Panic! At The Disco and the Art of Band-Naming

Sometimes simple and superb — hello, Blur! — just won’t do.

Brendan Urie of Panic! At The Disco (Photo: Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen)

If you’re going to produce hits with arch, complicated titles like “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)” or “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” your band should have a name as cool and quirky as Fall Out Boy (after a character on The Simpsons, no relation to the family of…