Songs About CT, RI, or New England?

[bfactor]

Willie Alexander�??Mass. Ave.
 Magnetic Fields�??Long Vermont Roads (though Vermont appears only in the first line and the song then meanders across the country)
 Modern Lovers�??Roadrunner; Government Center
 The Reducers�??Rocks [many of the songs by this wonderful punk-blues band, still around after 25 years, are about the oxymoronic greater New London (Conn.) area, but this one actually says so. Chorus: Rocks/sticking out of the ocean/Rocks/New London hardly ever does/Rock�?�. ]
 
 I agree that �??A New England�?� belongs in even if Bragg didn�??t exactly mean it that way; you might consider the Too Much Joy cover (plus they kind of swallow the �??A�?� in the lyric for much of it)
 
 Surely someone�??s done a cover of that treacly �??Please come to Boston for the springtime�?�.�?�

[serickson98]

Just curious...  What's with all the playlist posts recently?

[jude376]

Originally posted by bfactor:
  The Reducers�??Rocks [many of the songs by this wonderful punk-blues band, still around after 25 years, are about the oxymoronic greater New London (Conn.) area, but this one actually says so. Chorus: Rocks/sticking out of the ocean/Rocks/New London hardly ever does/Rock�?�. ]

That's actually the area I hail from. I'll have to check them out...

Originally posted by J'Mal:
  Steve Miller -- Jet Airliner

"I went from Phoenix Arizona all the way to Takoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A."
 
 Where is New England?

[kookiemnstr8]

Not a song per se, just a hysterical message.
 
 Sonic Youth - Providence

[bfactor]

Tons of Reducers song samples are at http://www.thereducers.com/audiofiles/. Try Let's Go, No Ambition, Better Homes and Gardens, Scared of Cops, Bums I Used to Know. They play mostly around eastern Conn. with an occasional jaunt to NY, but did a Japan tour after an old song on a new compilation started a boomlet for them over there.  
 
 
 

Originally posted by jude376:
   

Originally posted by bfactor:
  The Reducers�??Rocks [many of the songs by this wonderful punk-blues band, still around after 25 years, are about the oxymoronic greater New London (Conn.) area, but this one actually says so. Chorus: Rocks/sticking out of the ocean/Rocks/New London hardly ever does/Rock�?�. ]

That's actually the area I hail from. I'll have to check them out... [/b]

[jude376]

I can't believe I forgot about Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth.

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
   

Originally posted by J'Mal:
  Steve Miller -- Jet Airliner

"I went from Phoenix Arizona all the way to Takoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A."
 
 Where is New England? [/b]

That line's from "Rock n' Me"
 
 Touchin' down in New England town
 Feel the heat comin' down
 I've got to keep on keepin' on
 You know the big wheel keeps on spinnin' around
 And I'm goin' with some hesitation
 You know that I can surely see
 That I don't want to get caught up in any of that
 Funky shit goin' down in the city

[J'Mal]

Carly Simon, The Wives are in Connecticut

[Venerable Bede]

dream academy- life in a northern town
 galaxie 500- blue thunder

[chokeychicken]

the get up kids - mass pike.

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
   

Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
   

Originally posted by J'Mal:
  Steve Miller -- Jet Airliner

"I went from Phoenix Arizona all the way to Takoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A."
 
 Where is New England? [/b]

That line's from "Rock n' Me"
 
 Touchin' down in New England town
  [/b]

Steve meant New England Town, Mississippi.  It's a small town, not on many maps.

[amnesiac]

Okkervil River - Maine Island Lovers

[J'Mal]

How does a big ol' jet airliner, a 707, land in some nothing dot on the map in mississippi?  and is that a city where funky shit goes down?

[backslider25]

Jesus H. Christ Band - Connecticut's for Fucking