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[Music] A Bit Of Americana For Your Indulgence
- Thread starter el punal
- Start date
- Nov 15, 2006
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GuiltySeem to have a lot of cities here when the OP asked for states.
I’ll make amends
Nebraska
California Stars
Ohio
It never rains in Southern California
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
I first heard this song when young and thinking of America as a dream place to go to. A few mentions of places but I remember that I thought the New Jersey Turnpike sounded romantic. Imagine my disappointment when decades later I went through it
Si Gull
Way Down South
Pixies - U-Mass.
University Of Massachusetts, please
Parental advisory....C-words
University Of Massachusetts, please
Parental advisory....C-words
Ghost of Killer Reeves
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Frank Zappa……Carolina hardcore ecstasy
Frank Zappa……Illinois enema bandit
Frank Zappa…..No not now,(string beans to Utah)
Frank Zappa……Illinois enema bandit
Frank Zappa…..No not now,(string beans to Utah)
thedonkeycentrehalf
Moved back to wear the gloves (again)
- Jul 7, 2003
- 9,325
North of Robertsbridge
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California Love, NWA
hart's shirt
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Any extra points for the same one mentioned 4 times in a row?
Pet Shop Boys - 'Paninaro'
"Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Food, cars, travel
Food, cars, travel, travel
New York, New York, New York
New York"
Pet Shop Boys - 'Paninaro'
"Paninaro, Paninaro, oh, oh, oh
Food, cars, travel
Food, cars, travel, travel
New York, New York, New York
New York"
Biscuit Barrel
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New York Telephone Conversation
by Lou Reed
by Lou Reed
There are way too many
Dani California - ROCP: Getting born in the state of Mississippi - In Alabama she would swing a hammer - Black bandanna, sweet Louisiana - Robbing on a bank in the state of Indiana - California rest in peace - Never made it up to Minnesota - North Dakota man
Dakota - Stereophonics
Blue Hawaii - Elvis
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z - In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Fairytale of New York - Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Hotel California - Eagles
Country Road - John Denver - West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads
My Name Is Tallulah - Tallulah had her training in North Carolina
Bee Gees - Massachusetts
California Gurls - Katy Perry
California Girls - The Beach Boys
The Tale of the Lonesome Pine - Laurel & Hardy - In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Oklahoma - Rodgers & Hammerstein
Graceland - Paul Simon - I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
Dani California - ROCP: Getting born in the state of Mississippi - In Alabama she would swing a hammer - Black bandanna, sweet Louisiana - Robbing on a bank in the state of Indiana - California rest in peace - Never made it up to Minnesota - North Dakota man
Dakota - Stereophonics
Blue Hawaii - Elvis
Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z - In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Fairytale of New York - Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Hotel California - Eagles
Country Road - John Denver - West Virginia, mountain mama, take me home, country roads
My Name Is Tallulah - Tallulah had her training in North Carolina
Bee Gees - Massachusetts
California Gurls - Katy Perry
California Girls - The Beach Boys
The Tale of the Lonesome Pine - Laurel & Hardy - In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
Oklahoma - Rodgers & Hammerstein
Graceland - Paul Simon - I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Number 1 the day I was born (and if you’re a proper nerd you’d know my birthday is imminent)
theboybilly
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To add 'Nebraska' properly (from the album of the same name) :
'From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska;
with a sawed-off .410 on my lap'
'From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska;
with a sawed-off .410 on my lap'
.....as is Carolina.
Others: Ohio (Crosby, Stills and Nash);
Oklahoma (Rodgers and Hammerstein);
Carolina Moon (Connie Francis);
My Old Kentucky Home (Loretta Lynn, among many others).
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Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Any opportunity to include Sparks
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Where is New Mexico, my geography is shite?
I'm sorry I'm being mean - New Mexico isn't in the lyrics. Like Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication doesn't have California in it
