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Originally posted by DoobieBrother6 DoobieBrother6 wrote:

Oldfield - Hergest Ridge (or is that Ireland??)


It's a border between England and Wales...I would have guessed Scottland...
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Originally posted by DoobieBrother6 DoobieBrother6 wrote:

Kinks - Waterloo Sunset



And Muswell Hillbillies
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Quintessence - St. Pancras '70
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Jethro Tull - Dun Ringill, an Iron Age hill fort on the Isle of Skye.
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What about Tormato? Doesn't that reference a place?
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Caravan - Blind Dog at St. Dunstans
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Pink Floyd - Southampton Dock mentions the cenotaph (presumably the one in Whitehall, London)
It is not particularly proggy though

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

What about Tormato? Doesn't that reference a place?


The album was originally going to be called Yes Tor, which is a hill or something in Devon, England. I believe the landscape in the background on the cover is from that place. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Tor
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Granchester Meadows - Pink Floyd (water mentioned and Granchester Meadows has many water areas.
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Floyd - Granchester Meadow
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Originally posted by DoobieBrother6 DoobieBrother6 wrote:

Floyd - Granchester Meadow


However could that have slipped my mind!
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Electric Light Orchestra - The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644) which not only references a location, but also a historic event.
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Some non prog ones, but good tunes anyway:

Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band

Finchley Central - The New Vaudeville Band (no-one outside of London had heard of that TFL station before that song). It also references Golders Green and Camden Town stations.

What a Waste - Ian Dury and the Blockheads (mentions Fulham Broadway Station)



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Peter Hammill - Fogwalking (Whitechapel)

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Originally posted by DoobieBrother6 DoobieBrother6 wrote:

Caravan - Blind Dog at St. Dunstans


I love it! St. Dunstans is a street in Canterbury, just outside the Westgate, as can clearly be seen on the album cover.
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'Little Red Robin Hood...', the final track on Robert Wyatt's classic album ROCK BOTTOM, has a reference to Kent, which is known as 'the Garden of England': 'In the Garden of England, dead moles lie inside their holes...'
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

In Unreal City by Banaau there's this lyric:

Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: "Stetson!"
"You who were with me in the ships at Mylae"


Quotation from 'The Waste Land', by T.S. Eliot.
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