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Thread started 11/06/13 10:29am

OldFriends4Sal
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Songs About America/U.S.A.

Hello people

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I'm looking for songs about America/USA, I want to put together a CD or 2 of songs that have a similar genre or mix well. Nothing goofy vulgar or outright negative

can you share a song or 2 including the artists/band name?

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I'll start it off with John Mellencamp:Pink House

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Oh but ain't that America for you and me
Ain't that America somethin' to see baby
Ain't that America home of the free
Little pink houses for you and me

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Reply #1 posted 11/06/13 11:22am

pulpfictionfan

"Living in America"- James Brown"Suite Madame Blue"- Styx
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Reply #2 posted 11/06/13 12:22pm

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This immediately came to my mind.

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Reply #3 posted 11/06/13 12:23pm

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This is a good list also.

http://www.billboard.com/...rica-songs

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Reply #4 posted 11/06/13 1:22pm

OlSchool

"American Dream"- Bobby Womack

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Reply #5 posted 11/06/13 1:46pm

MickyDolenz

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James Brown ~ Hey America

James Brown ~ America Is My Home

The Temptations ~ Made In America

Gap Band ~ Jammin' In America

Stevie Wonder ~ Jesus Children Of America

John Mellencamp ~ R.O.C.K In The U.S.A.

Beach Boys ~ Surfin' USA

Randy Travis ~ America Will Always Stand

Johnnie Taylor ~ That's America

Kurtis Blow ~ America

The O'Jays ~ I Love America

Bill Withers ~ USA

Willie Hutch ~ All American Funkathon

Dolly Parton ~ Color Me America

Grand Funk Railroad ~ We're An American Band

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #6 posted 11/06/13 3:36pm

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Reply #7 posted 11/07/13 7:19am

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The Steve Miller Band...



...Living in the U.S.A.



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

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Reply #8 posted 11/07/13 7:26am

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Jay & The Americans...



...Only In America



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

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Reply #9 posted 11/07/13 7:34am

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David Bowie...



...Young Americans & I'm Afraid of Americans



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

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Reply #10 posted 11/07/13 7:49am

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The Pat Metheny Group w/David Bowie...



...This Is Not America



Music for adventurous listeners

tA

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Reply #11 posted 11/07/13 5:26pm

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Madonna's "American Life"


Do I have to change my name?
Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight?
Am I gonna be a star?

I tried to be a boy,
I tried to be a girl
I tried to be a mess,
I tried to be the best
I guess I did it wrong,
That's why I wrote this song

This type of modern life - Is it for me?
This type of modern life - Is it for free?
So, I went into a bar looking for sympathy
A little company - I tried to find a friend
It's more easily said it's always been the same
This type of modern life -Is not for me?
This type of modern life -Is not for free?

American life
I live the american dream
You are the best thing I've seen,
You are not just a dream

I tried to stay ahead,
I tried to stay on top
I tried to play the part,
But somehow I forgot
Just what I did it for
And why I wanted more
This type of modern life - Is it for me?
This type of modern life - Is it for free?

Do I have to change my name?
Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight?
Am I gonna be a star?

American life
I live the american dream
You are the best thing I've seen,
You are not just a dream

I tried to be a boy,
I tried to be a girl
I tried to be a mess,
I tried to be the best
I tried to find a friend,
I tried to stay ahead
I tried to stay on top...

Fuck it...
Do I have to change my name?
Will it get me far?
Should I lose some weight?
Am I gonna be a star?

I'm drinking a Soy latte
I get a double shot
It goes right through my body
And you know
I'm satisfied,
I drive my mini cooper
And I'm feeling super-dooper
Yo they tell I'm a trooper
And you know I'm satisfied
I do yoga and pilates
And the room is full of hotties
So I'm checking out the bodies
And you know I'm satisfied
I'm digging on the isotopes
This metaphysic's shit is dope
And if all this can give me hope
You know I'm satisfied
I got a lawyer and a manager
An agent and a chef
Three nannies, an assistant
And a driver and a jet
A trainer and a butler
And a bodyguard or five
A gardener and a stylist
Do you think I'm satisfied?
I'd like to express my extreme point of view
I'm not Christian and I'm not a Jew
I'm just living out the American dream
And I just realized that nothing Is what it seems

Do I have to change my name
Am I gonna be a star
Do I have to change my name
Am I gonna be a star?
Do I have to change my name

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Reply #12 posted 11/07/13 10:01pm

legna

Los Lobos

One Time, One Night (in America)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmgfLI1NBe8

A wise man was telling stories to me
About the places he had been to
And the things that he had seen

A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song about the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America

A lady dressed in white with the man she loved
Standing along the side of their pickup truck
A shot rang out in the night
Just when everything seemed right
Another headline written down in America

The guy that lived next door in #305
Took the kids to the park and disappeared
About half past nine
Who will ever know
How much she loved them so
That dark night alone in America

A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song about the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America

Four small boys playing ball in a parking lot
A preacher, a teacher, and the other became a cop
A car skidded into the rain
Making the last little one a saint
One more light goes out in America

A young girl tosses a coin in the wishing well
She hopes for a heaven while for her
There's just this hell
She gave away her life
To become somebody's wife
Another wish unanswered in America

People having so much faith
Die too soon while all the rest come late
We write a song that no one sings
On a cold black stone
Where a lasting peace will finally bring

The sunlight plays upon my windowpane
I wake up to a world that's still the same
My father said to be strong
And that a good man could never do wrong
In a dream I had last night in America

A wise man was telling storie to me
About the places he had been to
And the things that he had seen

A quiet voice is singing something to me
An age old song about the home of the brave
In this land here of the free
One time one night in America

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Reply #13 posted 11/08/13 6:37am

namepeace

The Beautiful American -- Louis Armstrong + Duke Ellington

All American Man -- KISS

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #14 posted 11/08/13 6:37am

namepeace

Winter In America -- Gil Scott-Heron

Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016

Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
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Reply #15 posted 11/08/13 9:03am

OldFriends4Sal
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hey

America ~ Prince & the Revolution?

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Reply #16 posted 11/08/13 10:20am

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Andre Cymone - "America".


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