The Origins of Band Names

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9. Bright Eyes

I couldn't find any hard evidence for the sure reason why they're named what they are, but the general concenous seems to be that it is taken from The Planet of the Apes, where Charles Heston's character is named bright eyes.

***there is also a mention to Planet of the Apes and Bright Eyes in David Sederis's book Naked Lunch. I mention this as a possible influence because in doing this I have seen the Naked Lunch has inspired many a band names (more than any book I have seen so far)


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10. The Breeders

This one made me smile the first time I heard about it. Breeders is the *** slang for straight people.
 
I completely believe you. I've been having trouble sorting out which is story is the actual one, cause you'd be surprised how many different reports say so many different things. I found the William Blake part from an interview on some site so I went with that, plus like I had said that's what I had heard before.
 
naw, it's fine.

I just was worried it was going to turn into an orgy of people putting their own band names if I didn't put a stop to it.

I'm trying to keep it kinda orderly.
 
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13. Coldplay

The merabers of the band met at the University College London in 1996. They went through a myriad of names before deciding on Coldplay. Their first name was Pectoralz. Their second name was Starfish. The final name was "Coldplay." Coldplay was suggested by Tim Crompton, a local student who had been using the name for his group (the had split up). Tim got the name Coldplat from a poetry book called Child's Reflections, Cold Play by Philip Horky.
 
Here is some more specific info a bout the Mr. Bungle name, from BungleFever.com:

"The band took its name from two short films which appeared in early episodes of the "The Pee Wee Herman Show," in which an ill-mannered, un-hygienic puppet clown demonstrated how good grade-school kiRAB should not behave (only later did band merabers learn, through Faith No More bassist Bill Gould, that the porn flick "Sharon's Sex Party" also stars a character named Mr. Bungle)."

So I'm assuming that the 50s classroom films were sampled by the Pee Wee show, maybe shown on a TV in the show or something. Oh here's a snippet from Wiki, it was actually from the 60s:

"The band's name was taken from Lunchroom Manners, a 1960s children's educational film which was featured in a Pee Wee Herman HBO special in the early 1980s.[3] A puppet named Mr. Bungle was the main character and was used to teach children good manners and hygiene.
 
Between the Buried and Me

The band's name is derived from a section of lyrics in Counting Crows’ song "Ghost Train": "Took the cannonball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to shining sea/I rode a ladder that clirabed across the nation/Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me".
 
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