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jimbrim 01.04.2008 10:27 AM

Band names taken from other song titles
 
Stiff Little Fingers (Vibrators song)
Radiohead (Talking Heads song)
Love Battery (Buzzcocks song)

Any more?

Trasher02 01.04.2008 10:31 AM

The Kooks got their name from a Bowie song I believe.

Trasher02 01.04.2008 10:34 AM

There are about a thousand bands called Mildred Pierce.

pbradley 01.04.2008 10:37 AM

Blonde Redhead, of course. Boris.

sarramkrop 01.04.2008 10:37 AM

Weird. I was listening to Silver Apples earlier on and they took their name from Morton Subotnick's 'Silver Apples Of The Moon'.

gualbert 01.04.2008 10:38 AM

59 time the pain.

stu666 01.04.2008 10:39 AM

Urge Overkill came from a Parliament's song Funkentelechy

Trasher02 01.04.2008 10:43 AM

Atari Teenage riot?

sarramkrop 01.04.2008 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trasher02
Atari Teenage riot?

You cheat!

terminal pharmacy 01.04.2008 10:44 AM

the door's took their name from william blake's heaven and hell: plate 14

little bit off topic, but blake was an amzing artist

Rob Instigator 01.04.2008 10:47 AM

the doors took their name from Aldous Huxley's DOORS OF PERCEPTION man

ERIC's TRIP (from SY)
Shakespeare's Sister (from smiths)

_slavo_ 01.04.2008 10:53 AM

The last song on the final Godflesh CD was called Jesu.

So, there you go.

SYRFox 01.04.2008 10:57 AM

Pretty Girls Make Graves
Daydream Nation (okay that's not a song title...)

Trasher02 01.04.2008 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarramkrop
You cheat!

Couldn't help myself.

terminal pharmacy 01.04.2008 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
the doors took their name from Aldous Huxley's DOORS OF PERCEPTION man

ERIC's TRIP (from SY)
Shakespeare's Sister (from smiths)


it was a direct quote from blake -

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire
at the end of six thousand years is true. as I have heard from
Hell.
For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to
leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole
creation will be consumed, and appear infinite. and holy whereas
it now appears finite & corrupt.
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his
soul, is to be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the
infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the
infinite which was hid.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would
appear to man as it is: infinite.

For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro'
narrow chinks of his cavern.

ironically huxley's doors of perception is now only sold in one book with huxley's heaven and hell, as he also got the name from blake's plate 14 of said poem.... and furthermore the blake quote appears prior to page one of huxley's doors of perception.

morrison aboslutely deified blake, to a point where alot of morrisons lyrics and poetry hold some very similar rythyms and meters.

Rob Instigator 01.04.2008 11:25 AM

i stand corrected, although having read many things about the doors, they point to the Huxley book as their source of the blake quote.

o o o 01.04.2008 12:54 PM

Negativland

gmku 01.04.2008 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbrim
Stiff Little Fingers (Vibrators song)
Radiohead (Talking Heads song)
Love Battery (Buzzcocks song)

Any more?


Which talking heads song is that? I've heard this before but never have seen the song named.

jimbrim 01.04.2008 01:38 PM

It's actually written as 'Radio Head' and i think its off the True Stories album.

jimbrim 01.04.2008 01:39 PM

Are Boredoms named after Boredom by Buzzcocks?


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