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| Performer | Description | Sumbitted By | ||
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| The Crystal Method | The members of the band were in Las Vegas and they were being chauffered around by a girl named Crystal. Later on, they called this "the Crystal method" and that how they got their name. (According to the members when they were on Loveline). This is not about "crystal methanthetamine". | Arai | ||
| Rammstein | Rannstein got their name from the german word for "ramming stone", NOT from the german US Airbase, because the airbase is spelled with only one m (Ramstein) | TobStarr | ||
| Guns n' Roses | Guns n' Roses arose from two LA-bands, the L.A. Guns and the Hollywood Roses | TobStarr | ||
| Toto | Otherwise "Toto" is a Latin word and means "all encompassing" But the "Wizard of Oz"-Story is right, too...Jeff Porcaro suggested this name after he watched the movie on TV. It´s easy to pronounce and remember... | tls2k1 | ||
| Nickelback | The band members were eating at a restaurant and on the menu, eveything was priced, $1.95, $2,95, $3.95, $4.95, ect... So, no matter what you ordered, you always got a nickel back. | Tigerlily | ||
| Godsmack | This band was named after the Alice in Chains song "god smack" | adam | ||
| The Misfits | They named themselves after the last movie that Marylin Monroe did, also starring Clark Gabel. They thanked the cast on the cover of their first relase. | rob | ||
| Slick Shoes | From the movie "The Goonies" While running from the bad guys, the kids are crossing over a creek on a log, when data, exclaims "Guys I have an Idea...Slick Shoes!!" he pulls a strap, and the back of his shoes spit out oil all over the log. The bad guys slip on it and fall. | Chase | ||
| Epiphanic Profoundity | The lead singer of the band, Sarah Rose, was a grammar nut and was always turning nouns into verbs and verbs into nouns and just f*cking with the English language in general. This was one of the things she spouted off one day and Evan Torn, lead guitarist, liked it and said they should keep it. Bootz and Liddy-chan didn't object. A few other considered names were AEG (Always: Extreme Generalization) and Bunch O' Bakas (baka is japanese for idiot/fool). | Shila | ||
| Stryper | This Christian metal band were formed with the name "Roxx Regime". Following thier dedication to God, Rob Sweet was reading his Bible at Isaiah 53v5; ...By His Stripes You were Healed.... He came up with the word "Striper". Somebody pointed out that the spelling would lead to mis-pronunciatiom, so the name was changed to Stryper. This was convenient for the rockers, famous for thier yellow and blaxk striped Spandex and for throwing Bibles into the audience as it becsme an acronym for Salvation Through Repentance Yielding Peace Encouragement And Righteousness. A little Gospel message in a 7 lettered name! | jeduthunuk | ||
| Eve 6 | Their name was actually going to be "Eve", but that name already existed, so they chose to add a number, and all agreed on 6. | Kewlio | ||
| Beach Boys | The original name they had picked out was the Pendleton's, a kind of sweater popular in the 50's and early 60's. The record company rennamed them the Beach Boys. | Andy | ||
| Yazoo (Known as Yaz in North America) | Singer Alison Moyet chose this because it was the name of an American Blues label - little heard of in the UK. Obviously, the complications arose when they attempted to crack the American continent and shortened it to Yaz. | dan | ||
| Wet Wet Wet | It's a line from the Scritty Politi song, Getting, Having, Holding -'...her eyes were wet, wet with tears'...they added another wet to go against the trend of names such as The, The/Talk, Talk | Lianne | ||
| Red Hot Chili Peppers | According to bassist Flea, the name describes the style of their music | Dr. G | ||
| Porno For Pyros | Lead singer Perry Farrell was looking through a fireworks magazine and commented that the whole thing seemed like "smut for arsonists". Hence, PFP. | Dr. G | ||
| Orgy | According to the band members, it describes their music which is an orgy of sounds and has nothing to do with sex. | Dr. G | ||
| Cream | Eric Clapton and the other two guys in the band were really good musicians...Therefore they would 'rise' to the top like cream. | courtjester | ||
| Great Big Sea | This is a HUGE Canadian band who've taken classic songs from their native Newfoundland and updated them. One of the first containe the line "Great Big Sea hove in long beach" about a storm that bought a killer tide and washed away an entire Newfouldland village. They thought it fit.. | WCBM | ||
| WuTang Clan | The band's members were fans of Karate films of the 70's and 80's and the neighborhood they live in in nicknamed Shaolin. In these movies (36 chamber's of death) only a Shoalin master could leave the Shaolin temple and preach the word. In the movie 36 chambers of death,a master escapes by using the Shoalin shadow boxing style and the outlaw Wu Tang Sword style to fight his way out. The group named themselves after the Wu Tang Clan that is featured in that movie as well as many others. | Life Allah | ||
| JJ72 | When they were at school or something, they went to an art gallery and saw a painting of 72 jam jars... so, JJ (jam jar) 72- JJ72. | Hayley | ||
| Blue Öyster Cult | It's an anagram for "Cully Stout Beer", discovered by a band member while killing time at the pub. | Jackby Nimble | ||
| The Orphans | From the cult film the The Warriors | franc | ||
| The Bangles | The "les" on the end of The BangLES was sort of a BeatLES tribute, since the girls were into the Beatles | *~*Kristyn*~* | ||
| The Blues Magoos | The "Magoo" part came from the time the band members went to a Chinese restaurant, and were inspired by the name "moo goo gai pan." The "Blues" part is self-explanatory, but it was originally spelled "Bloos." | Rufus | ||
| The Yardbirds | Jazz musician Charlie Parker was nicknamed "Yardbird" and did a recording called "Yardbird Suite." But Yardbird is also prison slang used in general to describe prisoners in the exercise yard, and more likely the origin of the band's name. | Rufus | ||
| The Beau Brummels | Aside from the reference to the 19th century dandy, the band also knew alphabetically they would be filed right next to the Beatles in the record stores, increasing the visibility of their records. | Rufus | ||
| Fuel | When having to think of a name for the band the guys picked FUEL, because it was easy for them to paint the letters on a marquee. | Chris Z | ||
| Drugstore | They're named after the movie Drugstore Cowboy. | Jen | ||
| Captain Beefheart | Don decided to take this as his name after being sprayed by a skunk at his home in the desert. At first he thought he was captain arab, and then he thought he was the center of a t-bone, but then he knew both were right, and he was Captain Beefheart | bob dylan | ||
| DC Talk | It's Dedicated Christian. NOT Decent Christian.... | Quin | ||
| Ween | On top of the Ramones-same-last-name thing, I read that Ween was a mix of the words "wuss" and "peen" (short for penis) | Sam | ||
| Rage Against the Machine | Zack de la Rocha, the lead singer, was a member of a band before RATM that performed a song entitled "Rage Against the Machine." While the previous explanation is a perfectly valid one in terms of the band's ideology, this is a more concrete origin. | Jordan | ||
| Icehouse | "Icehouse" is Australian slang for "mental institution." | R.S.K. | ||
| Wilco | Wilco is the name of a chain of gas stations. Jeff Tweedy used to work a one. | Dan | ||
| Stevie Nicks | Stevie Nicks was born Stephany Lynn Nicks, but she couldn't say Stephany so her grandfather called her Stevie for short. She looks like a Stevie... | Bob Jenkins Jr. | ||
| Something for Kate | Frontman Paul Dempsey had a dog called Kate. On her birthday, he wrote himself a note reminding him to get something for Kate. | fred | ||
| Steely Dan | Steely Dan got it's name from a vibrator named "Steely Dan" from William S. Burrough's novel "The Naked Lunch". | HomerFan | ||
| Bananarama | Their first single, "Aie A Mwana", had lyrics in Swahili, which sounded "tropical" to the girls--somehow that suggested "bananas" to them. Then they took the "rama" from the song "Pyjamarama" by the group Roxy Music and put it all together. | G | ||
| D-12 | The band started it because it's short for "Dirty Dozen" | Donny | ||
| Chumbawumba | On the BBC new program, "Have I Got News For You" they said it was called Chumbawumba because it evolved from "Chimp eat Banana". | JOHN | ||
| Stereophonics | They were called Tragic Love Company because it was inspired by the names of 3 of their favourite bands, TRAGIC (Tragically Hip) LOVE (Mother Love Bone) COMPANY (Bad Company) | Onju | ||
| Pet Shop Boys | At first they called themselves "West End" but after they changed it to "Pet Shop Boys" after some of their friends who worked in Pet Shop. | Tiina | ||
| Stone Temple Pilots | In a book of Vietnam veterans poetry, there is a reference to a young fighter pilot who destroyed an ancient stone temple for target practice. | Bobostaxi | ||
| The Jam | The sleeve notes of one of my Jam cd's says that Paul Wellers sister came up with the name at breakfast one day. | Jason Bassett | ||
| Waiver | Originally this was the working title of an instrumental song but soon became the band name. It was the only thing written on a white board in the room where they first rehearsed. | Jason Bassett | ||
| Pink | On (Mtv, Making the Video), that her name is a 'Resevoir Dogs' reference. she and her friends all assumed the identities of the characters from that movie. They dubbed her Mr. Pink. She jokingly said she dropped the Mr. because she didn't what people thinking she was a drag queen. | jay | ||
| Six Toed Martha | The drummer's father had told them about a rumor he had heard about Martha Stewart having 6 toes | Punk Diva | ||
| Big Black | Big Black was named after a short story written by Richard Wright entitled, "Big Black Good Man." | Roderick | ||
| X-mal Deutschland | This German proto-goth band chose their name due to the fact that there were two Germanys at the time. In German math jargon, xmal equates to the English "n times..." | Roderick |
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