A band that could only come from the country they dis.
 

Been thinking about this, from a British context anyway. So far think the most quintessentially British brands are:

If we leave stuff like The Beatles to one side for a moment:


The Fall, The Smiths, Happy Mondays and Throbbing Gristle.

What are those bands that seem so ineluctably tied to the countries that spawned them?

Nirvana, NIN, VU.

but The Kinks were incredable. Waterloo Sunset still remains to this day one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard

Big Black had their odd pokes against America. They only did it in every song of theirs.

Pavement have funny little jabs at places and little cultures in a few of their songs, so accurate that I doubt an English person or anyone else could have got onto it.

Definitely NOT Velvet Underground. They had too many European influences.

Crass. There's nowhere else on Earth they could have come from, and right from the start, they had multiple beefs with their home country.

Mainly NYC drug-related Warhol stuff.

Or race relationsssss, in 'Waiting for the man'..

You can delete posts, you know, e-n.

Sonic Youth's music in the early days certainly couldn't have come out of anywhere other than the states. Theres an acute sense of americana that runs all through their albums from Bad Moon Rising to Dirty.

As with pretty much all the music there is.

Sex Pistols

Silly thing. The Who, The Kinks... they both are inseperable from Brit-land.

Lots of Canadian "indie-rock" bands are pretty tied to Canada... at least in my head.

I barely even realize the VU are american... they seem really European.

Hmm... most Three One G bands seems really...American.

OH! All of Dischord Records' roster.

Ahh! Exactly!

happy now, danny?

atari teenage riot, "deutschland (has got to die!)" anyone?

I am happy, yes, thanks. :]

there are a zillion bands that could only come from america, and also the same for japan.

the shadow ring could only have come from england, likewise grime and dubstep, they sound very english to me.

i don't agree about big black, they have some quite strong european influences

The velvets are quintessentially NY, but not American.

The Dirty Three - Australia
Einsturzende Neubauten - Germany
The Saints, the scientists - Aus

and to a point the bad seeds, depending on the album - driving through the aust outback you understand that they really get the space of the place which very few countries are lucky to have