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Songs about actual locations

  • 08-08-2022 06:28PM
    #1
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,336 ✭✭✭✭


    Would you be inclined to visit a location because of a song ?

    Like if youre in the area would you climb 'Little Solsbury Hill' because of Peter Gabriels 'Solsbury Hill' (tbh that song makes the area sound amazing)

    'Waterloo Sunset' is about a standard Bridge in London. Prob wouldn't even think of the song if you see it

    'Cedarwood Road' by U2 is a run of the mill housing estate



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  • #2
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields would be the obvious ones were I ever in Liverpool.



  • #3
    scuba8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭scuba8


    Four Roads to Glenamady.



  • #4
    Always number 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Always number 1


    Cuyahoga by REM makes me want to go to Ohio to check out the titular river.

    It's a fascinating story about a river so polluted it went on fire on multiple occasions. By pure coincidence, it featured in Time magazine in the same edition as the Moon Landings and the Chappaquiddick affair so it garnered worldwide coverage.. apologies for the tangent..



  • #5
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,336 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Suppose the road is not so rocky to Dublin anymore



  • #6
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,545 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I’d love to go to orgasmatron some day



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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,714 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The road to hell..



  • #8
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,336 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119446400#Comment_119446400

    Might neet a 'Bat' on the way



  • #9
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,507 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Back in The USSR comes to mind when things are all said and done



  • #10
    Nigel Fairservice
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,539 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    I was in Philadelphia a few years back and went for a stroll one evening around the city. By chance Streets of Philadelphia started playing. I played it a few more times on my walk. Wouldn't mind doing the same to Walking in Memphis in Memphis!



  • #11
    Still stihl waters 3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭Still stihl waters 3


    Ooooooooohhhhh Lisdoonvarna



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  • #12
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,458 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    https://youtu.be/TMZi25Pq3T8?si=5tmGVG-OI3opmkw4

    Straight Outta Compton

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #13
    chiefwiggum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭chiefwiggum


    Mull of Kintyre



  • #14
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    The By-road to Glenroe

    https://youtu.be/mOpDtHr4f5c?feature=shared


  • #15
    rpirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭rpirl


    https://www.corkindependent.com/2022/10/05/john-spillane-is-still-answering-the-call/

    John Spillane talks about 'Princes Street', I think it was known for years before he actually recorded it



  • #16
    rpirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭rpirl


    Bristol band Strangelove had a song called 'Wellington Road', seemed to be about drug addicts / people who were down on their luck

    There is a Wellington Road in Bristol



  • #17
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,253 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123196875#Comment_123196875

    There's one in Dublin and Cork too.

    I was in a pub in Manhattan called Mustang Sally's, does that count?

    I nearly moved into an apartment on ul Pekarska, partly because I liked the address but more so for the Sherlock Holmes connection, not the song by Gerry Rafferty.



  • #18
    con747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,303 ✭✭✭✭con747


    Smoke on the water.

    1971 fire at Montreux Casino in Montreux

    Don't expect anything from life, just be grateful to be alive.

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  • #19
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,670 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    I went to New York for the 1st Time last year. I made a playlist for myself of my favourite New York songs, and played it daily on the run up to the trip. We were walking in Times Square on our last day, and someone was playing Jay Z's Empire State Of Mind- it made me feel incredibly nostalgic, I'm not quite sure why.

    Heading back again soon, I'm absolutely gonna have a gyro sandwich walking down Eighth Avenue, as per Gerard Kenny in New York New York.



  • #20
    black & white
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,410 ✭✭✭black & white


    Kashmir by Led Zeppelin and Marrakesh by Crosby Stills and Nash.



  • #21
    mckildare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭mckildare


    Toto picked a douzy



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  • #22
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,326 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    always loved Waterloo Sunset. Have been to Waterloo Bridge but not a pilgrimage per se …was taking the Eurostar from Waterloo a few times when it was its original terminus and decided to take a look. I didn’t see Terry or Julie.



  • #23
    rpirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭rpirl


    The Boo Radleys – 'From the Bench at Belvidere'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLyg9P8NKg


  • #24
    rpirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 376 ✭✭rpirl


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24rEZS4pD3s

    'Calliope' by The Veils, apparently also about a road where some of the members grew up / used to spend their time



  • #25
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,936 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    a Galway California Girl(s) from Ipanema Mars



  • #26
    Fritzbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Fritzbox


    "Dirty old Town" by Ewan MacColl.



  • #27
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    New York, New York

    The Curragh of Kildare

    A long way to Tipperary



  • #28
    Fritzbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Fritzbox


    "The Rose of Mooncoin"



  • #29
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,819 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo recorded by glen miller.

    Interestingly Kalamazoo was the site of the original Gibson factory

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #30
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Chicago

    London Town

    Galway Bay

    Song of India

    The Isle of Capri



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  • #31
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Hotel Kalifornia

    An Englishman in New York - Sting

    Russians Love their Children Too

    Holiday in Bangor

    Kate Bush Windy Moor



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