Band Name Origins
Ever wondered where the band name Eagle Eye Cherry came from? Wikipedia said that the name is actually his real name. Eagle Eye is his first name and Cherry is the Last name. Weird choice of names huh?.. but his dad said when he was born.. his eyes were eagle like.. so there.. he named him Eagle Eye Lanoo Cherry.
Here are some Band Name Origins from AMIRIGHT.COM:
Green Day
The band got really stoned and watched an episode of ‘Sesame Street‘, where Ernie said ‘It’s going to be a Green Day.‘ Before that, the band was called ‘Sweet Children‘.
Cypress Hill
The band was named after Cypress Avenue, the street in South Gate, California where they all grew up.
Toto
The name “Toto” has nothing to do with “The Wizard of OZ“. Jeff Porcaro in an interview 1988: “The name Toto comes from the latin term TOTAS, which means like totally, everything. And that’s what we’re trying to do. Play music which contains all of the genres we love…“
The Corrs
They’d considered “Cosmic Egg“, but apparently their dad wasn’t having any of it, so Andrea, Caroline, Sharon and Jim Corr went along with their surname. Good thing they weren’t called Murphy or Fitzgerald or something, that just doesn’t cling as well….
The Cranberries
With original lead singer Niol Quinn, the band was called “The Cranberry Saw Us” because if you say it quickly, it sounds like “Cranberry sauce“. When Dolores O’Riordan replaced him, she had the name shortened to “The Cranberry” and the band’s demo tapes were labeled “The Cranberry’s“. The first one was returned addressed to “The Cranberries” and they decided to keep the name.
Goo Goo Dolls
Originally, the band was called “The Sex Maggots“. When a club owner in the band’s hometown of Buffalo, New York balked at putting the band on stage with that name, they were pressed to find a new one just minutes before they were set to perform. Flipping through a True Detective magazine, the band members spotted an ad for a goo goo doll, and they thought it would be funny and ironic for a trash-punk-rock band to have that name. And so it stuck.
Savage Garden
It comes from “The Vampire Lestat” by Anne Rice, and it is refering to the world as a ‘savage garden‘ because the world can be great and happy like a garden, but also evil and bitter hence the word ‘savage‘ its an oxymoron (2 contradicting words)
Sixpence None the Richer
Reported by Leigh Nash : “It’s from Mere Christianity ( by C.S. Lewis) and there’s a story where a child asks his father for a sixpence to buy his father a gift. The father gives the son the money and is happy with the gift that he gets. But he realizes that he’s not any richer, because he gave the child the money in the first place. So C.S. Lewis is comparing that to his belief that God gave us the gift that we have. And that’s to serve in the way that we should. We should be humble about it and know where the gifts came from.”