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   Message 182 of 1,454   
   steggy to R H Draney   
   Re: List request: biggest hit about each   
   31 Jan 11 00:09:16   
   
   From: steggy@hotmail.com   
      
   Op 25-12-10 06:32, R H Draney schreef:   
   > Used to be alt.music.lyrics would fill in the idle periods by compiling   
   lists of   
   > songs with a particular theme: songs with titles that didn't appear in the   
   > lyrics, songs about artists other than the ones recording them, songs in   
   funky   
   > time signatures....   
   >   
   > I'd like to see if enough knowledgeable music fans are still reading the   
   group   
   > to create a list based on a theme that just popped into my head...if you're   
   > willing to dig, there's probably at least one charting hit about each of the   
   > fifty states...some are going to be obvious: "Arizona" by Mark Lindsay, "Okie   
   >  From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard, "Born to Run" (for New Jersey) by   
   > Springsteen...with others (California, New York) it's going to be hard to   
   narrow   
   > it down to just one...and some are going to be hard to find anything at all   
   > (seriously, *are* there any hit songs about New Hampshire?)...should be songs   
   > *about* the state, of course, not just ones that casually mention it in   
   > passing....   
   >   
   > But if interest stays up long enough, we should come out the other end of   
   this   
   > with a nice geographic playlist...one you can share with others and have them   
   > thinking "I wonder what they came up with for South Dakota" or "I thought   
   > Kentucky would be this entirely different song"....   
   >   
   > So have at it, lyrics people....r   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   By The Time I Get To Arizona"--Public Enemy   
      
   New Hampshire - Matt Pond PA   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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