New game: musical groups that are named after geographic places or features

Buffalo Springfield (a double)

Rare Earth

Tony Orlando and Dawn

Brownsville Station

The Ohio Players

Berlin

Velvet Underground

chicago

japan

must be lots of them...

Europe. On a personal note, 'The Final Countdown' is their most famous hit, but's also my father chess book's (on pawn endings) title.

Janis Joplin

The Brentford Road All Stars AKA Brentford All Stars, Brentford Rockers, Brentford Disco Set, Brentford Reggae Band

Maybe also "The Maytals" as loose geographic location ;-) tune from the movie 'The Harder They Come'

"The Ethiopians" - You A Pirate

"The Congos" - Fisherman

Israel Vibration

Apache Indian

Buena Vista Social Club

The Clarendonians (Clarendon is a parishment of Jamaica)

Trans Siberian Orchestra

Kansas

Boston

Beach Boys

Dire Straits (?--here "straits" is only secondarily a geographic feature)

[am I showing my age?]

...and, looking through my music collection, I also realized that much of my classical music fits this, e.g., Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, etc. But that's like shooting fish in a barrel, and shouldn't count.

Asia

America

is 'Boomtown Rats' a good answer?

dutch: Hallo Venray

the afghan whigs

babylon circus (listen to that!)

Texas

how could we forget: Frankie goes to Hollywood!

Alphaville?

World party / earth wind & Fire (Dutch:) earth & fire (rare earth is mentioned in first post)

Third World - 96 degrees in the shade

The Jamaicans - Ba Ba Boom

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

Linkin Park (comes form Lincoln Park)

The Kingstonians - Hold Down

Mr. Vegas - Heads High

The United States of America), great cultband, marvellous album.

Earth Opera, around the same time, far far away :)

Jimmy London - A Little Love

Robert Ffrench - Rough And Tough

Montego Melon (Montego Bay is A Jamaican Town)

Danny English

Junior English

Scott English

Jimmy Cliff (born as James Chambers), don't know if a cliff counts as geographic feature...

Ocho Rios

Züri West

Schwellheim

:D

African Brothers

African Disciples

African Drums

African Head Charge

African Jamaicans

African Stone

African Youth

Jafrica

Beirut

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

The Dresden Dolls

Jolie Holland

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Mission of Burma

Mississippi John Hurt

The New York Dolls

Okkervil River

Panama Riddim Section

Sleater-Kinney

Taj Mahal

Jello Biafra (lead singer of Dead Kennedys, Biafra was a short lived African country). Jello ran for president of U.S. in 2000. His running mate was a convicted murderer on death row. Today, Jello is a very interesting political speaker (you can see his current rantings on u tube)

Alabama

John Denver

Creedence Clearwater Revival (Clearwater, Florida)

James Taylor (Taylor, Michigan)

Willie Nelson (Nelson, New Zealand)

Da Yoopers (named after da U.P., as in Michigan's "Upper Peninsula". In Michigan, if you live above the Mackinac bridge, you are a "yooper" If you live below the bridge, you are a "troll")

re John Denver: And, you know, he really is named after the city of Denver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver

portishead.

nice one with 'sleater-kinney', dustin :)

Mountain

Little River Band

Dire Straights

Beach Boys

Johnny Jordaan

Opgezwolle

Geneva

Architecture in Helsinski

I'm from Barcelona

of Montreal

Saint Etienne

Spain

Suzanne Vega

The Streets

Phoenix

Oasis

Warsaw

Doesn't really count, but Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

"nice one with 'sleater-kinney'" Thanks, one of my all-time favorites...

I know I already mentioned Jello Biafra, but I just remembered that his current band is:

Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

(click for their Facebook page)

So that is a double...(Biafra was a country in Africa from 1967-1970)

JB&GSM will be on tour in California, Argentina and Brazil in mid-late March...

that band is almost a triple (Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada)

Indochine...

Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa (Warsaw Village Band)

Yesterday I saw a NZ band called "The Phoenix Foundation" at Jools Holland - so that's two :)

Chilliwack

Massilia Sound System

Emerson, Lake and Palmer. (Google maps is my friend)

The artist formerly known as prince. (Six in one ;-)

@caroll (way back): you can find the English version of my father's book on Amazon or its British version. For the Portuguese version please contact me as we still have a few copies of it (about 10). The Dutch version is virtually unobtainable.

Sodom :-)

Jefferson Airplane (Jefferson, Missouri, U.S.)

E17

is that a go move?