December 3, 200817 yr 25. Porno for Pyros 24. Nickelback Lead singer Chad Kroeger was having trouble coming up with a name, and so approached his brother, who worked at a Starbucks. Coffee was $1.95, which meant every customer who paid two bucks got-waiiiit for it-a nickel back. 23. The Alan Parsons Project Founder Alan Parsons started a "project" with other "project administration personnel" to "drill down" on this whole "music" thing he'd heard so much about. 22. Stone Temple Pilots One of the band members thought the logo on the STP car treatment spray bottles was cool. 21. Matchbox 20 Explanations range from the name being the title of a song from an earlier band to the band's drummer seeing the word "matchbox" and the number 20 on a guy's shirt in a restaurant. 20. Smashing Pumpkins More of a cautionary tale than anything else, bandmates Billy Corgan and co. reportedly dashed the name off quickly so they could get on with their lives, not realizing they'd be fielding lame pumpkin-based jokes about it for the rest of their lives. 19. Def Leppard Singer Joe Elliott thought of the name Deaf Leopard while he was in school 18. W.A.S.P. Eager for a cool-sounding metal band name, Blackie Lawless, Rik Fox, Randy Piper and Tony Richards decided to take the word "wasp," then for no reason punctuate it. 17. Puddle of Mud The 1993 Missouri River flood left the band's practice space a muddy mess, which led them to this name 16. Of Montreal Frontman Kevin Barnes has told many conflicting stories about where this Athens, Ga. band got their name, but the one that seems to have gained acceptance is that he was dating a girl from Montreal and it didn't work out. 15. Goo Goo Dolls The band found the name in an issue of True Detective Magazine after a club owner balked at their original name, the Sex Maggots 14. The The A British act decided to come up with a band name even more ironically detached than the Band. 13. Mr. Mister The band's name references a record by another band called the Weather Report, which had the line "Mister Fister" in it. 12. The Mr T Experience The members saw Mr. T on television and thought, for some reason, it would be funny to name their band after him 11. Panic! at the Disco Named after the Smiths song, "Panic," which includes a line about a disco burning down. http://www.cracked.com/article_15118_p5.html I will post the last 10 in a second. : )
December 3, 200817 yr Author 10. Limp Bizkit 9. Chumbawamba A group of British "anarchists" with strong political opinions needed a band name that resonated with the passion of their views, and so picked a gibberish word that means nothing. 8. Enuff Z'nuff Founding member Chip Z'nuff's name rhymed with "enough." And so a legacy of reason was born. 7. Mott the Hoople When the band regrouped in the late 1960s, their new manager changed their name from Silence to Mott the Hoople, after a novel of the same name about a circus freak. 6. Hoobastank In an interview, here's what the band's vocalist, Doug Robb, had to say about the name: "It's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything." 5. Toad the Wet Sprocket The band named themselves after a comment in an Eric Idle monologue on a Monty Python album. 4. Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts Russell Crowe added up the collective height of the band members 3. Hootie and the Blowfish The band is named for two of singer Darius Rucker's college choir friends, nicknamed "Hootie" and "the Blowfish" because one looked like an owl and the other like a blowfish. 2. Archers of Loaf Because the band members apparently wanted to spend every single interview talking about their name, they came up with the stupidest one they could think of. 1. !!! aka Chk-Chk-Chk. In the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, the clicks in the Bushmen's native language were represented with exclamation marks in the subtitles. The band thought that was cool, apparently, and named themselves three clicks. (This also makes the second band that's completely unsearchable by Google.) http://www.cracked.com/article_15118_p7.html
December 3, 200817 yr When Nickel first started getting air play they played in a bar in Evansville called the Duck Inn. The cover charge was $4.95.
December 3, 200817 yr I thought W.A.S.P. was an acronym for "We're All Sexual Perverts." That was the story making the rounds in the '80s, anyway.
December 3, 200817 yr What? No explanation for this band's name? lol. :lol: Speaking of them, anyone know how they came up with the name of their album titled, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water??? The answer is just as good as how they got their name...:lol:
December 3, 200817 yr Author What? No explanation for this band's name? lol. I felt there was no way I could find a way to properly word it for this site. :lol: There was a band with a goofy name that wasn't very good or well known, they were called "Sweep the Leg Johnny" You can take a guess where they got that name from.
December 3, 200817 yr I thought W.A.S.P. was an acronym for "We're All Sexual Perverts." That was the story making the rounds in the '80s, anyway. I always heard that one and another "We Are Sexual Perverts."
December 3, 200817 yr :lol: Speaking of them, anyone know how they came up with the name of their album titled, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water??? The answer is just as good as how they got their name...:lol: Man, I ran into that CD a couple of days ago when I was cleaning my room. I popped that bad boy in and rollin.
December 3, 200817 yr I thought that the Butthole Surfers would for sure be on here. What is the story behind their name?
December 3, 200817 yr I have no idea, I'll ask Rocket... :lol: :laugh: Holy crap...That's one of the funniest things I've ever read...lol :thumb: But, here is how they got their name... The band did not begin as the Butthole Surfers, although they did have a song of that title, possibly an early version of 1984's "Butthole Surfer". This changed at their first paid concert, when an announcer forgot what the band was called and used the song title for the group’s name. They decided to keep the moniker, and have largely been billed as such ever since.
December 3, 200817 yr :lol: :laugh: Holy crap...That's one of the funniest things I've ever read...lol :thumb: But, here is how they got their name... The band did not begin as the Butthole Surfers, although they did have a song of that title, possibly an early version of 1984's "Butthole Surfer". This changed at their first paid concert, when an announcer forgot what the band was called and used the song title for the group’s name. They decided to keep the moniker, and have largely been billed as such ever since. That is a much more boring explanation than I expected!:lol:
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