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* '''[[[BLANK]]]''' — several names were put forth, but no name was agreed on by all four band members. So, the members "left the title [BLANK]".
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'''[[Bachman-Turner Overdrive]]''' — a combination of band members last names and the magazine ''Overdrive''. The bands name had previously been "Bachman-Turner".<ref name="BNO" />
'''[[Bachman-Turner Overdrive]]''' — a combination of band members last names and the magazine ''Overdrive''. The bands name had previously been "Bachman-Turner".<ref name="BNO" />

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

Adam and the Ants

0 – 9

A

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

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 bands name had previously been "Bachman-Turner".[11]

C

Crass singer Eve Libertine

D

E

  • The 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.[45]
  • 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.[46]
  • ELO - An Acronym standing for Electric Light Orchestra.
  • EMF - An Acronym standing for Epsom Mad Funkers.
  • Escape the Fate - Stems from bassist Max Green and former vocalists Ronnie Radke's idea that the band would help them escape the "fate" of their then-current abysmal life style.

F

  • Fastball - From a baseball porno film the band saw. [47]
  • Faith No More - Named after a race horse they saw listed on a racing form.[48]
  • Fall Out Boy - After playing several shows under various names, the band asked a crowd for a new name, to which Fall Out Boy was randomly shouted in return.
  • 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."[49]
  • Fleetwood Mac - They just took the last name of drummer Mick Fleetwood and a form of bassist John McVie's last name.[50]
  • Foo Fighters - A term used by World War II pilots to describe strange flying fireballs they sometimes saw.[51]
  • Fountains of Wayne - from Fountains of Wayne, a lawn ornament store in Wayne, New Jersey.
  • The Fugees - Group member Wyclef Jean came up with the name from a corruption of the word "refugees".[52]

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!"[53]
  • 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.[54]
  • 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.[55]
  • 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". Hence forth one would receive a "Godsmack" for bad behavior.[56] There are too many similarities between Godsmack and Alice in Chains to ignore. Namely that Godsmack is an Alice in Chains song from the album Dirt. As well the "Godsmack" logo is extremely similar to that of the sun logo of Alice in Chains. From Wikipedia, "Erna perfectly mimics the late Layne Staley's low, guttural, sinister singing and snarly, metal-inspired growls. The band's music is a faithful retread of Jerry Cantrell's churning, tuned-down hard rock. Godsmack album "Faceless", mixes arena rock in the vein of an Alice in Chains." [57]
  • Goodbye Soundscape - Formed in Wilkes-Barre, PA in 2005. A lyric by the band American Nightmare saying "This is the soundtrack to our goodbye." inspired guitarist Brandon Bevans to pitch Goodbye Soundtrack which later became Goodbye Soundscape. MySpace.com/GoodbyeSoundscape (Takeover/Romani Records)
  • Goldfinger - Named after the James Bond movie Starring Sean Connery.[58]
  • Grateful Dead - Chosen by guitarist Jerry Garcia from a dictionary. They had previously been called The Warlocks, but bassist Phil Lesh heard that the name had been taken by another band already.
  • Green Day — "green day" is a slang term for spending a day smoking marajuana. 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.[59]
  • Grey Eye Glances - from a quote from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "To One in Paradise".
  • 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.[60]

H

I

J

K

  • Kaiser Chiefs — Named after the South African Kaizer Chiefs Football Club, the former team of long-serving former Leeds captain Lucas Radebe.[69]
  • 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" or the saying "Keep It Simple Stupid."[70]
  • KoЯn - There are many stories as to how the name originated, however the most believable is that Korn starts with Kern County, CA which is where Frontman Jonathan Davis worked as a Coroner. From that came "KoRn". It was then decided that it would be written like a child would write it, hence the K instead of a C, and the backwards R.[71]

L

  • Lasgo — from the Scottish city Glasgow with the first and last letters removed.[72]
  • 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 one of them said "Yeah, that will go over like a lead balloon". 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.[73]
  • The Lemonheads - Named after the candy.[74]
  • Limp Bizkit - Got the idea from Fred Durst's dog Biscuit who has a limp.[75]
  • 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.[76]

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 that would beat him up... must have been traumatic.[77]
  • 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.[78]
  • Megadeth - Frontman Dave Mustaine thought of the name Fallen Angel, which was an earlier project by him, but the name ended on Megadeth. The word is taken from the term 'Megadeath' which means 'one million deaths', but they chose to drop the 'a' to make it 'their own'.
  • 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 & he used Metallica for his band.[79]
  • Mindless Self Indulgence - An allusion to masturbation.
  • 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..."[80]
  • Mr. Bungle — Named after a "Lunchroom manners" classroom film from 1950.[81]
  • Mötley Crüe - A friend said "What a Motley looking Crew" - Motley meaning "of great variety" and once describing the appearance of a court jester. The re-spelling was their own invention; using the umlauts came to them while they were partying & drinking Lowenbrau beer.[82]
  • Motörhead - British slang for a drug user who uses a lot of speed.[83]
  • My Chemical Romance - Bassist Mikey Way discovered the latter part of the band name while working at a book store and seeing Irvine Welsh's novel Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, later attaching the "My".

N

  • N.E.R.D - "No one Ever Really Dies"; chosen by the production duo of The Neptunes, partially to distinguish their band from their production work.[84]
  • 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.[85]
  • 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 afflictive states.[86]
  • No Doubt - A favorite phrase of John Spence, it became the name of the band prior to his suicide.[87]
  • 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.[88]
  • The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Taken from the name of an episode of The Twilight Zone.

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.[89]

P

  • Pantera - Spanish for Panther and also a pretty cool car.[90]
  • Paramore - Taken from a band member's relative's last name.
  • 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.[91] 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.[92]
  • Pencey Prep - Taken from the name of the preparatory school of character Holden Caulfield in the novel Catcher in the Rye.
  • 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.[93][94] 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.[95]
  • Phish - A play on drummer Jon Fishman's last name... altered spelling as in The Beatles.[96]

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."[105]

R

S

Secondhand Serenade

  • Senses Fail - Loosely based on several religious beliefs that one reaches true nirvana by disavowing all bodily senses, thus having one's "senses fail".
  • Skid Row - Slang for a rundown inner city neighborhoods where alcoholics, junkies, street people can afford to live.[116]
  • 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.[117]
  • Steely Dan — Named after a dildo in the novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.[118]
  • Smash Mouth - Football players use this slang term in any game with a lot of blocking or tackling.[119]
  • Soundgarden - A garden of kinetic sculptures that makes music when wind blows through them... a sculpture in Seattle called "Sound Garden".[120]

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.[121]
  • Talking Heads - From the video jargon for a camera shot showing only the head & shoulders of a person. Newscasters are usually shown this way and it makes for boring TV. Another story says they were inspired by a military experiment involving talking mannequin heads.[122]
  • the GazettE - Originated from the word "cassette", emphasizing that their music is original and "handmade" by them. (This is a Japanese Rock/Visual band)
  • 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.[123]

U

  • U2 - A type of spy plane used by the United States in the 1960s - made famous when Gary Powers' U2 plane was shot down over Russia and he was taken as a prisoner during the Cold War.[124]
  • UB40 - A Title of an unemployment form called Unemployment Benefit, Form 40.[125]
  • The Used - Originally simply called "Used" until it was discovered the name was taken, the name is based on how in large part the band's members felt "used" by various people in their life.

V

W

X

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.[133]
  • 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.[134]

Z

  • ZZ Top - Taken from the name of a Texas Blues man ZZ Hill. Though a rumor is that they got their name by combining Zig Zag and Top, two well known brands of "cigarette" rolling papers.[135]

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  • 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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