Hour 6, the New York audio--assembled by me--was challenging not due to being a niche topic, but simply by having hard content. Only seven teams attempted it at all. Hopefully you at least appreciated it aesthetically as a journey through the five boroughs. Snuggles/Charlie and (to a lesser extent) PC LOAD were the only teams to do creditably without Google; Polar Vortex seemed to supplement a creditable base score with Googling. A number of clips stumped everyone: I won't list them all, but I was surprised to see no one get Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," Fitzgerald's version of "The Lady is a Tramp," and Astaire's "Puttin' on the Ritz"; conversely, Allison is disappointed no one got M.O.P.'s "Ante Up." On the other hand, a bunch of you did get Cole Porter's "Manhattan" (sung by the recently deceased Mickey Rooney), so there's that--and I was happy one team got "Once Upon a Time in New York City" from Oliver & Company.
Num | Lyric | Song | Artist | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Welcome to the Empire State | Welcome to New York City | Cam'ron ft. Jay-Z | 2002 |
2 | New York City | Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues | Bob Dylan | 1965 |
3 | New York | New York Groove | Ace Frehley | 1978 |
4 | Big Apple | Shattered | Rolling Stones | 1978 |
5 | The City That Doesn't Sleep | New York, New York | Liza Minnelli | 1977 |
6 | The island Manhattan | America | Chita Rivera, West Side Story | 1957 |
7 | Chelsea | Chelsea Morning | Joni Mitchell | 1970 |
8 | On Broadway | On Broadway | Drifters | 1963 |
9 | Times Square | Hey There Delilah | Plain White Ts | 2007 |
10 | Central Park Lake | The Lady is a Tramp | Ella Fitzgerald | 195? |
11 | Upper West Side, dude | Lazy Sunday | Andy Samberg & Chris Parnell | 2005 |
12 | Broadway | Rhinestone Cowboy | Glen Campbell | 1975 |
13 | Harlem | The Harlem Shake | Baauer | 2012 |
14 | Washington Heights | Broadway Baby | Follies | 1971 |
15 | Up to Lexington, 125 | I'm Waiting for the Man | Velvet Underground | 1967 |
16 | Spanish Harlem | Smooth | Santana/Rob Thomas | 1999 |
17 | Park Avenue | Puttin' on the Ritz | Fred Astaire | 193? |
18 | Grand Central Station | Telephone | Lady Gaga (feat. Beyonce) | 2010 |
19 | Fifth Avenue | Englishman in New York | Sting | 1987 |
20 | Washington Square | Diamonds and Rust | Joan Baez | 1975 |
21 | The Bowery | You Don't Mess Around With Jim | Jim Croce | 1973 |
22 | The Lower East Side | The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side | Magnetic Fields | 1999 |
23 | Chinatown | Kung fu Fighting | Carl Douglas | 1974 |
24 | Bottle Alley or the Harbor | Carrying the Banner | Newsies | 1992 |
25 | Down on Broadway | Funky Broadway | Wilson Pickett | 1967 |
26 | Battery Park | I Happen to Like New York | Judy Garland | 1962 |
27 | to the Brooklyn Bridge | Empire State of Mind | Alicia Keys | 2009 |
28 | Brooklyn! | No Sleep 'TIl Brooklyn | Beastie Boys | 1987 |
29 | Clinton Hill chill, got the Red Hook look | Brooklyn | Fabolous | 2007 |
30 | Bushwick (you don't stop), Ft. Green | Brookyln's Finest | Jay-Z & Biggie Smalls | 1994 |
31 | Bedford Stuy | You May Be Might | Billy Joel | 1980 |
32 | Brownsville | Ante Up | M.O.P. | 2000 |
33 | Park Slope | Pike St. Park Slope | Harvey Danger | 2000 |
34 | Coney Island | Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby | (no artist needed) | 192? |
35 | Rockaway Beach | Rockaway Beach | The Ramones | 1977 |
36 | Rockaway | Lean Back | Fat Joe | 2004 |
37 | Hollis, Queens | Christmas in Hollis | Run-DMC | 1987 |
38 | South Side Jamaica Queens | Moment 4 Life | Nicki Minaj | 2012 |
39 | Corona | Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard | Paul Simon | 1975 |
40 | Jackson Heights | Car 54, Where Are You? | (no artist needed) | 1961 |
41 | Over the bridge from Flushing | Theme from The Nanny | (no artist needed) | 1994 |
42 | The Bronx is up | New York, New York | Sinatra, Kelly, Mushnin (On the Town) | 1944 |
43 | South-side Bronx! | Jenny from the Block | Jennifer Lopez | 2001 |
44 | On the corner of Belmont & 187 St | Streets of the Bronx | Cool Change | 1993 |
45 | Co-op City | New York City | They Might Be Giants | 1996 |
46 | and Staten Island, too | Manhattan | Mickey Rooney | 1948 |
47 | Hell, I still love you New York | New York, New York | Ryan Adams | 2001 |
48 | New York, you're perfect, please don't ever change | New York, I Love you but you're bringing me down | LCD Soundsystem | 2007 |
49 | New York City, the best that you can do | Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do) | Christopher Cross | 1981 |
50 | New York City | Once Upon a Time in New York City | Huey Lewis | 1986 |