Bandnames of famous progressive rock bands

PFM = Premata Forneria Marconi.
"Forneria" means "Bakery" and Marconi is a family name (but I don't find translation for "Premata": could some Italian fellows help us here?)

Ah, "premiata" - with an "i". I read "premata"and couldn't find it in my dictionary.

Jake Kobrin wrote: Sigur Rós means "victory rose" in Icelandic. Jónis's little sister was named Sigurrós which is a common female name in Iceland.

Andyman1125 wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: STEELY DAN - Named after a dildo in the William Burroughs novel Naked Lunch. According to Burroughs, the Steely Dan was a metal dildo that an evil German bulldyke prostitute crushed using her nether regions Throbbing Gristle, which is a slang term, from Hull, meaning erection. Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) is distantly related to Wallis Simpson, the wife of Edward VIII - his maternal grandmother was Simpson's 2nd cousin. Van Vliet's stage name came from a term used by his Uncle Alan. Alan had a habit of exposing himself to Don's erstwhile girlfriend, Laurie. Alan would urinate with the bathroom door open and, if she was walking by, mumble about his penis, saying "Ahh, what a beauty! It looks just like a big, fine beef heart." Erm...you see a pattern here   Someone once told me that PFM were named after an Italian bakery...surely not? Dick prog?

Andyman1125 wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: STEELY DAN - Named after a dildo in the William Burroughs novel Naked Lunch. According to Burroughs, the Steely Dan was a metal dildo that an evil German bulldyke prostitute crushed using her nether regions Throbbing Gristle, which is a slang term, from Hull, meaning erection. Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) is distantly related to Wallis Simpson, the wife of Edward VIII - his maternal grandmother was Simpson's 2nd cousin. Van Vliet's stage name came from a term used by his Uncle Alan. Alan had a habit of exposing himself to Don's erstwhile girlfriend, Laurie. Alan would urinate with the bathroom door open and, if she was walking by, mumble about his penis, saying "Ahh, what a beauty! It looks just like a big, fine beef heart." Erm...you see a pattern here Someone once told me that PFM were named after an Italian bakery...surely not? Dick prog?

 

Edited by someone_else - August 15 2011 at 04:41

Some Romanian band names:

Talitha Qumi is in aramaic and means "rise and walk". Obviously, it's a line from the Bible and it goes well with the band's interest in the spiritual realm.

Kumm means "sand" in Tartar language. The Black Sea beaches were the youth's place of total freedom after the fall of Communism (and, under cover, even before the fall). Talitha Qumi, the band that predated Kumm, was formed on the beaches of the Black Sea, and Kumm followed their path. The same beaches are sung by byron in the piece No Man's Land. Dan "Byron", the leader of byron, was a vocalist in Kumm so there you got a real tradition.

Yesterdays: the band wanted to show their love for YES.

Bucium: it's the name of a traditional Romanian instrument which you can see and hear here or here. I think Negură Bunget use buciums in their music.

Negură Bunget: the first word means "dark mist" and the second means "thick forest". Quite awesome for an atmospheric/folk black metal band if you ask me.

DorDeDuh: it's three words stuck together, and means "yearning for Grace". These guys are hard on the spiritual.

Celelalte Cuvinte means "the other words" and refers to poetic meaning and what you can't express with words (hence other words).

Progresiv TM: the first word means "progressive" and it was supposed to be a clear indicator of the band's style. TM is the abbreviation of Timiş county, where the band came from. That is also where most rock/prog bands came from during Communism, including Phoenix, Pro Musica and others. Timişoara, the capital of this county, is close to the border of Serbia, which had a more relaxed Communist regime, and so the people of Timişoara could hear rock music on Yougoslvian radio. Coming back to Progresiv TM, they were inspired to create a name of this shape by the locally famous Hungarian band Lokomotiv GT.


Edited by harmonium.ro - August 15 2011 at 05:34

Andyman1125 wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: STEELY DAN - Named after a dildo in the William Burroughs novel Naked Lunch. According to Burroughs, the Steely Dan was a metal dildo that an evil German bulldyke prostitute crushed using her nether regions Throbbing Gristle, which is a slang term, from Hull, meaning erection. Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) is distantly related to Wallis Simpson, the wife of Edward VIII - his maternal grandmother was Simpson's 2nd cousin. Van Vliet's stage name came from a term used by his Uncle Alan. Alan had a habit of exposing himself to Don's erstwhile girlfriend, Laurie. Alan would urinate with the bathroom door open and, if she was walking by, mumble about his penis, saying "Ahh, what a beauty! It looks just like a big, fine beef heart." Erm...you see a pattern here Someone once told me that PFM were named after an Italian bakery...surely not? Dick prog?

Siloportem wrote: If I may make requests. Porcupine Tree! And since they´re gone Pure Reason Revolution

Taken from Wikipedia:

Porcupine Tree started out as a duo of Wilson and his schoolfriend Malcolm Stocks (with Wilson providing the majority of the instrumentation and Stocks contributing mostly ideas, additional vocals and experimental guitar sounds). Wilson began experimenting by recording music in his home until he had the hunch it could become someway marketable. The material was subsequently compiled into three demo tapes (Tarquin's Seaweed Farm, Love, Death & Mussolini and The Nostalgia Factory). For the first tape, he even wrote an inlay introduction to an obscure (imaginary) band called "The Porcupine Tree", suggesting the band met in the early '70s at a rock festival, and they had been in and out of prison many times. The booklet also contained information about band's obscure members like Sir Tarquin Underspoon and Timothy Tadpole-Jones, and crew members like Linton Samuel Dawson (if put into initials forming LSD). Wilson: "It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!"

Apart from that, it’s obviously derived from porcupine and pine tree.

Pure Reason Revolution is probably taken from Kant’s Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), but I don’t know about the revolution part.

refugee wrote: Btw, great thread!  And now a band name: Is 10 cc the average amount of sperm in a man’s ejaculation?

refugee wrote: Btw, great thread!  A couple of questions: Not a band name, but was Selling England by the Pound a slogan for the Labour party in the 1970s? And now a band name: Is 10 cc the average amount of sperm in a man’s ejaculation?

Jonathan King takes credit for naming both Genesis and 10cc.

According to him, when he started as a producer, a band called the Garden Wall came to his attention, and he took them on as a client, renaming them Genesis because they were his first "serious" client and the start of his production career.  After their first album tanked, they kicked him to the curb but kept the name.

From an interview with King, re 10cc:
"I started my own label in the early '70s called UK Records, and I picked up this master called "Donna" by this group that was put together by a guy that I knew from Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders a long while back [guitarist Eric Stewart].  I had to give them a name there and then because I'd signed the record, and I went to sleep that night and had this dream that a band of mine on my label made number one on the album and singles charts simultaneously in America, and the band was called 10cc.  So I gave them that name the next morning.  Everybody then decided that this was apparently meant to be the amount of an average male ejaculation.  Which was absolutely far from the truth; it had not been a wet dream, I can promise."  (from the book Rock Names)