Big Blogger 2007: All Around the World

Thursday, 19 July 2007

All Around the World

Big Blogger said not to do a list of place names. I've kind of ignored this so I might get a row. But it's not just any old list. It's a playlist. Behold. A whirlwind trip around the world, via the dark and dusty recesses of my record collection.

We'll start Down Sarf.

Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis; London - The Smiths; Dagenham Dave - Morrissey; Dalston - Razorlight; A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam; You're Not From Brighton - Fatboy Slim; Mersey Paradise - Stone Roses; Eton Rifles - The Jam; Dudley - Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Carnaby Street - The Jam; Rusholme Ruffian - Morrissey, Essex Dogs - Blur; Bugger Bognor - Luke Haines; Clover Over Dover - Blur; Hail to England - Manowar; Cardiff Afterlife - Manic Street Preachers; Sherrif of Huddersfield - Iron Maiden.

Then moving to Europe.

Amsterdam - Peter, Bjorn and John; Lost in France - Bonnie Tyler; Rotterdam - Beautiful South; Munich Air Disaster 1958 - Morrissey; Bar Italia - Pulp; Budapest - The Reindeer Section; Bedlam in Belgium - AC/DC; Paris 2004 - Peter, Bjorn and John; Rome - Ten; Berlin - Lou Reed.

Further afield.

Haiti - The Arcade Fire; The Copacabana - Barry Manilow; Egypt (The Chains Are On) - Dio; It Came from Japan - The Von Bondies; Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might be Giants; Jerusalem - The Fall; Bermuda Triangle - Barry Manilow; Heart of Asia - Watergate, China Girl - David Bowie; Russia - Shadow King; Australia - The Shins, Flying Down to Rio - Drugstore; Hong Kong Garden - Siouxie and the Banshees, Transylvania - Iron Maiden; A Passage to Bankok - Rush.

Over to the States.

Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed; Memphis Water - The Answer; Kansas Heat - Gossip; California Waiting - Kings of Leon; Fake Tales of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys; Disneyworld - The Auteurs; Miami Nice - Elastica; Carolina in my Mind - James Taylor; Angel of Harlem - U2, NY - Doves; Banks of the Ohio - Olivia Newton John; Mount Washington - Beth Orton; LA Freeway - Guy Clark; Car Chase on Phoenix Avenue - Capri; Florida - Modest Mouse; Detroit Rock City - KISS; Manhattan Skyline - Aha; Come on! Feel the Illinois - Sufjan Stevens; All the Way to Reno - REM; Grand Canyon - The Magnetic Fields; Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Dallas 1pm - Saxon.

Out of this world.

Monkey's Gone to Heaven - The Pixies; Venus as a Boy - Bjork; Life on Mars - David Bowie; Saturn in the Summertime; Hell's Comin' Down - Primal Scream; Planet Earth - Duran Duran.

And the frankly rather dubious.

Alphabet Street - Prince; Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces; Huckleberry Grove - Ocean Colour Scene; Festive Road - The Divine Comedy; Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins; Dracula's Castle - New Order.

And to finish up, we'll move closer to home.

Aberdeen - Danny Wilson; Loch Ness - Judas Priest; Killermont Street - Aztec Camera; Heart of Lothian - Marillion; Sealed With a Glasgow Kiss - Carter USM; Loch Lomond - Runrig.

Because every party ends with Loch Lomond. It's the law.

All Around the World - Oasis

Posted by Cat Girl at 12:05 | Permalink

Comments

Oh God, you will put me in a position won't you?

Well, this IS a list, but it's not a list of place names, rather a cleverly put together collection of song titles used in a particular way.

So I'm erring towards it being okay, but I want to know what everyone else thinks.

Shall I allow this? Or shall I not allow this? The decision is yours...

Posted by: Big Blogger | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 12:40

The rules say "and you can't just do a list as that would be too frickin' easy".

It doesn't say you can't do a list about place names, it says "you can't just do a list".

This is just a list, albeit a play list.

Posted by: oh. come. on. | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 13:25

It's a fair cop. I don't have time to do anything else so I think this sees my departure from the Big Blogger house. It's been lovely!

Posted by: Cat | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 13:49

Fine in my book

Posted by: Tippler | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 15:49

I think it's lovely, (and I wish I'd thought of it first! *sob*)

Posted by: Angelalala | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 18:03

It's fine by me, but I can see the point about the rules. But Cat, why do you think you're going to be evicted? I don't think people get evicted when they fail tasks, do they? It just means you won't win immunity. Which you won't need anyway by the looks of things, as nobody seems to have any particular interest in evicting you anyway!

Posted by: clare | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 18:15

If you discount the bits that are a list and just count the paragraph titles she still has 4 (5 if you count down sarf). So either way Catgirl should pass...

Posted by: penfold | Thursday, 19 July 2007 at 18:29

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