If you were named after a band, who would you be?

[beetsnotbeats]

Couple Fights to Name Baby 'Metallica'
 
 The Associated Press
 Tuesday, April 3, 2007; 4:15 PM
 
 
 STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.
 
 Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.
 
 "It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."
 
 Although little Metallica has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."
 
 Tomaro said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."
 
 The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Goteborg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with Metallica as a middle name.
 
 The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.
 
 "We've had to cancel trips and can't get anywhere because we can't get her a passport without an approved name," Tomaro said.

Fuck Like A Beast

[tigersscareme]

superchunk

[xneverwherex]

Mansun

[BookerT]

i had a friend who would always use "olivia t. control" as a pseudonym for, uh, whenever you need to use a stupid pseudonym.

[Relaxer]

Suddenly Tammy!

[edbert]

It'd have to be what your parents were listening to when you were born. So I'd be named Mantovani because it was 1960 and they only tuned into the Easy Listening station.
 Some of those 1960s Easy Listening songs still haunt me even though I haven't heard them in decades.  There was this version of Greensleeves that you couldn't get away from to save your life... it was just everywhere you went, for years.  It was all violins but also had a 'funky' little harpsichord riff between verses.  Forget the Beatles and Stones... that track was the real soundtrack to the 1960s

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by Marshmallow Peep:
  It'd have to be what your parents were listening to when you were born. So I'd be named Mantovani because it was 1960 and they only tuned into the Easy Listening station.
 

Considering how old some of us boardies are, there'd be a lot of Mantovanis, Rays (Conniff) and Percys (Faith) around here. Were I born a decade later, I'd probably be named Tomita   :eek:

[RatBastard]

Probably Stuart, Andy, or Gordon since I was ...  Born, Born in the 50s!

[Random Citizen]

Goodness, I probably would have been named Eartha (Earth, Wind and Fire), Stevie (Wonder) or something. I don't think my parents were listening to Cat Stevens, alas.

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by RatBastard:
  Probably Stuart, Andy, or Gordon since I was ...  Born, Born in the 50s!

Holy mother of God....I'm not the oldest bordie!!!! (1960)    :eek:
 
 I wanted to call my daughter "Hermoine" after the song "Letter to Hermoine" on Space Oddity, and yes....I actually love the name.
 
 "Letter To Hermoine"
 
 The hand that wrote this letter
 Sweeps the pillow clean
 So rest your head and
 read a treasured dream
 I care for no one else but you
 I tear my soul to cease the pain
 I think maybe you feel the same
 What can we do?
 I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do
 So I've been writing just for you
 
 They say your life is going very well
 They say you sparkle like a different girl
 But something tells me that you hide
 When all the world is warm and tired
 You cry a little in the dark
 Well so do I
 I'm not quite sure
 what you're supposed to say
 But I can see it's not okay
 
 He makes you laugh
 He brings you out in style
 He treats you well
 And makes you up real fine
 And when he's strong
 He's strong for you
 And when you kiss
 It's something new
 But did you ever call my name
 Just by mistake?
 I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do
 So I'll just write some love to you

[K8teebug]

I'm suprised my mom didn't name me after Joan Baez.
 
 But she did name me after Katherine Hepburn.

[eros]

We (sort of) named our son after a band.  Travis.
 
 It was actually just a name we both liked, but it didn't hurt that we were fans of the band too.
 
 I've got a friend who named his daughter Penelope Lane.

[kosmo vinyl]

man if only my parents had named me Zoot... my actually namesake is one sir christopher wren.

[PigIron]

If I was named after a band, it would be Reverend Horton Heat.