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  1. Today's #TuneTuesday theme is songs with cities or towns in the title or lyrics. The official hash tag is #LondonCalling but my entry contains songs that refer to another city, #Helsinki.

    Helsinki and Stockholm are connected by a popular ferry line, which is nicely reflected in this song, co-written and sung by one of my favorite artists, Doug Sahm:

    Sir Douglas Quintet: Meet Me In Stockholm (1984)
    youtube.com/watch?v=PBfz5f7_xXk

    Two wonderful Finnish-language recordings that I really liked when they came out some 35 years ago, both with memorable lyrics:

    Leevi & the Leavings: Jos Helsinki on kaunis (1989)
    youtube.com/watch?v=iUWiBHb1i4s

    Liisa Akimof: Helsinki (1990)
    youtube.com/watch?v=VPW4WJHGNM0

    Unfortunately the all-time ultimate Helsinki song doesn't mention the name of the city, but here it is anyway - originally written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent as "Beautiful In the Rain", but with superb - and completely different - Finnish-language lyrics by Juha "Junnu" Vainio:

    Fredi: Kolmatta Linjaa takaisin (1968)
    youtube.com/watch?v=y8BEminEYe4

    #music #dougsahm #sirdouglasquintet #leavings #liisaakimof #fredi #kolmattalinjaatakaisin

  2. #TuneTuesday looks for cities and towns, in #LondonCalling. Thread of four posts.

    "Going down to Liverpool" - The Bangles

    song.link/gb/i/292101152

    "Sénégal fast food" - Amadou & Mariam

    "La gare Dakar, Bamako Mopti
    Y’a pas de problèmes? Tout va bien"

    song.link/gb/i/56371517

    #Bangles #AmadouEtMariam

  3. I thought about the Clash briefly yesterday, strangely via one of my previously less favorite of their songs that's grown on me recently popping in my head-- "Lovers Rock" (it's ALWAYS in my head lately?) & I knew I'd have to listen to London Calling today. I've listened to it so many times, it's like, a PART of me. I know every weird little sound on it. And I still listen to it multiple times every year. Just like Superunknown.

    Ah, the perfect album. Not all bands can do it. I think very few can.

    #PerfectAlbums #TheClash #LondonCalling #punk #PunkRock #Soundgarden #Superunknown

  4. I thought about the Clash briefly yesterday, strangely via one of my previously less favorite of their songs that's grown on me recently popping in my head-- "Lovers Rock" (it's ALWAYS in my head lately?) & I knew I'd have to listen to London Calling today. I've listened to it so many times, it's like, a PART of me. I know every weird little sound on it. And I still listen to it multiple times every year. Just like Superunknown.

    Ah, the perfect album. Not all bands can do it. I think very few can.

    #PerfectAlbums #TheClash #LondonCalling #punk #PunkRock #Soundgarden #Superunknown

  5. I thought about the Clash briefly yesterday, strangely via one of my previously less favorite of their songs that's grown on me recently popping in my head-- "Lovers Rock" (it's ALWAYS in my head lately?) & I knew I'd have to listen to London Calling today. I've listened to it so many times, it's like, a PART of me. I know every weird little sound on it. And I still listen to it multiple times every year. Just like Superunknown.

    Ah, the perfect album. Not all bands can do it. I think very few can.

    #PerfectAlbums #TheClash #LondonCalling #punk #PunkRock #Soundgarden #Superunknown

  6. I thought about the Clash briefly yesterday, strangely via one of my previously less favorite of their songs that's grown on me recently popping in my head-- "Lovers Rock" (it's ALWAYS in my head lately?) & I knew I'd have to listen to London Calling today. I've listened to it so many times, it's like, a PART of me. I know every weird little sound on it. And I still listen to it multiple times every year. Just like Superunknown.

    Ah, the perfect album. Not all bands can do it. I think very few can.

    #PerfectAlbums #TheClash #LondonCalling #punk #PunkRock #Soundgarden #Superunknown

  7. I thought about the Clash briefly yesterday, strangely via one of my previously less favorite of their songs that's grown on me recently popping in my head-- "Lovers Rock" (it's ALWAYS in my head lately?) & I knew I'd have to listen to London Calling today. I've listened to it so many times, it's like, a PART of me. I know every weird little sound on it. And I still listen to it multiple times every year. Just like Superunknown.

    Ah, the perfect album. Not all bands can do it. I think very few can.

    #PerfectAlbums #TheClash #LondonCalling #punk #PunkRock #Soundgarden #Superunknown

  8. #TheMetalDogArticleList
    #louder
    I gave the lyrics to Joe to sing. He said, No, youve gotta sing it, they're your lyrics: The Clash's Paul Simonon on how he wrote the punk icons' defiant classic The Guns Of Brixton
    London Calling classic The Guns Of Brixton was Clash bassist's Paul Simonon's first-ever composition

    loudersound.com/news/paul-simo

    #TheClash #PaulSimonon #LondonCalling #RockCulture #MusicPhenomenon #BestSellingAlbum #MusicalInfluence #LyricalMasterpiece #Rockstar #GrammyAward

  9. #OTD #Music #Musique #Música #Music #Jokes #TheClash #MichaelLandon #LondonCalling

    London Calling, single de The Clash publicado el 7/12/1979 🎂 🍾 🍻

    ... y la tentación era demasiado fuerte. #Perdón #Sorry 😅