What Rolling Stone or even another Bands song that mentions your Country..State or City..that makes you get even more Pathriotic about your Country when you hear it.And when you hear it live at a concert how do you react?

Waltzing Matilda ....... That'll knock any true Aussie ta friggin' pieces...



ROCKMAN

Neo-Con and Highwire are great topical songs. I would feel less patriotic when listening to them. Maybe there are no Stones songs that make me feel patriotic, now that you ask, that can be a good feeling.

I was born and raised in the New York City metropolitan area (though in New Jersey 25 miles away) and worked in lower and midtown Manhattan at various points in my late teens and early 20s in the late '70s and early '80s. NYC was always the place to be; it "really had it all, oh yeah." So various songs from the Some Girls through Tattoo You period gave me a bit of local pride.

I guess for Brittons there are some Stones songs they can feel "patriotic" with a dry English humour... "Hang Fire", "Street Fighting Man"...

- Doxa

Anyway, London tourist center could use some Stones songs as references to pick up sights: "Play With Fire", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "CS Blues"...

- Doxa

But as goes for my personal patriotic feelings the closest I think is "Send It to Me"; but Finns didn't make the list as Hungarians, Albanians and Aliens did... But I guess it was close...

But some other Englishmen noted us:





- Doxa

The one Stones song that does it for me is off my favourite album Emotional Rescue.. with "Send it to me"Although im not an Australian but some say New Zealand is a poor cousin to them.But even still hearing a song like that is enough for the old Patriotism to start to kick in..especially when ya' living away from home in another country.
I've would love to hear that song live plus "Dance.part 1" off that same album..yea'

Yeah,im sending a letter to my sister in Australia ..Sister Marie

Then goes on..

She could be Rumanian
Could be Bubarain
Could be Albanian
Might be Hungarain
Could be Australian
Could be the Alien

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Doxa
Anyway, London tourist center could use some Stones songs as references to pick up sights: "Play With Fire", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "CS Blues"...

- Doxa

I love the line from Play With Fire that goes something like: 'You get your kicks in Stepney, not in Knightsbridge anymore'

No, it's just a song. Why would I feel 'patriotic' if someone sings about my country? I find that just silly.

Some Girls

Many bitchy patriotic references in that tune

Oh Oh Den Haag mooie stad agter de duine (for my Dutch friends)

Amsterdam Hilton ....John Lennon comes close

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Don't have a song, but I was really happy at the SARS concert when Jagger yelled out:
"Toronto is back and booming!"

"Well, you heard about the Boston..."

I thought it was hilarious when they did this on the B-stage in '99 at the Fleet Center and 18,000 people simultaneously went batsh*t crazy. Of course, I was going nuts, too. Civic pride works in mysterious ways, like for example when it's skinny English guy singing about a serial killer.

I've been in NYC for 13 years and one of my favorite moments here occurred a few months ago in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. The lights at a busy intersection were on the fritz during a big rainstorm and an old guy was walking his bike across the street and helping some of the cars and pedestrians navigate the gridlock. He was wearing a green Hefty bag as a makeshift poncho/rain slicker.

"You got people dressed in plastic bags directing traffic" indeed. I laughed for about a week after seeing that.

I've yet to find any maggots in an apple, though.

Being a Hoosier, I was surprisingly choked up last year when I went home for the Indy 500. Jim Nabors (yes, Gomer Pyle) always flys in from Hawaaii and sings 'Back Home Again In Indiana' right before those engines rip.




"She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race..............."

Being from Detroit, I kinda got left out on this one.
The closest is when Mich was singing with Bowie
when they did Dancin' in the street ....

Can't forget the motor city ...

I like that line

Marv Peck

Y'all remember that rubber legged boy

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - Feddie LeGrande

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Doxa
I guess for Brittons there are some Stones songs they can feel "patriotic" with a dry English humour... "Hang Fire", "Street Fighting Man"...

- Doxa

Street Fighting Man was reputedly inspired by Tariq Ali

[en.wikipedia.org]

I don't need any of their songs to get all patriotic - the Stones themselves are enough

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Doxa
I guess for Brittons there are some Stones songs they can feel "patriotic" with a dry English humour... "Hang Fire", "Street Fighting Man"...

- Doxa

Street Fighting Man was reputedly inspired by Tariq Ali

[en.wikipedia.org]

I don't need any of their songs to get all patriotic - the Stones themselves are enough

I don't need any of their songs to get all patriotic - the Stones themselves are enough..

Beast..I like the sound of that..Good one..yea'..

I don't think the Stones do "patriotic", but place references can be funny things - like realising on my way home from Ronnie's evening at the Ambassadors that I was strolling down Downtown Suzie's Newport Street...

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Rockman
Waltzing Matilda ....... That'll knock any true Aussie ta friggin' pieces...

Is that the official Aussie national anthem, Rockman?

Some Girls

French girls they want Cartier, French girls want cars
French girls want everything in the world you can possibly imagine .....

French girls they're pretty funny, sometimes they drive me mad
French girls are so gentle, they're really such a tease
You never know quite what they're cookin', inside those silky sleeves



Jagger wrote this song for me ,so yes,I got patriotic



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

You never know quite what they're cookin', inside those silky sleeves

I was wander that too SwayStones

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I don't think the Stones do "patriotic", but place references can be funny things - like realising on my way home from Ronnie's evening at the Ambassadors that I was strolling down Downtown Suzie's Newport Street...

Exactly... I guess the idea of getting "patriotic" over a Rolling Stones song sounds like a fallacy: not getting the idea of their once rebellous and counter-cultural, but always cosmopotical, even multicultural stance that goes way beyond the boundaries between the countries, races and genders. Rock'n'Roll is, like Keith Richards says, an "international language". What The Stones originally is the English boys listening to American records in order to hear music that generates from Africa... I mean, they are not any "Good ol' Boys" playing at Bob's, now are they?

- Doxa

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Rockman
Waltzing Matilda ....... That'll knock any true Aussie ta friggin' pieces...

Is that the official Aussie national anthem, Rockman?

71Tele.. In the 1980's "Advance Australia Fair" become Australia's new national anthem.It was "God Save The Queen"

Is that the official Aussie national anthem, Rockman?

....aaaaahhh missed ya Q 71Tele .....but colonial has nailed it for ya .....



ROCKMAN

i don't know if New Yorkers are too keen to be hearing Shattered as of late...
(you know - rats / bed bugs ..)

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71Tele.. In the 1980's "Advance Australia Fair" become Australia's new national anthem.It was "God Save The Queen"

Aaaaaaaaah.... I love that one!! Johnny Rotten's lyrics are just fantastic...

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

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i don't know if New Yorkers are too keen to be hearing Shattered as of late...
(you know - rats / bed bugs ..)

...I'm sure they can take it.

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

I get patriotic when I listen to the Stones' bluesier, soulful and countrish-gospel stuff - because they are, in many ways, a testament to the greatness of American music culture and in particular, southern music culture, which is a different animal completely. They put their own stamp on it.