One song to describe your city
 

Without going for the obvious ("Philadelphia", "New York, New York", "I love LA" etc) can you think of a song that accurately or well describes your home city, perhaps even your view of it? Ideally, a video with some shots of your city would be good. I think this one does me:

Originally from Madchester so for me its gotta be

Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcn4UG6Jd0s

seriously i live so closed to Hell i can see Sparks....

I feel it might be a bit too specific to talk about my "city". (I don't live in one.)

Without going for the obvious... Summertime in Dublin...

This is pretty accurate for the past 2 weeks:

This also might be an obvious one but I put a twinge on it...

My towns song.

**** town? :laughing:^. I haven't hit play but I felt like guessing.

Yep my town in a nutshell

Are you 16?

No. I was when Throwing Copper was released though.

I would have considered "Molly Malone" to be the obvious. But as it happens there aren't a huge amount of songs written about the capital, and I felt "Summer in Dublin" accurately portrays a love of, and also sort of revulsion/boredom with Dublin. Also it's a great song. Even if the Liffey no longer "stinks like hell" thank god.

Oh hell.

Yeah right on too. 1977 didn't it come out in 1993?

I was 8 in 93, geezer.

Pretty much anybody who's anybody who lives in Seattle and outside of Seattle has heard this song.

Nope. Never. Never heard of Heart or Hendrix either.

Although I currently live just outside of Vancouver I've never considered it my home, it's definitely not my city, it's little more than a place close to work to sleep and shower for me. I certainly don't know Vancouver well enough to staple a song to it. I grew up in a small riverside town about an hour drive from Vancouver called Chilliwack, since I moved to the city two years ago I've spent every single weekend back in Chilliwack.

I've always loved CCR, since my parent's played it a lot when I was growing up, but it was only a couple of years ago that I realized the lyrics, line for line, perfectly describe growing up in Chilliwack, moving to the city, and then longing to return back home. I've considered it the song of my hometown since and it almost moves me to tears every time I listen to it while driving back.

"I spent a day dreaming of dying in Mesa, Arizona
Where all the green of life had turned to ash"

After being featured in a 2012 Olympic ceremony, I guess Waterloo Sunset might be the obvious London song. Even if that mini masterpiece is disgarded, it's still pretty difficult to pin London down to just one song, because it get's so many mentions in popular music. Ones that spring to mind are Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner, Sunny Goodge Street, Finchley Central, the Lambeth Walk, Muswell Hillbillies, Slim Slow Slider and -does any one here remember Vera Lynn?- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square.

I managed to reduce my favourites down to three:-

i) In celebration of the humble multi-ethnic neighbourhoods:-



A litany of place names, evocative without being sentimental:-



But when you're walking home at three in the morning the London streets take on a gentler quality:-

if u draw a line straight down the middle of Houston

everything east of that line is Poor people low income housing and chemical Plants

and everything West of that line is Rich people High income Housing and Lots of biz nas Development and Zero Chemcial pants but Two HUGE Parks


jus saying I wonder if a lot of citys are like this I bet they are rather the line is north or south or east to west

rich people don't like living near poor people LOL

Ween—"Freedom of 76"
My favorite song about Philadelphia. The title, of course, is a reference to Philly's key role in the founding of the United States. The lyrics talk about the Liberty Bell, cheesesteaks, Boyz II Men, Fairmount Park, the movie Mannequin, and South Street (though the ho hired for tricks there seems out of place twenty years and a lot of gentrification later). What I like about this song is what is what I like about Philly: it's cool and low key but doesn't take itself seriously at all and isn't afraid to engage in some self-deprecating humor.

The video, which I didn't even know existed until this morning, adds even more with appearances by Independence Hall, the Philly skyline, the Schuykill River, various neighborhoods, and the Liberty Bell itself. The 1:45 minute intro is a little long but kind of amusing.

Did you even read the OP?

Conveniently, this song is about Puerto Rico. The lyrics are in spanish but its message captures the feeling of what it's like to live here.

I know the op said to post a song that described your city not your country but i live in a bad area that reflects the worst of living here.

I rather believe the experience of being from here is best expressed in that pixies song because the song that describes my city would be this one.

It's Norg. He just occasionally bounces off the sides of reality. You know what he's like. :rolleyes:
Incidentally, since we're going there, your contribution seems not to have followed the idea in the OP either, as it's just a song identified with Seattle and not one about it or that mentions it, so far as I know.

But yeah. Norg. :rolleyes: Never On the Right Gradient...

What? Other people did what I did as well.

Yeah, you know, some people did, now that I look.

If anyone is interested in doing this correctly, it's a song to describe your city which should at least include a description of, reference to, or name of the city. Now I look, most of you seem to have missed the point, and DWV? I don't know what the **** that guy is doing????

Clear as I thought the OP was, some of you seem not to have got it.
The **** is this ****? I didn't ask how you were feeling, dude! What has this to do with your home city? Or any city, come to think of it? :rolleyes:
Come on Plank; that's not how it's played. Ki did the same thing. Bit more creative. Something with your city mentioned in it. Also, you're not Canadian are you? :confused:
I have no idea what this is meant to convey, unless you live in Death City. Do you? Live in Death City? That would be cool.

Guys, it's simple: read the OP. I surely don't have to be pointing out how wrong all the above choices are. Or were you sleep-posting, drunk or high? Or all three? :rolleyes:

How many songs out there do you think are about the towns we live in? Learn to OP.

Your song has Dublin in the title.


No, I live in a heroin riddled town on the lagoon, surrounded by the Pine Barrens, in southern NJ. Can you find a song about that?


There's been water and rain for the past 2 weeks. That's partly what my song was about, and how the people living here feel.

I just wanted to describe Houston has far has a,song who cares music sucks 😅

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

Harlem is in Manhattan.

There's nothing wrong with my OP mate. If you can't find a song then don't post. You can't just post whatever you feel like jsut because you want to. Your post has nothing, I repeat nothing to do with any city, so it's you who needs to learn to read.

Actually it's not, as you understand the premise quite clearly, you just decided to ignore it and post a totally unrelated video.
And? That's what it says in the OP. What are you trying to say? Bob posted Hell before Reno or something; that has Reno in the title. That's how to do it.
Bolded: that's up to you. If you can't find a song about your city don't post. It's pissing here too but I wouldn't relate that song to being about Dublin. :rolleyes:

^tbh I among everyone else thought we were posting the right thing. Its much easier to find a song that resembles the city you live in. I'm not gonna go digging for a song with the word "Seattle" in it just for the sake of the thread. That makes for a boring thread. What people posted actually made this thread interesting.

No it doesn't. :p:
DWV's one certainly does not. It makes no sense. I was hoping people would try, like some of you did, but others decided just to throw on whatever they thought would work. I still don't know what Rush has to do with Plankton.

You could always have had this

^funny thing is, I was going to post the intro to Frasier but I didn't think it related to the OP.

my love, my life: Seattle.

we've been having a strange drought recently but.

"Walking in the Rain"



I'll be certain he's my guy
by the things he'll like to do
like walking in the rain
and wishing on the stars up above
and being so in love

Our city is LGBTQ-friendly and truly a beautiful wonder of the modern world.