Cities with best music contribution?

[Super D]

What is your top 10 cities in terms of music contribution.

Here is mine.

1.Detroit-of course (Motown,Techno,Garage)
2.Chicago (Blues, House)
3.New York-Harlem (Jazz, Rap)
4.New Orleans (Funk,Jazz,Blues)
5.Montreal (Disco, 60'sRock)
6.Toronto (Disco,House)
7.London (Disco House, Funk, Ska)
8.Philadephia (Sound of Philly)
9.Nashville (Country)
10.Washington D.C.(Go-Go,neo-soul)

What about your city? Let me know

super d(motordetroit) 8) 8)

[JussiK]

1. Rotterdam - eurodisco
2. Rome - cheesy eurodisco
3. Paris - enigmatic Costandinos-style rarities and afro boogie
4. Naples - totally obscure 7-inchers from street vendors
5. Barcelona - all kinds of interesting rare titles, soundtracks
6. Stockholm - more of the same, if a bit on the expensive side
7. New York - boogie in general

[Davicillo]

Manchester - Early 90's indie dance!
Wigan/Blackpool - Northern Soul
Valencia - Bacalou
Milan - Italo house
Sheffield - New romantic (Human League etc)
Liverpool - early 80's indie
Brighton - Big beat, disco-house.

[Spellbound]

Obviously this will be a biased list based upon everybody's musical persuasions

London - Drum & Bass
Mexico City - 70's and 80's Disco
Los Angeles - Heavy Metal Hard Rock
New York City - Punk Rock
Washington DC - Punk Rock
Santo Domingo - Merengue

No particular order

[Energyguy]

1) Manchester - 90`s dance/Hi-nrg/soul
2) Blackpool - Northern Soul/hi-nrg
3) New York - 70s Disco
4) Chicago - House
5) Rome - Euro disco
6) Barcelona - Euro disco
7) Detroit - Motown
8) London - Disco/hi-nrg/House
9) Birmingham - Hi-nrg/dance in general
10) Sheffield - Electro/dance/hi-nrg

[eddie]

Most influential for Soul/Disco-Top cities listed first:
1 Philadelphia
2 Detroit
3 Memphis
4 Chicago
5 Ohio funk (Cincinati, Cleveland, Dayton)
6 Los Angeles
7 New York/New Jersey
8 London
9 New Orleans
10Oakland/San Francisco

[remicks]

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Interesting lists . I'm relating to yours Eddie ..... For disco/soul I'll switch it out some like this :

1 Philadelphia
2 Detroit
3 Los Angeles
4 New York/New Jersey
5 Miami / South Florida
6 Memphis
7 San Francisco / Oakland
8 Munich
9 London
10 Ohio (Cincinati, Cleveland, Dayton)


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non disco/soul honorable mention : ..... Bakersfield (gotta have my Merle Haggard and Buck Owens :D )

[eddie]

Remicks, that was a very interesting take and great discussion.

I agree Miami should be placed on the list. After all they gave us the McCrae's, El Coco, Jimmy Bo Horne, and KC of course. So they should deserve a spot.

I disagree with both my own and Remicks low rating for Ohio. The groups that came out of that area were the Isley Brothers, Slave, Steve Arrington Hall of Fame, Aurra, The Deele, Midnight Star, Ohio Players, Sun, Dayton. Those are only the ones off of the top of my head.

Chicago should be listed because of the early days. The Brunswick and later Chi-sound label yielded many disco and soul hits. The Chi-lites, Tyrone Davis, Fontella Bass, and Jerry Butler's "One night love affair" definitely are of high regard and flirt with early disco.

I listed New Orleans because of the Meter funk and Allen Touissant. He gave us Labelle's "Lady Marmelade" among others.

Memphis was home to Stax and Hi records which deserves a high ranking.

Munich- I think it's in Germany but I have no idea of what disco it gave us. (probably Euro-disco which I'm not at all familiar with)

I rated London on the list and near the bottom because it gave us many artists late in the disco era or in the post disco era.

[remicks]

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I agree Eddie. This is interesting ... such as the way you've broken it down some into who is from where . But I can see part of the problem can be what city/area can claim " ownership" to who ??? When you give The Isleys to Ohio , that bolsters that region ... even though in my mind most of their work .. their T-Neck work.... came out of LA . Donna Summer and Georgio .... orginated out of Munich ..... but Casablanca was a Hollywood label . Motown ...100% Detroit ....... that is until they moved to LA in 197 (1?) .....

Still it is interesting to try to assign different music to its rightful region :

Oakland /SF: ......for starters, how about .......

Tower Of Power
Pointer Sisters
Sylvester
Patrick Cowley
Boystown Gang
Boz Skaggs :P
Modern Rocketry :D


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[Super D]

Most influential for Soul/Disco-Top cities listed first:

5 Ohio funk (Cincinati, Cleveland, Dayton)

I stand corrected "eddie" I forgot about the Ohio area. :roll:
Great Call __ Even though most of those funk groups from Ohio recorded out of Detroit at United Sound Studio .

super d(motordetroit) 8)

[SandraDee]

I always think that in terms of 'classic' 4/4 disco (i.e not funky & b4 'hi-nrg') the 3 main cities that produced this stuff were Philly, Montreal & Munich (& possibly Bologna).