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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums  Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:56 pm |
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It's a grand rock 'n' roll tradition. How many can we think of?
Dr. Feelgood (after Johnny Kidd & The Pirates)
The Gigolo Aunts (after Syd Barrett)
Baby Lemonade (after Syd Barrett)
The Shazam (after The Move)
Stanley Road (after Paul Weller)
My Before And After (after Cotton Mather)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:10 pm |
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SQUIRREL!
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Toad the Wet Sprocket (after an obscure Monty Python sketch)
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Steve
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:36 pm |
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SQUIRREL!
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Buckcherry (after Chuck Berry)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:23 pm |
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Super Genius
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Rolling Stones - after a Muddy Waters song
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"Just because I imagined it doesn't make it any less true." - Homer Simpson
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:00 pm |
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The Pope of Pop!
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alantig wrote: Rolling Stones - after a Muddy Waters song
Alan Hey, that's what I was gonna say! Deacon Blue (after Steely Dan) Treat Her Right (after Roy Head)
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"It's only rock & roll, but I like it!"
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:09 pm |
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I come from the land of the ICE and snow
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Icehouse (after their own first album, which they had released when they were called "Flowers").
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:30 pm |
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Tora Tora (from the Van Halen song-they sucked by the way)
Ladytron (from the Roxy Music song)
Madness (from the Prince Buster song)
Psychedelic Furs (the "furs" part is from the Velvet Underground song "Venus In Furs")
Dream Evil (from the Dio album/song)
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-ex- New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:39 pm |
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The Pope of Pop!
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Invisible Pedestrian wrote: Ladytron (from the Roxy Music song) See also: Bananarama (adapted from Roxy Music's "Pyjamarama")
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Lawrence Talbot
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:45 pm |
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El Goodo- (from the Big Star song, released one of the best albums of 2010)
Aqualung -(from the Jethro Tull song/album)
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:48 pm |
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The Pope of Pop!
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Masters of Reality (after Black Sabbath)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:09 am |
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This is a job... for Superman.
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:35 am |
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Save Ferris (from Ferris Bueller)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:48 am |
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Tiger Baby (from the Saint Etienne album Tiger Bay)
Negativland (from a song by the group Neu!)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:09 am |
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Ruben & the Jets named after Crusing with Ruben abnd the Jets (Zappa/Mothers)
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The Yankees win,THE YANKEES WINNNNN!!!! -
Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. FZ
Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win."
-- Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto after reading a bulletin that Pope Paul VI had died
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Lawrence Talbot
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:33 pm |
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Starless and Bible Black -(King Crimson song)
The Kooks -(David Bowie song)
Cabinessence -(Beach Boys song)
Shakespears Sister --(Smiths song)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 12:45 pm |
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The Pope of Pop!
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Motorhead - Lemmy recorded the song "Motorhead" with Hawkwind before forming Motorhead
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:30 pm |
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Nazareth (from the lyric in the song "The Weight" by The Band)
Judas Priest (from the Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest")
Pretenders (from The Platters song "The Great Pretender")
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:24 pm |
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Y&T (from the Beatles album Yesterday And Today, also their original name before shortening it to Y&T after 2 albums)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:25 pm |
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Deep Purple (from the April Stevens song)
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:20 pm |
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Not a rock group, but country duo Sweethearts of the Rodeo got their name from a Byrds album.
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:37 pm |
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The Pope of Pop!
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Floy Joy (after the Supremes song)
Floy Joy were an 80s UK pop group, who recorded "Weak in the Presence of Beauty" before Alison Moyet scored a hit with her cover version.
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Jimbo
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Post subject: Bands named after songs or albums Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:58 pm |
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Invisible Pedestrian wrote: Deep Purple (from the April Stevens song) Machine Head (after Deep Purple)
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