Scissor Shock.

I got this from an article I was reading in study hall about bad haircuts in cosmogrrl... the teen version of cosmopolitan. Anyway, scissor shock means "to get a bad haircut". I looked up "scissor shock" in google and there wasn't a single web page found, which shocked me. So, I decided it'd be a perfect band name, and now when you look it up on google 99% of the matches are the band...

The Butthol Surfers played aruond 6-10 gigs under all sorts of names, with the idea that each time they played they would ahve a different one, but the night they played under the name Butthole Surfers was the first they got paid, so they kept it.

scissor shock is a great name. you don;t know what to expect from a name like that!

i thought they were still thinking of a name, and they had a song called butthole surfers, the announcer at the venue didnt know what the fuck to call them so he was just like, "heres the butthole surfers" and it stuck, u cud just as easy be right, i just thought thats what i read in our band could be your life.

Ok, not a band name but Warhol's ''Exploding Plastic Inevitable'' show, which featured The Velvet Underground, was named by Paul Morrisey by picking some random adjectives off an article about Bob Dylan.

And Nico is an anagram of ''Icon''. I can't remember if she was baptised with that name by either Warhol himself or Billy Name.

did not know that

as far as the butthole's go, they tend to give different stories depending on whom you talk to and on what intoxication they may have been on.

I know Paul Leary said that his granmother thought their name had something to do with inner tubing down the river!

what was the source for VU's name?
is it just a reference to the gay subculture then?
a movie?

actually, joey santiago picked random names because he liked the sounds of them, since he didn't fully speak english then. the second choice for their name was the follies.

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whitehouse: named after british morality campaigner mary whitehouse and also the name of a popular porno magazine.

extreme noise terror: from a flyer advertising a discharge gig, the words were cut out from magazines.

sunn o))): after their amplifier of choice.


it's the name of an s&m book that tony conrad found in the street and lent to lou reed. they kept the name because it had "underground" in it, and wanted to be associated with the film current of that same name.

thanks!

The Follies! ha ha!

everyone knows that mudhoney is a russ meyer film right? Right.

i thought they were named after a charity shop in hull? or was that a joke?

xiu xiu/my bloody valentine/paris 1942/brainiac/probably more..
named after movies...

sun city girls
named after sun city, arizona.

secret chiefs 3
there were 3 of them. and they were chiefs.. and secret.

captain beefheart
named after don van vliet's uncle folding his testicles in a weird way and saying they looked like a big beef heart. alternately, don van vliet was told me by frank zappa that he had a beef in his heart against society.

...and the magic band
because they're "a magical band"! that's the actual explanation!!

Not a shop name, but a sign on the wall of a shop.

No idea how I know that, can't fucking stand them.

Mission of Burma- saw it on a plaque outside the Burmese Embassy in Boston, found it sounded murky.

Napalm Death- The members watched a lot of Vietnam movies

Young Marble Giants-from an art history textbook, describing Greek statues.

Black Flag- "sounded heavy"

Back Flag is what pirates use!

black flag also stands for anarchy and raymond pettibon thought it would be a good name to use.

isn't it roach killing spray?

as well.

lots of connotations for a very hit or miss band!

the pirate reference is the oldest one though.

Joy Division took their name from Yiehiel De-Nur's book ''The House Of Dolls'' which is about a group of Jewish women being used for pleasure by the nazi soldiers.