āBand names are just made up!ā
Then Iām not surprised that Panic! At The Disco came from the lyrics of āPanicā by Name Taken (Panic at the disco/Sat back and took it slow).
Mikey Way used to work at a Barnes & Noble. While stacking books during his shift, he saw a book by Irvine Welsh called Five Tales Of Chemical Romance. He wrote the title down and showed it to his brother Gerard after he came home. Gerard agreed with the name for the band - he just addedĀ āMyā to make it personal.
While performing for the first time, Fall Out Boy was nameless at that time. The band asked the audience to give them name suggestions. One of the audience yelled outĀ āFallout Boyā, who is the sidekick of Radioactive Man in The Simpsons. The name stuck.
Green DayĀ is actually a slang for someone who does nothing but smoke marijuana all day.Ā
AC/DCĀ was an acronym for āAlternating Current/Direct Currentā on a electric sewing machine. Kinda fits the rhythm of the band if you think about it.
Black Veil BridesĀ is a Roman Catholic term used to describe a woman who gives up her pleasures after getting married in a church so she could devote her life to God. Since marriage is the happiest moment of oneās life, the opposite of it is be having to attending a belovedās funeral.Ā
Imagine Dragons is an anagram of letters from different words. The band kept a secret of revealing the words.
Joy DivisionĀ is the name of a prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp from the novel The House of Dolls.
Avenged SevenfoldĀ was mentioned in Genesis 4:24;Ā āIf Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.ā
Coldplay was originally calledĀ āStarfishā. They renamed themselves after another friendās band, who had named themselves after a book of collected poems, Childās Reflections: Cold Play.
The Beatles misspelled their name to describe their musicĀ ābeatā.
Nirvana is a term of Buddhism for a person who succeeds into transcending the human suffering and rebirth through many spiritual practices and meditation.
Linkin Park is the change of name of Lincoln Park, the same park where Chester used to drive past every day for band practice.
Pierce The Veil was a social term that Vic learned in his Sociology class. According to his professor, āpiercing the veilā is a fancy term for cutting the root of a problem before it influences you.
Twenty One Pilots got its name when Tyler was in theatre class. The play he was studying was All My Sons which involved the main character allowing the flight of various planes after finding faulty parts. Due to his actions, the protagonist becomes responsible for the deaths of 21 pilots.
There are a couple reasonsĀ how The Who gotĀ its name.Ā The most popular was that Pete Townsheadās grandmother often called popular bands āThe Who?ā due to her impaired hearing.
Of Mice & Men named themselves after the novel by John Steinback.
Paramore is a respelling of paramour which means āsecret loverā.
Iron Maiden is the name of a torture device.
Foo Fighters were used by the Allies during the WWII to describe UFOs.
Evanescence meansĀ a disappearance/dissipation like vapor. The band chose this as they find it as the description of the temporal nature of life.Ā
Asking Alexandria was named after Alexander the Great.
āAll Time Lowā was mentioned in the song āHead On Collisionā by New Found Glory.
Led Zeppelin refers to the Hindenburg disaster. Before the band was formed, Keith Moon and John Entwistle made a joke of how a supergroup containing themselves, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck would be a ālead balloonā, a British idiom for disastrous results.
Muse originates from the fact that the bandmates heard someone from their hometown suggested that a muse is hovering Teignmouth, England to explain why many of the townās populace are becoming members of band.
The Misfits is the name of the 1961 film.
Yes, there are some bands whose names are inventive andĀ originalĀ but seriously. There are manyĀ musical groupsĀ that I can count whose names come from something. So if you say any band names are just āmade-upā, I dare you to do some research like the members did before you could say it right in my face.
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