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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| Kottonmouth Kings | Cuz they smoke more dope then you'll ever be able to hang with. | Phre@k | ||
| Zen Arcade | Named after an album by Husker Du | Hayden | ||
| Billy Pilgrim | Named after the lead character in Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse Five | Hayden | ||
| AC/DC | i heard that the name means antichrist/devilchild | Bobert | ||
| Insane Clown Posse | this band was originally a little gang of hethens in detroit known as Inner City Posse, then after realizing they were just always gonna get their asses kicked as a gang they decided to just go goofy wicked and keep the ICP logo and call them selves clowns, insane clowns that is | WADE | ||
| 311 | One of the band members friends was arrested for indecent exposure while skinny dipping and given a citation. (Omaha Police code 311). | Craig | ||
| Alice In Chains | Alice in Chains is the title of a Brady Bunch Episode. It sounded bizarre enough to be a band name. | David | ||
| 3 Doors Down | They were in a hotel and they came out and saw the name of the hotel. Doors Down Hotel. There were 3 of them in the beginning so they took doors down and 3 and put it together. 3 Doors Down. | soul2000bowl | ||
| Five Iron Frenzy | Some of the members in the band all roomed together with this guy who was a little paranoid. One night, thinking he might get mugged, he took a golf club with him to defend himself. He called it 'putter mayhem' but Scott looked at it and, noticing that the guy was holding a five iron, said "No, it's more of a five iron frenzy" and the name stuck. | Andromache | ||
| Stripey Says No | There was this puppet called Stripey and he used to come out and tell you not to have sex and all that stuff so he basically would tell you waht not to do. so from that you get "Stripey Says No" | Will | ||
| MXPX | Well, it has already been explained that MXPX used to be M.P. for magnified plaid- but where did magnified plaid come from? Well, one of the band members had this plaid shirt. The plaid was uncommonly large and appeared to be magnified plaid. I guess they liked the name. Oh yeah, the reason why they used x's instead of periods is simply that the x was and is the symbol for straightedge. | Jewel | ||
| Deftones | They said in an interview they named themselevs partially after the Def Jam label (because at the time Def Jam had many popular and respected hip-hop artists)... hence Def (tones). | god's unfunny sidekick | ||
| The Crystal Method | The first explanation (the girl named 'Crystal') is almost accurate. They both had a crush on her and when learning of this a rapper friend of theirs said "Oh, the Crystal Method?" They do not support or endorse drug abuse in any way. | god's swollen testicles | ||
| Jimmy Eat World | jimmy eat worlds origin should be well known to those of you who are between the age of 16-21, it came from an episode of Tiny Toons, in which all the toons had to make a short film for class, all and all to make a long story short, Taz's film depicted him standing ontop of a giant globe, the segment was entitled Taz Eat World (taz then ate the globe) | seancore | ||
| Jim's Super Stereoworld | The Jim bit is obviously the singers name Super is because the music is and Stereoworld from the film Boogie Nights and Jim also solos as James Robert Morrison which answers itself | nevaready | ||
| The Levellers | A group of travelling people in some part of history called the levellers would smash down fences put up by the king or government because they believed all land belonged to everyone and people should be able to travel free and the band believing the same point adopted the name | nevaready | ||
| Tree63 | Origianlly called Tree, this is a Christian band from South Africa. They were not well known until after their second album, 63 (after the Psalm) was released. Their song "A Million Lights" scored a big hit and word of the album got over to American shores. They changed their name to Tree63 after sigining with Inpop records. | Oldiesmann | ||
| The Animals | In 1962, What began as a three man Alan Price combo playing Saturday night gigs at Newcastle's Downbeat club,evolved into a group containing, Alan Price,Bryan Chandler,Hilton Valetine. Eric Burdon and John Steel. The club was over a warehouse, and near enough to The Railroad tracks that the passing trains shook the crowded, damp room periodically, but the music made by the combo shook it til closing time. It was a frenetic scene,and it was the beginning of a group that became known as The Animals,not through their own design, but because thats what their audiences began to call them, and they were smart enough to recognize a good thing when it came along. | Mike Thurber | ||
| Pearl Jam | The lead singers grandmother Pearl made really good jam | Caitlin | ||
| Bush X | Gavin didn't realize that there was a group in Canada that had the Name "Bush" so they had to add the X on the end until 1997 when the Original band "Bush" allowed Gavin to use their name. | Celeste | ||
| Counting Crows | from the lyrics of an early song......"on a hilltop, in the snow. and i saw you looking up, into that winter sky, as you stood there counting crows" | drock | ||
| BBMak | BBMak's name is sort of a blend of all of the group members' names. The first B comes from mark Barry, the second B comes from christian Burns, and the Mak part comes from ste MCNally. Ya see?? B - B- MAK!!!! | Leigh | ||
| Stone Temple Pilots | Actually, this is so stupid, but they actually wanted their initials to be STP, like the oil, y'know? So they thought + thought + thought + that's what came out. As the band members themselves say: "We couldn't have possibly call ourselves Shirley Temple's P*ssy cause no-one would ever print our full title".../ | Atropos | ||
| Hijack Jupiter | Mike the drummer found a piece of paper in the parking lot of a supermarket but before he could give it back to the woman who dropped it, she sped away. He looked at it and it was a to do list that said "buy milk, pick up kids, hijack jupiter." Weird. | Steve | ||
| Goo Goo Dolls | This is the CORRECT story. The band was called the "Sex Maggots" and when a venue refused to put this name "up in lights" they had to change it. They got the name Goo Goo Dolls out of a True Detective Magazine which had an add for the doll in it. | Patti | ||
| ZZ Top | Zig-Zag and Top rolling papers | Scott | ||
| Heaven 17 | It wasn't actually from the Burgess novel but frm the 1973 Kubrick film. There's a scene where Alex goes shopping and picks up two girls at a record stall. "The Heaven Seventeen" is one of the names of the groups in the charts. | Brixton Hill | ||
| Pink | she once dyed her pubes pink and her friend caught her doing it and named her pink!! | Suze | ||
| Snoop Doggy Dogg | His mother thought he looked like Snoopy from Peanuts. | Tina | ||
| Sugar Ray | Actually, Mark McGrath stated in an interview that it was named after Sugar Ray Robinson. | Rick | ||
| The Tea Party | There are several stories around this subject. Jeff Martin once answered in an interview: When William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac [founding members of The Beat Generation poets] would get together in the late 1940's and early 1950's and discuss philosophical ideas, write poetry and smoke hash, their code word for it was to go have, 'a tea party'. | FADEL | ||
| 54-40 | It is actually a reference to the parallel that borders the US and canada throughout the praries. LBJ said once, that Canada and the US will soon be one, and then the number 54-40 will not matter. | Noah Spencer | ||
| Led Zepellin | Jimmy Page, formerly of The Yardbirds, in a conversation with the late Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, mentioned his intention to form "The New Yardbirds". Moon assured Page that such a group would "sink like a LEAD BALLOON" | Richard Garcia | ||
| Meet Danny Wilson | Named after a Frank Sinatra movie | Richard Garcia | ||
| Prodigy | Supposedly, all the members of this band are SAT full scorers (i.e., 1600ers). | Shantanu Biswas | ||
| Trinity | well the members are all welsh and Tri means three in welsh and there are three members so this is obviously the ideal name. | Mari | ||
| Dr. Dre | He was a fan of a BASKETBALL PLAYER (not football) nicknamed Dr. J His name is Andre (Dre) Young so he took Dre and mixed it with his favorite athlete. | km | ||
| Wedge | The name came from a Star Wars character - Wedge Antilles. Wedge was one of the few pilots to survive the death star battle. One night at practice, Eric Coiner (the bass player) quoted a line from that scene and it stuck. The band's tag line is appropriately "Let Go." | J. Simmons | ||
| Papa Roach | They named the band after Coby Dick's Grandfather, Papa Roatch, because he was a very nice man to the band. | Dead Roach | ||
| The B-52s | A B-52 is a long-range, heavy bomber that's been around for more than forty years. I always thought the B-52s got their name from this. | Lizzie | ||
| Lostprophets | lead singer Ian Watkins was trying to think of a name for the band and he was out walking one day when he saw a local shop being robbed he ran in to see what he could do but it was too late the theif ran out the back the shopkeeper then said "thankyou you scared him away but now ive lost all my prophets" | mat | ||
| Twisted Sister | They got it from their friends father who said you gotta a twisted sister to one of the band mates and the name stuck | Bob Jackass | ||
| The Akashis | the band had another name first...irvin the magical flute player,..but while havin a drink in there fave pub..they changed there name to the akashis,after an japanese legend. | stevenson | ||
| Duran Duran | Originally calling themselves RAF (Royal Air Force) didn't seem catchy enough, so founding members Nick Rhodes and John Taylor went to '60's cheese flick "Barbarella" and found inspiration in the film's evil villain, "Dr. Durand Durand." | crookedsixpence | ||
| Local H | The members of Local H were once big fans of the band R.E.M., and derived their name from the R.E.M. song "Oddfellows Local 151", in which the lyrics mention a fire-House. Wholias. | Pete Thompson | ||
| Parliament-Funkadelic | Originally known as The Parliaments in the 50's and 60's, they picked that name after the cigarettes (according to various music sources). When a legal snafu with their label over the name arose in the late 60's, they changed their name to Funkadelic, combining "funk" with "psychedelic" to describe the direction of their music. Dropping the "s" from their original name, they used the names Parliament and Funkadelic concurrently and became known as Parliament-Funkadelic. Later shortened to P-Funk for the name P-Funk All Stars. | T-Mad | ||
| Faith Hill | Faith got her name from a family who adopted her. They were not expecting to get a reply for a baby girl so soon. The family decided that because of their faith, this little bright-eyed girl was given to them. | lindsay | ||
| Nirvana | Nirvana is Sanskrit, it is literally translated as "Blowing Out", as in blowing out the flames of desire...or blowing out your brains with a gun... | Dr Eagle Sperm-Cannon, LSD | ||
| Einsturzende Neubaten | German (lit. "Collapsing New Buildings) Strategic interaction against the oppression of architecture, buildings are opppression but when they fall they make music. Industrial music in response to the blank and featureless weimar-Bauhaus German post-war architekture. | Dr Eagle Sperm-Cannon, LSD | ||
| Air Miami | Air Miami is a spin-off of the airline Air Jamiaca, which flys out of Miami, FL., where they recorded the "Me Me Me" album (tapeworm studios, maimi). | chester |
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