distributed his demos on, before forming the band. Slint — The band took their name from drummer Britt Walford's pet fish. Slipknot — Drummer Joey Jordison suggested renaming the band from "Meld" to "Slipknot" after their song that eventually appeared on the band's demo Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. Sloan — According to band member Jay Ferguson, the band's name refers to a friend's nickname. Their friend Jason Larsen was called "slow one" by his French-speaking boss, which with the French accent sounded more like "Sloan". The original agreement was that they could name the band after their friend's nickname as long as he was on the cover of their first album. As a result, it is Larsen who appears on the cover of Sloan's Peppermint EP. Smashing Pumpkins — Frontman Billy Corgan had come up with this name as a joke years before the band had ever formed. Whenever people asked if he was in a band, he would tell them it was called Smashing Pumpkins for a laugh. The name stuck after the band formed, despite dissension from fellow band members. Snow — Darren O'Brien's nickname given to him because he was one of the only white people in an ethnically diverse neighbourhood in Canada. Soilwork — Chosen by the band to symbolize "working from the ground up". Social Distortion — Named after drummer Casey Royer's distortion pedal which he gave to lead vocalist, Mike Ness because he was not good at playing back then. Soundgarden — The band took their name from a huge pipe sculpture in Seattle's Sand Point titled "A Sound Garden". The Soup Dragons — The early 70s animation "Clangers" had a character named the Soup Dragon, who would harvest Green Soup from a volcano. Space — Guitarist Jamie Murphy named the band after the original working title of The Real People's song "My Own Dream". The band had been previously known as The Substitutes, after The Who's song "Substitute". Spandau Ballet — The name was coined after a close friend of the band, the DJ Robert Elms, saw the words Spandau Ballet written on the wall of a lavatory in a Berlin nightclub; it is a reference to Spandau Prison and the "ballet" refers to the jerky movements that prisoners made when they were hanged. Squeeze — The group performed under several names, most frequently "Captain Trundlow's Sky Company" or "Skyco", before settling on