Songs with Place Names

DianneW · 11-17-2021, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSyspuyWkk8

great guitars Plonker

DianneW · 11-17-2021, 02:14 PM

My late mate Rosi and I slept many a summers Saturday night on Brighton Beach with a crowd and a BBQ..mucho liquids consumed guess we were all underaged for booze at 15 years of age..........

Plankton · 11-18-2021, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by DianneW

great guitars Plonker

...and I've only recently discovered just how great 10cc was and the fact that from that band came Godley and Cream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud0IYMG1MCo

DianneW · 11-18-2021, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

...and I've only recently discovered just how great 10cc was and the fact that from that band came Godley and Cream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud0IYMG1MCo

Yes and meet them in a Pub just by the Marquee Club in London where Rosi and I where about to listen to The Who in Concert...what a night that was.. Rosi actually fainted in the crowds..lots of swaying with the music and the heat was too much for her....
but she came around almost straight away..so we missed nothing of the Concert.

know only to well how you just can't take them all in....

Plankton · 11-19-2021, 08:36 AM

I was always too busy chasing guitars to pay attention to a lot of the other stuff happening around me musically. After stepping away for a few years I'm noticing a lot of the bands I had always shrugged off are 'akchually' really good.

Lisnaholic · 11-19-2021, 05:51 PM

So many songs mention places that I didn't know where to begin, but here's a couple that I particularly like:

Long live track in which the city of Elko takes centre stage. Where is Elko? Waiting for Mindfulness to put it in his "small towns" thread.

Joe Strummer seemed to like mention places in his songs, so it's difficult to choose just one. The most obvious example would be his song "Willesden To Cricklewood", but in this song, a lesser-known place gets what is probably its only-ever mention in music:

Folk music is also chock-full of place name songs; difficult again to settle on one, but here is one mentioning various places on both sides of the Atlantic :

With African music, references to places may pass many of us by, knowing neither the languages or places, but in "Ethiopia" the place name shines out as the subtly best moment of the song:

rubber soul · 11-20-2021, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

So many songs mention places that I didn't know where to begin, but here's a couple that I particularly like:

Long live track in which the city of Elko takes centre stage. Where is Elko? Waiting for Mindfulness to put it in his "small towns" thread.

Elko is a small town in Nevada. I think basically, it's used as a truck stop off Interstate 80

DianneW · 11-20-2021, 10:51 AM

ribbons · 12-03-2021, 11:05 AM

Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02bMHEirGI

ribbons · 12-03-2021, 11:19 AM

Lou Reed and John Cale - Smalltown

"There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh", Pennsylvania.

from Songs For Drella - dedicated to Andy Warhol and pure opera/lieder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqoay8JsuGk

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Plankton Just Keep Swimming... Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: See signature... Posts: 7,765	I was always too busy chasing guitars to pay attention to a lot of the other stuff happening around me musically. After stepping away for a few years I'm noticing a lot of the bands I had always shrugged off are 'akchually' really good. __________________ See location...

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Lisnaholic ...here to hear... Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: He lives on Love Street Posts: 4,444	So many songs mention places that I didn't know where to begin, but here's a couple that I particularly like: Long live track in which the city of Elko takes centre stage. Where is Elko? Waiting for Mindfulness to put it in his "small towns" thread. Joe Strummer seemed to like mention places in his songs, so it's difficult to choose just one. The most obvious example would be his song "Willesden To Cricklewood", but in this song, a lesser-known place gets what is probably its only-ever mention in music: Folk music is also chock-full of place name songs; difficult again to settle on one, but here is one mentioning various places on both sides of the Atlantic : With African music, references to places may pass many of us by, knowing neither the languages or places, but in "Ethiopia" the place name shines out as the subtly best moment of the song: __________________ "Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

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ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J02bMHEirGI

12-03-2021, 11:19 AM	#90 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	Lou Reed and John Cale - Smalltown "There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh", Pennsylvania. from Songs For Drella - dedicated to Andy Warhol and pure opera/lieder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqoay8JsuGk