New York, New York by Frank Sinatra. See also: The 50 Most NYC Albums Ever The Oral History of NYC’s Metal/Hardcore Crossover The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: The Complete List, This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on November 18, 2014, The House on 11th St.: Digging Up the Debris, The Trial of the Chicago 7: A Question of Allegiance, Senator Pothole Delivered — For Donald Trump, Manuel Noriega, Michael Milken, and Corporate Raiders, “In our glib age the stutterer has been considered a kind of contemporary hero, a supposed Honest Man who is unable to gab with the media people.”, “White men are no longer the whole against which we measure all the parts, but one more angry special interest group. Nevertheless, there’s a dark mystery in the song that’s all BK. Did all those kids perish as Carroll sings that they did? Velvet Underground – “I’m Waiting for the Man” An autobiographical tale of trekking to Harlem to score some heroin — “Twenty-six dollars in my hand/Up to Lexington, 1–2–5/Feelin sick and dirty, more dead than alive” — Lou Reed’s 1967 “I’m Waiting for the Man” comes complete with racial tension — “Hey white boy, what you doin’ uptown?” — and stylish dealers — “He’s all dressed in black/PR shoes and a big straw hat.” (“Puerto Rican fence-climbers” were pointy-toed footwear perfect for scaling chain-link while shaking off pursuing cops.) It’s been recorded more than 200 times, as both an instrumental and with lyrics, and by artists as diverse as Billie Holliday (probably your best bet), Sun Ra, and The Dudley Moore Trio. No, his “Brooklyn Zoo” is one rife with the “type of pain you couldn’t even kill with Midol/Fuck around, get sprayed with Lysol.” Increasingly, as rents rise, developers buy up vast swaths of the borough, and condos go up, it’s a place many of its longtime residents no longer recognize. Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z with Alicia Keys. He was forced to improvise, more or less building the backbone of the song as the performance went along. Crystal clear audio. But George Gershwin’s masterpiece almost didn’t happen. New York Jazz is an English language song and is sung by Music for Quiet Moments. The cut, which appeared on Bridge Over Troubled Water a year after its initial release as a single (“Baby Driver” was the upbeat B side), is a production tour-de-force that includes a signature bass harmonica lick from the great Nashville session man Charlie McCoy. All rights reserved. The impossible-to-resist stomp-along underpinnings driving the tune are topped with fittingly triumphant and Ace-like sentiments: “I feel so good tonight…Who cares about tomorrow?” When the song takes a half-step up at a minute in, the irresistible factor rises commensurately. Jimmy Campbell / Reginald Connelly / Ted Shapiro. The song’s subject could be male or female, gay or straight, a sex worker or a junkie, or maybe just your average middle manager on a bad night. His rock-, soul-, and reggae-inflected albums brought him a measure of acclaim in the late 1970s, but even back then Jeffreys was an underrated and underappreciated homegrown virtuoso. Though it was written by longtime Ellington collaborator Billy Strayhorn, the song will forever be associated with the Duke. “Live in action,” Biggie always was “guaranteed raw.”. https://www.jazzhostels.com/blog/10-best-songs-new-york-city Brilliance accommodates any form — and, as these albums show, sometimes lightning lands in a bottle.

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