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Lewian 
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 Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:11 |
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For a very short time my first band was called Athabasca, which is a place in Canada none of us had ever been to. We just took it randomly from a map, but fairly quickly for I don't remember what reason we didn't like that name anymore.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:38 |
Because of the tar sands, maybe?  You remind me of the Québécois band Ungava... they were from Montréal. Same province, though. Edited by Sean Trane - July 13 2022 at 04:38 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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progaardvark
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:53 |
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Cairo (UK)
Cairo (USA) - there are many towns in the US named Cairo, but the pyramid on their debut implied they mean the one in Egypt Callisto (Finland) - Callisto is one of Jupiter's moons or a nymph in Greek mythology Japanski Premijeri (Croatia) Vienna (Japan) Easter Island (USA)
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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
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bardberic
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:59 |
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To be fair, there are several Berlins in the United States. Maybe they're from one of them, did you check? Russian Circles are from California, if they count. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is not from Siberia. Silent Island are from Hungary, if that counts, and Hungary is landlocked - what's funny is that their imagery is all about the sea. Renaissance were not formed in the renaissance, if that counts. 1914 was not formed in 1914, if that counts. Arctic Monkeys are not from the arctic, if they count. John Denver is not from Denver, if that counts.
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I prophesy disaster
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:00 |
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:15 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:17 |
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Iona are from England and Northern Ireland and not from a small Hebridean island in Scotland.
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Greenmist
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:10 |
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Bands named after dates or ages in history, like the reneisence period do not count.
How could i forget about this one??.......Hanoi Rocks are from Finland.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:19 |
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I was going to mention Asia Minor, until I discovered they really ARE from Turkey.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:33 |
Turkish immigrants in France... Group based in France.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 07:39 |
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Arctic Monkeys, who are from Sheffield, which can get pretty cold in the winter, but not nearly as cold as the Arctic, where it's cold enough to freeze the tail, nose and ears of a brass Arctic Monkey.
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Cosmiclawnmower
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 08:57 |
Ha! People in Portishead get really P****d off if you call them Bristolian! Mind you its only a stones throw from Bristol between Avonmouth and Clevedon.. |
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:03 |
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Agincourt were not from Agincourt.
Albion are not from Albion. Lorenzo Montanà is not from Montana. All Traps on Earth are not from Earth. Alphataurus are not from Aldebaran. Alto Palo are not from Palo Alto. The band America met and recorded their first album in London. Andromeda are not from outer space. Are Anglesee from Anglesee? I don't think Anna von Hausswolff is from Hausswolf. Argos are not, I think, from Argos. The Atlanta Rhythm Section were not from Atlanta but from a suburb of Atlanta called Doraville. And this is just the bands from the A's of my music collection! Edited by BrufordFreak - July 13 2022 at 10:30 |
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:09 |
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Babylon were not even from Babylonia.
Berlin were not, I don't think, from Berlin--even from any town named Berlin in the USA. (They're from L.A.) Blue Nile were not even from the same continent as their moniker. Bombay Groovy are from São Paolo. Boston was from Cambridge (MIT), a Boston suburb. Were the Buckinghams from Buckinghamshire (or Palace)? Edited by BrufordFreak - July 13 2022 at 10:31 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:12 |
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Annie Haslam's Nevada are not from the state of Nevada, obviously, but American band Oregon really are from the state of Oregon.
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:22 |
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I don't think Caspian have any connection to the Sea of the same name.
Chicago (and Chicago Transit Authority, their original name) were from Chicago. Children in Paradise are probably not from Paradise otherwise we would all know them because we'd be traveling to their home town/country for vacations. I don't think Cirrus Bay is a real place (except for in descriptions from observers from space shuttles in the 1990s). Colosseum were not from the Colosseum … perhaps another, lesser colosseum. Cucamonga are not from Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA, they're from Argentina. |
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Easy Money
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:26 |
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The original members of Black Oak Arkansas were really from Black Oak, but the current members are not except for the singer.
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:29 |
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Dresden Dolls were not from Dresden.
Dün were not from Arrakis, they were from France. Dunwich were not from the lost city of Suffolk. Edited by BrufordFreak - July 13 2022 at 10:29 |
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:39 |
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Eden may very well have been from the famous Garden of.
Egg obviously came before the chicken. Ellesemere is not from the world's tenth largest island. England were definitely from Britannia. |
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Drew Fisher
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:54 |
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Fairport Convention were actually from a house named "Fairport" in Muswell Hill, England.
The Far East Family Band were actually from the far east: they're from Japan. Fen is actually from the Fens, in East Anglia, England--one very particular fen. Fields of the Nephilim do tend to hang out in the Hertforshire farm fields around Stevenage--where they are rumored to commune with Biblical characters. The Fifth Dimension definitely came from another dimension--we're just not sure how to prove which one. Finisterre are from Genova, Italia, not the Galician Cape. The British Prog Folk band Fotheringay are rumored to have been incarcerated in the dungeon of Fotheringay Castle for the past 50 years. From.UZ are genuinely from Uzbekistan. The Future Kings of England can be from wherever they want to be, so long as it's not Saxe-Coburg. Edited by BrufordFreak - July 13 2022 at 10:55 |
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