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Band name meanings/bands original names



Mellotron

Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,827
Brighton
Always find this interesting, add the ones you know about here:

Meanings:

U2 - War submarine
Death Cab For Cutie - Headline relating to Paul McCartney's death in a car crash

Original names:

Radiohead - On A Friday
Muse - Gothic Plague/Fixed Penalty/Rocket Baby Dolls
Interpol - The French Letters
U2 - The Hype
 








Mellotron

Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,827
Brighton
Original names

Blur - Seymour
Coldplay - Starfish
Daft Punk - Darlin'
Green Day - Sweet Children
Pink Floyd - The Megadeaths
Oasis - The Rain
Queen - Smile
Slipknot - Meld
 
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DavidinSouthampton

DavidinSouthampton

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Jan 3, 2012
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Mellotron said:
Always find this interesting, add the ones you know about here:

Meanings:

U2 - War submarine
Death Cab For Cutie - Headline relating to Paul McCartney's death in a car crash

Original names:

Radiohead - On A Friday
Muse - Gothic Plague/Fixed Penalty/Rocket Baby Dolls
Interpol - The French Letters
U2 - The Hype
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I'd always assumed "Death Cab for Cutie" was from a track of that name on the original Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band album, Gorilla.

But I do say "assumed". I have no evidence to back that up.
 




BadFish

BadFish

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Oct 19, 2003
17,102
Duran Duran are one of a few bands to be named after stuff in Barbarella.

edit: okay maybe there weren't any others
 




Mellotron

Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,827
Brighton
DavidinSouthampton said:
I'd always assumed "Death Cab for Cutie" was from a track of that name on the original Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band album, Gorilla.

But I do say "assumed". I have no evidence to back that up.
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You may well be right. And that song title no doubt originally comes from the headline relating to Paul McCartney's death.
 




skipper734

skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
Mellotron said:
Always find this interesting, add the ones you know about here:

Meanings:

U2 - War submarine
Death Cab For Cutie - Headline relating to Paul McCartney's death in a car crash

Original names:

Radiohead - On A Friday
Muse - Gothic Plague/Fixed Penalty/Rocket Baby Dolls
Interpol - The French Letters
U2 - The Hype
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Neil Innes, Bonzo Dog etc. and I would not agree.

While Innes claims the title came from an American pulp fiction magazine, the phrase may have been coined by Richard Hoggart in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy, which discussed British popular culture and was a pioneering work in the cultural studies field. The term appears in Chapter 8, "The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets", under part C: "Sex and Violence Novels". Hoggart provides a list of "imitations" of the "terse, periodic titles" of these novels, including "Sweetie, Take It Hot"; "The Lady Takes a Dive"; "Aim Low, Angel"; "Sweetheart, Curves Can Kill"; and "Death-Cab for Cutie".
Ben Gibbard used the title of the song as the name of the rock band he founded in 1997, saying "The name was never supposed to be something that someone was going to reference 15 years on. So yeah, I would absolutely go back and give it a more obvious name."[SUP][2]

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BadFish

BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
17,102
The Chemical Brothers were called The Dust Brothers in honor of the american producers who worked with The Beastie Boys among others. But they had to change their name when they started to get big for fear ofl reprisal from The Dust Brothers
 


KZNSeagull

KZNSeagull

Well-known member
Nov 26, 2007
19,792
Wolsingham, County Durham
U2 was a spyplane, not a submarine.

My Chemical Romance is from the subtitle of the novel Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
T'Pau was a character is Star Trek
Heaven 17 get their name from a group in A Clockwork Orange
 


















Superphil

Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,416
In a pile of football shirts
David Bowie - Davy & Davie Jones
 


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