Greatest Music Producing State/Province/Whatevah

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Self explanatory. I don't have a pick personally.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

But I'm sure y'all do. Proceed if you so desire.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

michigan (motown, iggy, the whole techno thing).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think per capita my home state of Minnesota has quite done well for itself.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

other notables (besides michigan):

california (el-lay punk, zappa, san francisco hippie music [i didn't say that i LIKED it, just that it PRODUCED it])
florida (death metal, 2 live crew)
georgia (otis redding and crunk)
illinois (chicago -- do i really need to expound on that?)
massachusetts (the modern lovers, the pixies, galaxie 500)
minnesota (already covered)
mississippi (the blues generally; elvis presley particularly)
new york (as with chicago, do i really need to expound on this one?)
pennsylvania (gamble and huff, ween!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

rhode island deserves at least a third-party nomination in this category, for producing talking heads, throwing muses and combustible edison despite the entire state being smaller than my kitchen.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Idaho, weirdly (Bullitt to Spill and, well, Idaho)

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

new york

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Monday, 8 March 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ohio: dead boys, rocket from the tombs, pere ubu, devo, chrissie hynde, bootsy collins, breeders, ohio players, guided by voices, i'm not mentioning afghan whigs 'cause i don't like them too much, but i do like the ass ponys, not to mention the immortal rachel "who does lisa like?" sweet. and also not to mention the 14,359 indie-rock bands of note that did their undergrad work at oberlin.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 8 March 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

New South Wales.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 8 March 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, how could i have overlooked ohio? that state gives michigan and new york a run for their money (for devo, pere ubu, the dead boys, and the ohio players ALONE).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 8 March 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want to be a homer, but isn't Tennessee a pretty obvious choice? Memphis + Nashville?

runners-up:
Michigan
Mississippi
Minnesota
New York
Louisiana

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Monday, 8 March 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Other Boston bands, or bands/artists that call themselves that:
J.Geils
Boston
Aerosmith
Mighy Mighy Bosstones
Cars
Tom Rush
James Taylor
Taj Mahal
Chick Corea
Canned Heat
Joan Baez
Arlo Guthrie
Tom Lehrer
Bonnie Raitt
Donna Summer

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There's something about the Dylan/Prince/Replacements combo that makes Minnesota unbeatable by my count. Very high Classic-to-Dud ratio, though NY or Tennessee or Detroit may have produced more good artists.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

new jersey has also produced some musicians of note, you know. including one fellow who's been very popular for 2 decades, or so i hear.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that Danzig dude still rocks, man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Danzig? I thought he was talking about Bon Jovi!

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I would give Bruce credit for three decades.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohio

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Other Boston bands, or bands/artists that call themselves that:
J.Geils
Boston...

not to mention mission of burma. and the real kids and the dogmatics and the outlets and the del fuegos and the lyres and barrence whitfield and the savages. and new edition and, therefore, bobby brown and bell biv devoe. and, if we're talking about states and not just cities, dinosaur jr. and sebadoh and other such stuff from western mass. and if we're going to include canned heat -- do they count as a point for or a point against massachusetts? -- then i believe a mention of new kids on the block is warranted. and, therefore, marky mark and the funky bunch. and, speaking of ridiculously catchy tunes, the lemonheads.

not to mention such semi-forgotten semi-legends as salem 66 and big dipper and christmas and the neats.

and all those punk bands. did someone say ss decontrol? gang green? sorry?

but i refuse to mention human sexual response because i can not stand that dude's voice.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the new jersey fellow who's been popular for two decades is obviously dave wyndorf, going back to shrapnel.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

What area's Manchester in?

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

mass 2nd best band = wild stares

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kentucky:

Richard Hell
Tara Key
Slint
nickalicious

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

SQUIRREL BAIT!!

and i currently live in the town of sinatra, the feelies, and yo la tengo.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

and who's the wisenheimer who said rhode island? i think that the only bands that came from there were christmas and combustible edison (wait, that would be ONE band).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm the rhode island wisenheimer. and i named some bands that weren't combustible edison!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Rhode Island's pretty good from a per-capita pov, esp. if you count the Load Records axis.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

6FS, Lightning Bolt, Arab on Radar, Ian Johnson/Jon Williams, etc.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

With Minnesota you also get Hüsker Dü, Jam/Lewis and Judy Garland.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

greatest music producing island - the south island. (cos our provinces are too small to compare with your states so its unfair)

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Louisiana, without a doubt. Louis Armstrong and Jerry Lee Lewis for starters.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're talking about where artists are FROM as opposed to where they first made an impact, I'll give some love to Arkansas:

Johnny Cash
Al Green
Louis Jordan (and, really, can't we just stop with that trio?)
Charlie Rich
Howlin' Wolf (I think he's from Arkansas -- at least he made his name in West Memphis before hooking up with Sam Phillips)
Levon Helm
Conway Twitty
Sonny Boy Williamson
Bill and Roger Clinton
Evanescence
Wesley "Outkast fan" Clark

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

With Minnesota you also get Hüsker Dü, Jam/Lewis and Judy Garland.

Now there's a mashup waiting to happen.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Howlin' Wolf is from No. MS

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't Idaho from California?

I like the juxtapositions for Minnesota and Hoboken. Likewise:
Indiana: Cole Porter, Michael Jackson
Oklahoma: Woody Guthrie, Flaming Lips
E. St. Louis: Miles Davis, Uncle Tupelo
Louisiana: Leadbelly, Britney Spears
Washington: Bing Crosby, Jimi Hendrix

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

britney spears is from a bordertown on the LA/MS border... McComb, Mississippi.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought she was from Kentwood, LA, but just as well.

Mississippi: Charley Patton, Britney Spears

― Curt (cgould), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

kentwood and mccomb are like 15 minutes apart, kentwood is basically on the border.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Mississippi: August Sons, 1/3 of Dolphins of the Forest, Terrifying Sickos

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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