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songs that reference New York?
soul groove feline
· 20 years, 9 months ago
well... i'll be taking my first!ever look at New York City this weekend, and i'm making some mixtapes for me and a couple of my travelling companions... thus, i thought it would be fitting that they would be new york themed...
so... what songs do you know that reference New York?
(Why does she pick such long names for titles?)
so that everyone can make acronyms! SCWTBWNY ACAIA AYOT MOTF PYPCOAC WDYHITS and the list goes on and on...
These may have already been mentioned...
King of New York (from Newsies) Broadway (Goo Goo Dolls) - no specific New York mentions, I don't think, so it could be a Broadway somewhere else but what the heck? :)
Bender
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Bleeker to Broadway
New York State of Mind Truckin' (Chicago, New York, Detroit, it's all on the same street)(New York's got the ways and means but just won't let you be) Santa Fe (From Rent: New York City... center of the universe. Times are shitty... but I'm pretty sure they can't get worse! It's a comfort to know when you're singing the hit-the-road blues that the only place else you could possibly go after New York would be a pleasure cruise) 59th Street Bridge Song I'll think of more when my brain starts working.
Phoenix
· 20 years, 9 months ago
There must me lots and lots of songs referencing NY. Torturing my still not so awake mind I find:
Simon & Garfunkel - Bleecker Street (don't miss the Jonatha Brooke version) Pogues - Fairytale of New York Richard Shindell - Nora Teddy Goldstein - Divided by tracks (highly recommended: it will improve your orientation in NYC) Dar Williams - Spring Street Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (I prefer Emmylou's version though) Ina May Wool - Moon over 97th Street Rebecca Pidgeon - New York Girls' club Norah Jones - New York Edie Carey - Under a Sky Antje Duvekot - Streets of Soho & Into The City And lots of Sam Shaber's songs reference NY (no surprise at all) such as Rooftop, Eldorado, Bombthreat in New Rochelle, ...
ChrisChin is Getting Old
· 20 years, 9 months ago
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway - Billy Joel (Billy writes a lot of NYC related songs) Brooklyn Train - Lucy Kaplansky Love Song/New York - Lucy Kaplansky Transit - Richard Shindell (okay, it's NJ, but it's close enough to NYC to make it worth mentioning)
oops...New York State of Mind was already mentioned..
A couple of more: Take The "A" Train as perfomed by Duke Ellington Angel of Harlem - U2 Starving On Wall Street - Michael Merenda
Bruce Rose
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Ryan Adams - New York, New York (this might be the same as the first one... but I thought she meant Sinatra)
Ellis Paul - Angel In Manhattan Ramones - 53rd and 3rd (that might not be the message you're looking for) M - Pop Muzik And maybe more to follow. It's still early, and I'm out of coffee.
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 20 years, 9 months ago
I suggested New York as a theme to WFUV so I should have lots of songs at my fingertips. I don't have a brain though so I don't. Lets see what I can come up with.
renita
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Songs I came up with on my own:
Sting - Englishman in New York Bruce Springsteen - Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? David Bowie - New York's in Love & New York City Serenade Songs I needed to double check: Bob Dylan - talkin' new york BeeGees - Another Lonely Night in New York & Nights on Broadway & (debatable) Subway Nina Hagen - New York New York Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes A Chorus Line - Dance Ten Looks Three(Tits and Ass) references an intersection
Mamalissa!
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Take Me Back to Manhattan - from Anything Goes
I like to live in America - from West Side Story On The Town, 42nd Street... musicals in general. A Heart in New York - Art Garfunkle 20,000 Hearts - EFO
George E. Nowik
· 20 years, 9 months ago
dream theater "Trial of Tears"
"raining on the streets of new york city" is about as close as it gets in my world. (: -= george =-
John J. Ryan
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Of the songs I don't believe were mentioned:
Everybody Loves You Know (Mentions Cold Spring Harbor of Long Island) - Billy Joel Token Back To Brooklyn - TMBG No Sleep Til Brooklyn - Beastie Boys Heart Of Rock 'N' Roll - Huey Lewis & The News In A New York Minute - Don Henley New York, New York (A Helluva Town) Lullabye Of Broadway Oldest Established - Guys & Dolls Albany - We're About 9 52nd St. - Billy Joel New York City - U2 Arthur's Theme - Christopher Cross (If you get caught between the moon and New York City) Mr. Moran - Mighty Mighty Bosstones Where Were You When The Lights Went Out In NYC? (Don't know who sings this) Spanish Harlem, Harlem Nocturne, Harlem Shuffle 718 - 2 Skinny Js New York City - John Lennon any more people want to add? I wouldn't count Billy Joe's Long Island references personally, but Everybody Loves You Now also mentions the Staten Island Ferry which is certainly an NYC reference.� But then he has a LOT of them and they're not my rules... Uptown Girl Some less obvious ones... And the global reference:
i don't know the title of the song, but it starts out "I've seen the lights go out on Broadway"...Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkle songs are jam packed with NY references
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 20 years, 9 months ago
How could I forget Chelsea Hotel by Dan Bern
Of course there is also the classic Leonard Cohen Chelsea Hotel.
Keeping on the Chelsea theme, Joni Mitchell's Chelsea Morning.
Bon Jovi's "Walking in Chelsea"!
/only half joking
Jason Reiser
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Led Zeppelin: Achilles' Last Stand
Joni Mitchell: My Secret Place; The Midnight Cowboy Song Ani DiFranco: Cradle and All; Self Evident; Serpentine; Two Little Girls; Every State Line; etc, etc...
bored, bored, bored....
· 20 years, 9 months ago
Lots of Jazz tunes and standards about New York as well
Just a few off the top of my head: Birdland Lullaby of Birdland New York, New York Autumn in New York New York Afternoon Broadway (different from "On Broadway") Harlem Nocturne Sidewalks of New York The Lady is a Tramp (references Harlem) Take the A Train
Luke Doucet - New York
There's a small pseudo NY reference in Danny Michel's song Beautiful too - and Danny's pretty necessary for any mix anyway. ;)
Will work for anime
· 20 years, 9 months ago
from the Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago soundtrack (1st one): Beautiful Place, Capital (well, it mentions Albany),...and others that i could think of if i wasn't so tired
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