h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK, I've had a couple of insanely busy workdays, and today's going to be the same. But while I'm waiting for my reports to run, thought I'd start another of my favorite games, since you lot are so good at these. So, take me away from this crazy place by helping me compile a playlist of songs with names of places in the titles.

Any genre will do, whatever you like. Popular songs are fine, as are obscure tunes, deep cuts and B-sides. Album titles don't count, and neither do artist/band names.

I'll start us off with a few off the top of my head...

X- Soul Kitchen
Big Country- Wonderland
Naked Raygun- Home of the Brave
Wall Of Voodoo- Isle of Man
XTC- Towers of London
Siouxsie & the Banshees- Paradise Place
Shriekback- Night Town
Effigies- Haunted Town
Mission of Burma- Fun World
Replacements- Skyway
The Jazz Butcher- The Onion Field
Adam & the Ants- Montreal
Missing Persons- Walking in L.A.
Yaz- In My Room
Joy Division- Interzone
Bauhaus- In The Flat Field
Love & Rockets- Life in Laralay
Budgie- Whiskey River
Luxuria- Public Highway

That list could be endless, especially when you get into Folk music, half of which is just reminescing about places.

But my randomiser just came up with one mentioning *two* place names in the title - "Galway to Graceland" - lyrics here http://www.richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=194

Flicking through to see what it would show, the next five with place names were:

Spanish Castle Magic - Jimi Hendrix (I assume that counts as Spain. Or a castle.)

59th Street Bridge Song - Simon & Garfunkel (Very specific location there!)

Banned from Argo - Leslie Fish (Ok, Argo is a fictional planet, but that's Filk for you)

Pretty Park - Kevin Coyne (Again assuming "park" is close enough to a location)

Sheik of Araby - Harmonious Wail (Even if it's misspelled...)

I'm horrible when it comes to remember names, so I can but try:

Lucy in the Sky - The Beatles

Graceland - Elvis Presley

New York New York - Frank Sinatra

New York New York - , another double!

Just found a triple:

Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

Will have to come back to this, but I'll just say I had to google "deep cuts" to find out what they were and trot out the inevitable Pixies list.

Isla De Encanta
River Euphrates
All Over The World
Down To The Well
Tromple Le Monde
Planet Of Sound
U-Mass
Palace Of The Brine
Letter To Memphis
Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons
Space (I Believe In)
Motorway To Roswell
In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)
Weird At My School
Into The White (?)

I knew you'd come up with Planet of SOund, Chris, so I left them alone.

Great job, Mala Bel and Chris! I'm half done with my reports, and everything's going smoothly, so you're helping distract me sufficiently already... but I like to keep these threads going on for ages.

Especially since I can go home, sit in front of the music collection, and come up with lots more.

Let's see, I've been listening to the Red Elvises, so we've had:

Surfing in Siberia

Venice, USA

Memoirs of a Phuket Geisha

City of Angels (if that counts...)

Some more:

O.M.D.- Maid of Orleans
Blue Cheer- Babylon
Sun Ra- Space is the Place
Hüsker Dü- Standing By the Sea
Gang of Four- At Home He's a Tourist
The Jam- In the City
The Cramps- Rock on the Moon
Minutemen- Viet Nam
T.S.O.L.- Beneath the Shadows
Hanoi Rocks- Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Echo & the Bunnymen- Seven Seas (does that count?)
Jesus & Mary Chain- Kill Surf City
T Rex- Ballrooms of Mars

...OK, I'd better get back to work for now. What a nice little break that was...

Husker Du-related - Hoover Dam by Sugar.

Okay - these are all remixes the Aphex Twin did of his "song" Ventolin, none of which have anything to do with the original, and are named after real places in his native Cornwall.

Praze-An-Beeble Mix
Marazanvose Mix
Plain-An-Gwarry Mix
The Coppice Mix
Crowsmengegus Mix
Carharrack Mix
Probus Mix

Tom Waits has to be safe territory. I've only got a couple of compilation albums, but from which -

Underground
Earth Died Screaming
Singapore
Johnsburg, Illinois
Good Old World
Heartattack & Vine
Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)
Whistlin' Past The Graveyard
Burma Shave (okay, I've read Made In America by Bill Bryson, and I know it's a billboard, but he sings about it as though it's a place)
Jersey Girl
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Wrong Side Of The Road
Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)

Some oldies:

Wonderful Copenhagen (Danny Kaye)

Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe (caterina Valente)

Granada (caterina Valente)

Wenn die Rosen erblühen in Malaga (Cindy und Bert)

Das Herz von St Pauli (Hans Albers)

Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb eins

In Arizona und Arkansas (Hans Albers & Evelyn Künneke)

I could go on like this.

On the street where you live (My Fair Lady)

America (Westside Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k)

Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin (Hildegard Knef)

Where the streets have no name / U2
Stairway to heaven / Led Zeppelin
Map.Ref. 41°N 93°W / Wire
A13, Trunk Road to the Sea / Billy Bragg (if you don't know it, look it up - brit version of Route 66 and it's just brilliant)
Down From the Mountain / Banco de Gaia
Back in the USSR / The Beatles
Why don't we go home? / Bis
Chicago / Bis (extra points - surely?)
Country House / Blur
Frownland / Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Wounded Sky / Chemical Brothers
Coney Island Dreaming / Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet
Amsterdam / Coldplay

Brilliant! All brilliant. (Except I don't like that Aphex Twin guy, but he still counts )

And yep, extra points for Chicago.

Another German classic:

Es gibt kein Bier auf Hawaii (No idea who originally sang this one. No party without this song )

Down by the Riverside

Down in the Boondocks

Wärst du doch in Düsseldorf geblieben (Dorte)

Mendocino (Michael Holm)

Amarillo (Tony Christie)

I will openly admit that I suck at thinking of things like this off the top of my head. I may have to come back to this at the weekend when I have looked through my music collection!

Synchronicity (sp?)strikes again!
Yesterday I wanted to ask you about music!
Just had to stop short.
Yours is the second post I checked today.

Nearly all my newer music likes originated from you PC. Not that I have checked or stayed with ALL Several new to me ones! Glad you posted about music again

I like JEllens art and movie reviews.

Aw, Abbi- ask me about music any time you like. If I don't know something I am sure I know someone who does.

I love synchronicity, though!

Jemstone, no worries. I assure you that I'll be perusing my music collection tomorrow evening looking for more.

I love these lists, when people help me, because I come up with great playlists to load on my portable player.

I know you don't like Nick Cave either, but...

In The Ghetto (Presley)
The Moon Is In The Gutter
Tupelo
By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Glenn Campbell - whence Galveston, Wichita Lineman)
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
City Of Refuge
When I First Came To Town
Where The Wild Roses Grow
The Curse Of Millhaven
O'Malley's Bar
Lime Tree Arbour
Brompton Oratory (nice place)
There Is A Kingdom
Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere?
West Country Girl (namely, PJ Harvey)
As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
God Is In The House
We Came Along This Road
Gates To The Garden
There Is A Town
Rock Of Gibraltar
She Passed By My Window
Messiah Ward
There She Goes, My Beautiful World
Abbatoir Blues

Few more from the Aphex Twin -

Mont St Michel & St Michael's Mount
54 Cymru Beats
Pigeon Street
The Garden Of Linmiri
Portreath Harbour
Redruth School
Pissed Up In SE1
Lisbon Acid
Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid (old shoe shop)