Songs About Cities, Counties, States, Nations, Planets, and Galaxies

[Charger]

OH YOU STINKER!!

I was gonna do that!

Now I have to rethink things...


Well I'm gonna buy myself some time and do this one for my 7th pick


Here's a little song about some things that lead to things that happened on a 3 square mile battlefield near a town named WATERLOO

From the masterpiece album that is The Glorious Burden Waterloo finished the album with a massive bang.  Richard Christy's drumming on this track is especially brilliant, and ofcourse Tim's vocals soar through the story with great presense!

I always have a facination for these historical pieces and this one happens to be the second one to fit this topic perfectly!


OH goddamnit! Now I just saw that Vyn stole another one from me! What the hell dudes!? HAH! But I think I found a replacement for the Hangar already!

[Zzzptm]

Lists like these, it's ninja or be ninja'd!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Almost forgot to post today! Hopefully this isn't one of Charger's picks!


Pick number 7

Motorhead - Metropolis

Not quite sure why I like this one so much. It may be because it's slower and maybe more thoughtful!

[Charger]

^^^
It nearly was! I was contemplating between Going To Brazil and this one but elected to go with the first one...I was hoping someone would pick this one as it's a heck of a good tune...

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Ah, I'd forgotten you had already posted a Motorhead track!

[Charger]

Well for my 8th pick (which would have been a certain song about a certain place in the Nevada desert) I'll go with ANOTHER song about the same place..

This one coming from mr. GEEZER BUTLER and it's called AREA CODE 51

This might not be quite the classic that Hangar 18 is but it's still a pretty tight song from Geezer's best solo album. This one goes bit more to the point than the Megadeth song and might not be among Geezer's best lyrics but I've still always really liked this one....could be because obviously I have a soft spot for the topic.

[Ted Sallis]

Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo) - Alice Cooper

Ted

[Zzzptm]

Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo) - Alice Cooper

Ted

Yeah, gotta have NYC represented!

So because I want to find another NYC song, I'll post double today, as I think this was one of the tracks I used for songs between 10 and 15 minutes, "Blue Desert" by Sky Valley Mistress:

Man, I sure hope they're able to get their next album birthed. It's a shame that it slipped out of their planned release date for this year.

And my NYC song is Steely Dan's "The Royal Scam".

It's not a love letter to The Big Apple, but neither is it a writing of divorcement. There's a begrudging empathy for the people they're bumping shoulders with as they record a dangerous reality about the compressed humanity shuffling the city streets.

[Vyn]

Rush  - Rivendell. A song about some place mentioned in some book by some dude. I may have already posted some tunes along the same lines.

I always liked this album and thought it was given short shrift, but after 2112 came out, it's like this song is some kind of nascent 2112. In hindsight.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
Great album... ghastly song!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 8


Yes - Siberian Khatru

A lot of Yes fans rank this track among their favourites... I'm inclined to agree! A nice live version here.

[Vyn]

Aye, that's a non-ghastly tune from Yes! I reach back to that Rush comment because both bands were at their best when they got right up to the line of self-indulgence, but stop. Sometimes they hit it, or cross over a bit.

And Rivendell was Neal being so self-interested he didn't even bother with allegory in the slightest. It was like his love song to Tolkien, and I see why a lot of folks discard it.

[Charger]

Well for my 9th pick I had to go back to the drawing board thanks to ZZZ....but I came up with this!


IRON MAIDEN - PASCHENDALE

This is about a rather famous battle during the first World War...(surprise surprise I'm going with a historical song again) In the battle The Allies try to break through German's western front.
Maiden's song concentrates on a single soldier's view of the battle.

This is a great song from what I consider to be Iron Maiden's last truly great album. And eventhough at the time I did not understand why they made yet another live album/DVD now it's great to have a live version of this song!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
I do like that one too... I was thinking about that one for my IM choice, but there's others I can go with if I choose them!

[Zzzptm]

My 9th choice has to go to Stiff Little Fingers' "Alternative Ulster"

Would that we could have lands that stayed peaceful for people who wanted peace and places to go for those who desired war, far away from the places of peace.