The Playlist Challenge: Oh, the Places You'll Go!

I've been looking forward to this one for a while. These are songs about places. Or, at least, they're songs with some place in the title. Pretty straightforward.

Allison and I actually talked about doing this one first, but we decided to be all morose and go with the Sad Songs. I'm not saying it wasn't a great decision, but we probably should've kicked things off with a bang rather than a razor blade. My apologies to our 3 followers!

Pack your bags mothalicka, cause I'm takin you to the baddest places on the planet.

1 - the clash - london calling
joe strummer is a legend. great first track. one of the best albums of all time. these are all facts.

2 - they might be giants - istanbul
years after i saw istanbul on tiny toons, i discovered they might be giants were behind this brilliance. they've never disappointed since.

3 - suzanne vega and dna - tom's diner
if we ever did a "songs that get stuck in your head" list, this would definitely be number 1.

Suzanne Vega - Tom's diner
Uploaded by ptidavid - See the latest featured music videos.

4 - harry and the potters - platform 9 and 3/4
if i ever saw Platform 9 and 3/4, i'd probably get a concussion trying to get to the Hogwarts Express

5 - toto - africa
everything about this song is perfect, especially the video. aside from the aids and malaria and civil wars, makes africa sound like a pretty great place to visit.

6 - the hold steady - joke about jamaica
the more i listen to this one, the more i think it's hold steady at their best.

7 - bad brains - banned in dc
i'd like to thank jesse tremblay for bringing this into my life

8 - beastie boys - live at pj's
i had this as the first track, and it's definitely first track worthy, but london calling fits the list better.

9 - neko case - never turn your back on mother earth
this is one of those alt-country throwbacks that totally works.

10 - electric six - gay bar
i was trying to find my gay power hour today and realized this would be a great fit for the places list. let's start a nuclear war!!!!
(the official video, jam-packed with gaybe lincolns, is censored for some reason. here's some spastic asian shit...still works i think)

11 - peter gabriel - solsbury hill
again, youtube has failed to provide a non-cartoon studio version. whatever. this one kinda fits, too, but i don't like it. this cartoon seems totally retarded. kids these days don't know what they missed out on in the 80s and 90s.

12 - dead kennedys - holiday in cambodia
going to cambodia next week with mullen. figured this was very appropriate/inappropriate. if i weren't going, i probably wouldn't put this on the list.

13 - the doors - alabama song (whisky bar)
just like "africa," this one makes alabama seem pretty pleasant. that is if you like moons, whisky, and little girls.

14 - the misfits - hollywood babylon
jpk showed me one of the greatest things ever last year. check it out below the hollywood babylon vid.

danzig and his book collection

15 - beatles - back in the ussr
i love how if you replaced "the ussr" with "surftown usa," this could totally be a beach boys song. you'd obviously have to change other stuff, like "comrade," but you get the point.

16 - last lights - u.s. out of new england
rip dom

17 - get up kids - mass pike
too much love for guk recently? never enough! plus this is highly relevant

18 - bon iver - blood bank
i always get mixed feelings when i'm donating blood. on the one hand, i'm pretty happy that i'm doing a good deed. on the other, i'm already mad knowing how many times the fucking red cross is going to call me for the rest of my life.