Your favorite Boston anthem
The Dropkick Murphys I'm Shipping Up To Boston was a ready made fight song for the Red Sox during the championship run, and it also gave some punch and local flavor to Scorsese's Boston-based crime thriller, The Departed.
What's your favorite Boston anthem? Your choice does not have to be a Boston band or a band that sings about Boston just a song that that "rocks" and that has a connection to boston for you. Take liberty in your choice... wtf this is Boston, the cradle of Liberty.
The Standells - Dirty Water
Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Paul Rodgers - Muddy Water Blues
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Did Aerosmith write a song about Boston? I don't recall... Movin' Out, maybe. This song, No More No more, rocks too.
Extreme - More than Words
Boston - More Than a Feeling
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The Modern Lovers -
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJShMk-r88
Either that or Dirty Water.
amen
Roadrunner, hands down
3 of my favorites ...in no special order
Jonathan Richman (with and without the Modern Lovers)- "The Fenway"
The Freeze - "This is Boston, Not LA"
The Gremies - "No Surfing in Dorchester Bay"
Please Come to Boston
by Dave Loggins. Not 'rock', but still a pretty well-known song with our city in the title. (I'm too lazy to look through all of the videos to see if any are worth posting here.)
I'll also mention 'Charlie on the MTA' here to get that out of the way.
Roadrunner
Yes, it has to be Roadrunner.
"In love with Downtown Crossing"
"Boston" by the Dresden Dolls is quite anthemic.
Boston Anthem
Cellers By Starlight by Kay Hanley
http://thephoenix.com/OnTheDownload/PermaLink,guid,26fc3f6f-322d-4f5c-aa71-edf41269c066.aspx
Out Here All Night by Damone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fgyuy7iviw
or for an older Boston classic that became the title of a book by Brett Milano about Boston Music History.
The Sound Of Our Town by The Del Fuegos
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Mass Ave
Willie Alexander
and the Boom Boom Band
"Mass Ave."
'Rock and Roll Band' by Boston
Something about Galaxie
Something about Galaxie 500's cover of Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste totally reminds me of being a teenager in Boston.
"Boston Girl"
"Boston Girl" by the Push Stars