THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: rive gauche on 06 Jun 2006, 11:37
-
My friend and I were talking about bands who "stole" their names from other bands.. This is our list:
Burning Airlines (from Brian Eno)
Radiohead (from the Talking Heads)
Starsailor (from Tim Buckley)
We Are Scientists (from Cap'n Jazz)
The Futureheads (from the Flaming Lips)
Ladytron (from Roxy Music)
Add to it!
Edit: Pretty Girls Make Graves (from the Smiths, but also maybe Jack Kerouac)
-
Masters of Reality (from Black Sabbath)
Greenmachine, Demon Cleaner (from Kyuss)
SUNN 0))) (from the bass amp manufacturer ... sorta stolen, I guess)
-
Prety Girls MAke Graves have said they got the name from The Smiths
I'm not sure this counts, but:
Mogwai - Gremlins
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Japanese documentary of same name.
-
Death Cab for Cutie - a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band song
-
Nirvana - Buddhism...?
-
Godsmack - Alice In Chains
-
Madonna - The mother of Christ
-
Embrace (the crappy current band) stole their name from Embrace (the awesome late 80s emo band).
-
Duran Duran (Barbarella villain)
Aerosmith (novel, Arrowsmith)
Mr. Bungle (Pee-Wee Herman skit)
-
The Doors (Aldous Huxley book, The Doors of Perception)
Bauhaus (an art movement in Germany, woah!)
Black Sabbath (a movie of the same name)
-
The Chemical Brothers originally called themselves The Dust Brothers, but ran into copyright problems with the original Dust Brothers. (Although they had no "The" prefix. They were just Dust Brothers.)
-
Cocteau Twins(Old obscure Simple Minds song)
Norma Jean(does that count? Marilyn Monroe did sing did she not?)
-
13 Candles (From Bathory)
After Forever (From Black Sabbath)
Catastrophe Ballet (From Christian Death)
Cryptic Wintermoon (From Immortal. It's a conflation of 'Call of the Wintermoon' and 'Cryptic Winterstorms')
Devils Whorehouse (From The Misfits)
Dream Evil (From Dio)
Funeral Procession (From Grave Digger)
Halo of Flies (Both my band and the other are from Alice Cooper)
London After Midnight MAY have taken their name from the XII.Stoleti song, or the Wrathchild America song, though it's more likely they all took it seperately from the film.
Pagan Winter (From Darkthrone)
Saints in Hell (From Judas Priest)
All I can think of right now
-
The Chemical Brothers originally called themselves The Dust Brothers, but ran into copyright problems with the original Dust Brothers. (Although they had no "The" prefix. They were just Dust Brothers.)
I thought it was the other way round... the Dust Brothers (of Fight Club OST fame) were originally the Chemical Brothers.
As for Nirvana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_%28UK_band%29)...
-
Bullet Train To Vegas - (from a Drive Like Jehu song)
JR Ewing - (Well, yeah, obviously: Dallas!)
-
Current 93 - Aleister Crowley's 93 Current
-
Halo of Flies (Both my band and the other are from Alice Cooper)
Isn't there a 'Clad song called Halo of Flies too?
-
I thought it was the other way round... the Dust Brothers (of Fight Club OST fame) were originally the Chemical Brothers.
No, AlexH had it right. The Dust Brothers (of Beastie Boys' 'Paul's Boutique' production fame) were knocking away in the States in the 80s, then fell off the radar pretty heavily. It seemed to me they only came back into circulation after the now-Chems started using their name - Beck's 'Odelay', then that soundtrack you mention, plus of course Hanson's 'MM-bop' and some tunes for a requisite excuse-to-tour album from the Rolling Stones. Nifty.
I had a few singles and remixes credited to the UK Dust Brothers before the name change. Pretty sure I've sold them all, though, along with whatever else I had.
Only other names I can think of right now, beyond local cover bands and nonsense:
Shakespear's Sister (The Smiths, ignoring their typo/spelling mistake)
Scott 4 (Scott Walker)
-
No Warning Shot (from six feet under)
Axes of Evil (from 3 inches of blood)
Children of Bodom (from the murder of three teenagers that occured at Lake Bodom in Finland)
-
Mogwai - Gremlins
Ya think? Jesus, like every single person that grew up in the 90's didn't pick up on that as soon as they saw it. Sorry to freak a bit, but it just seems really obvious, and they're my all time favorite band.Ever. Don't mess with Mogwai or the ninja's will make your death painful.
-
Don't worry, I have both a Gizmo plushie, and an autographed Mogwai CD (CODY) from when they played here.
-
alright spaceman, you're in the good books now. Did you get the Mr. beast album with the art book and DVD though? Did you? Hmm? Cause I did. Oh yeah.
-
Were you even speaking english in your last sentence? Anyways, gremlins was a movie duo (is that the name for it?) back in about the mid 90's. The sequal was a complete flop, the first was ok as far as 90's movies go I guess.
-
there's a band called mondo generator after the song by kyuss (i guess).
my first band's name was stolen too. the name was orange moose, which is from the book "illuminatus!".
we're talking about bands who stole their names from other bands, right? if not, there's shai hulud (named after the sandworm from dune).
-
Mr. Bungle (Pee-Wee Herman skit)
Also a character from a porn.
-
This is retarded.
Bands do not steal names. They are inspired by things they like.
So retarded.
-
Embrace (the crappy current band) stole their name from Embrace (the awesome late 80s emo band).
the embrace from DC are a damn sight better than the later version.
but honestly, they are still a dreadful band.
Did... did you just badmouth something Ian Mackeye did? I'm pretty sure I can never talk to you again, mr. tommydski.
-
careful when you talk about ian mackaye. he will badmouth your way of life all over town dude. he'll badmouth it into next week.
-
(PSST: I actually don't own Embrace's album. So. Couldn't tell you if it's shit or not. but I love both Minor Threat and Fugazi like crazy).
-
There is a local band in my area who play shit metal/emo rubbish. They are called My Sweetheart The Drunk. In your face, music lovers.
EDIT: Holy pants, I forgot. My band is called Five Lessons Learned. This is the name of a song by the Swingin' Utters. Who we sound nothing like, and hold no affection for.
-
alright spaceman, you're in the good books now. Did you get the Mr. beast album with the art book and DVD though? Did you? Hmm? Cause I did. Oh yeah.
No, having to pay $45 for the normal edition was enough. I did buy 4 shirts at the concert though.
Tommydski: I was wondering about the original Go Team yesterday (never listened to it though), what were they like?
-
Taking Back Sunday is a Smiths song too. The Smiths have a lot to answer for.
edit: I've just been told this isn't true by the very same person who told me it was. I need new sources.
-
The Smiths have a lot to answer for.
Like Radiohead.
-
Judas Priest (from Bob Dylan)
-
there's a band called mondo generator after the song by kyuss (i guess).
the song was written by erstwhile kyuss bassist nick oliveri.
mondo generator is his band.
oh, ok. i didn't know that he's in mondo generator, i just read the name somewhere, i even forgot where...
-
Shit, missing the most obvious one ever.
Motorhead (After the last song Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind)
-
Shit, missing the most obvious one ever.
Motorhead (After the last song Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind)
oh shit. i am disapointed in myself for not thinking of that.
-
like a noisier, far more raw version of beat happening i guess.
it's twee 'k' records meets what would become known as riot grrrl.
their guitarist for a while was a chap called kurdt kobain. i wonder what happened to him?
That sounds interesting, I remember hearing somewhere that Kurt Cobain was a big fan of twee (the original Sarah Records one).
Also: The Stars of Track and Field - Belle and Sebastian song.
-
Abigail (Presumably from King Diamond)
-
lot of band s steal their names from movies... seems to be trendy these days.
MeWithoutYou
Murder By Death
Say Anything ... the list goes on, naturally.
-
World Leader Pretend (from R.E.M., naturellement).
-
The Smiths have a lot to answer for.
Like Radiohead.
Explain?
-
Were you even speaking english in your last sentence? Anyways, gremlins was a movie duo (is that the name for it?) back in about the mid 90's. The sequal was a complete flop, the first was ok as far as 90's movies go I guess.
Mid 90s? What the hell are you on about?
Gremlins - 1984 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087363/)
Gremlins 2 - 1990 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099700/)
Neither of those years are the "mid 90s".
On topic: The defunct band Eve6 took their name from an X-Files episode (Eve) after the character Eve #6.
-
The Smiths have a lot to answer for.
Like Radiohead.
Explain?
Radiohead are The Smiths Lite. They have no purpose for existence beyond that as an object lesson in why the British music scene turned into shit after 1990.
-
Everyone has to get their name from SOMEWHERE.
So why not list 'em all?
-
Radiohead are The Smiths Lite. They have no purpose for existence beyond that as an object lesson in why the British music scene turned into shit after 1990.
Man, why you gotta go all turning my thread into frontin' on Radiohead? I ain't even tryin' to have that.
(I guess I kinda asked for it ;) )
Also:
Everyone has to get their name from SOMEWHERE.
So why not list 'em all?
bands who "stole" their names from other bands
Although bands stealing their names from Gremlins and various world religions is interesting too!
-
Radiohead are The Smiths Lite. They have no purpose for existence beyond that as an object lesson in why the British music scene turned into shit after 1990.
Dude, I can't even... that's not... like, if you don't like Radiohead, fine, but jeez, that's basically a series of complete untruths, stacked on each other like the world's dumbest Jenga.
-
Besides, saying "music scene X has turned shit since Y" makes people look like silly old bitter jerks.
-
Skyclad.
-
Audioslave stole their name from another band apparently. Strange to think we live in a world where two bands wanted such a goddamn awful name.
Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash
Machine Head (from the guitar part or the Deep Purple album? Hmm...)
Rolling Stones (Muddy Waters track)
Stiff Little Fingers (Vibrators track)
-
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.
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?
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".
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.
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.
-
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.
-
Yeah there's really no point in arguing about it; it wont change anything.
besides, radiohead sucks anyways</joke>
-
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.
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
The Fall of Troy (song by Tom Waits)
-
Daydream Nation (The Sonic Youth album)
-
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.
-
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.
-
Most certainly.
And stop being dicks, guys. Seriously.
-
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
...
...
>_<
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."
-
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?
-
Well, er Skyclad are all pagans.
So whilst not 'stealing', as such, they are definitely taking their name from that source.
-
Yeah, but sayting they are 'stealing' the name would be like saying The Avalanches were ripping off mother nature.
-
Very few of these bands have actually "stolen" their names, that's just the subject the OP chose to give the thread.
-
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".
-
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.
-
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...
-
The Stars of Track and Field - A Belle and Sebastian song.
-
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'.
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.
-
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)
-
Hot Water Music and A Radio With Guts both lifted their names from Charles Bukowski
-
corwinzor, smallify your avatar!
-
Squarepusher occasionally releases stuff under Chaos AD (the title of a Sepultura album).
Then of course there's
(http://www.korner.de/bilder/dm/DangerMouse.gif)
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?
(http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/images/franz_ferdinand_dead.JPG)
edit: and christ on a bike! someone in this thread needs to debiggen their avatar! BRAIN MELLLLT
-
Does naming your band after a place count as theft? Because if so, all these guys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_named_after_places) are screwed.
-
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
-
Johnny Truant, named after the House of Leaves character
-
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.
-
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?
-
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.
-
The Killers got their name from the video to the New Order song "Crystal"
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
-
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.
-
cameron frye took the name from the character in ferris buehler's day off(though i think they spell it different)
-
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names takes their name from a line in the Silver Jews song "People," which is sad because they suck.
-
texas is the reason - from the misfits?!!!
-
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)."
-
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.
-
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.
-
The band Love Like Blood took their name from the Killing Joke song, to my knowledge.
-
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
-
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".
-
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.
-
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...
-
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
-
Baby Lemonade and Gigolo Aunts are both named after Syd Barrett songs.
-
Burzum, Gorgoroth, Cirith Ungol, Isengard and a whole lot of other bands got their names form Tolkein.
So did Ephel Duath. IIRC, there's a list of bands with names from books somewhere. I'll try and find it.
EDIT: The List (http://rateyourmusic.com/list/knuten/theres_more_to_life_than_books__you_know__but_not_much_more)
-
If we're going to list every single metal band that took their name from something else, we are going to list every single metal band in existance.
-
Has anyone mentioned the fact that Jethro Tull was the first person to patent the seed drill?
-
I believe it's been mentioned several times now.
-
Burzum, Gorgoroth, Cirith Ungol, Isengard and a whole lot of other bands got their names form Tolkein.
I have a pretty full list of these somewhere, me and my friends use it to play a drinking game with the Lord of the Rings movies.
-
I believe it's been mentioned several times now.
Fair enough. I've been away for three weeks, and feel no need to read all eight billion pages of the threads I've not read.
-
there's a german psychedelic/stoner rock band called spaceship landing, after the song by kyuss.
-
some girls - the smiths
saves the day - some line in a movie
american nightmare - misfits
local band called "between the ends" took their name from a thrice song.
Mars Volta got their name from an interview with the director Felini(sp?)
ummm, dude. the word 'volta' was used to describe the changing of a scene by an 18th century(or maybe earlier, i could be getting this part wrong) playwrite. that's not really stealing, more like translating.
-
Between The Buried And Me were inspired by a line from a Counting Crows song
-
Crass took their name from the song "Ziggy Stardust."
Charles Bronson took their name from the cowboy/actor.
-
Can't believe nobody's mentioned They Might Be Giants.
It's a line from some terrible sci-fi movie, incidentally.