More band name origins

[Frau_Blucher]

Speaking of the Plimsouls, here's more from a couple of quizzes at "The Puzzlers" website:

REM = Rapid Eye Movement stage of sleep
Devo = de-evolution, short for the regression of mankind
Kraftwerk = German for power station
B-52s = southern slang for bouffant wigs
Duran Druan = villain in the movie Barbarella
Gin Blossums = alcoholics' skin artifacts
9 Inch Nail = dimension of impalers used to crucify Jesus
UB40 = British unemployment form
Depeche Mode = French for fast fashion
Sting = from a yellow & black jersey he like wearing
Icehouse = Australian slang for insane asylum
Scritti Politi = Italian for political writing
Talking Heads = American slang for intelligensia
Toad the Wet Sprocket = name taken from a Monty Python skit
Tears for Fears = from Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain
Love and Rockets = the Hernandez brothers' underground comic title
Wang Chung = screen door sound as it opens and closes
Black Flag = brand of insecticide
The LAs = Cockney slang for lads
The Cocteau Twins = characters from a Simple Minds song (of the same name)
Everything But the Girl = a furniture store in England's Hull University
Bananarama = coinage of Sid & Marty Croft's The Banana Splits and Roxy Music's Pyjamarama
The Pogues = from Pogue Mahone, a Gaelic phrase meaning Kiss My Ass
Bauhaus = the German art movement of the early 1900s (I thought it might have been more than that)

Anyone know other good ones?

[skinnytie]

Thompson Twins - twin detectives that were recurring characters in the "Tin Tin" comic strip (and I wonder if that's where Stephen Duffy came up with the name "Tin Tin" in the first place?).