I miss when I was in an indie band in my adolescence and every cool-sounding, esoteric noun I discovered felt like a perfect band name, song title or lyric. 

Like, I would have gotten a lot of mileage out of “Laramidia”

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“Yeah man I saw Laramidia open for British Sea Power and Broken Social Scene last night and they played all my favorite songs off the Western Interior Seaway album”

😂 imo, the evocative phrase is an underutilized indie band naming convention, e.g., The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. you might forget all their songs, but those names will haunt you forever.