Origins

Zeke has fleas. The heat in my van won't work. And the IRS wants me to pay them $3,000 dollars for screwing up my 2004 taxes. But on a positive nore, I now know the origin of hundreds of rock band's names! Among the fascinating:

THE CRANBERRIES - originally called Cranberries Saw Us ( a joke on Cranberries SAUCE) they changed it to the shorter form later. [LAME]

FAITH NO MORE - named after a race horse they saw listed on a racing form. [Awesome name for a horse.]

OUR LADY PEACE - The band took their unusual name from a 1943 poem by American poet Mark Van Doren. [Awesome band name.]

WEEZER - Band member Rivers Cuomo had the nickname Weezer in school because of a breathing problem.

ZZ TOP - taken from the name of a Texas Blues man ZZ Hill. Though a rumor is that they got their name by combining Zig Zag and Top, two well known brands of "cigarette" rolling papers.