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pick a State, pick a song by a band from that State (or as the band memebers may be from different places go by the most prominent member(s) of the band) - what i'd like is a list of all the States and the best song by the best band to have ever come from each State

might try it with English counties too...

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What Irish county are Thin Lizzy from, because I have decided to no longer fight it- "The Boys Are Back In Town" is just a near-perfect song.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to subvert the intent of your thread stevem. By way of apology, I offer you this:

Illinois-The Jesus Lizard-"Boilermaker"

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Florida - Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Louisiana - Eyehategod "Serving Time in the Middle of Nowhere"
Texas - Butthole Surfers "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave"
New Hampshire - GG Allin "I Kill Everything I Fuck"
Indiana - Guns'n'Roses "Rocket Queen"
Washington - Sonics "The Witch"
Utah - Osmonds "Crazy Horses"
Illinois - Styx "Renegade"
Arizona - Alice Cooper "Dead Babies"
Pennsylvania - O'Jays "Backstabbers"
Oregon - Nu Shooz "I Can't Wait"
Nevada - 7 Seconds "We're Gonna Fight"
Florida - Marilyn Manson "The Dope Show"
Georgia - B-52's "Dance This Mess Around"
Missouri - Chuck Berry "Carol"
Canada - Loverboy "Working for the Weekend"

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Guns N Roses are from Indiana?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohio-Screamin Jay Hawkins-"I Put A Spell On You"

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Kansas - eponymous, "Carry On Wayward Son"
Massaipitypplwholiveinthisstate&have2spellitdaily - Pixies "Debaser"
New York - Suicide "Rocket USA"
Montana - Shellac(Steve Albini) "Prayer to God"
Idaho - Motley Crue(Nikki Sixx) "Bastard"
Arkansas - Robert Johnson "Me & the Devil Blues"
Ohio - Devo "Smart Patrol/Mr DNA"
Hawaii - Gabby Pahinui "Moana Ke'ala"
England - Kinks "Til the End of the Day"

Nordicskillz - Axl is, I think he's the 'main guy' (Izzy was too)

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

actually change my Illinois vote to - Miles Davis "Rated X". It's such a CHEAT just going for somebody from the biggest metro area. That's why I didn't want to pick REO Speedwagon's "Golden Country" either

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nu Shooz seem to be the only Oregonians who get any love on this board btw, where are all the fans of Poison Idea and, um, errr, gotta be one...oh yeah Quarterflash?

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Rhode Island - Throwing Muses - "Not Too Soon"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Massacusetts - Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Cornwall - Aphex Twin "Ventolin"
Devon - Electric Wizard "Funeralopolis"
Cambridgeshire - Pink Floyd "Arnold Layne"
Oxfordshire - Ride "Leave them All Behind"
Essex - Depeche Mode "Home"
West Midlands - Black Sabbath "Into the Void"
Tyne-&-Wear - Roxy Music "Psalm"
Somerset - PJ Harvey "Yuri G"
Scotland - Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street"

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Bavaria - Silver Convention "Fly Robin Fly"
Lower Saxony - Scorpions "In Trance"
Westphalia - Kraftwerk "Radioactivity"
(former)Berlin American Zone - Nina Hagen "TV Glotzer"
Rhineland Palatinate - Darmstadt Motherfuckers, "Serial Killer"

― dave q, Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Wracking my brain trying to think of a band from Maine.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

...hey, that rhymes! WHO SAYS I DON'T HAVE NO FLOW?!?!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 April 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Nu Shooz seem to be the only Oregonians who get any love on this board btw

Wipers to thread. (And the only ppl sticking up for Nu Shooz here seem to be me and s woods.)

(To everyone's chagrin my Oregon pick would be Hole "Doll Parts" -- Courtney grew up in Eugene and Portland and did juvie time in Salem.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

(Chuck Eddy's the resident Quarterflash fan.)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

oklahoma - the flaming lips "slow nerve action"
wisconsin - violent femmes "gone daddy gone"

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

new hampshire - the shaggs "my pal foot foot"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

pennsylvania - poison "talk dirty to me"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

michigan - the MC5 "I can only give you everything"

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

michigan - madonna "into the groove"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking as someone who grew up in the 503izzy, I want to say that tru-Oregonians a) do NOT accept Courtney Love as anything other than a late-transplanted Californian; b) LOVE Nu Shooz; c) remember Quarterflash better under their previous and better name Seafood Mama; d) really wish Billy Rancher and the Unreal Godz had gotten more press than PDX's own Dan Reed Network; e) would probably all pick the Kingsmen or Paul Revere and the Raiders anyway.

Oklahoma: The Flaming Lips, "Kim's Watermelon Gun."

― Neudonym, Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

massachusetts - the motels "total control"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

new york - vanilla fudge "season of the witch"

(or blue oyster cult "the revenge of vera gemini")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

(or debbie gibson "foolish beat")

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Nevada: 702, "Where My Girls At"

Arizona: Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy" (shut up hataz, it's a perfect pop song)

Florida: dave q how can you pick Marilyn Manson (a native Ohian anyway) over Sam & Dave's "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" (which would be the most kick-ass song for MM to cover in the whole world)?

Tennessee, tough one for me but gotta go with Booker T and the MGs "Green Onions" over anything Chilton-related or Nashville-related

― Neudonym, Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

california - germs "lexicon devil"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

colorado - the fluid "tomorrow"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nebraska: some shit by 311 that I can't remember the name of

Iowa: the Mountain fuckin' Goats, total oeuvre

― Neudonym, Saturday, 5 April 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm racking my brain to think of a band from Delaware, and I'M FROM DELAWARE. although, by the Axl-Indiana logic, Tom Verlaine was born in Wilmington, so I guess I can say "Marquee Moon".

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 5 April 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

North Carolina: Das EFX or the dBs. Pick it.

― Neudonym, Saturday, 5 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

North Carolina -- my friend's band The Big Nowhere.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Axl isn't the only GNR member from Indiana.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Pennsylvannia: Poison - I Won't Forget You (specifically as it is about leaving Harrisburg)

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(oh you already had Poison, but they need to be mentioned numerous times being as they are the best band in the USA)

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Connecticut: The Philistines Jr - 145 Old Mill Road

Alabama: Man or Astro-man? - Maximum Radiation Level

Arizona: Alice Cooper - Give The Kid a Break

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Representin' Washington, DC:

Scream/FIGHT!

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Representin' California:

Dead Kennedys/CALIFORNIA UBER ALLES

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Alaska - Jewel, "Who Will Save Your Soul?"
New Jersey - Dramarama, "Anything Anything"
New Mexico - The Shins, "New Slang"
Minnesota - Husker Du, "Pink Turns to Blue"
Kentucky - Slint, "Good Morning, Captain"

― Famous Athlere, Saturday, 5 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(gleefully awaiting the South Carolina pick)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 April 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Maryland - Link Wray "Comanche"
North Carolina - Archers of Loaf "Wrong"
Rhode Island (Kind of)- Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"
Virgina - Clipse "Grindin"

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 5 April 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Southern California - Los Lobos, "Will the Wolf Survive"
Northern California - Grateful Dead, "Estimated Prophet"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone else expect to see the word WHATEVER! in big font when you clicked on this thread? I assumed it was about that Sifl & Olly guy's new song "United States Of Whatever."

Just sayin'.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 5 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

instead of best songs, I think it's more interesting to pick songs that say something about a place

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 5 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Axl and Izzy might be from Indiana, but Slash is from Stoke.

― Nick H, Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Alabama - Sex Clark Five - "Neita Grew Up Last Night"

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

We need to break down Japanese bands by prefectures.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Nebraska - Desaparecidos, "Greater Omaha"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Nebraska-Bright Eyes, "Don't Know When But A Day's Gonna Come"

― Jeremy Mikhail Smith, Saturday, 5 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

did anyone else expect to see the word WHATEVER! in big font when you clicked on this thread? I assumed it was about that Sifl & Olly guy's new song "United States Of Whatever."

nah Anthony, thats old news round these here parts

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 5 April 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

That song: funny. That video: not funny.

― Famous Athlete, Saturday, 5 April 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about Universal Congress Of, myself.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 6 April 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha ha -- tru-tru-oregonians think nu shooz are beyond terrible and billy rancher was lame -- certainly rancher's death was tragic, but it shouldn't whitewash over the fact that he was a pretty mediocre songwriter and the Unreal Gods were pretty blah. we won't even deal with Quarterflash and that whole school of "Key Largo" rock, "Key Largo" being the now deceased club that specialized in lame, middle of the road pop and rock. Dan Reed simply sucks.

so then, i will go with the Kingsmen "Louie, Louie", a mighty rock rosetta stone, with runner ups including:

Wipers "Youth Of America"
Quasi "Ballad Of The Mechanical Man"
Pond "Carpenter Ant"

and, of course, the 70's Portland band Doogie will be burned in my mind forever after working with one of its ex-members. Egads.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 6 April 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

jack cole in hardcore Clackamas County authenticity non-shockah. Me, I saw Billy Rancher open for Adam Ant on the 'Strip' tour, and yeah, he was corny as shit, but yeah, he was all PDX all the way. And maybe it's because I'm three whole years older, but I'm as 503izzy as you, and Nu Shooz rocked. (I admit Quarterflash and Dan Reed sucked.)

Actually, the greatest Portland moment in pop history is the Trailblazers jacket Run wore in the "Christmas in Hollins" video.

― Neudonym, Sunday, 6 April 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No Fred Cole love from you Oregon peoples? Jeez...

Oregon - Dead Moon "Fire in the Western World"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 6 April 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Maine - The Brood, "Get Me Out Of Your Mind"
New Mexico - The Eyeliners, "Anywhere But Here"
Colorado - The Apples In Stereo, "Signal In The Sky"
Tennesee - Dolly Parton, "Jolene"
Virginia - Pelt, "Empty Bell Ringing The Sky No. 5"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 6 April 2003 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigh. Oregon talk, and yet again, never a mention of Bugskull.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 April 2003 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(nor Irving Klaw Trio or Hochenkeit)

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 April 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

NJ-the feelies

― ddb, Sunday, 6 April 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Michigan - Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold"
Puerto Rico - Ricky Martin, "She Bangs"

Canton Geneva - Krokus, "Long Stick Goes Boom"
Canton Zurich - Celtic Frost, "Circle of Tyrants"

― dave q, Sunday, 6 April 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Alberta - SNFU, "She's Not on the Menu"
Quebec - Voivod, "Into My Hypercube"
Ontario - Rough Trade, "High School Confidential"
Nova Scotia - April WIne, "If You See Kay"*
Manitoba - Streetheart, "Action"
New Brunswick - Stompin' Tom Connors, "The Snowmobile Song"*
British Columbia - NoMeansNo, "Kill Everyone Now"**

* = Haven't actually heard these but the titles are classic. RFI Maritimes anyone?
** = extremely distant second, Brazen Hussies "Whole World II (Kim Il Sung)"

― dave q, Sunday, 6 April 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Maryland: Rootboy Slim/Christmas at K Mart

― order some disorder, Sunday, 6 April 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Elliott Smith - "Needle in the Hay - Oregon

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Sunday, 6 April 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oregon: Pavement* - "Type Slowly"

*yeah, they're from California, but SM's been a PDX'er for the past several years (I saw him on a bus once when I was living there!)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

west yorkshire - jake thackray 'lah-di-dah'
south yorkshire - pulp 'babies'
north yorkshire - bully's special prize to whoever can think of something besides shed seven.
humberside - beautiful south 'the prettiest eyes'

― matthew james (matthew james), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

phil lynott was from cork,nordicskillz,(i think)although my vote for cork would have to go to something by my bloody valentine

― robin (robin), Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

michigan - the MC5 "I can only give you everything"
michigan - madonna "into the groove"
Michigan - Ted Nugent, "Stranglehold"

Not to mention "TV Eye," "Strings of Life," "Superstition," etc.

The Great Lakes State deserves its own top fifty.

― EC, Sunday, 6 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"TV Eye,"

I know, I know; I wanted to go with something less obvious. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Representin' Washington, DC:
Scream/FIGHT!

Scream was from Northern Virginia. This would be a worthy contender, but they lose to Dismemberment Plan, "...Gets Rich."

And now I'll do the obvious: DC (technically not a state, but WHATEVA), Fugazi, "Waiting Room."

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about obvious. What about "Chocolate City"? "Bustin Loose"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohio -- Pere Ubu -- Final Solution

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Oklahoma - Vince Gill, "Liza Jane"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 6 April 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Into the Groove" is a great choice, Jody Beth. Since 1984, every high school graduating class in Michigan has included the Guy Who Constantly Bragged About Being Madonna's Cousin. I don't know why the writer of "American Pie" left that character out of his saga.

In earlier generations, the Girl Who Once Dated Bob Seger and/or Iggy seems to have played a similar role.

― EC, Monday, 7 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

My best friend's wife's aunt used to babysit Madonna. I'm totally not lying either, they're from Rochester.

Michigan: Pleasure Seekers - "What a Way to Die"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Michigan: Pleasure Seekers - "What a Way to Die"

Let's see...

-It evokes the experience of living in the state.
-It's not too obvious.
-It can hang with anything the other forty-nine states have to offer.

We may have a winner...

― EC, Monday, 7 April 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why the writer of "American Pie" left that character out of his saga.

(The film about horny teenagers in East Grand Rapids, not the endless ballad covered by Madonna.)

― EC, Monday, 7 April 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Delaware - George Thorogood - "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (*shudder*)

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 7 April 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

I don't think Scream will ever be known as anything but a DC band. The same with Fugazi, even though they are forever tied to the DISCHORD HOUSE which is in NoVA.

― pig iron, Sunday, 27 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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