I was listening to "Hackensack" by Fountains of Wayne and it made me wonder how many songs there are that mention lesser known towns. Obviously, there are many, many songs about New York, Paris, L.A. etc., but what about the Hackensacks? What other songs are there that do this?
Memories of East Texas And Gilmer, county seat of Upshur... Michelle Shocked - Memories of East Texas
for decades i thought the song was about lodi, nj i had a friend from there and he sang along in a heartfelt way
Girl VII by Saint Etienne. “Primrose Hill, Staten Island Chalk Farm, Massif Central, Gospel Oak, Sao Paolo Boston Manor, Costa Rica, Arnos Grove San Clemente, Tufnell Park, Gracetown, York Way Videoton, Clerkenwell, Portobello, Maida Vale Old Ford, Valencia, Kennington, Galveston Holland Park, Studamer, Dollis Hill, Fougeres London Fields, Bratislava, Haggerston Lavinia, Canonbury, Alice Springs Tooting Graveney, Baffin Island Pollard's Hill, Winnepeg, Plumstead Common Hyderabad, Silvertown, Buffalo”
The Macc Lads - Knutsford.... Knutsford is a town in Cheshire UK, that's only a few miles from the Macc Lads hometown of Macclesfield......Knutsford scabby women to the tune of Nutbush City Limits LOL.
John Cale, "Graham Greene" "Welcome back to Chipping and Sodbury You can have another chance" Chipping Sodbury - Wikipedia
Runnin' Back to Saskatoon The Guess Who Moose Jaw, Broadview, Moosomin too Runnin' back to Saskatoon Red Deer, Terrace, Hanna, Medicine Hat Sing another prairie tune Sing another prairie tune
Ditto...and I was living in Southern California when it came out. When I moved to Northern California in late 1972 I found out about the actual city of Lodi.
Well, there's Elton's Grimsby. How we chortled at that one in '74. And those musical pranksters The KLF (in their Justified Ancients of Mu Mu guise) reeled off a whole list of lesser knowns, in It's Grim Up North. Those wacky JAMS:
