It's a city where you can hear music most times of the day, with festivals aplenty, musician-filled pubs and clubs and an army of buskers.
But what are the city's top ten bands of all time?
We've concentrated on groups where at least two members have real connections with Bath for what will undoubtedly be a hotly-debated list.
* Tears for Fears are without the doubt the best-known band to hail from Bath. Formed in 1981 by then teenagers Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal, the group's hits included Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Mad World, and they have sold more than 30 million albums. After some time apart, the duo began working on a new album last year.
* Stackridge: This progressive folk-rock group performed at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970. After a string of albums, the band broke up in 1977, with members James Warren and Andy Cresswell-Davis going on to form The Korgis and having hits such as Everybody's Got to Learn Some Time, before reforming in 1999.
* The Heavy: An indie rock band whose best-known song How You Like Me Now? has featured in the TV series The Vampire Diaries and was played just before the vital US presidential election results from Ohio were announced in 2012.
* Electronic music group Goldfrapp was formed in London in 1999 by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory, who are now based in Bath.
The pair are currently touring, having released their sixth studio album, Tales of Us, last September.
* The Family Rain are an English blues rock band made up of brothers William, Ollie and Timothy Walter, who set up the group three years ago after playing together in Rock Pirates and Dark Horse. They have supported artistes from the Rolling Stones to Biffy Clyro.
* Rock and roll outfit Bite the Buffalo is another band of brothers – Stos and Miti Goneos, who have lived in Zambia but recorded their debut album Blue Lips in a garage in Bath.
* The Duckworths are a rock/ska band with a brass section from who have been likened to BabyHead and have played at festivals and gigs all over the west.
* The Propellerheads were set up in 1995 by electronic producers Will White and Alex Gifford, with the name slang for nerd.
Their single History Repeating was a collaboration with Shirley Bassey.
* Trigger the Bloodshed have been dubbed the heaviest band in Britain. The death metal group were set up in Bath in 2006 and have made three albums.
* The Volt were described as one of the hardest-working bands in the west when the Bradford on Avon-based four-piece called it a day with a final gig at Moles in Bath in 2010.
We could have course have squeezed in the Stranglers if we'd stretched a geographical point, and we should give honourable mentions to new band Decade and the beautifully-named Hot Dog Jackson and the Rockin' Boogie Aces.
But what do you think? Les us know if we've got it right.
