Name Top 5 Bands in These Cities

Beck
Cypress Hill
Metallica
The Monkees
Ned Raggett

Bay City Rollers
Beta Band
Edwyn Collins
Idlewild
Josef K

2 Live Crew
Iron and Wine
Miami Sound Machine
Vanilla Ice
KC and the Sunshine Band

Strike Nation of Ulysses; insert Chuck Brown.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Germs
Byrds
Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins
John Cage

X
Byrds
Love

Washington, DC
I'd say: Minor Threat, SOA, the Slickee Boys, TroubleFunk, Fugazi

LA
Black Flag, Circle Jerks, X, Minutemen (well, they were from San Pedro, but close enough), TSOL

Edinburgh
I couldn't begin to tell you. The Exploited, maybe? Or were they from further up north?

Florida (Entire State)
I don't think anything good has ever come out of this State....and I'm not just talking about bands, either. It had an entertaining Death Metal boom in the 80's, but unless you're an acne-speckled, greasy-haired, school-shooting-plottin' reprobate, you probably don't care about that.

the fire engines
josef k
fini tribe
boards of canada
the scars

beta band aren't from edinburgh.

i resent that, though maybe 5 or 10 or 15 or 50 percent of it is true...

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Manchester:
10cc
Oasis
The Hollies
Doves
The Stone Roses

London:
Yes
Kinks
Madness
The Jam
The Who

Birmingham:
Dodgy
ELO
Duran Duran
Ocean Colour Scene
The Move

Wales:
Super Furry Animals
The Alarm
Catatonia
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Dave Edmunds

As I mentioned in another thread, San Pedro is city of LA so Minutemen are very much an "LA" band, in every sense of the word. I think Black Flag are from Lawndale or thereabouts, which is not city of LA.

best thing i've read on here all year!

I can actually do this one for you guys, and although I haven't heard them still I'll add Keith's suggestion since they're from Tally Ho and the local bands I really enjoy here respect them.

Mira (often described as darkwave/shoegaze but with a pop sensibility)
Rosewater Elizabeth (imagine half of 4AD in one band)
The Plastic Mastery
Trust Weiness (quirky/dreamy electro-pop)
Moraine (*snickers* That's me...all encompassing from lo-fi dance-punk to freeform 23 Skidoo-esque creepouts to drones that sound like Roy Montgomery dabbling with simple MIDI programmes and a shortwave radio)

And since I've thought of four bands from Tallahassee ALONE (Rosewater Elizabeth's from Seminole, a St. Peterburg suburb) I'll add a fifth and give honourable mentions.

Miss July (sadly defunct...they were like the local answer to Rose Melberg's various projects)
Alaskan Pirate and his Salty Seamen (a wonderful drunken debauchery of sea shanties -- some original -- and they even do a song inspired by playing too much of The Yukon Trail! How can you not love them?)
Northvia (local answer to early Dif Juz)
Starry Crowns (like Mira with the weirdest drum machine ever)