New Category: Songs Performers are Named After

[Carl]

Didn't realize there were so many of these, but lots of bands have taken their names from specific songs:

Songs Bands are Named After

Did we miss any?

[MindCrime]

Godsmack is named after the Alice in Chains song, however there is currently no fact listing for that song. I could submit one sometime this week though.

[Viaene]

Rolling Stone - Muddy Waters

[Farin]

Death Cab for Cutie took their band name from from the song of the same name by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in The Beatles' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour.

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Stiff Little Fingers took their name from the title of a track by The Vibrators.

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UK ska superstars Madness named themselves after one of their favourite tracks by original Jamaican ska legend Prince Buster.

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UK glam punk stalwarts Gold Blade take their name from a track by Nick Cave's old post-punk psycho-blues outfit, The Birthday Party.

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UK punk originals Penetration, whose "Don't Dictate" is a classic of the genre, named themselves after an Iggy Pop track.

[Heimann47]

Godsmack is named after the Alice in Chains song, however there is currently no fact listing for that song. I could submit one sometime this week though.

The band's name, according to Merrill in the Smack This! DVD, was taken from the Alice in Chains' song "God Smack". However, Erna stated in a 1999 interview that "I was making fun of somebody who had a cold sore on his lip and the next day I had one myself and somebody said, 'It's a godsmack.' The name stuck. We were aware of the Alice in Chains song but didn't really think much about it. It's a cool song and the name had meaning for us"

[Heimann47]

My favorite band's name, Between The Buried And Me, isn't a song title, but rather from the lyrics of the song "Ghost Train" by Counting Crows

Ghost Train - Counting Crows

I took the cannonball down to the ocean

Across the desert from sea to shining sea

I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation

Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me

"How do you do?"

She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

She buys a ticket 'cause it's cold where she comes from

She climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow

Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness

Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go

"How do you do?"

She said, "How do you do?"

I took the cannonball down to the ocean

Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves

Love is a ghost train howling on the radio

"Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains."

"How do you do?"

She said, "Hey, how do you do?"

Edited June 24, 2010 by Guest

[Lucky]

It occured to me, and Chris will be proud that I thought of it, that the Australian band Powderfinger was taken from the Neil Young song. Turns out I was right.

Powderfinger was formed in 1989 by vocalist and guitarist Ian Haug, bassist John Collins and drummer Steven Bishop,[7] who took their band's name from the Neil Young song "Powderfinger".

[Ombre Vivante]

- Bananarama is derived from "Pyjamarama" and Ladytron is derived from "Ladytron" - both songs by Roxy Music

- I think Suede came from "Suedehead" by Morrissey.

- Negativland got their name from a song by Neu!

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Pretty Girls Make Graves take their name from a track on The Smiths debut album. Unless its an improbable coincidence.

[MindCrime]

Canned Heat - named after a Tommy Johnson song

Judas Priest, after Bob Dylan's "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

All American Rejects partially got their name from a GreenDay song

rumor has it that Panic at the Disco got their name from the Smith's song Panic.