# 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:** 7
**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 8, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/121 "2011-03-08T17:49:35Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > 10CC Correct ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/122 "2011-03-08T19:56:57Z")
Yes- an extra pass defender is called the nickel back (because he’ s the #5 defensive back on the field, and a nicklel is 5 cents)… And Smash Mouth was named for the style of offense tressed by the Bears and Giants teams of the Eighties. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/123 "2011-03-08T22:26:26Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Fine Young Cannibals > (From the Natalie Wood-Robert Wagner film ‘All the Fine Young Cannibals’) Correct! Still Outstanding: > [@](#): > > 1. This band got both its name and a new musical direction after watching a late night Vincent Price movie on telly. > > 2. The drummer for this band stole the name from a friend who was starting a rock magazine and was running potential titles by him. The drummer steered him to another name and kept the good one for his band. > > 3. This band name was originally the title of a French kiddie book. > > 43 . This band named themselves after a public art work in one of the parks in their hometown. > > 1. According to the band members, the item they misspelled to use as a name made an unscheduled appearance in a sex act performance they watched at a party. Although that story is probably apocryphal and the name likely just the result of listing random words and picking one. > > 2. 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. > > 3. This British female group have a name that is a direct reaction to a different British female group who had been extremely successful a few years earlier. (This is, however, only one of a few stories about how the group got their name. I think it is the most likely) > > 4. Named after a form of Greek dance. > > 5. This group took its name from a recurring Junior Sample sketch on “Hee Haw.” > > 6. This featherweight Britpop band was named after the phrase a sitcom character used to answer the phone at work. > > 7. This Scottish band was named when their lead singer explained why so many high school boys started bands. At their first concert the promoter refused to announce their name, so the band quickly changed the second word of their name to something that didn’t refer to female genitalia. > > 8. This band took its name from the father of Irish republicanism. > > 9. This band’s lyricist derived their name as a a synonym for the anglicized name of the prince of demons. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/124 "2011-03-08T23:30:42Z")
\*72. This band’s lyricist derived their name as a a synonym for the anglicized name of the prince of demons. \* The answer sought is King Crimson. But… Actually, that’s the explanation Robert Fripp has always given. But A few years ago, I saw an interview with Pete Sinfield in which he was asked whether the Crimson King was, in fact, Satan/Beelzebub. His answer went something like this (this isn’t an exact quotation, but it’s fairly accurate): “Let me see, how shall I answer this is gently and delicately as possible. NO! That’s a load of rubbish.” When asked what the song DID mean, Sinfield said it was, essentially, a collection of images that came from a number of sources… from the Bible, from Bob Dylan, and from various fantasy and science fiction stories he liked. Am I saying Fripp is lying about what the name means? Not necessarily- he may honestly believe the story he’s been telling. He may have inferred that meaning on his own. Or Sinfield may have told him that story once upon a time. At any rate, Sinfield co-wrote that song with Ian McDonald months BEFORE the two of them hooked up with Michael Giles and Robert Fripp, so Fripp wasn’t present when the song came to being anyway. ---
**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 9, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/125 "2011-03-09T01:55:05Z")
1. The Statler Brothers Nobody has gotten this one either: 2. This band got their name from a blended version of the Gaelic for “the family from Dore.” I’m going to give **Smapti** credit for 59. He just misnumbered his answer. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/126 "2011-03-09T02:14:39Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 1. The Statler Brothers Yes, it was the Statler Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/127 "2011-03-09T02:18:21Z")
1. This band was named after a Louis L’amour novel. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/128 "2011-03-09T02:29:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 1. The Statler Brothers > Nobody has gotten this one either: > > 2. This band got their name from a blended version of the Gaelic for “the family from Dore.” > > I’m going to give **Smapti** credit for 59. He just misnumbered his answer. Clannard? ---
**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 9, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/129 "2011-03-09T02:36:33Z")
Clannad. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/130 "2011-03-09T02:57:29Z")
1. isn’t that the New Riders of the Purple Sage? ---
**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 9, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/131 "2011-03-09T02:58:18Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. According to the band members, the item they misspelled to use as a name made an unscheduled appearance in a sex act performance they watched at a party. Although that story is probably apocryphal and the name likely just the result of listing random words and picking one. Phish? (WAG) ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/132 "2011-03-09T03:04:07Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > 1. This band got both its name and a new musical direction after watching a late night Vincent Price movie on telly.: Well it could have been Usher from the movie The fall of the House of Usher, but not likely. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/133 "2011-03-09T03:56:53Z")
[QUOTE=From the Still Outstanding List] 43 . This band named themselves after a public art work in one of the parks in their hometown. [/QUOTE] Soundgarden ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/134 "2011-03-09T03:58:55Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > 1. isn’t that the New Riders of the Purple Sage? They’re named after a Zane Grey book, not Louis L’Amour ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/135 "2011-03-09T05:20:45Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > They’re named after a Zane Grey book, not Louis L’Amour Rats- I KNEW that and I STILL wrote the wrong author. Sorry, everybody. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/136 "2011-03-09T07:04:03Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Soundgarden Yup. The wind going through the sculpture makes a whistling noise. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/137 "2011-03-09T08:21:53Z")
1. Black Sabbath? 2. This band supposedly took their name from a friend’s estimation of their chances of success as a band. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/138 "2011-03-09T08:31:01Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. This Scottish band was named when their lead singer explained why so many high school boys started bands. At their first concert the promoter refused to announce their name, so the band quickly changed the second word of their name to something that didn’t refer to female genitalia. This one is fun to guess about. Although they came to mind first, I am pretty sure it isn’t Teenage Fanclub. But it could be: Big Country The Pastels Simple Minds ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/139 "2011-03-09T08:37:19Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > \*72. This band’s lyricist derived their name as a a synonym for the anglicized name of the prince of demons. \* > The answer sought is King Crimson. But… That is both correct and may be the most, uh, expansive answer in SDMB game history. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502/140 "2011-03-09T09:28:44Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Phish? (WAG) Nope. But good guess. > [@42fish](#): > > Soundgarden Exactly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-band-by-the-origin-of-its-name/573502.md?page=8)