Where is the heart of rock and roll

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Cleveland	17
Detroit	8
Oklahoma City	5
San Francisco	3
Seattle	3
Tulsa	3
Boston	3
Baton Rouge	2
LA, Hollywood, and the Sunset Strip	2
Austin	1
New York	1
Liberty Town	0
San Antone	0
DC	0

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:42 (five years ago)

Heart are from Seattle iirc.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:49 (five years ago)

The only ones I remember from the song are "...in Cleveland/Detroit!" and I'm not giving it to Cleveland.

Anyone else used to think he was singing "the oboe may be barely breathing"?

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 11:39 (five years ago)

heard about houston? heard about detroit? heard about pittsburgh, pa?

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 11:44 (five years ago)

Can’t answer, I’m hard of rock n roll

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:06 (five years ago)

The only ones I remember from the song are "...in Cleveland/Detroit!" and I'm not giving it to Cleveland.

Anyone else used to think he was singing "the oboe may be barely breathing"?

I thought it was “the oboe may be better tweeting.”

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:12 (five years ago)

Voted this place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiEglUjqWj0

― Cornelius Fondue (Matt #2), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:21 (five years ago)

Voted Cleveland, entirely on the basis of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMMS

― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:11 (five years ago)

definitely Cleveland

― Book Doula (sleeve), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:42 (five years ago)

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

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:53 (five years ago)

Anyone else used to think he was singing "the oboe may be barely breathing"?

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:39 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

'the old boy may be there to beat them'

Clearly we need to poll these misheard lyrics next.

― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:58 (five years ago)

DIP DIP DIP DIP

― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:59 (five years ago)

Anywhere there's music. Real loud music.

― cryborg (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 20:53 (five years ago)

What a horrible song. Throw that shit away bro

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:42 (five years ago)

Anyone else used to think he was singing "the oboe may be barely breathing"?

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:39 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's "the oboe may be bad at breathing."

This was a swipe at Andy MacKay, who had talked shit about Huey Lewis in the press.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:47 (five years ago)

cleveland is going to walk away with this, and then somebody will yell at cleveland and tell cleveland they saw what it did and to put it back

― tantric societal collapse (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 November 2019 01:13 (five years ago)

Hey Cleveland , skin it back

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:02 (five years ago)

Tulsa

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:26 (five years ago)

cleveland

― billstevejim, Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:12 (five years ago)

The heart of rock n roll is in mucus

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2019 03:27 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNGWeUydss0

― Brad C., Thursday, 14 November 2019 04:38 (five years ago)

Heart are from Seattle iirc.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:49 AM

Oklahoma City it is then.

― pplains, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:53 (five years ago)

booooooooooooooooooooooooooo

― alomar lines, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:33 (five years ago)

It's in every one of us, woo hoo

― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 07:32 (five years ago)

it is objectively bullshit that Baton Rouge and Austin are the only southern cities here

― 💠 (crüt), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:10 (five years ago)

sorry and San Antone

― 💠 (crüt), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:11 (five years ago)

fookin manchester m8

― imago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:16 (five years ago)

Somewhere in between:

https://goo.gl/maps/vhcU1mvyc8QL7v1A6

https://goo.gl/maps/ZzoGLV5eRttWxmnr8

You're welcome.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 13:24 (five years ago)

It's not Cleveland, it's Oklahoma City.

― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 14:50 (five years ago)

Yup. It's right there on the sign and everything: https://goo.gl/maps/aKeAXum69JfKQ4XA7

― pplains, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:35 (five years ago)

philadelphia, D.C., chicago, detroit, austin, houston, dallas, san francisco, los angeles, seattle, portland, vancouver, new york city, kansas city, oklahoma city, cincinnati, jackson mississippi

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:30 (five years ago)

Wherever Mizutani Takashi abides in shades.

― Noel Scott Emits (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:41 (five years ago)

in reflection i think the better poll might have been where it's not (seattle)

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 07:35 (five years ago)

Weren't there versions of this record sent to radio DJs that had the city names re-recorded specifically for various different markets (ie. Toronto, Miami, Milwaukee, etc.) or did I make that up?

― gregorianpants, Thursday, 21 November 2019 08:52 (five years ago)

Wasn't that We Built This City?

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 November 2019 11:49 (five years ago)

"We Built This City" had a version with the San Francisco DJ doing a little patter and one without.

I don't know about any songs where local cities were included.

I saw HL&TN live during this tour, and I do have to say that he added LITTLE ROCK! to the line-up. As a matter of fact, the song basically ended with him repeating LITTLE ROCK! LITTLE ROCK! over and over again while the crowd screamed.

― pplains, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:06 (five years ago)

does anyone know what word is supposed to follow "it really kicks them in the..." ??? never could figure that one out

― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:09 (five years ago)

Neenernanny

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:12 (five years ago)

xp one of the weirdest lineups I've ever seen, btw:

May 15, 1984
Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, AR - May 15, 1984
Huey Lewis and the News
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Mr. Mister

― pplains, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:37 (five years ago)

I'm sure the SRV fans thoroughly bullied the others

― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:40 (five years ago)

I don't know about any songs where local cities were included.

quintessential example of this has gotta be "High School USA" by Tommy Facenda, where he recorded a few dozen different versions for different cities, namechecking all the high schools in that area

― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:43 (five years ago)

i think it's New York since where else can you do a half a million things all at 2:45

― omar little, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:58 (five years ago)

Anywhere there’s drum fills, real live drum fills

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:22 (five years ago)

eh that's not that weird 70s had so many bizarre bills

https://images.app.goo.gl/RjMvfYnVHCjmzHv9A

or the Byrds/Mahavishnu Orchestra/Blue Oyster Cult tour

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:25 (five years ago)

four months pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

Weren't there versions of this record sent to radio DJs that had the city names re-recorded specifically for various different markets (ie. Toronto, Miami, Milwaukee, etc.) or did I make that up?

St. Louis definitely had a version that said "SAINT LOUIS! Champaign, Illinois!"

Different radio stations also had specific edits of "Rock Me Amadeus." During the chronology bit they'd say like, "1986, Q107 is the first to play... Rock me Amadeus!"

It was, in some respects, a simpler time, with simpler pleasures.

― system of a lockdown (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:16 (five years ago)

My favorite (somewhat bootlegged) version of this.

― pplains, Saturday, 4 April 2020 01:58 (five years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 5 April 2020 00:01 (five years ago)

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