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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I don't know how many there are. But I just know found out there is a band named Pennywise.

Has anyone else heard of any others?
 

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Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
 
There's a Dashboard Confessional song called "Ender Will Save Us All."

I was terribly amused.

-pH
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
Shadowfax and Shadow fax. (From LotR)
Hawkwind (From Michael Moorcock's books)
Minas Tirith (OK, so not a character, but close)
Save Ferris (From Ferris Bueller's Day Off [or is it "out?"...I can never remember])

That's all I can think of for right now.

--Mel
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
Veruca Salt
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
After looking at my husbands music collection I have this to add:

Spock's Beard
 

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Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
 
There's an Iron Maiden album called Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Incredible album. Most of you should know where the name comes from .

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Completely off-topic- theCrowsWife, the weirdest thing is that I always thought you were a male. I know your name is theCrowswife but I was always under the impression you were male. I'm scratching my head as to how I ever thought of that. Never mind. Forget I said this.
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Not quite a character, but a local band around here call themselves Left Pency, after Catcher in the Rye, where Holden Caulfield says he "left Pency."
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
lol, that happens a lot online, even when I don't use "Mel" as a signature. I guess I just type masculinely or something Don't worry, I'm not offended.

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Er, band names. Google gave me this site, which tells me that Duran Duran was named after a character in a Jane Fonda movie titled "Barbarella."

Also, Goldfinger from James Bond.

KING MISSILE - is a popular Japanese comic book character

THOMSON TWINS - two characters in the Tintin comics by the late Belgium artist Herge.

T PAU - after a high priestess from the planet VULCAN in the American TV series STAR TREK

--Mel
 

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Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
 
Mott the Hoople

Jethro Tull (if a real person is a "character"
 

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Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
 
Ophelia's Kiss
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 

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There's an Iron Maiden album called Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Incredible album. Most of you should know where the name comes from [Smile] .

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There's a Dashboard Confessional song called "Ender Will Save Us All."

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I thought you were kidding, but you're not!

O.o
 

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Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
 
"You're not serious with this, right?"
I'm serious
 

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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I don't think you understand. I think he was asking if you were serious about thinking it was based off of Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card. Not if the album existed.
 

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Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
 
Oh? In the thread linked to from the article the first post says this: "We all know about Seventh Son of a Seventh son being a story of someone born with such gifts". It kind of sounds like OSC's story.
 

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Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
 
Oh! Steppenwolf and Shai Hulud are literary references.
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
Gaal,
The seventh son, and especially the seventh son of a seventh son is a extremely old and common mark of specialness, be it good or bad, in mythology and folklore. The album, which apparently came out within a year of the book, was likely supposed to be referring to the darker associations to this geneological position, such as curses or vampirism. It wasn't referring to the book.
 

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Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
 
Oh. Whoops. Sorry, didn't know that.
 

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Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
 
My friends' band was called Dancing For Nickels after a quotation from a Simpson's episode.
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
No worries dude. Just a little bit of information that you didn't know that now you do. I wasn't sure if you were making a joke or not.
 

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Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
 
Eve6 was named after an X-files character. (Season one, the episode was called "Eve" I think)
 

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Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
 
Duran Duran (from Barbarella).
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Squicky, I'm pretty sure I read an article somewhere where the band specifically said that they got the title from the OSC series.

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Completely off-topic- theCrowsWife, the weirdest thing is that I always thought you were a male. I know your name is theCrowswife but I was always under the impression you were male. I'm scratching my head as to how I ever thought of that. Never mind. Forget I said this.

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You're thinking of Verily Cooper.
 

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Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
 

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There's a Dashboard Confessional song called "Ender Will Save Us All."

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I thought you were kidding, but you're not!

O.o

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Nope!

And the ending of another one of their songs reminds me of a scene from the Handmaid's Tale. I mean, I'm sure that's not really what it's from, but it really reminds me of it.

-pH
 

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Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :
 
Fall out Boy is a character in the Simpsons comic series Radioactive Man.
 

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Posted by hugh57 (Member # 5527) on :
 
A band from the '70s, Uriah Heep, is from a character in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.
 

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Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
Ah, missed one. I was wondering if Uriah Heep was a character name when I passed it.

--Mel
 

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Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
 
there's a band called the Harry Potters, but I don't remember if it was intentional.
 

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Posted by theamazeeaz (Member # 6970) on :
 
It's Harry and the Potters, and yes, it was intentional: they sing about the books.
 

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Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
 
Icarus,
Seeing as how the album came out within months of the book and that such a reference doesn't fit in with any of their other albums, I'd be amazed if this were true. Which is not to say that it isn't, just that I'd be amazed.
 

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Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
 
I hate Fall Out Boy so much. I don't understand why everyone here worships them.

Also, if I get one more person telling me about how they're BFF with Kill Hannah or Lucky Boys Confusion...

Twenty-four more hours...

-pH
 

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Posted by Parsimony (Member # 8140) on :
 
Not exactly the same thing, but Toad the Wet Sprocket was taken from a Monty Python Sketch. Other than that, there are tons of bands that are named after characters.

--ApostleRadio
 

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Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
T'Pau
Uriah Heep
 

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Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
There's no band called Crunchy Frog? That seems like a serious omission...
 

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Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :
 
Goldfinger

The Bruce Lee Band

Finch has a song called Ender
 

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Posted by ifmyheartcouldbeat (Member # 8692) on :
 

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Originally posted by pH:
There's a Dashboard Confessional song called "Ender Will Save Us All."

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wait..they know how to read????

 

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Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
There's a heavy metal band called "Atreyu". I would be surprised if this wasn't from The Neverending Story.
 

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Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :
 

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Originally posted by pH:
There's a Dashboard Confessional song called "Ender Will Save Us All."

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wait..they know how to read????

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