Your top 10 all time New York music acts

I'm heading to NYC this weekend. Thinking it would be fun to stick to only listening to New York music enroute and coming home. Help me out by posting your top 10 NYC music acts of all time.

Is Lou Reed a New Yorker? Regardless, I would listen to New York

I'd highly recommend this album.

Played the hell out of this years ago, so good.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009OYSE

He and his New Liver live in New Jersey, I think.

Great album (and I'm not even a Lou Reed fan), but no way would my wife tolerate that on the ride (and I think I only have it on LP). Would any woman?. Should have specified "chick-friendly". (Actually I once had a female friend who disowned me because I told her the VU was overrated, but that's a lifetime ago.)

brennser wrote:
Is Lou Reed a New Yorker? Regardless, I would listen to New York

Soul Jazz does indeed put out some great compilation records, but that one sounds too loud!

Yada wrote:
I'd highly recommend this album.

Played the hell out of this years ago, so good.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009OYSE

1. Run DMC
2. Lana Del Ray
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. The National
5. Matt & Kim
6. Interpol
7. Rapture
8. Sonic Youth
9. Vivian Girls
10. Lydia Lunch
11. Beastie Boys

Ok pitchfork
;D

James wrote:
Soul Jazz does indeed put out some great compilation records, but that one sounds too loud!

Yada wrote:
I'd highly recommend this album.

Played the hell out of this years ago, so good.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009OYSE

hahaha… it is a tad loud.

Lou Reed
VU
Ramones
Television
Cop Shoot Cop
Galaxie 500
Simon and Garfunkle

Asobi Seksu
Quicksand
Swans
Sonic Youth
the Strokes
Beastie Boys
DIIV
TV on the Radio
Wu Tang Clan
School of Seven Bells

James wrote:
He and his New Liver live in New Jersey, I think.

Well he was born in Brooklyn, if that counts for anything.

chaz wrote:

Galaxie 500

Pretty sure they're a Boston band.

killsaly wrote:
Asobi Seksu
Quicksand
Swans
Sonic Youth
the Strokes
Beastie Boys
DIIV
TV on the Radio
Wu Tang Clan
School of Seven Bells

Asobi Seksu is a good one.

Yes they are.  Though I couldnt imagine Sawyer's Wife liking them.  They get a bit too noisy at times, and their Pretty, soft parts wouldnt make up for it.

Its so hard to pick just 10 with all the choices. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Singers_from_New_York_City

Yada wrote:

chaz wrote:

Galaxie 500

Pretty sure they're a Boston band.

eh.  always thought they were from ny

New York Dolls
Ramones
Beastie Boys
Interpol
Patti Smith
Grandmaster Flash
Talking Heads
Sonic Youth
Chic
Television

Phew.. all-time is rough, but here's 10 I've listened to in the past week or so, that i quite like.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Liturgy
Agnostic Front
the Lunachicks
the Bouncing Souls
Parts and Labor
Exitmusic
Love as Laughter
Biggie Smalls
the Jim Carroll Band

wow, that list is all over the place.  I also listened to two Kid'n'Play songs.

chaz wrote:

Yada wrote:

chaz wrote:

Galaxie 500

Pretty sure they're a Boston band.

eh.  always thought they were from ny

I was bored and curious enough to wiki that shit. I guess you're both right?

"Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time as students at Harvard University. Wareham and Krukowski had formed a series of punk-influenced student bands, before Wareham returned to New York.[4] When he returned in 1987 he and Krukowski formed a new band, with Yang joining the group on bass guitar, the new group deciding on the name Galaxie 500, after a friend's car (a Ford car of the 1960s, the Ford Galaxie 500).[1][4] In their early years, Krukowski didn't own a drum kit, so he borrowed one from his Harvard classmate Conan O'Brien, who'd bought a kit but had recently given up playing it. This drum kit can be heard on many of Galaxie 500's early recordings."

Played a little Type O Negative and Unsane on my drive home from NYC yesterday.

Rained like hell for three hours so I needed something loud.