One song to describe your city

DwnWthVwls · 07-18-2015, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Harlem is in Manhattan.

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

**Frownland** · 07-19-2015, 01:03 AM

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.

downwardspiral · 07-19-2015, 01:27 AM

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

Trollheart · 07-19-2015, 05:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frownland

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 guy gets it

Quote:

Originally Posted by downwardspiral

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

So does this guy.

Look, sorry all if I came across a little

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.

**Janszoon** · 07-19-2015, 07:03 AM

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

Plankton · 07-19-2015, 07:15 AM

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

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Originally Posted by Rush - Subdivisions (lyrics)

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone

[Chorus:]
(Subdivisions)
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
(Subdivisions)
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory of lighted streets on quiet nights...

The Batlord · 07-19-2015, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

Whats with all the hullabaloo?

TH is being a thread Nazi.

Plankton · 07-19-2015, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

TH is being a thread Nazi.

I thought I tasted a bit of Himmler.

DwnWthVwls · 07-19-2015, 07:30 AM

This song represents the Jersey Shore...

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

**Exo** · 07-19-2015, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

In NY city Harlem is just north of Manhattan. That's about as night and day as you can get.

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.

07-19-2015, 01:03 AM	#42 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	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. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-19-2015, 01:27 AM	#43 (permalink)
downwardspiral Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 734	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 __________________

07-19-2015, 07:03 AM	#45 (permalink)
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