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I’m willin’ this to be a Little Feat number.
Is this the way to Amarillo?
Well that didn’t last long. Foxy is the winner. For such a great song it’s kinda disappointing to learn that what I imagined was Homer like journeying is actually like my taking a day trip to Southend and back.
Great fun!
Come on people! More map/geography/ photo clue quiz questions, please.
This is easy peasy but it may inspire others to have a shot and keep this thread rolling along.
Route 66
If Iron Maiden did a cover version would it be re-titled
Route 666 The Highway Of The Beast
I hadn’t realised that if one was travelling away from LA towards Phoenix, you would be taking Route 66.
The song I was hoping for is by Glen Campbell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAT3sMp2Mc
On second thoughts (and further investigation) you may be right and I’m a dullard – Route 66 doesn’t go through Phoenix (unless I’ve effed up again)
I’ve always preferred this version…
London NW8 9AY
a B-road?
Duh, penny just droppped.
The B507 to be (annoyingly) precise
That would be Abbey Road.
24 hours from Tulsa.
Pointless, possibly uninteresting trivia:
I discovered that if you approached Tulsa from the Wast, you could shoot a man in Reno and still be 24 Hours From Tulsa
Yes but aim well or you don’t have time to Watch Him Die
Oh dear – are you really showing us a destination that’s only 24 minutes from Tulse Hill?
Surely you’re familiar with the works of Carter USM?
Yes – and I also know it’s a cover version of a song originally sung by Gene Putney.
As in the post above mine.
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/smallheathen/map_zps5kxolgn5.jpg
Stuck in the middle with you?
No, it’s that specific location.
Erm – Zero? Melrose? Georgetown?
The song title is not an actual place name.
In The Middle Of Nowhere?
No – it’s a map and the marker is a point on the map. So is the song title.
Into The Mystic?
Nope.
The album it’s on has a three digit number as its title…
Aha! it’s Wire’s Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW off of “154”.
Good one.
That’s it… thought it’d be an obvious one, given the first post.
The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines
Total guess – Solsbury Hill?
Been there (walked miles along Offa’s Dyke) and unless it’s moved, I’d say Hergest Ridge.
Right area, but about 20 miles too far north
I think it’s something to do with a three-legged chap.
What, Rolf Harris?
‘fraid so MC, I thought it might be “The Court of King Caractacus” for what I thought was a good reason.
It’s not though, is it?
Good one – didn’t think of Solsbury Hill.
Close (comparatively, when one considers the size of the world) – you’re about 80 miles out.
I have spent a good 20 minutes on this. I have come up with nothing. Apparently the location has amazing views of the Black Mountains but otherwise I am out of ideas. There are a couple of houses nearby – but nothing of note.
Perhaps the Pink Floyd cow was photographed there – who knows.
It would not by any chance be Twmpa aka Lord Hereford’s Knob?
I was thinking of that HMHB song myself but decided that trying to find a photo would involved me spending half the night looking at porn.
Thats the one.
A name virtually gurenteed to bring forth sniggering (or is that just me)
Not at all. I’m sniggering here too. The Swedish word is fnissa-
Could be Black Mountain Side?
Re the OP, shouldn’t your map be showing the back roads, not the main roads?
That’s the route claimed to have been followed when speaking to the Sherrif, not the dusty rutted back roads actually driven .
Yes indeed. To avoid the weigh bridges
Can you find a song title here? It’s the home town of one of the great voices of modern country music?
It’s Lake Charles and it’s lovely Lucinda
Top marks Steerpike. Despite loving Car tracks on a gravel road for many years, it was only recently that I realised that Lake Charles was a town and not just a lake.
Can’t post photos at the moment so here’s Transport for London route planner for where the band started to where an ex-member journeyed to.
W7 bus to Albert Road 5 mins
Walk to Crouch Hill Station 7 mins
London Overground to …… …
These are getting trickier and trickier. The London Overground is from Finchley Park I think. But where does that take us…. Crouch Hill made me think of Ray Davies who has performed with the Crouch End Chorus.
Not doing well here.
Sorry KFD the ex member had journeys from the destination, if that helps. ( it was late when I posted, that’s my excuse)
The band started when I was a mere stripling at school.
This one’ annoying me ‘cos it’s my manor, squire?
Is there a change at Gospel Oak?
Gospel Oak is the answer. Iain Matthews Journeys from Gospel Oak. Starting at Muswell Hill where Fairport Convention started. On my tablet so couldn’t post a picture.
@dwightstrut
Nice work Hubert! I do enjoy a q which has me mystified.
This location is described in the song but its not the song title.
https://imgur.com/gallery/nN4Ws
If you need a clue, the photo on the album cover was taken at the same location.
Is the location Pooley Park? Can’t think of the song, mind
Yep.
Reynard The Fox?
Correct! Pooley Mound in Warwickshire. About a mile from where I grew up in Polesworth.
Midnight at the Oasis.
I’ll get my coat.
Lol, no. This place forms the first line of the song
from the deserts of sudan?
That’s the one
Never heard it before but a little detective work suggests it has to be this “little London song” by Kilburn and the High Roads: Billy Bentley.
Correct!
The answer to this one should not be hard to reach.
Taking your clue literally (lyrically literally) and the reference to Queens on the map, I’m saying:
The Ramones – Rockaway Beach
For my next trick, I was going to post a map of France with roads leading to Normandy
Road To Rouen
Ouch! Sacre bleu!
It is indeed the Ramones. Give that man a free ticket for Coney Island.
Can it be this one?
Led Zeppelin – Bryn-yr-aur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZ_lIpG1XQ
So mote it be
I can’t be the only one thinking that a “centre for alternative technology” in the middle of rural Wales sounds like a great premise for a TV show.
It’s them giant maggots you have to look out for, though.
It’s not Paul Simon’s “Homeward Bound”, its it?
Because that was apparently written on Widnes station, and Widnes is one of the places marked on the map…
I don’t know about all the other places on the squiggly blue line, though….
No it’s not – but I like your logic.
Hmm … well, in that case I don’t think I’m going to get it – unless it’s the Temptations’ “Can I Get a Widnes”, of course….
By Cleckheckmondsedge It’s Grim Up North.
‘appen it is, Mr Rawlinson.
Would have loved to have done the whole lot but google maps stops at Widnes.
A family breakdown on this stretch of road gave the song writer a chance to enjoy the surroundings and inspired a very catchy song. I’n surprised the road has not been renamed.
Is that the Ventura Highway?
(I’m only guessing because I was looking for the same thing, but not sure where it actually was)
I think it’s the Pacific coast highway. It at least joins up with it if not.
Well done Rigid and Newpath, It is indeed the Pacific coast highway which runs through Ventura. Other than in the America song, I do not think it is referred to as the Ventura Highway.
Just as I suspected someone has done a slide show.
One for the folkies, perhaps. One of these locations is the name of the song, and the others are mentioned in the lyrics
http://i.imgur.com/HxBirK2.png
I think this might be “Milford Haven” by Oysterband. Nice song!
It is, and it is. Well done!
The stretch of road between Norseman and Caiguna supposedly inspired one of my favourite songs.
Not the safest place to drive. Marsupial roadkill is a major problem.
Is it
“The highway’s jammed with kangaroo bodies no longer alive
They went out for one last hop last night
Now they’re just lying there on their side”?
You’re warm, Sewer. But no, it’s not Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand.
Red Right Hand? Pfffffft!
Bit of respect for the all-time classic that is Bruce Springylegs’ “Born To Hop” album, please. Cavey might be Australian but his last good ‘roo song was “I Had A Dream, Joey” on the “Bouncer’s Dream” album..
Well, if it’s a stretch of highway in Western Australia, it must be the Triffids, and “Wide Open Road”. Top tune.
Yes indeed! The terrific Triffids with one of their finest songs.
And as it’s bedtime, here’s something a lot easier. Don’t want to cause any sleepless nights.
Well, Boulder to Birmingham of course. I once won a CD off the Hep’s GLR radio show by being the first to calculate how many states you went through en route.
So how many was it, Mike? It certainly is an extremely long walk half way across the US that would take Emmylou over a month I suspect.
Burnley to Birmingham would have been a slightly wiser choice but perhaps not such a good lyric?
Well, repeating the process (i.e. looking at the map), I’d say 7!
Oops! Sorry for being such a lazy varmint, Mike.
As the crow flies, the distance is 1120 miles. A fair hike.
(due to the unique way Google Maps seems to work, I have lost four of the locations (Kingston, Purley, Crawley, and the finishing point of Crouch End))
The RAC Route Planner allows more via points, but doen’t truly recognise Temple Station
https://www.rac.co.uk/route-planner/l/rfLv
Road to Hell?
I could’ve managed that one on Google Maps – just plot the M25.
But oh no, I had to go all clever-dicky* and ambitious
* clever-dicky – a portmanteau-ish clue
Our Father,
Who art in Hendon
Harrow Road be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon
In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our Berkhampstead
And forgive us our Westminsters
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
Lead us not into Temple Station
And deliver us from Ealing,
For thine is the Kingston
The Purley and the Crawley,
For Iver and Iver
Crouch End
He shoots, he scores
Here’s one that has been the title of a song twice (not Old Road, but where the pin is):
I don’t know the songs but I reckon that’s probably Shotover.
Yep – to be precise, Shotover Hill.
Supergrass and Broken Home, in case anyone was wondering.
all things being equal, this could be a couple of songs
Well, one of them is probably Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant, who used to be in the Equals.
I’m struggling with the other one, though. It can’t be something as obvious as The Guns of Brixton…
Livin’ On The Frontline was the other one I was thinking of
Another easy one. The clue here is Wagner!