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  • breuckelen
    breuckelen
    sweet tea wrote: every time, every time, EVERY TIME the conductor says "atlantic avenue", i get "electric avenue" in my head, so i vote for that one.

    we gonna rock down to
    atlantic avenue
    and then we'll take it higher
    oh!
    That should be the theme song for Ratner's Atlantic Yards.
  • duke of flatbush
    duke of flatbush
    U2 - Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of

    ...for so many reasons.
  • qtrain
    qtrain
    WhyFi wrote: [quote=em]What?! No mention of Susanne Vega? Come on, guys. Disappointing.
    If you're referring to "Tom's Diner," I think that there's a debate as to whether she's talking about the Tom's on Washington Ave or the one near NYU.
    According to Vega, the song is about Tom's Restaurant on 112th and broadway.
  • em
    em
    Damn! Oh well, I'll keep telling my out of town guests that it's about our Tom's when I take them there for breakfast...
  • shank bone mystic
    shank bone mystic
    I think he has the lyrics to the song hung up on the wall. I know that doesn't necessarily mean that the song is about our Tom's but it might.

    My choice is a selfish one, SBMP's Pow Pow Powerful, though rather cryptic, the song's lyrics were in fact inspired by this neighborhood.

    http://myspace.com/theshankbonemysticproject
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    Shank Bone Mystic wrote: I think he has the lyrics to the song hung up on the wall. I know that doesn't necessarily mean that the song is about our Tom's but it might.
    Word is that it was mailed to him with "I came, I saw, I wrote" penciled in, but unsigned, I believe...
  • doctorj
    doctorj

    Subject: Re: What Song best describes the heights for you...

    radio349 wrote:
    what song, or songs best describes your experience here? or what do you hear blasting through your walls or on the street?
    Neubaten's "Strategies Against Architecture" does a good job of capturing the ambience of the work on the tear-down across the street and the gut reno out the back, though it's a series of albums, not a song. I'll have to dig it out and work out which song has the jackhammer solo.

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