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Song-Inspired Band Names: Old 97's

Old 97's
Inspired by Johnny Cash's 'Wreck of the Old '97'

Ken Bethea and Murry Hammond were desperate to come up with a group name "lest we be forever dubbed 'The Rhett Miller Band," Bethea once joked about their frontman. One idea was Up the Junction (from the Squeeze title) before being inspired by Johnny Cash's version of this country standard. Said Bethea, "Murry sold us on Old 97's by saying, 'Numbers are cool.'" Download Old 97's Songs

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ATL

All Time Low got their name from a line in Newfound Glory's song Head On Collision.

January 04 2011 at 4:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Clutch Fan

What about "Robot Lords Of Tokyo" from the Clutch track "10001110101"

June 28 2010 at 3:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
optimisticpessimest

i'm pretty sure that Taking Back Sunday got their name from a line in a friend's song

December 31 2009 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Muttley

Seems to have missed out 'Stiff Little Fingers', named after the Vibrators single of the same name.
I know this cos Jake Burns told me!
P.S. wonder where the Vibrators got their name from?

December 12 2009 at 1:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Martin McClane

What about Nazareth? They took their name from the beginning of the song "The Weight" by The Band. "I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead."

November 25 2009 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
shannon

Girl In A Coma was inspired by a song from The Smiths. It is called "Girlfriend In A Coma"

November 24 2009 at 5:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ewskydog

Candlebox came from a line in a Pink Floyd tune.

April 08 2009 at 10:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rod Spunk

Hey...how come the cool punk kids don't listen to this band? :P

April 07 2009 at 1:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
aceromediamond

the band hellogoodbye comes from the beatles song of the same same

April 05 2009 at 6:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
p curley

I'm showing my age here, but in 1961 there was a big hit called "When We Get Married" by the Dreamlovers, whose name was inspired by the Bobby Darin 1959 hit, "Dream Lover"

April 04 2009 at 10:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply