The Greatest Musical City (Nominations Thread)

[Spandex]

Bit of an iffy one - none of the music was ever recorded there, by people from there.

Bah, you and your common sense. Let the people speak

Though since I've not given a sensible suggestion on this thread yet I'll add to the boringly predictable chorus of Detroit lovers. It's obviously the winner, innit?

 

[Magic Sam]

Though since I've not given a sensible suggestion on this thread yet I'll add to the boringly predictable chorus of Detroit lovers. It's obviously the winner, innit?

no got to be New Orleans or Memphis IMO

 

[tarannau]

People are seriously putting forward Manchester over London.

Ridiculous isn't it?


None of that groundbreaking mixing up of genres here, no sir not at all.

 

[bluestreak]

In terms of what I listen to:

London
New Orleans
Montreal
Memphis
Glasgow
Seattle
New York

In no particular order.

 

[El Jefe]

Ok, it's been a while now so I've counted the votes.

Not easy - sometimes you have to pick out a nomination from a debate, sometimes the suggestion can't be included (Kained's nomination for the whole of Southern California contained what I took as a nomination for Berkeley, so I went for that.)

Since only 12 nominations possible, those are any gaining 3 votes or above. Apologies if there are any miscounts but I have tried to make it fair..

1. Detroit 13
2. New York 10
3. Glasgow 8
4. Manchester 8
5. London 5
6. Memphis 5
7. New Orleans 5
8. Liverpool 4
9. Nashville 4
10. Bristol 3
11. Chicago 3
12. Wigan 3

Los Angeles 2
Minneapolis 2
Montreal 2
Philadelphia 2
Seattle 2
Sheffield 2
Berkeley 1
Berlin 1
Birmingham 1
Chapel Hill 1
Clarksdale 1
Dakar 1
Dusseldorf 1
Havana 1
Kingston 1
Lagos 1
Leicester 1
macon 1
Stoke 1
Stourbridge 1

Final poll here


By the way, i still think Wigan is iffy - it's a town known for championing a certain musical form, not creating it, but I didn;t want to overeditorialise so i left it in.

 

[northernhord]

Detroit then Manc.

 

[El Jefe]

Detroit then Manc.

You're too late
Read the above post...

 

[El Jefe]

Could we lock this now?

 

[sam/phallocrat]

could we lock you now?

 

[twistedAM]

In terms of what I listen to:

London
New Orleans
Montreal
Memphis
Glasgow
Seattle
New York

In no particular order.

Just looked through most my most recently played on iTunes and at the moment it is:

Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham aka The Golden Triangle, NC
Nashville
Belfast
Boston
Philadelphia
LA
Calgary

 

[twistedAM]

durr...was multi-tasking and didn't notice this was the nominations thread

does that mean I have to go in the sinbin for 50 minutes and listen to the new Coldplay (as in Coldplay from LONDON) album?

 

[Iam]

New York.

Punk, Hip Hop, what more do you want?

 

[ouchmonkey]

where's this poll then?

is it so obviously New Orleans that you can't be arsed?

 

[El Jefe]

where's this poll then?

is it so obviously New Orleans that you can't be arsed?

It's in the same forum buttmunch. make an effort.

 

[TopCat]

Croydon. I know it ain't a city as such but Animal Nightlife came from here and the drummers dad was called Bruno.

 

[soulman]

Wigan is not a city, but it does make me laugh.

 

[twistedAM]

Wigan is not a city, but it does make me laugh.

The Greatest Meat & Potato Pie City

No small honour actually.

 

[DJ Squelch]

San Antonio, Ibiza

 

[ouchmonkey]

It's in the same forum buttmunch. make an effort.

This one was standing in front!