It's also a gut-wrenching track about what could have been. Every line is about, Who I don't wanna write about anymore. But in reality, the song is about not feeling love, but something a whole lot more. This link will open in a new window. Share your favourite city songs in the comments below and we’ll round up the best suggestions later in the week, Available for everyone, funded by readers. This stupendous track sees him walking under the moon and the stars through an unpopulated part of Boston and down towards the harbour. Their song "Emergency Cases" encapsulates minimalist whipped beats with a solid base. GYST was acquired by Cake in 2019. DS, Sheffield Shanty – Monkey Swallows the Universe, Sheffield’s streets have been unusually well-mapped by Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys, but Monkey Swallows the Universe might be the only ones to give the place a magical realist treatment. Mbilia Bel was prolific: as a solo artist, and more so in unison with the late Tabu Ley to whom she was a musical muse and eventually married. From 1979’s The Raven, Dead Loss Angeles combines one of Jean-Jacques Burnel’s most insistent basslines with singer Hugh Cornwell’s litany of grumbles about the otherwise sunny metropolis: “the plastic peaches there, on concrete beaches there”, the “shit” in the La Brea tar pits and the way “shallow, android Americans live in the ruins there.” Never shy of an outrage, the band cheerily performed the song at the city’s Whisky A Go Go venue the following year. Phiona Okumu, You can now use Cake to create, store, and share all your end-of-life documents. "NHS70" is a great song for any young one who has been poked and prodded but needs a little pick me up song. Available Content. Protecting your family has never been easier. While it didn’t mention if the illness was Alzheimer’s or Dementia, it is a sweet song about loving our community elders. DL, To the dismay of composer Jimmy Webb, who wrote it as an anti-war lament, Campbell put an upbeat, patriotic spin on Galveston (though the line “I am so afraid of dying” made Webb’s intentions clear). Create an account and sign in to access this FREE content, People routinely took their accusers to court because of the, Researchers will help us better understand the causes and, There is no indication that either of them was involved in, Swift change could harm Britain's already. unsexily named areas such as Catcliffe and Attercliffe, major American city’s downtown areas looking like a post-disaster landscape, watch the full 45-minute humorous slice of Ghanaian life here. Now let’s move on to a funky and soulful song about revenge. Get a quote. This bucolic depiction fails to mention the industrial side of what’s actually a major port city, but who wants to hear about that?