New York.
It started things off with the Velvet Underground, and then you have people like Patti Smith, Television, Suicide, and the Talking Heads coming after them. Of course, then you have the No Wave scene (which is experiment/punk) that includes The Contortions, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Glenn Branca, and eventually the almighty Sonic Youth.
So... yea, New York. Hands down. '
(London has Wire and the Clash - that's all I really care about).
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Originally Posted by Stu
Has anybody mentioned Detroit? Certainly the best City for protorock with MC5, The Stooges and Death all hailing from that neck of the woods. If we're being genre Nazis then London. Not for patriotic reasons, it just produced the greatest number of good punk bands. I do love the LA scene though.
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Second choice. I love all three of those bands - especially MC5.