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10cc
The average man ejaculates around 10cc of sperm.

SEX PISTOLS
Manager, Malcolm Mclaren came up with the name. It was inspired by his punk clothing shop called 'Sex'.

IGGY POP
In his biography, Gimme Danger, Iggy says the name came from one of his early bands, the Iguanas. When he formed The Stooges, their management billed him as Iggy Stooge, but Iggy wasn't too keen on it and changed it to Iggy Pop, reasoning that Pop has a kind of energy to it.

MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Originally just called the Mothers (short for 'Motherfuckers'.) Their label persuaded them to add 'of Invention'.

MEATLOAF
The man with one of the most colorful stage names in show business was born Marvin Lee Aday. Over the years, he has given several different stories on how he got his nickname. The most common one is that he stepped on the foot of his high school football coach, who, instead of cursing, shouted 'Meat Loaf!'.

LOVIN' SPOONFUL
From the lyrics of John Hurt's "Coffee Blues". It's also slang for sperm.

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Gordon Mills was a clever manager and promoter who knew that a performer had to call attention to himself in any way possible. His idea for singer Gerry Dorsey, was to change his name to something that people would remember. He convinced Gerry that an audience would never forget the name "Englebert Humperdinck", the name of the Austrian composer who wrote "Hansel and Gretel".

GRATEFUL DEAD
Refers to a series of Old English folk tales with the same basic theme. A traveler enters a village and finds the villagers desecrating, or refusing to bury the body of a dead man because he died owing creditors money. The traveler pays the dead man's debts and sees to a decent burial. Later in his travels, the man is saved by a mysterious event, which is credited to the dead man's grateful spirit. Hence, the Grateful Dead. The band was originally the Warlocks, and picked Grateful Dead out of a dictionary after realizing there was another band called the Warlocks.

BLACK SABBATH
Named after a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff.

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
The band took their name from a brand of heavy asphalt roller they saw while stuck in Los Angeles traffic.
 
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ScriptOhio said:


GRATEFUL DEAD
Refers to a series of Old English folk tales with the same basic theme. A traveler enters a village and finds the villagers desecrating, or refusing to bury the body of a dead man because he died owing creditors money. The traveler pays the dead man's debts and sees to a decent burial. Later in his travels, the man is saved by a mysterious event, which is credited to the dead man's grateful spirit. Hence, the Grateful Dead. The band was originally the Warlocks, and picked Grateful Dead out of a dictionary after realizing there was another band called the Warlocks.
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Actually, I read in Phil Lesh's book that the name Grateful Dead referred to something he/the other band members read about in a book of Persian mysticism, and that the skeleton logo came from the same source.
 
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EDIT: POST #500: Took me long enough

BB73 took the first two that came to my mind:
  • Strawberry Alarm Clock - Can someone say LySergic Acid Diethylamide?
  • ? and the Mysterians - Just plain weird, but good stuff in their day
Most people are going for the obscure and the weird; but there were a couple of bands that made it very big that had great names IMHO.
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Pearl Jam
  • Steppenwolf (You've heard Born to be Wild, right?)
  • Led Zeppelin (One of the best bands and one of the best names ever)
  • Pink Floyd - A woman once named one of my appendages after this band
  • The Guess Who (somebody already mentioned The Who)
  • Metallica - With points subtracted for degree of difficulty
  • Smashing Pumpkins
 
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