"prog" tracks referencing British landmarks,...
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Topic: "prog" tracks referencing British landmarks,...
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Subject: "prog" tracks referencing British landmarks,...
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 09:19
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...buildings, bridges etc. But NOT cities Example: can't do "Streets of London" (McTell) but can do "Portabello Road" (London) (Billy Nichols). .... Allan Holdsworth - Wardenclyffe Tower Peter Hammill - Porton Down |
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Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 09:34
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Big Big Train - Winchester from St Giles Hill Beatles - Penny Lane |
Posted By: Starjet
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 09:42
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Jethro Tull: Baker St. Muse Genesis: Firth of Fifth (a play on words on a real British landmark) |
Posted By: xhouse
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 09:46
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Kaprekar's Constant: Hallsands, Rosherville ------------- Between Thought and Expression Lies True Perception |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 09:53
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McDonald & Giles - Turnham Green Catapilla - Charing Cross Lancaster - Skinningrove Bay VDGG - Fairview Gardens John Greaves -Kew Rhone Evans & Hanselmann - Glastonbury Auger - Vauxhall & Lambeth Bridge |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 09:56
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Spinal Tap - Stonehenge ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 12:03
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In Unreal City by Banaau there's this lyric: Unreal City Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: "Stetson!" "You who were with me in the ships at Mylae" ------------- 
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 12:29
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Ayreon's And the Druids Turn to Stone makes reference to Stonehenge. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 12:55
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I suppose the obvious one is Five Bridges by the Nice, paying homage to the (then) 5 bridges across the River Tyne linking Newcastle with Gateshead and several other towns on the south side of the river. [I understand there are now more than five bridges.] ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 12:56
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Also Stonehenge by Stonehenge (France). In name only, tho. https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=51326" rel="nofollow - https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=51326 -------------
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Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 13:43
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Amazing Blondell - Mulgrave Street Tull - Jeffrey goes to Leister Square affinity - seven sisters Gabriel - Solsbury Hill |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 13:47
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Manfred Man Earthband - angel station Genesis - battle of Epping Forest Quintessence - Notting Hill Gate |
Posted By: pauldunhill
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 13:58
| Jethro Tull - Up the Pool (my and their hometown, Blackpool)...Ok, I know Anderson was born in Scotland but he grew up on the Fylde coast... |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 14:18
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Not tracks, still.... HATFIELD & THE NORTH BAKERLOO |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 17 2025 at 23:20
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Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard (historic boatyard serving Bristil harbour and given Grade II listed status in the 1970's) Big Big Train - Along The Ridgeway (geographical region nice for walking and views in North Wiltshire and South Oxon) Cozy Powell - Up On The Downs ('Downs' are another word for hills in Wiltshire) Kayak - Tintagel (actual place in North Cornwall with links to the Arthurian legend) XTC - English Roundabout (specifically about the prolification of mini- roundabouts in their home town Swindon) |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 01:39
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Roundabout by Yes - of which there are many gracing the roads of the UK, some more notorious than others. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 01:41
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Life on Mars by David bowie - references the Norfolk Broads (a network of mostly man made waterways and small lakes (the Broads) and now a National Park. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 01:45
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The Kinks - Denmark Street which pays homage to the tin pan alley of London... not a prog track I admit, but for me the Kinks were always kind of prog related. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 06:38
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Kinks - Waterloo Sunset Jon Lord - Durham Concerto |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 06:57
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Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (or is that Ireland??) Damien Youth - Kilburn Towers |
Posted By: Criswell
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 07:45
It's a border between England and Wales...I would have guessed Scottland... |
DoobieBrother6 wrote:Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 09:31
And Muswell Hillbillies |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 11:25
| Quintessence - St. Pancras '70 |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 13:07
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Jethro Tull - Dun Ringill, an Iron Age hill fort on the Isle of Skye. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 18 2025 at 16:14
| What about Tormato? Doesn't that reference a place? |
Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 09:08
| Caravan - Blind Dog at St. Dunstans |
Posted By: enigma
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 10:06
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Pink Floyd - Southampton Dock mentions the cenotaph (presumably the one in Whitehall, London) It is not particularly proggy though |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 14:14
The album was originally going to be called Yes Tor, which is a hill or something in Devon, England. I believe the landscape in the background on the cover is from that place. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Tor" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Tor ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 15:25
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Granchester Meadows - Pink Floyd (water mentioned and Granchester Meadows has many water areas. ------------- CYMRU AM BYTH 
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Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 19 2025 at 15:26
| Floyd - Granchester Meadow |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 03:05
However could that have slipped my mind! ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 03:09
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Electric Light Orchestra - The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644) which not only references a location, but also a historic event. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 03:19
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Some non prog ones, but good tunes anyway: Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band Finchley Central - The New Vaudeville Band (no-one outside of London had heard of that TFL station before that song). It also references Golders Green and Camden Town stations. What a Waste - Ian Dury and the Blockheads (mentions Fulham Broadway Station) ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: David100net
Date Posted: April 20 2025 at 05:53
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Peter Hammill - Fogwalking (Whitechapel) |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 22 2025 at 11:31
I love it! St. Dunstans is a street in Canterbury, just outside the Westgate, as can clearly be seen on the album cover. |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 22 2025 at 11:35
| 'Little Red Robin Hood...', the final track on Robert Wyatt's classic album ROCK BOTTOM, has a reference to Kent, which is known as 'the Garden of England': 'In the Garden of England, dead moles lie inside their holes...' |
Posted By: fuxi
Date Posted: April 22 2025 at 11:37
Quotation from 'The Waste Land', by T.S. Eliot. |
Posted By: Tanya
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 00:55
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Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape · Be Bop Deluxe |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 04:57
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Egg - A Visit To Newport Hospital ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Rick1
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 05:40
| Hatfield and the North - 'Son of 'There's No Place Like Homerton" |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 08:28
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The Tangent - Lost in London. It mentions passing the BBC; the aisles of Knightsbridge; and gigging the Albert Hall. ------------- 
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Posted By: DoobieBrother6
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 09:10
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Leon Paul-Philips - Oxford Circus, Ealing Broadway,Turnham Green The Sect - St John's Wood Tangerine Dream - Monumen Valley String Driven Thing - Regent St. Incident Pip Pyle - 7 Sisters LIVERPOOL fIVE - pICADILLY lINE |