Prompt: "A song whose title starts with the first letter of your last name and ends with the last letter of your first name"
Selected by Sunny
"Kansas City"
The New Basement Tapes
Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, 2014
Once I knew "Kansas City" fit the prompt, it was only a game of WHICH "Kansas City," of which I learned today there are a few. Is it the '50s "Kansas City"? Is it this little pop group out of Liverpool's "Kansas City"? There's of course O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A Oklahoma!'s "Kansas City". And I'm even a fan of Fat's kinda swinging and jiving "Kansas City". But no, what I would ultimately pick is the "Kansas City" of this supergroup of My Morning Jacket, Elvis Costello, Mumford w/o Sons, Dawes, and Carolina Chocolate Drops performing some lost Dylan lyrics, a group I've never heard of before. And if you watch that video, you'll notice Costello was absent that day, so I guess the closest replacement was Johnny Depp. Kansas City, what a place.
P.S. A short personal anecdote: sometime around 2012/2013, the Postal Service was touring, and I was seeing them with my girlfriend-at-the-time at the Mann center. Give Up was and still is a personal favorite. She and I had a knockout fight before the show started, and bailed, missing the whole show. My way of clawing back agency was by, in a few weeks, flying to Kansas City, MO to watch the Postal Service's concert THERE. Flights were cheap enough, KCMO show tickets were cheap enough. I landed around 10 AM and flew out at 11:42 PM, going straight from venue to airport. No carry-on bag necessary. KCMO's a fun town—great bbq, city of lights, nice vibe. Highly recommend if you ever need/want to fly out in one day only for a concert. I hear KC,KS is sort of a downer small town, but couldn't say personally.
P.S. A short personal anecdote: sometime around 2012/2013, the Postal Service was touring, and I was seeing them with my girlfriend-at-the-time at the Mann center. Give Up was and still is a personal favorite. She and I had a knockout fight before the show started, and bailed, missing the whole show. My way of clawing back agency was by, in a few weeks, flying to Kansas City, MO to watch the Postal Service's concert THERE. Flights were cheap enough, KCMO show tickets were cheap enough. I landed around 10 AM and flew out at 11:42 PM, going straight from venue to airport. No carry-on bag necessary. KCMO's a fun town—great bbq, city of lights, nice vibe. Highly recommend if you ever need/want to fly out in one day only for a concert. I hear KC,KS is sort of a downer small town, but couldn't say personally.
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For future consideration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlVcU1TdqNE
The Beatles song is technically "Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey," which... still works.
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