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L.A. to Leasowe by Jimmy Stevens aka Jimmy Sometime. As it's about a small council estate on the arse end of the wirral, I'm unlikely to ever find another song that mentions my hometown.
A Raith Rovers classic - sung by a guy I was at school with.
My birthplace Oxford has a huge number of mentions, where I live now, Monmouth, not so many, but apparently a song in Hamilton contains the line "He s**ts the bed at the Battle of Monmouth"
Amanda Palmer - from the album 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer'
I'm so excited
The blacks and beat kids
I'm getting frightened
Someday, someday, Leeds United
MIST - Album M I S To The T EP
Karla's back with a bang, no whip cause I'm on a ban (soon land, soon land)
Shutdown Leeds outside cause I gotta keep it loyal to my fans
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot (Leodensian is a native of Leeds)
A friend of a friend he got beaten
He looked the wrong way at a policeman
Would never of happened to Smeaton
An old leodensian
Catfish and the Bottlemen - Album The Balcony[Verse 1]
I pissed you off again, so that you'd leave me alone in Leeds again
And I got my stuff and left, 'cause I got this friend see who put me up again
Mentioned in both Panic and the Queen Is Dead by The Smiths
Obviously 'Live at Leeds' album by The Who
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That makes 3 of us from Whitley Bay! Who’d have thought that?
Are you still there? Used to ride down Holywell Dene all the time...my house backed onto the old railway line.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-N_irbG90
This is probably the last Bob Dylan song that I truly liked.
There’s a fair choice for Aiberdeen.
Joe Strummer - Arms Aloft (also covered by Pearl Jam, suspect they mean a different Aberdeen).
There was some Associates thing (‘Aberdeen is old...’).
A quick google also throws up the Andrews Sister (Corns for my Country, coz Aberdeen rhymes with Canteen).
And the Kingston Trio
I'm from Stockton and unless you allow ones that aren't a part of north-east england's gleaming jewel, Teesside, I've got nothin'
(though apparently Stockton in LA is a notoriously grip shithole - genuine twin-town)
Plenty of songs about the area I Iive in but none about my village which is barely 120 years old. None of the songs are in English anyway.
Couple of name checks for Milton Keynes:
The style council: Come to Milton Keynes (song title)
Kirsty MacColl: Still life
"Somewhere behind the concrete and the glass
The monuments of england's sacred cow
Where are all the human beings?
Have they been sent to Milton keynes"
Both are pretty much rubbishing our most glorious town...how very dare they.
It seems Maidstone is in the Joni Mitchell song Hejira. Pretty sure she's not singing about the Medway based shit hole though.
"When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon
I went to every wedding in that little town."
Song for Sharon, the album was Hejira.