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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
The Pixies, like a lot of bands, named themselves by flipping thorugh a book and stopping at random, with their finger on the page. It read "Pixies"
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actually, joey santiago picked random names because he liked the sounds of them, since he didn't fully speak english then. the second choice for their name was the follies.
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whitehouse: named after british morality campaigner mary whitehouse and also the name of a popular porno magazine.
extreme noise terror: from a flyer advertising a discharge gig, the words were cut out from magazines.
sunn o))): after their amplifier of choice.
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
what was the source for VU's name?
is it just a reference to the gay subculture then?
a movie?
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it's the name of an s&m book that tony conrad found in the street and lent to lou reed. they kept the name because it had "underground" in it, and wanted to be associated with the film current of that same name.