Abbreviated Pop Group Names

tourdeforce | 02:34 Wed 17th Sep 2008 | Artists

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Hello folks
I was wondering if you good people could come up with a list of groups with abbreviated names and what they stood for. e.g. REM - Rapid Eye Movement.
Thank you very much

panic x2

Looking for the name of a band.

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spanner7853

The group REM actually stands for Rapidly Earining Money so I read the other week, and not Rapid Eye Movement as Everybody assumes.

ELO- Electric Light Ochestra
that's the only one I can think of.

Tom Braider

There's T.Rex, of course - shortened from Tyrannosaurus Rex.

B00

OMD= Orchestral Moneovers (<dodgy spelling) in the Dark.

Tom Braider

ELP - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
PFM - Premiata Forneria Marconi (a bit obscure, I know)

B00

<smacks forehead>

Forgot the obvious!

ABBA :-)

squarebear

Bee Gees (Barry Gibb)

B00

Actually...thinking about it...is ABBA one?

I know it's an abbreviation of their names, but they weren't also known collectively by their names were they?

jno

Brothers Gibb rather than just Barry, I think.

B00 stands for the Bling Orchestral Organisation.

squarebear

M People? (M stood for Manchester)

B00

jno knows me well, im blinged up to the eyeballs. And again...are Bee Gees and M People proper abbreviations? They also weren't otherwise known by that name.

Oh im so confused now :-(

Prangy

B.G. - Baby Gangsta

Notorious B.I.G. - Iv included the verse as it was easier

B is for the bit.ch.es, who can't understand
How one fly ***** became a man
I is for the way it goes in and out
One by one I knocks em out
G is for the way the game goes in the gutter
Other MC's man they ain't sayin nuthin
Rockin on, to the break of dawn
Make the bi.t.ch give the p.us.sy get the mouth I'm gone

squarebear

I'm sure it's from Barry Gibb.