1. Tom Waits, “Jersey Girl”
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“Tonight I’m gonna take that ride across the river to the Jersey side, take my baby to the carnival and I’ll take her on all the rides.”
2. Alabama 3, “Woke Up This Morning,” AKA the theme song from “The Sopranos”
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4. Real Estate, “Suburban Dogs”
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“Carry me back to sweet Jersey, back where I long to be, by the fumes of the yellow and green, next to my darling lady.”
7. Saves The Day, “You Vandal”
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“I woke up to my cold sheets and the smell of New Jersey. When do I get to wake up to you?”
8. Lauryn Hill, “Every Ghetto, Every City”
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“Every ghetto, every city and suburban place I’ve been make me recall my days in the New Jerusalem.”
11. Titus Andronicus, “In a Big City”
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“I grew up on one side of the river. I was a disturbed dangerous drifter. Moved over to the other side of the river, now I’m a drop in a deluge of hipsters.”
14. World/Inferno Friendship Society, “My Ancestral Homeland, New Jersey”
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15. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, “Counting Down the Hours”
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“Wondering if I’ve got a soul and counting down the hours ‘til it goes, on a dark wet night in April, on a street in Jersey, where I went looking for some writing that I knew would not be there.”
Bruce Springsteen’s entire catalog, basically:
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