Which bands intentionally named themselves after songs ?
I guess the most famous is the Rolling Stones after Jones saw the name of a song on a Muddy Waters album !
The Kooks named themselves after the Bowie song on Hunky Dory .
Any others?
Which bands intentionally named themselves after songs ?
I guess the most famous is the Rolling Stones after Jones saw the name of a song on a Muddy Waters album !
The Kooks named themselves after the Bowie song on Hunky Dory .
Any others?
Deep Purple, of course.
Death Cab for Cutie.
And probably any number of tribute bands name themselves after their inspiration's songs.
Pretty obscure, but there was a band in the 80's called Steel Breeze. Not named after a song title, but a lyric nonetheless...
Bad Company (pick a chicken & an egg)
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Judas Priest (named after a Bob Dylan song)
Spiral Architect
2112 (no, I'm not joking, there's actually a band called 2112)
It was said for years that Tangerine Dream were named after mishearing the line "tangerine trees" in Strawberry Fields Forever, but I think Edgar Froese eventually started denying it.
Godsmack is named after an Alice In Chains song by the same name.
Are we also including bands that have their own name within one of their own songs?
Magic Pie (TFK song)
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Ok, ok, ok... but it wasn't clear in your initial question:
I know some bands didn't have a band name when recording their debut and ended up naming themselves after something within their own song -- that's why I asked what the criteria was.
Motorhead was named after the Hawkwind song.
Mr Big, named after Free's song
Gazpacho after Marillion's song
Until recently I believed Happy The Man was named after the Genesis' song but it was inspired by Goethe's Faust
Heaven and Hell after Black Sabbath's song
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Hurdy Gurdy
21st Century Schizoid Band
What song?
If we can include tribute bands that probably opens up a whole drawer full. Power Windows for one (the Rush tribute band; ok, they're named after an album title, not a song title.). I'm assuming the band called 2112 is a Rush tribute band, but if not, they probably were at one point
Have they said the name comes from the Dylan song, or does it maybe just come from the phrase "Judas Priest," which of course has been around a lot longer than Bob Dylan?
2112 is an Argentinean band as far as I know they play original music
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I do not think I would be wrong if I say they all were tribute bands at one point...if you want to play original music from the get go you would not declare your ties to anyone by your name...
Well, you've got Alaska and Discipline... I don't know if either claims to have taken inspiration from the songs though.
Boris comes to mind. And Negativland.
I understood they named themselves after the soup (since it's atypical and generally made with a wider mix of ingredients than most kinds, which described the kind of band they wanted to be), and it was a coincidence that they joined up with a band who'd also used it as a title.
I stand corrected
"The band name comes from an attempt to describe their music.
Andersen: "We are a very unlikely mixture of people really, not the average types you'd expect to see in the same band… so we thought Gazpacho, which really is the bastard of soups (meshed up vegetables served cold), was the perfect name for our group(...)With Gazpacho you get a surprise, something unexpected, something out of the norm, a 'positive' contradiction. We feel this describes our band very well.".[2]"
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Black Sabbath
“Where words fail, music speaks.” - Hans Christian Anderson
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