List of Band Name Etymologies - D

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• Dashboard Confessional — Derived from the line in the band's song "The Sharp Hint of New Tears" which is "on the way home, this car hears my confessions/I think tonight I'll take the long way home...".
• Dead Kennedys — the name was not meant to insult the assassinated Kennedy brothers, but to quote vocalist Jello Biafra, "to bring attention to the end of the American Dream".
• The Decemberists - The name refers to the Decembrist revolt, an 1825 revolt in Imperial Russia that Colin Meloy views as an attempted communist revolution.
• Depeche Mode — inspired by a French fashion magazine of the same name.
• Dexys Midnight Runners — from the stimulant Dexedrine.
• The Doors - The band took its name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, the title of which was a reference to a William Blake quotation: "When the doors of perception are cleansed, things will appear to man as they truly are...infinite."
• Dream Theater — Named after a movie house in Monterey, California. The name was suggested by drummer Mike Portnoy's father, who lived in Monterey.
• Duran Duran — The band played at Birmingham's Barberella's nightclub so took their name from the villain of the cult science fiction film Barbarella, Dr. Durand-Durand.