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De_El:
Wait, someone else did a version of "First We Take Manhattan"? I've only heard the Leonard Cohen one.
If I were to make a New York playlist (and it's essentially impossible to do just one) mine for the moment would mostly be a bunch of YYYs and James Chance, maybe some Sonic Youth.
JimmyJazz:
The Ramones and the Velvet Underground, anyone?
fish across face:
--- Quote from: De_El on 27 May 2009, 14:38 ---Wait, someone else did a version of "First We Take Manhattan"? I've only heard the Leonard Cohen one.
--- End quote ---
I say "famously" because it was her version that used to play on the radio and TV when I was a kid. I only heard Cohen's version much later when friends were, you know, consciously checking out music and stuff.
(Edit to avoid double-post) Forgot all about the no wave bands - as well as James Chance, I think of John Lurie's stuff with Lounge Lizards as sounding pretty New York somehow.
Man... Liquid Liquid... Mmmm. ESG?
It's almost as if a huge city with heaps of history can't be summed up by a few pop songs. What the hell!?
TheFuriousWombat:
If you're in New York and it's late at night and raining and no one is around for some reason, you'll want to have some Bohren & der Club of Gore on you. Just to enhance the mood and all.
fish across face:
Heh, and if you need to recover from that, try Pride's 'Come On Get Dancing', which is a great Latin funk track.
We live in the Apple
Of the Apple we are proud
We came to make a funky sound
Get down get down get down
Or try any of the Nu Yorica! series on Soul Jazz Records.
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