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This is a sortable list, ordered alphabetically, starting with the name that the band is best known as, followed by the band's original name, and any other names they previously used (in chronological order).
The name came from New Found Glory 's song "Head On Collision". Alt-J –The spoken form of the band ∆, alt + j is the keyboard shortcut used to type ∆ on a Mac computer. ∆ is a mathematical symbol for change. [25] AlunaGeorge – From the first names of the members, Aluna Francis and George Reid.
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- The Teardrop Explodes
- Heaven 17
- Thompson Twins
- Tears For Fears
- Simple Minds
- The Icicle Works
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- Art of Noise
- Beastie Boys
- Cocteau Twins
Originally named A Shallow Madness, Julian Cope’s post-punk misfits found their permanent moniker when co-founder Paul Simpson moved into a bedsit where he found, among a pile of old comic books, a copy of Daredevil. Flicking through the issue, Simpson’s eyes were caught by the caption, “Suddenly over Central Park… The teardrop explodes”. Simpson s...
The Sheffield three-piece pilfered their name from a line in Anthony Burgess’ dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange (although in the book, the fictional band are stylised as The Heaven Seventeen). Several other made-up bands referenced in the novel inspired real-life groups, including The Humpers, Johnny Zhivago and Sparks.
Readers of Hergé’s popular children’s books The Adventures Of Tintin would have been in no doubt as to the origin of Tom Bailey, Joe Leeway and Alannah Currie’s musical alias. As any Belgian adventurer-lovin’ kid would have known, the Thompson twins were actually a couple of inept, moustachioed detectives who, despite lookinglike identical twins, a...
The name Tears for Fears was inspired by a book bycontroversial psychologist (and inventor of primal scream therapy) Dr Arthur Janov. In his 1980 study, Prisoners Of Pain: Unlocking The Power Of The Mind To End Suffering, he writes of “tears as a replacement for fears”, a line that struck a chord with young Bathonians Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith,...
Deciding to jettison their original, somewhat identikit punk name of Johnny & The Self-Abusers, Jim Kerr and co chanced upon their new band moniker when spinning David Bowie’s 1973 album, Aladdin Sane, particularly the LP’s second track, The Jean Genie: “He’s so simple-minded, he can’t drive his module,” the thin one sang, “he bites on the neon and...
What is it with 80s bands and science-fiction? After Duran Duran took their name from the big screen space classic Barbarella (specifically Milo O’Shea’s character of Dr Durand Durand), Scouser Ian McNabb found inspiration in a 1960 short story titled The Day The Icicle Works Closedby American sci-fi scribe Frederik Pohl.
Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, a flirtation with Communism was the ultimate in rock’n’roll rebellion. So it was that Tony James’ band of cartoon punkstitled themselves after a Moscow street gang, the name of which translates as “Burn, burn, Sputnik” (Sputnik being the name of a satellite launched by the Sov...
Paul Morley was never shy, in his NME days, of referencing highbrow literary theory in his writing, so when he was asked by Trevor Horn to join JJ Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Anne Dudley for their avant-garde synth-pop project, it was perhaps inevitable that the cerebrally-minded Morley would cook up a suitably scholarly name, deriving it from an ess...
Beastie Boys were formed in July 1981 from the ashes of hardcore punk outfit The Young Aborigines. But it wasn’t revealed until a few years ago where the name Beastie Boys came from. On The Tonight Show in October 2018, band member Mike D explained that their name is, in fact, an acronym, standing for “Boys Entering Anarchistic States Towards Inner...
Before they were Simple Minds, Johnny & The Self-Abusers recorded a song called The Cocteau Twins (about a set of twins who spoke a language they created themselves), which, in turn, inspired fellow Scots Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Will Heggie to name their band after it. After Johnny & The Self-Abusers became Simple Minds, they re-recorde...
Oct 17, 2022 · In this article, we explore 32 different popular bands and their band name origins. From Mastadon to Minus the Bear, we dig up the info on how these unique and catchy band names came about (some might surprise you!).
Dec 20, 2023 · Many notable bands originally went by different names before their mainstream breakthrough. [1] . This list of original names of bands list only former official band names that are significantly different from the eventual "famous" name.
