Favourite city song

Salad · October 2020

a classic R.E.M. one:

Six-a-bag-of-nuts · October 2020

Berlin - Lo Reed
Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again - Bob Dylan
Coming into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie
Barcelona - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe (sp.)
Marrakesh Express - CSN

Edit - Sorry, thread title says favourite and I should confess that none of these is anywhere near my favourite, which has already been used

JiMMy 85 · October 2020

Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles

And while we're on R.E.M. - Houston (and it's sequel, Oh My Heart).

Karim_myBagheri · October 2020

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - Davy Jones

SoundAsa£ · October 2020

Ohio......Crosby, Pills and Smashed.

Macronate · October 2020

Vienna - Ultravox
Rio - Duran Duran

PemburyAddick · October 2020

London's Burning - The Clash

London Girl -Jam

English Wipeout 999 (bit of cheat as no city in the title, but lots in the lyrics)

RedPanda · October 2020

Elton John - Grimsby.

Oh oh Grimsby, a thousand delights
Couldn´t match the sweet sights
Of my Grimsby
Oh England you´re fair
But there´s none to compare with my Grimsby

I hope some fans took this seriously and travelled there expecting Nice or Santa Monica.

cafctom · October 2020

Freddie Mercury - Barcelona

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (the reworked solo version released in the last ten years is superb)

BeeGees - Massachusetts

Elvis - Viva Las Vegas

sillav nitram · October 2020

LennyLowrent said:

Coventry ? ??

https://youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4

And that’s my car they’re driving, sadly don’t have it any more:(

SE10Addick · October 2020

Not so much my fav, but not bad

https://youtu.be/DiWomXklfv8

cafcfan · October 2020

"One Night In Dymchurch"

And the world's your oyster!

Oh no, sorry that was Bangkok wasn't it?

sillav nitram · October 2020

'Dallas' the fabulous Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Natalie Merchant.

https://youtu.be/_g3R6vE_Xx8

AddickUpNorth · October 2020

Counting Crows - Raining In Baltimore.

NorthheathAddick · October 2020

No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys
Empire State Of Mind (New York) Alicia Keys

that Amarillo song ain’t too bad either...for the tune of course....👍

LennyLowrent · October 2020

Istanbul not Constantinople

https://youtu.be/G779UlpGQ3U

PaddyP17 · October 2020

Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg St Denis. This for me is the best version - live from the New Morning in Paris, 2007:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ4oyVMtVvg

seth plum · October 2020

The ones for us are

Last Train to San Fernando
Last Train to Clarkesville.
Lafayette Railroad

RedArmySE7 · October 2020

Fake Tales of San Fransisco - Arctic Monkeys
New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing me Down - LCD Soundsystem

LennyLowrent · October 2020

The one and only Nino Rota

Roma

https://youtu.be/bzABCeTdORY

Raith_C_Chattonell · October 2020

'The City of New Orleans'.... Is the name of a train, what's not to like?

Plenty of pre song chat from Arlo as usual, but a very catchy tagline, 'Good morning America how are ya?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjOMIki6qs

Shrew · October 2020

Neon lights - Kraftwerk
The apple stretching - Grace Jones
Atlantic City - Bruce Springsteen
Sunshine in Chicago - Sunkilmoon
San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits

Washington DC- Gil Scott Heron

Night in the city - Joni Mitchell
Raining in Baltimore - Counting Crows

Johnnysummers5 · October 2020

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

'The City of New Orleans'.... Is the name of a train, what's not to like?

Plenty of pre song chat from Arlo as usual, but a very catchy tagline, 'Good morning America how are ya?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjOMIki6qs

I like the Judy Collins version of this as well

Alwaysneil · October 2020

LennyLowrent said:

Coventry ? ??

https://youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4

Great song, pretty sure virtually none of that video is filmed in Cov though 😂

Six-a-bag-of-nuts · October 2020

SoundAsa£ said:

Ohio......Crosby, Pills and Smashed.

Crosby, Pills, Smashed and Strung-out
You can't omit Strung, he wrote the song

EastTerrace · October 2020

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

'The City of New Orleans'.... Is the name of a train, what's not to like?

Plenty of pre song chat from Arlo as usual, but a very catchy tagline, 'Good morning America how are ya?'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjOMIki6qs

Love this record, grew up listening to my Dad’s copy