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hoip chiggs
Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 05:00PM
There's a few of them.

There should be a band called Terror is a Man - a B thriller. I gotta see it 'cause of the title.
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Michael Toland
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 07:14PM
My Bloody Valentine is the most obvious I can think of.

There's a British band called Terrorvision - isn't that the name of a movie?
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breno
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 07:55PM
10,000 Maniacs were mis-named after the movie 2000 Maniacs.

King Kong
Rodan
Destroy All Monsters
They Might Be Giants
Courage of Lassie
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Michael Toland
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 08:11PM
Gojira (the Japanese title of Godzilla) is another monster movie-themed band name.

That would be a rich strain, especially with the movies from the 90s and 'aughts. Some enterprising young acts should take Megaguirus, Destoroyah, Biollante, Hedorah, King Ghidorah or Megalodon. Or maybe War of the Gargantuas. Or maybe Gyaos or Irys from the 90s Gamera series.

Yes, I'm a Kaiju geek.
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MrFab
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 08:27PM
Not on the list Heff posted - Heaven 17 (from "Clockwork Orange")
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Heff
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 08:15PM
Meet Danny Wilson, Faster Pussycat

and I found this - band-n-movies

Three from Russ Meyer - there's still time to name yours "Ultravixen". Vixen is also a Meyer movie but I doubt that band got their name from it.
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Michael Toland
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 08:28PM
I was on a Meyer kick a few years ago and realized that "Ultravixen" would make a great band name. Surely someone somewhere is using it - it can't be going to waste.
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Aitch
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 10:08PM
Mr Blonde
Ice Nine
Duran Duran
Always wondered if The Birthday Party was any kind of Pinter homage.
Ended up a pretty good movie with Robert Shaw nice and kooky.
Does The Go Betweens count?
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MrFab
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 10:54PM
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Ice Nine

That's from "Cat's Cradle" which hasn't been made into a movie. Not yet, at least. And considering the sorry track record of Vonnegut film-izations, hopefully never.
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 10:13PM
Ever heard of a band called The Disney Royalties?
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totaji
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 10:16PM
Leatherface
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totaji
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 10:15PM
Deerhunter
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Aitch
Re: Bands named after movies
January 27, 2010 10:44PM
The Band Who Shot Liberty Valance
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hoip chiggs
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 12:23AM
If there's a band called Girlschool, there should also be a band called
Satan's School for Girls, another B movie. I gotta see it. I hear Cheryl Ladd's in it.
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Aitch
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 01:02AM
Not sure what I was thinking Fab, but your comment leads me to the realisation that I have not seen ANY of the Vonnegut film-izations.
Should I not bother? As fate would have it, my favourite three are the ones that are films.
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breno
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 01:24AM
The movie version of Slaughterhouse Five has its defenders, but not a whole lot. Valerie Perrine was naked in it, but back then it was more rare for her to be clothed in a movie.

The film versions of Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick have no defenders whatsoever, as far as I know. Watching Slapstick was so depressing I briefly considered joining Joy Division after seeing it, and I love the book Breakfast of Champions too much to ever subject myself to the movie.



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Aitch
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 02:05AM
What about Mother Night?
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Bands named after movies
January 29, 2010 10:35PM
Someone needs to make film versions of Galapagos and Bluebeard.



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ira
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 01:46AM
The Searchers started it all, I believe.
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michael baker
Re: Bands named after movies
January 30, 2010 09:16PM
re the L heavy weights in loved one:

geilgud
winters
berle
coburn

might have been 20th c's greatest at their particular niches, respectively (and respectfully:

actor
comedian
tv personality
suave existential swinger

throw in steiger, lord morley, underrated talent bobby morse, and the fetching liberace, and this might have been THE cast of the 60's
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Jermoe
Re: Bands named after movies
February 01, 2010 01:50PM

The motion picture with something to offend everyone!

I've always thought of it as an attempt to top It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, casting-wise.
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Paganizer
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 02:10AM
Killdozer
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nosepail
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 03:08AM
Great local Boston band, obscure movie:

Hallelujah The Hills
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Aitch
Re: Bands named after movies
January 28, 2010 09:28PM
BMX Bandits
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Jermoe
Re: Bands named after movies
January 29, 2010 12:35AM
Anyone remember S*M*A*S*H?

Goldfinger

The Loved Ones (take your pick of bands, I'll assume they're all named after the mid-sixties Tony Richardson/Terry Southern adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One, which starred too many light heavyweights to recount)



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STEVE
Re: Bands named after movies
January 29, 2010 01:58AM
freaks
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