WEBVTT - Where do the World's Best Band Names Come From? 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.160 Guess what, Mango, what's that? Will? So I know we're 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.160 both pretty good at celebrating each other's accomplishments. But I 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.880 do have to admit there's one thing you have on 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.319 your resume that I've honestly always been a little jealous of. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.720 You have a band named after you, Mango. I mean, 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.239 that's a bit of a stretch. I don't think it's 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.280 a stretch at all, all right, So, so our listeners 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.880 will know, when we were in college, Mango was playing 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.840 the keyboards in a band that a few of our 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.680 closest friends had started. Well, this also happened to be 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.080 around the time we were trying to start Mental Floss, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.239 and Mango realized there just weren't enough hours in the day. So, 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.080 fortunately for all future fans of Mental Floss and even 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.240 part time genius, Mango decided to keep working on our 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.000 new venture, and he dropped out of the band. Now, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:45.920 this was also around the time that the band was 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.400 just starting to get a few more gigs. And I 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.199 mean some of their shows we're getting I don't know, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.159 what would you say, Mango, like tens of people on 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.000 the audience. It was at least ten. It was impressive, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.080 but they needed to settle on a name, so they 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.520 decided to simultaneously honor and throw a little bit of 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:06.840 a friendly jab at Mango by calling the group Minus Mango. Well, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.000 I'm not your honors the right term for that. Well, 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.319 either way, the band ran with it, and they had 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.800 a short but fun run. And I've even heard the 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.200 band inspired some songs like I think it was meat 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.720 loafs I would do anything for love and shares believe 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.760 if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I mean, there's only one 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.600 problem with that theory, Will and and actually there's several 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.240 problems with that, the main one being that it's not true, 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.640 but the other being that both those songs came out 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.080 well before the band formed. Well, I just think that's 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.319 what makes it so impressive. I mean, that is really remarkable. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.520 But anyway, we're not here to talk about Minus Mango today. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.759 We're here to talk about the origins of some other 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.760 band names and maybe even create a little hall of 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.680 fame of great and terrible band names. So let's get started. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:02:13.359 Ya Hey there, podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius. 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.679 I'm Will Pearson, and as always I'm joined by my 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.240 good friend Manu shot Ticketer and on the other side 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.120 of that soundproof glass rocking a T shirt for his 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.600 favorite mash up cover band, Mago. I don't know if 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.000 you'd heard of this one before. I had not. It's 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:30.560 called Beatallica anyway, that's our friend and producer Tristan McNeil 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.200 and and you know, Beatles songs covered in the style 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.600 of Metallica. It's not something you'd expect to work, but 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.720 Tristan played me a few tracks earlier and I've honestly 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.359 got to say I really kind of dug it. Yeah, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.720 I mean, the way they blended Blackbird with Fade to 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.519 Black is pretty masterful. That My favorite probably still all 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.560 you Need is Blood. I mean, it really says it all, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.639 don't you say. Anyway, as funny or clever as cover 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.639 band names and song titles can be, the stories behind 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.400 them are usually not all that interesting. I mean, by definition, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.840 they're pulled from or at least made in reference to 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.880 existing works by other artists, and all the origin stories 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.960 for the names of original bands tend to be a 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.840 lot more interesting. Even that's not a sure thing. I mean, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.000 take the Beatles, for example. They've definitely earned their place 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.160 in the rock and roll hall of Fame. But in 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.359 the band name hall of Fame, I really don't think 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.320 they belonged there. I mean, they took the name of 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.240 an insect and kind of turned it into this obvious 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.880 pun on musical beats, and so it doesn't tell you 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.480 anything about the group or the kind of music they play, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.640 and honestly, worst of all, there's no hidden meaning or 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.800 interesting story behind it at all. That's right. So for 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.520 today's show, we're gonna set aside the artists and their 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.240 work and really focus instead on what they chose to 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.120 call themselves. Even bad band names are on the table, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.400 just as long as the stories behind them are strange, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.120 you're interesting. Yeah, And I thought we could do this 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.000 like we did a while back in that episode where 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.200 we tried to assemble our own version of Mount Rushmore, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.080 And of course it was so much fun to hear 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.280 from all the listeners with ideas of what other presidents 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.720 we should include on Mount Rushmore and why. So we're 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.040 kind of doing the same thing here. We'll each pitch 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.240 some of the best band name origins that we had, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.560 you know, come across while researching and kind of gradually 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:14.840 fill out our Hall of Fame, and you know, The 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.240 one thing we noticed while preparing for this episode is 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.360 how many band names fall into similar categories, whether that's 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.960 band's name for literary works or band's name for TV shows. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.520 So we'll try to limit our picks to one per 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.119 category so that we end up with a pretty good 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.560 mix of origins. So alright, Mano, I'm gonna leave it 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.000 up to you. Where do you think we should start? 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.160 So I was thinking about this, and I think we 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.600 should start with band names inspired by history, because those were, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.839 you know, some of the most interesting to me and 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.039 also some of the hardest to choose from. So a 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.000 few are pretty well known at this point. I mean, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.760 you think about like Franz Ferdinand, which takes its name 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.839 from the archduke who's assassination led to World War One, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:54.839 Or there were lots of other ones I knew that 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.240 are taking from history, Like do you know that you 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.320 two was actually named after a spy plane of currently 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.600 you Two's were used to monitor the Soviets in the 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.360 nineteen fifties. You know, I've heard of this term before, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.640 but I actually didn't. I didn't realize that, but I 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.640 guess it makes sense though A lot of You two 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.080 songs contain references the political and historical events, and actually 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.000 I was just thinking about one the other day. Is 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.280 isn't Sunday Bloody Sunday about the guerrilla warfare in Northern Ireland? 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.640 It is? Actually have you watched that Alan Partridge episode 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.680 where Steve Coogan's like a total buffoon and he's talking 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.839 about this inspiration for the song and he's like, it's 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.200 just so relatable, like when you're in line at Tesco's 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:40.360 and you just think Sunday Bloody Sunday. Maybe that actually 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.680 is the origin. I'm not sure. That's pretty good, but well, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:45.680 what's funny to be though, is that the band really 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.320 didn't choose YouTube to make any sort of political statement, 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.520 Like they went with it because it sounded ambiguous and 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.000 also I guess inclusive, like you know the phrase YouTube. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.960 And also it was just more interesting than their earlier names, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.160 like they started out as Feedback in nineteen of me 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.800 six before switching to the Hype and then you two 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.440 within the spand of two years. It's funny because I 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.960 found another band that couldn't seem to settle on a 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.000 name until they stumbled upon an historical one. So you 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.720 remember jeth Row Toll right. Well, they had a hit 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.240 with that song Aqua Lung in the early seventies, and 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.719 apparently Jethro Toll was a real person, just not a 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.120 member of the band. He was actually this English agricultural 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.400 pioneer who played this pretty pivotal role in bringing about 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.680 the British agricultural revolution in the early eighteenth century. And 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.080 so his biggest claim to fame was the invention of 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.240 a horse drawn seed drill too easily, so seeds in 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.760 orderly Rose, which really laid the groundwork for modern agriculture. 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.160 That's just so rock and roll. I know, you said, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.960 the bend just happened upon that name. Yeah. So, in 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.799 the band's early days, they had this habit of making 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.800 up a new name for every single gig because their 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.200 performances were so spotty and most places didn't book them 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.120 a second time. So after about seriously, like four do 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.400 you something name changes, the group finally hit on this 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.240 unexpected winner with their homage to an eighteenth century agronomist. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.000 You know that's the way it goes. That's pretty incredible. Well, 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.960 but agricultural roots aside, My favorite band name with an 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.920 historical origin probably has to be Food Fighters. So this 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.200 is strange, right, because I consider myself something of a 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.240 history buff. I actually won Mr. Zippi's History Award in 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.520 Depth grade. But I have no idea what part of 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.800 history that could possibly come from, like we're the Food Fighters, 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.920 Genghis Kans Elite Bodyguards or something not even close. It 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.440 actually comes from the tail end of World War Two, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.400 and this is when the Allied pilots began reporting some 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.600 sightings of these mysterious German aircraft and they really couldn't 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.560 be identified, and so the pilots took to calling these 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.440 UFOs food Fighters. And when frontman Dave Grohl came across 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.160 the nickname he was reading a book about UFOs, he 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.640 actually just decided it was perfect for his new band. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.760 So did he ever elaborate on what made it sound 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.000 so perfect to him? Well, Girl actually courted the entire 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.440 first Food Fighters album all by himself, but he kind 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.560 of wanted everybody to think it was the work of 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.320 a proper group, and for whatever reason, he thought a 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.720 World War two term for UFOs would lead people to 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.000 assume there was more than just one man behind this music. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.440 That's pretty funny reasoning. So you know, I read this 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.720 history article of Nirvana, where the guys would always apparently 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.160 remind Dave Grohld that he wasn't in the first iteration 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.080 of the band. So, I mean, it's kind of like 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.120 telling Ringo he wasn't an original Beatle, just over and 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.720 over and write. Feel awful for him, but you know why, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.240 food fighters like he could have chosen any word that 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.680 was a plural noun. Well, you know, girl apparently came 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.439 to a similar conclusion because later he said in an interview, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.080 he said, um, had I actually considered this to be 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.960 a career, I probably would have called it something else 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.840 because it's the stupidest effing band name in the world. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.520 So I almost kind of want to add it to 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.280 our list just for that reason. But really, if we're 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.480 gonna narrow it down to a single band per category, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.960 I think we have to give this to the Decembers. Okay, 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.480 So I know their songs tend to be very literary 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.880 and sometimes recount or maybe pull from historical events. And 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.880 I do remember a little bit about the Decembers from 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.400 a Russian history class I took years and years ago. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.080 But I think I need a little bit of a refresher, right, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.000 So the historical Decembers, whose spelling actually is different from 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.880 the month in the band because it doesn't actually have 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.240 a third e in it. They were this group of 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:33.360 Russian revolutionaries who lent almost a failed uprising in the 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.800 December of eight and so the group was composed mostly 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.520 of these young Russian officers and also members of the 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.280 upper classes who they wanted to reform the autocratic government 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.520 into more of a liberal system. And they actually took 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.120 advantage of the chaos surrounding the death of one's are 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.640 and the ascension of another to stage rebellion. But because 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.280 it had been so poorly organized, their revolution was quickly 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.680 put to an end, and their hope of overturning an 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.920 oppressive system has really only lived on with martyrd December 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.400 is now serving almost as a source of inspiration for 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.160 new generations of Russian rebels. So is that actually where 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.280 the band name comes from. Yeah, so that's the thing 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.400 it does, and it doesn't. So, according to the band's frontman, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.160 Colin Malloy, the names partly derived from the Russian freedom 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.240 fighters and partly from the month of December itself. I mean, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.320 it feels like you might be cheating a little on 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.200 this one man, It's it's only a half reference to history. 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.000 So so why do you feel like it deserves a 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.520 spot on our list Because this is the only historical 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.600 band name we've mentioned where the reference wasn't chosen at random. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.800 So with the December Is there's actually this real thematic 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.120 connection between the band's name and its music. And as 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.480 Colin Milloy puts it, quote, I like to think that 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.320 the drama behind the month of December, there's a group 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.640 of people who that is their month, and they're sort 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.680 of stuck in this month. And I think that sort 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.480 of speaks to the songs and the characters and the 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.760 songs sort of marginalized, sort of on the outskirts, all 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.120 living in the coldest month. That is pretty interesting. But actually, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.520 didn't you say the real Decembers were from the mobility. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.720 It kind of doesn't sound like they were marginalized people 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.200 living on the outskirts as he was describing. Yeah, so 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.160 they were definitely a minority in terms of openly opposing 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.240 the system that ruled them, and once their rebellion was 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.920 sort of stifled, the Decembrist became well and truly marginalized. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.520 Most of the surviving members were sent off to remote 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.880 work camps in Siberia, where their descendants still eke out 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.320 a living even though they brought education and culture with 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.760 them to that land. Well all right, well, it's not 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.640 the cheeriest historical connection, but but you're right, it certainly 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.319 seems like one of the deepest. And because of that, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.480 I agree, and I'll give it to you. The Decembrist 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.480 deserve the first spot in our band name Hall of Fame, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.440 Ding Ding Ding, So so they probably don't know it, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.240 but that's a huge honor. And since it took us 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.240 a while to decide on that first entry, I actually 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.800 have a category that we can probably knock out pretty fast, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.880 and that's best band name acronym that isn't actually an acronym. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.720 And remember r M is disqualified from this one because 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.360 it really is an acronym and it stands for rabid 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.360 eye movement. Apparently Michael Stipe just cribbed it from the 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.480 dictionary after pointing to the word at random. Yeah, probably 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.280 the laziest way to come up with a band name, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.760 but you do hear that happening a lot. Well, I 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.319 guess my pick for this one would be kiss. I 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.679 would think, you know, everybody's heard the rumors that the 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.960 name secretly stands for something sinister. I remember hearing as 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.160 a kid that it stood for things like kids in 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.439 Satan's service. But you know, according to Gene Simmons, the 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.240 name doesn't stand for anything and was simply just this, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.000 like this idle suggestion from one band member to another. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.000 And it was it was Paul Stanley that came up 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.360 with this, and he's actually gone on record that he 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:39.040 chose the name Kiss because of quote just sounded dangerous 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:44.160 and sexy at the same time. I mean, I guess 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.320 you can't argue with the results, or I I guess 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.920 you can actually, but I'm sure some people found them 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.920 sexy and others dangerous. I think my sister would be 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.920 included in that category. I know I've told you this before, 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.600 but my sister is a few years older than I am, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.360 So when I was little, I would sneak into her 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.120 room and us into her music. But i'd also, of 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.680 course go through all of her stuff. And one of 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.920 the things I remember finding was this shoe box, and 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.640 it was full of these Kiss trading cards because we're 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.720 hilarious to look at it. I really wish she still 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.600 had these and that's pretty amazing. But you know, for 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.520 my money, the best bot acronym band name is still wasp. Oh. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.839 I remember them. So they were a heavy metal band 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.400 and back in there was this seven I guess this 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.160 was the eighties, right, And I can't believe that's not 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.640 actually an acronym. And they even put a period between 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.000 each of the letters. I know, I mean, I guess 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.400 it's from the era where you'd put gratuitous like oom 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.959 lots and nonsense and names like wingdings and whatever. But 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.760 supposedly it was just because not many other bands had 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.040 done it at that time, and they hoped it would 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.560 make them stand out and get people curious about the band. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.959 But just like kiss, rumors world that the acronym stood 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.640 for all sorts of naughty stuff, like we are sexual perverts, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:57.160 we are Satan's preachers, we all smoked pot. But my, my, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.559 my favorite red herring of that lot is an answer 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.600 one of the band members gave when he was doing 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.560 an interview and he said, you know, they asked what 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.560 does WASP stand for? He said, we ain't sure. Pal oh, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.160 I like that. That's a pretty good ones there, all right, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.120 So the periods were just a marketing technique. But what 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.640 about the name itself? I mean, does it stand for anything? 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.880 Or like why wasp? I I guess one of the 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.120 band members saw a wasp one night and thought it 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.800 might make for a cool band name. All right, Well, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.000 I guess you kind of stacked the deck with this category, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.760 but I'm still going to give you this one as 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.000 well for wasps, so we will add them to the 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.560 list here, which is awesome because I'm two for two 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.480 and uh, I don't think you have any points on 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.640 the board, right, No, but don't don't get too cocky. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.400 We still got a bunch of origins to get to 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.360 and I really doubt you're gonna be able to top 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.160 this next one. But before I hit you with it, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:15:01.240 let's take a quick break. You're listening to Part Time 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.080 Genius and we're talking about the weird stories behind famous 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.840 band names. Alright, Mango. So now our Hall of Fame 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.960 needs to be the best story for a band name 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.560 taken from a TV show or a movie. It can 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.000 be either one, and I actually think I've got the 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.880 perfect contender. Now, if first I thought about fallout Boy, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.480 you know, because I'm always thinking about Fallout Boy, or 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.480 maybe but you know, they've been this nameless band until 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.840 they pulled the audience at their second show and someone 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.640 in the crowd shouted out the name of Radioactive Man, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.280 superhero sidekick from the Simpsons, and it actually just sort 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.040 of stuck. That's amazing, that's where it comes from. Yeah, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.400 it's a pretty good story. So but but actually then 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.840 I thought I'd go with something a little more obscure, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.640 and that's what led me to the Bloodhound Gang. Do 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.160 you remember the blood Hud Gang? Yeah? I mean I 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.640 wish I didn't, because they had that annoying song bad Touch, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.920 and the video of it was just them in monkey 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.600 costumes running around town and I guess doing weird, dirty 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.560 things to everyone in sight. I don't know, it was 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.240 just art mango. I don't know why you don't want 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.280 to remember that. Well, there is something interesting I found 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.360 out about that when you talk about them running around 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.840 doing weird and dirty things to everything in the video, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.560 And honestly, that's that the Bloodhound Gang was actually a 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.000 lot more wholesome than you might think, or or at 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.480 least their name was. And that's because the band took 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.880 it from this recurring sketch that was on the old 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.360 three to one Contact show from PBS and the eighties. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:21.720 I know you were a big fan as a kid. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.480 The sketch was all about this group of dorky kids 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.320 called the Bloodhound Gang, and so they'd get together and 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.120 try to solve these crimes using math puzzles, and that's 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.880 where they got the name. That's pretty funny that, you know, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.680 such a raunchy band would take their name from kids program. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.000 But uh, you know, even though three to one Contact 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.400 magazine was actually a huge influence on me and mental 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:46.080 plus A. Seriously, I'm I'm still not sure I want 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.680 those guys in our Hall of Fame. Wow. I guess 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.960 that the video did a number on you. But all right, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.640 I do agree with you. No Bloodhound Gang allowed, so 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.000 we gotta come up with another one. So what sort 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.840 of slemed on entry do you have for TV and movies? Well, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.280 that would be a little band I like to call 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.000 exclamation Point, exclamation Point, exclamation point, or or as fans 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.480 have wisely decided to call them, chick Chick Chick of course. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.320 So they're this post punk funk group out of Sacramento, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.080 and they actually took their unusual name from the nineteen 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.280 eighties South African comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy. You 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.040 remember this movie, right, Yeah, that's crazy. So for listeners 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.800 who haven't seen it, it's about this remote African tribe 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.080 that lives in peace until they find a coke bottle 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.800 that falls out of an airplane and they all start 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.280 fighting over it. And you know, it's a funny movie. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.080 But I have to make I don't know what it 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.399 has to do with those three exclamation points. Well, in 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.679 the movie, The Bushman's Shocean Language was subtitled as a 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.119 series of exclamation points, and the band liked this idea 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.520 of using that to refer to a different kind of sound, 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.120 you know, one that's hard to categorize, And I guess 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.840 that's how they viewed their own music now, because the 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.080 bush language sometimes sounds a lot like clicking sounds. I 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.760 guess you know, the most common pronunciation is chick, chick, chick. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.680 But according to the band, the intention was for people 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.080 to use any three repetitive sounds and they could just 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.000 choose them, so you could call the band bam bam bam, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.720 or pal pal pal, and you know, you technically still 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.879 be talking about the same band. I can give you 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:17.840 other examples that's right. All right, Well, I I think 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.080 you've sold me on Chick Chick Chicken. That's gonna get 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.880 my vote. But I have a feeling this next category 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.320 is going to be a bit more hotly contested, and 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.840 it's the best band name for somebody who isn't in 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.560 the band. Oh yeah, there's a bunch of good examples 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.639 for this, but actually, for instance, you you you know 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:37.040 Alice Cooper right, Well, the band was originally called the Earwigs, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.920 but after playing around with a Quiji board, it put 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.359 him in touch with a ghost name Alice Cooper, so 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:45.520 they decided to switch to that instead. So I love 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.680 that wegi board story. But you know what's weird is 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.320 that I I didn't even know Alice Cooper was a band, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.520 Like I thought it was just the one guy. Well 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.920 not at first. There was the guy that ended up 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:56.560 taking the name, and it was the front man. His 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.760 real name was Vincent Fernier. But after he split off 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.439 from band, he went solo and he actually ended up 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.960 just taking the name Alice with him. Well, I mean 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.920 that is pretty cool, but you know, I prefer bands 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.400 named after real people, thank you very much. And that's 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.080 why my pick for this category is Pink Floyd. No way, 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.080 is that them a real person? Yeah, it's actually the 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.639 name of two real people. So you know, one of 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.480 the band's founding members, the legendary Sid Barrett, came up 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.399 with idea for combining the names of two of his 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.440 favorite blues musicians, and that's Pink Anderson and Floyd Counsel. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.000 Oh wow, I had no idea about that, all right, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.879 but that does mean if I'm not mistaken that Anderson 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.600 Counsel would still be on the table then right, definitely. 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.320 So for any nameless bands out there, here's the answer 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.080 you've been looking for, all right. Well, I have to 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:44.720 give it to you. Pink Floyd is a two for 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.880 with that double homage and and that is tough to beat. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.720 But I have one I've been saving, and I think 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.520