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* In 1992, Big Valley Jamboree started off as a rock music festival in Big Valley, Alberta. The following year, it became an annual country music festival in Camrose, Alberta, which it has remained as ever since.

* Minor example/possible aversion: Music/{{Blondie}} was so named because there were two other blonde singers present for their early rehearsals, [[ThePeteBest both of whom left before they ever played live or recorded anything]]. This has resulted in a lot of IAmNotShazam moments for the remaining blonde singer [[FaceOfTheBand Debbie Harry]].

* Music/{{Five}} are a bizarre version. The two members that made the band famous (J and Abs) refused to take part in their reunion, thus rendering it a three-person band still named Five, yet without either FaceOfTheBand.

** The earliest metal bands like “Black Sabbath” used slow tempos and down-tuned instruments to create music that felt slow and heavy, hence the name “heavy metal.” However, subsequent sub-genres would progressively ramp up the speed, and sometimes forwent the down-tuning as well, to the point where it wasn’t so slow and “heavy” anymore. Simply using “metal” as an umbrella term to refer to all subgenres alleviates this somewhat, but even that word alone carries connotations of being slow and heavy that doesn’t necessarily apply to all metal genres.

* [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]: Several years and counting. It is also worth noting that the term was used in the UK to refer to guitar-led pop music that wasn't punk, in the US it was used to refer to groups that the UK would call synthpop.

** Similarly, synthwave started off as distinctly '80s sounding (the name is a combo of synthpop and new wave) and would use dreamlike chords and instrumental passages. However, the imagery and synths have been borrowed by numerous modern pop artists that just want to cash in on RuleOfCool.

* The band Music/DanielAmos initially used their Bandcamp webpage exclusively to sell "official bootleg" live recordings, so the URL was "danielamosboots.bandcamp.com". Then they also started selling their studio albums, and even albums by frontman Terry Scott Taylor's various side projects. In 2020 or so, they changed the URL to "terryscotttaylor.bandcamp.com" to more accurately reflect what they had there.

* {{Christian|Rock}} {{Ska}} band Music/FiveIronFrenzy's named their second album ''Our Newest Album Ever''. And it [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin technically was]]... until they released ''Quantity is Job #1'' the following year.

* The idea of "[[BSide B-side]]" songs originated in the era of 45 rpm records when the main song was on the "A-side" and another on the "B-side", but the concept has persisted even in one-sided cassettes and [=CDs=] and digital music.

* {{Dubstep}} got its name after "Dub", an offshoot of {{Reggae}} known for its emphasis on various studio effects (most notably reverb) as well as the bass, and "2-step", a subgenre of UK Garage that eschews the four-on-the-floor rhythm in favor of a more jittery, irregular beat. While [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GdFXT-2XnI early dubstep tracks]] fits this name well, the "-step" part gradually became obsolete as producers leaned towards half-time beats (half the tempo of regular 2-step) and put more emphasis on "dub-" (sparse, reverb- and bass-heavy sound) [[note]]listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJG9L-n_tE this example]] and compare to the previous one[[/note]]. Eventually, the "dub-" part also became obsolete, as the genre drew influence from HeavyMetal and PostHardcore and became much more aggressive and [[HellIsThatNoise noisy]] (what many people today think of as "dubstep" was after this transition), to the point where many old fans would much rather call the new sound a completely different name (such as brostep or filthstep).

* "Unchained Melody" was named after the movie it originally appeared in, ''Film/{{Unchained}}''. The movie is largely forgotten, but thanks to covers and use in other movies (most notably ''Film/Ghost1990''), the melody is still popular. It still works as a title because the lyrics are about a man wondering if his lover will still be there for him when he's released from ''prison'', and therefore becomes "unchained".

* The "Coronation Scot" (the theme for the BBC series "Paul Temple" composed by Vivian Ellis) was not actually based on the ride with the train that has the same name, but rather the train ride that goes from Paddington to Taunton.

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* The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has long expanded beyond what's traditionally considered rock music, with country, blues, R&B, pop, and rap artists having been inducted over the years. This has led to a BrokenBase among fans and musicians, as many feel that only "pure" rock artists should be honored and chafe when someone like Music/{{Madonna}} or Music/TupacShakur is inducted over a rock band. Others argue there's now a distinction between the rock genre and "rock-n-roll" as a catch-all term for all popular music (albeit a dated one), also pointing out that only allowing "traditional" rock would exclude the majority of modern black performers.

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* Japanese PowerMetal band Music/{{Versailles}} found out when they tried to perform in the US that there was [[NamesTheSame already an American band named Versailles]] and changed their name to Versailles Philharmonic Quintet--a name which became awkwardly inappropriate after bassist Jasmine You's sudden death in 2009. While promoting their second album, they [[http://i46.tinypic.com/25umkg1.jpg continued to use]] the Versailles Philharmonic Quintet name despite only having four members. The name became accurate again when support bassist Masashi joined the band proper in late 2010.

* In a similar vein, Music/LedZeppelin did it the other way around, with an album called ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'', and a song with that name on the album, ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti.'' Also, ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'' has song titled, "The Song Remains the Same", which was used as the title of their first live album. That song does not appear on the live album, nor the film, ''Film/TheSongRemainsTheSame.''

* The companies that produce and distribute pre-recorded music, or the brand names they do it under, are still referred to as "labels" from the identifying paper sticker on the center of a record, even in an era of digital downloads.
* In the 1980s, as vinyl gave way to cassettes and [=CDs=], the companies who made them and retailers who sold them would still refer to themselves as "X Records," before the Vinyl Revival of the 21st Century made them accurate again. [[note]]Record as a noun (rek-erd ) and record as a verb(ri-kord or re-kord) are spelled the same but pronounced differently. Done as text they look the same, so it still makes an odd kind of sense.[[/note]]

* Music/{{Queen}}'s ''Music/SheerHeartAttack'' is named for a song that ended up not making it onto the album; it wouldn't be on an album until ''Music/NewsOfTheWorld'' three years later.

* The "TVT" in now-defunct record label TVT Records technically stands for "[=TeeVee=] Toons": The label's first release was ''Television's Greatest Hits'', a compilation of TV {{theme song}}s. Though TVT periodically released compilations of TV themes and commercial jingles (as well as soundtrack albums to TV shows like ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), it became better known for music well outside that niche, signing successful acts in varying styles such as Music/NineInchNails and Music/LilJon.
* Music/FrankZappa and Herb Cohen co-founded two companion record labels, Bizarre Records and Straight Records, with the intention to release avant-garde music on Bizarre and music with more commercial potential on Straight. Bizarre Records had some distribution and management issues, while Straight did not: As a result, Bizarre ended up mostly releasing Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention albums, and Straight ended up releasing some music that was anything but "straight" (most notably Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the early, psychedelic]] Music/AliceCooper albums).

* In a similar vein, Music/LedZeppelin did it the other way around, with an album called ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'', and a song with that name on the album, ''Music/PhysicalGraffiti.'' Also, ''Music/HousesOfTheHoly'' has song titled, "The Song Remains the Same", which was used as the title of their first live album. That song does not appear on the album it shares its name with.

* In the 1980s, as vinyl gave way to cassettes and [=CDs=], the companies who made them and retailers who sold them would still refer to themselves as "X Records," before the Vinyl Revival of the 21st Century made them accurate again.

* "Unchained Melody" was named after the movie it originally appeared in, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unchained_(film) Unchained]]''. The movie is largely forgotten, but thanks to covers and use in other movies (most notably ''Film/{{Ghost}}''), the melody is still popular. It still works as a title because the lyrics are about a man wondering if his lover will still be there for him when he's released from ''prison'', and therefore becomes "unchained".

* Occasionally, a musician from a band that has broken up will join a new band, and that band will use the old band's name to take advantage of the name recognition and/or record contract. Happened notably with Music/{{Scorpions}} in the early 1970s and Music/AliceInChains in the late 1980s[[note]] Lead singer Layne Staley was originally part of a HairMetal band called "Alice N' Chains". When he later formed a new band, he adopted the former name with some minor changes[[/note]].

* Music/FrankZappa and Herb Cohen founded two companion record labels, Bizarre Records and Straight Records, with Zappa intending to release avant-garde music on Bizarre and music with more commercial potential on Straight. Bizarre Records had some distribution and management issues, while Straight did not: As a result, Bizarre ended up mostly releasing Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention albums, and Straight ended up releasing some music that was anything but "straight" (most notably Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the early, psychedelic]] Music/AliceCooper albums).

* The "TVT" in now-defunct record label TVT Records technically stands for "[=TeeVee=] Toons": The label's first release was ''Television's Greatest Hits'', a compilation of TV {{theme song}}s. Though TVT periodically released compilations of TV themes and commercial jingles (as well as soundtrack albums to TV shows like ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), it became better known for music well outside that niche, signing successful acts in varying styles such as Music/NineInchNails and Music/LilJon.

* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand, after the death of Duane Allman in a 1971 motorcycle accident, only had one Allman Brother. Since Gregg Allman died in 2017, any reunion under that name would be even more of an artifact.