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Do you know why a band picked out it's name? Feel free to let us know.
I can't verify all of these stories, so do take them with a grain of salt. I try and delete the ones that I know to be bogus, but I don't know the origins of every band name (and some bands intentionally tell different stories about picking their band name).
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There are 4420 Band Name Origin entries on the site.
Name | Origin | Submitted by: | ||
| Hundred Reasons | The drummer and lead singer were meeting up to go out some where. One picked the other up from a leisure center in his car. (I forget which way round). As they were leaving they noticed a poster reading, "A thousand reasons to swim regularly". The band decided that Hundred Reasons sounded better. | John Barry | ||
| Huns & Dr. Beeker | Jon Hunsbusher, nickname Huns, and Eric Erickson, nicknamed Dr. Beeker from an old television adventure series. Incredibly talented duo! | Chris Impens | ||
| Huphter | It's the music version of Hustler Magazine. | GB | ||
| Husker Du | This Minneapolis band took their name from a Danish board game, name translates into "do you remember?" | Buck | ||
| Husker Du | Husker du is danish or norwegian. Not swedish. If they would have taken there name from Sweden they rather would have been "Minns Du" than "Husker Du". | Dingo | ||
| Husker Du | It's both Danish and Norwegian for "Do you remember?", and was the name of a board game in the 70s. | rocky | ||
| Husker Du | I happen to have a book on band name origins and Husker Du in fact is Scandinavian for "Do You Remember?" It's from a children's board game! | Alana | ||
| Husker Du | Wasn't it from Swedish rather than Danish. But then these Scandinavian tongues all sound the same to me... | Dave Doughnut | ||
| The Hype | It is prison slang from inmates and it means the leathel injection for death row. | cezar | ||
| Hüsker Dü | The band was looking for a name, and asked a Norwegian rocker about the worst expression in Norwegian. He replied "Husker du", meaning "do you remember?". It's also a name of a TV program for pensioners. | Anders Frihagen | ||
| Hüsker Dü | Originally without umlaut. The name Husker Du was taken from a DANISH board game. It's translated to "Do you remember?". | Marie V.T. | ||
| Hüsker Dü | It was a product seen only on TV, only in the winter. It was not sold in any store: it was a snow sled with a seat attached to it. | Tim Horrigan |
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