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Nine Inch Nails — Trent Reznor was struggling to come up with a good band name. After going through countless other suggestions, this one stood the "two-week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily." Reznor denied any "literal meaning" to the name.[4]
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According to guitarist Robbie Robertson, Bob Dylan's backup band resisted all conformity, even naming their ensemble. After landing their own recording contract, record company executives pressed them for a group name, but had to settle for simply "The Band".
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The Federal Communications Commission finally reached a decision on Google’s proposed openness conditions before bidding on the upcoming auction of the publicly owned spectrum in the 700 MHz band. The FCC specifically ruled in favor of:
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That's a real shame, because Lee's band had really hit its stride the year before. The band stumbled around for a few years after forming, experimenting with ways to find its own voice amid a wash of top-notch influences, including the Velvet Underground, the Flying Burrito Brothers and various and sundry psychedelic and surf sounds. Things gelled on the 1994 EP
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There is a vast goldmine of awful band names that has yet to be tapped on this thread, and that is band names with "ska" in them. Some of the worst include:
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Mötley Crüe — Allegedly the band were set to call themselves 'Christmas'. However a passer by commented words to the effect of "what a motley looking crew". With the addition of the heavy metal umlaut above ö and the more phonetic spelling, the name was born.
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