For sure. Every city on the list is in the conversation. I didn’t leave a write in option because after the top 10 there aren’t a lot of other worthy contenders. 11th place is Austin.
Greatest American City in Music History
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For sure. Every city on the list is in the conversation. I didn’t leave a write in option because after the top 10 there aren’t a lot of other worthy contenders. 11th place is Austin.
If I liked country I'd say Nashville because you immediately recognize that as the go to music City of America.
I think Vegas would have a spot considering they've had Celine Dion running for a decade plus.
But once you get over LA as a Hollywood town first, it's hard to argue from a hip hop perspective alone.
Seattle actually has a pretty decent claim, beyond the obvious grunge lineup and Hendrix, it has some modern ish clout with Death Cab, modest mouse, fleet Foxes, our favorite 12 Macklemore, and Odesza.
I think Vegas would have a spot considering they've had Celine Dion running for a decade plus.
But once you get over LA as a Hollywood town first, it's hard to argue from a hip hop perspective alone.
Seattle actually has a pretty decent claim, beyond the obvious grunge lineup and Hendrix, it has some modern ish clout with Death Cab, modest mouse, fleet Foxes, our favorite 12 Macklemore, and Odesza.
Is it wrong of me that I don't count Jimi as a product of the Seattle music scene? Sure he was born here and went to Garfield but he didn't really come of age musically in Seattle. When I think of Hendrix I think NY or London.
Born there and buried there. That's enough for me the way I was thinking about it. Your approach was to look at where their career really launched from, hence lumping Neil in with LA. It's not wrong and it was your fucking question so WGAF what the rest of us think?
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So I'm getting the impression Darrington's not[/i] being added as an option?...
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Yep, without Memphis and New Orleans getting it all started there is no music scene, or at least a music scene as we know it in any of those other cities. Memphis also played a huge roll in early country/hillbilly/folk music scene. If you're talking history, it's not even close. If you're talking which city later on had the best musical scene LA in the 60s and 70s wins.
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Nashville is definitely in the conversation - but we talkin' HISTORY, man. HISTORY.
Still come back to NOLA and Memphis for that. No rock and roll without the blues. No blues without the Mississippi Delta.
Current hub, yes - Nashville. Absolutely. Really enjoyed a brief visit there a couple years ago and find it way more tolerable than Vegas other than the fucking humidity. But even at that, for a night of tunes, I'd still take Beale St and Frenchman's Street over Broadway - simply for the diversity of styles.
Nashville wins the drunken sororitutes/Bachelorette Party category though.
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Nashville is more of a music city than LA tho. Nashville is awesome. One of the best cities in the US.
I gotta go with NYC.
Blondie
Ramones
Run DMC
Beastie Boys
Biggie
Billy Joel
Talking Heads
LL cool j
Wu Tang Clan
Erik B and Rakim
Kiss
New York Dolls
Neil Fucking Diamond
Frank Sinatra - basically
Barbara Streisand
Twisted Sister
Foreigner
Lou Reed / Velvet Underground
Public Enemy
Jay Z
Nas
So much hip hop
Dion
Paul Simon
Blondie
Ramones
Run DMC
Beastie Boys
Biggie
Billy Joel
Talking Heads
LL cool j
Wu Tang Clan
Erik B and Rakim
Kiss
New York Dolls
Neil Fucking Diamond
Frank Sinatra - basically
Barbara Streisand
Twisted Sister
Foreigner
Lou Reed / Velvet Underground
Public Enemy
Jay Z
Nas
So much hip hop
Dion
Paul Simon