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This is one of many famous club vinyls created in the context of Hacienda, a night club in Manchester that was active 1982-1997. Happy Mondays, Oasis and many more have roots in this urban cultural place in the industrial North of England.

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Salt City Orchestra  -  The Book (Paperback Vocal)

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Paleface is a political rap musician. This song is my favourite, because it criticizes Helsinki's money-driven development and culminates is the destruction of Helsinki State Railways Warehouses ("makasiinit"), a case that was important for my PhD.

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PALEFACE: HELSINKI - SHANGRI-LA (Official video)

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Music: trad. / Paleface Lyrics: Paleface Paleface - vocals Perttu Jämsén - guitar Felix Zenger - beatbox P & C 2012 Exogenic Music Group. All rights reserved. ISRC (song): FIEXC1000073 ISRC (video): FIEX41000003 Order it now: http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/paleface/helsinki_shangri_la/#cd https://itunes.apple.com/fi/album/helsinki-shangri-la/id388628125?l=fi

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Tuomas Toivonen’s Giant Robot and the cool “Superweekend” should be in our list! This is a forgotten classic from early 2000s. Currently Tuomas and his family run Kulttuurisauna in Merihaka, Helsinki. Here you find good background: https://www.nrgm.fi/artikkelit/17-giant-robot-superweekend-2002__trashed/

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Ultra Bra’s maybe all-time favourite “Minä suojelen sinua” (I protect you). The lyrics tell about coming back to city, likely Helsinki, after being lost… This is really quite good one, even though my generation played this too much.

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Ultra bra   Minä suojelen sinua kaikelta

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Here we don't have a video, but it is more than enough if you turn the volume on, close your eyes and imagine. Driving an old and beatiful car, in a city, really enjoying it, with all your senses. Getting excited, lost, thrilled of the dangerous vibes of the unfamiliar districts. Getting so high with your own experience of the city, to the degree of loosing what is really going on around you. And  -WHAM!!!- hitting a beatiful lady on a bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXUrl3fGknM

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Berlin Babylon,  Zu Asche zu Staub - for a bit of Berliner luft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30PPdLTLlko

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Berlin Babylon,  Zu Asche zu Staub - for a bit of Berliner luft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30PPdLTLlko

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Babylon Berlin - Zu Asche zu Staub (Video)

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George Michael, Killer / Papa was a Rolling Stone - urban tribes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaeCnGOaE98

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George Michael, Killer / Papa was a Rolling Stone - urban tribes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaeCnGOaE98

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George Michael - Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Official Video)

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The Model, Kraftwerk - for all of the modelmakers

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The Model, Kraftwerk - for all of the modelmakers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugrNaOX039A

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Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy - for urban life on the street

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Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy - for urban life on the street

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI

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Bomfunk MC's Freestyler - offers a great tribute to urban infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM

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Bomfunk MC's Freestyler - offers a great tribute to urban infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM

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Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler (Video Original Version)

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Artist: Vesta
Album: Lohtulauseita

The song is in Finnish and "sun katu" means "your street". The artist uses the city as a metaphorical space after an emotional break-up which is followed by a division into "my" and "your" territory. To avoid confrontation the ex-partner urges the other not to step outside their street while the rest of the city belongs to her. The theme of territory also gets reinforced by the struggle of power both went through during their break-up.

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Artist: Lianne La Havas
Album: Is Your Love Big Enough?

Although the song has little to do with cities, I wanted to post something from Take Away Show, a series produced by La Blogotheque. In their videos, we are able to enjoy the artist's urban experience while performing. In this video, La Havas is filmed while performing in the streets of Paris in 2011.

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Lianne La Havas | No Room For Doubt | A Take Away Show

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Artista: Café Tacuba
Albúm: Avalancha de éxitos

Almost forgot about this song. FYI: Inhabitants of Mexico City are referred to as Chilangos and the lyrics are words particular to this city's urban society.

Pachucos, cholos y chundos, chichinflas y malafachas, acá los chompiras rifan y bailan tibiritábara

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Café Tacvba - Chilanga Banda (Video Oficial)

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I admire work of PJ Harvey and love her music. I find that her songs take us to different places in different forms, never in the same way, even if in the same album. In her album, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (released Oct. 2000), she takes us through the night life of New York city and the city's diverse neighbourhoods. Almost like poems dedicated to the city. Read a review here.

In 2015, in collaboration with photographer Seamus Murphy, she published The Hollow of the Hand, a book of PJ Harvey's poetry and Murphy's photographs of their trip to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC. As put by Kate Kellaway from The Guardian, her "poems are scene-setting souvenirs". Her travels also inspired the album, The Hope Six Demolition Project (2015), which was recorded live, "the public were invited to stand behind a one-way glass and watch Harvey and her band making the album in a specially constructed studio in London's Somerset House".

I share The Orange Monkey, because it takes us to Kabul and surrounding areas, not common in music videos in the 'West'.

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In this board, you are able to share music videos where cities are either the main character either in the video or in the lyrics.
All of the music videos we collect will be part of the IFHP Summer School Playlist which will be created in YouTube.
Stay tuned!