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Listing Cities
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A Music Trope. So you're writing a new track and you want it to be a hit in Boston. One obvious way to do this is to make your song all about how awesome Boston is. This creates a special connection with listeners in Boston. But what if you want your song to be a hit everywhere? Since you can't write a song about how awesome every city in the world is, the next best thing is just to list off a bunch of random cities, regions, or whatever. This surprisingly popular tactic creates a momentary connection with people from many different places. A type of List Song. Compare City Shout Outs, when a live performer appeals to the audience by saluting their city. |
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Cats has the song "Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat", and in the third verse Skimbleshanks lists the cities he travels to on the Night Mail | |
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"We Open In Venice" from Kiss Me, Kate lists the same Italian cities four times: | |
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In The Simpsons episode "Mobile Homer", a guy sings a version of "I've Been Everywhere" with all the fictional towns of the series. | |
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Several country songs are lists of places that the singer wants to go with his or her lover. Among them are "You Can Sleep While I Drive" by Trisha Yearwood, "Take Me" by Lari White, "Lipstick" by Rockie Lynne, "As Long as You're Going My Way" by The Parks, and "Anywhere with You" by Jake Owen. | |
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In Follies, "Ah, Paree!" lists places around the world that don't have what Gay Paree has. | |
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Girls Against Boys' "Tucked-in": | |
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Ninja Sex Party's "Road Trip" starts with a list of American cities, and the various sex acts that Danny Sexbang has performed there. It moves on to other countries, before ending up with Danny going to space to have sex with aliens, but then dying because he forgot to bring a space suit. | |
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"Blood of the Kings" by Manowar features the shouts of various countries' names with such metal pathos as if they were ProudWarriorRaces (e.g. "SWITZERLAAAND!!! MONACOOO!!! etc."). | |
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Wakko Warner's 50 State Capitals Song from Animaniacs can be seen here. Let's not forget Yakko's Nations of the World song. While that one's dated in more ways than one (thanks in part to the Eastern European independence movements from the mid-nineties), Rob Paulsen also does updated versions. |
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"Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" by The Guess Who. Besides Saskatoon, the chorus mentions other towns in Saskatchewan (Moose Jaw, Moosomin), plus Alberta (Red Deer, Medicine Hat) and British Columbia (Terrace). | |
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When performing "I've Been Everywhere" as the Pick-Up Song on an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue recorded in Dorset, Dorset native John Finnemore used towns in Dorset. | |
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In The Music Man, the residents of the fictional River City, Iowa list a bunch of town names from Real Life Iowa at the end of "Iowa Stubborn." While most of the towns listed are fairly prominent (for Iowa in 1912), Mason City was very minor at the time — but also Meredith Willson's hometown, and the inspiration for River City. | |
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Todd Rundgren's "Hot Espresso (All Jacked Up)" centers around a jetsetting band in their neverending search for coffee. | |
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Brazilian variations: band Os Paralamas do Sucesso lists three slums in the chorus for "Alagados" ("Alagados, Trenchtown note practically everyone hears this one wrong, Favela da Maré") and singer Tim Maia names a lot of Rio de Janeiro beaches in "Do Leme ao Pontal" (besides the two in the title, "Flamengo, Botafogo, Urca, Praia Vermelha!"). He also names beaches throughout the Brazilian coastline in "O Descobridor dos Sete Mares". | |
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"Letter from America" by The Proclaimers lists various Scottish towns, counties and islands that the emigrant to the US is leaving. "Lochaber no more, Sutherland no more, Lewis no more, Skye no more..." | |
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"Comin' to Your City" Big & Rich. Notable for not only including bigger cities like Buffalo and L.A., but also including lesser known cities such as Cincinnati and Jefferson City. | |
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"Dard-e-Disco" from the film Om Shanti Om has "London Paris New York LA San Francisco" | |
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Jay attempts to sing one listing all the counties of England at the end of the relevant Map Men episode, but Mark puts an end to it by taking the ukulele Jay pulls out and smashing it against the table. Jay does get the full song in over the credits, though. | |
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AKB48's "47 no Suteki na Machi e" with each of the 47 idols singing out all the 47 prefectures of Japan in order. Justified that each member is from each of its respective prefecture. | |
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"Breakfast in Berlin" by Julien-K seems to be going for a "partying around the world" thing. | |
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Neal McCoy's "The Shake" does this, in the middle of a song about booty-shaking: "New York, L.A., Houston, Tampa Bay, London, Tokyo, everywhere you go." | |
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"Big Joe Mufferaw" by Canadian country star Stompin' Tom Connors is this for towns on the Ottawa River. | |
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The British marching song "Over the Hills and Far Away" (made famous today by Sharpe) was written to cover the battlefields of the War of the Spanish Succession, but enjoyed a revival a century later in the Napoleonic Wars as British involvement in those conveniently also covered the same countries: | |
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Fraktus have "A.D.A.M." ("All die armen Menschen"; "All those poor humans") which lists up 32 different places in Germany, just to pity the people who live there for living there and wonder why they do that in the first place. | |
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One episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme opens with a pub quiz in which John's character has a mnemonic song for all the capital cities of Europe, which he insists he needs to sing in full to answer the question, but which naturally fades out very quickly to save him actually writing one. Or so it seems, until the Storyteller sketch is the song in full. | |
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In The Muppets Take the Bowl. Rowlf sings a version with Californian towns. In The Muppets Take the 02, he sings one with London Underground stations. | |
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