Cities

A list of songs which mention real cities, fictional cities, or otherwise related to a city theme.

Central theme

• The Boys Are Back In Town
• Cabbagetown
• Canajoharie
• Clowntown
• College Town
• Cowtown
• Different Town
• Fake Out In Buenos Aires
• Here In Higglytown
• If Day For Winnipeg
• I'll Sink Manhattan
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• Koenigstein
• Lincoln, Nebraska
• Live In Nashville
• New York City
• Nouns - "Everywhere around this burg"
• The Next Plane To London
• Road Movie To Berlin
• Say Nice Things About Detroit
• Tavern In Pinsk
• Token Back To Brooklyn
• Town To Town
• Werewolves Of London (Wearing A Hockey Mask)

Briefly mentioned

• Ampersand - "And outside corners hidden from the moon / And all its beams / Falling on the town / With other worldly sounds"
• Ana Ng - 1964 World's Fair, NYC
• The Ballad Of Timothy McSweeney - "Walking alone on the streets of Boston, a man with a name that everybody knows"
• Can't Keep Johnny Down - "All of the dicks in this dick town"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "The city continues, distracted"
• Creepy - Los Feliz and Silver Lake are both neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
• Cyclops Rock - "Stuck in a van outside of New York."
• Extra Krispy - "New York City"
• Flansy Stays In The Picture - "I got a call from Schnack. In L.A.!"
• Havalina - "On the plains of old Sedona, Arizona"
• Hello Mrs. Wheelyke - "If you someday find you're in Budapest"
• Hillbilly Drummer Girl - "To the big city Memphis world"
• How Much Cake Can You Eat? - "The shining spoons of this town"
• James K. Polk - "From Nashville came a dark horse riding up"
• John Postal - "Play the soothing music of New Orleans brass bands"
• Lake Monsters - "From Chicago to East California"
• Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - "Well, I was born in Dallas in 1952"
• McCafferty's Bib - "In cities all over the world"
• North To Alaska - "Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92", "just a little southeast of Nome"
• Out Of Jail - Xenia, Ohio
• Purple Toupee - Selma, Alabama; Dallas, Texas
• She's Actual Size - "We take you to Brooklyn" (please see the Discussion for this)
• Something You'd Like To See - "Boston, New York, Philly, L.A., Frisco, Chi-Town"
• The Poisonousness - "Life in Toronto"
• The Sun Is On Fire - "This whole town's abandoned"
• Trucker's Coffee - Bethel (NY), Route 17B
• Tumbleweed - "Tumbleweed, tumble through town"
• What Am I Doin' - "San Antonio"
• Where Do They Make Balloons? - New York; Pisa, Italy; London
• Who Are The Electors? - "Plus three added on for D.C."
• Withered Hope - "Withered Hope says she has a soul mate living in a city in another state"
• Words Are Like - "A Spanish town"

Honorable mention

• Live!! New York City 10/14/94 - Cover art consists of a stylized city skyline.
• Los Angeles - Music video has a map that shows The Lads and The Blokes on tour in New York, Chicago, Memphis, Austin, Hollywood, and San Francisco.
• Rowboat Mayor - A mayor generally runs a city, though the one mentioned here doesn't.

See also

• New York City (Theme)
• Geography
• US States
• Venue songs