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The following is a list of songs about cities. It is not exhaustive. Cities are a major topic for popular songs. [1] [2] Music journalist Nick Coleman said that apart from love, "pop is better on cities than anything else." [1] Popular music often treats cities positively, though sometimes they are portrayed as places of danger and temptation.
Described by the magazine Country Weekly as a "loping, fiddle-and-steel-guitar-driven song", [1] "Small Town Southern Man" is set in a moderate tempo and composed of three verses. Its lyrics tell of the life of Jackson's father, and how he was "raised on the ways and gentle kindness of a small town Southern man".
Two songs: "Walk Tall" and "Thank You", were recorded exclusively for this album. No songs are included from Mellencamp's 1976 debut album Chestnut Street Incident or 1977's The Kid Inside . Also omitted is Mellencamp's cover of "Without Expression", which was released on his previous compilation album The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988 .
The song is about contemporary American small town life. The narrator claims "things ain't like they used to be round here", and brings to attention that children are becoming lazy instead of working and also the dangers of today, claiming "momma locked the door last night for the first time in all of her years" and "the streets ain't safe for a bike to ride down."
The length of the song's title was a reaction by the band to the fact that most of its songs featured one-word titles. [2] The song is often referred to simply as "Elderly Woman" or "Small Town" by the band and its fans. Despite the lack of a commercial single release, the song reached number 17 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Song co-writers Martin Page and Bernie Taupin have stated that the song is about the decline of live-performance clubs in Los Angeles during the 1980s. [4] [5] [6] In 2013, Taupin told Rolling Stone that the "original song was a very dark kind of mid-tempo song ... about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go ...
Greatest Hits is the first compilation album of American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released on November 21, 2000, and reached #1 on the Billboard Country album charts & #4 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts. The album features material from all of McGraw's albums at the time, with the exception of his self-titled 1993 debut album.
The Vogues' Greatest Hits is an LP album by The Vogues, released by Reprise Records (RS 6371) in 1970, consisting of the group's charted hits from the Co & Ce and Reprise labels. For this collection, arranger Ernie Freeman wrote orchestral parts to overdub the original Co & Ce masters of "You're the One", "Five O'Clock World", and "Magic Town ...