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=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 sheetsTenderly she moves meAn opera starDying hard for loveYou say I'm hurtI will take your word
Leather pantsHappinessA hundred dollarsBuy successHanging with your fashionable whoresAnd I'm a wounded birdI 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 onEmerging from the football standsClinging to his broken handIt's over I have seen it all before
Nakedness (nakedness)A flying lessonTattered dressSunburned chestYou will pay for your excessive charmWith a boy who knowsLess than he thinksDrinks up his expensive drinksBe 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)
Few more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11r-0GpcQz4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kljzUmq1i3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VXWXBQ-vS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP3v8rTWyxY
― Evan, Friday, 15 February 2013 21:34 (twelve years ago)
Mine:
playing on the loudspeaker, summers at the local pool =australian crawl: oh no not you againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynLRKpQFs04
every teenage cover band in my hometown played a version of this =dragon: april sun in cubahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHFFuukk9Y8
on every roadtrip mixtape we made in collegecruel sea: this is not the way homehttps://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 betweenshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCbyByY-A6w
flame trees, cold chiselhttps://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...
― 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=zJOTXWoeIewhttps://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)