Post a song that reps a monument/landmark/special place in your city.
Hotsauce84
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"In early memory
Mission music
Was ringing 'round my nursery door
I said 'Take this child, Lord
From Tucson, Arizona
Give her the wings to fly through harmony
And she won't bother you no more"
San Xavier is literally 2-3 minutes from my house. I can see it from my yard. (It sits on the Tohono O'odham Reservation and the border fence is across the street from me.)
I stop by there once every few weeks or so when I have a sweet tooth:
(That's indian fry bread with honey.)
"When Paul Simon asked me for something from my childhood that visually symbolized the part of the country I grew up in, without even thinking I immediately said the San Xavier (Del Bac] Mission, so he put it in a song that I sang with him as a duet on his Graceland album." - Linda Rondstadt
"In early memory
Mission music
Was ringing 'round my nursery door
I said 'Take this child, Lord
From Tucson, Arizona
Give her the wings to fly through harmony
And she won't bother you no more"
San Xavier is literally 2-3 minutes from my house. I can see it from my yard. (It sits on the Tohono O'odham Reservation and the border fence is across the street from me.)
I stop by there once every few weeks or so when I have a sweet tooth:
(That's indian fry bread with honey.)
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I was on Waterloo Bridge two weeks back, new love on my arm, gazing out during sunset on the vast panoramic sweep from The Eye, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, all those gothic and glorious Victorian buildings, St Paul's, the newer landmarks in the old financial centre like The Gherkin and The Shard, sweeping almost to 360 degrees to take in the South Bank, and all its activity.;and in the distance the skyscraper neon of the Canary Wharf financial district as an ElDorado backdrop.
That's some jaw-dropping sight right there.
A solitary tear rolled down the cheek. True story.
that really happened?
It's the first track on this Edinburgh comp.
http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Eye-Drops-Vol-1/release/69892
now THAT sounds like authentic London
Augusta, Ang??lica and Consola????o are three main streets that run through the heart of downtown S??o Paulo, but they're also women's names, so Tom Z?? wrote this song as a heartbroken love ode to the city. You can't write about how much you love S??o Paulo without mentioning that you hate it.
and I guess this is repping S??o Paulo's subway system. Sorry, the city doesn't have have many nice landmarks.
now I'm living in Porto Alegre, I'll let Nego Ghilbert tell you about its many wonders:
No worries. Yeah I am from Edinburgh and Ritchie's an old pal.
Cheney Lane is where everyone at my upper school (Cheney) would go for a crafty cigarette/joint. Ben was in the year below me.
There might be other songs about Oxford (something in Radiohead's catalogue?), but I don't know 'em.
just a few blocks from the namesake of another of his albums:
current town (bobby talmbout main street ann arbor, mi):
Robin Hood was O-est of G's around my current loc. Something about glens and things of that nature.
This one too:
The Sound Garden does.
Ra says "Cook good in Oaktown like Bakesale Betty's"
I lived pretty much right across the street from Bakesale Betty's at the time; it has since gotten national exposure. We talked about filming a video for this song and, of course, having a cameo from Bakesale Betty for her name-check, but it never happened.
he likes writing about S??o Paulo. This is another one:
"they crammed so much garbage and smoke that the city's conscience is rotten"
this is one of the few affectionate songs about the city:
my friends and i have a drinking game where we have to guess if its a Rush lyric or Tolkien passage.
Many about Boston, but not ones about individual sites or landmarks within the city.
I'm sure RSO rhymed about some spots in Roxbury and Dot.
Indeed! Of course, Dirty Water by the Standells is all about the Charles River. I can't really remember much about this comp other than a track with Guru, but I bet there are plenty of references on here: