What's Your Top 3?: Songs with place names in the title

No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.

Midnight Train To Georgia
New York City Cops
Holland, 1945

5 Likes

Wichita Lineman
Hollywood Babylon (Misfits)
Ohio (CSN&Y)

2 Likes

Twin Peaks Theme - Angelo Badalamenti
Riot In Lagos - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Whippin’ Piccadilly - Gomez

7 Likes

I’ve really fucked it here

4 Likes

^this

1 Like

David Bowie - Warszawa
Sparks - How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall
Simple Minds - Boys From Brazil

1 Like

The Ex and Getatchew Mekuryaw - Ethiopia Hagere
Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)
Electrelane - In Berlin

5 Likes

Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
White Car in Germany- The Associates
Johnsburg, Illinois - Tom Waits

1 Like

New York City Serenade - Bruce Springsteen
I Broke up in Amarante - Los Campesinos!
Olympia, WA - Rancid

4 Likes

My most played songs with a place in the title*

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
I Thought About Chicago - Nation Of Language
For What Is Chatteris - Half Man Half Biscuit

*Down Under by Men At Work would be in there but I made a rule that I would only allow the proper name of a place

1 Like

Greater Omaha - Desaparecidos
Sometimes, in the Bullring - Johnny Foreigner
In California - Joanna Newsom

4 Likes

The only living boy in New York
Big Sur (beach boys not the other one)
Copenhagen

Yeah this is top 5/10 for sure. Their best song.

1 Like

Narrowly missed out on mine

1 Like

Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Pt. 1 - Stars of the Lid
Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Pt. 2 - Stars of the Lid
Austin Texas Mental Hospital, Pt. 3 - Stars of the Lid

6 Likes

The Hold Steady - Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night
NMH - Holland, 1945
The Mountain Goats - See America Right

2 Likes

Boygenius - Ketchum, ID
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us

2 Likes

Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce S
Chicago - Sufjan
Glasgow- Jockstrap

Reading in Bed - Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton
Reading Song - Doggyland and Snoop Dog
Reading During a Thunderstorm - Purrple Cat, Pueblo Vista

6 Likes

Ohio - Modest Mouse
Dayton Ohio 19 Something and 5 - GBV
Edinburgh Man - The Fall

Guaranteed that’s not the right list, but I’ll put it down as a legit off the top of the head effort

1 Like