Guess the band by the origin of its name.

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1 -This band got their name from the title of a song appearing in a Beatles movie, but not performed by the Beatles.

2 - This band’s name was originally the name of an alien cabal intent on controlling mankind.

3 - This band got their name by taking a word out of an Inspiral Carpets poster hanging on the room of two of their members.

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Has to be Oasis, since Noel Gallagher was a roadie for them.

  1. This band was named after a government form issued to jobless people.
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The answer to #4 is UB-40.

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Attempting to find a band on Google with “Xenu” in its name led me to a myspace page of “Lord Xenu and the Thetans”. I would find it hard to believe from that page that they actually would be known by anybody though.

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That’s right! In the poster you could read “Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon.” as one of the venues.

No. But now I have to find some music by them.

Maybe the clue is a bit obscure: the cabal I was talking about is fictional, and was part of the poems their manager was writing at the time. But the name is similar to the one you found.

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  1. Anderson’s and Council’s first names combined make the name of this band.
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Pink Floyd

  1. This band originally named itself after a local brewery that sponsored them. When the sponsorship fell through, the band kept the same initials but took a new name based on a Slim Harpo song.
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7 This band was originally named “Rainbow Butt Monkeys”

8 First called The Warlocks, their definitive name was picked out of a dictionary

9 Also called The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes, and finally they took the title from a book about the ‘secret sexual subculture of the early sixties’.

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#8—Grateful Dead
10—This band took it’s name from the peyote cactus preserves that the lead singers Native American grandmother used to make.

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Oh, please, not even a challenge: Pearl Jam.

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  1. This band was named after a fictional character who evolved from unctuous, butt kissing law clerk to ruthless, villainous lawyer.

  2. This band was named after a movie about a man who thinks he’s Sherlock Holmes.

  3. This band was named after a song on Bob Dylan’s “John Wesley Harding” album (hint: they once recorded a song about Bob Dylan, written by one of Bob’s former lovers).

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  1. This band supposedly got their name from a ouija board that channeled a 17th century witch.

  2. This band got it’s name from the movie Barbarella.

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Duran Duran

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Answer #11- Uriah Heep?

#16: Easy one: This band started life as “Soft White Underbelly”

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Number 2: Blue Öyster Cult

The name came from producer/manager Sandy Pearlman’s poetry and was later developed into the concept album “Imaginos”

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Number 16: Blue Öyster Cult

The name “Soft White Underbelly” also came from Sandy Pearlman.

LOL!

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Dude, this is the SDMB. We all watched Jeopardy last week, too…

Joe

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Judas Priest.

Alice Cooper.

  1. This group took its name from that of a fictional band in a music video by New Order.
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Gatopescado got #11 right- Uriah Heep was a phony, smarmy law clerk in Dickens’ David Copperfield.

And Smapti was right about Judas Priest- they took their name from Dylan’s “The Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest.” They also did a cover of Joan Baez’s “Diamonds and Rust,” a song she wrote about Dylan.

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#1. Death Cab For Cutie, from Magical Mystery Tour.