Naming a band is like naming a baby: you want something distinctive and memorable, but nothing silly enough to get you picked on in the schoolyard. You can grab a dictionary and pull "Commodores" on the first try, or mull it over for months only to settle on "Strawberry Alarm Clock."
Whatever the choice, the band has to not only live with it, but explain it over and over to intrepid fans and journalists.
Below are 20 possible band name explanations. See if you can spot the fakes in this edition of Fact or Fiction.
This was fun. Maybe we'll do a Band Names Part II - any ideas?
Comments: 28
The Zappa/Beefheart thing is wrong methinks 'cuz according to various things I had read Vilet's dad used to describe his male appendage's tip as looking like a big effin beefheart and it morphed from there.
-Jim H from indiana
That was fun, but less hip-hop stuff. You guys should do Led Zeppelin, U2, The Who, and The Beatles. Oh yeah, and The Doors and Queen too!
-Dannie from Goshen, NY
How about a quiz about single word band names (like Journey, Kiss, Aerossmith, etc)?
-marg from northville, MI
Do one for how the Goo Goo Dolls came up with their name.
-Jesse from Huntsville, AL
#6--Maurice White may be spiritual and that may be where the band name came from, but there is no "wind" element in astrology. There's "air," but that's not the same thing and air is never referred to as "wind." The question should be re-worded so as not to mislead anyone who knows that.
-Trivia Goddess from Phoenix, AZ
16/20. Not bad.
-teababe27 from New York
11/15. Not bad.
-teababe27 from New York
15... good quiz, I failed on the more obscure U.S acts
-Will Blaik from Devon
I got 'em all. 100%. I am das genius.
-Efrem from Ukraine
Really good quiz, got just over half right, 50/50 chance lol Interesting and Barmy the same time lol Very good quiz :)
-Chris from Wales