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7 YEAR BITCH - A twist on the movie "The 7 Year Itch".
10cc - The average man ejaculates around 9cc of sperm. The members of 10cc decided they were a bit more macho than the rest of us.
24-7 SPYS - They were looking (spying) for sex 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
60 FT. DOLLS - One night the trio was hanging out in a bar chatting with a friend who collected toys from the '60s. The singer later dreamed that an alien who told him to name the band 60 Ft. Dolls.
88 FINGERS LOUIE - 88 Fingers Louie was a piano thief that sold Fred a hot piano in an episode of The Flinstones.
311 - 311 is the police code for indecent exposure. The police arrested one of the band members for skinny-dipping when he was 16. They cuffed him and took him (still naked) to his parent's house. The other band members thought this was hilarious and the band had its name. There is a persistent rumor that their name is derived from KKK. K being the 11th letter in the alphabet.
764-HERO - Signs along the highway in the Seattle area say, "Littering is against the Law, report violators (360)764-hero."
808 STATE - Named after the Roland TR 808 drum machine.
1000 HOMO DJ'S - Al Jourgeson and some friends were listening to an unauthorized remix of a REVOLTING COCKS song. Jim Nash of Wax Trax records reassured Al that the only people that would hear the remix are 1000 Homo DJ's.
10,000 MANIACS - Inspired by an old horror movie called "2000 Maniacs".
A CERTAIN RATIO - A line in a Brian Eno song (On Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy).
A&M RECORDS - This huge record label was started by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their initials made the name.
ABBA - Abba is "father" in Hebrew. It's also an acronym for the first names of the band members: Agnetha F�ltskog, Bj�rn Ulvaeus, Benny Anderson and Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad.
AC/DC - A band member saw AC/DC on a vacuum cleaner and figured it has something to do with power. He was right, it means "Alternating Current / Direct Current". The band didn't realize it was also slang for bi-sexual, which caused a few awkward moments in their early days. A silly rumor claims the acronym "Anti-Christ Devil's Children".
ACE OF BASE - Their original studio was in the basement of a car repair shop, leading to "base" and they were masters of their own studio, so it was "ace of base".
AEROSMITH - It was evidently a word Joey Kramer wrote all over his notebooks in high school. Some think they were inspired by the 1925 book "Arrowsmith" by Sinclair Lewis.
AGENT ORANGE - Double meaning. They were from Orange County, California and AGENT ORANGE is a famous dioxin-based "defoliant" used by the US military in the Vietnam War.
AGGRESSION - Describes the sound of this hardcore band from the early 80's very well.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT - Considering that this is a skinhead band on Resistance Records, Aggravated Assault is probably an appropriate name.
AIR SUPPLY - Graham Russell saw the name on a marquee in a dream 5 years before the band was signed.
ALAN'S FEAR - This old Arizona band tried to get a Christian friend named Alan to play drums. He was too afraid of punk.
ALICE IN CHAINS - A masochistic parody of Alice in Wonderland. The original idea (which evidently never happened) was they would do Slayer covers wearing dresses.
AMBOY DUKES - After a great 1942 pulp novel about Brooklyn Street gangs written by Irving Shulman. TED NUGENT was in this band before going solo.
TORI AMOS - Her real name is Myra Ellen Amos. A friend suggested that Tori sounded better.
THE ANDRIOD SISTERS - A mutation of the Andrews Sisters. The band features strange female vocals and electronics.
ANTIETAM - A Civil War battle.
ANTHRAX - A virulent bacteria that used to infect many cattle in Europe.
ARCHERS OF LOAF - It basically means nothing, but they make up things to fool people.
ARHOOLIE - This great archival record label took its name from "Hoolie" which is slang for "field hollar" (work songs sang by field workers).
ARMY OF GOD - Named after some militant Christians responsible for kidnapping a couple of abortion providers in the 80's, and now suspected in various bombings in Atlanta. The band flirted with satanic imagery, sucked each other�s blood on stage, and generally tried to shock audiences.
ART OF NOISE - Named after the 1913 manifesto called "The Art of Noises" by Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo. Russolo made noise machines, wrote music for them, and also recorded sounds from the environment for musical pleasure.
ASWAD - Means, "Black" in Arabic.
B-52's - The beehive hairstyle popular in the 1950's was called a B-52. B52's are also a type of US Air Force bomber.
BAADER MEINHOF - Named after the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a German terrorist group from the 70's intertwined with the RAF and SPK.
BABES IN TOYLAND - the name of a 1934 movie starring Laural and Hardy. A 1961 Disney musical featuring Annette Funicello and a stage production.
BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE - A combination of band members' last names and the trucker's magazine "Overdrive". They were originally called BRAVE BELT, then BACHMAN-TURNER, and then the final name.
BACKSTREET BOYS - Named after a flea market in Orlando Florida.
BAD COMPANY - A 1972 movie by Jeff Bridges.
BAD ENGLISH - they used to play pool and were bad at "putting English" (spin) on the ball.
BADFINGER - The working title of the BEATLES song "A Little Help From My Friends".
BAND OF SUSANS - Three members of the band were named Susan.
THE BANGLES - They wanted to be the BANGS, but there was already a band using that name.
BARE NAKED LADIES - It is supposed to be sexual, but somewhat innocent, as in a child seeing a bare naked lady for the first time. They thought it up while bored at a Dylan concert. The name gets people's attention too.
BAUHAUS - Named after the style of graphic design and famous school of architecture.
BAY CITY ROLLERS - They blindly stuck a pin on a map. It landed on Bay City, Michigan.
BEASTIE BOYS - "Beastie" is an acronym for "Boys Entering Anarchistic States Toward Internal Excellence".
THE BEATLES - A few stories floating around about this one. Stuart Sutcliffe came up with THE BEETLES in 1960, which was evidently a play on Buddy Holly's CRICKETS. They went by THE QUARRYMEN and THE SILVER BEETLES awhile later, then shortened and mutated that to THE BEATLES. Lennon and Sutcliffe may have also been influenced by the film "The Wild One", which featured a motorcycle gang called the Beetles. John Lennon is generally credited with combining Beetles and Beat to come up with THE BEATLES spelling. Lennon was also fond of saying he had a vision as a child of a flaming pie in the sky that said, "You are Beatles with an "A".