[GS] So What Are You Naming Your Rock Bands?

[Disgustipated]

[Name of Target Civ or Leader] and number. Like Sweden 1, Dido 3, etc

does it matter where you send rock bands? I've been sending them all to the highest culture generator. Should I spread them around?

 

[kb27787]

I find the default random names quite amusing... I typically let them name themselves, so to speak.
I'd hate to put the name of a beloved band onto something that might die on their first concert.

 

[Victoria]

1st was Rush, 2nd was Scissor Sisters ... then I made one called Donny Osmond and he did really well so I gave up.

 

[Brutus2]

The random names are funny and make me laugh. My arena rock / cover art band "Classical Questions" had very successful tours playing Stadiums and World Wonders through every French and Aztec city across two continents. I like how the bands drive a tour bus but I wish they had a private yacht or jet at sea instead of the standard embarked cargo container transport ship. Funny thing is, I was working toward a science victory. I had no TS districts, no great works, no parks, resorts or tourism related policies but I won a Culture victory on Emperor mostly from this band's world tour and whatever wonders I happened to build plus a few relics from Kandy.

 

[ExemplarVoss]

Taking the default for the most part, though one was fairly terrible. They ended up as 'Giant Pantheon,' which was bad enough to be funny.

 

[Ferocitus]

Messer Chups because the bass guitarists all look like Zombierella.

Also, Messer Chops or Messer Chips, depending what's for dinner, and I think it will be Messer Chaps if the bearded ones here decide to have pork spare ribs.

 

[IvoryPavane]

In my Eleanor game, my most successful band was (fittingly) Aqua-taine. Serving (again fittingly) Barbie Girl realness throughout Mongolia.

 

[Timothy001]

I usually name them for their promotion. ie Theatre 1, Wonder 1, etc, that tells me where the bonus is

 

[Disgustipated]

Anthrax has been my most successful band so far, nearly all of mine die in the first or second performance.

 

[Breadsmith]

EUROPE: For the "Final Countdown" right before a Science win.

Deathklok: Had a better GDP than Belgium.

They Might be Giant Death Robots: Just because

 

[BarbarianHunter]

Six Feet Underwater
I have taken to playing Smoke on the Water from Graveyard Classics volume I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_Classics

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I got a 4-promotion Rock Band last night. I let the name generator name it Angry Emu.

 

[Red_warning]

Played French Eleanor, took care to name all my bands at first but after Eiffel 1887 and Encore both failed during their first gigs I stopped putting much thought into it and started randomising...

 

[Disgustipated]

I swear when I give my bands custom names they die after 1 or 2 shows. My ones with the default names go on and on. My most recent Dido game my band had around 10 shows, and was still alive when the game ended. It was a default name, I can't recall the name atm.

 

[Leyrann]

I'm just gonna name them after my favorite bands... Blind Guardian, Keldian, Pathfinder, Sonata Arctica*, Nightwish, Dream Theater, Ensiferum...

*will probably flop after releasing a few good albums