# The Greatest Songs About Places. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375 "2008-07-13T23:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/21 "2008-07-14T14:16:32Z")
I’m not turning up the lyrics right now, but Phil Cody, on his pretty good CD _The Sons of Intemperence Offering_ sings a nice ode to his hometown in “Hats Off (to the Big Queen City)”. (For you furriners, “The Queen City” is Cincinnati’s nickname) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/22 "2008-07-14T19:33:40Z")
This is a good 'un… 🙂**[In Zaire - Johnny Wakelin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qJnKB04il0)** ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/23 "2008-07-14T20:02:45Z")
Things to do in Denver when you’re dead - Warren Zevon Cheyenne - The Del-Lords ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/24 "2008-07-14T20:48:57Z")
There is an interesting coincidence here which I am not at present at liberty to discuss. I’ll be back in a few days with the details. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/25 "2008-07-14T20:54:14Z")
Can he do that? Surely he can’t just waltz in a thread, make such an intriguing statement, and then just disappear into the ether(net)? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/26 "2008-07-14T21:04:56Z")
Istanbul (Not Constantinople), especially the version by They Might Be Giants ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/27 "2008-07-14T21:14:33Z")
I love **Copenhagen** ( my favourite city!) by Scott Walker, but I can’t find a link, unfortunately! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/28 "2008-07-14T21:16:55Z")
[QUOTE=ivan astikov] Can he do that? Surely he can’t just waltz in a thread, make such an intriguing statement, and then just disappear into the ether(net)? [/QUOTE] All will be revealed. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/29 "2008-07-14T21:24:00Z")
Does Stuck Out in Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again count? ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/30 "2008-07-14T21:58:03Z")
[QUOTE=runner pat] [San Francisco(Be sure to wear flowers in your hair)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQsSAeq7yn0) [/QUOTE] and “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” “San Francisco” (open your golden gate, you let no stranger wait outside your door) several other good San Francisco songs too. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/31 "2008-07-15T00:14:34Z")
Clearly the correct response here is **The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota** , the magnum opus of a certain Alfred Yankovic. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/32 "2008-07-15T01:53:45Z")
_Toolmaster of Brainerd_ by Trip Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/33 "2008-07-15T02:14:39Z")
From the Fountains of Wayne songbook: Hackensack Fire Island Amity Gardens The Hotel Majestic Red Dragon Tattoo [Ink spot] I-95 Killermont Street (Aztec Camera cover) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/34 "2008-07-15T02:19:30Z")
I forgot Harry Chapin’s “Dogtown”, about Cape Ann, Massachusetts during the whaling era. Also about bestiality. We’ll not discuss that right now. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/35 "2008-07-15T02:24:44Z")
Planet Claire! ``` :d ``` ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/36 "2008-07-15T02:37:47Z")
[Lake Shore Drive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjNSmAl7hF0). ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/37 "2008-07-15T03:30:08Z")
Kashmir And I’ll second L.A. Woman - that song is guaranteed to make me homesick the moment I hear the opening. Oh, and I swear there’s a song “Stuck in Lodi again” but I don’t remember the artist. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/38 "2008-07-15T03:41:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh, and I swear there’s a song “Stuck in Lodi again” but I don’t remember the artist. Creedence Clearwater Revival ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/39 "2008-07-15T11:40:50Z")
**El Paso** by Marty Robbins **Mozambique** by Bob Dylan **Black Diamond Bay** also by Bob Dylan **Free Fallin’** by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (I lived in the San Fernando Valley at the time it came out, otherwise it would be a song about young love or somesuch) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375/40 "2008-07-15T12:56:43Z")
A couple more… **[England.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO5AKtPdvZg)** **[Belfast.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBCsc7wmNU)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-songs-about-places/456375.md?page=3)