Bands who take their name from part of another bands song lyric. Is this ever a good thing?

Sometimes it's a good thing. A Certain Ratio from "The True Wheel" by Brian Eno isn't bad.

I wish I had phrased the title of this thread more like the title of this one.

Are bands who take their name straight from another bands song title included in this? Because that's even worse. Like Eric's Trip.

What about bands that take their song titles from other bands' song titles?

Did the modern lovers take their name from The True Wheel? (NB: this may be my favorite rock eno)

What about people who take their login names from song titles? :D

Sonderangerbot, My band is named after a La Dusseldorf song!

xpost: No. They were going for years beforehand.

Is the song a nod to them? I like Mark E Smith's nods to people in songs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badly_Drawn_Boy

# Famously, Mark E Smith once hailed down Gough's car mistaking it for a taxi. Honourably Gough drove Smith home and was thanked later when Smith realised who he was. He later contributed to The Fall's song "Calendar".
# The Fall also refer to a 'Badly Boy Drawn' with an 'acoustic case' in the 2002 track Susan Vs Youthclub.[1]

Catsup dude, it's cool in german obviously.

I like the Lilac Time (from "River Man" by Nick Drake)

xxpost: I think it's probably a nod to the Modern Lovers. Eno was living in New York at the time where the Modern Lovers were based. In fact they had broken up by the time this album was released. Then there's the Jerry Harrison connection, which proves nothing but is interesting.

"A Certain Ratio" was snagged by Eno from something Hitler said about Jews in Europe, I believe.

Talk Talk did this kidn of things loads and we still all love them.

Did they take their name over and over again?

Supposedly, Eric's Trip were good, someone said once.

I like them.

old thread:
Bands named after songs by The Fall?

Radiohead - great band, mediocre song
Warm Jets - great song, ok band (at least I liked the way the guitars sounded on the album. haven't heard it in ages tho)

So maybe a thread for bands named after lyrics from 70s Brian Eno solo albums?

Catsup dude, it's cool in german obviously.

-- sonderangerbot, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.myspace.com/fluffysilverclouds :(

Talk Talk did this kidn of things loads and we still all love them.

-- Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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Did they take their name over and over again?

-- sonderangerbot, Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Actually, Talk Talk did this to themselves!

(They were previously called "The Reaction" and had "Talk talk talk talk" on a various artists comp)

Radio Birdman.

Named after a misheard lyric from The Stooges' 1970 ("radio burnin' ")

Deacon Blue, please die.

That band Boys Don't Cry were pretty dreadful from memory.

But Cocteau Twins got their name off an old Simple Minds song. So yes, it is a good thing sometimes!

Then there's bands who take their name from part of another bands name, Elastica from Hey Elastica

and Coldplay, who took their name from one of Chris Martin's mates who had a band. Called Coldplay.

Cocteau Twins got their name off Simple Minds who got their name off David Bowie, who I believe got his name off a dry cleaners.