Major Rock Band's Original Names

This is a repost from my HubPages account.  It can't be easy to name a rock band these days. I'd imagine that it would be just like trying to sign up for a new Yahoo e-mail account - all the good names are already taken.

 Though some bands name themselves for shock value, many of them choose names that remind them of favorite people, song lyrics, poetry. Some are even named after books and movies, and some just stick with their own names. It is funny, though, to look back and see what some bands' original names were. Some of these might surprise you!

 If you know of one that I've missed, please leave a comment and I'll be happy to add it to the list!

The Big List

• ABBA - Festfolk - also - Björn, Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid
• Alice Cooper - The Earwigs - also - The Spiders - also - The Nazz
• Alice In Chains - (alternate spelling) Alice N Chainz - also - Diamond Lie
• The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Joys - also - The Hour Glass
• Atreyu - Retribution
• Audioslave - Civilian
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Bachman-Turner - also - Brave Belt
• Badfinger - The Iveys
• The Bangles - The Colours - also - The Supersonic Bangs - also - The Bangs
• Barenaked Ladies - Free Beer
• Bauhaus - Bauhaus 1919
• The Beach Boys - Carl and the Pendletones - also - The Pendletones
• The Beastie Boys - The Young Aborigines
• The Beatles - The Quarrymen - also - Johnny and the Moondogs - also - Long John and the Beetles - also - The Silver Beetles - also - The Silver Beatles
• The Bee Gees - The Rattlesnakes
• The Black Crowes - Mr. Crowe's Garden
• Black Sabbath - The Polka Tulk Blues Company - also - Polka Tulk - also - Earth
• Blink 182 - Blink - also - Duck Tape
• Blondie - Angel and the Snakes
• Blue Oyster Cult - Soft White Underbelly
• Blur - Seymour
• Bowling for Soup - Rubberneck
• The Byrds - The Beefeaters
• Cage the Elephant - Perfect Confusion
• Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
• The Clash - Weak Heartdrops - also - The Psychotic Negatives
• Coldplay - Starfish - also - Pectoralz
• Coheed and Cambria - Shabütie
• The Cranberries - Cranberries Saw Us
• Creed - Naked Toddler - also - Maddox Creed
• Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Pollywogs
• The Cult - The Southern Death Cult - also - Death Cult
• Cypress Hill - DVX
• Def Leppard - Deaf Leopard - also - Atomic Mass
• Depeche Mode - Composition of Sound
• Dire Straits - Cafe Rangers
• The Doobie Brothers - Pud
• The Doors - Psychedelic Rangers
• The Eagles - Teen King and the Emergencies
• Faith No More - Sharp Young Men - also - Faith No Man
• Finger Eleven - Rainbow Butt Monkeys
• Foo Fighters - Late!
• Foster the People - Foster & the People
• The Four Seasons - The Four Lovers
• The Four Tops - The Four Aims
• Fuel - Small the Joy
• Golden Earring - Tornados
• Goo Goo Dolls - The Sex Maggots
• The Grateful Dead - Mother Mcree's Uptown Jug Champions - also - The Warlocks
• Green Day - Sweet Children
• GWAR - GWAARGGGH!!!
• Helloween - Iron Fist - also - Gentry (thanks, FatFreddysCat!)
• Huey Lewis and the News - Clover
• The Human League - The Dead Daughters - also - The Future
• Iced Earth - Purgatory
• INXS - The Farriss Brothers
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Jimmy James & The Blue Flames
• Journey - The Golden Gate Rhythm Section
• KISS - Wicked Lester
• Lacuna Coil - Ethereal
• Lamb of God - Burn the Priest
• Led Zeppelin - The New Yardbirds
• Linkin Park - Xero - also - The Hybrid Theory
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - One Percent - also - Leonard Skinner - also - Leonard Skinnerd
• The Marshall Tucker Band - The Toy Factory
• Moody Blues - M & B5
• Muse - Fixed Penalty - also - Rocket Baby Dolls
• Nirvana - Pen Cap Chew - also - Skid Row
• Oasis - The Rain
• Pantera - Pantera's Metal Magic
• Pearl Jam - Mookie Blaylock
• Phish - Blackwood Convention
• Pink Floyd - Sigma 6 - also - The Meggadeaths - also - The Abdabs - also - The Architectural Abdabs - also - The Screaming Abdabs - also - The Tea Set - also - The Pink Floyd Sound - also - The Pink Floyd
• The Police - Strontium 90
• Queen - Smile
• Queensrÿche - Cross+Fire - also - The Mob
• Radiohead - On A Friday
• Ratt - Mickey Ratt
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tony Flow and the Miraculous Masters of Mayhem
• REM - Twisted Kites - also - Cans of P*ss - also - Negro Wives
• The Scorpions - Nameless
• Seether - Saron Gas
• Sevendust - Tomorrow's Pain - also - Rumblefish - also - Crawlspace
• Simple Minds - Johnny and the Self Abusers
• Slade - The N' Betweens - also - Ambrose Slade
• Slipknot - The Pyg System - also - Meld
• Stone Temple Pilots - The Patrol - also - The Fireside Chaps -also - The Waterfront - also -The Stone Roses - also - Mighty Joe Young - also - Shirley Temple's P***y
• Styx - The Tradewinds - also - TW4
• Sublime - Fighting Blindly
• Sugar Ray - The Shrinky Dinks
• Sum 41 - Kaspir
• System of a Down - Soil
• The Temptations - The Primes - also - The Distants
• 10,000 Maniacs - Still Life - also - Burn Victims
• Tesla - City Kidd
• Testament - Legacy
• U2 - Hype - also - Feedback
• Van Halen - Mammoth - also - Genesis - also - Rat Salad
• The Who - The Detours - also - The High Numbers
• ZZ Top - The Moving Sidewalks