Bands named after a song by another band

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Like: Death Cab for Cutie, Pretty Girls Make Graves.

I'm sure there are many, many of these.

Amaze me with your knowledge!

― Clovis Lupin (Clovis), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Radio 4 (Public Image Limited)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Boris (Melvins)

― knaaq! (knaaq!), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Eric's Trip (Sonic Youth)
Isn't Radiohead from a Talking Heads song?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

So - Dresden Dolls (a-fucking-gain) ? Named after the Fall song?

Dali's Car - Captain Beefheart
Rolling Stones..

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Blind Mr. Jones (named after two tracks on Talking Heads' Naked) album

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Ladytron

― people eating fruit (aaron ef.), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Burning Airlines is from Brian Eno's "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More". A Certain Ratio comes from "The True Wheel" on the same record.

― joygoat (joygoat), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:47 (twenty years ago)

spirea x

velocity girl

- 2 bands both named after tracks on *the same primal scream 12" single*.

also there were 'scott 3' named after the album by s. engel esq.

― piscesboy (piscesboy), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Texas is the Reason, featuring at least one member of Burning Airlines is named after a lyric in Misfits' "Bullet"

― people eating fruit (aaron ef.), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Blonde Redhead (DNA)

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

WORLD LEADER PRETEND! I WIN!

By which I mean I win the battle against my mind to finally remember the band I've never heard that's named after an R.E.M. song.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Monday, 17 April 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

We did this before. I think my sole contribution was Funeral For A Friend.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Radio Birdman (Stooges)

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Catherine Wheel is named after a David Byrne project, isn't it? Seems like a lot of people named their bands after Talking Heads songs.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Sorry-Radio Birdman is a lyric, not a song title. Duh.

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

WORLD LEADER PRETEND!

ie better than ezra 2005

other lame new orleans bands named after 80s semi indie songs: tom violence

― adam (adam), Monday, 17 April 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Simple Minds took their name from the line "She's so simple-minded she can't find her (whatever it is)" from Bowie's Jean Genie, and The Cocteau Twins took their name from the Simple Minds song of the same name, a song that eventually became "No Cure" on The Minds debut album.

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

This sorta counts: The Sea and Cake is named after their own mishearing of the Gastr del Sol song, C in Cake.

― Kali (Kali), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Godsmack (cringe)

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Deacon Blue

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 17 April 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Fictional band The Venus in Furs from the film Velvet Goldmine.

Was going to point out Burning Airlines as well.

And World Leader Pretend, but I wouldn't call them "lame" :P

― Tucker Morrisson, Monday, 17 April 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Pretty Girls Make Graves is a line from The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, which is where Morrissey found it.

― snotty moore, Monday, 17 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Eric's Trip (Sonic Youth)

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Monday, 17 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

catherine wheel a play that byrne wrote the music for

if i'm not mistaken.

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Monday, 17 April 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

new race

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:13 (twenty years ago)

sietrs of mercy

― Sym Sym (sym), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

the lightning seeds
is based on a mishearing of RASPBERRY BERET'S
"the thunder drowns out what the lightning *sees*"

― piscesboy (piscesboy), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

the mystery trend (famously named after a mishearing of the line about "the mystery tramp" in "like a rolling stone")

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Has Slowdive ever owned up to getting the name from a Siouxsie song?

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Hunters and Collectors.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Catherine Wheel may just be named for the Catherine Wheel. (cartwheel, or firework named because it spins like a cartwheel.)

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

A Certain Ratio - taken from an Eno track

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

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― dave vire think (dave225.3), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Pretty Girls Make Graves is a line from The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, which is where Morrissey found it.

Gah, beat me to it! The only reason I clicked on this thread was to post that, but I guess my snobbery has been thwarted. :)

― regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Bullet Train to Vegas ( Drive Like Jehu )

― casey (t. fiend), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Baby Lemonade (named after a Syd Barrett song)
A Flock of Seagulls (from a line in the Stranglers' "Toiler on the Sea")
Ice Cream Hands (from a line in Robyn Hitchcock's "Flavour of Night")

― R. O'Tfl, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Dunno if Rip, Rig & Panic were named after the (pre-Rahsaan) Roland Kirk track OR the album on which it appears, but I guess it makes no difference.

Claw Hammer might have taken their name from Beefheart's "Orange Claw Hammer" but I'm not positive.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Mansun (named after Verve song "Man Called Sun")
Ordinary Boys (Morrissey)
Love is All (Rapture)
Radio 4 (PIL)

― Squeegee Boy, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Wow And Flutter (Stereolab)

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Moonshake (Can)

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Spoon (can) - just a guess...

― xxxxxxxxxxx, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Ege Bamyasi (Can)

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Negativland (Neu!)

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

>>Has Slowdive ever owned up to getting the name from a Siouxsie song?

They claim(ed) not to be named after that song, AFAIK.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Too embarassed to admit they were once Goths?

― TS: Mick Ralphs vs. Ariel Bender (Dada), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

ur, i dont think love is all were named after the rapture song were they?

― don quixote, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Stiff Little Fingers (Vibrators)

I'm sure this has been done before :P

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Black Angels, Black Angel's Death Song (VU)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Shakespear's Sister (Smiths, if memory serves)
Vision Stain (Loop)
High On Fire (Telescopes)

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

< also there were 'scott 3' named after the album by s. engel esq. >

surely you mean 'SCOTT 4'?

― keefus (keefus), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Radiohead ("Radio Head" - Talking Heads)

― almostcool, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

"Has Slowdive ever owned up to getting the name from a Siouxsie song?"

Neil Halstead claims to have heard the word in a dream.

Tangerine Dream is named after a misheard lyric in "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds": "Picture yourself on a boat in the river/With tangerine trees/And marmalade skiiiiies..."

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Sugar Shack (Jimmy Gilmer & Fireballs)
Gigolo Ants (Syd Barrett)

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Court and Spark (joni mitchell)

― natecavalieri (phonetagged), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

now i'm picturing myself in a boat on a river with tangerine dream

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

Travis used to be called Glass Onion (the Beatles)
Starsailor (Tim Buckley)
Right Said Fred (Bernard Cribbins)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
a mispronounciation of
The Damned's "Machine Gun Etiquette"

― Ron E. Mexico, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

As the story goes, Slowdive is named after a word from one of Nick Chapin's dreams.

That may debunk that theory, but who knows, maybe he was dreaming about how much he likes the song slowdive.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

The Every Little Breath You Takes

The Pseu-pseu-pseudios

The Mr. Robotos

The 12XUs

― Great Allz, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 00:56 (twenty years ago)

The We're Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Clubs Bands

― Don't Forget, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Suburban Kids With Biblical Names is a Swedish (ugh) group taking their name from a line in a Silver Jews song ("People")

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

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