List of Bands Named After Other Performers' Songs - Approximations and Partial Matches

Approximations and Partial Matches

• All Time Low, after a line from New Found Glory's "Head on Collision"
• at17, after Janis Ian's "At Seventeen"
• The Black Angels, after Velvet Underground's "The Black Angel's Death Song"
• Bad Brains, after The Ramones' song "Bad Brain"
• Boredoms, after Buzzcocks' "Boredom" from Spiral Scratch
• The Boy Least Likely To, after Morrissey's "The Girl Least Likely To"
• Burning Airlines, after Brian Eno's "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"
• A Certain Ratio, after a line from Brian Eno's "The True Wheel"
• Candlebox, after a line from Midnight Oil's "Tin Legs and Tin Mines": "boxed in like candles"
• Canned Heat, after Tommy Johnson's song "Canned Heat Blues" from 1928.
• Curved Air, after Terry Riley's "A Rainbow in Curved Air"
• Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, after Larry Williams' "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
• Dovetail Joint, after a line in The Beatles' "Glass Onion"
• Felt, after a line in Television's "Venus": "How we fell...t"
• The Get Up Kids, after The Cure's "Suburban Get Up Kids"
• Gigolo Aunts, after Syd Barrett's "Gigolo Aunt"
• Girl in a Coma, after The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma"
• Judas Priest, after Bob Dylan's "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"
• The Killers, after the name of the fictional band in the music video for the New Order song "Crystal".
• Lady Gaga, after Queen's "Radio Ga Ga"
• Mayhem, after Venom's "Mayhem with Mercy"
• Mob Rules, after Black Sabbath's "The Mob Rules"
• Motörhead after Hawkwind's "Motorhead"
• the Mountain Goats after Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Yellow Coat"
• The Naked and Famous after The Presidents of the United States of America's "Naked and Famous"
• Nazareth after a line from The Band's "The Weight"; "I pulled into Nazareth, Was feelin' about half past dead..."
• Nightmare of You after The Cure's "Kyoto Song", which starts off "A nightmare of you"
• Old 97's after Johnny Cash's "The Wreck of the Old 97"
• Panic! at the Disco from a line in Name Taken's "Panic"
• Pretty Things, after Bo Diddley's "Pretty Thing"
• Raveonettes, after Buddy Holly's "Rave On"
• Radio Birdman, from a line in The Stooges' "1970"
• The Rolling Stones, after Muddy Waters' "Rolling Stone"
• Sepultura, after Motörhead's "Dancing on Your Grave" (Sepultura is Portuguese for grave)
• Shakespears Sister, after The Smiths' "Shakespeare's Sister"
• Silverchair, a misspelling of Nirvana's "Sliver" and You Am I's "Berlin Chair"
• Sister Machine Gun, after a line from Skinny Puppy's "Tin Omen"
• Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, after line from Silver Jews' "People"
• Texas Is the Reason, after a line from The Misfits' "Bullet"
• Through the Eyes of the Dead, after Cannibal Corpse's "Staring Through The Eyes of The Dead"
• Warsaw (later became Joy Division), after David Bowie's "Warszawa"
• Walk the Moon, named after The Police song "Walking on the Moon"