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Old 12-10-2004, 01:18 PM   #1 (permalink)
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How bands got their names

This is really an interesting site.

Good stories if nothing else.
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Old 12-10-2004, 01:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
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This one seems a tad cumbersome:

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BEASTIE BOYS - According to Michael Diamond, BEASTIE stands for Boys Entering Anarchistic Stages Towards Internal Excellence.
But this is still and interesting read and a good way to kill off a friday afternoon.
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Old 12-10-2004, 01:38 PM   #3 (permalink)
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10 CC - the average amount of ejaculate from a healthy male.
Is an urban legend according to Snopes
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Origins: It's no secret that plenty of modern day rock bands have names with sexual connotations, but inventing similar explanations for the names of older bands has become a favorite pastime.

So it is with 10cc, who allegedly chose their name as a sly joke indicating that they were just a little bit better than the average guy (whose ejaculation supposedly contains 9cc of semen). Not so, says Jonathan King, who signed the group to UK Records and came up with their name:

I had to give them a name . . . because I'd signed the record, and I went to sleep that night and had this dream that a band of mine on my label made number one on the album and singles charts simultaneously in America, and the band was 10cc. So I gave them that name the next morning. Everybody then decided that this was apparently meant to be the amount of an average male ejaculation. Which was absolutely far from the truth . . . There's a lot of apocryphal stories about names, and unfortunately, most of them are much more amusing than the ugly reality, which in this case is that the name came to me in a dream . . ."

Band member Eric Stewart said essentially the same thing in a 1995 BBC interview:

No, the name actually did came from Jonathan King. Um, he said he'd had a dream the night before he came up to Manchester to listen to Donna. And, he saw a hoarding over Wembley Stadium or Hammersmith Odeon or something like that and said, "10cc The Best Group in the World". So we . . . well, that sounds great to us, we'll call ourselves 10cc. And that's how it came about.

If the name had been deliberately chosen for the reasons cited, it would have been a misnomer: The average male ejaculation actually contains only about 3cc of semen.
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Old 12-10-2004, 01:43 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Nice site. I have a whole paperback of band name derivations from about 12 years ago.
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Old 12-10-2004, 01:47 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I always thought "Pearl Jam" was a euphemisim for semen.
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Old 12-10-2004, 01:48 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Thought I'd post this as today has special meaning for it.

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Old 12-10-2004, 04:19 PM   #7 (permalink)
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There is a military airbase in Germany called Ramstein, where they held airshows including jets. In a tragic accident two jets collided into each other and landed on people, around 80 people got killed. Well Rammstein kinda took their name from it, except the fact that they added an extra 'm' to it. Giving it the literal meaning of Ramming Stone. They are pretty good at giving double meaning of their lyrics in their songs.
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Old 12-10-2004, 04:36 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Gotta wonder where they got their initial info from:

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KISS - According to Paul Stanley, Kiss just sounded dangerous (kiss of death) and sexy at the same time. Kiss denies the rumors that the name stands for "Kids In Service of Satan" or the saying "Keep It Simple Stupid."
So, why did they choose 'KISS'? According to Simmons, the adoption of that name was surprisingly quick and mundane:

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http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/kiss.htm
So, why did they choose 'KISS'? According to Simmons, the adoption of that name was surprisingly quick and mundane:
One day Paul [Stanley] and Peter [Criss] and I were driving around, brainstorming for new names. I had thought of a few, like Albatross, but I wasn't happy with any of them. At one point -- we were stopped at a red light -- Paul said, "How about KISS?" Peter and I nodded, and that was it. It made sense. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, and since then people have talked about all the benefits of the name: how it seemed to sum up certain things about glam rock at the time; how it was perfect for international marketing because it was a simple word that people understood all over the world. But we just liked the name, and that was that.
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Old 12-10-2004, 07:18 PM   #9 (permalink)
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I always thought "Pearl Jam" was a euphemisim for semen.
It is to ZZTop, God bless them.
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Old 12-12-2004, 11:04 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Rammstein
There is a military airbase in Germany called Ramstein, where they held airshows including jets. In a tragic accident two jets collided into each other and landed on people, around 80 people got killed. Well Rammstein kinda took their name from it, except the fact that they added an extra 'm' to it. Giving it the literal meaning of Ramming Stone. They are pretty good at giving double meaning of their lyrics in their songs.
I think the band denies that their name comes from that airbase, although it is quite obvious. Really strange people....
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Old 12-13-2004, 12:24 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 12-13-2004, 03:25 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I think the band denies that their name comes from that airbase, although it is quite obvious. Really strange people....
no, they don't deny it, apparently they first wrote the song "Rammstein" about the disaster, then chose to use it as a band name
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Old 12-13-2004, 03:30 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Gotta wonder where they got their initial info from:



So, why did they choose 'KISS'? According to Simmons, the adoption of that name was surprisingly quick and mundane:

Snopes claims:
http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/kiss.htm
So, why did they choose 'KISS'? According to Simmons, the adoption of that name was surprisingly quick and mundane:
One day Paul [Stanley] and Peter [Criss] and I were driving around, brainstorming for new names. I had thought of a few, like Albatross, but I wasn't happy with any of them. At one point -- we were stopped at a red light -- Paul said, "How about KISS?" Peter and I nodded, and that was it. It made sense. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, and since then people have talked about all the benefits of the name: how it seemed to sum up certain things about glam rock at the time; how it was perfect for international marketing because it was a simple word that people understood all over the world. But we just liked the name, and that was that.
Same thing I've always heard, never heard of the whole "Kiss of Death" thing
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Old 12-14-2004, 02:52 PM   #14 (permalink)
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I heard that Gene originally thought of calling the band Fuck, but knew that would never fly with radio or the record label so they changed it to KISS.
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