Shortlist for Pop Gem #95: Places

Which of your fave location-based classics have made our Top 10 and have a chance of a Hall Of Fame place?
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Each week we ask you to nominate a song that you reckon is a Pop Gem – those overlooked classics or big hits of yesteryear that deserve some more recognition.

Any song that fits the bill is in with a chance of a place in the Pop Gem Hall Of Fame, home to a hist of veritable classics.

This week, the theme was PLACES – songs about places, or with place names in the title. Villages, towns, cities, countries, even other planets and vague concepts of mythical locations – all welcome.

We present the Top 10 from your nominations. Which one are you backing? We reveal the winner TONIGHT at 8-ish on Twitter and Facebook.

The final 10:

ARTIST TRACK PEAK POSITION YEAR
MINI VIVA LEFT MY HEART IN TOKYO 7 2009
FERGIE LONDON BRIDGE 3 2006
INFERNAL FROM PARIS TO BERLIN 2 2006
STEREOPHONICS DAKOTA 1 2005
BRAN VAN 3000 DRINKING IN LA 3 1999
WILL SMITH WILD WILD WEST 2 1999
BEAUTIFUL SOUTH ROTTERDAM 5 1996
MARC COHN WALKING IN MEMPHIS 22 1991
KIM WILDE KIDS IN AMERICA 2 1981
PATSY GALLANT FROM NEW YORK TO LA 6 1977

 

Every Pop Gem ever

Fancy reliving those perfect Pop Gems we already picked all over again? No worries, get your ears wrapped round these playlists on Spotify and Deezer.

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Tosyma

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Scott McKenzie - San Francisco. Peak: 1 (1967)

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Bob Barnes

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I can't believe you haven't included Mott The Hoople's "All The Way From Memphis" !!