The Silliest Origins Of Cool Band Names

Publish date: 2024-05-08

Contrary to popular belief, most musicians don't find inspiration in the laughter of children, or the wind in the trees, or the clouds in the sky. We know this because they don't ever sing about the laughter of children, or any of that other stuff. Musicians are people, and like most people, they spend a disappointing amount of their time engaged in pointless conversations and getting dumped. Luckily for Win Butler, the lead singer of Arcade Fire, the band name was not the product of a bad breakup—it was, however, the product of a dumb conversation about an arcade that was on fire ... maybe. In his own words, "it's based on a story that someone told me. It's not an actual event, but one that I took to be real. I would say that it's probably something that the kid made up, but at the time I believed him." Totally inspiring.

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