Band Name Origins
Name the band or artist from the derivation of their name. There's a major variety of genres represented, and beware: some of these are tricky and may require general knowledge rather than just musical knowledge.
- The initials of the four members of the band, one of them backward.
- Named for a town in Michigan that just happened to be under the pin that the band stuck in a map at random.
- Part of the title of an Aldous Huxley novel in turn inspired by a quote from William Blake about perception.
- A classic pickup truck built by Oldsmobile in the 1930s.
- A pairing of the first names of the band's favourite couple of blues musicians.
- This band played under a different name each gig, and finally got signed while named for the inventor of the seed drill.
- A medieval torture device involving a body shaped casket full of internal spikes.
- The prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp.
- The German for 'power station', which is highly appropriate given the band's musical style.
- Military benchmark of a million people killed by a nuclear blast.
- The title of the 1913 manifesto by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo who constructed musical machines.
- Named after the Leonard Cohen song rather than the order of nuns who feature in its lyrics.
- The strongest legal alcoholic drink available in the United States, at 190 proof or 95% alcohol.
- A parody of the name of glam metal band Pretty Boy Floyd who they once played alongside.
- The title of a book about S&M discovered on a New York sidewalk by one of the band members.
- Corrupted from the principal villain in the Jane Fonda film Barbarella.
- With typical subtlety, a shortened version of the Gaelic for 'kiss my arse'.
- The greatest amount of voice, at least in Latin.
- An inaccurate estimate of the amount of sperm produced by the average man per ejaculation (note: apparently an urban legend but...).
- Late 19th century slang for burst facial capillaries caused through alcohol abuse, inspired by a photo of W C Fields.
- A steam powered steel dildo from William Burroughs's novel The Naked Lunch.
- Fittingly given his image, he got his name from an 18th century witch who talked to him through a ouija board.
- Named for the extravagant bouffant hairstyle sported by two key members, not for the bombers.
- Inspired by the yellow and black striped shirt he used to wear constantly and that made him look like a bee.
- Broadcasting jargon for shots that show only the head and shoulders of the subject.
- Named for the most famous literary invention of his great great grand uncle Herman Melville.
- Subtly, American slang for period pains.
- The name of an unemployment benefit form in England.
- The mythological river that Charon ferried the dead across to reach Hades.
- He took his name from a take on Fats Domino, thought up by Dick Clark's wife.
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