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So you've formed a band but what are you going to call it? The list of bad band names is endless, but get a good one and you're in business. So how do you do that? Have a flick through your record collection, that's how, as song titles from your some of our musical heroes can be great fodder when it comes to the name game. Here are ten examples...

 Jet

The Auzzie rockers who rose to fame with Are you Gonna Be My Girl in 2003 took their name from the Paul McCartney and Wings' hit Jet, which came out in 1974.

The Kooks

The jangly Sussex pop rockers got their name from the David Bowie song Kooks, which appeared on Bowie's 1971 album Hunky Dory.

Radiohead

Originally called On a Friday, after the day they used to rehearse, they wisely adopted Radio Head, a song from Talking Heads' True Stories album.

The Rolling Stones

"He stole my music but he gave me my name," said Muddy Waters of Mick Jagger. What he didn't mention was that he also gave the Stones theirs, given that they took it from his 1948 song Rollin Stone.

Judas Priest

The metal gods are happy to admit they took their name from the Bob Dylan song, 'The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest.' In hindsight it was probably a good shout to lose the Frankie Lee part..

Deep Purple

An odd one this. These founding fathers of hard rock took inspiration for their name from Bing Crosby's song Deep Purple, of all places. Legend has it that it was a favourite of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's grandmother.

Starsailor

Following the Britpop slipstream, James Walsh and his band took their name from the title track of the late Tim Buckley's album 'Starsailor.' For geeks out there, the Buckley song is two words - Star Sailor - but the LP title is one word.

We Are Scientists

The defunct Chicago emo outfit Cap'n Jazz had a song called We Are Scientists which is where the band are believed to have got their name from, even though We Are Scientists themselves claim they took it from a U-Haul employee who wondered what line of work the guys were in.

Death Cab for Cutie

This one was taken from a song by the Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band that appeared in the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour film. Where Bonzo Dog Do-Dah Band's name came from is another question altogether...

Bright Eyes

Yes, Art Garfunkel's soppy lament from Watership Down, the film about rabbits. But Conor Oberst obviously saw something in it and has actually made it sound pretty cool.