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No Stars, Streetlights
The great thing about being from New York is there is always a song for you when you’re feeling homesick. The shitty thing about being from New York is you are always homesick cuz you can never afford to live there.
Emotional Odes to Odes to Emotion
Heavy Metal Drummer by Wilco (about KISS)
Alex Chilton by The Replacements (about Big Star)
Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac (referencing Velvet Underground)
Blonde on Blonde by Nada Surf (about the Bob Dylan album)
Writing to Reach You by Travis (about Wonderwall by Oasis) On the Radio by Regina Spektor (about November Rain by Guns N Roses)
Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman (about Tupac… JK)
Begin Again by Taylor Swift (referencing James Taylor)
Aretha Sing One for Me by Cat Power (about Aretha Franklin, cover of George Jackson)
Chelsea Hotel No. 2 by Leonard Cohen (about Janis Joplin)
Judy’s Turn to Cry by Lesley Gore (about her own previous hit “It’s My Party”)
Something to Dü by The Replacements (referencing Husker Dü)
Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus (about Jay-Z and Britney Spears)