I’m pressed for time, so there will sadly be no introductory sketch for Request Line this week. Last week’s theme was “Makin’ Movies” and quite naturally that topic bled into songs about Hollywood. So I thought I’d extend that theme into this week and make this week’s topic all cities. Since it’s such an absurdly rich topic, and since the draft is fast approaching, I’m adding a twist – once a city has been selected, it is OFF THE BOARD. If you’re selecting a song that doesn’t include the city name in the title, make sure you put that city name IN YOUR COMMENT so other folks will know it’s been taken. I’ll get us started by taking my current hometown of Los Angeles off the board with the classic from X.
Washington DC does not appear to be taken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXIzmM1DaW8
And you’re getting a DOUBLE SHAWT because both of these songs are fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yo1PFg9oAA
Last one for me…ANAHEIM HILLS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gXSO6NBick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCYxTg6svXg
A far better song than this place deserves: Twentynine Palms, CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD5qPWHIDPo
I spent two very lovely and totally not complicated days there last year.
Cleveland been honoured yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-IEMlJyak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIliB436370
Bangkok!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgc_LRjlbTU
Last one for me. Burlington, VT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpb-cPuo4A
Dallas, TX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx1LqnIJLj8
Vancouver!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-k-qAtZPWg
I get the hate for NJ Guidos, but at least allow me to post a song insulting them.
Seaside Tony in moderation. I think that might be one of those axmorons.
Who you calling a moron?
This BFIB, that’s who.
Seaside, NJ and Bayonne, NJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdAeM_4UG_M
BREAKING: Pharma bro asshole gets seven years. Enough time for some hero to shank him.
[doesn’t bother to scroll thru to see if Sudbury, Ontario is taken]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl751CDdRZI
My buddy just got his Masters in Geology in that godforsaken place.
Kept waiting for Hippo to get this one, but here’s some desert love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wifV5RYr8
Providence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpb6DNBiuVU
This one’s for Low Commander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvsoZLE3WE
The only reason I didn’t post that Sprung Monkey song was so that this could stay on the board.
Damn. This is what I get for spending my morning actually working.
I’m pulling a WILD CARD move and posting my own song about San Diego, (I think I can skirt the rules because they also mention Oceanside):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL-py5G1j4Q
Surprisingly no mention of BBQ for Kansas City.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9O8XjZTrp4
WOOO THE OC REPRESENT
(Garden Grove actually kinda sucks as a city)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxDO8PipeBw
Baghdad? Baghdad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tld9PjwqlH0
Nobody for Reno, NV? (I’ll have one more tonight when it dies down.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0fUa0vW_E
Rosedale, MS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mf_YQvgl6M
Back for another double, but this second shot is already a double on it’s own. Confused, so am I.
Lake Charles, La and Nacogdoches, TX, and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dglHW7rOwk
May not count, but DUUUUVVVAAAAAALLLL county will tell you this song is about J-Action-ville, FL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTR13MV4fqc
Home of JJ Fozz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLxfriVaYL0
Joy Division — Warsaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=serIf92zTDc
Putting the whole ABBA medley here because I enjoy The Dan Band. And it counts because of Waterloo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY6sXaR2Okg
Waterloo, Iowa?
Birmingham, AL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pH-tNGS5MQ
Without refreshing the page to check, this better be Drive-By-Truckers…
GAH I’LL KILL YOU!
/not really, Black Betty is a very good song too.
No. It is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30
I…hate…Winnipeg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlsjEP7L-k
Chattanooga, TN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGBwmLRNLJ4
Winslow, AZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI3F687SsoU
FINE, I’ll take Cincinnati and show myself out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voRoKJSd5Lw
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Damn. I was hunting for an Afghan Whigs song to use and got scooped!
Crosby, Stils and Nash — Marrakesh (Morocco)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYq9RjdYYU
Small Ontario town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofChsLBfBp0
Since London was taken (twice), can I shoehorn this in due to running amok in Kent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpYBT0XyvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXpKiY2MXE
Here’s La Grange, which I always assumed was in Louisiana but now don’t know if that’s right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU
I think it is actually in Texas.
Yup.
Moscow lasted entirely too long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEEMi2j6lYE
Does that mean Angel Island is also off the board? (No seriously, Michael Jackson worked on Sonic 3.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFNJvJyaJxU
Sausalito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZPzQN6cgw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiTO-ISEorA
Did not see the earlier submission. Stupid slow internet.
San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug
Silver Springs is not just some random place in Maryland, it’s also (MAYBE!) my favorite Fleetwood Mac song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2XKt2N8fs
To make up for my terrible contributions so far, I’ll take Kashmir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsaFBNvhceA
THAT’S A REGION NOT A CITY I MEAN DO YOU EVEN GEOGRAPHY BRO
I do not.
Cheyenne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PytxPaU6k4
Double shot, Waycross, Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQf_On9XCM
Did anybody take New Orleans yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMS_ykiLiQ
+ 1 for the song, -1 for a Chicagoan not plugging Steve Goodman.
If it’s good enough for the NFL, it’s good enough for here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHvzybkqfo
MIAMI (sorry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBS6QGsH_4
Well, this IS the Willenium, right?
I mean come on smdh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6E_TNgCsY
OH GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(i feelz very stupid right now, one of my favs)
NEW ORLEANS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRXb7K7k7bQ
Whoops, missed this when I threw some Arlo Guthrie up there.
Kent, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRE9vMBBe10