What is your favorite band named after a town, city, state, country or continent?

New York Dolls by default, since they are the greatest band to ever walk the planet...

 

Yes, but they were named after a doll and not a place

 

Australian Crawl

 

George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers

 

Antartica

 

I voted for America, just because I might go hear them this Friday...

 

The Vienna Philharmonic:

 

Let's here it for Queens NY

 

How about a region?

New England:

 

Other:
The Arctic Monkeys
I like some of their stuff.

 

If you look at the original post, most if these don't fit. "Georgia" is a place. Not "Georgia satellites". The topis is t bands with a name partially of a geographic region.

I voted portishead. I have a general rule that bands named after places are generally terrible

 

Chicago, Nazareth, then Portishead for me.

 

La Dusseldorf

 

This one tops my list because of the logo.

 

It is a cool logo for sure. Too bad the band is so lousy.

 

Irrelevant to the topic.

 

I went for the United States of America. It's a shame that they never got to develop past their very promising debut, which offered a distinctly American take on psychedelia that was far removed from the West Coast sound and unique for its time. I also like Portishead and Camberwell Now (an obscure offshoot of This Heat from the 80's). What about the Planet Gong? Do imaginary places count?

For the most part, I don't care for bands that are named after cities/states/countries/continents. Maybe I don't identify with fixed geographical boundaries?

 

I voted "America".
Another band, though,: Ohio Knox

 

Earth

 

Fleetwood Mac....... tee hee

 

The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

 

Guadalcanal Diary.

I know it is an island but someone named the entire planet. already.

 

+1

 

But which planet?

 

Brighton MA

and they are based out of Chicago but their singer is born from Brighton MA. How many people have heard of this band?