List of band name etymologies

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This is a list of band names with their name origins explained and referenced.

Contents: 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  Bibliography   References 

[edit] 0 – 9

[edit] A

a-ha live. The band's name means the same thing in several languages

[edit] B

Bauhaus in concert. The band are named after the German Bauhaus art movement


Bachman-Turner Overdrive — a combination of band members last names and the magazine Overdrive. The band's name had previously been "Bachman-Turner".[10]

[edit] C

Crass singer Eve Libertine
  • Crass - A reference to the David Bowie song "Ziggy Stardust" (specifically the line "The kids was just crass"[41]).
  • The Cure — The band's original name was Easy Cure, which was taken from the name of one of the group's early songs. The name was later shortened to The Cure because frontman Robert Smith felt the name was too American and "too hippyish".[42]


[edit] D

  • Dead Kennedys — the name was not meant to insult the assassinated Kennedy brothers, but to quote vocalist Jello Biafra, "to bring attention to the end of the American Dream". [43]
  • Depeche Mode — inspired by a French fashion magazine of the same name.[44]
  • Devo - Shortened form of "de-evolution" - the opposite of evolution - expressing the band's opinion on what the planet is going through.[45]
  • Dexys Midnight Runners — from the stimulant Dexedrine.[46]
  • The Doors - Lead Singer Jim Morrison was reading poems by William Blake who said "If the doors of perception are cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite." He was also influenced by author Aldous Huxley who referred to the same line when he titled his book on drug experimentation The Doors of Perception. "There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors."[47]
  • Duran Duran — The band played at Birmingham's Barberella's nightclub [48] so took their name from the villain of the cult science fiction film Barbarella, Dr. Durand-Durand. [49]

[edit] E

  • Eagles - Originally named Teen King And The Emergencies; they liked the American sound of Eagles and the way it was aligned with The Byrds who had a great influence on them.[50]
  • E Street Band — Bruce Springsteen's band was named after E Street (E, not East) in Belmar, New Jersey, because the band used to practice at the E Street home of pianist David Sancious' mother.[51]
  • Eskimo Joe - Their name came about after they saw a t-shirt of Eskimo Joe's, the popular restaurant in Stillwater, Oklahoma. At the time they were searching for a band name, so they adopted the name for what was meant to be a temporary period, but the name ended up sticking with them.[52]
  • Evanescence - When asked where they got their name, they responded, "The dictionary." The word "evanescence" means "a disappearance or dissipation, like vapor." They apparently had a horrible name before and wanted something better. They also wanted to do some artwork (with whatever name they chose) and decided to look under E. They liked the word and definition, likening it to the temporal nature of life.[53]

[edit] F

  • Fall Out Boy - Named after Fallout Boy, the side-kick of Radioactive Man. A character in The Simpsons
  • Fastball - From a baseball porno film the band saw. [54]
  • Faith No More - Named after a race horse they saw listed on a racing form.[55]
  • Five Iron Frenzy - According to bassist Keith Hoerig: "We got the name Five Iron Frenzy from a roommate of most of ours. He was kind of paranoid, and afraid that if he went outside on this particular night he was going to get jumped by some people. He had a golf club to defend himself and he said something to the effect of it being like "putter mayhem". Scott looked at the golf club he was holding, and noting that it was a five iron said, "No, more like a Five Iron Frenzy." The name stuck."[56]
  • Fleetwood Mac - They just took the last name of drummer Mick Fleetwood and a form of bassist John McVie's last name.[57]
  • Foo Fighters - A term used by World War II pilots to describe strange flying fireballs they sometimes saw.[58]


[edit] G

  • Garbage - Either lead singer Shirley Manson's father yelled down to the band at one of their basement practice sessions, "Play more quietly - you sound like garbage." or from a friend of drummer Butch Vig, who said "This stuff sounds like garbage!"[59]
  • Georgia Wonder - Georgia Wonder was the stage name of Lulu Hurst, a 'magnetic phenomenon' whose vaudeville act toured America in the late 19th Century. Stephanie Grant and Julian Moore from the band chose the name after trying to duplicate these powers from an exposé they discovered in a book about the period.[60]
  • Gin Blossoms - Slang for the "blossoms" (burst blood capillaries) on the face particularly the nose from drinking too much alcohol - in the late 1800s gin was a popular cheap alcoholic drink.[61]
  • Gnarls Barkley - Members Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse couldn't think of anything so they just stole their name from someone's fantasy basketball team.[62]
  • Godsmack - According to the band, they arrived at the name after one band member made a particularly inappropriate comment and another remarked, "God will smack you for that one." Henceforth one would receive a "Godsmack" for bad behavior.[63]
  • Goldfinger - Named after the James Bond movie Starring Sean Connery.[64]
  • Green Day — "green day" is a slang term for spending a day smoking marijuana. Billie Joe Armstrong wrote a song called "Green Day" about his first experience with the drug, and it soon replaced "Sweet Children" as the band's name.[65]
  • Guns 'N' Roses - Originally two bands L.A. Gunns and Hollywood Roses. Hollywood Roses was headed by Axl Rose, Tracii Guns headed the other band which also featured Slash & Steven Adler. The two frequented clubs and played there and were friends.[66]
  • Gym Class Heroes - Drummer Matt McGinley was bullied in Gym Class as a kid and Frontman Travis McCoy protected him from bullies. McCoy was his Gym Class Hero.[67]

[edit] H

  • Hard-Fi - "Hard-Fi" is the name given to the sound produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry, a Grammy award-winning reggae and dub artist, at his Black Ark recording studio. Being admirers of Perry's work, the band decided to name themselves after his distinctive sound.[68]
  • Heaven 17 - from a line in Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange, a fictional band mentioned by a young woman in the record store.[3]
  • Hüsker Dü — is the name of a Scandinavian memory-based board game that means "Do you remember?"[69]
  • Hootie and The Blowfish - From the nicknames of two friends of singer/guitarist Darius Rucker one of them had owl-like eyes so he called him "Hootie", the other friend had puffy "Blowfish" cheeks.[70]
  • Helmet - Picked simply because frontman Page Hamilton thought it sounded like a cool band name. Originally created to be 'Helmut' however the band preferred the Anglo spelling.[71]

[edit] I

[edit] J

  • Jamiroquai - The band name is a portmanteau of Jam session and "iroquai", based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe. [73]
  • Jane's Addiction - The band got its name from a girl Jane that Frontman Perry Farrell knew back in L.A who was a prostitute and called it her addiction.[74]
  • Jefferson Airplane — According to Jorma Kaukonen the name was coined by a friend as a satire of blues pseudonyms such as "Blind Lemon" Jefferson.[75]
  • Judas Priest - Originally a mild curse said to avoid saying "Jesus Christ" - also from the Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest".[76]

[edit] K

  • Kaiser Chiefs — Named after the South African Kaizer Chiefs Football Club, the former team of long-serving former Leeds captain Lucas Radebe.[77]
  • The Killers - Comes from the bass drum of a fictional band in the music video for the New Order song "Crystal". [78]
  • Kings of Leon - Three of the band members are brothers and one of their cousins joined them. They chose the name "Kings of Leon" because their grandfather's name is Leon. [79]
  • KISS - According to Paul Stanley, Kiss just sounded dangerous (kiss of death) and sexy at the same time. Kiss denies the rumors that the name stands for "Kids In Service of Satan", "Knights in Satan's Service" or the saying "Keep It Simple Stupid."[80]
  • Klaxons - Klaxons is to toot to be a loud intrusive noise to disrupt. K is the magic letter. [81]
  • KoЯn - In Fieldy's book, Got the Life, he stated that the band wanted something that sounded lame at first, but was awesome when you listened to it. (Like the Beatles and Faith no More)

[edit] L

  • Lasgo — from the Scottish city Glasgow with the first and last letters removed.[82]
  • Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page was drinking with The Who's Drummer Keith Moon and Bassist John Entwhistle, who were complaining about their band mates Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. They joked about the two of them starting a band with Jimmy, and Keith Moon said "Yeah, that will go over like a lead zeppelin". When Jimmy formed his own band, he remembered this and thought "Lead Zeppelin" would be good, both from that conversation and the heavy/light contradiction similar to the band named Iron Butterfly. They decided to drop the "a" so Americans wouldn't mispronounce it.[83]
  • The Lemonheads - Named after the candy.[84]
  • Living Colour - They named the band after the NBC TV advertisement which said "Broadcasting in Living Color."[85]
  • Lothar and the Hand People — Band member Richard Willis had a dream in which an enslaved race called the Hand People was saved by a hero named Lothar. Later, well after the name had been chosen, they decided that Lothar was the name of the theremin used by member John Emelin.[86]
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - They were named after Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher at Robert E. Lee High School who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair.[87]

[edit] M

  • Marcy Playground - Frontman John Wozniak would look out the window of his third grade classroom and see that playground and wish he could play there - but he didn't because there were bullies there who would beat him up.[88]
  • Marillion - The band was originally called "Silmarillion." The name was taken from the title of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel. The name was eventually shortened to avoid possible legal problems.[89]
  • Matchbox Twenty — originally titled "Matchbox 20," the band took its name from a softball jersey with a "20" on it and a patch that had "Matchbox" written on it. The band altered its name to "Matchbox Twenty" after the release of its debut album Yourself or Someone Like You.[90]
  • Megadeth - While Dave Mustaine was traveling back to his home in the Bay Area on a bus after getting kicked out of his former band, Metallica, he would write lyrics on the back of a handbill to pass the time. The handbill itself quoted "The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to," which inspired him to use Megadeath as his band name. He later found out "The Megadeaths" was the former band name for Pink Floyd and dropped the 'A' in 'Death' to keep the name.[91]
  • Metallica - Drummer Lars Ulrich was helping a friend think of a name for a metal fanzine. The choices were Metal Mania and Metallica. Metal Mania was chosen for the magazine and he used Metallica for his band.[92]
  • Modest Mouse — Their name derives from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall," which reads, "...and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people..."[93]
  • Mötley Crüe - From a friend's comment, "What a motley-looking crew." Motley means "of great variety" and once described the appearance of a court jester. The re-spelling was their own invention; using the umlauts came to them while they were partying and drinking Löwenbrau beer.[94]
  • Motörhead - British slang for a drug user who uses a lot of speed. Originally, the band wanted to be called "Bastard" but were convinced to rethink this decision when told that their music would never gain mainstream publicity with such a band name.[95]
  • Mr. Bungle — Named after a "Lunchroom manners" classroom film from 1950.[96]
  • Muse — Matthew Bellamy thought it was a clean, abstract name for a band.[97]
  • My Chemical Romance - Bassist Mikey Way adapted the title from Irvine Welsh's "Three Tales of Chemical Romance," a book that caught his attention while working at Barnes & Noble. [98]

[edit] N

  • Nine Inch Nails — sole constant member Trent Reznor chose the name because it "could be abbreviated easily" and denied any "literal meaning" to the name.[99]
  • Nirvana - guitarist Kurt Cobain heard it while watching a late night special on Buddhism. Nirvana means to describe the perfect peace of the mind that is free from craving, anger, and other afflicted states.[100]
  • No Doubt - A favorite phrase of John Spence, it became the name of the band prior to his suicide.[101]
  • NOFX — guitarist Eric Melvin says that he came up with the name, inspired by the broken up punk band "Negative FX". The name is also meant to symbolize the band's rejection of gimmickry that the band was seeing in music at the time.[102]

[edit] O

  • Oasis evolved from an earlier band called The Rain, composed of Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Tony McCarroll (drums) and Chris Hutton (vocals). Unsatisfied with Hutton, Arthurs auditioned acquaintance Liam Gallagher as a replacement. After Gallagher joined the group, the band's name was changed to Oasis, which was inspired by an Inspiral Carpets tour poster which was in his and his brother Noel's bedroom. One of the venues on it was the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon.[103]

[edit] P

  • Panic at the Disco (formerly Panic! At the Disco) lifted the name from the lyrics of a song called "Panic," by Name Taken: "Panic at the disco / Sat back and took it so slow."[104]
  • Pantera - Spanish for Panther and also a car.[105]
  • Pearl Jam - The band's first name was "Mookie Blaylock" after the All-Star basketball player, but the name was changed to "Pearl Jam" due to trademark concerns. Vocalist Eddie Vedder claimed in an early interview that the name was a reference to his great-grandmother Pearl.[106] In 2006 guitarist Mike McCready said that bass player Jeff Ament came up with "Pearl" and that "Jam" was added after seeing Neil Young live.[107]
  • Pink Floyd - Playing under multiple names, including "Tea Set", when the band found themselves on the same bill as another band with the same name, Syd Barrett came up with the alternative name The Pink Floyd Sound, after two blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.[108][109] For a time after this they oscillated between The Tea Set and The Pink Floyd Sound, with the latter name eventually winning out. The Sound was dropped fairly quickly, but the definite article was still used regularly until 1970. The group's UK releases during the Syd Barrett era credited them as The Pink Floyd as did their first two U.S. singles. 1969's More and Ummagumma albums credit the band as Pink Floyd, produced by The Pink Floyd, while 1970's Atom Heart Mother credits the band as The Pink Floyd, produced by Pink Floyd. David Gilmour is known to have referred to the group as The Pink Floyd as late as 1984.[110]
  • Phish - A play on drummer Jon Fishman's last name... altered spelling as in The Beatles.[111]

[edit] Q

  • Queen - Were originally called Smile. Singer Freddie Mercury came up with the new name for the band, later saying: "Years ago I thought up the name 'Queen' … It’s just a name, but it’s very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid … It’s a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of gay connotations, but that was just one face of it."[120]

[edit] R

[edit] S

  • Sigur Rós — Sigur Rós was named after the band's vocalist, Jón þór Birgisson (Jónsi)'s little sister, whose name is Sigurrós (without a space). It translates to "victory rose." [132]
  • Skid Row - Slang for a rundown inner city neighborhoods where alcoholics, junkies, street people can afford to live.[133]
  • Sloan — According to band member Jay Ferguson, the band's name refers to a friend's nickname. Their friend Jason Larsen was called "slow one" by his French-speaking boss, which with the French accent sounded more like "Sloan." The original agreement was that they could name the band after their friend's nickname as long as he was on the cover of their first album. As a result, it is Larsen who appears on the cover of Sloan's Peppermint EP.[135]
  • Smash Mouth - Football players use this slang term in any game with a lot of blocking or tackling.[137]
  • Soundgarden - A garden of kinetic sculptures that makes music when wind blows through them... a sculpture in Seattle called "Sound Garden".[138]
  • Sum 41 - The band started 41 days into the summer.[139] The band was originally a NOFX cover band named Kaspir; they changed their name to Sum 41 for a Supernova show on September 28, 1996.[139][140]
  • System of A Down - The name was adapted from a poem written by the lead guitarist, Daron, which was called "Victims of a Down."[141]

[edit] T

  • Taking Back Sunday — The band is named after a song by Long Island band The Waiting Process who were inspired by their grandmother, Tina, that they should take back Sunday from the Christian people in Long Island.[142]
  • Talking Heads - From the video jargon for a camera shot showing only the head and shoulders of a person. Newscasters are usually shown this way. Another story says they were inspired by a military experiment involving talking mannequin heads.[143]
  • Testament - The band started out with the name "Legacy" until they finished recording their first studio album. Once they found out that a jazz band had already trademarked the name "Legacy" they hastily changed their name to Testament and named their album The Legacy instead.[144]
  • Third Eye Blind - Our third eye is the imagined one that gives us a kind of sixth sense (telepathy, ESP, etc.) and the band felt that most of us are blind in that sense. There is also a symbolic third eye (all knowing eye) that appears on the back of a U.S. dollar bill.[145]

[edit] U

  • U2 - the U2 was an unemployment form in Ireland.[146]
  • UB40 - A Title of an unemployment form called Unemployment Benefit, Form 40.[147]

[edit] V

  • Van Halen - David Lee Roth considered naming the band "Mammoth" until Alex and Eddie Van Halen thought the name "Van Halen" would be better.[148]
  • The Velvet Underground - Were named after a book about sadomasochism by Michael Leigh.[149]
  • The Villebillies - The word "Villebillies" [Vill-bill-eez] came from a lyric written by vocalist Derek "Child" Monyhan shortly after joining the group. It is a combination of the words Louisville, the band's hometown and largest urban center in Kentucky, and Hillbilly - In reference to Kentucky's rural mountain culture. The name references the cross genre nature of the band's music.[150]

[edit] W

  • The Who - Were originally called The Detours, then changed their name to The Who after a suggestion by Townsend's friend Richard Barnes. Their first manager, Pete Meaden, renamed them The High Numbers, and they released one unsuccessful single, Zoot Suit, under that name. When EMI dropped them the band sacked Pete Meaden and went back to being called The Who. Another possible reason was because of Peter Townshend's grandmother, who would always refer to popular bands as "The Who?" mainly because of hard hearing. [153]
  • Wu Tang Clan - RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard adopted the name for the rap group after seeing the Kung fu film Shaolin and Wu Tang, which features a school of warriors trained in Wu-Tang style.[154]

[edit] X

[edit] Y

  • The Yardbirds - Grew out of Keith Relf's The Metropolitan Blues Quartet. When the band changed members in 1963 Relf changed the name to Yardbirds partly from the nickname of jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, "Bird", and partly from the American slang for prisoner.[156]
  • Yo La Tengo - Translates to "I have it" from Spanish - said to be the phrase called out by Hispanic baseball players when fielding a pop fly ball. Singer/guitar player Ira Kaplan got the expression from a book he was reading about baseball called The Five Seasons.[157]

[edit] Z

  • ZZ Top - Taken from the name of a Texas Blues man ZZ Hill, and to make their name along the lines of legendary blues guitarist B.B. King, Replacing the ZZ from BB and Top instead of King they became ZZ Top. Though a rumor is that they got their name by combining Zig Zag and Top, two well known brands of "cigarette" rolling papers.[158]
  • Zox - Name taken from the last name of drummer, John Zox.[159]

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[edit] Bibliography

  • Dolgins, Adam (1998). Rock Names: From Abba to ZZ Top: How Rock Bands Got Their Names. Cidermill Books. ISBN 0806520469.
  • Wilson, Dave (2005). Rock Formations: Categorical Answers to How Band Names Were Formed. Carol Pub. Group. ISBN 0974848352.
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