Band Names:
I love stuff like this list of where band names came from:
COUNTING CROWS – Comes from old English nursery rhyme which had to do with predicting the future from the numbers of birds seen. Originally the rhyme was about magpies, but as people came over to America, crows were used instead. From the song “A Murder of One” one of the versions of the rhyme goes “one for sorrow, two for joy, three for girls, four for boys, five for
silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told…” Adam Duritz liked the rhyme…
Sure to impress at parties (via BoingBoing).