Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods

[Charger]

^^^^
Still haven't found a song on that album that I like. 


My 9th pick comes from a Megadeth album I don't like...but this is probably the one of only 3 songs I enjoy listening to.

THE KILLING ROAD

This probably might have worked better in the bigger scale thread, but it does talk about hitting the stage as well and that is a smaller place than a city.

[Zzzptm]

Fela's video is blocked because it contains shocking footage... basically, images of the Army raid on his Kalakuta Republic compound.

My number 8 offering is from the Blue Oyster Cult "The Red and The Black"

All about hornswooping bungo ponies at Frontenac Chateau...

[Charger]

For my final song of the thread I'll go with a place you really really really REALLY don't want to go.

Rob Zombie's HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES

Based on a movie of the same name...this is a story of the Firefly family and a house that makes the Bates hotel look like a family hangout.

[Zzzptm]

ooooooooooooooooh nasty!

[Vyn]

Number 10:

Rare Earth singing about Tobacco Road. Came out in 1969, this song was ten years old by then. It has been covered by many artists over the years, and I can only imagine that JD Loudermilk (who wrote it) scooped up royalties all over the place. But this is the version I first heard.

[Zzzptm]

Tobacco Road is a definite standard. My preference is for the Lou Rawls version, but, yeah, it's a solid song.

I have to go back to 1945 for this one - Ella Mae Morse doing "The House of Blue Lights". It's definitely an early early early rock and roll song and contains what might be the first recorded use of the term, "homie". It's a real boogie-woogie rhythm & blues treat. It's also been done by hosts of other artists, but my heart belongs to this version from '45.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Forgot to post yesterday!!

Pick #9

Big Country - Chester's Farm

Anti-vivisection song from the album Buffalo Skinners. I almost forgot about this one, one of the best Big Country songs.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I thought I'd have a little fun with my last pick... I have the album but I doubt I've played it this century!!


Deicide - Carnage in the Temple of the Damned

I probably should give the album a spin again. Their S/T debut from 1990

[Charger]

I'm gonna toss couple honorable mentions as well....

I thought I was really gonna struggle with this one but in the end I managed to get more than the 10 needed...


Candlemass - Temple Of The Dead
I thought one mystical Temple song would be enough.

Megadeth - Burning Bridges
I was thinking about this but since it's about figurative Bridges and not actual bridges I left it out...this is probably my favourite Megadeth ballad!



 

[Zzzptm]

I was about to post another but I did a count, hey, I got 10 in there!

Honorable mentions:

The Coasters - Smokey Joe's Cafe
Marty Robbins - El Paso (which is where Deep Purple got their Rosa's Cantina reference)
The Orlons - South Street
The Robins (Coasters by another name...) - Riot in Cell Block #9

[Vyn]

I had considered Burning Bridges and decided against it for the same reasons as Charger. I also considered South Street but decided against it because I figured Z would post it.

I did not consider Deicide's Carnage in the Temple of the Damned because I had never heard of it before Kilo posted it