What is in a name?

[whizbyu]

Music groups have some of the strangest names.
Death Cab For Cutie.
Stone Temple Pilots
Flock of Seagulls

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[HardbodyLoyalist]

The Smashing Pumpkins

The Violent Femmes

Thin Lizzy

 

[Clevy]

Limp Bixkit( my personal favorite)
Five finger death punch
Nirvana(another favorite)
Soundgarden(favorite,named after a statue)

 

[97prizm]

Many of the band names we hear are from incidents or accidents that sound good at the time. For instance breaking Benjamin came from the lead singers penchant for knocking things over thus the band name. Limp Bizkit came from Fred Durst's Dog Bizkit, who limped when he walked.

 

[morepwr]

Meat puppets (that one always made me laugh)

 

[aquariuscsm]

Dead Kennedys
Circle Jerks
999 (opposite of 666?)

 

[morepwr]

Toad The Wet Sprocket

 

[OVERKILL]

Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Mötley Crüe
Silverchair
Steppenwolf
10,000 Maniacs
Of Monsters and Men
Cowboy Junkies
Paramore
2 Unlimited
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Atomic Kitten
Avenged Sevenfold
Ben Folds Five
Buckcherry
Bush
Credence Clearwater Revival
Coldplay
Dropkick Murphys
Econoline Crush
Evanescence
Filter
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Hail the Villain
Helloween
KISS
KoRn
Linkin Park
Mudvayne
Nine Inch Nails
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Spacehog
Stabilo
System of a Down
The Goo Goo Dolls
Twisted Sister
White Zombie

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Mötley Crüe
Silverchair
Steppenwolf
10,000 Maniacs
Of Monsters and Men
Cowboy Junkies
Paramore
2 Unlimited
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Atomic Kitten
Avenged Sevenfold
Ben Folds Five
Buckcherry
Bush
Credence Clearwater Revival
Coldplay
Dropkick Murphys
Econoline Crush
Evanescence
Filter
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Hail the Villain
Helloween
KISS
KoRn
Linkin Park
Mudvayne
Nine Inch Nails
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Spacehog
Stabilo
System of a Down
The Goo Goo Dolls
Twisted Sister
White Zombie


Led Zeppelin I read they got their name because they could play really heavy (Led instead of Lead) but soft and light as well (Leppelin because airships float through the air),or something to that effect.

 

[expat]

Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Mötley Crüe
Silverchair
Steppenwolf
10,000 Maniacs
Of Monsters and Men
Cowboy Junkies
Paramore
2 Unlimited
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Atomic Kitten
Avenged Sevenfold
Ben Folds Five
Buckcherry
Bush
Credence Clearwater Revival
Coldplay
Dropkick Murphys
Econoline Crush
Evanescence
Filter
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Hail the Villain
Helloween
KISS
KoRn
Linkin Park
Mudvayne
Nine Inch Nails
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Spacehog
Stabilo
System of a Down
The Goo Goo Dolls
Twisted Sister
White Zombie


Led Zeppelin I read they got their name because they could play really heavy (Led instead of Lead) but soft and light as well (Zeppelin because airships float through the air),or something to that effect.


It was originally Lead zeppelin as in the metal, but it was thought it could be miss- interpreted as 'Leed' Zeppelin, so the spelling was changed to Led.

 

[Fleetmon]

Bubble Puppy
Blue Cheer
Three Doors Down
Puddle of Mud
Blind Melon
L7
Social Distortion
Mott the Hoople
Head East

 

[Shannow]

Chocolate Starfish...I was amazed that they got away with that name.

 

[exranger06]

36 Crazyfists
Opeth
Killswitch Engage
All That Remains
August Burns Red
Demon Hunter
Suicide Silence
Chimaira
Darkest Hour
Emmure
Between the Buried and Me
Unearth
Comeback Kid

 

[simple_gifts]

Quote:

Flock of Seagulls


A collection of seagulls is a gaggle; so it is strange, and inaccurate.

 

[Eosyn]

Queensryche
Def Leppard
Supertramp
Styx

 

[earlyre]

Originally Posted By: morepwr
Toad The Wet Sprocket

Originally a made up band name in a monty python sketch called "rock notes" the guys who made up the actual band heard it, liked it, and used it.

Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album - Wikipedia (1980) from which the below text if quoted:


"Two bands drew their name from "Toad the Wet Sprocket," an imaginary group featured in the Eric Idle monologue "Rock Notes." The name had originally been featured in a parody of The Old Grey Whistle Test on Rutland Weekend Television in 1975. The first Toad the Wet Sprocket was a British heavy metal band of the 1970s, which released a few singles and appeared on the 1980 compilation album Metal for Muthas. The second Toad the Wet Sprocket was a longer-lived American alternative band of the late 1980s and early 1990s."

 

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: expat
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Mötley Crüe
Silverchair
Steppenwolf
10,000 Maniacs
Of Monsters and Men
Cowboy Junkies
Paramore
2 Unlimited
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Atomic Kitten
Avenged Sevenfold
Ben Folds Five
Buckcherry
Bush
Credence Clearwater Revival
Coldplay
Dropkick Murphys
Econoline Crush
Evanescence
Filter
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Hail the Villain
Helloween
KISS
KoRn
Linkin Park
Mudvayne
Nine Inch Nails
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Spacehog
Stabilo
System of a Down
The Goo Goo Dolls
Twisted Sister
White Zombie


Led Zeppelin I read they got their name because they could play really heavy (Led instead of Lead) but soft and light as well (Zeppelin because airships float through the air),or something to that effect.


It was originally Lead zeppelin as in the metal, but it was thought it could be miss- interpreted as 'Leed' Zeppelin, so the spelling was changed to Led.


I heard that Keith Moon accidently named the band when Jimmy Page was telling him about his ideas for the music. Seems like Keith said "That'll go over like a lead Zeppelin."

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Steely Dan (named after an woman's "intimate device")

 

[InhalingBullets]

Tool, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, Drowning Pool, Nine Inch Nails...it goes on and on!

 

[Stelth]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Mötley Crüe
Silverchair
Steppenwolf
10,000 Maniacs
Of Monsters and Men
Cowboy Junkies
Paramore
2 Unlimited
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
Atomic Kitten
Avenged Sevenfold
Ben Folds Five
Buckcherry
Bush
Credence Clearwater Revival
Coldplay
Dropkick Murphys
Econoline Crush
Evanescence
Filter
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
Godsmack
Good Charlotte
Green Day
Hail the Villain
Helloween
KISS
KoRn
Linkin Park
Mudvayne
Nine Inch Nails
Our Lady Peace
Pantera
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Spacehog
Stabilo
System of a Down
The Goo Goo Dolls
Twisted Sister
White Zombie


Many of these aren't particularly strange, or have explanations:

-Paramore is a female-fronted band, with an alternate spelling of "paramour".
-Likewise "motley crew", i.e., alternate spelling
-Ben Folds Five was a band featuring Ben Folds.
-Foo Fighters name has been explained as having to do with some things seen by pilots toward the end of WWII that they called "[censored] balls" or "Foo Fighters."
-Godsmack got its name from some Alice in Chains lyrics.
-Twisted Sister was composed of cross-dressing heterosexual (presumably) males.
-Iron Maiden is obviously named for an iron maiden (torture device).