Best Song Ever Written About Hating the Town You Live in?

I live here for the the money only, and I need a playlist to cope. Ideas?

I'm thinking "Aenema" by Tool or "Fuck this Town" by Robbie Fulks, but these are LA/Nashville-specific nb I love the casual homophobia prevalent in mainstream country and western music...

Well, I came down to Nashville in 1993
'Cause my friend Jim said Nashville had money growin' right on the trees
So I thought I'd go pick some, and I don't mean musically.

Now it's 4 years later, and I'm wonderin' where I went wrong
Shook a lotta hands, ate a lotta lunch, wrote a lotta dumbass songs
But I couldn't get a break in Nashville, if I tried my whole life long

So, fuck this town...fuck this town
Fuck it end-to-end, fuck it up and down
Can't get noticed -- can't get found -- can't get a cut, so
Fuck this town.

Hey, this ain't country-western!
It's just soft-rock feminist crap!
And I thought they'd struck bottom back back in the days of Ronnie Milsap
Now they can't stop the flood of assholes: there ain't a big enough ASCAP.

Sure, I like old Tim Carroll, and BR5-49
But Nashville don't need that noise, no,
Nashville'll do just fine
As long as there's a moron market
And a faggot in a hat to sign.

Fuck this town! Fuck this town!
Fuck...this...town.

Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will.
I sure could use a vacation from this
bull-shit three ring cirrrrcus siiiideshow of
Freaks here in this, hopeless fucking, hole we call LA.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time.
Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Fret for your figure and
Fret for your latte and
Fret for your lawsuit and
Fret for your hairpiece and
Fret for your prozac and
Fret for your pilot and
Fret for your contract and
Fret for your car.
It's a bull-shit three ring cirrrrrcuus siiideshow of
freaks here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA.
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time.
Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
Some say the end is near.
Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this
stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit...
One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
(Learn to swim. 3x)
Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to beeeeeeeee.

(Learn to swim. 8x)
Fuck L Ron Hubbard and Fuck all his clones.
Fuck all these gun-toting Hip gangster wannabes.
(Learn to swim. 8x)
Fuck retro anything. Fuck your tattoos.
Fuck all you junkies and Fuck your short memory.
(Learn to swim. 8x)
Fuck smiley glad-hands with hidden agendas.
Fuck these dysfunctional, insecure actresses.
(Learn to swim. 8x)
Cuz I'm praying for rain
and I'm praying for tidal waves
I wanna see the ground give way.
I wanna watch it all go down.
Mom please flush it all away.
I wanna see it go right in and down.
I wanna watch it go right in.
Watch you flush it all awaaaaaaaaay.

Time to bring it down again.
Don't just call me pessimist.
Try and read between the lines.
I can't imagine why you wouldn't
Welcome any change, my friend.
I wanna see it come down.
(Suck it down. 2x)
Flush it down.

Kerosene - (Frank) Big Black

I was born in this town
Live here my whole life
Probably come to die in this town
Live here my whole life
Never anything to do in this town
Live here my whole life
Never anything to do in this town
Live here my whole life
Probably learn to die in this town
Live here my whole life
Nothing to do, sit around at home
Sit around at home, stare at the walls
Stare at each other and wait till we die
Stare at each other and wait till we die
Probably come to die in this town
Live here my whole life
There's Kerosene around, something to do
There's Kerosene around, she's something to do
There's Kerosene around, she's something to do
There's Kerosene around, we'll find something to do
Kerosene around, she's something to do
Kerosene around, set me on fire
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire
Kerosene around, something to do
There's Kerosene around, find something to do
There's Kerosene around, find something to do
Kerosene around, find something to do
Kerosene around, she's something to do
Kerosene around, set me on fire
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire
Kerosene around, she's something to do
Kerosene around, now what do we do?
Jumped Kerosene, now what do we do?
Jumped Kerosene, now what do we do?
Kerosene around, nothing to do
Jumped Kerosene, now what do we do?
Never anything to do in this town
Never anything but jump Kerosene
Never anything to do in this town
Never anything
Jump Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire, Kerosene
Set me on fire

good call and downloaded both!

nb i had to miss VIP@the frank black gig at koko last month cos of work which sort of explains this thread actually did you go?

"New york i love you, but you're bringing me down..." lol (lcd soundsystem)

scott not scot for me right now it's....'Home is where the hatred is'...by Gil Scott-Heron

Go with the Esther Williams version - it's beautiful.

I sense a lot of angst I hate law.....Maybe it's time to take matters (the rope) into your own hands.

are you calling me emo??

emu:

bracestower [quote]scott not scot for me right now it's....'Home is where the hatred is'...by Gil Scott-Heron

Go with the Esther Williams version - it's beautiful.[/quote]
just been listening to that :)

you got that on mp3 you could fire my way???

grrrrrrrrrrrr!!
use that then :)

awwwww, thanks, wanker!!! :p

Barnstaple (so much to answer for)

is that rain?

no, it's sticky white love piss.

What about LDN by Lilly Allen? That would certainly get you hating the place (and maybe everything else)

:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDh7hYcVf9w

0oh they'll rap over anything these days

ihatelaw good call and downloaded both!

nb i had to miss VIP@the frank black gig at koko last month cos of work which sort of explains this thread actually did you go?

Nah, didn't see the point.
I would have got drunk and started screaming "play your old stuff!".
Then I would have been ejected.

Damon Albarn once said when he's stuck for inspiration he just lies back and thinks of Essex. Blur went to my 6th form ;-)

Best song written about a home town? Probably T-Town Concrete by Roy or Japam by Botch, both of which are about towns very close to each other (Tacoma and Roy, Washington State)

Oh, and Ghost Town by The Specials (about Coventry)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_Melbourne

14 Years in Rowville by TISM my fave.

'Smalltown' by Lou Reed & John Cale...

http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/tabs/smalltown.html

It's from their amazing concept album dedicated to Andy Warhol, 'Songs For Drella'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_Drella

Gotta be "Winnipeg is a frozen shithole"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTutlX4Mzw

ibob Gotta be "Winnipeg is a frozen shithole"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBTutlX4Mzw

There are so many great songs about that man's hatred of Winnipeg though...