Which song reminds you of your hometown?
 

Being a Melbourne gal at heart, it has to be 'From St Kilda to Kings Cross' by Paul Kelly. This dude is a fricken' poet of giant proportions, and every time I hear the line about the Esplanade I get just so incredibly homesick, having lived in the St Kilda area for around 7 years.


From St Kilda to Kings Cross is thirteen hours on a bus
I pressed my face against the glass and watched the white lines rushing past
And all around me felt like all inside me
And my body left me and my soul went running

Have you ever seen Kings Cross when the rain is falling soft?
I came in on the evening bus, from Oxford Street I cut across
And if the rain don't fall too hard everything shines
Just like a postcard
Everything goes on just the same
Fair-weather friends are the hungriest friends
I keep my mouth well shut, I cross their open hands

I want to see the sun go down from St Kilda Esplanade
Where the beach needs reconstruction, where the palm trees have it hard
I'd give you all of Sydney harbour (all that land, all that water)
For that one sweet promenade

As much as I hate to say it..."I want you" by Savage Garden reminds me of my home town. It was all over the radio when I got back to Australia after 3 years in the States, and it takes me right back there every time I hear it.

the holy grail
love that song, makes me think about footy everytime i hear it, and how proud i am to be a victorian

Alex Lloyd reminds me of something.................

Chromatic i stand on the side of the road
Watching for a car a truck so i can go
I've got to get myself out of this nothing place
I've been running around with a tied shoe lace

What a year it has been
What a year it has been
Lost my love, shed my skin
What a year it has been

There's a cheer leader squad on the side of the road
Cheering the night now for somewhere to go
There's me on the corner, the corner is home
Look at the controller we're about to hit a new zone

What a year it has been
What a year it has been
Lost my love, shed my skin
What a year it has been

Flashing lights from up above
So close, too close was crazy love
So gather up your broken brow
Millions together will do it somehow

What a year it has been
What a year it has been
And as it creeps upon the end
What a year it has been

I'm alright

Guns N Roses - Paradise City

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home

(I live in Auckland)

'Flame Trees' by Chisel. Whenever I hear it it takes me back to the glory days and reminds me how lucky I was to grow up in Deniliquin, and how awesome my mates were that I went through all that shit with. Fan-fucking-tastic.

Kids out driving Saturday afternoon pass me by
I'm just savouring familiar sights
We share some history, this town and I
And I can't stop that long forgotten feeling of her
Try to book a room to stay tonight

Number one is to find some friends to say "You're doing well
After all this time you boys look just the same"
Number two is the happy hour at one of two hotels
Settle in to play "Do you remember so and so?"
Number three is never say her name.

Meridae'n... You grew up in Deni? How old are you.. I reckon you know a guy I used to live with.. he's from Deni.. actually.. he's back there now.

As for me, no song I can think of at the moment. I'm sure if I heard one I'd say "yeah, that's it.." but I can't think of one offhand.

Certainly did mate. I'm 27, but regardless of his age I reckon I'd know him. If it was in Geelong I reckon I know who it is. His name Greg? Do architecture at uni? If so, he's one of my closests mates, and a mad bastard!

Edit: Chuck your response in the campfire thread mate... don't want to jack Ella's champion thread :cool:

whats that song called where it goes "the roof, the roof is on fire, we don't need no water let the mother fucker burn"

:)

Bloodhound Gang, dunno the name though... thought I did when I started writing this.

Mr Jones is another one for me, and I bet I'm not the only on either...

Well, aint you a thoughtful bugger!

Who sings Mr Jones?

Fire Water Burn is the name of the song ;)

Are you talking about the Counting Crows version? It's the only one I know of, although there's always the possibility of an Aussie song I've never heard of with the same title.

Nah, I'm talking about the Counting Crows song. It came out when I was in Year 11 and reminds me totally of those days. You'll find that when it comes on, most aussies will start belting it out.

I'll admit to listening (and enjoying) some country music. I don't know the title but it goes something like "it's a great day to be alive...".

That was me and my best friends "lake song"... He'll be married in about 2 weeks. WTF, I'm geting old.

I don't know what reminds me of Newcastle, the Screaming Jets I suppose.

That and bloody silverchair. ;)

'Better' by the Jets! King oath! Reminds me of playing pool and training ourselves to actually like beer...

You had to train yourself?

Mustn't have had enough vegemite as a kid...

Had to train myself to like that too... didn't work.

"Runaway Train" reminds me of The Railway in Deni (the pub we all went to when underage. God bless those old style licences), cause it was the last song they played every Fri and Sat night.

umm "My Hometown" by the Boss

Just as Meridae'n said, "Flame Trees" hits it home for me and always has...

"Written about Grafton where Don spent most of his formative years. The song was inspired by a girl whom Don had known in his youth and who "doesn't live there anymore". Grafton is actually known as the Jacaranda City but it had acquired flame trees as a result of a television program called The Flame Trees of Thaw which starred Hayley Mills, an old flame of the lyricist's dreams, and the flora stuck. It's a song of lost love, of mortality and what's left behind. Steve Prestwich's melody and Don Walker's words. Appropriately, the band's last hit."

'Flame Trees' is one of my fave Chisels songs, along with 'Saturday Night', also written by Don Walker, arguably the most talented member of the band.

Saturday night's already old
Walking into Sunday, and I find
All desires are cold
I could walk forever, I don't mind
Show me a light, your company
Goes a little way to help me see
The path on which I'm bound
Rather than the things I leave behind

Reminds me of ol' Melbourne town too!

hate to be a stickler for the facts... but Hayley Mills starred in The Flame Trees of Thika... which is a tiny town one hour out of Nairobi, Kenya... and it was only a mini series.

Two songs actually:

Gangajang - This is Australia.

Because I am a bananabender and used to love watching the lightening crack over the cane fields. QUEENSLANDER!

Redgum - Only 19.

Because I spent three years as an Army machinegunner and love the references to true blue mateship. We used to listen to this after a hard slog out bush.

King oath Alamo. We listened to that song all last year as one of my mates had an 80's DVD. Sensational.

This song reminds me of home, because Grafton is where I grew up :)

Never really thought about it . . . . . um . . . . . I'll get back to this thread when I can think of one . . . . geez wouldn't think it was this hard . .

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Yeah, Thunderstruck reminds me of my local. There used to be a karaoke night there on Fridays that was great fun (most of them could actually sing), and every week, without fail, the night would end with this one guy singing Thunderstruck. It was brilliant.

I wonder if he's still doing it...

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I love this! Can I use it? It's fucking gold! Are you a Virgo?

Speaking of 'Flame Trees', I've just come back from the funeral of the husband of a good friend (I also knew him and he was a top bloke - died of a heart attack at the age of 41) and they played 'Flame Trees' at the end of the ceremony. Perfect.

lol...use it at your will, Ella!
And no, I'm a Leo (21 a week ago!). I rock.

Happy Birthday, you Leo pedant!

for my home town which is western sydney (respect the FFD, fairfield out), it would probably my the song about lebs rolling people at the atm, because you always watch you back especially when a group of lebs is around, (btw my best mate is leb and we make fun of the full sick subwoofer cars with spinning rims that are lowered and have 5 dudes in them and have to go sideways over speed bumps, cracks me up everytime.


seriously though, prisoner of society by the living end is my aussie song, it was the song that took me from pop-craptic radio to thumping rock, anything by ac\dc as well. Also the song solid rock is aussie classic.