Band names taken from other song titles
 

Stiff Little Fingers (Vibrators song)
Radiohead (Talking Heads song)
Love Battery (Buzzcocks song)

Any more?

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

There are about a thousand bands called Mildred Pierce.

Blonde Redhead, of course. Boris.

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

59 time the pain.

Urge Overkill came from a Parliament's song Funkentelechy

Atari Teenage riot?

You cheat!

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

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

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

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

So, there you go.

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

Couldn't help myself.

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.

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

Negativland

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

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

Are Boredoms named after Boredom by Buzzcocks?

Oh, no wonder. I gave up on the Heads after Little Creatures.

Mesh Gear Fox

Any Guided by Voices song could be used for a band name.
I love GBV!!:) :) :)

Mesh Gear Fox is me :p
It's my favourite song by Bob.

Hmm. I don't think so. I don't have any reason either way but I just feel like everything the boredoms do is divinely inspired.

Overkill-Motorhead song

Pretty Girls Make Graves is actually a Smiths song...

I saw today that there was a band called "I Might Be Wrong"

Band: Aa
Song: 'Big A little A,' by Crass.

Oh no I got confused!! Thanks for straightening me out there. *smacks forehead*

Deacon Blue (Steely Dan)
Suede (Morrissey)
Motörhead (Hawkwind)
The Rolling Stones (Muddy Waters)
Starsailor (Tim Buckley)
Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival)