Your top 10 all time Detroit Area music acts

Next time I head to Detroit, I like to do it James Ford style and listen to loads of Detroit stuff on the way.  Help me out by posting your top 10 Detroit music acts of all time.

Here's my top 10

1. Juan Atkins (Cybertron / Model 500)
2. The Funk Brothers
3. Iggy Pop and Stooges
4. Carl Craig (Paperclip People/Innerzone Orchestra)
5. Mood Elevator
6. The Dirtbombs
7. J. J. Barnes
8. Brendan Benson
9. The Waxwings
10. Bettye Lavette

The Meatmen
Negative Approach


is that 10?

kosmo wrote:
Next time I head to Detroit, I like to do it James Ford style and listen to loads of Detroit stuff on the way.  Help me out by posting your top 10 Detroit music acts of all time.

Here's my top 10

1. Juan Atkins (Cybertron / Model 500)
2. The Funk Brothers
3. Iggy Pop and Stooges
4. Carl Craig (Paperclip People/Innerzone Orchestra)
5. Mood Elevator
6. The Dirtbombs
7. J. J. Barnes
8. Brendan Benson
9. The Waxwings
10. Bettye Lavette

I think you forgot Motown ever existed.

Supremes/Diana Ross
Stevie Wonder
Temptations
White Stripes
Suzi Quatro
Parliment Funkadelic
Phil Ochs
The Romantics
Spinners
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Yup I completely forgot Motown existed  ::)

also I went to High School with the singer of Negative Approach, he was one of the Burnout/Freak crowd and once donned Alice Cooper make-up for a HS battle of the bands.  He later was in Laughing Hyenas and Easy Action ;)

kosmo wrote:
Yup I completely forgot Motown existed  ::)

also I went to High School with the singer of Negative Approach, he was one of the Burnout/Freak crowd and once donned Alice Cooper make-up for a HS battle of the bands.  He later was in Laughing Hyenas and Easy Action ;)

No offense but I am begining to think you are tone death.

Why because I happen to know that the Funk Brothers were the studio musicians who backed all the Motown SINGERS you mentioned.  Without the Funk Brothers most of the early Motown releases would have been a cappella.  I choose at this to acknowledge the legacy of the Motown musicians.  Some of whom considered my dad a friend.  Watch Standing in the shadows…

theres got to be some killer jazz cats from detroit

also some of the early Bob Seger is great… and was pretty big regionally

Nobody's mentioned Kid Rock.  Or the "born and raised in south detroit" pretender, Steve Perry.

kosmo wrote:
Why because I happen to know that the Funk Brothers were the studio musicians who backed all the Motown SINGERS you mentioned.  Without the Funk Brothers most of the early Motown releases would have been a cappella.  I choose at this to acknowledge the legacy of the Motown musicians.  Some of whom considered my dad a friend.  Watch Standing in the shadows…

Because you left off the Supremes and picked Brendon Benson.  Picking studio musicians doesn't count. 

Not that it really matters, because you'll shout me down, but the Supremes are one of my lest favorite Motown acts…

kosmo wrote:
Not that it really matters, because you'll shout me down, but the Supremes are one of my lest favorite Motown acts…

Supremes had 12 #1 hits and that isn't even including Diana Ross' solo hits.  So I think you might be in the minority in this one. I guess it is like saying the Beatles were your least favorite British invasion band and you think the Mock Turtles are the better Liverpool band.  You might not be the only one with this opinion but you are in a very small minority.

Detroit Cobras

Crenshaw!  C'mon.

grateful wrote:
Nobody's mentioned Kid Rock. 

While KR is dedicated to the metro area and seems like an overall good dude, he fucking sucks as a musician.

Bagley and Shemp both point out why making lists is hard.  Let's just say they are in the next 10 ;)

The title of the thread is YOUR top 10. Not THE top 10.

atomicfront wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Not that it really matters, because you'll shout me down, but the Supremes are one of my lest favorite Motown acts…

Supremes had 12 #1 hits and that isn't even including Diana Ross' solo hits.  So I think you might be in the minority in this one. I guess it is like saying the Beatles were your least favorite British invasion band and you think the Mock Turtles are the better Liverpool band.  You might not be the only one with this opinion but you are in a very small minority.

kosmo wrote:
Not that it really matters, because you'll shout me down, but the Supremes are one of my lest favorite Motown acts…

Start using all caps then so we know when you're serious as opposed to just typing loudly.

atomicfront wrote:
No offense but I am begining to think you are tone death.

I'm not sure what "tone death" is but I'm definitely stealing that for my next heavy metel band.

Bagley wrote:
Detroit Cobras

good one..the bottom seemed to fall out pretty quickly though…

btw they used to play here all the time and its been a while..