Bands Named After Song Lyrics

[TheGreek]

Oasis....Midnight at the....

[Bobthedog]

Were Millie Vanilli named after the song Just one Cornetto  ( Yes, I know - O Sole Mio)?

 

[Little Dragon]

Stiff Little Fingers-The Vibrators.

[ZilchWoolham]

There's Shakespears Sister named after Shakespeare's Sister, I'd argue the best single by The Smiths. In turn named after A Room of One's Own, the essay by Virginia Woolf with which it seems to have little in common. 

[paul_5]

On 05/02/2019 at 09:02, casapete said:

Deacon Blue (Steely Dan)

Steely Dan in turn took their name from a dildo in William S. Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch’. Not a song, but still interesting.

[Unknown_User]

I think a band from the early noughties called Pretty Girls Make Graves were apparently named after a Smiths song.  I don't know anything about the Smiths though so I might be wrong!

[Jus Lukin]

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Edited March 3, 2022 by Jus Lukin

[jacko]

The majority of Grateful Dead tribute bands name themselves after song lyrics.  I was in Wildflower seed (from Frankllin's tower) for a while.

[keeponehandloose]

14 hours ago, TheGreek said:

Oasis....Midnight at the....

That was the underground market in Manchester. Not underground as in 'covert' but underground as in 'the basement.'

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Godsmack took their name from an Alice In Chains song.

[mike f]

Lightning Seeds after a misheard lyric in Raspberry Beret by Prince and the Revolution.

”Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees”.

[Unknown_User]

6 minutes ago, mike f said:

Lightning Seeds after a misheard lyric in Raspberry Beret by Prince and the Revolution.

”Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees”.

Is that genuine?  I was a big fan of the Lightning Seeds in my formative years and I (obviously mistakenly) thought Prince sang "lightning seeds" in that song.

[Nicko]

18 minutes ago, Unknown_User said:

Is that genuine?  I was a big fan of the Lightning Seeds in my formative years and I (obviously mistakenly) thought Prince sang "lightning seeds" in that song.

Simple Minds not quite named after the lyric to Jean Genie (So simpe minded....)

Again not a lyric, but he Killers are named after a fake band in video of the New Order 's song Crystal.

[Lozz196]

15 hours ago, Little Dragon said:

Stiff Little Fingers-The Vibrators.

Curses, you got there before me.

[Guest oZZma]

Blonde Redhead, named after the DNA song.

Not sure if the Cherubs are named after the Butthole Surfers song, but it's likely...

Edited February 6, 2019 by oZZma

[bartelby]

Boris are named after a Melvins song

 

[still-young]

The Black Angels are named after the Doors 'Black Angels Death Song'.

[Bilbo]

No Quarter 😁

[silverfoxnik]

Good thread.. 😊

Late 80s Rock/Rap band The Chiefs of Relief took their name from a lyric in the Grandmaster Flash song 'It's Nasty Genius of Love)'.. 

And Stephen 'TinTin' Duffy's  group The Lilac Time took inspiration for their name from lyrics in the chorus of Nick Drake's song 'River Man'. 

[howdenspur]

Think Flock of Seagulls are named after part of the lyric from Toiler on the Sea by the Stranglers.

[geoham]

When I was a lad, I named my first band ‘The Eccentrics’, after the line in She’s Electric by Oasis. A great name I thought....we played a few school shows before going out separate ways.