Detroit '67 song + video [[Sam Roberts Band)

[Reality_Check]

[ Checked for earlier thread on this, but apparently we're limited for now to searching just April '09 threads "while site is in Maintenance Mode" . . . so pls. forgive possible topic echo. ]

Locally based NY Times auto writer Micheline Maynard posted a detailed, appreciative blog entry this evening about the Montreal band and its 2008 song about events of 1967 . . . now being released here as a single.

Band leader tells her:

"To me, the song is a celebration of the city. It’s an acknowledgment that any town goes through good times and bad times. It’s like after a forest fire. You can look around and see destruction, but the seeds will sprout.�

Video [[4:15) is embedded with entry here: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...canadian-band/ Attachment 447

[gencinjay]

I went walking at street level
Feeling strange and disheveled
Past the abattoir and the glory holes
Like a film noire, in the starring role
To the side streets, kept my nose clean
Tasted beautiful, tasted obscene
Singing, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

This is Detroit, see the skyline
A commotion on the assembly line
Raise a glass to the Ambassador
As she's moving you to the dance floor

Does anyone here tonight remember those times?
Can anyone here tonight just tell me what they felt like?

So many years, so many lives
These are the streets where they collide
From Jimmy Hoffa to Cadillac
Some look ahead, I'm going back
Cause I'm just looking for some sounds
To ease the vice that squeezes us every day

This was Motown, this was New France
Where the Chippewa did the firedance
That was long ago
This is here and now
But the memory still remains somehow
Singing, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

I can't tell you how this old story ends
I can't touch you now, like they did back then
Past the child's play with the jump rope
Hear the gun play, it's a tightrope

Does anyone here tonight remember those times?
Can anyone here tonight just tell me what they felt like?

Does anyone here tonight remember those times?
Somebody call the riot police, there's trouble down on 12th Street

[gencinjay]

On a semi-but not really related note, has anyone heard the song "Take Back the City" by Snowpatrol. I can't help but thing of Detroit every time I hear it.

[cloud_wall]

The video made it into a couple threads on the old forum, but I'm glad to see it again. Great song, great video.

I saw Sam Roberts at a sold out St. Andrew's show in February. The crowd seemed to be mostly Canadian but this song got the loudest cheers.

[dtowncitylover]

I love the song, I can listen to it over and over again and get the same goosebumps.