Yeh I realized that after I posted it. I meant all the nice areas just south of MLK Blvd.

Everybody please stick to the rules or be punished by way of Trollheart making your computer crash with a tldr dad rant.

My zip code ends in 69 so this sexy song is my choice.

This song perfectly described the city I live in (Liverpool) for me, purely for the lyric "oh, this city's changed so much, since I was a little child."

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

I can identify with it on a huge scale because, as I'm sure people who from the UK (and maybe even people outside of it) will know, the city that Liverpool is today certainly isn't the same city it was even 10 years ago. It was deemed derelict, rotten and a complete dystopia worthy of no one's time and according to many it was past the point of no return. Today, it's completely reinvented itself and turned things around. It's still not perfect, we have issues with crime, poverty (moreover, child poverty), are often hit terribly with cuts because the current government hates the North etc, but it's such a beautiful welcoming city with a **** load of culture and heritage and tonnes of lovely things to see and do and is the city with the most grade 1 & 2 listed buildings second only to London. It's beautiful and I'm so very proud to come from here and I am ostensibly proud of Liverpool's success.

This is a nice time lapse of the city I found on youtube but it really only concentrates on bits of the city centre, there are still much nicer parts not included in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwtyg6JQ0Cc

This guy gets it :laughing:
So does this guy. :thumb:

Look, sorry all if I came across a little
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but if you create a thread saying "post songs about fruit" and some wiseguy posts one about vegetables, or buildings, or fat women, what's the point? You might as well go back to the "Thread with no subject".

Anyway, wgaf? It's just a thread I thought might be fun. If yaz don't want to play, don't play. Or do. It's up to you. :) But if you do, it would be nice if you did indeed play by the criteria stated in the OP.

It's kind of funny that the posts which didn't follow the rules have been the only ones that got responses.

Rush - Subdivisions reminds me of my city. Especially growing up here in the suburbs. Whats with all the hullabaloo?

TH is being a thread Nazi.

I thought I tasted a bit of Himmler.

This song represents the Jersey Shore...



and this one represents NJ (w/ pictures for trollheart)

It's really not that bad anymore. Harlem and Washington Heights have had a bad rap since the 80s when half of Manhattan was a crack house. You still shouldn't walk around too late at night but that can be said about most neighborhoods in all five boroughs. The trouble areas now are Bed-Sty/Bushwick in Brooklyn and the entirety of The Bronx. Those are the areas that should take Harlem's bad rap.

Fun fact. You're more likely to get mugged in Times Square than Harlem nowadays.

I don't know the Bronx well enough to name neighborhoods, but I've definitely been to parts that weren't bad at all.

Riverdale is the only place I'd feel comfortable walking around at night. It's just one man's opinion but I take walks across the bridge to Washington Heights all the time at night and never feel like I'm in any danger. I step into The Bronx and the hairs stand up on my neck like some arctic wolf. Bad vibes every time. It's subjective though.

I find that people are very quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to talking about less desirable suburbs. And a lot of the time they've either never visited or have visited but not in a very long time. Places are hardly ever as bad as people say.

I'll take your word for it your there a lot more often than I am. I mostly went to Queens and Manhattan for work, idk anything about the Bronx.

Uhh.. maybe not where you live, but NJ has some seriously dangerous areas. If you don't know where you're going or who you're going to see (especially if your white) you are getting robbed, beat up, or maybe killed.

Sometimes they are worse.

Ive visited alot of bad projects to buy stuff and nothing bad has ever happened to me but that doesn't mean the place wasn't dangerous.

Places don't get a bad rep for no reason.

This is how you get mugged.

"Kids, are you noticing all this plight?"

Like I said in my response to TH, those posts actually make the thread interesting and worthy of discussion.

I figured I may as well post a song that accurately sums up the town I grew up in, with its many soccer moms, townies, drunks, and white picket fence nonsense families.

I think the posts that are actually what he was looking for are also interesting, but no one replies to them for some reason.

I got distracted by the hissy fit.

Where?

They're just not really interesting. Anybody can post a song that has the city they lived in described, but why do that when I could just look up what the city is like through Google. This isn't a national geographic forum, it's a music forum. That's why I chose to post a song that resembles Seattle. Anybody who's anybody will associate Nirvana with Seattle.

^ That doesn't seem fair, so....

Yes, this is a nice, smooth, not-immediately-obvious song. I loved the line about "Mannequin was filmed at Woolworths"!
The only problem is that I now feel obliged to wiki Philadelphia...

Perhaps you rejected this song as being too predictable, but it has some interesting city scenes too:-

Jeez! Check my sig people! Didn't you learn ANYTHING from Calculon? :laughing:

Seriously, yes, I got distracted giving out to the people who didn't follow the format I wanted and neglected those who did. Your post was very well constructed and thought out Jansz. Now, can you make that weird guy stop pulsing? He's weirding me out. Does he have a name? I'm assuming it's a he...
Meh, I'm no longer going to criticise any posts. Except this next one.
You vill conform!
Which bit? Also, I'm insulted. I build things (mostly threads, journals and drama) --- If I'm to be compared to any Nazi surely it must be Speer?
Thanks for the effort. I know it was ironic and meant to poke fun, but hell, it's a good one.
Scumbags made a docu about my estate. Bastards. It was very much less than complimentary, and totally one-sided.


Everything here is interesting. Especially me. I'm the most interesting thing on this forum. Anyone who says otherwise is just plain wrong and you know they are. ;)

Also, may I point out your (very good) "Grandfather paradox" thread? That's not music. Anyway, I made it clear in the OP what I was looking for. I'm not going over all that again. Just leave it as it is. Post what yaz like.

^Im just giving you **** for ****s and giggles TH. :P

@TH

I was referring to local rep not sensationalist documentary rep.

If the local people tell you to stay away from certain bad areas you best listen to them cause who knows the place better than them? i get some people tend to exaggerate so it all depends on who you listen to but when a bunch of people that live there tell you "You better be careful around here" they must say it for a reason, don't they?

They don't, but also having a bad rep doesn't mean a certain area can't grow out of that and change.

Nah, you get mugged by walking around looking like a lamb on its way to a slaughterhouse.

I've walked around the worst areas of my home city, one particular area being the hot spot for gun crime, under cover of darkness, on more than one occasion. Nothing bad has ever happened to me or did I feel particularly on edge or threatened. I'm only speaking of where I'm from but a lot of the crime here is targeted so I don't feel unsafe.

I understand what you're saying. I'm just saying that having the idea that everywhere is most likely safe will cause you to leave your guard down. Crime does happen.

You need a reality check.

He's on to something though. There are studies that say if you are in a bad neighborhood and don't live there, act like you do. Eat a bag of chips or talk on the phone. They say you're least likely to get mugged because it may be harder to do so for the criminal if you grew up in the same place they did.

That doesn't mean it won't happen though. Crime happens. You have to be on your guard in bad neighborhoods or even perceived bad neighborhoods. Saying stuff like "it's not so bad" is basically being the lamb in a slaughterhouse.

I basically live in New York City. I've been walking the the streets since I was 13. I know the areas and I know the safe havens. I'm always on my guard because people are crazy and crazy people like night time. Sh*t, last weekend I had a dude clearly on drugs come up to me as I was walking at 10:00 at night in The Village and start hassling me. I know those streets like the back of my hand but this guy thought it was a good idea to get in my face. It can happen any time.

lol. I'm curious what you learned from Wikipedia.

As much as I like that song, the reason I didn't pick it is that I don't feel like it's really about the city of Philadelphia itself, it's more about the plot of the movie Philadelphia. I think if the movie had been set somewhere else, Springsteen could easily have written the exact same lyrics (minus the name drop of course) about where ever it took place.

I don't think I had ever seen the video before though. It was pretty cool seeing a lot of locations I know.


I've never heard this song before but it makes me want to take another trip to London. If feel like I missed this part of the city when I went there before.

I've never heard this song or this band before, but I enjoyed how cheery it is. I feel like I should be dancing while listening. I have to admit I can't understand the lyrics well enough to pick up on the references but I can imagine how it could be evocative.

I could definitely see how this could be one of those bittersweet nostalgic songs for someone who used to live in London. It certainly evokes the empty streets I walked down late at night a few times when I was there.

Dude, seriously?

Ah, ok, I didn't make the connection.

^ Well, I learned what Philadelphia means and something about its historical importance, but this was the paragraph that impressed me most:

Every big city should have a river or a coastline, so Philly scores well there, and it has some nice buildings too, like the Georgian row houses and the blue roof of the City Hall. Didn't like the mirrored monolith of the Cira Centre so much; what's the word on the street about that?

^ I should think that the quickest way to work out the lyrics is to sit down with a London tube map and tick off all the station names as you hear them!
How long did you stay in London, Jans ? Were you just in the centre?

Chula Vista is just south of San Diego and pretty much hugs the Mexican border. People are so chill it's ridiculous.

This works.

I don't? What's so hard to grasp? If you walk around looking like an easy target, you will become a target. It's common sense, pal.

I don't expect you to understand, you've no idea what an American ghetto is like. Not saying it's the worst place in the world but if you think you can just come here and pretend to fit in than you're sadly mistaken. Like Exo said there is merit to your argument but you would stick out like a sore thumb no matter how tough or regular you pretended to be. These fucking people call cab drivers just to kill them during gang initiation month, and you think you're gonna walk around and look like you belong there? Do you know what colors are safe to wear in which areas?

Just because they choose to live wild, violent lives doesn't mean there isn't order to the chaos. You have no idea who controls what territory, what the signs mean, etc. You get caught buying from a guy or even talking to the wrong person in the wrong place and you can end up dead. We are talking about areas where the cashiers at gas stations and convience stores are behind bulletproof glass. Stop being so naive.

I'm not referring to an American ghetto though, I think what I said extends further and is more general and certain places are an exception and regardless of how you look you'll be targeted. You're just talking about one place. I think what I said is just the case wherever you go. If you look like an easy pick then you're gonna get picked, end of story.