What’s your favourite song from Wellington?

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1. Might be a little dated, but some great views of the City…

   1. Inter­est­ingly, the Neth­er­world Dan­cing Toys were from Duned­in and really proud of the fact, espe­cially because they were pur­vey­ors of a more cheer­ful, less intro­spect­ive sound than the typ­ic­al Duned­in mopey-arse sound.

2. Where should I start? There are so many songs I love com­ing from Welly …

   This is very very close to my heart:

3. “Har­bour City you’re a friend of mine” that Rob Winch wrote for Radio Windy ori­gin­ally and has been re-recor­ded by Gina Mills is the greatest. It is now the theme song of the Breeze and cap­tures the essence of this city.

   1. Want­ing to stab myself in the ears is the essence of Wel­ling­ton?

      1. Shame­less self pro­mo­tion aside. No, just, .… no.

         I’m tech­no­lo­gic­ally chal­lenged so no link, but HLAH would be my pick.

         1. Here ya go…

            1. Thank You!

         2. Oh hell yes with the Head Like A Hole. “Cry­ing Shame” is my favour­ite Welly tune.

            Man, why did­n’t I see this post earli­er in the week.

            Oblig­at­ory Top 5:

            Cry­ing Shame – HLAH
            Gut­ter­joy – Let­ter­box Lambs
            Exchange For Good – Marys­taple
            C’mon Hal­le­lu­jah – Paselode
            You Honeys – You Honeys

4. I like this video for it’s Wel­ling­ton-ness …
   http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/dawnskate-88–2003
   🙂
   ps. you can embed this one too: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/home-again-1998

5. I first heard Tommy Ill when he per­formed at Tiger Trans­late last year. I just stumbled into the back-to-front Opera House and saw this dope MC wear­ing a fuzzy anim­al thing on his head, throw­ing down from fresh rhymes mixed up with ’60s bubblegum pop, and I was like “Who is this guy?”

   Back at home, I googled my arse off, and finally dis­covered it was Mr Tommy Ill, who is bet­ter known amongst my geek pals at The Guy Who Used To Have A Blog On Stuff. I did that he has the same sort of voice/face dif­fer­ence as the Rhythm Slave – nice boy face, grunty man voice.

   Any­way, here’s “Come Home Mr. Ill”, a song that did some hard yards as my aur­al methamphet­am­ine, pick­ing me up when work was bring­ing me down last year.

6. Sorry, could­n’t res­ist 🙂

7. Bail­ter Space – Shine
   

8. Shoes This High – The Nose One
   

9. The Garbage and the Flowers – Love Comes Slowly Now
   

10. Black Boned Angel – Ver­dun
    

11. Little Bush­man – Baby
    

12. Sign­er – Nord All Black Keys (live at Camp A Low Hum 2008)
    

    Sign­er – Low Light Dreams
    

13. Vorn – Dance and Feel Dirty
    

14. More Vorn!
    http://www.youtube.com/user/vornography?blend=12&ob=5#p/a/u/1/ZsIzj0uVtPs

15. My cur­rent favour­ite is Wel­ling­ton band Beast­wars’ song, Cthul­hu :
    http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/more/NID/3405/Album-Preview:-Beastwars-Self-titled-Debut.utr

    Been listen­ing to their new album all week
    and they’re play­ing @ Bodega tomor­row night 🙂

    1. Speak­ing of HLAH, this one’s a cov­er but can­’t built the loc­a­tion for Welly-ness! 🙂
       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-WPwiOODY

16. Am look­ing for lyr­ics to a song I heard a time back on RNZ – it was a humour­ous song about a wel­ling­ton ship wreck sung from the per­spect­ive of a drown­ing victim.…cananyone help with dir­ect­ing me to lyr­ics etc
    Thanks

    1. Are you think­ing of The Wreck of the Diddley:

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