Florida - Search and Destroy

chocolate industries and 2 live crew.

I'm from Florida. Our major contributions to music:

-modern teen pop -creed, matchbox 20, limp B. -gloria estefan -watered down Cuban music (see above) -2 Live Crew -Miami Bass

Not pretty, is it? Not a lot of widespread critical acclaim for our output. Miami Bass can be fun, though.

I really like Tom Petty, despite everything.

"Florida, Florida, it's the perfect place to give it all up" - Vic Chesnutt

Schematic records. The Causey Way. Harry Pussy. Asshole Parade. hmmm... yeah, all I can think of right now.

chocolate industries = now based in Chicago.

Aren't there a lot of death metal bands from Tampa or something?

Lynryd Skyryd and L'Trimm

damn fine song by Vic Chestnut about how everything is fucked in Flo- ri-da

Beach Boys, Doors, X, GoGo's, Paisley Underground, Germs, Nicks&Buckingham,... Yeah, pretty crap.

Interesting conception of Florida you have there.

hah! Hey I am Eurotrash. California... florida. Bah!

Deicide, Death, Morbid Angel!

Home were from Florida before they moved to New York and it all went weird.

The Jad Fair label 50,000,000,000,000,000 Watts is from Stuart. My main squeeze in college is from Stuart, too, which is how I know. She loved Jad Fair.

What Arthur said. What Dave said.

Orlando breaks. Stupid raver music, very popular in the mid 90s, kind of a watered down, trancier version of the Rampant records breaks sound. In fact isn't DJ Icey from florida? Eurch.

The Genitorturers?

fucking disney world. commercial shit. dont know nothing about florida. no point talking about it. anyone like it go fucking live there.

I'm also from Florida, though I live in DC now. Gainesville, Florida has had some positive contributions -- not just Tom Petty, but also punk/hardcore band Hot Water Music, and recent postrock lads Mercury Program. and for the basic pop/rock crowd, there was a band called For Squirrels that was becoming very popular due to their REM-ish debut, until a couple of the bandmembers died in an auto accident and the remaining went on to make grunge.

Electronically, I agree that DJ Icey and AK 1200 (another Orlando DJ) are somewhat generic and representative of the Florida sound, though not awful. But Rabbit in the Moon managed to rise above blandness with some excellent remixes of Sarah McLachlan, Goldie and the like ..

my favorite project of all rising out of Florida is sadly very little known. Rosewater Elizabeth formed in Tampa when barely out of high school and recorded an album, "Faint," that was nice & ethereal but a bit derivative of the whole 4AD sound. Before they broke up they recorded a second, "Le Petit Morte," which is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's ethereal/gothic music blending acoustic and electronic influences, lots of guitar drones, swirling sounds and spacious reverb depth, somewhat like His Name Is Alive's early-90's 4AD records but MUCH MUCH BETTER actually. Their main asset was their vocalist, though, Melissa Mileski, possessed of an incredible high-range and a growling low register that seriously puts her on par with Liz Fraser & other excellent vocalists on this album. One of the most painful recordings I've ever heard ... very album-oriented, songs flow into each other and yet each is structurally very dynamic and different from the others .. sadly, it seems to have just gone out of print. and doubly sadly, www.submarinerecords.com has reported that Underwater, a synthpop/darkwave group formed by two of the members after Rosewater Elizabeth split, has also just broken up..

Oh, and the Causey Way were just one big fucking Make-Up/Nation of Ulysses ripoff band ;)

Tampa, people, Tampa! Death metal ground zero! A whole genre owes its existence to Florida! Morbid Angel alone would redeem Florida if it in fact needed redeeming. There's also a thriving indie-rock scene in Tallahassee, though some people would consider that more a mark against the place than in its favor.

What about Mazza (ie Marilyn Manson)?

Gainesville, Florida has had some positive contributions -- not just Tom Petty

The adjectival description might need to be adjusted.

I seem to remember an entire thread on that, I'll leave the can of worms unopened .. !

Well, the worst comedy act in the history of western civilization got his start there. "President" (*COUGH*) George W. Bush Jr.

― Lord Custos, Friday, 18 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I may ask, what bands are you suggesting comprise the "thriving" indie rock scene in Tallahassee?

Spungo Mungo, the Bastards of Fuck, and Xcorihated.

Werent Ciao Bella from Florida via a Winnipeg label?

Limp Bizkit, Creed, and G.W. Bush -- Florida has a lot to answer for. The Cramps and Morbid Angel will never erase that stench from history, people.

well, Miami was a bit odd, it was cloudy so we didn't see it in it's best light methinks, plus there wasn'tthat much going on, Grillfish was a pretty good restaurant though.

Florida City has a brilliant outlet mall

key largo is most pleasant, if a little highway based.

Key west, if you stay away from Duval street is excellent, especially if you hook up with some locals.

Yes, Mr. Darnielle's right...there's a massive indie-rock/emo/"hardcore" scene here, but I think that's to Tallahassee's detriment.

Mira's from here and they're lovely, but I think they've split up (but haven't announced it yet). Melody and Regina are now in Trust Weiness (weird electro-pop group with the members of Alliegood Avenue...Melody married one of the guys in Alliegood).

Isobella and Polar are supposed to be really nice. I must check out Rosewater Elizabeth.

ciao bella were in oakland when they released the album, maybe they originated in florida though, but then they weren't very good.

plastic mastery is from florida.

How do you know The Plastic Mastery? I didn't realise anyone knew of them outside of Tallahassee! (Yup, they're from here too...and they have been invloved with several side projects locally.)

The Cruxshadows haven't been mentioned here but they're also Tallahasseean.

the brittle stars were from florida. i love them.

Gainesville gave birth to just intonation/minimalist drone deities Big Swifty. That is quite enough.

Search Obituary. I thought that would a fun command.

But really World Demise is still a pretty bad ass metal album. I still think most of the best death metal is/was Floridian.