What's Your Hometown's ContributionTo Music?

Some crummy Space-pop blokes almost made it down to the city of angels (though they wouldn't have a chance, seeing as Karma Police is no longer recieving heavy rotation on MTV). Multiple emo knockoffs are currently trying to make it up to Seattle, but you know they'll never get there. Lots of burned out jazz musicians. Cher once went to my high school.

Erm, we could have some difficulty defining "hometown" (birthplace or adopted place of longest residence?) but if we take the former, I BEAT YOU ALL WITH...

Cheshunt, Herts = CLIFF RICHARD!!!

And no dissing Bauhaus up there, ya hear?

Hm. I'm from a very, very small town (barely a town to speak of, actually) about two hours north of Melbourne. Nick Cave is from Wangaratta, about half an hour's drive from where I grew up. Brendan from Sandpit is from Benalla, where I went to school for a few years. Augie March are from Shepparton, where I also went to school for a while, as are No Idea, a pretty dodgy '76 style punk band w/ mohawks, etc.

Toowoomba = home of the Australian Gospel Festival. Also former home of former countdown revolution host Tanya Lacey. Also former home of Geoffrey Rush.

Erm, Smoking Popes, I believe.

the fucking cranes!!

not much cop down here in portsmouth you know...

saying that im actually friends with jim from the band and hes a top bloke.

note to self* "must not generalize band members as idiots if their music is bad"

Peter Tork, Rivers Cuomo - and if you count music critics, me and Tim Page.

fucking champs, beulah, third eye blind, metallica, blackalicious

i'm sure there are better answers, i am just not trying very hard

New London, CT--Dawn Robinson from En Vogue/Lucy Pearl, the Reducers NL (not the Reducers SF or the Reducers UK, that is).

I am from Sligo - the town that gave you Westlife!

you can bomb it now, if you like.

Queens, NY- Forest hills HS- RAMONES

Wolverhampton, West Midlands

Slade - the drummer went to my school, several, several years before I got there.

The Wonderstuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Pop Will Eat Itself.

Oh.

Louisville, so much to answer for. Namely, the jug band sound, Jimmy Raney, Diane Sawyer, Hunter S. Thompson, Muhammad Ali, the Endtables, Babylon Dance Band, Tom Cruise (although the fucker will deny it, he went to fucking St. X), Ned Beatty, Squirrel Bait, Solution Unknown, Maurice, Malignant Growth (aka Fading Out), Slint, Kinghorse, Endpoint, Crain, Bastro, 1/2 of Matmos, Antman, Dybbuk, Undermine, Evergreen, M/Aerial M/Papa M, Palace Brothers, Rodan, Drinking Woman, MSBF, Hedge, Out, Wino, Antietam (kinda), My Morning Jacket (formerly Month of Sundays), VHS or Beta?, Retsin/Sonora Pine/Tara Jane O'Neil, Shipping News, Rachel's, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Also, forgot King Kong (and a shitload of other stuff, too).

Minneapolis - the parts of it I consider my manor feature:

Prince/Revolution - most of the orig. Revolution went to my school.
John Denver - lived in Edina. My mum skinned her knee outside his house and he rescued her and invited her to his birthday party.
Replacements (durrr)
One of Urge Overkill from here

People living in my present manor include Jason Pierce, Bobby Gillespie, Beth Orton, Debbie Gooch from MBV

Oh and from this thread I can safely say that the FAP for when I visit Mpls will be at the Triple Rock. 'Irish Car Bombs' optional. And I swear Nate must know my best friend there.

Manchester, obviously loads. The Dave Haslam book covers it pretty well.

Could be here all day listing them, but apart from the obvious, John Mayall, Ewan MacColl, King of the Slums, Easterhouse, MC Tunes, Frank Sidebottom.

The only musical contribution I can think of for my proper hometown (Pueblo, Colorado) is that local boy Damon Runyon wrote Guys and Dolls. Which later became a musical, as I'm sure you've gathered.

I've just done a quick search to see if anything is going on there now, bringing me actual quotes like this one: "We are a heavy metal band out of Pueblo. We are planning on bringing real metal back, no more of this Limp Bizkit bull shit! We usually play the Pixie Inn and we've played the state fair." (I wish them more luck than industrial wankers Pope on a Rope had when I was young.)

Arthur Russell is from Oskaloosa, IA, fifteen minutes from my hometown. Osky! (have yet to year his music, tho).

The triple rock should be plated in gold for this alone: they serve tator tots.

the b**tl*s, echo & the bunnymen, teardrop explodes, pete wylie, julian cope, pete burns, oceanic, the coral, gerry & the pacemakers, billy fury, love decade, cilla black, the farm, the searchers, the la's, lightning seeds, space, cast, shack, the pale fountains, clinic, ladytron, OMD, the christians, cream (the club), eric's, the cavern, john kelly, yousef, atomic kitten, heidi sugababe, nicola girls aloud, mel c, jennifer ellison.

i forgot quadrant park.

You also forgot the Boo Radleys michael.

Lightning Bolt, Landed, Men's Recovery Project, etc.
The Talking Heads
Les Savy Fav and Black Dice early on...

sadly, Helix
give me an R ...

Dublin, ugh.

It will all change when Hystereo become Ireland's first successful dance act.

I'm from the Los Angeles area.

We're responsible for Beefheart, Minutemen, Beach Boys, Joan Jett, The Gun Club, NWA/Dre/Snoop, The Germs, Horace Tapscott and pretty much nothing else that comes to mind.

mallorca is known as a place of retirement for ex-rock stars: kevin ayers, mike oldfield, donovan, annie lennox...
we keep them quiet and relaxed so that they don't feel the urge to make bad music anymore.

The Blues Brothers. But the Jackson family lived just down the road from home, in Gary.

Did Arab on Radar really form in Groton, CT while waiting for a job intervew at the submarine factory? It's a good story. Cause that's my real hometown, though I was born across the river in New London.

Upland, California had pretty much nothing going for it musically prior to my generation - but we have since been blessed with Franklin Bruno/Nothing Painted Blue, Shrimper, and if I'm not mistaken ILM's own John Darnielle/Mountain Goats.

Inland Empire all up in heezy fo sheezy!

I forgot Kirsty McColl. I always do, and I dunno why...

Hmmm, from Lexington, KY...

Paul K & the Weathermen, Groovezilla, Chad Sexton the drummer from 311, Ten Foot Pole, Nine Pound Hammer, Bela Fleck wasn't born here but lived here for a long time, that's all the biggeez I can think of right now.

Pasadena gave us Van Halen, although apparently DLR was born in Indiana. It seemed like the LAFMS-associated bands (B-People, Human Hands, etc) and the Dream Syndicate were from around here also, but it may be that they just gravitated to this part of LA county. I once saw Steve Wynn and Karl Precoda walking down the isles in the Vons on East California. I was too chicken to say "Hi, love your stuff," of course.

From the DC area (where we're still trying to live down the "birth of emo" distinction) we have what's left of the Dischord ascendancy; the go-go scene (Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, Rare Essence, the Junkyard Band); Deep Dish; the late Eva Cassidy. I'm not going to count SR-71 because they're closer to Baltimore, and I'm not going to count Good Charlotte because they were unknown here before a major label broke them.

Probably the most influential music artist to come out of DC, however, was Duke Ellington.

Portland, Maine: Slaid Cleaves, Cerberus Shoal, Diesel Doug and The Long Haul Truckers, Tarpigh, Rustic Overtunes (if you count it as a contribution), 6Gig(ditto). If you count the whole state, we've got underrated honky-tonker Dick Curliss.

Madison, Wisconsin produced Killdozer. I should stop there, really.

Killdozer were pretty influential in their way. The Madison punk scene didn't have the national impact on the culture that the '60s radicals did, but it was one of those places all the bands went to and made friends. The Crucifucks dedicated an album to Wisconsin. I heard Henry Rollins's dad lives there and that's why he always came through. Lots of bands still make a point of going there.

Other bands of note: Timbuk 3, Mecht Mensch, Tar Babies, Old Skull, Imminent Attack, Appliances-SFB, Rainer Maria, Garbage/Butch Vig, Ben Sidran, Joel Paterson, Jesse Hozeny. Butch Vig cut his teeth on recording punk for a decade before Nevermind, and did the Nevermind demos in Madison, for whatever impact that had. The place has been a longtime home to Clyde Stubblefield (the Funky Drummer), but I'm stretching.

Mostly, Madison just has a really active college and community radio scene, a city of really active fans, and it always has. We had MTV before most cities, and have always treated the Minneapolis underground as practically mainstream. Atmosphere draws as many people in Madison as in Minneapolis. So generations of UW college students come away thinking this is the norm around the country, but it really isn't.

Madison's impact is more obvious in politics and humor and movies: in the Wisconsin school of history, in the peace movement, the Zucker Brothers movies, Chris Farley, David Lynch, and the Onion. No local band has ever had that kind of impact...

Has anybody done Birmingham yet? Osbourne, Duran Duran, and if we extend the word 'contribution' to include SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS then Ocean Colour Scene. I've (unwittingly until it was pointed out to me) served Bentley Rhythm Ace Man With Long Black Hair on a Sainsbury's checkout as well. They live really near me, in a house with impressively camp doors. I'm unclear of K Rowland's exact origins, but hell, he spent quite a lot of time here, and B'ham needs all the stah powah it can get.

Wild Cherry (Remember "Play that Funky Music", anyone?), Dean Martin, and Tracy Lords.

Now, I know that Tracy Lords isn't really a musician, but her movies are a great backdrop no matter what album you're listening to.

man my hometown sucks...

Providence also has the Iditarod, The Barnacled, Anton Bordman and Black Masks For Secrecy.

And yes, as far as I know, AOR really did form while applying at Electric Boat (though I feel compelled to point out that they called Providence home.)

Me.

Detroit... Motown, soul, the rock n' roll that would become punk (? and the Mysterions, Mitch Ryder to Stooges and MC5) and garage rock. Techno as well.

I am from Alexandria, Virginia, hometown of Stewart Copeland, drummer for the Police.

Brian Jones!

You also forgot the Boo Radleys michael.

...and sonia.

Born & raised in Columbus, OH.

To echo Dave225's earlier post: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Electric Eels, Scrawl.

To elaborate: New Bomb Turks, Gaunt, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Great Plains, Royal Crescent Mob, Howlin' Maggie, RJD2 (& the MHz crew).

Brighton Beach contributed Norman Cook, right?

Too bad I live in Brighton Beach in Melbourne, Australia.

Well, my part of North London was once home to Wham!

Woking, Weller. My apologies.

Chesterfield = almost no-one, so I always claim Sheffield and it's rich tapestry of musical history. Then Jericho's lead singer went to my school though.

Annapolis, Maryland gave y'all emo (Hated, Moss Icon), Jimmy's Chicken Shack, jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd, and the songs California Dreamin' (about how miserable John Phillips was at the Naval Academy) and Reelin' in the Years (about St. John's College tutor Howard Zeiderman and his initial disappointment at St. John's).