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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Around The World - An Atlas in Song
A quick music thread to see through to hometime. Extra ace points for brilliance of song and obscurity of place.
I'll start

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Luton To Lisbon - Fischer Z
White Car In Germany - The Associates
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:20, 174 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Daytrip to Bangor - Fiddler's Dram

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:22, Reply)
I Love Paris.
Luton Airport.
Xanadu.
Sitting on Top of the World.
53rd & 3rd.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:23, Reply)
Can we not just go
Up the Junction??
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
It might be a bit of a Squeeze, Phil

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
Which won't matter if the seats are good enough.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
great seats though

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Rocky Top Tennessee

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:24, Reply)
Africa.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
oh man I love toto

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
They're probably supporting Journey.
You should go the the /OT benderbash.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Maybe I will

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
The benderbash is coming
and everyone is humping.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
before you post saying that this isn't appreciated enough
I found it vaguely amusing.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
Nutbush City Limits

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
WOAH Nutbush.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
going loco down in acapulco - four tops
if you staaaayyy tooooo looooong

Land down under - men at work

CLASSICS I TELL YE
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
Oh boy, are you excited about this weekend, I'm so excited I almost had a bit of pre-cum

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
I've slid off my chair numerous times

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
take the plastic cover off

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Route 66

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)

Beast of Barnsley - Radio Stars
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
"I'll never be...your beast of Barnsley...never...never..."
Oh wait - that was The Stones.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Fog on the Tyne

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:25, Reply)
The Gazza version, I trust.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
is it similar to Ferry across the Mersey?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Yes, but with added sausage rolls.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Sickly ones, an' aaal, reet?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
Aye, bonny lad.
(I may have veered into When The Boat Comes In, here)
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
Or the fucking Skye Boat Song

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
In that it is utter shite, yes.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)
Are you coming down this weekend?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
Alas I cannot.
It is contributing to my general emo malaise today. And my band has split up on the eve of great success.

I think I shall write a poem about my feelings.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
It sounds like you're tired and irritable. Have a nap, maybe wake up around the beginning of October

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
Maybe you could rise from the ashes of your failed band
and start a solo project.

Also, it's a shame you can't make it.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
It really is.
I never resent being a dad but this is the closest I have come to it...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
You have not split up, you cahnt!
I've signed you to a six album deal with Andrew Loog Oldham.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
When do we start?
IMMEDIATE-ly!!!11!

HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA


(IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE...)
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:40, Reply)
All I need to do now
is form a band with Peter Frampton and then die in a fire, right?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
make sure you take Frampton with you

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
I'll show him the fucking way, alright.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
I hope you said that with your hand over your mouth...
...to distort the sound.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:46, Reply)
I'm going to fill his talk box tube thing with anthrax spores

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:46, Reply)
Or Gentleman's Relish.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
the anchovy based spread
or jizz?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
Whatever comes to hand.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:56, Reply)
Very good indeed.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:23, Reply)
I'll call Clapton.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
London Calling by The Gash

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
or to be more specific
Guns of Brixton
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:58, Reply)
Vienna - Ultravox

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
Nights in Prestatyn - Moody Blues.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:26, Reply)
*snigger*

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
I like this

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
High on Mount Kailash
Felt Mountain
Highway 61 Revisited
Battersea
Also: tenuous as not a song, but a tour, but
No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
I fucking hate music threads.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
So put another dime in the jukebox, Chompy.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
hahaha

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:29, Reply)
The Stranglers special
Goodbye Toulouse
London Lady
Dagenham Dave
Outside Tokyo
Sweden
Spain
Dead Loss Angeles
Nice in Nice
Big in America
Let's Tango in Paris
All Roads Lead To Rome
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Paris To Berlin

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
I don't know that one but I was just thinking of Berlin
Berlin - Lou reed
Road Movie To Berlin - They Might Be Giants
Berlin - Fischer Z
Drowning In Berlin - The Mobiles
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Kashmir
Going to California
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Small Town Jericho
sugarland
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
BIG IN JAPAN!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:28, Reply)
WOMAN FROM TOKYO!!!!1111!!!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
I think I'm turning Japenese, I really think so

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
TURNING JAPANESE!!!!!111111!!!!!!!ELEVENELEVEN

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
too slow

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)
damnit I was going to say that!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:26, Reply)
Funky Kingston

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:30, Reply)
I presume the song refers to the Kingston in Jamaica
Because I can assure you, there is nothing funky about Kingston-upon-Thames.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)
Toots Hibbert
wrote the upbeat reggae classic after a particularly rewarding visit to the Bentall Centre whilst on a UK tour in the early 70s. SO YOU ARE WRONG, HA!
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
The Bentall Centre wasn't built in the '70s
Why would you lie to me, Monty?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)
DAAAAAAAAAMMNMNNNN YOOUUUUUUUUUU.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:36, Reply)
What's sad is I can vaguely remember being it built.
And an IRA bomb scare in there a few years afterwards.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
You rushed down there excitedly...
'oh. I thought you said 'bum-scare'

*dejected wee little Crow-face*
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
I would only have been about seven years old
Far too young to have been told about the birds and the bummers.

I still had a dejected wee as a form of dirty protest, mind...
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Obviously it's about Kingston upon Hull
See also Kingston Town
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:33, Reply)
Sheffield Sex City - Pulp
Mile End - Pulp
Wimbledon Common People - Pulp
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:31, Reply)
HELLO!
Is is Mandalay-king for?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:32, Reply)
Funking For Jamaica - Tom Browne

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:34, Reply)
Stairway to Havensfield

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Mumbai No.5

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:36, Reply)
Ramones
Rock 'N' Roll High School?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:36, Reply)
Not sure that's a real place.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
Rockaway Beach

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
There you go!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
I love Danny Says

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)

Sitting here in Queens
Eating refried beans
We're in all the magazines
Gulpin' down thorazines
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
Well, when we do the "Boys Names In Songs" thread (this time tomorrow probably) you can mention it then.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
oh. joy. something to look forward to.
oh. wow. hurry up tomorrow.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
could be a girl
it's not, but it could be
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Rusholme Ruffians - Smiths
Knowle West Boy - Tricky
Handsworth Revolution - Steel Pulse
I've Never Been to Meath - Dustin the Turkey.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:37, Reply)
Johnny Don't Go To Ballincollig - John Spillane

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Joxer Goes to Stuttgart - Christy Moore.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
Bonzo goes to Bitburg, Ye Ramonnes

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:19, Reply)
the fucking Skye Boat Song!!!!1111!!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Highway to Hull

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)

Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Margate - Chas and Dave
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Too late with Rusholme ya bastard!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
Sorry, I meant to say
Who You Looking At? - The Salford Jets
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:46, Reply)
straight of of surrey
mr b
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:27, Reply)
that fucking Rachel Stevens song about the airport

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Like you can't remember the name pft

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:40, Reply)
I know how it goes
but I don't think that's what it's called
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:41, Reply)
LAX

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
is that what it's called?
I thought maybe that bit was in brackets or something
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
It might be LA (ex) or some shit
I don't care I find her sexually attractive but not enough to buy her songs.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
that is exactly my view

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
You could have googled it

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
I don't care enough

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:43, Reply)
Sing it then, we'll all guess.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:42, Reply)
No idea at all
I'm out of my depth
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:39, Reply)
Omaha.
I believe it's somewhere in middle America.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
I haven't heard that in ages

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Nebraska I believe

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
I'll steal anyone's ideas, me.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Berlin Down The House
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Money for Nottingham
The Road to Hull
I Would Rotherhithe Go Blind
The Ace of Spades roundabout (on the A3 between Surbiton and Chessington)
Wapping Nine to Five
Christmas (Island) Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
These are good
particularly Wouldn't it be Nice
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:45, Reply)
Please die.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:46, Reply)
Just for that, I'm going to carry on
Hard As A Roquefort
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Biarritz
Goin' Out West (Ruislip)
Sign of the (New) Cross
Run to the Hillingdon
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Fucking hell, where are you from, Pun-bridge Wells?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:59, Reply)
Just so you don't think that you're on your own Crow
Love Hannover -Diana Ross
Berne Baby Berne - Hudson Ford (or Ash)
Lille The Pink - Scaffold
World Shut Yarmouth - Juian Cope
Fan' Derby' Dozi - The Krankies
Happy Torquay Torquay - Captain Sensible
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:08, Reply)
Echo Beach?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:44, Reply)
D'yer Make 'er?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:47, Reply)
No - she...is dead.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:50, Reply)
No sheep 'til Buxton
Macc Lads :)
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
OH HAI MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
HAI THERE BADGERFACE :)))))))))))))))))))))))

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:50, Reply)
Trouble over Bridgwater

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Miss Macclesfield
Macc Lads
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Damaris- Patrick Wolf
Also I want to go down to St James Infirmary
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:49, Reply)
Bedlam in Belgium by 'DC

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:50, Reply)
Belgium - Bowling for Soup

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:51, Reply)
Buenos Aires, Blackpool & Knutsford
Moar Macc Lads \o/
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
Marvin Gaye
Sexual Ealing
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:52, Reply)
THIS ONE WINS

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:11, Reply)
I have to agree

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:27, Reply)

Give Ireland Back To The Irish - Wings
Old Siam Sir - Wings
Iona - Skids
Turkish Song of The Damned - Pogues
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:53, Reply)
Beastie Boys
No sleep 'till Brooklyn
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:53, Reply)
Girls of Russia- The Tellers

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:54, Reply)
Even moar Macc Lads
Torremolinos
Ben Nevis
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:54, Reply)
...
'Nepal' to the Bottle - Grace Jones.
Life in Tokyo/Cantonese Boy/European Son - Japan
Korea Opportunities - The Clash
Aberdeen - Danny Wilson
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 16:54, Reply)
I wrote the Daft Punk song 'Around the world' in PHP
www.90nz0.com/around-the-world-in-code.php
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:03, Reply)
But Gonz.....why?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:32, Reply)
One for the Bristol City - The Wurzels.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:08, Reply)
something by
motley crewe?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:29, Reply)
very good

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:29, Reply)
thank you
it's the only thing that town is good for, puns and misunderstandings
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)
And changing trains.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:40, Reply)
it's my hometown
and that it all anyone ever says about it
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:41, Reply)
Help Me Rhonda - The Beach Boyos.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:29, Reply)
hahahahahahahah, fantastic!

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:32, Reply)
You alright Monts?

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)
Not really, today, if I'm honest;
I'm irritable and feeling a bit fat. You?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:39, Reply)
I've had the mother of all hangovers.
I'm only just starting to feel human now.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:42, Reply)
You do seem to drink rather a lot, Jeff.
Coming from me that is a worrying thing to read.

Actually scrap that, I probably put away as much as you if not more - I just have a ridiculous Viking constitution.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:45, Reply)
I'll drink both you geriatrics under the table any day of the week.

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:47, Reply)
I can do a 70cl bottle of spirits without anyone noticing I'm drunk.
But then I can also drink, smoke weed and sniff cocaine until 6am then leave for work at 7am, do a 10hr day, then do it all again without being rumbled.

It's not actually something to be proud of - it's fucking expensive and extremely unhealthy. I'd prefer to be 'normal' than the Kwik-save Keith Richards I seem to be.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:56, Reply)
I'm just you ten years ago.
But not as angry, yet.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:59, Reply)
You are not: I was funny ten years ago.


Sorry for being mean, I don't mean it.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:00, Reply)
That's the drugs talking

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:03, Reply)
So who is going to win the bet?
Will you be moving into Monty-Towers, or will you be undergoing major surgery?
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:06, Reply)
So far I am confident, Creative development is letting me down but I am so good at everything else
doesn't really matter.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:08, Reply)
I do drink quite a lot.
I'm in training for the busy-Christmas schedule.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:47, Reply)
Tennessee Homsesick Blues
by the Parton
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:35, Reply)
Eric Claptop - Tears in Haven

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 17:58, Reply)
potd

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:01, Reply)
The Velvet Underground - Bicester Ray

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:00, Reply)
Hahaha that's inspired

(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:01, Reply)
For an album
The Stones - Gateshead Soup.
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:03, Reply)
i dont know what all this is :(
i dont even know
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:14, Reply)
I've Got A Brand New Camborne Harvester - Adge Cutler and The Wurzels
Ooo Arr Ooo Arr
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:25, Reply)
Leonard Cohen
Manhattan
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 18:43, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc
(, Thu 9 Dec 2010, 22:03, Reply)

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