the origins of band names

[Leaping Lindner]

Q8 - The Birthday Party

Gees! What a miss.

#4 - Jack Frost (Nice. I thought i was the only person on these boards that would have heard of them. I should have known you would have.)

#21 - Cocteau Twins

#22 - Deep Purple

[magpie in the 80's]

Q37. was originally going to be named after a brewery in Birmingham. The band eventually took a name having the same initials as the brewery.

beowulf????

[Pseudo]

Kahuna, FC, goyoublues: all correct

LL - #21 and #22 correct, but unfortunately you're still the only person on this board who knows about Jack Frost FC got that one - Savage Garden.

Mit80s, sorry, not right. Would it help if I said the brewery after which the band was going to be named was the Mitchells & Butlers brewery?

I'll spill the remaining answers some time tomorrow.

[Footy Chick]

and ex-friend of mine was a Darren whats- his -name freak, it was one of those questions that was on the tip of my tongue and it came to me straight away when you gave the clue..

The other two were just assy guesses

[Pseudo]

Answers:

1. Steely Dan
2. Heaven 17
3. The Doors
4. Savage Garden
5. Steppenwolf
6. The Thompson Twins
7. Veruca Salt
8. The Birthday Party
9. Uriah Heep
10. The Boomtown Rats

11. Depeche Mode
12. Sepultura
13. Pantera
14. Scritti Politti
15. Kraftwerk
16. Los Lobos

17. Radiohead
18. Small Faces
19. Simple Minds
20. Mr. Mister
21. The Cocteau Twins
22. Deep Purple

23. Jethro Tull
24. Pink Floyd
25. Bachman Turner Overdrive
26. The Ramones
27. Lynyrd Skynyrd
28. Fleetwood Mac

29. Alice Cooper
30. Bay City Rollers
31. Procol Harum
32. (Frank Zappa and) the Mothers of Invention
33. T'Pau
34. Duran Duran
35. The B-52s
36. UB-40
37. The Moody Blues
38. Chicago
39. 'N-Sync
40. Spandau Ballet