Ombre Vivante Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Early 80s synthpoppers from Sheffield, Yorkshire (UK), Heaven 17, whose classic "We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing" still gets an occasional airing at Fitter Mansions, took their name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, "A Clockwork Orange",. It's from the movie. There's a record at the shoppe that says "Heaven 17." If I started a band, I'd definitely consider naming it "Durango 95" (the name of the car they steal in the book and movie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ombre Vivante Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 There's a crappy band called "Poe" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 I remember Poe and that song where she wants to kill that guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Early 80s synthpoppers from Sheffield, Yorkshire (UK), Heaven 17, whose classic "We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing" still gets an occasional airing at Fitter Mansions, took their name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, "A Clockwork Orange",. from the same novel: Moloko, in the Nadsat slang in the book, is the word for 'milk' (from the Russian word for milk, молоко) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 oh hey that reminds of The Triffids and Klaatu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAngel Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Mott the Hoople: named after a Willard Manus novel of that name. Joy Division: refers to groups of women imprisoned in a concentration camp and forced to prostitute themselves to Nazi soldiers in Yehiel De-Nur's 1955 novel The House of Dolls. Art of Noise: taken from the 1913 essay "The Art of Noises" by Italian futurist Luigi Russolo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberjudge Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Moby, who is directly related to Herman Melville, took his stage name from Moby Dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 More on the Velvet Underground. This will appear in the "Femme Fatale" Songfacts soon: The band's name itself came from journalist Michael Leigh's 1963 paperback The Velvet Underground, an exposé of the sexual revolution going on in the USA at the time. The book included hyperbole-laden examinations of S&m, polyamory, homosexuality, and other practices then seen as "deviant." Tony Conrad, a filmmaker friend of the band, accidentally dropped the book for Lou Reed to find, who pounced on it and adopted the title; he liked it less for the S&m aspect and more for the word "underground" which would associate them with the underground film and music scene. Lou Reed himself in a 1969 interview with Open City would later call the book "the funniest dirty book I've ever read." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Aerosmith; An original literary work by author William Golding titled, Arrowsmith or, Lord of the thighs...za! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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