Band names: Origins and Meanings

[Barcon]

Anal **** are named after some **** who likes to over-analyse everything

That's a bit of a let down.

 

[OB1]

Isn't Wolfgang Van Halen, using the Mammoth name now.

Yes, he is. As a tribute to his Dad, I think.

 

[Elbow beards]

Badly drawn boy - viz character.
Elbow - line from the singing detective, describing the the word as the loveliest word in the English language.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

My favorite band name of all time, "Tygers of Pan Tang" comes from some fictional wizzard who kept Tygers as pets in a place called Pan Tang.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

The Sultans of Ping FC are an Irishband formed in 1988 by Niall O'Flaherty, Pat O'Connell, Paul Fennelly and Ger Lyons. [1] The band's name is a play on the Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing", dating from a time when "it was sacrilege to say anything whatsoever funny or nasty about Dire Straits".[2]

 

[Elbow beards]

The Sultans of Ping FC are an Irishband formed in 1988 by Niall O'Flaherty, Pat O'Connell, Paul Fennelly and Ger Lyons. [1] The band's name is a play on the Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing", dating from a time when "it was sacrilege to say anything whatsoever funny or nasty about Dire Straits".[2]

Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper, wait a minute, Where's me jumper, Where's me jumper. Classic

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Down at the disco, bumper to bumper, turned around, Where's me jumper, Where's me jumper. Classic

I know you say things can only get better.
But you haven’t lost your brand new sweater.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Clannad is a shortened name for the band that was originally called
Clann as Dobhar, loose meaning family from Gweedore.

 

[Kippaxpete]

10cc.........the amount of semen in the average male ejaculation.

Urban myth alert!

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

The Dubliners……
Were from Dublin.