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Subject: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: ChuckyG on 10/24/13 at 9:33 am

I've been planning on building an entire website around the idea of places mentioned in songs, and places related to music you could go visit (like say the home of Motown)

until then, here's a song about the state my family has lived in for the last 350+ years...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvUMV1N7eGM&feature=c4-overview&list=UUYM3pKj9tFQOXc2XcJmj8Vg

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/24/13 at 12:58 pm

Let us start with New York, New York by Frank Sinatra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0_S62E2ylY

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: XYkid on 11/14/13 at 2:09 pm

Here's one about my hometown of Portland, Oregon. And yes, the girl in the middle of the first picture is Carrie Brownstein from Portlandia, she's the guitarist and singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLgPGpX5Gek

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: Funboat on 11/14/13 at 6:02 pm

Vienna by Ultravox
Penny Lane by The Beatles
California Dreamin' by The Mamas And The Papas

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: whistledog on 11/15/13 at 7:13 pm

The Tragically Hip had a hit song in 1990 called 38 Years Old.  It was a fictional re-telling of an actual escape that occured in 1973 at Millhaven Institution in the small town of Bath, Ontario. 

The Institution is the current home of convicted killer and serial rapist Paul Benardo.  As it is an institution, it's not a place one can actually visit, but you can see it from the countryside as you drive over train tracks on one of the main roads that goes through that area

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vaz8mi_g4E

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: Paul on 11/16/13 at 10:01 am

No, no, no, Macca...London's a city - not a town! (The one in the UK is, that's for sure!)

Still, he got the bit about the rain right...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B5HNOI7IbE

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: karen on 11/21/13 at 4:17 pm

I've actually stood on the corner in Winslow, Arizona as mentioned in Take It Easy by The Eagles

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: c_keenan2001@hotmail.com on 12/09/13 at 2:02 am

Does Leaving Las Vegas by Sheryl Crow count?

Subject: Re: Songs about places or that mention places

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/13 at 2:08 am


I've actually stood on the corner in Winslow, Arizona as mentioned in Take It Easy by The Eagles
My son has too, my turn wil come next time when we are in the USA.

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