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lonesome_d
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"bands w/foreign names that have 0 to do w/their ethnicity or sound"


          

one of the stupider list post ideas I've come up with but for some reason I was thinking about it last night and only came up with 2. I know there must be more out there.

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bands w/foreign names that have 0 to do w/their ethnicity or sound [View all] , lonesome_d, Thu Feb-24-11 10:09 AM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
tokyo police club
Feb 24th 2011
1
lmao
Feb 24th 2011
7
also Tokio Hotel, and apparently Tokyo Rose
Feb 24th 2011
51
Japan.
Feb 24th 2011
2
Asia
Feb 24th 2011
3
De La Soul?
Feb 24th 2011
4
good one I hadn't thought of
Feb 24th 2011
LOL yeah
Feb 24th 2011
13
Afrika Baby Bam Thought De La Soul Was A Latin Rap Group...
Feb 24th 2011
66
Wang Chung.
Feb 24th 2011
5
lmao x2. Is that even a Chinese word/phrase?
Feb 24th 2011
11
that group is weird.
Feb 24th 2011
19
Berlin
Feb 24th 2011
6
I must confess I wasn't thinking of place names
Feb 24th 2011
8
yeah, they threw me for a loop too
Feb 24th 2011
14
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Feb 24th 2011
9
dunno Los Campesinos, but Los Straitjackets came to mind
Feb 24th 2011
10
      While they do have mariachi influence (and dress like them too)
Feb 24th 2011
56
L'Arc en Ciel (Japanese band)
Feb 24th 2011
12
Hearing its name makes me want to go Shonen Bat on some fangirls
Feb 24th 2011
20
      if you pronounce it correctly, lotsa nihonjin have no clue
Feb 24th 2011
33
           misreading is misleading?
Feb 24th 2011
35
los campesinos!
Feb 24th 2011
15
le tigre.
Feb 24th 2011
16
um.. phoenix?
Feb 24th 2011
17
toro y moi
Feb 24th 2011
18
yo la tengo
Feb 24th 2011
21
I was going to make a snippy comment
Feb 24th 2011
24
is it cause i didn't read the posts ahead of me?
Feb 24th 2011
25
      Los campesinos?
Feb 24th 2011
27
           are the fucking shit.
Feb 24th 2011
30
first one that came to mind
Feb 24th 2011
52
See also: bands with 'blues' in their name but that don't play blues
Feb 24th 2011
22
grand funk railroad
Feb 24th 2011
28
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Feb 24th 2011
40
blues traveller
Feb 24th 2011
49
      Blues Magoos
Feb 24th 2011
53
           A good friend of mine's father was in the Blues Magoos.
Feb 27th 2011
71
this one, particularly, pissed me off.
Feb 24th 2011
65
      Come on man...
Feb 24th 2011
67
No Neck Blues Band
Feb 24th 2011
61
      The Blues Brothers
Feb 24th 2011
62
titus andronicus
Feb 24th 2011
23
twist answer: Les Mysteres Des Voix Bulgares
Feb 24th 2011
26
RE: twist answer: Les Mysteres Des Voix Bulgares
Feb 24th 2011
70
***edit** missed the "foreign" part
Feb 24th 2011
29
Daft Punk
Feb 24th 2011
31
air
Feb 24th 2011
36
      what's misleading about air?
Feb 24th 2011
39
           and phoenix, whom he's now mentioned twice?
Feb 24th 2011
45
           shock's gone crazy!
Feb 24th 2011
54
           air = english
Feb 24th 2011
50
                air also = French
Feb 24th 2011
55
and then of course there's Young Black Teenagers
Feb 24th 2011
60
guillemots
Feb 24th 2011
32
art brut
Feb 24th 2011
34
anybody remember Saigon Kick?
Feb 24th 2011
37
or even just Saigon
Feb 24th 2011
38
yes, hilarious, and *shrug* whatever
Feb 24th 2011
41
      RE: yes, hilarious, and *shrug* whatever
Feb 24th 2011
48
      Hanoi Rocks were ace...
Feb 24th 2011
68
I listened to those guys for a minute in high school and college
Feb 24th 2011
58
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Feb 24th 2011
42
hahah, excellent
Feb 24th 2011
47
Beirut n/m
Feb 24th 2011
43
Jets To Brazil n/m
Feb 24th 2011
44
I'll add that the complete antithesis to this post: Miami Sound Machine
Feb 24th 2011
46
The Afghan Whigs
Feb 24th 2011
57
no one said brazilian girls ?
Feb 24th 2011
59
No one gonna mention Wu Tang?
Feb 24th 2011
63
i was going but then the op also said "sound"
Feb 24th 2011
64
Manilla Road
Feb 24th 2011
69

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