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01-27-2003, 07:39 PM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | "What's the Song of Your Town?"
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Over in O.T. there's a thread going about beauty, and what it means to you individually. Music is of course, part of all things beautiful.
I digress...Even though I am not from New York. My contention is that there is one song that IS NewYork...City, that is. In all its history and stature, majesty, and tragedy.
That song is George Gershwins' "Rhapsody in Blue".
Do you know of a song that is your towns' song? Not University fight songs, and the like. But is there a song that puts your place on the map?
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01-27-2003, 07:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Braintree, Massachusetts, USA | | | oh i love that dirty waterrrrr...
Boston you're my home!
buh DUM dum dum DUM da Dum
buh DUM dum dum DUM da Dum
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01-27-2003, 07:48 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Ibanez basses and Promethean amp | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | To me, Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out" is the epitome of NYC. It reminds me of my NYC days and nights. Also, "Native New Yorker" by Odessy, as well. As for Atlanta, who the hell knows? Bad Company did a song about her, but it doesn't seem like THE song.
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01-27-2003, 08:11 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | | An old standard: "Moon Over Miami"
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01-27-2003, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Earth (most of the time) | | | Sweet Home, Chicago!
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My kinda town, Chicago is.
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01-27-2003, 10:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | My "hometown" is Corry, PA... so I guess our song would go a little something like this
*blows on a pitch pipe*
OhhHhhHHhhHhhh, Corry with your vast majestic bars. Teenage pregancy and the park. Ohhh, Corry. You have a Wal*Mart noooowwwwwwwwwwwWWWwWwwwww.
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01-28-2003, 06:53 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Ibanez basses and Promethean amp | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | |
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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01-28-2003, 07:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Poolesville, Maryland | | | Don't go back to Rockville
Not really my home town but Rockville is about 20 minutes away
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01-28-2003, 07:54 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Brighton has a whole double album - the Who's "Quadrophenia"!!
But I always think of our song as "Sussex by the Sea" - it is the tune which is always played as Brighton & Hove Albion football club take to the pitch!! 
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01-28-2003, 08:22 AM
| | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | "Hey Detroit!"
There are many songs that define Detroit as well.
"Papa was a Rolling Stone"
"Cloud Nine" both by the Temptations
"Kick Out The Jams" MC5
"Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye (this song is recorded so beautifully. Hey record execs: DO NOT RE-MASTER THAT SONG, OR I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!)
"Inner City Blues" Marvin Gaye
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01-28-2003, 09:00 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 3rd stone from the sun | | | I Left My Heart in San Francisco
Sittin By the Dock of the Bay
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01-28-2003, 10:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | for most folks, "hail to the chief"
for me, fugazi's "waiting room" |
01-28-2003, 03:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rosemead, California | | | California Dreamin
That song says it all. Course you could also go with Randy Newmans "I love LA" or Bob Segers "Hollywood Nights" but I'd rather not.
To me, NY's song should be Jerry Rappoports "Baker Street". Gotta love that sax. Gives off a big city type of vibe.
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01-28-2003, 04:19 PM
| | RIP Rock N Roll | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: I am a phantasm, a figment of your adolescent imagination! | | | I was born in Boston, MA and have lived all over New England. But the one place I consider my home, Hamden CT, has a song...personally, I think "1959" by Spring Heeled Jack exemplifies Hamden the best. |
01-29-2003, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Lawrenceville, Georgia (Metro | | Quote: Originally posted by Woodchuck
As for Atlanta, who the hell knows? Bad Company did a song about her, but it doesn't seem like THE song. | I'm guessing Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands or ARS - Doraville
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01-29-2003, 01:59 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Ibanez basses and Promethean amp | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | LOL!! I live in Doraville!
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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01-29-2003, 02:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: slightly left of the centre | | | Larne's is definitely Therapy - Stop It You're Killing Me (I live just outside Larne).
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01-29-2003, 03:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Lee's Summit, MO | | | "Goin' to Kansas City", or titled just "Kansas City". Who doesn't know that song?
My other town is Chicago, but of all the songs about that town, for me "Lake Shore Drive" is my favorite, by Alliotta Haynes...... |
01-30-2003, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Lawrenceville, Georgia (Metro | | Quote: Originally posted by Woodchuck
LOL!! I live in Doraville! | We will try not to hold that against you! 
Too many police in Doraville with nothing to do, they certainly have a reputation.
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