Songs That Remind You of Home

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What songs remind you of home? Wherever that may be.

I'll start it off with "Kiss the Land" by The Super Friendz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWd5xs3NMjI

kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:23 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8vLRyWY5Y

Evan, Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:22 (twelve years ago)

Evan: Amazing!

Come on, guys! I know this thread has the potential to be majestic!

kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Friday, 15 February 2013 07:09 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aaLr1FLgj0

Jamie_ATP, Friday, 15 February 2013 07:20 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6XhzXB3oY8

skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 15 February 2013 07:36 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXM3Zg0eBo

emil.y, Friday, 15 February 2013 08:52 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIFoKc44YMQ

Moka, Friday, 15 February 2013 09:08 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIFoKc44YMQ

Moka, Friday, 15 February 2013 09:08 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5P_iIWn1zM

Wandering Boy Poet, Friday, 15 February 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)

Reminds me of the nearest 'city' to where I grew up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXw66R_row

"Did you see the sign on my car park that said 'Dead King Storage'?" (snoball), Friday, 15 February 2013 13:20 (twelve years ago)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Details of the War

Bloody sheets
Tenderly she moves me
An opera star
Dying hard for love
You say I'm hurt
I will take your word

Leather pants
Happiness
A hundred dollars
Buy success
Hanging with your fashionable whores
And I'm a wounded bird
I will take your word

You and tom (you and tom)
To the prom (to the prom)
Camel dick (camel dick)
Crucifix (crucifix)
Everyone's the same and on and on
Emerging from the football stands
Clinging to his broken hand
It's over I have seen it all before

Nakedness (nakedness)
A flying lesson
Tattered dress
Sunburned chest
You will pay for your excessive charm
With a boy who knows
Less than he thinks
Drinks up his expensive drinks
Be careful with the DETAILS OF THE WAR

nicky lo-fi, Friday, 15 February 2013 20:16 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlJl1LfDP4

Naturally.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 15 February 2013 20:56 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDemGylLyH0

mookieproof, Friday, 15 February 2013 21:16 (twelve years ago)

Mine:

playing on the loudspeaker, summers at the local pool =
australian crawl: oh no not you again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynLRKpQFs04

every teenage cover band in my hometown played a version of this =
dragon: april sun in cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFFuukk9Y8

on every roadtrip mixtape we made in college
cruel sea: this is not the way home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bWgCeHpsU

songs that I didn't actually like when I lived in Oz (chisel I fucking HATED) that now make me weep from nostalgia:

Cattle and cane, go betweens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCbyByY-A6w

flame trees, cold chisel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILd1O44BDqc

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:47 (twelve years ago)

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

drier than a Charles Grodin quip (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:51 (twelve years ago)

I have vivid memories of my dad singing along to "Can't You See" by the Marshall Tucker Band when I was a kid.

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

:C (crüt), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:54 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBllejn5fVA

Spectrum, Friday, 15 February 2013 22:07 (twelve years ago)

Nothing sums up Glasgow & New York like Ivor....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emWWY5VIYUk

Oblique Strategies, Friday, 15 February 2013 22:21 (twelve years ago)

Why do my youtube embeds always fail? Head/Desk

Oblique Strategies, Friday, 15 February 2013 22:23 (twelve years ago)

remove the s in the http and bob's your uncle

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 February 2013 22:24 (twelve years ago)

Thanks. To make it easier to enjoy a little Ivor Cutler on a Friday afternoon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emWWY5VIYUk

Oblique Strategies, Friday, 15 February 2013 22:29 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7mMgVZswwM

'glown' with the king (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 February 2013 22:30 (twelve years ago)

Hitchin is a reggae town, or used to be.

dog latin, Saturday, 16 February 2013 00:57 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AiIbdNe6w0

Brad C., Saturday, 16 February 2013 01:02 (twelve years ago)

I can't think of any songs that would actually remind me of Worcester itself (maybe This Place Sucks by the Queers lolwtf) but early Madness and Altered Images have very strong links in my head to being a kid there even though the songs themselves don't have anything to do with the place. Er, relevant post there.

Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 16 February 2013 01:04 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2tuTi5tkSI

live version with emo intro

mookieproof, Saturday, 16 February 2013 01:33 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOTXWoeIew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL1SgiK2fbU

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:01 (twelve years ago)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=toE_1ir6_dg

brimstead, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:22 (twelve years ago)

stupid ipad. Steely Dan - "Boston Rag"

brimstead, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:23 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

joygoat, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:49 (twelve years ago)

Hey Colonel Poo, don't restrict yourself too much. The song/band doesn't directly have to say or be about your city, it can simply be a song that you listened to a lot whilst there or somehow it now reminds you of home.

To everyone: Thanks, guys! At the risk of sounding too sentimental or wearing my heart on my sleeve, this has helped me feel not so alone because I am away from the place I call home. It just so happens I actually want to go back.

Strangely enough, when I was going to move down here (a huge, major American city), everyone was asking me why I would ever want to move down here. I don't exactly hail from a small town (it's one of 3 major Canadian cities).

But I drive to work everyday here and sometimes pop in Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and it feels like one of those songs that was written just for you, because many of the little details align with my own life and circumstance. If I've deduced the details correctly (and someone correct me if I am wrong), Neil Young wrote this tune while living in Los Angeles, and even though home isn't a small town, it is still very different from LA and not so crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pesIGuV9DDk

kafkaesque (c21m50nh3x460n), Saturday, 16 February 2013 19:47 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjolqpKR4g

bidfurd, Saturday, 16 February 2013 21:12 (twelve years ago)


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