Empire State of Mind by Alicia keys with (I think) jay z is just essence of New York City. London on the other hand is London Calling by the Clash, down in the tube station at midnight (jam) or maybe the bells in London town (light of the world). All rather worryingly from my youth

I was thinking, what are the songs that define certain towns for you?

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Nuff said.

Need to brush up on sheet music reading skills: can you hum it for us?

NoAsk Music chick

Glasgow

My other half is from Yorkshire and I learnt last night that this is there unofficial anthem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Ilkla_Moor_Baht_'at

And I thought Swiss German was confusing

There are way too many to post on here, but a couple to keep you going...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyRYFUYg9g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPeZu_Ivho

nice idea, FabrizioM
to me (and my generation) if you think of switzerland you think of lugano and if you think of lugano you think of... Lugano Addio by Ivan Graziani. still today a beautiful romantic song about a southern boy falling in love with a nordic (swiss) girl and a wholly new world north of the italian border

There's a few out there:

Journey singing about San Francisco:



Rush capturing Toronto in YYZ:



Marillion sang of Amsterdam in their song "The Space":

Ooh that brings back some memories. We always sang it on coach trips when I was a kid.

My son loves it when I speak with my Yorkshire accent, I must teach him this one later.

My other half once thought the farmer was a foreigner when he answered the door to him one day as he couldn't understand a word he said. When my dad came to talk to him there were two foreigners around. OH couldn't believe that they were both actually speaking English.

In London right now and it's all about this :
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For me there is only one track that sums up London:



Some of the dance moves are EPIC!!! (my fave is 1.36min -1.39min)


cheers
SC

For Zürich it has to be Zarli Cariget:

I'll see your crappy Journey song:



and raise you with a stellar Starship song:

"Though your face is pretty, you're nothing like her"