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    Bands named after songs !

    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?

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    Deep Purple, of course.
    Death Cab for Cutie.

    And probably any number of tribute bands name themselves after their inspiration's songs.

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    Pretty obscure, but there was a band in the 80's called Steel Breeze. Not named after a song title, but a lyric nonetheless...

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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    Bad Company (pick a chicken & an egg)
    I believe that the band name came first, then the song was written as a theme song. The name of the band comes from the '72 Western.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trurl View Post
    Pretty obscure, but there was a band in the 80's called Steel Breeze. Not named after a song title, but a lyric nonetheless...
    Hmmm, it's been awhile since I've played You Don't Me Want Me Anymore on my show...

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    Judas Priest (named after a Bob Dylan song)
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    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.

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruno View Post
    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?
    It has to be a band named after someone else's song!

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    Magic Pie (TFK song)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruno View Post
    Are we also including bands that have their own name within one of their own songs?
    Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
    It has to be a band named after someone else's song!
    Ok, ok, ok... but it wasn't clear in your initial question:

    Quote Originally Posted by Rufus View Post
    Which bands intentionally named themselves after songs ?
    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.

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    Motorhead was named after the Hawkwind song.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by ThomasKDye View Post
    Deep Purple, of course.
    Death Cab for Cutie.

    And probably any number of tribute bands name themselves after their inspiration's songs.
    Never knew death cab for cutie was the name of a song (just looked it up Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band for those who also didn't know). I find death cab for cutie and Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band to both be irritating names, but still interesting to know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Spiral Architect
    What song?


    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    2112 (no, I'm not joking, there's actually a band called 2112)
    Quote Originally Posted by Progmatic View Post
    21st Century Schizoid Band
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Judas Priest (named after a Bob Dylan song)
    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?

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    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...

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    Well, you've got Alaska and Discipline... I don't know if either claims to have taken inspiration from the songs though.

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    Boris comes to mind. And Negativland.

    Quote Originally Posted by The Fantastic Progo Rican View Post
    Gazpacho after Marillion's song
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spiral View Post
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Judas Priest (named after a Bob Dylan song)
    the title you're referring to is The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. using that whole title would've been a mouthful!

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    Riders On the Storm was obvious

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    Quote Originally Posted by progeezer View Post
    Bad Company (pick a chicken & an egg)
    In that case... Black Sabbath (that's the chicken & the egg)
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