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Post here the meaning of your favorite bands or just the ones you know 😉

here's some i found in an article i read recently:

The Beatles : a mix between 2 words : beetle + beat

Joy Division : a reference to the group of jewish women forced to be the prostitute of the concentration camps.

Depeche Mode : it was the name of at the time a famous magazine and Martin Gore liked how those two words sounded.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a mix between the name of The Rolling Stones' founder and guitarist Brian Jones and a mass cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

The Velvet Underground was taken from the name of a book by Michael Leigh about the secret sexual subculture of the early 1960s.

The Black Angels was taken from the name of a song by the Velvet Underground "The Black Angel's Death Song"

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My Favourit Band is absolutely RADIOHEAD 😁

Radiohead : it is derived from the song of 'Talking Heads'.

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More than one

Oasis : it's like an oasis lol

The Jimi Hendrix Experience : it's because Jimi Hendrix is in this band lol

The Band : it's because it a band lol

The Clash : it's because they want to clash people lol

Why? : because fuck you, that's why lol

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cartoken wrote:

Post here the meaning of your favorite bands or just the ones you know 😉

here's some i found in an article i read recently:

The Beatles : a mix between 2 words : beetle + beat

Joy Division : a reference to the group of jewish women forced to be the prostitute of the concentration camps.

Depeche Mode : it was the name of at the time a famous magazine and Martin Gore liked how those two words sounded.

Beatles - their name also was a play on Buddy Holly's The Crickets, one of their influences.

Depeche Mode - It was actually Gahan who read the magazine as he was an art student, I believe, when the band met him - I think he's the one that recommended the name. Don't know if they'd have chosen the name because Gore like the sound considering it was Vince Clarke's band at the time.
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Catherine Wheel - they named themselves after the firework of the same name, not realizing at the time that the firework was named for the torture device used on St. Catherine.
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cartoken wrote:

The Beatles : a mix between 2 words : beetle + beat

Are you sure about that? Last I checked their name was a film reference, but my sources may have been unreliable.

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My last band: The Legendary Hitchhikers: from the Elvis Costello song "Waiting For The End Of The World".

My current band: Roadside Attraction: from the Tom Robbins book "Another Roadside Attraction".
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swedenman wrote:

Are you sure about that? Last I checked their name was a film reference, but my sources may have been unreliable.

well not that sure 🙄 it was just one article that i've read.

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drakonium wrote:

Oasis : it's like an oasis lol

The Jimi Hendrix Experience : it's because Jimi Hendrix is in this band lol

The Band : it's because it a band lol

The Clash : it's because they want to clash people lol

Why? : because fuck you, that's why lol

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