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| This Princeton band got their name from the villain who manifests himself as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Ghostbusters. | |
| Named after the novel by German author Herman Hesse. | |
| Slang for run down inner city neighborhoods where poor people can afford to live. Suggested by Jon Bon Jovi, who shares a hometown with the drummer. | |
| Named after the line of trucks that took its name from Ransom Ely Olds, founder of Oldsmobile. | |
| Named for the popular beehive hairdo in their home state of Georgia, which was in turn named after an Air Force bomber. | |
| The numerical part of this name is random, but rumors abound: the number of times Al Pacino says 'f***' in Scarface or the numerical coding of R and B, for their hometown. | |
| For some reason they enjoy using themes related to law enforcement, from the lead singer's name, to their drummer's side project, Klark Kent. | |
| A combination of a recipe the band's manager read in a book and the band's fascination with the occult. The name is also an anagram of 'Cully's Stout Beer'. | |
| The New Zealand/Australian trio chose this name from their cramped living conditions at 1902 N. Sycamore Street in Los Angeles while working on their debut album. | |
| After their previous name 'Sex Maggots', was deemed unsuitable for print by local newspapers, their frontman found this name in an ad for a 1960s doll that cried when flipped. | |
| Although they deny that's where the name came from, in the study of dreams, the abbreviation refers to that time during sleep when an observable movement of the eyeball occurs. | |
| Media jargon for a camera shot showing only the top of someone's shoulders and their head. One of the band members saw this term in a newspaper's T.V. program guide. | |
| According to their frontman, 'The name is in reference to the [thing] itself... and the natural process from which [it] comes from... excrement or waste... into something beautiful | |
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| The band was heavily influenced by The Byrds and like the American style of this name. | |
| From a William Blake quote 'If the doors of perception were to be cleansed ev'ry thing would appear to man as it is, infinite'. | |
| Describes the financial state the band was in when they chose the name. | |
| Their name was 'Earth', and after watching this 1967 horror flick, they named their first song after it. After finding another band was named Earth, they took the song's name. | |
| After a visit to Berlin where they saw some graffiti mentioning the local prison where there were many hangings, and the bodies would shake and move at the end of the rope. | |
| They took the name from a friend's ventriloquist act, which was named after a film starring George C. Scott, which in turn was inspired Don Quixote's reason to attack windmills. | |
| From the surname of an identity Paul McCartney used to check into hotels while on the road. | |
| The frontman was helping a friend think of a name for a metal fanzine. Of the two choices, he chose Metal Mania, and kept the other for his band. | |
| Named after a garden center on Route 46 in New Jersey. Many of the band's albums also have 'highway' influence, such as 'Welcome Interstate Managers' and 'Utopia Parkway.' | |
| They blindly stuck a pin onto a map of the United States, and it landed on a city in Michigan, located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. | |
| Based on a band member's dream. He didn't know which door to use in a public toilet because the signs said this instead of 'Men' and 'Women' | |
| Several rumors surround this Manchester band: a Manchester cab company, a chain of women's clothing stores, a local Indian restaurant and more likely a local club The Beatles playe | |
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