Topic: Bands with stolen names (Read 33309 times)

Jedit · « **Reply #50 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 12:17 »

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Radiohead are The Smiths Lite.

i like both bands but i fail to see the resemblance.

Well, "fronted by a whiny cunt" is a good start. I suspect you're not thinking of Pablo Honey when you think of Radiohead, though.

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according to the band themselves, the pixies were who they pilfered from liberally at the beginning, then autechre and on the last album the fall.

<shudder>

To what depths must you have sunk if you want to sound like Mark E Smith?

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They have no purpose for existence beyond that as an object lesson in why the British music scene turned into shit after 1990.

i'm sure they didn't form with that in mind.

Perhaps I should have said "reason" instead of "purpose".

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as much as i like the idea of a band forming in order to be shit. actually, i think the darkness may have done just that.

In a word: yes.

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seriously though, there has been some great british bands since then.

There are always good bands. They just don't define the scene because people are too busy listening to shit popularised by morons.

Kai · « **Reply #51 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 12:22 »

Hey, guys, let's not have Radiohead arguments. We've had them before, and they're pretty fucking retarded and you're not going to change anyone's mind on anything.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #52 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 12:34 »

Yeah there's really no point in arguing about it; it wont change anything.

besides, radiohead sucks anyways</joke>

tacroy · « **Reply #53 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 14:50 »

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Death Cab for Cutie - a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song

You sure about this? I don't have a link to my information, but I recall Death Cab stating that their name came from a line in the Magical Mystery Tour movie.

I believe Skyclad comes from the Wicca term for nudity.

Orbital got their name from the M25 Orbital Motorway that circles London. They began their career at the rave scenes that occurred outside this highway.

LFO (90's British house music, not rubbish American pop trio) stands for Low Frequency Oscillation. The Low Frequency Oscillator is a part commonly found in most synthesizers.

Led Zeppelin's name came about from a joke one of the members (I believe Jimmy Page) made in a bar. When talking with one of the other future members about the possibility of forming a band, Page said "that would go over like a lead balloon," with Led Zeppelin being a small variation of that.

While I'm not certain of the connection here, the current artist/group Aqualung may be derived from the Jethro Tul album of the same name.

I'll try and think of a few more.

I suppose none of the ones I've listed are "stealing" per se, but I still find them interesting.

Kai · « **Reply #54 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 15:48 »

I actually said Skyclad in response to tommydski saying something about good English bands since 1990.

Death Cab got their name from the Magical Mystery Tour movie, yes, but it was from a song in the movie, which was the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's song, Death Cab for Cutie. BAM, I KNOW THE FACTS

I AM LIKE A FUCKING PSYCHIC OR PROPHET OR SOMETHING

tacroy · « **Reply #55 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 16:25 »

I realize you said Skyclad. However, you'll notice this thread is about name origins, and your one-word post does little to fulfill that.

Interesting Death Cab info. I haven't seen the movie so I wouldn't have noticed.

Grats on the capslock ego stroking.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #56 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 16:38 »

Coma Eternal got their name from the last song of the End This Day album. While both bands are incredible, neither has a good name.

Mattie · « **Reply #57 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 20:15 »

The Fall of Troy (song by Tom Waits)

Tokuma · « **Reply #58 on:** 09 Jun 2006, 20:47 »

Daydream Nation (The Sonic Youth album)

Jedit · « **Reply #59 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 08:39 »

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To what depths must you have sunk if you want to sound like Mark E Smith?

the same depths that pavement, girls against boys, fugazi, pj harvey and franz ferdinand have sunk to i guess.

Please - nobody's sunk to such depths as Franz Ferdinand. (No, I don't wanna, now fuck off.)

Re Skyclad: the term has been around for thousands of years. Wicca has been around for about 40 years. So we can hope that Skyclad nicked their name from early Celtic tales, as opposed to a bunch of idiotic bead-wearing hippie wannabes.

Misereatur · « **Reply #60 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 09:10 »

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Skyclad: the term has been around for thousands of years. Wicca has been around for about 40 years. So we can hope that Skyclad nicked their name from early Celtic tales, as opposed to a bunch of idiotic bead-wearing hippie wannabes

I think 'Clad knows their Celtic rituals.

Kai · « **Reply #61 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 09:24 »

Most certainly.

And stop being dicks, guys. Seriously.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #62 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 09:56 »

Jesus H Fucking christ.

This is the last fucking place I thought I'd hear people spouting shit about wicca!

ARADIA, GOSPEL OF THE WITCHES WAS PUBLISHED IN 1899. ALL THE BACKGROUND FOR WICCA COMES FROM 19TH CENTURY MYSTICISM AND PAGAN REVIVALISM. GERALD GARDNER, A STARTED PRACTICING WHAT WOULD COME TO BE CALLED WICCA IN 1939, HOWEVER WITCHCRAFT WAS ONLY ACTUALLY DECRIMINALISED IN THE UK IN 1951, WHICH IS WHEN HE FIRST PUBLICISED WICCA AND BEGAN WORKING ON WITCHCRAFT TODAY, WHICH HE PUBLISHED IN 1954. EVEN IF YOU ASCRIBE TO THE THEORY THAT GARDNER AND LELAND MANUFACTURED ALL CONNECTIONS TO A CONTINUOUS PAGAN WITCHCRAFT RELIGION, AND THERE WAS NO NEW FOREST COVEN, THEIR SOURCES STILL STRETCH BACK FAR INTO OCCULTIC TRADITIONS OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES.

WICCA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT

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>_<

Also, if you want to be more specific, Skyclad aren't just called Skyclad because they've been exceedingly obliging and actually written a song about why they chose that name.

http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/skyclad/waywardsonsofmotherearth.html#8

The relevant passage:

"Held within the safety of this mundane existence,
Facing endless grey Mondays of dull nine to fives,
We all climb the social ladder with a dogged persistence,
Forging chains we shall carry for the rest of our lives.

We cannot see though clothes may maketh man
they cannot give us shelter,
On this mortal helter-skelter
if our loyalties are torn,
Between the values we believe in,
and the egos we are feeding,
We stand all together naked as the day we were born.
And so cast off the lies that are our lives and find the truth within.
SKYCLAD--the veil has lifted,
SKYCLAD--now I see through,
SKYCLAD--your mask of illusion,
SKYCLAD--to the fake that is you."

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #63 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 10:23 »

How is Skyclad stealing from anything? It just means naked. The air being your clothes. Why do people always have to credit a word to something? Why can't something just be a word?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #64 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 10:26 »

Well, er Skyclad are all pagans.

So whilst not 'stealing', as such, they are definitely taking their name from that source.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #65 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 12:52 »

Yeah, but sayting they are 'stealing' the name would be like saying The Avalanches were ripping off mother nature.

tacroy · « **Reply #66 on:** 10 Jun 2006, 18:33 »

Very few of these bands have actually "stolen" their names, that's just the subject the OP chose to give the thread.

Jedit · « **Reply #67 on:** 11 Jun 2006, 01:15 »

Quote from: tacroy

Very few of these bands have actually "stolen" their names, that's just the subject the OP chose to give the thread.

Not quite. Originally the thread was about bands who took their names from other bands or their songs. It's since drifted into movies - though surprisingly nobody mentioned Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - and into "any origin at all".

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #68 on:** 11 Jun 2006, 19:02 »

I found out a couple weeks ago Sunn0)))) got their name from the spearkers. Which is odd because my band has been using Sunn speakers for our PA for about 6 months now.

Sanitycult · « **Reply #69 on:** 11 Jun 2006, 22:46 »

Soulfly (Deftones) --not truley fair cause i think they colaborated on that song... Deftones has got to be the 2nd coolest sourse for band names, I was in a band called House of Flies for a while... 1st coolest must be ledbelly but i don't think it's been done...

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #70 on:** 11 Jun 2006, 23:35 »

The Stars of Track and Field - A Belle and Sebastian song.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #71 on:** 12 Jun 2006, 12:34 »

Quote from: ALoveSupreme

I found out a couple weeks ago Sunn0)))) got their name from the spearkers. Which is odd because my band has been using Sunn speakers for our PA for about 6 months now.

I think it's also a nod to that Earth album that was called something like 'Sunn Amps And Smashed Guitars'.

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brian baker formed dag nasty, who were absolute shit and probably the inspiration for every shit band that has been called 'emocore'.
ian mackaye formed embrace, who were a hastily reassembled version of the faith. also, they were rubbish.

I really like Embrace and Dag Nasty myself. Embrace, well, the guy just can't sing in the slightest and it's old school emo as hell so I just can't help liking it. And although Dag Nasty have gone a bit wonky over the years 'Can I Say' is just textbook melodic punk with a nice bit of emo lumped in. I don't doubt the two of them are responsible for a lot of shite, but not nearly as much as Minor Threat and the sXe thing.

corwinzor · « **Reply #72 on:** 02 Aug 2006, 22:14 »

Steppenwolf (a Herman Hesse novel)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
there is a lame local band called A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick novel)

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #73 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 03:08 »

Hot Water Music and A Radio With Guts both lifted their names from Charles Bukowski

Rizzo · « **Reply #74 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 03:42 »

corwinzor, smallify your avatar!

salada · « **Reply #75 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 03:48 »

Squarepusher occasionally releases stuff under Chaos AD (the title of a Sepultura album).

Then of course there's

but I don't know if that counts here since the original DM isn't a band?

While we're on it, there's a terrible commercial Kiwi hip-hop crew called the Deceptikonz.

And don't even get started on groups named after various bits of electronics or instruments. Wait, someone's already done Sunn O))). So then there's The Prodigy, DMX (the rapper) and DMX Krew (electro group on Warp), 1200 Techniques and at least one other artist with 1200 in their name.

And no-one's mentioned this guy yet?

edit: and christ on a bike! someone in this thread needs to debiggen their avatar! BRAIN MELLLLT

Zaarin · « **Reply #76 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 04:51 »

Does naming your band after a place count as theft? Because if so, all these guys are screwed.

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #77 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 07:10 »

Have you seen local hardcore bands Dune and Bene Gesserit? They're named after, um, some book.
Its slipped my mind
ok, its Dune

Augie March is a character in... some novel
John Wesley Harding is a Bob Dylan album

Final Fantasy is named after a game series
i'm told
i certainly never spent days in the basement playing FF7 or FF8
that would be silly

Kyuss was a death god in Dungeons and Dragons

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #78 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 13:05 »

Johnny Truant, named after the House of Leaves character

yatima2975 · « **Reply #79 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 16:16 »

delurking...
Mudhoney have got their name from a Russ Meyer movie of the same name.
Duran Duran Duran - well that's obvious...
Donna Summer is/was used by Jason Summer as an alias.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #80 on:** 03 Aug 2006, 16:32 »

duh guys. The Doors obviously stole their name from the part of architecture that we use to enter and exit buildings.

how come no one mentioned this before?

TheSilverWolf · « **Reply #81 on:** 04 Aug 2006, 00:20 »

Gah........we stole our name. My friends and I do a garage band called Rosenrot. God Rammstein songs have cool names. We were "We step on puppies", but we decided against that.

redphoenix11 · « **Reply #82 on:** 04 Aug 2006, 00:44 »

The Killers got their name from the video to the New Order song "Crystal"

edgyswingsetacid · « **Reply #83 on:** 04 Aug 2006, 00:55 »

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Hot Water Music and A Radio With Guts both lifted their names from Charles Bukowski

good call. i beleive The Good Life also got their name from buk.

Steely Dan got their name from a vibrator featured in the book 'naked lunch' by william burroughs.

the velvet underground got their name from a book of the same title.

the album leaf is the name of a chopin piece.

Rizzo · « **Reply #84 on:** 04 Aug 2006, 02:11 »

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Have you seen local hardcore bands Dune and Bene Gesserit? They're named after, um, some book.
Its slipped my mind
ok, its Dune

Shai Hulud will always be the best Dune inspired hardcore band.

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #85 on:** 04 Aug 2006, 08:25 »

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duh guys. The Doors obviously stole their name from the part of architecture that we use to enter and exit buildings.

how come no one mentioned this before?

Not to ruin your joke or anything but its 'cause we know they're actually named after Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception'

is 'Johnny Truant' a good band? I'm obsessed iwth the House. The author sister, Poe, stole her name from an author, but that dosen't really count

youbelongtothecity · « **Reply #86 on:** 04 Aug 2006, 13:44 »

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The Fall of Troy (song by Tom Waits)

They also have a song called Tom Waits...ooo.

and 80's Embrace are sweet. Some of the lyrics are a little cheesy but there's some really sweet songs like Money.

musicdudejoe · « **Reply #87 on:** 07 Aug 2006, 12:48 »

cameron frye took the name from the character in ferris buehler's day off(though i think they spell it different)

SensoryOssuary · « **Reply #88 on:** 07 Aug 2006, 13:09 »

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names takes their name from a line in the Silver Jews song "People," which is sad because they suck.

hipsterboner · « **Reply #89 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 00:01 »

texas is the reason - from the misfits?!!!

Lise · « **Reply #90 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 07:05 »

Lessee, IQU got in trouble for their original name "ICU", and I quote:

"IQU was born as icu (changed after threat of legal action after a ‘98 CMJ performance where they were approached by a hardcore band of a similar name)."

will: wanton sex god · « **Reply #91 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 16:02 »

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Hot Water Music and A Radio With Guts both lifted their names from Charles Bukowski

good call. i beleive The Good Life also got their name from buk.

negative, it is the nebraska slogan thing.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #92 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 16:41 »

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Not to ruin your joke or anything but its 'cause we know they're actually named after Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception'

There's a local band called 'The Windows' who started off as a Doors tribute band, quipping that where Morrison had walked through the Doors of Perception, they had just peeked through the windows.

They're quite good actually.

Bassist159 · « **Reply #93 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 18:34 »

The band Love Like Blood took their name from the Killing Joke song, to my knowledge.

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #94 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 19:41 »

Augie March got their name from a charcter in a book. possibly Russian

The Decemberists were a Russian revolutionary group. as in overthrowing the gov'ment, not like music group. they failed, apparenlty

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #95 on:** 10 Aug 2006, 19:45 »

Just found this as i was adding him to the site i work for: "Meat Katie is the alias of south Londoner Mark Pember, the producer and DJ that borrowed the name from a video in a porn store".

edgyswingsetacid · « **Reply #96 on:** 11 Aug 2006, 15:22 »

Quote from: will: wanton sex god

Quote from: edgyswingsetacid
Quote from: ImRonBurgundy?
Hot Water Music and A Radio With Guts both lifted their names from Charles Bukowski

good call. i beleive The Good Life also got their name from buk.

negative, it is the nebraska slogan thing.

aah, i see. i only assumed that they got it from buk, basing it on the fact that he wrote a poem entitled 'the good life,' and the band's lyrics are reminiscent of the themes associated with the author. as well, they go so far as to mention his name in at least one of their songs.

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #97 on:** 12 Aug 2006, 00:51 »

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Augie March got their name from a charcter in a book. possibly Russian

Right... it was the title of a Saul Bellow book, 'The Adventures of Augie March'. The title was chosen 'cause Glenn Richards reckons he wrote songs like Saul Bellow wrote books.
I haven't read Saul Bellow, but if his stuff is anything like last night's Augie March show it'd be more emotional then the ending of Cowboby Bebop...

Scytale · « **Reply #98 on:** 12 Aug 2006, 02:58 »

I used to know a bunch of trivia stuff like this.

Darkthrone got their name from a Celtic Frost song
Mayhem got their name from a Venom song (Mayhem without Mercy)
Bathory got their name from Erzsebet Bathory the Hungarian countess and also from a Venom song.
Burzum, Gorgoroth, Cirith Ungol, Isengard and a whole lot of other bands got their names form Tolkein.
Mars Volta got their name from an interview with the director Felini(sp?)
Megadeth got their name from a US Senator's speach
Metallica stole their name from a fanzine
Opeth is from a Wilbur Smith book
Zyklon B is named after the WW2 chemical
Dimmu Borgir is a lava formation in Iceland
Paramecium is a micro-organism
Demons And Wizards - is named after a Uriah Heep album
Nevermore got their name from Edgar Allan Poe
Samael is from the book of revelations.
Therion was taken from the Aleister Crowley / Celtic Frost / bible

Thrillho · « **Reply #99 on:** 19 Aug 2006, 10:16 »

Baby Lemonade and Gigolo Aunts are both named after Syd Barrett songs.

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