Songs that refer to a place (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

One of the greatest songs ever has yet to be mentioned:

This Must be the Place - Talking Heads

 

[Quint]

"Paris Calling" - Shark Island

 

[Godsbrother]

The Beatles - "There's A Place"

Where?

In the mind.

Really the only early Beatles song that wasn't primarily about love.

 

[Doug B]

"Detroit Rock City", KISS

"Streets of Philadelphia", Bruce Springsteeen

"Brighton Rock", Queen

"All My Exes Live in Texas", George Strait

"Leningrad", Billy Joel

 

[Zegras11]

Private Idaho

 

[SacramentoBob]

The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk

 

[sdp1226]

CCR - Lodi

 

[Parrothead]

Breakfast in America- Supertramp

 

[Doug B]

CCR - Lodi

Good one.

"Run Through the Jungle", CCR

"Goodnight Saigon", Billy Joel

"Woman from Tokyo", Deep Purple

"Alphabet Street", Prince

"Baker Street", Gerry Rafferty

"Sentimental Street", Night Ranger

"On the Boulevard", Jackson Browne

"Thunder Island", Jay Ferguson

"Johannesburg", Gil-Scott Heron

 

[sdp1226]

Frank Sinatra - The Girl from Ipanema

Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You

Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets

 

[Snoopy]

Dancing in the street. Refers to several places, but the David Bowie/Mick Jagger version added 6 locations to the beginning of the song to the original Martha and the Vendallas version.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Robin Trower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zAfcX-iT5M

 

[SacramentoBob]

Dancing in the street. Refers to several places, but the David Bowie/Mick Jagger version added 6 locations to the beginning of the song to the original Martha and the Vendallas version.

One of the most cringe-worthy music videos of all time.

 

[El Floppo]

Frank Sinatra - The Girl from Ipanema

oh, come on.

under the milky way- the church

istanbul- the breeders

above my ground- landlady

all along the watchtower- jimi

down in the park- gary numan

bloodbuzz ohio- the national

let's save tony orlando's house- yo la tengo

flying to berlin- savages

holland 1945- neutral milk hotel

hollywood forever cemetery sings- father john misty

stoned and starving- parquet courts

new york I love you- LCD soundsytem

north american scum- LCD soundsytem

new york morning- elbow

NYC- interpol

everywhere that I'm not- translator

cantonese boy- Japan

 

[msommer]

Van Halen Cabo Wabo

Woman from Tokyo is about a woman, not a place. Smoke on the Water is about a place; Montreux (at a particular time).

 

[Joe Summer]

Petula Clark,

 

[sdp1226]

Frank Sinatra Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Girl from Ipanema

oh, come on.

Fixed

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

House of the Rising Sun.

Probably 10,000 songs mention New Orleans.

 

[msommer]

Frank Sinatra Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Girl from Ipanema

oh, come on.

Fixed

Tom Jobim - A Garota de Ipanema

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

 

[Quint]

Iron Maiden:

"22 Acacia Avenue"

"Where Eagles Dare"

"Sea of Madness"

"Caught Somewhere in Time"

"From Here to Eternity"

"Brave New World"

"Paschendale"

"Isle of Avalon"

 

[Parrothead]

Atlantic City - Bruce

 

[El Floppo]

Frank Sinatra Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz - The Girl from Ipanema

oh, come on.

Fixed

 

[Amused to Death]

Genesis - Back in NYC

 

[tangfoot]

Private Idaho

Speaking of the B-52s: Rome

 

[Parmcat]

Cobocabana- Manilow

Heart Shaped Box- Nirvana

 

[El Floppo]

Sausalito Summer Nights- Diesel

Happy Donut- Deiselhed

Bridge to Canada- Noisettes

Real Emotional Trash- Stephen Malkmus & Jicks

 

[Tanner9919]

Black Sabbath

Symptom of the Universe

Hole in the Sky

Heaven and Hell

Lord of this World

Into the Void

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Strange World, Purgatory, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Transylvania, Where Eagles Dare, all from Iron Maiden

Zeppelin

Going to California

Traveling Riverside Blues

Over the Hills and far away

The Ocean

houses of the Holy

Kasmir

Neil Young

Down by the River

Sugar Mountain

Judas Priest

Island of Domination

Saints in Hell

Desert Plains

 

[pecorino]

Some Phish for you:

Weekapaug Groove

Alaska

Kill Devil Falls

Babylon Baby

Mozambique

Carolina

Manteca

At the Gazebo

Yarmouth Road

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Katmandu-Seager

 

[Amused to Death]

Some Miles Davis:

Zimbabwe

Gondwana

On The Corner

 

[John Bender]

Wicked Garden - STP

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

Born on the bayou - ccr

Woodstock - csny

Shipping up to Boston - dropkick murphys

On a plain - nirvana

Home sweet home - Motley crue

Joes garage - frank zappa

 

[John Bender]

Centerfield - John Fogerty

Ballroom blitz - sweet

Lost in the supermarket - the clash

 

[SacramentoBob]

Bruce Springsteen - Point Blank

 

[pecorino]

Zappa has a lot. Just off the top of my head: Montana, Cucamonga, Illinois Enema Bandit, Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy, What's New in Baltimore?, In France, Transylvania Boogie

 

[Amused to Death]

Zappa has a lot. Just off the top of my head: Montana, Cucamonga, Illinois Enema Bandit, Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy, What's New in Baltimore?, In France, Transylvania Boogie

Inca Roads

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Cinderella - Gypsy Road

Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home

Faster #####cat - House of Pain

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

DLR - Just Like Paradise

Noble Rot - Kicked to the Curb

Berlin - The Metro

Lords of the New Church - New Church

GNR - Paradise City

Vesuvius - Promised Land

Megadeth - A Secret Place

Three Dog Night - Shambala

The Church - Under The Milky Way

Living Colour - Which Way To America

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Private Idaho

Speaking of the B-52s: Rome

Planet Claire

 

[rockaction]

The Beatles - "There's A Place"

This song has been in my head from yesterday since you mentioned it. Earworm.

 

[jon_mx]

sugar walls

 

[SacramentoBob]

Eagles - On the Border

 

[Quint]

Cinderella - Gypsy Road

Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home

Faster #####cat - House of Pain

The Cure - Just Like Heaven

DLR - Just Like Paradise

Noble Rot - Kicked to the Curb

Berlin - The Metro

Lords of the New Church - New Church

GNR - Paradise City

Vesuvius - Promised Land

Megadeth - A Secret Place

Three Dog Night - Shambala

The Church - Under The Milky Way

Living Colour - Which Way To America

such a great song.

 

[headcrack]

Huey Lewis - Heart Of Rock & Roll. That pandering piece of crap must mention at least a dozen cities.

 

[In The Zone]

We are the World

Blister in the Sun

Funkytown

YMCA

 

[SacramentoBob]

Dire Straits - Down to the Waterline

Dire Straits - Once Upon a Time in the West

Dire Straits - Tunnel of Love

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

 

[rockaction]

Huey Lewis - Heart Of Rock & Roll. That pandering piece of crap must mention at least a dozen cities.

So much so that Hartford and New Haven made it into our CT radio version. I think he cut every city in every state for that jig.

 

[Don Quixote]

A couple of Kinks songs:

Waterloo Sunset

Muswell Hillbilly

 

[rockaction]

How about This Is Where I Belong?

(Just a personal favorite.)

 

[Snoopy]

Lake Shore Drive - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah

 

[msommer]

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

 

[Doug B]

"Electric Avenue", Eddy Grant

"In a Big Country", Big Country

"La Grange", ZZ Top

"Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Green Day

"Jesus of Suburbia", Green Day