Robert Caplis asks:
Dear Boston: what songs would you include for a Hub-centric playlist? Either about the city or artists from the city.
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Some answers via Twitter
By adamg
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 9:39pm
Wow, What a Eurocentric playlist
By Boston_Bloke
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:01pm
Considering Boston is a minority majority city I'm aghast by the lack of soul, R&B, and soca among the replies. How about Donna Summer? 9.9 ? Bobby Brown or New Edition? Let's add Jadine, a soca artist originally from Monserrat who bow calls Boston home.
Whoa
By adamg
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:18pm
Those were collected over a period of roughly 20 minutes, on a holiday Sunday. Hardly proof of racism among local Twitter users.
Fyi
By anon
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:55pm
Boston is not a minority majority city, if you're going to claim racism at least have you fact in order.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/25/2507000...
FYI
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:04am
According to the link you provide, Boston IS a majority minority city. It shows 53.9% of the population are white (alone), but that includes Hispanics or Latinos who are not black, or Asian or another "race".
You'll see (a bit further down) that Whites who are not Hispanic comprise 47% of Boston, which is less than a majority, of course.
This is because Latinos are made up of different "races" (whatever that is....). Just like people from the United States, when you say "American" it doesn't refer to any particular race, since Americans come in all different "races".
Huh?
By Waquiot
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:25am
Your link says 47% white alone, non-Hispanic.
"Bostons" - Have Heart
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 9:35am
"Bostons" - Have Heart
Three Stunning ommissions
By Marco
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:27am
Both on twitter and in this thread:
Anything by New Black Eagle Jazz Band (Boston's own Dixie-land group- response to Preservation Hall Jazz band)
Lenny and the Piss Poor Boys- Cambridgeport Salloon
Also: Caspian, anything by them...
Mass Pike
By Kevin M
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 9:52am
The Get Up Kids - Mass Pike
anything Aerosmith or Letters to Cleo
Mass. Ave.
By anon
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 9:45pm
Mass. Ave. by Willie Loco Alexander. The 45 that kicked off the classic Rat era in 1975. Utterly classic song.
Gotta add....
By Ed jay
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 9:53pm
Love that dirty water and Dint look back
No Dirty Water please
By anon
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:23pm
"Dirty Water" was by the Standells, a band from Los Angeles. They have nothing to do with Boston at all.
The question included songs
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 9:49am
The question included songs "about the city." Like the song or not, it is about Boston.
Except
By ChrisInEastie
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:41am
That they play it after every Bruins and Sox win, so like it or not, it does have a place. Also, the band's producer write it after being mugged on the Charles.
By that logic
By Wiffleball
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 4:28pm
Neil Diamond (you know what song) should be included, and God knows neither have anything to do with Boston.
I still find it astonishing that Neil Diamond, part of the nobody-you-know-likes-them-yet-somehow-they-seem-to-be-popular pantheon along with Barry Manilow, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, and David Hasselhoff, is tolerated at Fenway.
It seems random
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 5:55pm
I never got that 'Sweet Caroline" thing at Fenway either. It makes no sense. It's like they just picked some random song that everybody happened to know and it stuck. It has nothing to do with anything. It might as well have been "Row Row Row Your Boat" or something.
Row row row your boat
By Scratchie
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 10:20am
Would be less annoying.
Eh
By Suldog
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 9:45pm
I like Tom Jones. I'm not sure why I felt a need to say that, but I did.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
i thought the same thing
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:13pm
while reading that list, so you're not alone.
I'm entirely too young to be in his original fan base, but I'm pretty sure my mom had (has??) a little thing for him, and I guess that got transmitted to me, with much less intensity. I don't dislike him.
Well
By ChrisInEastie
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:39pm
Let's look at the end of the original question then:
So, Dirty Water = about the city.
If we were talking about songs that are significant to the city, I'm sorry, but Sweet Caroline should absolutely be on there. And this comes from a Yankees fan.
OFD
By Sue
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 9:59pm
OFD.....Bryan McPherson....
https://bryanmcpherson.bandcamp.com/track/ofd
From Boston
By Miss M
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:03pm
(Not a random list; these are all Boston artists I love)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Morphine
Letters to Cleo
Buffalo Tom
Helium
Come
Jen Trynin
The Sheila Devine
Pixies
The Lemonheads
Julianna Hatfield
Aimee Mann
Boston
Dresden Dolls (as annoying as AP has become, they were great)
Dropkick Murphys
Mission of Burma
J. Geils Band
Passion Pit
Air Traffic Controller
Drop Kick Meatballs...
By SoBoYuppie
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:25pm
...are not from Boston.
Neither are you
By anon
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 11:40pm
What's your point?
I don't write songs
By SoBoYuppie
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:26pm
I don't write songs insinuating I am.
missed me, missed me
By Malcolm Tucker
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 1:34pm
I too remember the Dresden Dolls fondly, before AFP drowned in a sea of schtick. Aww. Their songs "Truce" and "Boston" (duh) specifically mention local geography, and a few of their music videos were shot 'round these parts.
Aimee Mann
By Mjolnir
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 10:46am
In addition to her and Til Tuesday's major ties to the area, the video for their biggest hit features some overt South End filming, at around 1:50
[youtube]uejh-bHa4To[/youtube]
Cave In
By Felicity
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:44pm
Cave In
Piebald
Pet Genius
Throwing Muses
The Cars
Rock and Roll band - Boston
By BullDetector
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:50pm
Rock and Roll band - Boston
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
She's From Boston - Kenny Chesney
Midnight Rambler - The Rolling Stones
Dirty Water - The Standells
Charlie on the M.T.A - The Kingston Trio
Walkaways - Counting Crows
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman
Massachusetts - Bee Gees
Anything by Drop Kick Murphy's - The official band of St Patrick's Day (In Massachusetts)
Here's a few:
By anon
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:52pm
Here's a few:
A few favorites
By Adam
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 11:07pm
Edo. G. - Boston
Modern Lovers - Government Center
Pixies - I been tired/levitate me
Akrobatik - Home
Lyres - She pays the rent
Upper Crust - Let them eat rock
Atlantics - Lonelyhearts
Jonathan Richman - Twilight in Boston
Beacon Street Union
By The Fox 915
Sun, 10/11/2015 - 11:08pm
Blue Avenue
South End Incident (I'm Afraid)
The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union 1968
NKOTB
By Waquiot
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:24am
You need some sugar on your cereal. And some New Edition to boot.
Knocking 'Round the Zoo
By perruptor
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 7:43am
About James Taylor's time in McClean's Hospital.
McLean
By roadman
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 4:23pm
Hospital - FIFY
Two
By Suldog
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 9:23am
Southie is my Hometown
And, even though from Ipswich originally, I think The Fools should be included. More specifically, I Won't Grow Up, which I've always considered a theme song of sorts.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
permit me to shout it, they're the tops for miles around!
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 7:53pm
Also "charlie on the mta" please!
These were regulars on my grandmother's record player back in the day.
We've Gotta Get Out of this Place
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 12:51pm
.
New material: "Ashmont
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 1:02pm
New material: "Ashmont Station"
https://soundcloud.com/portreyyouth/03-ashmont-sta...
Brookline!
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2015 - 11:39pm
No one's mentioned Jonathan Coulton's Brookline? Shame, shame.
Maybe bc it isn't about
By Lmo
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 12:32am
Maybe bc it isn't about Boston?
The Ice of Boston
By CRD
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 6:08am
by The Dismemberment Plan.
james montgomery band -
By kvn
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 9:54am
james montgomery band - "Train"
https://youtu.be/aTNB_H7vl5o
Almost Anything Goes
By issacg
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 12:59pm
and now don't no one wake me up 'til we're near Park Street Station.
The Del Fuegos
By Belmont
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 4:06pm
"The Sound of Our Town". (and others).
Humans
By itchy
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 4:58pm
Jackie Onassis
Bonfire on the Fenway
Andy Fell (but that would be sensationalizing without the facts!!!!!)
Boston isn't only a rock-n-roll city, though
By anon
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 5:52pm
For decades, Boston has been home to one of the great folk/acoustic music scenes around. A few acts/performers with local ties:
*Joan Baez
*Eric Von Schmidt
*Tom Rush
*Vance Gilbert
*Crooked Still
And Boston has a very distinguished history of Irish music that stretches back even longer, to the great dance halls of Dudley Square. Some of the luminaries who have recorded material include Joe Derrane, Paddy Cronin, Brendan Tonra, and Tommy & Louise McCarthy (owners of The Burren).
Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer by
By AndyF
Tue, 10/13/2015 - 8:59pm
Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer by Morphine.
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