Bands taking their names from other band's song titles

Charltor · Post by **Charltor** » Friday Jan 18, 2008

DrumAndDestroy wrote:sanchez...justin cuff and the side effects. pretentious?

oh wait...you named it and i loved it!

Much better than Dirty Sanchez and the Fecalphiliacs!

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Friday Jan 18, 2008

Charltor wrote:
DrumAndDestroy wrote:sanchez...justin cuff and the side effects. pretentious?

oh wait...you named it and i loved it!

Much better than Dirty Sanchez and the Fecalphiliacs!

i get gg allin vibes from that name

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Friday Jan 18, 2008

What about the opposite effect? There are lots of songs that were written using the name of an existing band. I had a well known band called Lickety Split and found out a regional band wrote a song called Lickety Split. Maybe somebody in that band liked our band or they just liked the phrase (who knows). Sometimes, a band writes a song after their own name such as Black Sabbath did on their first album.

When I was 15 years old (note the age), we thought it was cool to name our band "Talisman" after a song by The Guess Who, which was never a hit single. We liked The Guess Who very much and played many of their songs; but, never played the song Talisman on gigs. We liked the meaning of the song, which was an object believed to give magical powers to somebody who carries or wears it, e.g. a stone or jewel. After three years, we changed the name to a very non-sensical, 70's type name, Stun * Daze. The crazy thing is that people remembered the strange name Stun * Daze much more than Talisman because it was different.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Friday Jan 18, 2008

DrumAndDestroy wrote:
Charltor wrote:
DrumAndDestroy wrote:sanchez...justin cuff and the side effects. pretentious?

oh wait...you named it and i loved it!

Much better than Dirty Sanchez and the Fecalphiliacs!
i get gg allin vibes from that name

Brings back too many childhood memories.

Of course, if people said "You sound like shit." We could say "What the Fuck did you expect?".

Charltor · Post by **Charltor** » Friday Jan 18, 2008

DirtySanchez wrote:
DrumAndDestroy wrote:
Charltor wrote:
Much better than Dirty Sanchez and the Fecalphiliacs!
i get gg allin vibes from that name
Brings back too many childhood memories.

Of course, if people said "You sound like shit." We could say "What the Fuck did you expect?".

maybe we should change our names to the FAT-TASTIC 5 FECALPHILIACS!
say that five times fast.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Friday Jan 18, 2008

bassist_25 wrote:A few years ago, I saw an advertisement for this organ player's duo, which was named the Joe XXXXXXX* Duo. He named the duo after himself. What kind of conceited douche names a duo after themself without the other person's name in the title?

The Robby Douché Quartet ... me likes it!!

r:>)

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Saturday Jan 19, 2008

It's pronounced, "Doo-SHAY." It's French-ish.
"Ladies and gentlemen, while you're enjoying the entrees, how 'bout a warm Airport Ramada Lounge welcome for the Robby Doo-SHAY Quartet!... also, we've had reports that some of you are throwing your silverware in the trash, and sneeze-guards are there for a reason, people. Now give it up for Robby Doo-SHAAAAYYY!!!"------>JMS

Brian of the Clan Plush · Post by **Brian of the Clan Plush** » Sunday Jan 20, 2008

I've gone to both extremes. Plush comes from the STP (acronym...sidebar...forget it...moving on) song of the same name, but there's no real connection. We do play a few STP songs, including Plush occasionally, but mostly we were just looking for a one-syllable word that no one in the band had any real objection to. We also liked what the word defined, which we thought fit our sound. I think its worked out well for us. The bottom line IMO is that the music should do the talking, and people should remember the show more than the name.

Case in point, my previous band - The Gun Runnin' Amish. We spent quite a bit of time arriving at a creative name. It had a great (true) backstory, which made it even more memorable. Unfortunately, we weren't all that great. Every time we mentioned our name, people would say "yeah, I've heard of you guys", but most would also say they'd never actually seen us play. We had more name recognition than talent. Personally I'd prefer it the other way around.

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Sunday Jan 20, 2008

Brian of the Clan Plush wrote: The Gun Runnin' Amish.

I LOVED that name. Wasn't Tommy (ex-Tyrant) singing for you guys for a while?

Brian of the Clan Plush · Post by **Brian of the Clan Plush** » Sunday Jan 20, 2008

ToonaRockGuy wrote:
Brian of the Clan Plush wrote: The Gun Runnin' Amish.
I LOVED that name. Wasn't Tommy (ex-Tyrant) singing for you guys for a while?

yeah, Tommy Getz from Tyrone. Good pipes. Not sure if he's still singing or not.

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Tuesday Jan 22, 2008

MOONDOGGY wrote:Once upon a time when the group was starting out, one of the members had a fat lip from a bar fight, or an abusive wife, or whatever. Apparently it was pretty bad, and someone had said, "Man, it looks like God smacked you upside the head." I am paraphrasing, but again that's just what I heard from an interview with the band. As much as I hate to defend Godsmack, I'd rather the truth be known.

This's more useless knowledge from my memory's vaults. If I remember right, I believe it had something to do with one guy got that lip problem. One of the others made a lot of fun of him beyond what the rest did. A few days later, after the lip problem faded, the dude making fun of it got the same issue. They then made the claim that "god smacked you!". I may be wrong here. I actually like Godsmack myself... Heh

But yeah. I'd say it depends on the band. A few made the mention that if the band is a cover band and chose a song of the band they cover, it's cool. If, by example though, you're calling yourselves Kashmir, you'd better well be covering the Zep

Aside from that though, I've got no problem with it. The name of a band is simply an identifier. It doesn't have to be the most well-thought thing. Hell, you can tell by some bands that there is no thought in it. But having a cool name, no matter if i t's an obscure song title or just a cool name, is always decent. As long as the people who came, saw and enjoyed the show remember the name to tell their friends and see more shows, you really can't have much to complain about

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Tuesday Jan 22, 2008

I'm gonna name my next band...

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Tuesday Jan 22, 2008

that's really something

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Wednesday Jan 23, 2008

Brian of the Clan Plush wrote:I've gone to both extremes. Plush comes from the STP (acronym...sidebar...forget it...moving on)

See, this is different. Stone Temple Pilots is actually a famous band that people have heard of. The acronym, "STP" is accepted and recognized. I'm talking about every band out of the woodwork (whether or not they have all their members ... or gigs) with three or more words in their name condensing it to "GXQ" or "KZW" and expecting people to know who they are.

r:>)

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Wednesday Jan 23, 2008

BadDazeRob wrote:See, this is different. Stone Temple Pilots is actually a famous band that people have heard of. The acronym, "STP" is accepted and recognized.

yup...the angry samoans had a record called ''stp not lsd'' i bet that got them 25 extra sales on that record (it wasn't very good compared to their other stuff)

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Wednesday Jan 23, 2008

oh wait wait Rob...I thought you were talking about the fuel additive...the samoans record was out before the pilots got big!

bsaller · Post by **bsaller** » Wednesday Jan 23, 2008

I may be repeating someone here, but a name does not a band make. The band makes the name. You could have a really clever name like"Men@pause", but nobody will remember that name unless they like you.

UNEARTHA7XMatt · Post by **UNEARTHA7XMatt** » Wednesday Jan 23, 2008

witchhunt wrote:I'm gonna name my next band...

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict

Hey at least you are taking it from a Weird but good Pink Floyd song!

Trucula · Post by **Trucula** » Sunday Jan 27, 2008

1st things first: Hey all!..Sorry I haven't been on in awhile...been too work busy to check in and update..So hey to all my friends I haven't spoke to in awhile!...

I can kinda chime in on this thread, tho I never was involved with picking any name of any of band I was ever in.

Our name does come from a song title. And I agree it does work well if the name comes from a song that your a tribute band of, as said earlier. Our name was picked by a member and a member's brother who use to work nights at a large lumber company. They did specialty lumber from worldwide. They had to listen to the constant roar of the equipment all night, When quiting time came in the morning it was the machines shutting down that let them know it was quiting time. They would say "The Sound Of Silence!!"...And one said it was gonna be his bands new name.
As far as the S.O.S things goes...he never wanted to be known as that because of other things it ment. But it came about when most bars didnt have the space or enough letters for the board...And allot of friends are too tired to say the whole name...LOL

IMO I think one word names are best. easy to say, remember, and get on a sign! Kinda like naming a dog!

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Sunday Jan 27, 2008

Trucula wrote:
IMO I think one word names are best. easy to say, remember, and get on a sign! Kinda like naming a dog!

Interesting note...You should always give dogs and cats a two syllable name. Can't remember why. Easier association or something.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Sunday Jan 27, 2008

It sure beats the old stand by the rubber band.

HarleyRo1 · Post by **HarleyRo1** » Sunday Jan 27, 2008

witchhunt wrote:
Trucula wrote:
IMO I think one word names are best. easy to say, remember, and get on a sign! Kinda like naming a dog!

Interesting note...You should always give dogs and cats a two syllable name. Can't remember why. Easier association or something.

You should also stand on your back porch and scream the name of said dog - it needs to sound good when 'hollered' - maybe that holds true for bands names too??

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Sunday Jan 27, 2008

The first band I was ever in was "No Warning Shot", we took it from a Six Feet Under song and to make it worse we tried to sound just like them lol. Oh those were the days