Great music from unexpected locations

Mott The Hoople - the English side of the marches when it was still the deep country :).

(Actually, I love Blue Oyster Cult.)

the Flaming Lips thing always grabbed me too. Weren't
None of the Above
from Tulsa, OK
and I'm a Limey....
there's something about the space in the USA that grabs me. Last time I was over there , we dumped ourselves into Lawrence , Kansas. Gravitated to the Replay Lounge to discover i'd missed the Bachman, Crooked(Archers) Fingers Guy, by one fucking night.

So anyways, the Em,barrassm,ent?

Eric's Trip - Moncton, New Brunswick
Teenage Head - Hamilton, Ontario
Hardship Post - Saint John's, Newfoundland
The Pets - Steinbach, Manitoba
Hayden - Thornhill (Markham), Ontario

It's not that. It's just that between Loverboy, Bryan Adams, Our Lady Peace, BTO, Sum 41, Barenaked Ladies, Rush, Alanis and Snow, I'm amazed there's ANY good music coming from Canada. (For the sake of my tongue-in-cheek argument, please disregard the existence of Leonard Cohen, GYBE, Skip Spence and the Band.)

Like the Avalanches, from Melbourne, my hometown?

I think that it's equally jaunting to experience a local phenomenon become re-interpreted and assessed globally. It seems even more unexpected.

or it will be when it happens.

if it happens.

So will I be...I've lived there for five months and there's scant pickings thus far...help!

Mind you, prol-tung are ace.

Best bands almost always HAVE to come from shit places, in order to have something to react against in terms of striving to be NOT SHIT.

I think that it's equally jaunting to experience a local phenomenon become re-interpreted and assessed globally. It seems even more unexpected.
That's Ryan Adams for me.

I'm always surprised when something good comes out of L.A. errr has anything good come out of L.A.?

The Catskills are a total shithole. Rundown, direly poor towns. Nothing nice about that region.

I KNOW what the Catskills are like. I used to live in Albany, remember? The Catskills ARE nice compared to the rest of Upstate NY.

Yes, and many other parts of upstate New York.

That would have been a stinging comeback if it didn't mean I'd have to assume you don't consider Prince, Dylan, Husker Du and Atmosphere "good music" and therefore rendering the whole argument incredibly stupid.

Jeez, some Canucks can't take a joke. So what if most of your bands stink? You've got a ton of great professional wrestlers to make up for it! I mean, Chris Benoit, man!

Or Manitoba, Buck65, Rascalz, Rufus Wainwright, Sloan, Mean Red Spiders, The Peter Parkers, DOA, Neil Young, Rheostatics, More Plastic and so on.

We should have kept the WWF as Maple Leaf Wrestling.

Two more winners:
XTC = Swindon.
Cheap Trick = Rockford.

Oh, yeah, some group called Garbage, too. Everyone I know has an "I ran into one of the dudes from Garbage and he looked awful" story, especially my wife's cousin, who has an "I slept with the really old dude from Garbage" story that I didn't really want to hear. But my Shirley-Manson-in-a-bar experience was the best: "Yer no' a wuss!"

I suppose I should mention Plastic People of the Universe, a Zappa/VU-influenced band from Czechslovakia. (The Communist Czech government sure as hell found them unexpected.)

even more from Osaka.

Jack Cole writes:
wisconsin: f/i, crucifucks (for which steve shelley was the drummer), etc

Neon Hunk is from Milwaukee.

Pavement was from Stockton, California (ca. 1989) = indie art-rock
The Ecstacy of St. Theresa is from Prague, Czech Republic (ca. 1993) = dreamy shoegaze
The Sun City Girls are from Phoenix, Arizona (ca. 1979) = esoteric psych-folk
The Astronauts were from Boulder, Colorado (ca. 1962) = surf rock (!?!?!?)
Squirrel Bait were from Louisville, Kentucky (ca. 1983) = hardcore/post-punk

:D

I like Paul K's music...I kinda forgot about him, as he's done got out of this town. Good on him. :D

like what? please don't say Boredoms as they really are so krautrock-ish (not a bad thing, but 'cool retro' is not something I'm into).

OK lets get a list:

Fushitsusha (and haino obv), rallizes, high rise, white heaven (which are OK), che shizu.

Heard The Stranglers's "No More Heroes" at the sandwich shop while getting my lunch today. Then Bruce Springsteen's "She's The One." I enjoyed both, though the surprise factor of the first one enhanced the enjoyment. It was all I could do to keep myself from saying to the the next person I saw: "Leon Trotsky got an ice pick...." Of course, if I had said it, I would have had to add: "you know, it was really an ice axe."