Songs that namecheck your home town

Turns out Iron Maiden have a song about a Sheriff from one of the north’s premier regional hubs.

I just had a replay of Grim Up North and it’s proper ace but appreciate I get -1000 points for directly referencing it. Soz.

I come from Liverpool, I probably have an advantage :-)

@trail_rat that song might be the only one about Arbroath but he’s done a fair job capturing its many charms

@trail_rat that song might be the only one about Arbroath but he’s done a fair job capturing its many charms

I certainly recollect most of it to be pretty accurate.

Your not an ex local are you or were you resident at 45 commando ?

Not specifically name checked but Kayleigh by Marillion has the lines “Do you remember the Cherry blossom in the market square” and “Do you remember dancing in stiletto in the snow” are written about Galashiels. They’ve even inscribed the lyrics into the aforementioned market square!

In Birmingham they love the Governor, boo, boo, boo
Now we all did what we could do

Don’t live there any more, but grew up there.

Although it may no be the same one……

Harry Connick Jr – Honestly Now…

(no, nor me)

Honestly now
Either you stand for something
Or you get knocked down for nothing
Sister don’t ache too soon
I thought it was understood
By everyone in this room
Who’d ever come up short or won a race
Safety’s just danger
Out of place

Truly now
People play tricks on your mind
Shadows only follow behind
Sister stay still
I thought it was the nature
Of all on Malvern’s Hill
Who’d taken a lead off third base
Safety’s just danger
Out of place

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The Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles

16 by Craig David

Pass Out by Tinie Tempah

Any guesses?

That’s Southampton (Craig David being the giveaway), but I can also have Pass Out by Tinie Tempah, and Panic by The Smiths (if counties/unitary authorities are allowed).

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

@nobbingsford

@fazzini
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.

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.