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At the Drive-In — Named after a lyric from "Talk Dirty To Me" by Poison.
Arctic Monkeys — The name was made up by a band member doodling and writing random things at school.
The Cure — was originally called Easy Cure, a reference to suicide.
Eagles of Death Metal — Came about when members Josh Homme, and Jesse Hughes were making fun of a friend for his bad taste in music. Telling him that his favorite band wasn't hardcore, they were the, "Eagles of Death Metal."
Hüsker Dü — during an early practice, the band attempted to cover "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads but couldn't remember the foreign language phrase in the chorus ("Qu'est-ce que c'est?"), and instead substituted "Husker du?", the name of a memory-based board game that means "Do you remember?" in Danish and Norwegian. The umlauts were added later at their own discretion.
The Killers — Named after the fictional band featured in the music video for "Crystal" by New Order.
The Manic Street Preachers — When James Dean Bradfield was busking on the streets a homeless man called him "The manic street preacher".
Modest Mouse — Derives from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall". The passage said "...and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people..."
The Mooney Suzuki — Their name was created by combining the surnames of the first two singers of the 1970s German Krautrock band Can, Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.
Nine Inch Nails — Trent Reznor was struggling to come up with a good band name. After going through countless other suggestions, this one stood the "two-week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily." Reznor denied any "literal meaning" to the name.
Pearl Jam — Despite several erroneous rumors, including references to a grandmother and even semen, the name is a reference to their early writing process. Vedder mentioned that there were these great songs (Pearls) coming out of the band's jams.
Pixies — Picked out of a dictionary by the band.
Pretty Girls Make Graves — named after a song by The Smiths, who in turn took the name from a line in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums
Queens of the Stone Age — Producer Chris Goss once remarked that the previous band of lead singer Josh Homme, Kyuss, sounded like the 'the Queens of the Stone Age.' After starting to record QOTSA's first album under the name 'Gamma Ray', Homme discovered the name was already taken, "so I called [Goss] up and I'm like 'dude, I'm in the Queens of the Stone Age again and I can't get free', and it just sort of stuck".
Silverchair — While requesting songs on the radio, one being 'Sliver' By Nirvana, the other being 'Berlin Chair' by You Am I, Chris wrote the two down so that they didn't forget the name but accidentally misspelled it and wrote down 'Silverchair'.
We Are Scientists — Inspired by an awkward conversation with a U-Haul employee who was inspecting a van that the band had rented. The U-haul employee, attempting to make polite conversation, asked the three bespectacled band members if they were scientists. They told him that they were musicians, not scientists. To this day they regret it and "...kind of wish we had just lied and gone on a riff about our work in nanotech."
Weezer — Childhood nickname given to singer Rivers Cuomo.
Fonte: wikipedia, onde mais poderia ser??
