A-Z Band Names Game

[Chelsea]

[HEADING=2]Mike & The Mechanics[/HEADING]

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band[/HEADING]

 

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms

since the original founding in California in 1966.

 

The group's membership has had at least a dozen iterations over the years, including five years,

between "Dirt, Silver & Gold" (1976) and "Let's Go" (1983), when the band performed and recorded

as The Dirt Band.

 

The band's best-known song was a 1970 cover of Jerry Jeff Walker's folk song "Mr. Bojangles". Their

greatest critical acclaim has been for a 1972 album of country and folk standards, recorded in

Nashville in collaboration with more traditional country artists, entitled "Will the Circle Be Unbroken".

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark[/HEADING]

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (often abbreviated to OMD) is a synthpop group whose founding

members are originally from the Wirral, United Kingdom.

 

The group was founded in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, after they had been involved

in several bands, including The Id. Later drummer Malcolm Holmes and saxophonist Martin Cooper

joined. McCluskey and Humphreys formed the core of the outfit until 1989, when the group split in two.

 

McCluskey retained the name and continued to record and tour as OMD with a new line-up until 1996, while Humphreys, Holmes, and Cooper formed "The Listening Pool".

[BikerBoy]

Placebo

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]Quietdrive[/HEADING]

Quietdrive is an alternative rock band based in Hopkins, Minnesota that formed in 2002.

 

Perhaps best known for their songs "Africa" and "Time After Time", the band consists of Kevin

Truckenmiller (vocals, guitar, violin bass), Will Caesar (guitar, vocals), Brice Niehaus (bass), and

Brandon Lanier (drums).

 

Quietdrive released their debut album, titled 'When All That's Left Is You', on May 30, 2006

through Epic Records.

 

The band takes influences from contemporary alternative music as well as melodic hard rock

groups.

[Chelsea]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]Simon & Garfunkel[/HEADING]

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are American musicians, songwriters, and singers known collectively

as Simon & Garfunkel.

 

They formed the group Tom and Jerry in 1957 in Queens, New York, and had their first taste of

success with the minor hit "Hey Schoolgirl". As Simon and Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965

backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence".

 

Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate, propelling them further into the public

consciousness. They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship.

 

Their last album, Bridge over Troubled Water, was marked with several delays caused by artistic

differences.

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]Technotronic[/HEADING]

Technotronic is a studio-based house music project from Belgium, formed by Jo Bogaert (a.k.a. Thomas

De Quincey) in 1988.

Together with Ya Kid K (born Manuela Kamosi, 1973, Zaire), he produced the hit single Pump Up The Jam

which was originally intended as an instrumental.

An image for the act was put together utilizing Zairian-born fashion model Felly (allegedly without her

permission) as its album and single cover art and "singer" in the music video. Ya Kid K went on to provide

vocals on several other Technotronic tracks.

[BikerBoy]

Unisonic

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]Village People[/HEADING]

Village People is a Disco band that formed New York City, New York, United States in 1977.

 

The group is well known for their outrageous on-stage costumes (the members dressing up as a police

officer, an American Indian chief, a construction worker, a soldier, a leatherman (biker) and a cowboy)

as for their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics.

 

The band was assembled in 1977 and managed by two French musicians, Jacques Morali and Henri

Belolo, specifically to showcase and perform their disco music creations. Much like Frank Farian's Boney

M. or Spice Girls, the group was manufactured. Despite the French song writers, the songs were all in

English.

[Chelsea]

Weird Al Yankovic

[BikerBoy]

Xixa

[BJtheDJ]

Yellow Magic Orchestra

 

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[Chelsea]

ZZ Top

[BJtheDJ]

[HEADING=2]American Head Charge[/HEADING]

American Head Charge, the Minneapolis-based metal band, which had its genesis when Cameron Heacock

and Chad Hanks crossed paths in a Minnesota rehab facility in 1997, has up to now been known primarily

for the radically dysfunctional behavior of the band members. "We were definitely out of control on our

first tour, Ozzfest 2001," Mr. Banks admits. "It wasn't enough to just play our music; we also had to fire

shotguns on stage and throw pigheads at the crowd. Chalk it up to a desperate bid for attention."

 

The Head Charge rap sheet - which also includes getting into bloody brawls with their fans, smashing

equipment they couldn't afford to replace, reacquainting themselves with hard drugs and occasionally

being locked up by the enraged fuzz - has served to obscure the fact that these free spirits play the shit

out of their instruments and make brutally powerful music of uncommon distinction.