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Playlist help - immigration/emigration theme

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My wife will have been in the UK for half her life this month, which sounds like a good excuse for a party. I've got a pretty decent playlist together of songs based very loosely on immigration and emigration, but there's not too many you can dance to. 

What are STW's big crowd pleasers that have an even vaguely tenuous to that theme?

 

Words I think count as linked would include leaving, gone, forget, arrive, depart, going, alone and they don't have to be in the title, one mention in the song would do.

 

Cheers!


 
Posted : 11/09/2025 2:22 pm
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Leaving on a jet plane?


 
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Bat out of hell


 
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Exodus - Bob Marley


 
Posted : 11/09/2025 2:33 pm
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Immigrant Song - led zep


 
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Danny nedelko by idles

Gods country by lambrini girls

Might not be exactly what you mean though!


 
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Letter from America - Proclaimers 


 
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Rod Stewart - Sailing 🙂


 
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Anything by Journey 


 
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Travellers tune - Ocean Colour Scene


 
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Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive


 
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‘I come from a land down under’ (does she?)


 
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Keep Moving by Jungle

Last Time Leaving Home by Not Waving & Mark Lanegan

Fortunately Gone by The Breeders

Long Gone - Super Furry Animals

Good & Gone - Screaming Blue Messiahs


 
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Never Forget (where you're coming from) - Take That


 
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Mogwai - Yes, I Am A Long Way From Home

2000 Light Years From Home - rolling thingys

A Place Called Home - PJ Harvey

Leave Home - Chemical Brothers

Away From Home - Drake

 

(Remember the Tune Association Thread? 😀 )


 
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Conscious Youth - No Borders


 
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Fetty Wap - Departure

Stephen Malkmus - Forget Your Place

CSS - Left Behind

Max Cooper - Forgotten Places

Beatles - She’s Leaving Home (too obscure?)

 


 
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Phil Collins - Take me home 

Billy Joel- I'm movin' out 

Reel 2 Real- I like to move it

Eurythmics - Would I lie to you 

The Police - Walking on the moon 

Bob Marley - Three little birds

George Michael - Freedom 

Fleetwood Mac - Go your own way

 

Probably more than a few that aren't a good fit!🤣


 
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Lovely stuff. Some of you clearly have a different idea of dancing than mine but there's some great tracks there that I'd missed, and all of them will go on the pre-disco milling about playlist, appropriate or not. 


 
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Ikea - Mitch Benn and the Distractions


 
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https://youtu.be/7cWtVuD3nKw?si=pxDS7JN7cRwqFPI9


 
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Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away


 
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Third World - Don't cry on the railroad track

Lemon jelly - Ramblin' man 

I've been everywhere - choose your artist.

 


 
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Back in the U.S.S.R. - Beatles


 
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British Sea Power - Waving Flags

I Am Kloot - Let Them All In

Disco Inferno - Summer's Last Sound


 
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Riz Ahmed and co


 
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Wherever I may roam - Metallica


 
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Caledonia-Frankie Miller


 
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Early morning rain - gordon lightfoot


 
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"Ici, tout est joué d'avance
Et l'on n'y peut rien changer
Tout dépend de ta naissance
Et moi je ne suis pas bien né"

Mon là-bas, j'y suis.


 
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Movin’ on Up - Primal Scream

This must be the place (naive melody) - Talking Heads

 


 
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500 miles - the proclaimers 

Sail away - David gray

Out of space - the prodigy 

Born slippy - underworld (...going back to Romford...)

The venga boys, going to Ibiza or venga bus

Ain't no mountain.... - Marvin Gaye & Tammy Tyrrell 

 


 
Posted : 13/09/2025 5:37 am
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Beatles - She’s Leaving Home (too obscure?)

Now I feel old. 

Airport (The Motors)


 
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Bad Old World - New Model Army

 

I was travelling with Laurel way up on the north coastShe's got family living up here in a nearby townWe found a piece of land that looks out towardsthe north sea islands across the bayAnd the sun is shining on the water today as I look out of our front door
I'm never going back thereI'm never going back to the bad old world

 


 
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fly the flag - stiff little fingers 😎 


 
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