You're now subscribed to nycgo.com's newsletters. “C.R.E.A.M.,” Wu-Tang Clan, 1993 'Empire State of Mind' - Jay-Z feat. Those who didn’t come here from Ohio or Michigan or Kingston or London or Moscow, those born and raised in the Five are a different species altogether. “Too Many Creeps,” Bush Tetras, 1980 From Jay-Z to Sinatra: The 10 best songs about New York. Repeat till you’re dead, 30, or move to the suburbs. 38. In 1980, legendary producer and impresario David Merrick adapted the film into a long-running stage show.Most New York lyric: “Come and meet those dancing feet / On the avenue I’m taking you to / 42nd Street”, Originally written for a 1904 musical called Little Johnny Jones, George M. Cohan’s Tin Pan Alley masterwork is another favorite street song. New York City's subway system: A look back at its beginnings, Crews vacuum murder hornets out of Washington nest, Scene after the murder-suicide on lower Manhattan street, R.I.P. She’ll be setting Sam Heughan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas up. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. Dollar dollar bill yo!”, 19. “People Who Died,” The Jim Carroll Band. “Jenny From the Block,” Jennifer Lopez, 2002 33. 8. 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Go out, get loaded, make grand promises you won’t keep to people you barely know until you’re staggering around empty streets trying to hail a cab to the next party before the sun comes up. “Native New Yorker,” Odyssey, 1977 34. (Who can listen to the lyric “the Twin Towers were talking to each other” without welling up?) “It was an older, song, written in 2000,” says guitarist Nick Zinner, “and I remember people really identifying with the song after 9/11. “I’m Waiting for the Man,” Velvet Underground, 1967 Your subway has been crippled by snow, the walk/don’t walk signs read both — and maybe you’re wondering, “Why do I even live in New York?” Well, put on your headphones, cue up a song like “Empire State of Mind,” and remember. 9. This track was removed from American versions of 2001’s Is This It after 9/11 out of sensitivity ( “New York City cops — they ain’t too smart.”), but it’s less an insult than a tribute to street-prowling Droogs eluding authority. “New York, New York,” from On the Town. This jaded roundup of Warhol superstar creation myths (“Holly came from Miami F-L-A … shaved her legs and then he was a she”) offered a still unmatched window on the druggy, sexually fearless, sad, funny world of downtown. Most New York lyric: “The Bronx is up but the Battery’s down / The people ride in a hole in the ground” Carly Rae Jepsen Is Gifting Us a New Christmas Song. Whether it’s catty (“What she saw in him nobody knew / it was a mystery”) or whimsical (“The Chrysler building was talkin’ to the Empire State”), that dark wit we New Yorkers pride ourselves on is here in abundance. See how many of the songs you know, and let us know if we missed any of your personal faves by tweeting @nycgo. 2. Possibly part of a new “Megan Mondays” series. “B-Boy Bouillabaisse,” Beastie Boys, 1989 Everyone really, really needs therapy right now. Already a subscriber? “Coney Island Baby,” Lou Reed. © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. “Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side,” The Magnetic Fields. The lyrics namecheck all the naughty nineties (that’s 1890s) hot spots—like extravagant restaurant-nightclub Delmonico’s (still open in 2018) and one of the original vaudeville houses, Tony Pastor’s.Most New York lyric: “We'll see the shows at Delmonico’s / And we'll close the town in a whirl / And we won't come home until we've kissed a girl!”, From the cult hit based on a 1960s comedy film that debuted as an Off-Broadway musical in the East Village in 1982 and made it to Broadway in 2003 (with a 1986 film adaptation of the Off-Broadway production in between! Wu”), but this Ray Charles–indebted, piano-bar ballad is the best — a reminder that to lose touch with the city is to lose touch with yourself. After all that they’ve been through, we know they’re cool. “Marquee Moon,” Television. 7. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. “Around the Way Girl,” LL Cool J. This blockbuster dance number from 1977’s Annie takes the little redheaded orphan on a grand tour of all the metropolis has to offer, courtesy of a bald billionaire known as Daddy Warbucks.Most New York lyric: “You crowd / You cramp / You’re still / The champ / Amen for NYC!”, Three sailors, 24 hours, one city—Leonard Bernstein’s first Broadway musical, On The Town (1954), kicks off with this rousing clarion call as a group of Navy boys hit New York on shore leave for one memorable day.Most New York lyric: “The Bronx is up but the Battery’s down / The people ride in a hole in the ground”, Few streets get their own hit song, let alone their own film and Broadway musical. And yet we stay, because filthy or sterile, New York is “still the one pool where [we]’d happily drown.”. “New York State of Mind,” Billy Joel, 1976 There are other great New York homesick ballads (Dylan’s “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” Steely Dan’s “Dr. “Juicy,” Notorious B.I.G., 1994 “Subway Train,” New York Dolls, 1973 “I always took that song as a love story,” says guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. “The two people are together and the cops are fucking with them … There’s something about walking down the street as a gang. Enter Staten Island, and the greatest acronym in hip-hop history (“Cash rules everything around me”). Strap-hanging as a metaphor for life: For everyone riding the A train on an endless loop hoping the solution to everything will hop on at the next stop, the Dolls know your pain. “New York, New York,” Ryan Adams. The 12 Best Broadway Songs About New York City. Yet New York’s bustling Midtown thoroughfare got the full treatment, starting with Busby Berkeley’s 1933 movie. And no matter what the plot, this melancholy classic fits your private soundtrack, isolating that urban phenomenon of romantic isolation. The rest of his inspiration was geographic: “New York songwriters are lucky to be influenced by places like Great Jones Street or the Chrysler Building or Coney Island.”. The song is a late-night, erudite trifle made poignant by fate. starts in Yonkers, this showstopping dance number (a highlight of the current production) takes place during a weekend stroll around New York City. Lou Reed made this connection, drawing inspiration from our impatience. “I’m pretty sure the lines about the skyscrapers talking to each other were inspired by a Don DeLillo novel,” Dean Wareham says, explaining his take on a classic summer rooftop party. “Summer in the City,” the Lovin’ Spoonful. The song, a mix of rap and Broadway belting, follows its eponymous young society ladies as they scope out the City’s revolutionary scene.Most New York lyric: “History is happening in Manhattan / And we just happen to be / In the greatest city in the world”, A beautiful ballad, this Greenwich Village–set song tells the story of a young hippie girl who longs for a Brooklyn boy she met outside the Waverly Theater (now the IFC Center) on Sixth Avenue, ending with a plea for her suitor to find her in Washington Square Park. 29. 3. Three sailors, 24 hours, one city—Leonard Bernstein’s first Broadway musical, On The Town (1954), kicks off with this rousing clarion call as a group of Navy boys hit New York on shore leave for one memorable day. “I Know You Got Soul,” Eric B. Baby bumps never go out of style among the celebrity set. “Check the Rhime,” A Tribe Called Quest. The Broadway Musical! 1. Get the money! The ultimate rags-to-riches story: Biggie recounts “blow(ing) up like the World Trade,” but like all real New Yorkers, he’s not completely sold. Here are our ten favorites -- and no Billy Joel! It gets you excited.” Casablancas first shared the song with Hammond on a train back from Hoboken: What’s more New York than that? John Corbett Basically Pulled a Heist on the. Sometimes X-rated (“Took off her pants / you know what I saw”) but most often sweet (shout-outs to Orange Julius, Bernie Goetz, and the Knicks betray their homesickness while recording in Los Angeles), this nine-part sonic suite is merely the most engaging of a half-dozen Beastie valentines to their hometown. 12. 31. “Tom’s Diner,” Suzanne Vega “Across 110th Street,” Bobby Womack and Peace, 1973 Multiple seasons of the hour-long show are in the works. 39. When Hoboken’s favorite son recorded the Liza original, he added an across-the-river dreamer’s swagger to Kander and Ebb’s ode boozy manifesto of NYC exceptionalism. at. In a metropolis of 12 million, sometimes the movie in your mind is the only one you can clearly see. Megan Thee Stallion Wants You to Take Her Name Out of Your Mouth in Freestyle. “It’s Not Christmas Till Somebody Cries” is out Friday. We fully expect you to disagree [Editor’s note: WTF? These jaded, stylish post-punk babes wrote the ultimate angular anthem to blast as you hightail it upstate for a weekend spent with nobody. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne Will Invent the Platon-Com for Apple TV+, I’m So Excited, I’m So Excited, I’m So Scared for the. But this blaxpoitation-era theme is a powerful reminder that New York soul survives. & Rakim. 37. In other cities it’s considered immature for adults to indulge in their own teenaged solipsistic misery — but alienation never goes out of style here. : Rust in peace; these cars aren’t returning for 2021, 100 best horror movies, according to critics. You wouldn’t be New Yorkers if you didn’t. Whether “up in Harlem” or “down on Broadway,” they “know the score” — but no matter how tough, every New Yorker is a secret romantic. “Empire State of Mind,” Jay-Z, 2009 Post September 11, 2001, most fists pumped to “Won’t Get Fooled Again” or “The Rising,” but the city’s truest anthem of defiance came from the mouth of a beer-drenched, spandex-covered Karen O. The only thing more soul-crushing than slaving away to stay in some dingy studio in a dangerous neighborhood is when Giuliani, then Bloomberg try to sanitize everything. 25. A new classic, by design, with nods to its peers on this list (plus Nas’s worthy “N.Y. But after one heady summer in New York City, she was writing unabashedly rhapsodic love songs about rooftops in Brooklyn and the unforgettable things hipster boys say on them. 2. It’s a tough place. Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton Are Engaged Since Apparently They Weren’t Already. “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters,” Elton John. 26. “The Only Living Boy in New York,” Simon and Garfunkel, 1970 32. The City can be oppressive, crazy-making, and heartbreaking. On the eve of Jay-Z’s March 2 valedictory lap at Madison Square Garden, we solicited recommendations from critics and musicians and then threw them in a blender to come up with a playlist of the most New York songs written since 1965 (caveats: no instrumentals, no movie theme songs) that get at the city’s romance — the sex, the grit, the wit, the skyscraper-size ambition.
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