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Derivations
Posted by Lenny Law on 8 March 2011 - 9:01pm.
Reading about Green Gartside in the current issue made me think about the name Scritti Politti which was, I seem to remember a corruption of the Italian for "political writings" (Scritti Politici, or so Wiki tells me)
So. Lets have a game. The derivation of a group's name, please. We then have to spot the group.
I'll start things with a nice simple one.
A metal dildo in William S. Burrough's book The Naked Lunch.
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Steely Dan...
Eye fang ewe.
Doctor Feelgood?
Led Zeppelin?
edit: Knobby Holder?
(Glenbervie lies, you can see it in his eyes)
Led Zeppelin
A comment by Keith Moon as to how well the new band Page had formed would go down?
Ah
was actually thinking of various names for Mr Burroughs' metal dildo ... should have made that clearer ...
Steely Dan
Collapsing New Buildings
Collapsing new buildings
That's a translation rather than a derivation, is it not?
The Ach! Mein Kopf! Hitmakers
See what you mean - although it would be accurate to say :
"the name Einsterzende Neubaten is *derived from* the German translation of these words; collapsing new buildings."
It's not ideal though, I will concede that.
Einstuerzende Neubaten
Haircut 100?
The group I'm thinking of took their name from...
... the name of the last album by an influential American band, although in reality it was a solo album as 3 of the original members had already left and the drummer wasn't even involved.
Gis a Clue?
Brain refuses to work
New York band...
... who were once known by the same name as the Grateful Dead were once known. Is that too obscure?
OK, band comprised three New Yorkers, a Welshman, occasionally a German, managed by a weirdo from Pittsburgh.
Squeeze!
(it's a Velvet Underground album) - I never knew that until now.
Congratulations...
... sir!
Einstürzende Neubauten
Album track by The Vibrators
Stiff Little Fingers
See my question above which I made earlier.
Steely Dan
Question - This band derives their name from a frame in a Marvel Comics strip involving, if I'm not mistaken, Namor, the Sub-Mariner.
The Teardrop...
... Explodes?
Almost a dead heat!
Yours by a nose I think!
Was it
The teardrop explodes?
The Teardrop Explodes
I believe the comic was Daredevil.
You're both correct
Well done!
a geek speaks:
'twas a Daredevil comic.
Aha!
I apologise and stand corrected - thanks.
(Which one, by the way?)
Number 77
- I had to check Wikipedia for the issue number, honest.
And as if by magic...
That is Namor though,
isn't it?
Yes indeed...
Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, Daredevil (man without fear) and Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner.
an empirical measure
Of the average emission of population paste?
.
10cc
They don't like cricket..
It's 10 cc
10cc
A Hull colloquialism for an angry male member?
I almost suggested this one myself
You are of course referring to the Hamburger Lady hitmakers Throbbing Gristle
I am indeed
yours isn't Slowdive is it?
probably not
(Eddie and the) Hot Rods is it? :-/
Could also be...
... The Lovin' Spoonful.
I may be wrong,
but I thought the measure was actually 9cc so Jonathan King suggested 10cc because its like, 1 louder. Or sumfink.
I've been told
that this is an urban myth (the naming of the band, not the, ahem, average amount).
The real - less interesting - story goes that Jonathan King had a dream in which the group were performing, and the name in lights behind them read, "10cc."
As much as that?
Isn't it 5cc but they doubled it? Or something.
Anyway, carry on.
Mistakenly thought to be named after
a Banshees tune, but they claim it came to their bassist in a dream
?
Slowdive
Correct
for ten points!
Slowdive?
Oops - too late
Who were named after a (fictional) milky drink?
Strawberry
Switchblade?
Moloko
a form of synthi-meth if I remember correctly?
yuppity
yup. Moloko it is.
In the same film
A fictional band, that became a real band (above the sky).
Heaven
...17?
From
a Spanish anarchist military organisation..
The...
Durruti Column.
Give
that man a banana!
Matching Mole?
(clue) Parlez vous Franglais?
It's a
french translation of "Soft Machine" - Machine Molle
From the 1984 Smash Hits year book...
Band name derived from the name of an Australian Tv detective...
That
would be the Brown Girl In The Ring hitmakers.
It was indeed
Tralalala
Medieval
Torture Device
Iron Maiden?
Iron Maiden
Up the Irons.
Iron Maiden
Iron
Maiden
Bring your daughter
To the Slaughter, it's the Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
A misheard Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood lyric (maybe)?
Prefab...
... Sprout?
Easy
Eddie And The Hot Rods! No, wait, sorry... that was the Spanish Inquisition, unexpectedly.
Unexpectedly?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Named after...
...a track on a Talking Heads album?
I like this game!
Radiohead
Is right.
Radiohead
from the justly derided "True Stories" album.
Based on a book described as a "document on the sexual...
corruption of our age" and a "must for every thinking adult" by Michael Leigh.
Velvet Underground.
Velvet
Underground
The Velvet Underground
by any chance?
Gerry Rafferty?
Now there's a name I've not heard for a while.
What's he up to, anyone?
Yep!
Three of you very close, but Grant pipped at the post at 9:01...
George Bailey
realises he is back in the present...
I didn't know...
...there was a band called "Merry Chrishmash You Ole Shavings And Loan."
You get a point for that
even though badartdog is correct below :-)
Zuzu's Petals!
- sorry posted in wrong place.
How about band named after American comic (magazine not comedian)
Is it
The Archies?
Is it
The Archies?
Nope
British band.
Formed from the ashes of a better known band.
One poster here references the earlier band in his name, another references the comic in his (or hers)
Captain America [Eugenius]?
Zuzu's Petals!
I repeat
(I think it got lost up there ^)
a misheard Sinatra / Hazelwood lyric (maybe)
I think that one is
Prefab Sprout
correct
- as was Billybob
Named after a character
In the film 'Barbarella'
Duran
Duran
Taken
from a J.G. Ballard short story.
Van Persie off, Arsene about to combust.
Please don't give anything (else) away...
... about the game! It's recording right now but I won't be able to watch it until I get home.
Oops
Bit of a Bob and Terry moment there......apologies!
The
Comsat Angels
Perhaps the most prosaic yet
After a leisure centre in Swindon....
Is it
Oasis?
But who got their name from a book by Willard Manus?
The
mighty Mott?
Fi
true
Swindon?
XTC?
Band from Clockwork Orange
by way of Sheffield.
Heaven 17
?
Yes brother
But whatever happened to Goggly Gogol?
Bollocks.
Is it possible to delete posts where you've made a bit of an arse of yourself, or can you only edit them?
That's stumped me
But who were named after a headline in the Evening Standard?
Frankie goes to Hollywood?
Was that the Evening Standard?
FGTH
Named after a poster of Frank Sinatra on the Vegas strip announcing shows at the Hollywood Bowl I think.
I think Frankie's was from The Mirror
So someone else...
Arr ey Billy, gizza clue willya?
Badfinger's wrong, by the way...
They read the Standard in Rehearsals Rehearsals
...
The Clash
who I love dearly so don't kick me off the Blog!
Not The Clash?
What was the headline?
Here's three more
A Buzzcocks single cover design?
A physical characteristic of a key band member?
Their city of origin and number of band members?
Is number 2 ..
a Captain Beefheart thing?
Very close...
...but no cigar!
No.2
China Crisis?
Nope
Grimmer was a LOT closer. To be strictly accurate, physical characteristics should perhaps be plural...
Is it
Little Feat? (!)
Yep!
Lowell George's pedicular challenge, as pointed out by one of the Mothers.
Is number 3, Alabama 3?
Is number 3, Alabama 3?
It's not what I had in mind...
Different place, different number of members...
Is 3
MC5 as in Motor City (Detroit)?
MC5 iz rite
Still no luck on no 2, which I thought was dead easy.
No thoughts on 1?
And for a bonus point, where does 'Buzzcocks' come from?
Didn't they overhear
someone say 'It's a Buzz, cock'?
From
Rock Follies I think.
That's the quote
But where did they hear it?
EDIT: Ooops - see below.
a) No idea b) Badfinger c)
a) No idea
b) Badfinger
c) sorted below
Buzzcocks cover
- Altered Images?
and Buzzcocks
comes from a character in Rock Follies saying 'that gives me a buzz, cock' etc.
Well done that man!
From the Promises/Lipstick sleeve
Here comes another wrong guess
Number two is Long John Baldry.
2. Dumpy's Rusty Nuts?
Right then..
The pets of a group of wizards in the Elric books?
Might be a different reference
But weren't the Tygers of Pan Tang originally in the Elric series?
That they were!
Now. A documentary about a Japanese biker gang..
Godspeed You!
Black Emperor
Their name
was their postcode. It is possible they have never been mentioned on the Word website until now.
East
17
Well done!
They're looking well...
http://www.east17official.com/index.php
An exclamation caption in a comic
Liverpool band.
The Teardrop Explodes!
We had that above.
Or... Are we talking about Mrs Wylie's eldest boy here?
No but for a bonus point
does anyone know how Mrs Wylie's lad's first band got their name?
might be well wrong
but I've vague memories of someone getting off a bike saying 'Wah! Heat.'...
might well be right!
Correct!
Taken from
a line in a Nick Drake song...
Goth funsters
The Cure?
Nop
e
There's the Hazey Janes.
But that's not really a line from a Drake song. I'll keep thinking.
Lilac Time
That's
the one!
Taken from a nickname
Paul McCartney briefly adopted in the 1960s
(Another one from the Smash Hits yearbook 1984!)
Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee, Tommy...
... The Ramon(e)s!
Two groups...
...both named after rival gangs in the film The Wild One, but mis-spelt.
The mis-spelt one is The Beatles.
Trying to remember the other one.
Very...
...quick indeed, Doctor.
The Beatles weren't named after 'The Wild One'.
It wasn't given a UK certificate until the late 60s, so they couldn't possibly have seen it. General consensus is that it's a pun on The Crickets.
I thought so, too...
...until Brian Matthew played an interview clip with George Harrison as part of his 'A to Z of the Beatles' on Sounds of the Sixties.
If I remember correctly, George said that Stuart Sutcliffe had come up with the idea. After all, he didn't need to have seen the film to be aware of its existence.
Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club
And...
...that's the other. They're The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club in the film.
They took their name...
...from a fictional band mentioned in a Monty Python sketch which was in one of their books and on one of the elpees.
Toad
the Wet Sprocket?
Death Cab for Cutie?
or is that something to do with the Bonzos?
Dr Volume is right!
It is Toad.
Death Cab For Cutie is a Bonzo's song which they performed in Magical Mystery Tour.
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Dr J - Toad the wet Sprocket
Inky Fingers - Is the Beatles one of them?
Gah! Too Late. Nevermind
Indie rock band from Austin, TX...
... who took their name from a Can song.
Throwing Muses?
It's...
... Spoon.
From a german
School of modern art and design.
Bauhaus
- which might also help you get my comic book one from up above.
Rocket from the crypt
Or something like that?
ahhh
Love and rockets?
yes indeedy
formed from Bauhaus (poster = Bela Lugosi's Dad) and the Love and Rockets related poster is MaggielovesHopey)
I'm geeked out now - goodnight all - was top fun.
Bah! Knew rockets were involved somewhere
Actually, RFTC were something to do with Pere Ubu, weren't they - or that scene anyway...
Almost
You're thinking of Rocket From The Tombs. Different band, from whose ashes arose both Pere Ubu and the Dead Boys.
curses
I should have got that, shouldn't I?
Bauhaus
And Death Cab... is a Bonzos song.
Easy one....
The Nazi unit providing young ladies for the pleasure of the officers.
S Club 7?
Nah - Joy Division innit?
This is fun....
From the tin tin comic strip?
The Thompson Twins
I thangyew
Right.
Obscure one. A mis-spelling from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine.
Is it
Tin Machine?
No.
Eloy.
Give me two bands...
named after a Drum Machine
Drum and... er...
... Machine?
But seriously though, folks, Echo & The Bunnymen and 808 State.
808 State
808 State - named after the Roland 808 sequencer
Hmmm.
Is Echo & The Bunnymen one of them?
Would one be...
Echo and the bunnymen?
Rose of Avalanche...?
Took their name (and their whole repertoire...) from Sisters of Mercy.
From the title.....
Of a classic Italian novel (though not exactly a holiday read)
Not sure I'd call it a novel
but is it Divine Comedy you're after ?
Named after a
1971 film starring George C Scott
They
Might be giants
Correcto!
Can anyone be stumped?
Named after a natural drink in A Clockwork
Orange...
Moloko?
Moloko.
We have a
winner!
Band member's
first name initials...
ABBA
I like being on the site when everyone's asleep!
You an' me
Bro...!
I am not a number, I am a free man and...
I am also a highly underated 80's garage rock revival band that were ripped off by The Charlatans...
The sound of young Medway
The Prisoners
Band named after two grifters in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Aldous Huxley novel Part 1
They can't see the Palestinian city...
Eyeless in Gaza
.
Named after a
...track by Can.
I already set this question!
Look - up there! About 14 posts ago. It's Spoon.
Then We're Both Winners!
Hooray! Viva Spoon!
gotto be the prisoners
the prisoners
Be seeing you...
you're right
the duke and the king
from huckleberry finn. Ohh Im on a roll !
well done, sir
You're too kind
Although i've got a feeling I've peaked too early.
Aldous Huxley novel Part 2
Zippers on stage in Miami are not the only thing that can be opened...
hmmmm
The Doors?
The
Doors
How "perceptive" of you...
!
Ok from my "Book
of Rock and Pop Knowledge That Everyone Knows"
Named after a Smiths song
Shakespear's Sister.
I was listening to it today. But have I spelt it right?
You are a genius
because I am a dickhead and I should have said a Morrissey song for my question, so you correctly answered a question I didn't mean to ask, well done!
So I'll try again named after a Morrissey song
I doubt if I'm a genius because I
can't think of a morrissey song answer
*ponders*
I am a genius!
It's Suede!
It wasn't what
I was thinking of. Celebrity Big Brothering, Buzzcocks flouncing, blonde bimbette marrying lead singer with a northern town for a name.
The Ordinary Boys?
the doors
from the doors of perception? Adulux huxley.
Similar to above ...
Named after a Leonard Cohen song?
Sisters Of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy...
better get that in before James Blast!
actually
it's The Sisters Of Mercy
Yikes!
I stand corrected sir! I shall dust myself with flour and repeat "The Fields of The Nephilim did not knowingly hear or know anything about The Sisters of Mercy" 1,000 times whilst beating myself with a 12" of "Bela Lugosi's Dead"...!
a misplaced definitive article
it's Fields of the Nephilim, Jeez you amateurs!
Lucas Radebe's old footie
team...
Kaiser Chiefs
Back of the
net!
Panic! at the disco - for
Panic! at the disco - for the smiths? (although i've got a feeling I may have made that name up.)
Sorry
but please see my comment above, I asked the wrong question but someone still managed to answer it correctly. I knew I shouldn't have tried to play this game.
That's alright.
It would have taken me months to come up with Shakespears sister anyway- if indeed ever.
Desperatley trying to think of some to ask, but i feel Im destined to be an answeree for ever.
A four letter band name became a three letter
band name when they kicked out their drummer...the joke wore thin after only one album though...
The Cure...
... weren't known as The Cur for an album, were they?
wire and wir.
wire and wir.
Inded, you ar corrct
sir!
Or sire
When his drummer returns
The last word
Chap leaves band and forms new one. Names new band after the last word sung on his previous band's album.
Wilco?
Well I never knew that
I thought it was something to do with WILl COoperate.
It probably is - I was wrong!
Cast
I believe.
Correct
John Powers named his new group after the last line ("the dye is cast") on the last song ["Looking Glass"} on The La's album.
Correct
John Powers named his new group after the last line ("the dye is cast") on the last song ["Looking Glass"} on The La's album.
To sleep perchance to dream...
although they can't keep their eyes still...
REM
Have we entered cryptic crossword land?
REM. Although on green (i
REM. Although on green (i think) it said rapid ear movement somewhere in the sleeve notes.
They are named after some androids
from Blade Runner.
I really have to go to bed...
The replicants?
The replicants?
Almost
There
Dawn of the
Replicants
Correcta
Mundo
Singer/songwriter
first name from song by a lady singer/songwriter. Second name from main character in very famous & hard to read book.
Lydia
Lunch?
Nope.
It's a male singer.
Lionel Lunch
?
Hejira Dedalus
TMFTL
Clue
The chap we are after is Irish. Has a famous brother.
Luka Bloom
I didn't know the derivation before - wondered why he wasn't called Moore.
Well done.
Named after a machine
That creates static.
Vandergraff generator
The massive cannot be stumped!
Oh no
****** ****
It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "****** **** Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "****** ****".
canned heat??? my brain
canned heat??? my brain hurts
13 minutes
congratulations.
would have been quicker
would have been quicker possibly but i kept coming back to fleetwood mac and I knew it wasnt them.
Last one for the night
Named after a gang in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound For Glory.
Ah, jaysus!
'tis the Boomtown Rats, so it is.
Name Derived
from a science fiction board game?
The Human League
will that do?
Nascent surf group
named after a brand of shirt.
The Pendletons
Soon to rename themselves The Beach Boys. Pendleton shirts are also namechecked in The Fantastic Baggies (P.F.Sloan's surf group) song "Wax Up Your Board" which I now can't get out of my head.
It seems a bit silly to know that. I don't know any poetry.
Dix points
Pendeltones. Who needs poetry?
Plain white ts? Ok not a
Plain white ts? Ok not a surf group and not a brand of shirt, but im very tired.
How about this one:
Which band were named after a fictional band in a New Order video...
The Killers
I believe?
The Killers
Nice to get at least one...
Hello Dragons...
... It's a drill for planting seeds.
"I'm oot!"
Jethro Tull
fer-what am I? I'm a french fashion magazine.
Ooh, quick! It's...
... Depeche Mode.
OK, here's another one for the M...
90s American psychedelic pop group from Los Angeles took their name (albeit slightly modified - change an 'E' to an 'A' and add an 'S') from which Zombies song?
Zombies song?
Beachwood sparks?
Well, the Zombies song is...
... Beechwood Park (from Odessey & Oracle), but you got the band. Congrats!
Are we still here?
Hmmmm. How about: They took their name from the bendy bit in the middle of your arm. Anyone?
Technically correct!
However, they picked elbow because in the BBC TV drama The Singing Detective a character (Philip Marlowe) says that the word "elbow" is the most sensuous word in the English language. Not for its definition, but for how it feels to say it.
Errr
Maybe elbow
How about band named after public information adverts aimed at keeping your pet safe?
Is it
Dogs Die In Hot Cars?
Here's one - twee indiepopsters named after a line in Fawlty Towers
Flowery Twats?
sadly not
but nice thought
sadly not
but nice thought
Easy one:
A logo on a sewing machine.
Frister and Rossmann?
.
AC/DC
as any fule no...
Enjoying this
1) A band who are named after a character who appears in several novels by William S. Burroughs.
2)A band named after a John Wayne film
2 is the Searchers
I think
Correct
The Searchers it is .