Sunday, January 3, 2010

Sing a Song About the Island

When the HuffingtonPost launched their project to map NYC in songs, we expected to see a lot from entries of Staten Island. OK, maybe not a lot, but at least some.

There are only three entries for SI so far and all are obvious Wu-Tang references.

That's it? There aren't any others? What about the Staten Island Rocker dude? He's in the picture --->

And runner-up for greatest Staten Islander of the '00s Terrible Tim? He has to have some songs about the Island that aren't entirely composed of penis jokes.

We know Rhett Miller wrote a song about the Verrazano Bridge. Does that count?

Are there any more songs about Staten Island? Does anyone know/care?

Maybe some aspiring songwriter wrote a song about Hylan Boulevard or Pleasant Plains. This is your chance to be discovered.

4 comments:

  1. the Richmond Knights have a song called "Home" which is all about the island.

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  2. richmond knights? they sound like a rad band. where can i get their tunes and/or read the lyrics to their song about Staten Island?

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  3. Wahoo Skiffle Crazies play "Van Doozey Days" and "Beach Street Mess Around." Do these songs count?

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  4. actual streets, perfect.
    do have a link for the songs so we can reference them?
    youtube? myspace? mp3?

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