Music Cities

New York City:

Talking Heads.
Neil Diamond.
Billy Joel.
Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta).
The Ramones.
50 Cent (Arthur Dollar).
Simon & Garfunkel.
The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed.
New York Dolls
...and others to numerous to Google.

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Originally Posted by City123

Feeder, Bullet for my Valentine, Super Furry Animals, Funeral for a Friend, Lostprophets

Los Campesinos have done well in America

Then there's a whole host of good Welsh language bands

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Young Marble Giants. Boy Azooga.

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Young Marble Giants. Boy Azooga.

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Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are supporting Noel Gallagher as well. Its hardly on the scale of Manchester, but South Wales has plenty to be proud of

https://youtu.be/gqPvO__2Hdg

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Originally Posted by TISS

Manchester

10cc
slaughter and the dogs

the buzzcocks
warsaw/joy division
new order
the smiths
the chameleons
the wedding present (shared with Leeds)
the happy mondays
the stone roses
the fall
808 state
the mock turtles
wu lyf
the courteeners
badly drawn boy
BC Camplight
Beady Eye
Twang
Oasis
northside
Paris Angels
The Bee Gees
space Monkeys
black Grape
Blossoms
Delphic
Lost Under Heaven
Maitlands
Verve
A Certain Ratio
The Chemical Brothers
James
Inspiral Carpets
The Charlatans (with Wednesday)
The Durutti Column
Doves/sub Sub
delphic
elbow
FSOL
The High
I am Kloot
M People
Slow Readers Club
The Membranes
Ting Tings
Molly Half Head
Money

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Half of those are in the where are they now file to be fair

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Originally Posted by City123

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are supporting Noel Gallagher as well. Its hardly on the scale of Manchester, but South Wales has plenty to be proud of

https://youtu.be/gqPvO__2Hdg

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Nice guitar sound

You are right though , it's no manchester

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Young Marble Giants. Boy Azooga.

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I mean are these bands influential on a world scale ?

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Originally Posted by City123

Feeder, Bullet for my Valentine, Super Furry Animals, Funeral for a Friend, Lostprophets

Los Campesinos have done well in America

Then there's a whole host of good Welsh language bands

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Considering the size of the population and our supposed culture of music , it's not really a lot

Feeder did a couple of smashing pumpkins inspired albums , bullet for my valentine are just metal by numbers

No. But they're bands that people outside of Cardiff and people outside of the UK have heard of. Good on them.

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Originally Posted by Nelsonca61

Glasgow, loads of em

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWEIC5VuuJg&list=PLNu4k4IZJXHKHu3cycdAJntL _NJVW0mJO&index=6&t=0s

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Originally Posted by City123

Feeder, Bullet for my Valentine, Super Furry Animals, Funeral for a Friend, Lostprophets

Los Campesinos have done well in America

Then there's a whole host of good Welsh language bands

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Gene Loves Jezebel. 80s Goth from Porthcawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjDef0WGuNs

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Considering the size of the population and our supposed culture of music , it's not really a lot

Feeder did a couple of smashing pumpkins inspired albums , bullet for my valentine are just metal by numbers

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For a long time, if you were a band living in Wales you barely had a chance. So if you change the criteria to "since the 90s", I think Cardiff and its suburbs are doing OK.

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Originally Posted by Lost Johnny

Gene Loves Jezebel. 80s Goth from Porthcawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjDef0WGuNs

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Still touring separately with different JLJ related names.

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

No. But they're bands that people outside of Cardiff and people outside of the UK have heard of. Good on them.

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Young marble giants are hardly influential bands on the uk scene never mind outside of the uk

Manic street preachers I dont like but they are big hitters

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

Still touring separately with different JLJ related names.

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Got roped into going to see them once , quite fancied one of them till I was told he was a bloke

Alcohol

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

For a long time, if you were a band living in Wales you barely had a chance. So if you change the criteria to "since the 90s", I think Cardiff and its suburbs are doing OK.

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Well let's be honest most bands with any talent head to london as quick as they can

And to be fair that holds true for Coventry, cardiff , Sunderland, stoke etc

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Got roped into going to see them once , quite fancied one of them till I was told he was a bloke

Alcohol

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We have one of the worlds most famous bassist

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Originally Posted by Nelsonca61

We have one of the worlds most famous bassist

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Very good session musician

Why hasn't he ever been in one band ?

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Young marble giants are hardly influential bands on the uk scene never mind outside of the uk

Manic street preachers I dont like but they are big hitters

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They're not influential though. They're not even interesting.

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Originally Posted by NYCBlue

They're not influential though. They're not even interesting.

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Right on both counts

And the stereophonics , dreadful band

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Well let's be honest most bands with any talent head to london as quick as they can

And to be fair that holds true for Coventry, cardiff , Sunderland, stoke etc

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Not so much these days. You can record anywhere. You can stay in touch with your record company/agent/manager via email. I'd argue it's actually more beneficial for a band to stay where they can live/practice/record in comfort without working whatever part-time job they can fit around their band schedule just to make rent.

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Right on both counts

And the stereophonics , dreadful band

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You'll get no argument form me there. Still, they do the work, so well-done to both bands.

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Young marble giants are hardly influential bands on the uk scene never mind outside of the uk

Manic street preachers I dont like but they are big hitters

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Young Marble Giants released Colossal Youth in 1980 which was critically well received by the music press and since then has been much lauded by indie type rock bands.

Kurt Cobain said in a Melody Maker interview that Colossal Youth was one of the five most influential records he had ever heard.

Birmingham:

Moody Blues
ELO
Sabbath
The Move
Wizzard
UB40
Traffic
Duran Duran

Pointless threads, this one

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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

Pointless threads, this one

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I think it's interesting how a city like seattle for example was the home for so many influential bands in the early nineties like nirvana , soundgarden , pearl jam , etc

Also why Boston produced so many good bands like the pixies , lemonheads , Aerosmith etc

And why a scene called straight edge .....no drink , no drugs ....sprang out of Washington DC through the music of bad brains , black flag , minor threat , henry rollins , fugazi etc

I think that's interesting and far from pointless but you disagree

I can live with that


Peace and love