ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Band Names!

Episode Date: January 18, 2024

On Today's FOTD(OTW); Vaughan heads to Coachella and runs us through the history of band names!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn shreds his way through bands and the origins of their names. It's time for... Fact of the day We'll be looking at bands names And where they came from

Okay Nice I think He says After he's found one And he's sure He'll pull more out Let's see what happens

But today's Fact of the day Is about NSYNC. Okay. It's N apostrophe. It's star. Asterix. Oh, asterix, yeah. Or asterix.

Yeah. N-S-Y-N-C. Okay. Wait, what? The star comes first. Yeah. No. It goes N-star.

No. NSYNC. It goes, star N sync It goes I'm looking at their Wordmark logo It's replacing the I Trademark It's replacing the I Star

Or Asterix N S Y N C It's a stupid name It is a stupid name

But it's very 19 The first time you hear it You're like And then you just got used to it Yeah It's like you know when a friend Names their baby Something a little bit weird And you're like But the first time you hear it, you're like, ugh. And then you just got used to it. Yeah. It's like, you know when a friend names their baby something a little bit weird and you're like, hmm.

Yeah. The first time you hear it, you're like, hmm. Yeah, crappler. And then little three-year-old crappler. You can't imagine her being called anything else. Anything else, just darling. That's just what she is. Yeah.

So NSYNC formed when the guy who's actually started Backstreet Boys, Lou Perlman, whose photo on his Wikipedia page is him when he was arrested. So he's probably got an interesting story to tell. He had created Backstreet Boys and then he met Chris Kirkpatrick and was said to him, if you can get a

boy band together that can sing as well as you, I'll fund it. So Chris Kirkpatrick's like, I'll get on to it. So then he went through talent agencies, found Justin Timberlake, and Justin Timberlake had JC Chazes because they'd worked on the Mickey Mouse Club together. He had also at some stage met the other guy, Joey Fatoni. Joey Fatoni.

Joey. They'd worked at Universal Studios together. Right. And then they found Jason, who was the last guy, who I completely did not even know was an instant. To be totally honest. Do you know why the guy that started the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC has, as his profile photo, a mugshot?

Yeah. He was arrested. Was it fraud? Ponzi schemes. Leaving more than $300 million in debt. And he attempted to avoid capture and he was captured in Bali. Oh, God. You love Bali.

I do love Bali. I love Bali. He did. Hope to visit again. He did. He did? He did. He did it in 2016.

Yeah, he did it. He did. So he did the... That will explain why he can't update his photo to a better one. Yeah. Because he did. He did. So he did the... That will explain why he can't update his photo to a better one. Yeah. Because he did. He did. You would definitely be on, like, changing it to a more fluttering picture.

Probably in Bali because you know the lights. Yeah, Bali on the beach. Maybe sausage legs. The golden hour. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. On a swing, somebody looking over your shoulder like, I'm just living my life.

So what did he do? Backstreet Boys before or after some of the... I'm seeing now he was under suspicions of fraud, insurance fraud and pump and dumps. I don't know if you can see that. Sorry? On the radio. Okay, so Airship...

Okay, okay. This guy's story, there must be a movie. There must be a movie. There must be a movie. He purchased Airship Enterprises and then said he needed to raise money to buy a blimp. He went public, raised $3 million. He bought a blimp. Why is he buying a blimp?

Then he leased the blimp to a McDonald's show sponsor for advertising. Then he relocated to Orlando, Florida, where he signed MetLife and SeaWorld as clients for his blimps. Then he pumped up the company stock to $6 million and sold all the shares. There's your pump and dump. Oh, that's a pump and dump. That's a pump and dump. Pump them up, sell them.

I've known it differently. All my life. Made the money and then it was shut down. And then there's maybe blimp insurance claim as well. This guy does need a documentary sounds fascinating because he thought i funded and formed like two of the biggest bands pop bands in the world in the world yeah and it's the first cousin of art guard funkel this needs a movie this needs a movie have you watched cousin have you watched blackberry no i forgot to mention it before i've, I've heard it's good.

So good. About the phone. Yeah, about the rise and the fall of Blackberry. I've heard it's good. And it is phenomenal. Okay. Glenn Howden from Always Sunny is so good in that. Okay.

And that other guy that's in everything. The guy that was in How to Train Your Dragon, Jay Boucher-Marsha-Nell. Boucher-Nell sauce. Okay. Phenomenal. Boucher-Marsha-Nell. Back to this.

This guy's fascinating we need a Lou Pullman we need a Lou Pullman documentary Garfunkel's fame and wealth helped inspire him and I believe

maybe also gave him a bit of money he was obsessed oh my god he was obsessed with new kids on the block and how a boy band had made

so much money as a business model so that's what he based the Backstreet Boys off so how has NSYN it got the name and sync is called in sync because justin timberlake's mother said you are amazingly in sync with your singing voices but why is it spelled that way because the group's name is uh used is

made up using the last letter of each of the band members initials just in Timberlake. Just In is the In. No, the last of their first names. Ah. Chris provides the S. Joey the Y. Jason the N. And JC the C. Oh, my God. How fortuitous.

Fortuitous that it all came together. Wow. I feel like we've lost Fletch. He's obsessed with Lou Perlman. He also managed O-Town. Oh, yes. LFO. Do you remember them?

Yes. Yeah. And some other bands. New Kids on the Bop had a bunch of hits. Chinese food makes me sick. Yeah, yes. LFO. Do you remember them? Yes. Yeah. And some other bands. New Kids on the Bop had a bunch of hits. Chinese food makes me sick. Yeah, that one. Amazing. In the summer.

In the summer. Wow. Hmm. So today's fact of the day is NSYNC's name is spelt like that because it is the last letter of the first name of each of the members of NSYNC. It's band name week this week at Fact of the Day where we tell you how bands got their names. Today, Imagine Dragons. Imagine Dragons!

Or are you talking to the dragons and you're going, hey, imagine dragons. Yeah. Imagine Dragons. Yeah. Or imagine dragons. Yeah. I don't know. I would like to ask imagine dragons. Or is it I'm a jine dragon?

I'm a jine. I-E dragon. I'm a jine dragon. Well, that's actually very interesting you say that. Oh. Hayley Jane, Patricia Arquette Sproul. Arquette Sproul Because their name Imagine Dragons is an anagram

for a phrase that only is known to members of the group which lead singer Dan Reynolds has stated every member approved of So Imagine Dragons is an anagram of a phrase. Just the imagine bit

or dragons as well? Imagine and dragons. Oh my god. Anagram being all the letters mixed up. Yes. Now here's the problem. I went to Anagram creator.

Yep. Endless possibilities. Okay, what are some of the options? Gained organism. Okay. Orgasm. What about orgasm? Or orgasm is possible if organism's in there.

Isidore manging. Imagined organs. No, there's no S in imagined dragon. Imagine dragons. There's more than one dragon. I beg your pardon. Yeah. Imagined Organs No there's no Isn't Imagine Dragon Oh Imagine Dragons There's more than one dragon Yeah Yeah Madeira Noggins

But is there any kind of sense Made Organising Any kind of But that Here's the problem There's over 10,000 options We'll read them all We've got time

We Adina Adina We've got 36 You can almost have Adina Menzel But surely Can you have Adele Dazeem Does it order them

By actual words No Most of these It orders them Purely By Alphabetical order Have fans

Worked this out They've got some Fans Did you Google that Didn't think to Google that Why don't you Google that Right now

Imagine Dragon Names Yeah What anagram But it's only known to the band. Like they've never said in any interviews. Yeah. Ragged Insomnia.

Someone says without a doubt. The original name is Ragged Insomnia. It's a perfect anagram and it's displayed on a sign at 0.34 seconds in a music video of theirs. Ragged Insomnia. Somebody went in. On the subreddit, R slash Imagine Dragons.

I'm just going to go out and say that's a better name for the band. Ragged Insomnia is pretty cool. Imagine Dragons makes me think of like Brave, you know, the animated series. Yeah, fantasy sort of stuff. Ragged Insomnia doesn't suit their music. No, it's more of like a death metal band name. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're more of a...

So do you think they went, we like that name, let's use it. And then they put it into an anagram, Ragged Insomnia. Or maybe one of them at some stage when they're working on the music set up, we've all got Ragged Insomnia. Yeah. Yeah. And then they chucked it in and it came up with Imagine Dragons. Yeah. And then they chucked it in and it came up with Imagine Dragons. Yeah.

So Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Imagine Dragons, could tell us if we ever interview him. We could cheekily ask. Another side fact, sorry. Ragged Insomnia is the studio they record in. Oh, it's definitely this. Oh, it's Ragged Insomnia.

It's Ragged Insomnia. Answered. Which we would have saved a lot of time if we would have done some research. It's crazy. I've got this website I'm going to send you. It's called Google. It's amazing. I Googled to find an anagram maker and then put Imagine Dragons into an anagram maker

and they said, we've stopped at 10,000 possibilities. And I was like, that's interesting enough. It was a journey. It certainly was a journey there to get there. Yeah. And here we are. Yeah. But now we know.

Now we know. Now we know. But now we know. Now we know. Now we know. The more you know. On Fact of the Day Band Name Week is that Imagine Dragons is an anagram for ragged insomnia. Clay, Zed Ems, Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Today's, well, this week's Fact of the Day theme is artist names. Okay. Band names, artist names, what do they mean?

Where they come from. Fletch, could you queue up some Charlie XCX? Why are you telling me now? I could have done that during the song. I keep you on your toes. I keep you on your toes. Yeah, you're really good, aren't you? I'd like to see how quickly he can find some Charlie. No E. XCX.

Yeah, see, I've put an E there, haven't I? Yeah. That's why I said no E. Grandpa. Sorry, Gramps. When I was growing up, Charlie had an E in it. Or a Y. Never an I. There she is. August the 2nd,

1992, Charlotte Emma Aitchison was born to parents Shamira and John. It's a classic dad name. John, we got Flavour and then we got Vanilla, didn't we? Yeah, well, John's a Scottish entrepreneur. Okay. Which literally could mean anything.

Yeah. And Shamira is a nurse and flight attendant. Yes. Who was raised in Uganda to an Indian family. What an exciting mix. Pretty. So, Charlie, at the age of 14, persuaded her parents to grant her a loan for her first album called 14. Yep.

Leaf out of Adele's book. Wow. And she started posting those songs on MySpace. Then a promoter who ran numerous illegal warehouse raves and parties invited her to perform. Why not invite a 14-year-old to perform at an illegal warehouse rave? She did, but she needed a name for the poster, of course. Okay.

And Charlotte Aitchison sounded a bit posh for it. Yeah, it was very posh. She was putting out there. So she used her MSN messenger display name. Oh, shut up. That's not it. Oh my God, amazing.

It's her MSN messenger display name. Charlie XCX. Wait, how old is she? Kiss Charlie Kiss. She's three years younger than me, so she's 31. God, amazing. It's her MSN Messenger display name. Charlie XCX. Wait, how old is she? Kiss Charlie Kiss. She's three years younger than me, so she's 31. Okay, wow. Yep, 31 now. So, Charlie XX.

Charlie, short for Charlotte, and Kiss Charlotte Kiss. Crazy. It's her MSN display name. I don't remember mine. Do you remember? I don't remember mine. Mine were pretty gothy. Yeah. Definitely a't remember mine. Do you remember? I don't remember mine. Mine were pretty gothy. Yeah.

Definitely a bit gothy. So what would your MSN messenger name be for your? I don't know. It would be like Black Hearts and Bleeding Souls X with like little flower things. You know what I mean?

Like all the asterisks. Something decorative made out of like a tool and a squiggle and a comma and a colon. Yeah. All the little bits. Oh my God. But like nothing you want to remember.

No. Nothing you want to remember. Mine's just been Vaughan Anonymous for a long time. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. So you've technically kept your stage name, your MSN name as well. I would be Vaughan Anonymous if I was a 14 year old performing at an underage rave. Or Vanilla Rice

I had for a while there as well. Vaughan Nillarice. Yeah, you did. Vaughan Nillarice. Wow, so that's her MSN Messenger name. That's her MSN Messenger name, CharlieXX. That is a great story. That's wild. Yeah. She now says that she doesn't like the music that she was performing back then.

When she was 14. Yeah. Neither, bro. So, yeah, that's how CharlieXX got her name. That's her MSN Messenger display name. Today's fact of the day comes to us from Anthony. He messaged me. He spelt my name wrong.

And I was ready to just delete the whole block and delete. And then he said, I hope you dig this fact of the day. It's about how Eiffel 65 got their name. Remember Eiffel 65, the song block and delete. Yeah. And then he said, I hope you dig this back to the day. It's about how Eiffel 65 got their name. Remember Eiffel 65, the song. Hell yeah. I blew his house with a blue little window and a blue car van

and everything was blue. It blew himself. Blue, blue. So he's blue, blue, bracket, double D, close brackets. I'm blue, double D, close brackets.

I'm blue, double D, double D. Do you remember that? If I was green, I would die. No. That's what we had at our school. I'm blue. If I was green, I would die. What was that in reference to?

Well, double D, double D. Just sounds like if I was green, I would die. It wasn't a political statement. Because you went to a private school and now famously. No, I'm talking about primary school. Oh, okay. Right, right, right. So when did the song came out 1998 great year the artist eiffel 65 released this well i'm here to tell you how they got their name eiffel 65 they said eiffel tower it was 65 in the line to get up it was 65th in the line

for the eiffel tower for the eiffel Tower. For the Eiffel Tower. They were like, what a great band name. Terrible guess. Okay. Eiffel. We had a program on a computer that randomly generated names. Oh, for God's sake, I remember doing that. And that's how Eiffel came out. Oh, okay.

But the 65 issue was a really strange story because no one chose 65. We went to the producer when we got the call and an email saying congratulations. We like basically we're going to, you're signed to the label, Eiffel 65, double thumbs up. And they're like, Eiffel 65? So they just wanted it to be Eiffel. Yeah. And they went to the producer and they said, what the hell happened? Why are we Eiffel 65 all of a sudden?

He started looking for an answer. Yeah. And what happened was when he had the CD that he'd written Eiffel on, he got a phone call and he had to write down a phone number. Oh, yeah. And he went and he wrote the phone number,

but the 65, the last two digits of the phone number, he ran out of paper and just like, just read it without looking and wrote 65 on the CD, on the CD sleeve. It is so good.

Yeah. The last two digits ended up on the label copy of the CD, and that's the piece of paper the graphic artist gets to make the sleeve and all the information on the record. Because objectively, Eiffel 65 is a terrible band name. Terrible name? I just assumed it was.

But then so is Eiffel. Yeah. Eiffel in itself is just great. Euro pop, semi-unexplainable most of the time. Yeah, right. It's a wild continent for music in Europe. Oh, they did Move Your Body. Come on, everybody.

I was like, that's a one-hit wonder, but they had two hits. But they had Move Your Body as well. Well, that's how they got Eiffel 65, and that's from Anthony. Thanks, Anthony. Jesus, that's so embarrassing. Just looking at a photo of them, it's got such, like, aqua vibes.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Europop in the 90s was like... Are they gay? Aren't they, you know, questionable? You don't know. Big hints of gay, eh? Yeah. But they're not.

They're just European. What was their earring in? The gay? Oh, no, not the gay ear. Not the gay ear. Oh, I'm sorry. Straight then. That's the final ruling. Do you think, like, younger Oh, no, not the gay ear. Not the gay ear. Oh, I'm sorry. Straight then. That's the final ruling.

Do you think, like, younger people at Tunesy listens and are like, what's the gay ear? I still don't know what the gay ear is. If I was, it's your right ear. If I'm looking at you, it was the left. So if your right ear was pierced, that's the gay ear. Okay. Wait, if your, so stage left. So your, stage left.

Stage left ear was gay. Right. So your, your right ear. If I'm putting my hand up to my, my right ear. Yeah, so that ear. That's stage left. Stage left ear was gay. Right. So you're... If I'm putting my hand up to my... My right ear? Yeah, so that ear. That's stage right. Yeah.

That's what I mean. I'm on the stage, so it's my stage right. Stage right. How about this theatre kid over here? No, I thought you got it wrong and I was just going to move on without embarrassing you. No, no. Stage left is when you're on the stage, which is your left and right. So it's stage right.

It's stage right right was the... Yeah. It's the gay ear. Okay. Just explaining to everyone. Bonus fact. The gay ear is your right ear. W stage right right was the... Yeah. It's the gay ear. Just explain it to everyone. Bonus fact, the gay ear is your right ear. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. So today's fact of the day on Band Name Week

is that Eiffel 65 only got the 65 when the record producer was writing down a phone number and the last two numbers, 65 as it turned out, ended up on the CD sleeve. Today's fact of the day, you've got a choice. leave. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM's. Today's fact of the day, you've got a choice. Okay. Would you like to hear about the band name origins of Fall Out Boy?

Yep. Florence and the Machine or Linkin Park? Florence, I'm a no. Why? Because Florence is already her name. Her name is Florence. But where did she get the machine from? Is that just her band? No, quickly, she used to tour with a girl called Izzy

and it was Izzy Machine and Florence Robot. It was Florence Robot and Izzy Machine and then when the band joined, they just became Florence and the Machine. Great, we don't need that one then. We don't need that one. Because I'm leaning towards Linkin Park. I'm pushing you towards Fall Out Boy.

Okay. Fall Out Boy. Lead the way, sir. Can you give us a quick Linkin Park name? Quick Link Lincoln Park. They had the name Platinum Lotus Foundation, but it had been used by somebody else. That's terrible.

And then they had Lincoln Park as a play on Santa Monica's public park, Lincoln Park, named after Abraham Lincoln. They went to buy the domain name, but couldn't afford it because there was too many letters, so they shortened it to Lincoln, which is barely shorter, and bought LincolnParkpark.com and then that felt different too okay wow okay yeah yeah well fallout boy today's fact of the day which i have never really questioned

why fallout boy were called fallout boy i was just like yeah that's fallout boy the band unnamed from chicago was playing a local concert and they got into the habit at the end of the gig of asking the audience for suggestions for names. Oh, that's cool. It was on the second night of a three-night gig that someone screamed, Fallout Boy, a reference to the Simpsons episode where Milhouse is cast as radioactive man sidekick,

Fallout Boy. Oh my God, I have no memory of that at all. The band chose the name and stuck with it. And they said, yeah, it was somebody yelled it out, said Fallout Boy and then they later on found out that that was the Simpsons reference from the person that screamed it out. Right. And that was how they got their name and they've just used it ever since. And Fallout Boy, full circle, have eventually appeared on the Simpsons. I was going to say, haven't they been on? And they played a Fallout Boy version of the Simpsons theme song

at the end of the episode, Lisa the Drama Queen. Oh. I feel like if a band I was watching said, give a band name, I couldn't come up with anything cool. Yeah. I would only, like, only, the easiest names are, like, death metal bands because they're always, like, the Traveller's Disciples or something.

Yeah, yeah. But coming up with something kind of quirky and cute for a sort of a poppy punk band. I'd be like, lol dolls. I don't know. Lol dolls. Yeah, it'd be hard. It's hard enough naming a kid.

Well, we just got a three for one there that you gave us Linkin Park, Florence the Machine, and Fallout Boy. So today's fact of the day is Fallout Boy, the band, is named after fall out boy the character from the Simpsons episode where Milhouse is cast as fall out boy in the radioactive man movie

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