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Bad band names that were changed before they were famous... |
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Bad band names that were changed before they were famous...
Just read that Coldplay used to be called Pectoralz...
Anyone know of any cringe-worthy original band names for bands that are now famous? |
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Blur used to be known as Seymour.
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Green Day used to be called Sweet Children.
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Destiny's child was Girls Tyme
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JLS were UFO weren't they?
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Destiny's child was Girls Tyme
Mmmm... wonder why the changed it?
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Culture Club were called Sex Gang Children
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Queen - Smile
The Who - The Detours Led Zeppelin - The New Yardbirds Blondie - Angel and the Snakes U2 - The Hype |
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Sugababes were originally Sugababies
Westlife were originally Six as One then IOYOU TLC were orginally 2nd nature |
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I know that:
Spice Girls used to be Touch I also read that the Black Eyed Peas used to be Atban Klann then Black Eyed Pods o_0 |
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Festfolk = Björn, Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid = ABBA
The Quarrymen = Johnny and the Moondogs = Long John and the Beetles = The Silver Beetles = The Silver Beatles = The Beatles http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/page...-of-Bands.html |
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Touch -> Spice -> The Spice Girls
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The Kaiser Chiefs were Parva.
Joy Division were Warsaw. Radiohead were On A Friday. Nirvana were Skid Row / Pen Cap Chew / Bliss / Ed Ted Fred. The Who were The Detours. |
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Mookie Blaylock = Pearl Jam
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Tears for Fears were known as Graduate
Simon and Garfunkel was Tom and Jerry Marmalade were Dean Ford and the Gaylords |
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Marmalade were Dean Ford and the Gaylords
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Sugababes were called Sugarbabies.
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Oasis were The Rain.
The Velvet Underground were The Primitives, then The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes. Somebody already said Queen were Smile, but before that they were 1984. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds were originally The Boys Next Door, and then had initial success as The Birthday Party, but I think NC&TBS and TBP might actually be seen as two different bands, rather than the same band under a different name. I believe Sex Pistols were originally The Swankers, hahaha. Pink Floyd went through numerous names. At first they were Sigma Six, then The Meggadeaths, The Screamin' Abdabs, The Abdabs, Leonard's Lodgers and The Spectrum Five. They eventually settled on The Tea Set until they came across another band with the same name, so they became The Pink Floyd, dropping the "The" after their first album. Status Quo are another band that initially had a "The" prefix but dropped it after some early success, but before that they had a few single releases that went nowhere as The Spectres, some of The Spectres' output can be found on certain Mod compilations, I believe. They also went through the names Traffic (not to be confused with Steve Winwood's Traffic) and Traffic Jam, before The Status Quo. |
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Sugababes were originally Sugababies
Westlife were originally Six as One then IOYOU TLC were orginally 2nd nature |
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The Velvet Underground were The Primitives, then The Warlocks, then The Falling Spikes.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds were originally The Boys Next Door, and then had initial success as The Birthday Party, but I think NC&TBS and TBP might actually be seen as two different bands, rather than the same band under a different name. The Primitives and The Warlocks were both Lou Reed and John Cale working together, but the rest of the Velvets joined later, and the sound was completely different. Patrick Wolf used to use the stage name "Patrick", no surname. We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It became Fuzzbox when they broke through. |
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Kara's Flowers - Maroon 5
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JLS were UFO weren't they?
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Bone Thugs-N-harmony - Band aid boys
Cypress hill - DVX De La Soul - Easy Street Mobb Deep - Poetical Prophets Busta Rhymes - Chill-O-Ski Rakim - Kid Wizard Q-Tip - MC Love Child 2pac - MC New York |
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Gothic Plague > Fixed Penalty > The Rocket Baby Dolls > Muse
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red hot chili peppers used to be tony flow & the miraculously majestic masters of mayhem
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