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08-24-2012, 06:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | Songs About City Life
Hey guys. I do a radio show on my university's station. Before it was solely a jazz/hip hop show, but I'm branching out into all the other types of music I listen to by having a theme for each week.
This week, I'm planning on doing songs about city life. I'm having a hard time coming up with enough songs to fill up the 2 hours. I'm not necessarily looking for songs about a particular city, but just about life in the city (good and bad sides).
So you know the direction I'm headed in, I'll post the songs I've got so far:
Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye
Ain't no Love in the Heart of the City - Al Brown
Kansas City - Muddy Waters
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Transit Ride - Guru
New York is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron
Dirty Old Town - Luke Kelly
Hard Times in New York Town - Bob Dylan
Any other suggestions?
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08-24-2012, 06:37 PM
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08-24-2012, 06:41 PM
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08-24-2012, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | Thanks for these suggestions! Stevie Wonder is definitely getting added to the list. |
08-24-2012, 06:44 PM
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08-24-2012, 06:51 PM
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08-24-2012, 06:52 PM
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08-24-2012, 06:58 PM
| | | | Foghat - fool for the city
And more obscure, but Rush - The Camera Eye would work too |
08-24-2012, 07:01 PM
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08-24-2012, 07:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Move to the City - Guns N' Roses
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08-24-2012, 07:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Toronto, Ont. | | | Some good here:
(I Wanna Go To) New York City - The Demics
Concrete Heart - Great Lake Swimmers
Int'l:
Trenchtown Rock - Bob Marley & the Wailers
London, My Town - Fine Arts Showcase
Brits:
Strange Town, Town Called Malice - The Jam
Glasgow Jubilee - Bill Wells & Aidan Moffit
(White Man in) Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
N.Y., Some Cities, Black & White Town - Doves |
08-24-2012, 07:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | Here's an obscure one Mark Almond - The City |
08-24-2012, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Georgia, USA | | | The only one I can think of right now would be Fear's "I love living in the city", but that's pretty explicit.
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08-24-2012, 08:16 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Sin city - AC/DC.
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08-24-2012, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Phalex Sin city - AC/DC. | I'll see your AC/DC - Sin City The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City |
08-24-2012, 08:51 PM
|  | Functionless Art is Merely Tolerated Vandalism | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | | The theme from Mary Tyler Moore... it is about makin' it in the big city...
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08-24-2012, 08:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kolkata (Calcutta), India | | | Not too straight forward, but maybe City Of Blinding Lights by U2.
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08-24-2012, 08:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | "The Streets of Baltimore" - Bobby Bare
"Up On the Roof" - The Drifters
"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
"Native New Yorker" - Odyssey
"My Kind of Town" - Frank Sinatra
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08-24-2012, 09:08 PM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Bright lights bigger bigger city?
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08-24-2012, 09:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | "Downtown" - Petula Clark
"Theme from New York, New York" - Frank Sinatra
"The Apple Stretching" - Grace Jones
"The City Sleeps" - MC 900-ft Jesus
"Detroit City" - Mel Tillis (and others)
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