How did bands acquire their names?

[manclad]

Leading on from the recent Squeeze thread -

Squeeze - name of a Velvet Underground album
Depeche Mode - fast fashion in french
Steely Dan - sex toy in William Burrough's novel The Naked Lunch
Duran Duran - character in the film -Barbarella
Heaven 17 - from a group called The Heaven 17 in A Clockwork Orange
Doors - Aldhous Huxley novel - The Doors Of Perception
Jethro Tull - inventor of the seed drill in the 18th century
Dexys Midnight Runners - the "upper" drug dexedrine
10cc - the average amount of semen ejaculated is 9.5cc & they were "above average"
Deacon Blue- Steely Dan album track

Please feel free to add to the above list

 

[The Kurious Oranj]

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band

Originally called The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. Bonzo the dog was a popular British cartoon character in the 1920s and Dada after the early 20th century art movement. So. There you go then.

 

[bada bing]

Buzzcocks

from a quote in the 70's T.V. show 'Rock Follies' that went something like
"so pick up the phone and give him a buzz,cock"

 

[The Kurious Oranj]

Abba

From the Captain Beefheart song 'Abba Zaba'. Honest.

 

[Bigga]

Oo, 'Limahl', he got his name from...

Mm. That's a tricky one...

 

[Thanx4Knives]

The Replacements

After being banned from the venue for disorderly behaviour, they changed their name to The Replacements.[11] In an unpublished memoir, Mars later explained the band's choice of name: "Like maybe the main act doesn't show, and instead the crowd has to settle for an earful of us dirtbags. [...] It seemed to sit just right with us, accurately describing our collective 'secondary' social esteem".

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

Therapy? = Irish metal/rock band from the 90's. They didn't have a name so their record manager or someone wrote a list of suggestions, Therapy ? was one of them, they kept the question mark..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVsIvvFtcs

 

[Bozo]

Sparks -
Their manager told them to come up with a funny name, like, in his words, 'The Marx Brothers'. They came back with 'The Sparx Brothers'. The manager told them this was too long, so, as you can guess, it was shortened and changed to Sparks!

 

[Dave H]

Radiohead - Named after the Talking Heads song Radio Head.

Kaiser Chiefs - Leeds fans that named their band after Lucas Radabe's old team.

Sigur Ros - Taken from the lead singer's Sister's name, (Sigurros), who was born on the day they formed the band.

 

[Televators]

Oasis - Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon (apparently). A complete dump of a place.