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Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 5:27 pm
by gvonge
Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 5:30 pm
by Charlottesquare
Lootman wrote:Charlottesquare wrote:Do the ones they stole from us then become cooler within the UK as the USA now has them, like Rochester?
Ah, but which Rochester? There is probably a Rochester in many States. But the two main ones I know of are Rochester, Minnesota (home of the Mayo Clinic) and Rochester, NY, home of Eastman-Kodak and Susan B. Anthony.
I have not been to either, but the first is a nice place and the latter is not, I have heard.
The more romantic sounding places often have non-English roots such as American Indian (Weehawken, Ho-Ho-Kus), Spanish (Santa Fe, San Jose) or French (Baton Rouge, Fond-du-Lac).
Any songs about Milton Keynes? Bletchley on my mind? Midnight train to Bletchley?
MK though is a great place, where else could Milton Friedman and JM Keynes be joined together.
Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 5:33 pm
by kempiejon
Paul Weller did a song about Milton Keynes in his
difficult Style Council phase.
C'mon google
https://www.google.com/search?q=Milton+ ... e&ie=UTF-8
Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 5:34 pm
by CryptoPlankton
Lootman wrote:Any songs about Milton Keynes? Bletchley on my mind? Midnight train to Bletchley?
"Come to Milton Keynes" by the Style Council. Though it was far from a romantic view of the place!
CP (Born near enough to be pushed around Bletchley Park in a pram, but gone before MK was founded.)
Edit: 2 posts about it while I was writing - oh well...
Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 7:15 pm
by Lootman
CryptoPlankton wrote:Lootman wrote:Any songs about Milton Keynes? Bletchley on my mind? Midnight train to Bletchley?
"Come to Milton Keynes" by the Style Council. Though it was far from a romantic view of the place!
CP (Born near enough to be pushed around Bletchley Park in a pram, but gone before MK was founded.)
kempiejon wrote:Paul Weller did a song about Milton Keynes in his difficult Style Council phase.
Very good, who'd have thunk it?
gvonge wrote:Elton John - Grimsby
I guess if you can have a song about Grimsby then you can have a song about anywhere and romanticise any place.
Barnsley or Doncaster, anyone?
Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 10:57 pm
by servodude
Lootman wrote:Charlottesquare wrote:Do the ones they stole from us then become cooler within the UK as the USA now has them, like Rochester?
Ah, but which Rochester? There is probably a Rochester in many States. But the two main ones I know of are Rochester, Minnesota (home of the Mayo Clinic) and Rochester, NY, home of Eastman-Kodak and Susan B. Anthony.
I have not been to either, but the first is a nice place and the latter is not, I have heard.
The more romantic sounding places often have non-English roots such as American Indian (Weehawken, Ho-Ho-Kus), Spanish (Santa Fe, San Jose) or French (Baton Rouge, Fond-du-Lac).
Any songs about Milton Keynes? Bletchley on my mind? Midnight train to Bletchley?
The Style Council did Come to Milton Keynes
https://youtu.be/eweq1pnVOF0?feature=sharedbut Paul doesn't exactly mention the place other than in a part of a pun
Re: Songs about English place names
Posted: November 14th, 2023, 11:22 pm
by servodude
servodude wrote:Lootman wrote:Ah, but which Rochester? There is probably a Rochester in many States. But the two main ones I know of are Rochester, Minnesota (home of the Mayo Clinic) and Rochester, NY, home of Eastman-Kodak and Susan B. Anthony.
I have not been to either, but the first is a nice place and the latter is not, I have heard.
The more romantic sounding places often have non-English roots such as American Indian (Weehawken, Ho-Ho-Kus), Spanish (Santa Fe, San Jose) or French (Baton Rouge, Fond-du-Lac).
Any songs about Milton Keynes? Bletchley on my mind? Midnight train to Bletchley?
The Style Council did Come to Milton Keynes
https://youtu.be/eweq1pnVOF0?feature=sharedbut Paul doesn't exactly mention the place other than in a part of a pun
Look at me missing the second page with all the Style Council mentions already!?