What Song best describes the heights for you...

sweet tea wrote: every time, every time, EVERY TIME the conductor says "atlantic avenue", i get "electric avenue" in my head, so i vote for that one.

we gonna rock down to
atlantic avenue
and then we'll take it higher
oh!

That should be the theme song for Ratner's Atlantic Yards.

WhyFi wrote: [quote=em]What?! No mention of Susanne Vega? Come on, guys. Disappointing.

If you're referring to "Tom's Diner," I think that there's a debate as to whether she's talking about the Tom's on Washington Ave or the one near NYU.
According to Vega, the song is about Tom's Restaurant on 112th and broadway.

I think he has the lyrics to the song hung up on the wall. I know that doesn't necessarily mean that the song is about our Tom's but it might.

My choice is a selfish one, SBMP's Pow Pow Powerful, though rather cryptic, the song's lyrics were in fact inspired by this neighborhood.

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Subject: Re: What Song best describes the heights for you...

radio349 wrote:
what song, or songs best describes your experience here? or what do you hear blasting through your walls or on the street?

Neubaten's "Strategies Against Architecture" does a good job of capturing the ambience of the work on the tear-down across the street and the gut reno out the back, though it's a series of albums, not a song. I'll have to dig it out and work out which song has the jackhammer solo.