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NOFX – guitarist Eric Melvin says that he came up with the name, inspired by the broken up punk band "Negative FX". The name is also meant to symbolize the band's rejection of gimmickry that the band was seeing in music at the time. [231] The Notorious B.I.G. – From a childhood nickname "Big", because he was overweight at the age of 10. [232]
The Get Up Kids, named from the title of a song by guitarist/vocalist Matt Pryor's previous band, Secular Theory, called "Suburban Get Up Kids" [13] Icehouse, named after a Flowers song, Flowers changing their name to Icehouse thereafter. Jesu, named after the last song on Godflesh's album Hymns.
Many notable bands originally went by different names before becoming successful. [1] This list of original names of bands lists former official band names, some of them are significantly different from the eventual current names. This list does not include former band names that have only minor differences, such as stylisation changes, with ...
Abingdon. Radiohead; Accrington. Diana Vickers; Andover. The Troggs; Anstey. Molly Smitten-Downes; Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The Young Knives; Ashford. Oliver Sykes; Aylesbury
Bands are listed alphabetically by the first letter in their name (not including "The"), and individuals are listed by the first name. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The following list of glam metal bands and artists includes bands and artists that have been described as glam metal or its interchangeable terms, hair metal, [1] [2] hair band, [3] pop metal [1] and lite metal [1] by professional journalists at some stage in their career.
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Oasis are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. The group initially consisted of Liam Gallagher (lead vocals), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (drums), with Liam asking his older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar, vocals) to join as a fifth member a few months later to finalise their formation.