Pajiba

And by David Gray, I mean Jeff Finlin.

Per "London's Brilliant Parade" I went to Hungerford Bridge, but I didn't walk across it because it was all boarded up for repairs so I couldn't look for the answer that wasn't there in the water below. Major disappointment. I did visit Oxford Street, but didn't make it to the lions and tigers in Regents Park.

Walked past Capital Radio though and made sure to get a picture, though I didn't really get out of central London on foot or tube to see the Westway.

I was thrilled beyond measure to be riding on a train (from Liverpool) heaving on to Euston.

Oh and I called someone on a payphone in Manhattan to say that I was on 45 between 6th and Broadway. Of course she wasn't home and I had to leave a message.

(I also called someone from Golden Gate Park just to say "San Francisco....I was born there" in my Takei voice and he wasn't home. Yes, I go to both extremes)

Jackson Mississippi - Kid Rock

New Orleans is Sinking and the Tragically Hip will save it.

Paddy, in my dreams you and I tour the battlefied at Manassas while humming a duet of "Yankee Bayonet."

Who knew a love song between a rebel soldier and his widow could make me tear up every time I hear it?

Jay:
I have the EP with Nick Cave and Shane McGowan doing the best version of "It's a Wonderful World"

"As for stuff I've already done, I am pretty sure I've been drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue on many occasions."

From Rufus Wainwright's "Poses", one of my favorite songs of all time.

Tinmo:

Chelsea Hotel #2 by Leonard Cohen
Rock the Casbah by The Clash
Rainy Night in Soho by The Pogues
Eton Rifles by The Jam

Dude, I live in NYC, about 5 blocks from the Chelsea Hotel. I don't need to go anywhere. I got it all right here. Sometimes I don't go to no Mud Club or CBGB, when I ain't got time for that. During the summer I hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach. I dance with my Coney Island Baby.

I've fought the power in Bed-Stuy. I've run down to Union Square, to find what I'm gonna find there. I've Crossed 110th Street. I've smelt a Rose in Spanish Harlem. I've Seen the Girls in New York City. Gone down to Atlantic City to make out Under the Boardwalk. I've seen the Neon Lights on Broadway. I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway. I Saw the Empire State Lay Low. I've ridden My Bike On 43rd Street. I've had a 10th Avenue Freeze Out. I've slept in Central Park After Dark. I've been to the Boogie Down Bronx. I've had Christmas Time in Hollis, Queens. Sometimes I was so lonesome I've found comfort from the whores on 10th avenue. I've seen the Words of the Prophets Written on the Tenement Halls.

I've gotten drunk with Patti Smith. I've smoked pot with David Peel. I've chased after Lou Reed. I've danced with small children to Dan Zanes. I've protest the loss of Coney Island with Cyndi Lauper.

Musical Tourism? Fuck that. I am New York City.

I've been to the future, and it was murder.

Other than that, all the places in Whiskey in the Jar:
Kerry Mountain, Cork, Kilkenny, Killarney

I grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and we were only about 45 minutes-ish away from Detroit (depending on how much construction was being done on I-75 at the time).

I've seen the Hotel Yorba as referenced by The White Stripes, and I've been to 8 Mile Road.

(Panic in the Streets of) London

Indiana Wants Me (song sucks, but, damn it, I live there!)

What I have done:

Walkin' in Memphis

Sitting on the dock of the Bay

Chicago

Lookin' out my Back Door

Where the Boys Are

Shit, my brain isn't working....that's all I can come up with right now.....not with it enough to be clever like everybody else.

Well, I 've never been Stuck in Lodi, but I drive through the one in Wisconsin on a fairly regular basis.

(All the Kids want to go to) Bay Beach (also in Wisconsin), and I've been there.

I'd be intersted in "living in Reseda" and taking a walk with the vampires on Ventura Boulevard (which I'd guess is close to the Ventura Highway.)

I'd head straight to Tuscany, but I think I'd skip the Harem.

Paddy, I used to live in Chelsea. I love that hotel - the look of it.

I've only ever really thought of visiting Jim Morrison's grave, cheesy though it may be.

But if I went off Morrissey way, I suppose I'd check out Vauxhall.

I Am - Kid Rock
"Have you seen the Northern Falls,
Or the Midwest seasons changing
A Montana storm
Or a warm Kentucky rain?"

for spring break one year my then boyfriend and i visited every NYC spot they might be giants sing about in their song "new york city" from factory showroom.

i went to allen's bar in athens, ga because of the b-52's song, "the deadbeat club" from cosmic thing (they didn't have 25 cent beer). and i went to weaver d's (also in athens) because of r.e.m.'s magnificent album automatic for the people.

A word of warning to those of you that want to stand on the corner in Winslow, AZ.

As a resident of Northern Arizona, I live about an hour west of Winslow on I-40. I went there once. It had a statue of a guy with a guitar on the main corner in town. I say main corner because that was one of maybe 3 corners. That town has absolutely nothing going for it except for that song, and as such it consists entirely of the statue, a souvenir shop, a boring coffee shop, a hotel by the train tracks and about 150 abandoned buildings.

I feel bad for it, actually. In it's current state it will be a complete ghost town in under 50 years. Seriously, avoid it.

Anyways, the song was originally suppose to be about Flagstaff, AZ but Winslow fit better in the lyrics. Also it was a toyota, not a ford. Just sayin'...

The inspiration for the B-52's "Love Shack" was on my Athens Banner-Herald newspaper route about a year after the song came out. It's in Bogart, GA. Yes, it really is set way back in the middle of a field, but no, they didn't take the paper....

Ok, I've never been there, but surely someone has been to Graceland.

I've never been to Graceland, but I've certainly been Under African Skies.

bucslim - I think he jumped off of the Tallahachee(sp?) Bridge.

I live in one of the locations mentioned in The Pretenders/Chrissie Hynde's "Back to Ohio" - Cuyahoga Falls.

Yep. I'm a winner. It's ok if you're jealous.

"Have you ever seen... the beauty of... the hills of Carolina..., or the sweetness of the grass of Tennessee?"

-Lynyrd Skynyrd, "All I Can Do Is Write About It"

I could just reference "Sweet Home Alabama", but that's too obvious. If you haven't, you should check out more of Skynyrd's song catalog. They're a lot more than just "Freebird" and "Sweet Home Alabama".

I've been to Tuxedo Junction in Birmingham. Nothing there but a boarded up bulding with a historical marker outside. The city does sponsor a "Function at the Junction" every year, but I've never been. And I've never seen Stars Fall on Alabama, either.

I'd like to visit the Hoover Factory "Five miles out of London on the Western Avenue" but I am, after 10 years, Anchored Down in Anchorage (though I don't love that song...)

Paddydog:
The people I dragged along were like, "Why the hell are we going all the way over here? Because of a musical?"
They shut up real quick when they saw the big kick ass street market though.

Athens, Ga.

I love that dirty water. Aw, Boston, you're my home.

Lainey, I grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, and was always inordinately proud that the Pretenders immortalized it in song:-) (Great town, much of my family is still there.)

Been to Cleveland, too - Cleveland Rocks! - plenty o' times.

I've been Back in the U.S.S.R., though it was Russia proper by then ('03). My kids were born in Novosibirsk.

Also been to Dublin's fair city and Derry as well (Back Home in Derry). Would love to see the Fields of Athenry one day.

Seems there should be tons of songs that reference Glasgow, but darned if I can think of any. It's a great town to hear live music, for sure. Does listening to Billy Connolly count? “The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards." I'm a great Craig Ferguson fan as well:-)

Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama, Key Largo, Montego.

Oh, yes.

I've actually been to Aruba already. Absolutely gorgeous.

Um, this seems a little Billy Joel heavy.

- In Allentown / Bethlehem visited the actual factories they closed down.

- Went to hear a friend's unsigned band in a bar on Bleeker St.

- I "got high in the rockies, under the evergreens." To the tune. Yes I did. Even wore a cool hat at an angle. Maybe I can be pres one day?

- Spent "weekends on the Jersey Shore" as a kid. Laughed about it when I hear the song. Went back for a weekend just because of the song.

- Took a long-time-since-sweetie to a catching up with each other dinner at one of the finest Italian restaurants in Ithica, on purpose and had them play the song on purpose.

- Walked 52nd street during the only time the city that never sleeps actually dozes - between 04:00 and 05:30. Then I went to sleep, and work up still there.

- Woke up more than once as my plane arrived in that same town, then laughed about it and played the tune - which I'd t-ed up because I knew I'd be waking up there.

- Yes, I did have "Breakfast at Tiffanys".

- I've driven down the hill into Scranton Pennsylvania immortalized in "50,000 Pounds of Bananas", playing the tune. Even did it with a trailer and not enough brakes once.

- And any more, whenever I get to up-State NY, I have to visit Syracuse, just to play "Rock Salt City."

I'm sure there's more that will come to me. I used to travel quite a bit for work. Music and lyrics turned out to be whimsical ways to pick something to do in the down time.

Your heart does not belong at 93rd and Park. Go back to Phoenix.

angelbabe, HIII!

Do you pronounce it like Chrissie does or the lazy way with only 2 syllables?

And I guess I could add "Moon over Parma", Scott Weiland's "Missing Cleveland", and Kent State University as memorialized in Neil Young's "Ohio".

One of my very best moments ever was with my best girlfriends the day after my bachelorette party and the song "Lake Shore Drive" came on while we were on Lake Shore Drive. For a girl from small town IL it was great!

Hey Lainey, I've (oddly) almost always pronounced it with all four syllables - I was a young spelling geek, what can I say?! But more like Chrissie if I'm in a hurry.

It's great to hear of someone, other than folks I grew up with back when dinosaurs roamed the earth;-) living in the Falls. I love to go back - my mom and I take my kids to the Natatorium and down to Valley Vista Park. Can't wait til they're old enough to head to Blossom for a summer concert...best damned outdoor venue I've ever been to!

I mistyped, angelbabe. I meant lazy like Chrissie or with all of the syllables. I pronounce it the lazy way, but even lazier than Chrissie - it almost sounds like a cough - "caw-ga". She opened a vegan restaurant by Luigi's. Pricey, but very tasty.

I saw my first ever concert at Blossom. James Taylor. Yes, I was also around when the dinosaurs roamed the Falls...

I've been driving up 85 in the kind of morning that lasts all afternoon. (I hate that my first comment here is referencing a John Mayer song. Am I going to be kicked out before I'm even through the door? Why, Georgia, Why?)

38th & 8th - New York City.

I don't know if this ties in to the theme of the thread, exactly (or at all, for that matter), but last year I stayed in an awesome old hotel in San Antonio where Robert Johnson did the bulk of his recording way back in the day. Pretty cool.

I'm with you, the_wakeful, on the pathetic hitchhiker statue on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. I was driving across the county a few years ago and happened to need gas around the time that Winslow appeared as the next exit -- I doubt I would have stopped otherwise. I think I have a picture of that statue somewhere; I remember thinking that it was extremely cheesy, with the dude looking kind of retarded slow with his thumb sticking out in the middle of town.

Oh and yes, I've been to "Can't Get There From Here"'s Philomath.

And maybe I've done two, if this is in fact a reference to Philomath, Oregon.

Sean already brought it up: I've flown to Phoenix, but without having broken any hearts.

I drive through Marietta, Ohio on my way to/from college and nearly every time I think of Soul Coughing.

I've sent Postcards from Italy. I've been to Munich and Milano. Hell yeah, I remember Aurora.

I would love to be Alone in Kyoto, I want to see the Shadows of Salford, I don't know what I'd do if I saw over Glasgow (though I don't care for mega snakes), I want to know why Sao Paolo's bringing me down and what's wrong with Mississippi Goddamn, I'll see you at Rudy's (where you'll be very high), against everyone's advice I want to go to Big Sur, I want to wait for my man at Lexington 125, I want to know if New York really does care, and I want to see the Oslo Skyline.

1) The Land Down Under, Australia (I live here now, they handed me a vegemite sandwich and it took hours to get the taste out!)

2) Champs-Élysées (avec des fous) Paris, France Either Folk or NOFX

3) The Baby Universe (by whomever 野宮真貴 is from the game Katamari Damacy) You go into the baby universe apparently which must be a location somewhere It sounds cool doesn it? Also I got engaged during this song so it gets brownie points for that maybe falling into the baby universe is getting married. marriage is certainly a different world than the one I was used to before.

4) Easter Bank Holiday Parade (London) By the Real Tuesday Weld. I was there a month late.

Not sure if these count:

- I once saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac and spent the rest of the day singing "Boys of Summer."

- I have a photo of a guy in London painting a red door black, which I took because I thought perhaps he was channeling the Rolling Stones.

Thanks Neon (I work with one of those people).

My hope with this comment diversiob was that I would finally find the holy grail of musical tourism: a person who could truthfully say "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die".

Still haven't found that elusive mortal.

I always meant to light a torch and wave it for a new moon on a Monday, but never got around to it. Plus, I don't know where to buy a torch.

And what about FM radio's always number 1 in the top 500 countdown;
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

and The Clash - London Calling