# Guess the band by the origin of its name. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 4, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502 "2011-03-04T18:17:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/181 "2011-03-11T23:30:07Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > 1. Named for a character in The Chronicles Of Narnia. Aslan. 1. This band took its name from a 1932 movie starring Bela Lugosi. 2. This band once changed their name to something extremely strange at every show, then were accidentally introduced at their largest show yet as the title of one of their songs and subsequently got good press coverage, causing the name to stick. 3. This band is a type of basilisk. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/182 "2011-03-12T00:22:44Z")
1. named after a fictional pair of brothers, that aren’t actually brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/183 "2011-03-12T00:37:38Z")
94 - The Thompson Twins, named for Thomson and Thompson from Tintin. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/184 "2011-03-12T00:47:15Z")
1. White Zombie Nobody has gotten these yet: 1. This band was forced to change their name to follow their label’s marketing ploy, as radio DJs kept announcing their record with the phony “credit.” 2. This band took their name from an album by classical minimalist Terry Riley. ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/185 "2011-03-12T03:02:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 1. White Zombie > > Nobody has gotten these yet: > > 1. This band was forced to change their name to follow their label’s marketing ploy, as radio DJs kept announcing their record with the phony “credit.” > > 2. This band took their name from an album by classical minimalist Terry Riley. 1. The Guess Who. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/186 "2011-03-12T03:28:35Z")
> [@gregorio](#): > > 1. Speaking of dessert, this English band is named after one. Blancmange ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/187 "2011-03-12T04:40:42Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > 1. The members of this country act, while still performing in bars and restaurant lounges, decided to shorten their name to its current form after too many instances of being mistaken for the dinner special rather than the entertainment. The Dixie Chicks, who were originally called the Dixie Chickens, after the Little Feat song. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/188 "2011-03-12T04:44:30Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Aslan. > > 1. This band took its name from a 1932 movie starring Bela Lugosi. > 2. This band once changed their name to something extremely strange at every show, then were accidentally introduced at their largest show yet as the title of one of their songs and subsequently got good press coverage, causing the name to stick. > 3. This band is a type of basilisk. I believe 92 is the Presidents of the USA. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/189 "2011-03-12T04:49:11Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Blancmange Yep. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/190 "2011-03-12T15:05:52Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > 1. named after a fictional pair of brothers, that aren’t actually brothers. > [@Tengu](#): > > 94 - The Thompson Twins, named for Thomson and Thompson from Tintin. The Blues Brothers would also fit the clue. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/191 "2011-03-12T16:31:33Z")
Would it? How so? In the Tintin books there is a pair of detectives, sometimes called The Thompson Twins. Except that they aren’t actually twins at all. The joke is that all Englishmen look and act the same. Their names are slightly different, (one has a p in the middle). And their appearance is slightly different, there’s a subtle difference in their moustaches. The Blues Brothers, though, actually ARE brothers in the movie. In the movie they are called The Blues Brothers because 1) they are brothers and 2) their surname is Blues. And when the actors performed concerts as “the Blues Brothers” you could say that they are named after a pair of fictional brothers, but the part “who aren’t really brothers” wouldn’t apply. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/192 "2011-03-12T19:25:57Z")
I don’t think they are actual brothers in the movies. [This page](http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/profiles/dan-aykroyd/) gives a fictitious biography: > [@](#): > > While Elwood was at the orphanage, he met Jake Papageorge. Jake had a bad influence on Elwood, who was originally a quiet, shy student. […] > > On March 23, 1962 Elwood changed his name to ‘Elwood Jake Blues’, and Jake changed his name to ‘Jake Elwood Blues’. I don’t know if that’s an “authentic” biography, or just some fanwank, but that’s roughly what I was thinking. ETA: [Fanwank](http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/blues-brothers/2219-jake-elwood-related.html#post16639), but based on [Blues Brothers Private](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Brothers:_Private). ---
**Author:** ![atlantic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@atlantic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atlantic)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/193 "2011-03-12T19:45:48Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > 1. This band used the name of a deceased friend of the families of two of the members who took care of them when children as an homage. Keane - a shortened version of Cherry Keane, a family friend. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/194 "2011-03-13T01:02:17Z")
1. This band took its name from a prostitute who allegedly mutilated and decapitated her clients. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/195 "2011-03-13T01:44:27Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > 1. This band took its name from a prostitute who allegedly mutilated and decapitated her clients. Molly Hatchet ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/196 "2011-03-13T02:00:07Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Molly Hatchet Yes. * * * 1. At one time this duo had the same name as a well-known cartoon featuring a cat and mouse. This is not exactly in the spirit of the thread, but what the hell. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/197 "2011-03-13T03:10:35Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Yes. > > * * * > > 1. At one time this duo had the same name as a well-known cartoon featuring a cat and mouse. > > This is not exactly in the spirit of the thread, but what the hell. 1. Simon and Garfunkel stared out as Tom & Jerry 2. Got their name by randomly opening the dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/198 "2011-03-13T04:11:20Z")
97: The Commodores ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/199 "2011-03-13T04:11:53Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > 1. Got their name by randomly opening the dictionary. Grateful Dead? 1. This band got its name from Jon’s radio call name on _CHiPs_ ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/200 "2011-03-13T05:25:08Z")
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