Two of the original members got the idea for the band's name after seeing this on an electric sewing machine.
Inspired by a French fashion magazine of the same name.
One audience member at this band's second performance suggested this name, a reference to the sidekick of the Radioactive Man from 'The Simpsons'.
Adopted from a term used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena.
The founding member of this band selected this name, which is a slang term for spending a day smoking marijuana.
The founding member named the band after a torture device shown in the film 'The Man in the Iron Mask'.
A name given by the bands first producer, who said the name implied they were 'heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls'.
The name of this band was taken from a vehicle that a founding member studied in his transportation history class at the University of Illinois.
The band's bassist renamed the band after a brand of plant pesticide he found in his grandmother's garage.
The band's lead singer came up with this name as a joke years before the band ever formed. When people asked if he was in a band, he would tell them it was called this for a laugh.
The lead singer of this band once said that the band name came from its interactivity with the audience.
This band's name was taken from the title of a book about sadomasochism by Michael Leigh.
The name of this band is a palindromic acronym from the initials of the first names of the original band members.
The band played at Birmingham's Barberella's nightclub so took their name from the villain of the cult science fiction film Barbarella.
Taken from the movie 'Kill Bill', the term for the action that causes a person's heart to explode after taking three steps.
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