No party lasts forever. Even in Miami.
The booze runs out. The coke gets snorted. The girls stop dancing. The club closes. The night ends.
But at least the music -- like Exposé's freestyle classic "Point of No Return" -- will never die.
Every night in the discotheque of eternity, you can slam vodka shots, toot fat lines, and shake that beautiful ass to a chiming hyperactive beat.
That's called immortality. Now check the cut for numbers 10 to 6 in Crossfade's epic list of the 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time.
10. Murk
Miami homeboys Oscar Gaetan and Ralph Falcon didn't just put the 305 on the house music map in the '90s. They defined that decade's worldwide house sound, sending seven consecutive singles to number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. And with a case of classic-house nostalgia seizing today's international dance floors, Gaetan and Falcon's sound is hotter and more relevant than ever. Get a load of 2011's chart-topping Murk comeback -- "Amame," featuring Jei -- for a taste of homegrown Latin-flavored Miami house at its best. -- Sean Levisman
9. NRBQ
Mostly led by pianist and songwriter Terry Adams, this legendary underground act got its start as a jam band in Kentucky. But it evolved into a fully formed outfit after hitting our swamplands in 1967. From that point until 2004 (with occasional reunions over the course of the past eight years), NRBQ (an abbreviation of New Rhythm and Blues Quartet) brewed a bubbling blend of psych-rock, heavy blues, experimental jazz, rockabilly, and ragtime that's been praised by everybody from Bob Dylan to Bonnie Raitt. If anything, the group was unpredictable, a quality that's made its influence on other acts far outshine any actual sales impact. NRBQ, an act once known for warped covers, has now itself been covered frequently by Raitt, Widespread Panic, and even Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward's She and Him. -- Arielle Castillo
8. Exposé
The 23-second instrumental intro to 1985's "Point of No Return" is a master class in Miami freestyle. That alone is enough to immortalize Exposé. But then there are those perfect '80s pop vocals. And you just can't deny that your knees get weak when you hear the words, "Oh, baby!" Yet while the ladies of Exposé deserve a lot of credit, Miami DJ Lewis Martineé was the real mastermind behind the group. After all, "Point of No Return" and megahit "Seasons Change" were performed by two different sets of singers. But even personnel changes couldn't stop this phenomenon from topping the Billboard charts and making its 1987 debut, Exposure, a dance-pop classic. -- Jose D. Duran
7. Poison Clan
Signed to Luther Campbell's Luke Records and billed as the "Baby 2 Live Crew," JT Money and Poison Clan, in their earliest incarnation, were actually closer to Miami's version of the Geto Boys. While the group's sound would shift into more typical Miami bass territory after the departure of New York-raised MC Debonair, Poison Clan's 1990 debut, 2 Low Life Muthas, with its ig'nant lyrics about pimping and other unseemly pursuits, set up the emergence of raw Southern rap duos like UGK and 8Ball & MJG. Later LPs recorded by JT Money with an assortment of randoms were less complete but still produced the occasional Miami bass classic. Most notably, there was 1992's game-changing "Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya," which established the gruff vocal style that would become standard on nearly every bass record released thereafter. Of course, though, JT Money would have his greatest commercial success as a solo artist with 1999's 305 classic, "Who Dat." -- Jesse Serwer
6. Load
This early-'90s Miami rock band was the epitome of unfuckwithable. In keeping with the grunge era's pastiche of punk grit and classic-rock bravado, Load channeled hardcore's intensity (as interpreted by seminal record labels like Amphetamine Reptile and Touch and Go) into rip-roaringly drunk, nasty blues. During its heyday, this crew opened for nearly every major hard rock, punk, and alternative act (the Ramones, Bad Brains, FEAR, Killdozer) that was foolhardy enough to drive all the way down to Miami. -- Matt Preira
Check out the other installments of Crossfade's 50 Best Miami Bands of All Time:
-From 50 to 46: Scraping Teeth, Frank Williams & The Rocketeers, Iko Iko, ANR, Miami Bass Warriors
-From 45 to 41: Nuclear Valdez, The Goods, Locos Por Juana, Cynic, Avenue D
-From 40 to 36: The Agency, Pygmy, Suenalo, Triple C's, The Crumbs
-From 35 to 31: Quit, Young and Restless, The Reactions, Afrobeta, Cavity
-From 25 to 21: Critical Mass, Phoenicia, The Dogs, Chickenhead, Floor
-From 20 to 16: Buckwheat Boyz, The Mavericks, Against All Authority, T-Connection, The Eat
-From 10 to 6: Murk, NRBQ, Exposé, Poison Clan, Load
-From 5 to 1: KC and the Sunshine Band, Sam & Dave, Harry Pussy, Miami Sound Machine, 2 Live Crew
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