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Originally posted by craigster59
Seeing as how "best guitarist, drummer, song, rock/roll band" threads have been covered and discovering that we all in our love for music have either played it, listened to it, followed it, procreated to it, and did alot of stuff We would like to forget about to it, I had another thread come to mind. What Bands (known or unknown) have always stood out for having a name that you have always been Hip with. 3 categories ( but don't feel like you have to answer for all of them)Cool, Poetic and Weird. And also, if you can give the insight to the origin (ie.Led Zepplin, Doors, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc.) the better. I'll start it off with:
Cool : Burning Sensations, Sniff and the Tears, Buzzcocks, 10cc,Beatfarmers, fIREHOSE, Del Fuegos, BoDeans.
Poetic: Electric Prunes, Procol Harum, Moody Blues, Pearl Jam, Son Volt, Pink Floyd, Concrete Blonde
Weird: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Anyting But the Girl, They Might Be Giants, Exploding Broomhandles, B***h*le Surfers, Plimsouls
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Trying to fill in some (very little actually) of the "insight" part.
Pink Floyd was named after a somewhat prominant London blues artist. They started out playing the blues.
Led Zeppelin was sort of named by Eric Clapton, I believe. When the band members told him what they were up to, he said it "would fly like a lead balloon".
Pearl Jam is supposedly a jam that Eddie Vetter's grandmother or aunt Pearl made for his grandfather or uncle. She was supposedly innadvertantly making or storing it in a way that produced some kind of hallucinagetic effect.
That's what little I know; probably all urban legend anyway. I don't even want to know about the Butthole Surfers...