# Topic Playlist (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 225
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4481 "2025-06-13T04:09:41Z")
**Band Names in their song titles** 1. Who are you - The Who 2. Talk Talk - Talk Talk 3. Icehouse - Icehouse 4. Living in a Box - Living in a Box 5. Killer Queen; God Save the Queen; The March of the Black Queen - Queen 6. Hey, Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 7. They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants 8. Bad Company - Bad Company 9. Devo Corporate Anthem - Devo ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4482 "2025-06-13T04:12:16Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Hey, Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley One could probably make a double album of Bo Diddley songs which have “Bo Diddley” in the title. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4483 "2025-06-13T04:14:07Z")
It was the only one I could remember! ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4484 "2025-06-13T10:07:01Z")
**Band Names in their song titles** 1. Who are you - The Who 2. Talk Talk - Talk Talk 3. Icehouse - Icehouse 4. Living in a Box - Living in a Box 5. Killer Queen; God Save the Queen; The March of the Black Queen - Queen 6. Hey, Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 7. They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants 8. Bad Company - Bad Company 9. Devo Corporate Anthem - Devo 10. In a Big Country - Big Country **Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4485 "2025-06-13T10:30:36Z")
[quote=“Skunkdog, post:4484, topic:996687”] **Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4486 "2025-06-13T12:09:19Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4487 "2025-06-13T14:10:45Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4488 "2025-06-13T14:32:11Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. 5. MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five” ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4489 "2025-06-13T14:44:31Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. Mine goes to 11cc ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4490 "2025-06-13T14:46:01Z")
**dd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. 5. MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five” 6. Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4491 "2025-06-13T14:51:28Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. 5. MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five” 6. Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies. 7. Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4492 "2025-06-13T15:00:34Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. 5. MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five” 6. Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies. 7. Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body. 8. The Ramones - Douglas Colvin read that Paul McCartney used the alias Paul Ramon when checking into hotels, added an E to the end and became Dee Dee Ramone. He then convinced the other band members to take on names as well to make them “brothers.” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4493 "2025-06-13T15:03:50Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. 5. MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five” 6. Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies. 7. Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body. 8. The Ramones - Douglas Colvin read that Paul McCartney used the alias Paul Ramon when checking into hotels, added an E to the end and became Dee Dee Ramone. He then convinced the other band members to take on names as well to make them “brothers.” 9. Bay City Rollers - A Scottish band, originally known as the Saxons, they wanted a more American-sounding name. They had settled on “Rollers” as part of the name, but got the rest of it from throwing darts at a map of the U.S.; the second dart thrown hit the map at Bay City, Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4494 "2025-06-13T18:23:15Z")
**Odd band names and how they came about** 1. Stone Temple Pilots - Originally named Mighty Joe Young but had to change for copyright reasons. Decided to use the old STP oil cleaning brand to come up with a nonsense name. 2. Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill 3. Little River Band - On the way to their first performance they realized they hadn’t settled on a name. On the way they passed an exit for a town called Little River. QED 4. 10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better. 5. MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five” 6. Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies. 7. Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body. 8. The Ramones - Douglas Colvin read that Paul McCartney used the alias Paul Ramon when checking into hotels, added an E to the end and became Dee Dee Ramone. He then convinced the other band members to take on names as well to make them “brothers.” 9. Bay City Rollers - A Scottish band, originally known as the Saxons, they wanted a more American-sounding name. They had settled on “Rollers” as part of the name, but got the rest of it from throwing darts at a map of the U.S.; the second dart thrown hit the map at Bay City, Michigan. 10. Death Cab for Cutie - their name comes from a song (“Death Cab for Cutie”) written by long-time Monty Python collaborator, Neil Innes; Innes got the name from a 1930s crime fiction pulp magazine he found in a street market in London. pass ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4495 "2025-06-13T18:45:27Z")
**Hooray for summer memories** 1. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4496 "2025-06-13T19:01:28Z")
**Hooray for summer memories** 1. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 2. Boys of Summer - The Ataris I know it’s a cover but it’s a good cover. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4497 "2025-06-13T19:05:12Z")
**Hooray for summer memories** 1. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 2. Boys of Summer - The Ataris 3. Sealed with a Kiss - Bobby Vinton ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4498 "2025-06-13T19:05:54Z")
**Hooray for summer memories** 1. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 2. Boys of Summer - The Ataris 3. Sealed with a Kiss - Bobby Vinton 4. June Afternoon - Roxette ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4499 "2025-06-13T23:10:06Z")
**Hooray for summer memories** 1. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 2. Boys of Summer - The Ataris 3. Sealed with a Kiss - Bobby Vinton 4. June Afternoon - Roxette 5. Summer Breeze – Seals and Crofts You realize that that song (Summer Breeze) came out in NINETEEN SEVENTY-TWO??? _(and it’s still better than 95% of the crap that passes for music today!)_ It’s official, and I can’t deny it any longer. I am old. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/4500 "2025-06-13T23:14:33Z")
**Hooray for summer memories** 1. Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 2. Boys of Summer - The Ataris 3. Sealed with a Kiss - Bobby Vinton 4. June Afternoon - Roxette 5. Summer Breeze – Seals and Crofts 6. In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=224) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=226)