Title: Where Do Bands
Description: Get Their Name?
johnquays - August 7, 2007 10:38 PM (GMT)
Where do bands get inspiration for their names,we all know The Fall is named after the book of the same name by Albert Camus (The Fall were nearly called The Outsiders). But what others do you know? [And don't just jump on the web & write the name].
1) Throbbing Gristle
2) Cabaret Voltaire
3) Young Marble Giants
4) Echo & The Bunnymen
5) The Good, The Bad & The Queen
6) Joy Division
7) Bauhaus
8) The Birthday Party
9) Pere Ubu
10) Can
Mere Pseud. - August 7, 2007 10:48 PM (GMT)
without any help:
2. a Swiss nightclub connected to the Dada movement
5. the Sergio Leone western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
6. a term for prostitution units within concentration camps
7. an architecture movement
DJAsh - August 7, 2007 11:03 PM (GMT)
4 Echo was the drum machine they used before Pete DeFreitas joined.
Acton High Street - August 8, 2007 09:09 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (johnquays @ Aug 7 2007, 11:38 PM) |
Where do bands get inspiration for their names,we all know The Fall is named after the book of the same name by Albert Camus (The Fall were nearly called The Outsiders). But what others do you know? [And don't just jump on the web & write the name].
1) Throbbing Gristle
2) Cabaret Voltaire
3) Young Marble Giants
4) Echo & The Bunnymen
5) The Good, The Bad & The Queen
6) Joy Division
7) Bauhaus
8) The Birthday Party
9) Pere Ubu
10) Can |
1. Means cock.
3. From a book on Classical architecture.
9. Character from the play "Ubu The King"
10. Contains nutritious lager, as used by the band during rehearsals? :D
Mere Pseud. - August 8, 2007 10:14 AM (GMT)
8. Wasn't The Birthday Party a Harold Pinter play?
(No, I didn't search anywhere.)
Acton High Street - August 8, 2007 10:17 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mere Pseud. @ Aug 8 2007, 11:14 AM) |
8. Wasn't The Birthday Party a Harold Pinter play?
(No, I didn't search anywhere.) |
It is, but I don't see the Birthday Party (the band) as being very Pinter-esque, do you?
Robert would know...
Mere Pseud. - August 8, 2007 02:12 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Acton High Street @ Aug 8 2007, 12:17 PM) |
| QUOTE (Mere Pseud. @ Aug 8 2007, 11:14 AM) | 8. Wasn't The Birthday Party a Harold Pinter play?
(No, I didn't search anywhere.) |
It is, but I don't see the Birthday Party (the band) as being very Pinter-esque, do you?
Robert would know...
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Shall I ask him? He just send me a mail this morning.
Anyway, to answer your question I looked up Amy Hanson's "Kicking Against The Pricks - An Armchair Guide To Nick Cave":
"The new name, usually believed to be taken from Harold Pinter's groundbreaking and disturbing play but actually inspired by a scene in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment was something of a statement. Cave had inherited a love of literature from his father: Cave has often spoken of being read passages of great works from Joyce, Dostoevsky and other literary giants (as well as the Bible) and it was to be an important influence for the rest of his career. The conscious literary reference in their name signalled their ambition and determination to provide something that was non-mainstream in a different way from most Punk music."
sorry for the spoiler, johnquays :ohdear:
Dice Man - August 8, 2007 02:46 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mere Pseud. @ Aug 9 2007, 02:12 AM) |
| QUOTE (Acton High Street @ Aug 8 2007, 12:17 PM) | | QUOTE (Mere Pseud. @ Aug 8 2007, 11:14 AM) | 8. Wasn't The Birthday Party a Harold Pinter play?
(No, I didn't search anywhere.) |
It is, but I don't see the Birthday Party (the band) as being very Pinter-esque, do you?
Robert would know...
|
Shall I ask him? He just send me a mail this morning.
Anyway, to answer your question I looked up Amy Hanson's "Kicking Against The Pricks - An Armchair Guide To Nick Cave":
"The new name, usually believed to be taken from Harold Pinter's groundbreaking and disturbing play but actually inspired by a scene in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment was something of a statement. Cave had inherited a love of literature from his father: Cave has often spoken of being read passages of great works from Joyce, Dostoevsky and other literary giants (as well as the Bible) and it was to be an important influence for the rest of his career. The conscious literary reference in their name signalled their ambition and determination to provide something that was non-mainstream in a different way from most Punk music."
sorry for the spoiler, johnquays :ohdear:
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Thanks for clearing this up, MP!
Bought the Pinter version for long years. Isn't there a lot of absurd humour in his plays?
Maybe that's why... Anyway, Dostoyevsky makes sense, absolutely.
DJAsh - August 8, 2007 06:07 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (DJAsh @ Aug 8 2007, 11:03 AM) |
| 4 Echo was the drum machine they used before Pete DeFreitas joined. |
The "bunnymen" bit might have been smething to do with Bill Drummond, who thought that there was an outline of a huge rabbit god mapped out in Liverpool or somesuch. :wacko:
otalgia - August 16, 2007 02:16 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (DJAsh @ Aug 9 2007, 06:07 AM) |
| QUOTE (DJAsh @ Aug 8 2007, 11:03 AM) | | 4 Echo was the drum machine they used before Pete DeFreitas joined. |
The "bunnymen" bit might have been smething to do with Bill Drummond, who thought that there was an outline of a huge rabbit god mapped out in Liverpool or somesuch. :wacko:
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yeh read about that giant rabbit in Drummonds 45 novel. Appeared in the clouds on a couple of the photos they took.
S'pose the Birthday party Crime and punishment makes sense.
Is that why Crime became Crime and the City Solution?
