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Trailer Park is the second studio album by British singer Beth Orton.Combining folk, electronica, and trip hop elements, it earned Orton two BRIT Award nominations. One single from the album was the opening track, "She Cries Your Name", which previously appeared in a different form on William Orbit's album Strange Cargo Hinterland.
Slumming on Park Avenue; Street Fighting Man; Street Hassle (song) Street Symphony (song) Streets of Baltimore; Streets of Laredo (song) Streets of London (song)
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.
"Trailerhood" is an upbeat song that celebrates the trailer park lifestyle.. In the narrator's view, it's a world filled with pink flamingos and plastic pools (Carl, who lives next door), poker games (Gamblin' James, who will let anyone participate for $15), "music playing up and down the block", auto racing, and Dallas Cowboys football.
The accompanying music video for the song, directed by Jonathan Demme and his nephew Ted Demme in December 1993, begins by showing Springsteen walking along desolate city streets, followed by a bustling park and schoolyard, interspersed with footage from the film.
The music for "Where the Streets Have No Name" originated from a demo that guitarist The Edge composed the night before U2 resumed The Joshua Tree sessions. In an upstairs room at Melbeach House—his newly purchased home—he used a four-track tape machine to record an arrangement of keyboards, bass, guitar, and a drum machine.
The song developed into Skinner's first single, "Has It Come to This?", and was released under the name The Streets. [5] The song peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart in October 2001. [6] The Streets' debut album, Original Pirate Material, was released in March 2002. The album was successful both with critics and the general public.
The song was inspired by McTell's experiences busking and hitchhiking throughout Europe, especially in Paris and the individual stories are taken from Parisians. McTell was originally going to call the song "Streets of Paris" [2] — but eventually London was chosen, because he realised he was singing about London; [3] also, there was another song called "The Poor People of Paris".