Popo: Next Cities?

Alex the Tall · Post by **Alex the Tall** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:53 am

Vote for Montreal for the next city that popo will add!!! I want to be in a "Quebec's french" city!

Post by **Shadd666** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:52 pm

Alex the Tall wrote:Vote for Montreal for the next city that popo will add!!! I want to be in a "Quebec's french" city!

There are no official votes submitted by the devs... I don't even know if they really take a close eye on those "vote for next city" threads

I'd prefer Tokyo. Japan is a big music market, but there's still no japanese city in the game, while Canada already have one with Toronto. I'd live to "visit" Montreal (even in real life

) but it wouldn't be my top priority actually in the game. After Tokyo, i'd go for a second city in Canada, Montreal should be a good choice. Then a 4th city in the US. Europe already have a lot of cities, so i think the devs should add more in other parts of the world. Only my thoughts though...

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:53 pm

Definitely Tokyo next! Maybe go with city in Sweden or Finland (they're not in the game yet, are they?). That would be good for some of the metal bands. I hear Death Metal is huge there. Plus, in Sweden you could have the next ABBA or Ace of Base. LOL! Montreal would be a good choice at some point. I'd like to say Boston for a US city but I have a feeling it would never happen because it's so close to NY. Maybe somewhere in Texas (Austin has a big music scene) or the grunge capital, Seattle.

Post by **Shadd666** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:09 pm

There's already Stockholm in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland

By the way, Europe already has the higher concentration of cities on the popomap. Sounds a bit logical though, but it would be good to devellop the rest of the world.

I'd go for Tokyo for the already mentionned reasons, and furthermore it would add a continent to play in, as there's actually no city in Asia. Neither in Africa, but the music market is really smaller there, so it should wait a bit, even if it would be cool to have one or two cities in Africa, especially mor musics of the world and traditionnal music styles.

oxenhoper · Post by **oxenhoper** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:40 pm

I'd have to be patriotic and say Leeds in England. My reason Yorkshire is the greatest county often called gods own country and after all, all the best bands all come from England anyway.

Alex the Tall · Post by **Alex the Tall** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:46 pm

[quote="Shadd666"]There's already Stockholm in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland

By the way, Europe already has the higher concentration of cities on the popomap. Sounds a bit logical though, but it would be good to devellop the rest of the world.

I'd go for Tokyo for the already mentionned reasons, and furthermore it would add a continent to play in, as there's actually no city in Asia. Neither in Africa, but the music market is really smaller there, so it should wait a bit, even if it would be

Welcome in Paris, if i didn't had some good people in my band right now, i would had asked you to join urs!

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:17 pm

Shadd666 wrote:I'd prefer Tokyo. Japan is a big music market, but there's still no japanese city in the game

Big or not, J-Pop and J-Metal are pure evil, don't touch these!!!

Post by **Calv** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:53 pm

oxenhoper wrote:I'd have to be patriotic and say Leeds in England. My reason Yorkshire is the greatest county often called gods own country and after all, all the best bands all come from England anyway.

Make it Manchester and I'd agree with you

Post by **Minstrel** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:25 pm

They've said many a time that they won't add locations just to fill out the map so to speak, but will only do so when a translation is available for the area, so that explains why there are no asian or say african cities.

And while we're making plugs my crusade has always been to have Austin Texas as the next Popo town. Not only would it close that wierd travel glitch with Mexico City, it also fuflills another criteria they've used before which is to have towns of musical significance as Austin has a huge music scene, the countries oldest televised music series (Austin City Limits, broadcasting since the 60s) and is home to the South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival where hundreds of bands play every year looking to be signed.

Second on my list is my own Chicago whose blues and rock contriubtions to the scene shouldn't be forgotten, but admittedly is only 2nd on my list due to it being my RL home.

Tied for third on my list are Las Vegas and New Orleans

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:35 pm

I've got to agree with your US list for the most part, Minty. Chicago is debatable. I think they were a big blues town in the past but I don't know how relevant the Chicago music scene is today. I'd actually go with Detroit before Chicago. If you're thinking of the past, you can't overlook Motown. Plus good old Ted Nugent in the 70's. You've also got Kid Rock as a more modern example.

Being a homer, I've got to put another plug in for Boston. Boston gave us Aerosmith, Boston (the band), The J Geils Band, Godsmack, Dropkick Murphys, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Letters to Cleo, plus artists from around Boston like Staind, James Taylor, Carly Simon, and others. And even though they were a rubbish boy band, The New Kids on the Block were from Boston. There has been so much big hit music that has come out of this area.

oxenhoper · Post by **oxenhoper** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:57 pm

Minstrel wrote:They've said many a time that they won't add locations just to fill out the map so to speak, but will only do so when a translation is available for the area, so that explains why there are no asian or say african cities.

I could do the translation for yorkshire................

Aye up lass as theesen got thasells in't pickle.

Post by **E5150_ca** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:20 pm

In terms revelance to real world music scene, I think Seattle has to be next, they had a big impact in the late 80's and 90's.

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:30 pm

well, I do some self-glorification of Quebec province too:

Yeah Yeah, Montréal needs to be added. It's the cultural center of the Belle province. We have exported Celine Dion to the USA and Garou, Isabelle Boulay, Natasha St-Pier and Luc Plamondon to France (in exchance they send us Lara Fabian, Lorie and Patrick Bruel....) Not bad I think!!

On the metal scene, Voivod, Unexpect, Anonymus, Cryptopsy
On the Rock scene, Grimskunk, Groovy Aardvaark, Arcade Fire old school: Robert Charlebois, Offenbach, Pagliaro, Harmonium
Punk and wannabe-punk: Secretaire Volante, Trois-accords, Simple Plan (boo!)
Jazz n Blues: Oscar Petterson, Charles Biddle, Oliver Jones, Bob Walsh, the Untouchables, Vic Vogel
Classical: now we got Kent Nagano leading our symphonic orchestra!

Pop music: J-P Ferland, Felix Leclerc, Zachary Richard (Cajun but a lot of popularity here), now Gregory Charles getting big. Pierre Lapointe will surely be our next musical chief export. Rufus Wainwright is our own openly gay singer (joke)
Folk and World music: Marco Calliari, Mes Aieux, la bottine souriante (best of the best trad-group)

Here, "has been" band still got massive attendance at shows, like Iron Maiden (the best in the deepest of my heart) or Bon Jovi (chick flick soft rock..

).

Vote for Montréal, ville du rock!

Hopes you have humour sense

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:44 pm

I'm glad you added that last bit, holydogg! LOL!

I was going to say, the only artists you listed there that I have ever even heard of are Celine Dion, Voivod, and Rufus Wainwright. We really wish you guys would take Celine Dion back.

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:55 pm

bruins72 wrote:We really wish you guys would take Celine Dion back.

Let's say it's a backlash for taking the Nordiques, Jets and Expos

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:49 pm

LOL! And what about Loverboy and Bryan Adams? What was that all about?

Post by **Shadd666** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:52 pm

holydogg wrote:We have exported Celine Dion to the USA and Garou, Isabelle Boulay, Natasha St-Pier and Luc Plamondon to France (in exchance they send us Lara Fabian, Lorie and Patrick Bruel....) Not bad I think!!

That was an awful deal for both

darn! You even have Lorie???

You're really sadly unlucky then

Minstrel wrote:Odd... my mood just jumped from 84 to 100 for no apparent reason I thought the Halloween bonus had kicked in early but nothing in my diary about it. Wierd.

Same here

I guess it's the halloween mask, even if it's not noticed yet in the diary.

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:07 am

Shadd666 wrote:
holydogg wrote:We have exported Celine Dion to the USA and Garou, Isabelle Boulay, Natasha St-Pier and Luc Plamondon to France (in exchance they send us Lara Fabian, Lorie and Patrick Bruel....) Not bad I think!!
That was an awful deal for both

darn! You even have Lorie??? You're really sadly unlucky then

A long time ago, you also sent us G-squad...... pure pathetic geniuses!! Backstreet Boys are the Beatles compared to them!!!
At least we got Henri Salvador, M or Rachid Taha once a while at Festival International de Jazz or Francofolies

Post by **Minstrel** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:40 am

As you can see now that I've moved it to it's own thread, this whole thing has gone terribly off topic and is no longer even about Popo so please stay on topic and talk about Popo in the Popo thread not matters of "real life" bands and who sent who and etc. it's all off topic and next time I'll delete instead of move posts that go this far off topic.

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:39 pm

Minstrel wrote:As you can see now that I've moved it to it's own thread, this whole thing has gone terribly off topic and is no longer even about Popo so please stay on topic and talk about Popo in the Popo thread not matters of "real life" bands and who sent who and etc. it's all off topic and next time I'll delete instead of move posts that go this far off topic.

Hail to the King!!

Minty our Enlightened Despot!

Post by **batdad** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:42 pm

bruins72 wrote:LOL! And what about Loverboy and Bryan Adams? What was that all about?

Hey bud...Those guys are VANCOUVER! Don't even dare insinuate they are PQ bands.

Loverboy ROCKS!!!!

Not involved in Popo but the Vancouver-Seattle area rocks. DOA, All the grunge of the 70s, and of course do not forget Bryan and Loverboy, or Sarah McLaughlan or Bob Rock and Paul Hyde, Bruce Allen, Bruce Fairburn...Not to mention that virtually every heavy rock band that has "sold out" or made it has recorded here or rehearsed here at 1 time or another. (Metallica, Aerosmith, THe Rolling Stones, Megadeath, Anthrax, Van Halen plus many more I cannot recall right now. Oh wait..>The Tragically Hip

)

BTW--That now includes The Police after they were here rehearsing for Grammy's and Tour. I remember see David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen in a bar here way back when he had hair. Bar was called Champagne Charlie's...not exactly the class you would expect these guys to be at.

Now back to Quebec...Holydogg you forgot your best export ever....COREY HART!

And now I will leave Popo-world stuff alone since I do not play.

bruins72 · Post by **bruins72** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:47 pm

batdad wrote:
bruins72 wrote:LOL! And what about Loverboy and Bryan Adams? What was that all about?
Hey bud...Those guys are VANCOUVER! Don't even dare insinuate they are PQ bands. Loverboy ROCKS!!!!

Not involved in Popo but the Vancouver-Seattle area rocks. DOA, All the grunge of the 70s, and of course do not forget Bryan and Loverboy, or Sarah McLaughlan or Bob Rock and Paul Hyde, Bruce Allen, Bruce Fairburn...Not to mention that virtually every heavy rock band that has "sold out" or made it has recorded here or rehearsed here at 1 time or another. (Metallica, Aerosmith, THe Rolling Stones, Megadeath, Anthrax, Van Halen plus many more I cannot recall right now. Oh wait..>The Tragically Hip )

BTW--That now includes The Police after they were here rehearsing for Grammy's and Tour. I remember see David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen in a bar here way back when he had hair. Bar was called Champagne Charlie's...not exactly the class you would expect these guys to be at.

Now back to Quebec...Holydogg you forgot your best export ever....COREY HART!

And now I will leave Popo-world stuff alone since I do not play.

Sorry, I wasn't picking just Quebec artists. I was going with Canada in general. I can't keep track of all you Canadians!

So you're telling me that it's Canada's fault when all of these bands sold out? Thanks a lot! I liked my old Metallica!

Let's not bring The Tragicall Hip into this. They're a purely Canadian thing. I don't think non-Canadian brain are equipped to even go there! Plus, Harry Sinden is the uncle of one of the guys in that band, IIRC. That can't be good!

LOL! Corey Hart! Never Surrender!

Post by **Shadd666** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:16 pm

Only Canadian musician that i know and really love is Devin Townsend

Back on topic, i'd say that Seatlle should be a good choice. I can't talk about their grunge scene in the 70's as i wasn't born, but the Nirvana's effect was really huge!

I don't really know about the Vancouver's scene (too far! ^^), but it should be good to have a west-canada city.

So actually my top 3 choice would be:
1 Tokyo ; Japan deserves a city, even if it's actually hard to have someone for translations

)
2 Vancouver ; or any other city in Canada, mostly in the west, to balance with Toronto
3 Seattle ; a 4th city in the US should be good, due to the size of the country. In the same territory space, Europe actually has around 15 cities!

holydogg · Post by **holydogg** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:57 pm

Shadd666 wrote: In the same territory space, Europe actually has around 15 cities!

I agree with you, but how many languages in there? more than 10 maybe.
L'Amérique française need a voice, vote for Montréal

And with Japan, I hope the devs will not add "symphonic Final Fantasy soundtrack orchestra" in the musical genre

Alex the Tall · Post by **Alex the Tall** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:54 am

holydogg wrote:
Shadd666 wrote: In the same territory space, Europe actually has around 15 cities!
I agree with you, but how many languages in there? more than 10 maybe.
L'Amérique française need a voice, vote for Montréal

And with Japan, I hope the devs will not add "symphonic Final Fantasy soundtrack orchestra" in the musical genre

First of all we said that a city is added to add a new langage i am ok whit that. So we have London in England for the english people of this world. In the southern country of my beautiful Québec there's the USA, well you're talking english too, so you could be whit London. But you have an another english then them as we, Quebecers, we have an another french then french people... So we WANT and we DESERVE Montreal as the Metropole of the quebecers!