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This is the thread where you talk about records which have created a strong sense of a place for you, but you've never been to that place, so your entire notion of it comes from music.

(Origin: on the Triffids thread where people were saying their Born Sandy Devotional album is the sound of Western Australia and I thought 'yeah I can see that' even though I've never been to WA or have any other idea about it.)

It's also the thread where people who actually live there can puncture your treasured illusions.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

See this threadfor the reality check aspect of it.

Also, I have never actually been to New York, despite some of my favorite groups and a lot of other things I enjoy casually being described as 'exemplifying the NY sound' or whathaveyou. The two songs that remind me most of this phenomenon are A) the Velvets' "Waiting for the Man" because like everybody says it sounds so New York, and I could see how that might work and B) "Pulled Up" by Talking Heads, which is one of my favorite songs. "Mommy, Daddy come and look at me now, I'm a big man in a great big town"; it reminds me of the sense of wonder I might get from naively experiencing the city for the first time.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I've experienced the same thing with Born Sandy Devotional when it came out, I still haven't been down under to see whether it lives up to the album...
Same "region", different album: the Chills' "Submarine Bells". "Effloresce and Deliquesce" and "I SOAR" sound like what the NZ Alps must look like. (This was more or less confirmed by the LotR films)
Also, when I heard Calexico's "the Black Light" for the first time a clear picture of what should be Tuscon's surroundings came up on the inside of my eyes. (but I had seen "Raising Arizona", so the picture was biased).
And when I hear the opener of Motorpsycho's "Timothy's Monster", "Feel", I see vast skies underlined by deep fjords.

― willem (willem), Monday, 16 June 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Orchestra Baobab, Youssou NDour, Baaba Maal. Some part of my brain believes that Sengeal will be my favourite country on Earth, even though I only know about the music (and presumably this has all been superceded there), and with my allergies to beans and pulses, I wouldn't last an afternoon. Still, Senegal. My kinda place.

― Alan Connor Junior, Monday, 16 June 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

obv. answer, 'Since I Left You' especially 'Etoh' and 'Summer Crane' which i can only assume are based on places the Avalanches may have seen in their youth or dreamt about themselves. sceneries not songs.

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 June 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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