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 Post subject: Bands named after movies
PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:11 pm 
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Has this one been done before?
I have a few in mind but will start with one-
The Go-Betweens

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:12 pm 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:14 pm 
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They Might Be Giants
10,000 Maniacs (the movie is titled 2000 Maniacs)

Honorable mention: Frankie Goes to Hollywood (after a tagline on a movie poster)

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:26 pm 
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Danny Wilson (of "Mary's Prayer" fame--after the movie Meet Danny Wilson)

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Black Sabbath (although some say it was just from the song)
Bad Company
Giant
All About Eve

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:53 pm 
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Heaven 17 - from a fictional band mentioned in A Clockwork Orange

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:59 pm 
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Misfits named after The Misfits (1961).

Veruca Salt named after Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

Duran Duran named after a villian in Barbella.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:09 pm 
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Faster Pussycat
Guadalcanal Diary
Toto (presumably from The Wizard of Oz)
Damn Yankees
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Alphaville

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:05 pm 
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T'Pau - the vulcan high priestess in star trek
The Boo Radley's - robert duvalls character in to kill a mockingbird


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:25 pm 
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Holly Golightly -after Audrey Hepburn's character in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
The Riff Randells -after PJ Soles's character in "Rock 'n' Roll High School"
The Morlocks -after the mutants in "The Time Machine"


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:07 pm 
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When I went to college in West Virginia back in the late 80's, I knew some guys who formed a local band named "Salo".


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:28 am 
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The Del Griffiths - after the character in Planes, Trains & Automobiles


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 Post subject: Bands named after movies
PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:37 am 
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Jimbo wrote:
Faster Pussycat
Guadalcanal Diary
Toto (presumably from The Wizard of Oz)
Damn Yankees
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Alphaville



The band name for Toto derived from Jeff Porcaro and David Paich watching Wizard of Oz one day, but it was only after their original bassist David Hungate told them that Toto meant "everything" or "all-encompassing" in Latin, that they adopted the name, due to all of them being session musicians and all being capable of playing different styles.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:52 am 
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Klaatu
The Byrds (hah)
White Zombie


How 'bout books?
Steppenwolf
Joy of Cooking
The Soft Machine
Steely Dan
Tiny Tim

Or the weather?
Storm Large
It's A Beautiful Day

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 3:01 pm 
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Ladyhawke

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 Post subject: Bands named after movies
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The Fiery Furnaces (from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang")


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The Fiery Furnaces (from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang")


There's a current hip-hop group calling themselves Chiddy Bang.

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Zuzu's Petals (from It's a Wonderful Life)

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 Post subject: Bands named after movies
PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:16 pm 
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B-Movie :)

(the song "Nowhere Girl" has been stuck in my head for days)


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:56 am 
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? and the Mysterians (after the Japanese sci-fi movie The Mysterians)

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:36 pm 
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My Bloody Valentine
The Birthday Party


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:12 pm 
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Phantom Planet - named after the B movie


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