Originally Posted by Smegma covered bell-end

Birmingham:

Judas Priest
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin*
Steve Winwood
The Moody Blues
Spencer Davis Group
Traffic
The Move
Ocean Colour Scene
Dexys Midnight Runners
The Streets
Electric Light Orchestra

*Bonham/Plant were from the Greater Birmingham area and played in bands which were part of the Birmingham music scene, they performed and rehearsed frequently in the city. The other two were southerners but Birmingham can lay claim just as much, if not more than any other city in my opinion.

Liverpool:

The Beatles
The Zutons
Atomic Kitten
Echo and the Bunnymen
Gerry and the Pacemaker
The Searchers
Billy J Kramer
Cilla Black
Billy Fury
The Merseybeats
The Las
Elvis Costello and the Attractions
The Fourmost
Anathema
Flock of Seagulls
Carcass
The Coral

Feel free to add bands for either city. Who wins?

Birmingham for me.