12-09-2006, 09:53 PM | #31 |
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Werewolves of London. Warren Zevon. Fun song.
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Great topic Lisa. I've thought of quite a few more since you originally brought it up.
Ben Folds has Adelaide, Kalamazoo, Jesusland (about Jesus walking through Red-state urban sprawl), and Rockin' the Suburbs (about the children of Red-state urban sprawlers). All of these songs are excellent, but Jesusland is a touch sanctimonious. Weird Al has the songs Albequerque and Amish Paradise. Somebody mentioned the Weezer song Beverly Hills, but my favorite Weezer "place" song is In the Garage. Johnny Cash fans will like I've Been Everywhere, Singing in Vietnam Talkin' Blues, Banks of the Ohio, and the aforementioned Fulsom Prison Blues. Dwight Yoakam has some good ones. His classic Streets of Bakersfield is a fantastic song. He also has Population Me, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, I Sang Dixie, and a great cover of T for Texas. Hank Williams Jr. has a lot of good Southern songs. I really like If Heaven ain't a Lot Like Dixie. I also like the Peter Gabriel song Solsbury Hill, but I don't know where that is. I'm assuming it's a place. Empire State by Guster is really good. If the Abyss counts as a place, Slayers' Seasons in the Abyss would get the Death Metal nod for best song about a place. |
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Was this in jest? That is, IMO, a dreadful~song. Dock of the bay is immeasurably better. Grace and Marty couldn't hold a candle to it.
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Lyle Lovett's Family Reserve is best song about a graveyard.
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Fine! I'll just take my ipod and go home. Yes, I really like Starship. But then, I like three songs on that "worst songs" list, and I know all the words to Ice Ice Baby. I just don't understand why MacArthur Park isn't on that "worst songs" list. Maybe I'll put it on my list of "worst songs about a place." |
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it start and ends with....
DETROIT ROCK CITY!!!! by the greates rock band ever KISS (I won't argue about this) Another one is "If heaven ain't a lot like Detroit" - by Uncle Kracker "If heaven ain't a lot like detroit that I don't want to go They just dont make like they got on eight mile road If not you can send me to hell or salt lake city it'd be about the same to me" -the notes to the song say "I wrote this after not being let into a "private club" in salt lake city
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Both Kid Rock and Uncle Kracker have made a living out of ripping off Hank Williams Jr. First Kid Rock steals "Country Boy" can survive and Uncle Kracker rips off "If Heaven ain't a Lot Like Dixie," and claims he 'wrote' the song. Detroit has done much for the United States, but it's contribution to the music scene has been rather suspect the last few years. |
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'Santa Monica' by Everclear is terrific. And no offense, but 'We built this city on rock and roll' could be truly the worst song ever. Now, if Liberace sang it, well then it would be golden.
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