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Why is it that every American band named after a city, state or continent is so terrible? I mean, Kansas? Boston? Europe? Chicago? The list reads like the tracklisting for the Spanish Inquisition's hot new compilation, Music for Torturing.
EDIT: It has come to my attention that Europe is, in fact, Swedish. I feel terribly embarrassed about all this, but I will retain the original post's content for clarity's sake. 
You forgot the worst one...America
Just try and not have "Horse with No Name" stuck in your head all day now...
hey, the NYC Interpol was named after whatever Interpol is and bristish (mostly) The Police stole their logo from the NYC police. and Joy Division is British but they used thge city Warsaw... and Oasis is named after something that doesnt really exist in the British Isles... and Asia was a pretend British band named after the whole continent Asia... and, well, i don't really have any point in the end so i'll go to bed now...
Church of the KLF wrote: Why is it that every American band named after a city, state or continent is so terrible? I mean, Kansas? Boston? Europe? Chicago? The list reads like the tracklisting for the Spanish Inquisition's hot new compilation, Music for Torturing.
It is a pretty MOR bunch you've listed there, and as Taboo No.7 said shortly afterwards, America were fairly lame too.
A couple of technicalities though; Europe were actually Swedish(as Rian would grudgingly admit) and I thought that America were actually founded by a couple of German immigrant students who used a whole bunch of American studio musos to put flesh on the bones of thier songs. Another American band that uses a US city suburb's name is Manhattan Transfer(MOR jazzpop stuff including Chanson L'Amour) and there's always that Scottish band called Texas....Oh, and on the NO/JD front
remember our fave band almost became The Witchdoctors Of Zimbabwe
Shergold Six wrote:
Church of the KLF wrote: Why is it that every American band named after a city, state or continent is so terrible? I mean, Kansas? Boston? Europe? Chicago? The list reads like the tracklisting for the Spanish Inquisition's hot new compilation, Music for Torturing.
It is a pretty MOR bunch you've listed there, and as Taboo No.7 said shortly afterwards, America were fairly lame too. A couple of technicalities though; Europe were actually Swedish(as Rian would grudgingly admit) and I thought that America were actually founded by a couple of German immigrant students who used a whole bunch of American studio musos to put flesh on the bones of thier songs. Another American band that uses a US city suburb's name is Manhattan Transfer(MOR jazzpop stuff including Chanson L'Amour) and there's always that Scottish band called Texas....Oh, and on the NO/JD front remember our fave band almost became The Witchdoctors Of Zimbabwe
Europe was SWEDISH?!?!?! I feel so embarrassed. Thank you so much for correcting me.
Shergold Six wrote:
Church of the KLF wrote: Why is it that every American band named after a city, state or continent is so terrible? I mean, Kansas? Boston? Europe? Chicago? The list reads like the tracklisting for the Spanish Inquisition's hot new compilation, Music for Torturing.
It is a pretty MOR bunch you've listed there, and as Taboo No.7 said shortly afterwards, America were fairly lame too. A couple of technicalities though; Europe were actually Swedish(as Rian would grudgingly admit) and I thought that America were actually founded by a couple of German immigrant students who used a whole bunch of American studio musos to put flesh on the bones of thier songs. Another American band that uses a US city suburb's name is Manhattan Transfer(MOR jazzpop stuff including Chanson L'Amour) and there's always that Scottish band called Texas....Oh, and on the NO/JD front remember our fave band almost became The Witchdoctors Of Zimbabwe
Yeah, Europe are a Swedish band. They just reunited.
But don't blame me. I hate them.
Rian wrote:
Yeah, Europe are a Swedish band. They just reunited.
Tell me that's not true. :barf:
It's the final COUNTDOOOOOOOWN!! Dooweedwooooodooo!
One great thing VH1 did was vote that the all-time Worst Synth Line Ever.
Usually the accepted exception to the rule for the cities/states/continents bandname curse is Japan, but they were British and started out as, yes, a hair metal group...
Bere wrote:
Rian wrote:
Yeah, Europe are a Swedish band. They just reunited.
Tell me that's not true. :barf:
It's true, sorry. But still, don't blame me.
If you have bad luck, they might come to YOUR town to play :D
Hannett of the Apes wrote: It's the final COUNTDOOOOOOOWN!! Dooweedwooooodooo!
One great thing VH1 did was vote that the all-time Worst Synth Line Ever.
Usually the accepted exception to the rule for the cities/states/continents bandname curse is Japan, but they were British and started out as, yes, a hair metal group...
Worst synth line ever? Hilarious! It's definitely terrible, but I kind of love it. That song never fails to get me pumped up for the task ahead. 
It's funny that I genuinely LOVE Boston's "More Than A Feeling". Call me crazy, but I honestly think it's a great song. But everything else they ever did was god-awful or worse.
AgentWood wrote: LA guns, georgia satellites, holopaw (a town south of orlando).
oh, and berlin.
Oh, I forgot about Berlin. They have that one song - what's it called? I can't remember it's name, but I can tell you that it never fails to take my breath away.
Rian wrote:
AgentWood wrote:
oh, and berlin.
Every breath you take....
No no that's Police... Berlin was "Take my breath away"
Wasn't there a band called Asia?
Rian wrote:
Bere wrote:
Rian wrote:
Yeah, Europe are a Swedish band. They just reunited.
Tell me that's not true. :barf:
It's true, sorry. But still, don't blame me.
If you have bad luck, they might come to YOUR town to play :D
Yes Asia had a hit with with "Heat of The Moment" in like 1982 before falling prey to alcohol
and Europe is back? wooohoooo I wonder what the bigger drug was in the 80s-cocaine or Aqua Net?
Church of the KLF wrote:
Hannett of the Apes wrote: It's the final COUNTDOOOOOOOWN!! Dooweedwooooodooo!
One great thing VH1 did was vote that the all-time Worst Synth Line Ever.
Usually the accepted exception to the rule for the cities/states/continents bandname curse is Japan, but they were British and started out as, yes, a hair metal group...
Worst synth line ever? Hilarious! It's definitely terrible, but I kind of love it. That song never fails to get me pumped up for the task ahead.
It's the theme for Gob Bluth's magic show...how can it be the worst anything?
And curses to whoever mentioned Asia before me...a whole continent, and you think they'd be able to manage more than a stale "rock-synth-crap" anthem for everything that was wrong about the Eighties.
As for "America" (and I can't believe I'm about to admit I know this), the guys in the band were army brats raised in Germany, but definitely American. And definitely awful 
