Sometimes I wonder how bands come up with names. There's a lot of creative names out there. Sometimes it would interesting to know how the name came to be. I'm guessing in most cases it just sort of happened.

Boston:

"What should we call ourselves?"

"Well, we're all from the Boston area, and we play in the Boston area, and people will recognize us as being from this area if we name ourselves the same as the area, like Kansas. Let's call ourselves Mass!"

"Why not just Boston?"

"I like Mass better, but whatever."

Green Day:

"Dude that was a killer party last night!"

"Yeah I know, when Joe fell in the pool and his bleached hair turned green..."

"Yeah, and he was so mad, but so drunk that he started puking all over the place."

"Yeah, it was really sick. Like pea soup. Man, he was having a green day."

"Hmmm. Green day. That's cool."

Tortoise Corpse (yeah, really):

"Dude, my turtle just died last night."

"Awesome! That's our name: Tortoise Corpse!"

700 Chilled Brains:

"... well the bass drum says CB700"

"The B is for brains. Like in Return of the Living Dead."

"That was so mean. What's the C, then? Cool?"

"I think chilled sounds better."

"And we have 700, so 700 Chilled Brains?"

"Yeah."

"That's mean."