Killer Queen; God Save the Queen; The March of the Black Queen - Queen
Hey, Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
Bad Company - Bad Company
Devo Corporate Anthem - Devo
In a Big Country - Big Country
Odd band names and how they came about
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.
[quote=“Skunkdog, post:4484, topic:996687”] Odd band names and how they came about
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five”
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five”
Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies.
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five”
Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies.
Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body.
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five”
Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies.
Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body.
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.”
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five”
Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies.
Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body.
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.”
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.
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.
Jethro Tull - named after the inventor of the seed drill
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
10cc - one of them heard that the average male ejaculate was 9cc, and they decided they were a little bit better.
MC5 - Proto-punk rockers from Detroit. The alphanumeric name is an abbreviation for “Motor City Five”
Bare Naked Ladies - So named because who doesn’t like bare naked ladies.
Soft Machine - Taken from the William Burroughs novel of the same name. It refers to the human body.
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.”
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.
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.
Summer Nights - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
Boys of Summer - The Ataris
Sealed with a Kiss - Bobby Vinton
June Afternoon - Roxette
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.
