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Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« on: January 15, 2025, 09:56:11 AM »
What's bigger than a rock, but smaller than a city? The subjects of the songs in this thread!

I'll open with '69 by Deep Purple. It's a song about being cramped up in a tiny tour van and hitting little clubs back in the day. I like this live version because Jon Lord does a throwback to the old Mandrake Root ending that DP used for so many years in their live show, keeping it as an appendage to Space Truckin' even into the MkIV era. There are some other snippets in the medley, quite delightful stuff.

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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2025, 12:15:28 PM »
This was one of the songs I immediately thought of when the topic came up...

Pick #1

New Model Army - Leeds Road 3AM



From their last consistently good album (2000s 'Eight'). A snap shot of a gritty northern town in the UK. Driven by the bass line and drums I really like this one.
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2025, 12:43:20 PM »
I'm gonna be struggling with this one for sure!


But I'll kick things off with this one from Iron Maiden before someone else picks it up and I'm even more screwed! :D





This is about a very specific road and a very specific place on that road and it's about a hooker.
Not among my favourite tunes by any means but not a bad one either and this live version is pretty good.
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2025, 01:10:11 PM »
Great songs to kick this thread off with!

Here's a song about houses: Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy. This song was always weird to me...an entire album named Houses of the Holy, and then a new album with a song called Houses of the Holy. It was many years, and the internet, before I learned why.

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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2025, 08:13:04 AM »
For my second pick I'm gonna go with a song about a metaphorical street

Here's DIO and EVIL ON QUEEN STREET




Lock Up The Wolves is my least favourite DIO album mainly because it feels bit cobbled together and it lacks the power and feel of the previous albums and the heaviness and fury of the ones after.
But there are few good tunes on it and luckily for this thread this happens to be one of the good ones. It's got a bluesy tone to it and Ronnie delivers great vocal preformance here albeit bit different from the norm.

Frankly I am not entirely sure this fits the topic as it is NOT about a specific street...although there are several Queen Streets out there and I am sure few of them have some evil on them...
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2025, 10:00:29 AM »
Good call regarding 22 Acacia Avenue... I was thinking about that one!!

I'll be honest I wasn't really thinking about specific roads and streets, just a general reference to them! So that choice is fine.
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2025, 04:13:21 PM »
Pick #2

The Clash - White Man in Hammersmith Palais



Silly lyrics but one of my favourite Clash songs off their debut S/T album.

This is about the Palais de Danse in Hammersmith and not the Hammersmith Apollo which is another larger venue.
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2025, 06:45:52 PM »
Highway to Hell - AC/DC

A love song about a real place, but not the one where the horned dude with the pointed stick conducts business.

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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2025, 08:20:17 AM »
Who knew a song about Freo would be such a great rocker? :smug:

Loved the New Model Army track, had not heard it before. That's why I like these lists!

My second offering is from Canada's answer to Brownsville Station, a little power trio called Rush, maybe you've heard of them? (If only Geddy Lee and Cub Koda could have shared the stage together...)



When I was in Toronto for a conference, the Uber went past Lakeside Park on the way in and I took in the scenes with childish joy and wonderment.

As a bonus, I also walked up Yonge Street. Yes, I was looking for bold Maritimers there, because of SCTV...


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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2025, 05:43:49 PM »
Lakeside Park was also under consideration by moi!!

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Thunder - Back Street Symphony



From the 1990 album of the same name. A solid straight forward hard rock group who I  thought had some Thin Lizzy connection but I can't find it now! The debut album was rather good, but they went down hill after that, and after buying the fourth album I really thought to myself "why did I bother?" and haven't since!
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2025, 08:02:43 PM »
Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot

This used to get a lot of airplay 49 years ago, not so much the past 48 of them :)

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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2025, 07:18:01 AM »
For my 3rd pick I'm gonna go to a far away land that has a very special place where people desire to go...


Rainbow - THE TEMPLE OF THE KING





I thought I'd snatch this one quickly before ZZZ takes it away from me!


One of my favourite tunes from the first Rainbow album...the feel of this song is amazing.
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2025, 08:41:48 AM »
Dagnabbit... crosses TotK off my list! :D
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2025, 04:25:44 PM »
:sorry:
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Re: Roads, Buildings, Neighborhoods
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2025, 05:31:23 PM »
Ironically, I wasn't going to go for that one, so you only ninja'd Kilo! :smug:
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