from the 1950's, written by Spike Milligan (genius). | david tynan | ||
| Goo Goo Dolls | They came up with this name because it's the name of a doll that was made in the 40's. | sayit | ||
| Cymarron | The one-hit wonder (for "Rings") named themselves after a local TV show in Memphis called "Cymarron Strip". | old | ||
| Ides of March | Named after a line in the William Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar", in which a sooth-sayer warns "Beware, the Ides of March". | oldsong | ||
| Argent | Named after frontman Rod Argent, the former lead singer for "The Zombies". | oldsong | ||
| MFSB | Actually stood for Mother F***n' Son of a B***h, but for modesty's sake they changed it to "Mothers, Fathers, Sisters and Brothers". | soul | ||
| Paper Lace | The town where they originated from, Nottingham, England, was known for it's production of lace products. | brit | ||
| The Standells | The group known for "Dirty Water" picked the name because they would stand around in their agent's office waiting for work. | old | ||
| Buffalo Springfield | It was on the back of a parked steamroller. | rock | ||
| Free | The name was given to them by British blues artist Alexis Korner. | brit | ||
| The Five Stairsteps | The "Oh, Child" group (4 brothers and a sister whose last name was Burke) got the name from their mother, who declared that they "looked like stairsteps" when they performed. | soul | ||
| Frijid Pink | According to the band, it meant "cold excellence". | rock |
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