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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| MR Bungle | Mr. Bungle was actually the name of a character in a porno film General Patton had. | fig | ||
| T.A.T.U. | They are Russian, and the letters T, A, T, and U stand for the Russian words for "This girl loves that girl". But don't be fooled! They're not lesbians...They do have boyfriends! | Chad Mosher | ||
| Porno for Pyros | I heard that Perry was reading a fireworks catalog, and in the middle was a section of porno ads. He said, "look porno for pyros" and it stuck. | Mastiff66 | ||
| Pantera | we all should know that pantera's mascot is the all mighty panther...in TX they speak a lot of spanish...pantera is spanish for panther...also, pantera was a greek God...also, pantera was the father of joshua...what's it all mean? it means that pantera is an artistic band...notice how they refuse to reveal why they picked the name "pantera"...they did it because it has all these meanings...it's an ambiguous word, and they want it to be interpreted differently from everyone...they're artists...that's how music should be thanx for listenin... -ralph | Ralph Foster of Livonia MI | ||
| Blur | Blur were originally called Seymour, but the record company didn't like it and drew up a list of new names, as did the group. "Blur" was the only name found on both lists. (They almost went with 'The Shining Path!' Ugh.) | Alexis | ||
| The Smithereens | They got the name from the classic Warner Brothers cartoon character Yosemite Sam - when told Bugs Bunny he was going to "Blow ya to Smithereens!" (The band later used this phrase for a B-sides and rarities compilation!) | BillyG | ||
| The Go-Go's | Took their name from the Smokey Robinson & The Miracles classic 60's Motown hit "Going to a Go-Go". BTW there was a male surf group called the Go-Go's that recorded for RCA in the mid 60's but the group didn't know about them until they became famous! | Billy G | ||
| The Hollies | When the group started, the band tried out different names. For a Christmas gig, they took the name "The Hollies" (as in "deck the halls with balls of holly") and the name stuck. Other bios say they took the name as a tribute to Buddy Holly. | Billy G | ||
| Living Sacrafice | Jesus was the ultimate living sacrafice, so they named it for that | Bethanie | ||
| Led Zeppelin | Jimmy Page told Jeff Beck, " I'm planning on naming my new band, ' The New Yardbirds '." Beck replied, "That'll go over like a Lead Zeppelin." ' Lead ' was changed to ' Led ', so Americans would pronunce it the way it was intended. - Hammer Of The Gods | BonZZZo | ||
| Relient K | A Relient K is a brand of old car. | Aly | ||
| O*Town | They've been formed in Orlando. First they were called Orlando Town but then they decided to shorten it to O-Town. | little moon | ||
| Eminem | Marshall Mathers is his full name. M and M shortenede to M 'n M which is how he orignally spelled it, but later changed it to Eminem, cuz its different | eminem iz pimp | ||
| Our Lady Peace | Although many people think that the name "Our Lady Peace" refers to the Virgin Mary, it was actually named after a poem. The band members all read the poem, and each interpreted it in a slightly different way, but the all liked it. That was how they wanted their fans to see their music, so they thought the name would suit. It has caused some interesting events, like problems with a US border guard, and receiving mail addressed to "Our Lady of Peace Cemetery"... You can read the poem and stories about the name at http://members.tripod.com/~transparent_neon/poem.htm | Amanda H | ||
| The Earls | The Earls chose their name when Larry Chance decided to close his eyes and placed his finger on a a page in a dictionary ... his finger would land on the word "EARL" and that was to be their name. | LostInTheOzone | ||
| dEUS | The band name was chosen after a Sugarcubes song. | BJ Sturgeon | ||
| Chrysanthemums | the band was a studio project between alan jenkins of deep freeze mice and terry burrows the jung analysts. they would original to be called the square pigs but decided not to. they came up with the names chrysanthemums and egg plant, and decided that whatever name they called for the band they would use the other one for their record label. so they became the chrysanthemums on the egg plant label - ratehr than the egg plants on the chrysanthemum label. | thorsten loewe | ||
| The Who | Some of what has been said is true, especially the numerous names prior to the band being called THE WHO, however the boys decided on THE WHO in the first place because they didn't like the compare at the Railway, so when annonced the band for the first time after they had first changed it to The Who from The Detors, he went on stage and annonced '' and the next band is The Who'', to which the crowd replied ''The Detors'' and he went ''No, The Who''.. ...... | Tat | ||
| Pet Shop Boys | Pet Shop Boys is a reference to the practice "gerbiling". Weird, cruel, and hard-to believe, certain sexual deviants would aim the end of their habitrail up their a**es. Their "Pet Shop" gerbil would burrow in, (instinctually) giving the "pet shop boy" an intense sexual experience. Gross, but true. | loomba | ||
| Fatboy Slim | It is a cross between the names of a jazz star and a famous pimp. | tt | ||
| Belle and Sebastian | The French cartoon was actually original a Hellishly sentimental 60's French kids drama series made in black and white. It was 2 decades later before the cartoon edition appear. I still remember it on BBC childrens hour when I was about 5; it made me vomit even then. | Mike Wallace | ||
| The Stranglers | Originally named "The Guilford Stranglers" after a notorious early 70's South London multiple murderer nicknamed "The Guilford Strangler" this name became too offensive and not commercially viable especially as thet played most of their early gigs in South London where the murderer had still not been caught. Hence they changed it to just "The Stranglers". | Enver Hoxha | ||
| A Flock of Seagulls | I heard them state on redio once that, as big fans of "The Stranglers" they took their name from a line "and we came to see.. A Flock of Seagulls!, a flock of Saagulls!!" from The Stranglers song "Toiler on the Sea" (last track, side one) on their 70's album "Black and White". | Enver Hoxha | ||
| Misfits | The name Misfits was the final film Marilyn Monroe was in. | Naki | ||
| Steely Dan | The name is one given by Jack Keroac in some of his writings to refer to characters meant to be representative of William S. Burroughs. In on particular writing, it also means not just the Burroughs character but also refers to a dildo. | R.M. STINEMAN | ||
| Link 80 | They're from Berkeley, CA. Interstate 80 runs through it and was the "link" between them all. | Verbal Kint | ||
| Nickelback | the band got thier name coz wehn they moved to vancouver mike got a job in a cafe! when mike was working on the tills he always said "heres your Nickelback" when he was giving the customers back thier change. | Nickelback girl | ||
| Dimmu Borgir | They named it after a geyser in Iceland, and it's pronounced 'Dimmoo Borgear'. | Kierkegaard | ||
| The Mission | Lead singer Wayne Hussey was brought up in a Mormon family and when he became a teenager, he was expected to be a "missionary" in the religious sense. Also, as a child he had a stereo system made by a company called "Mission". | H-J | ||
| The Pixies | Simply by Joey rifling through a dictionary | Dale | ||
| Slipknot | before the band had a name they were doing a gig and were suspending some speakers from the ceiling and they used slipknot, so the band decided to call themselves slipknot. | rolo-1 | ||
| 1910 Fruitgum Company | Peter Wrigley invented "Juicy Fruit" two years before Titanic was crashed and sunk into the ocean. Pete Wrigley made and built the baseball field in Chicago, Illinois. "Juicy Fruit" is gonna move ya! | Mike Hack | ||
| Pop Will Eat Itself | Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI) got their name from the headline of a newspaper article about the band Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, who in turn got their name from the headline of a smalltown newspaper article about a recently deceased old man named Carter who had had a voracious sexual appetite. | vacuum kitty | ||
| Love And Rockets | Love And Rockets is the name of an underground cult comic book. | vacuum kitty | ||
| Revolting Cocks | Al Jourgenson's side project were being rather raucous at a bar once. One of the bouncers kicked them out, yelling after them that they were nothing but a bunch of revolting cocks. | vacuum kitty | ||
| Automatic Hotel | They were on tour in Europe and needed a place to stay for the night. They found a place that didn't have a receptionist, just a vending machine. They though, "Cool, an Automatic Hotel." If they hadn't found that place, they would have been named Sleeping in Piss Under a Bridge. | Nick | ||
| Kenny G | It's his name, except for he shortened his last name to just the first letter. | Mr. Obvious | ||
| Puddle Of Mudd | They got this name because outside their recording studio there was always a HUGE puddle of mudd and the usually always walked in it, when it was time for them to decide on a name-needless to say-they had to do it fast. So they looked at the puddle outside the studio then never went away and thus creating the rock band Puddle of Mudd | Kory Stuhler | ||
| Green Day | I once read in a magazine that once a week, the band members would read Ninja Turtles comics and watch the tv show (They called it a Green Day). That was their original band name,but changed it to green day for legal reasons | Muzakman | ||
| Dum Dums | Named after the 70's lolly, obviously! | Claire | ||
| Blondie | Truck drivers would always holler "Hey Blondie" at Debbie Holly and so Chris Stein decided to use it as a band name. Originally as "Blondie and the Banza Babies", then shortened to "Blondie". Most tend to refer to Debbie as "Blondie" yet she has always insisted that it is the name of the band. | Xoffender | ||
| Relient K | They are named after one of the member's old cars, the Reliant K. | jillbob | ||
| REM | As recounted in numerous biographies, REM's early gigs, were held in an old church, where some of the bandmembers lived. They got members of the audience to scrawl their ideas for a band name on the wall of the church, and REM was the one they liked best. It had NOTHING to do with Dan Rather, although their song `What's the Frequency, Kenneth?' was written about him. | Camille | ||
| The B-52s | The B-52s were named because of a dream that band member Keith Strickland had. He dreamed he was in a nightclub and onstage there was a woman with a bouffant wig playing the keyboard. In the dream, someone leant over to him and said `That's the B-52s'. B-52 was also slang for a beehive hairdo because it resembled the nose cone of a B-52 aeroplane. | Camille | ||
| ACDC | AC/DC did indeed get their name from the back of a sewing machine. It is not, as some rumours say, a reference to slang for `bisexual'. | Camille | ||
| Veruca Salt | Veruca Salt WAS named after the character in `Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory'. She was played by Julie Dawn Cole in the movie. | Camille | ||
| Nickelback | Chad Kroger's brother was employed at a coffee shop and everything was priced with 95 cents change so every customer got a "nickel back" and Chad heard this and named his band as such. | Bordburn | ||
| Sugar Ray | The bands original name was The Shrinky Dinx, but they got threatened by the toy company to sue, so they changed it to Sugar Ray, after the boxer Sugar Ray Leonard. | Jen | ||
| The Presidents of the United States of America | In the early days of the band, they would just make up a new name each time they played. At one party they named themselves the longest name they could think of...and that name eventually stuck. | Joseph Fernandez | ||
| The Melvins | buzz osbourne is a huge fan of MAD magazine, especially the original EC comic books. the name melvin appears on the cover of the first issue, and in almost every issue after that. ain't nuffin' to do with no underwears. sorry. | the glaive |
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