{"id":2016680,"date":"2025-09-12T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2016680"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:24:49","slug":"the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1054-60-more-band-name-origins-in-60-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-ongoing-history-of-new-music-episode-1054-60-more-band-name-origins-in-60-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1054: 60 More Band Name Origins in 60 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-socialshare=\"true\">\n<div id=\"article-fontSizer\" class=\"c-fontSizer\">\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--decrease c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Decrease Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Decrease text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Descrease article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=cv3j60zbx#font-decrease\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<button class=\"c-fontSizer__button c-fontSizer__button--increase c-button c-button--details c-button--mini\" data-trackable=\"true\" data-trackaction=\"Font Sizer Increase Font\" data-tooltip-title=\"Increase text size\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"sr-only\">Increase article font size<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  c-fontSizer__icon\" focusable=\"false\">\n\t\t<use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/assets\/dist\/icons\/out\/symbol\/svg\/sprite.symbol.svg?v=cv3j60zbx#font-increase\"\/>\n\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>et me tell the story again. In 2007, a couple of listeners asked if I would do another <em>Ongoing History<\/em> episode on the origins of band names. I\u2019d done a few in the past, but it was certainly time to update things.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This time, though, I was struck with a thought: what do you call the study of the names musical groups choose? Rock music had been around for more than 50 years at that point, so someone must have come up with a term, right?<\/p>\n<p>The study of word origins is called \u201cetymology.\u201d If you\u2019re looking at place names, then you\u2019re into \u201ctoponymy\u201d or \u201ctoponomastics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We get close with the word for the study of personal names\u2014that\u2019s called \u201conomastics\u201d or \u201canthroponymy.\u201d If we look at just surnames, that\u2019s called \u201cpatronymics.\u201d But much to my surprise, there was no term for \u201chow a band got their name.\u201d This struck me as a very, very wrong and a giant oversight in the field of linguistics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I called up some academics specializing in linguistics, along with branding experts across North America. They put their heads together and returned with a suggestion: \u201cbandomynology.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Since then, I\u2019ve been on a mission to use this word as much as possible. I want it to catch on so that someday, it will end up in the <em>Oxford English Dictionary.<\/em> So far, though, the OED people won\u2019t take my calls.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to make this happen is to keep pushing \u201cbandomynology\u201d out into the public. Remember it, use it, tell your friends about it. And to help things along, here\u2019s another semi-academic program on \u201cbandomynology\u201d to follow up on the last show on the topic, which was in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>60 More Band Name Origins in 60 Minutes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Songs heard on this show:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wolfmother, The Joker and the Thief<\/li>\n<li>Blink-182, What\u2019s My Age Again?<\/li>\n<li>That Song, Big Wreck<\/li>\n<li>Siouxsie and the Banshees, Christine<\/li>\n<li>Silversun Pickups, Lazy Eye<\/li>\n<li>Rainbow Butt Monkeys, Circles<\/li>\n<li>OMD, If You Leave<\/li>\n<li>Butthole Surfers, Pepper<\/li>\n<li>Wet Leg, Catch My Fists<\/li>\n<li>Slightly Stoopid, Dabbington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><em>The Ongoing History of New Musi<\/em>c can be heard on these stations. 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