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12-09-2006, 03:31 PM | #1 |
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Best songs about a place?
Goatnapper's comment about the "Okie from Muskogee" inspires this question:
What's the best song about a place? You could for example, nominate "Do You Know the Way to San Jose." (Although if you do there's something wrong with you.) Or you could probably even argue that "Copa Cabana" is a place. (It's the hottest spot north of Havana!) Personally, I'm going with "Sweet Home Alabama" (although around here people sing Sweet Home Oklahoma which is just wrong), and also B52s "Love Shack." Thoughts? |
12-09-2006, 03:43 PM | #2 |
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Easy. One Night in Bangkok.
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12-09-2006, 03:57 PM | #3 |
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Summertime in the LBC by the Dove Shack
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12-09-2006, 03:59 PM | #4 |
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Stairway to Heaven. That's a place, not a place I'm likely to see, but it still is a place.
Second place, Sweet Home Alabama. Third Place, One Night in Bangkok.
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12-09-2006, 04:09 PM | #5 |
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A good one:
Going to Carolina in my mind
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12-09-2006, 04:11 PM | #6 |
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I grew up in Allentown, PA so I'm going to have to go with the obvious one here and pick Billy Joel.
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12-09-2006, 04:26 PM | #7 |
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12-09-2006, 07:36 PM | #8 |
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I'm surprised no one mentioned Hotel California. When I started the thread I had guessed that was the song I'd see listed most often.
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12-09-2006, 08:52 PM | #9 |
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Hotel calif. is a good one, but the two best eagles songs about a place are Desperado, about the vanishing west (sort of; work with me here) and The Last Resort, which is literally about the condominiumization (is that a word?) of Maui.
I am also surprised no one has mentioned New York, New York. Is there any song that so clearly and immediately evokes a city as "Start spreadin' the news ..."? (I am browsing on my b-berry in the airport so pardon me if someone did mention it and I missed it)
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Katmandu by Bob Seger.
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