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| Bassist Tina Weymouth explained that it came from a description in the TV Guide, which explains the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking | |
| Bass player Brad Smith's father used this term to refer to some hippies who lived in a commune near his house | |
| After the South African [BAND NAME] Football Club, the former team of long-serving former Leeds United captain Lucas Radebe | |
| They asked the audience to yell out their ideas for a name. One audience member suggested '[BAND NAME]', a reference to the sidekick of the Radioactive Man from The Simpsons | |
| Came from its interactivity with the audience...as in 'you too.'. Also the name of a famous spy plane | |
| After Linda [BAND NAME], a member of the Charles Manson cult (aka the Manson 'family') famous for serving as his getaway driver | |
| Adopted from a term used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena | |
| Came about after band member Sam Halliday mispronounced the name of the local cinema, Tudor Cinema, and this stuck | |
| In the early 1980s, band members told the press that the band was named after the dog in The Wizard of Oz | |
| From the stimulant Dexedrine | |
| '[BAND NAME]' is a slang term for spending a day smoking marijuana | |
| Comes from the band's financial situation at the time of forming | |
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| Vocalist Ben Lovett indicated that the name was meant to invoke the sense of an 'antiquated family business name' | |
| Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tom Fletcher took the name from the film 'Back to the Future''s main character 'Marty [BAND NAME]' | |
| Based on a story that singer Win Butler heard as a kid. He was told that an arcade in Exeter had burnt down, killing many youths | |
| A palindromic acronym from the initials of the first names of the band members | |
| Chris Baio explained that the band's singer, Ezra Koenig, had filmed a low-budget vampire movie with this title two-and-a-half years before the band formed | |
| The name was not meant to insult the assassinated Kennedy brothers, but to quote vocalist Jello Biafra, 'to bring attention to the end of the American Dream' | |
| Cuomo quickly nominated [BAND NAME], a nickname given to him when he was a kid by other children who were teasing him about his asthma | |
| Another possible reason was because of Pete Townshend's grandmother, who would always refer to popular bands as '[BAND NAME]?', due to her impaired hearing | |
| The band was originally called The Management, [BAND NAME] is an abbreviation of that | |
| Derived from a poem written by the guitarist Daron Malakian, named 'Victims of a Down', which was changed to [BAND NAME] to place them closer alphabetically to their idols Slayer | |
| Their first studio was in the basement of a repair shop, and they considered themselves to be the 'masters' of the studio. '[BAND NAME]' was derived from 'masters of the basement | |
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