That got me thinking, there must be other songs that feature actual humming. Whatever it is, I’m always a little disappointed that I can’t hum along exuberantly with Toots at the beginning of “Pressure Drop.”Įven if I could still hum with the freedom and comfort that I did as a kid, I would not have been able to project my hum and even have a raspy quality to it, the way Toots does. Maybe it’s the lack of protection afforded by my chicken lips. Sometime in my late 30s or early 40s I began to notice that humming felt extremely uncomfortable, giving me a sensation somewhere between the feeling of a limb that has fallen asleep and the moment in the intro to The Six Million Dollar Man when Steve Austin says, “She’s breaking up!” Maybe it’s my receding gums. Although I was more of a whistler, I used to enjoy humming out a tune as a kid. (How it didn’t end up on The Hold Steady’s 10 essential albums list is beyond me!) As Toots & the Maytals’ “Pressure Drop” started up and I tried to hum along with Toots I was struck, as I have been for the past 10 or 15 years, by my declining ability to hum. For this week’s Last Man Standing, how many tube stations can we find cited in song?ĭriving into work this beautiful spring morning, which followed a (personally, not weather-induced) miserable preceding day and night, I listened to the soundtrack from The Harder They Come, the one reggae album even non-reggae fans need to own.
The following link will bring you to a map of the London Underground system.
Beyond the above-ground locations, which I won’t mention for fear of giving away answers in this finite Last Man Standing, song references even flew by me as I rode the London Underground. Most likely just as many New York locations pop up in popular song, but I didn’t grow up with much mystery over our largest city, situation just 90 miles up the turnpike from my hometown, A good part of my mad dash through London was structured around hitting spots I only knew through music, yet everywhere I turned 3 other locations cited in songs appeared.
During my recent, first trip to England (for work), which culminated in a free day and a half to myself running through the streets of London, I was immediately struck by how many locations I’d only dreamed of in song surrounded me.
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