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In the mid- to late 1990s, the increasing popularity of the area among hipsters, driven out of the East Village by an invasion of “yuppies”, led to an upturn in activity along Ludlow Street, with several old establishments, such as corner delis (a.k.a. bodegas) closing shop to make way for bars, music venues such as the Ludlow Street Bar & Grill (a basement restaurant and music venue), and alternative theatres such as Collective: Unconscious Theater (before it became an empty lot), Piano’s Theater (before it became a music venue and bar), and Todo Con Nada (before it became The Dark Room).

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When death comes to claim the narrator, he won’t try to avoid it but accept it because of the realization in the previous verse.

This line seems fairly similar to Jeff Buckley’s sentiments on “Grace”: Well it’s my time coming, I’m not afraid, afraid to die.

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The Mudd Club was a TriBeCa nightclub that was opened in October 1978. Located in downtown Manhattan, it quickly became a popular venue in the city’s underground music and counterculture scene, until it closed in 1983. Its live music showcase was best known for New York “No Wave” bands like The B-52’s, DNA, and Talking Heads.

Additionally, The Mudd Club was frequented by many of Manhattan’s promising cult celebrities such as Lou Reed, Johnny Thunders, David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, and Nico.

The Mudd Club Memorial Plaque

CBGB (Country, BlueGrass, and Blues) was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and New Wave bands like Ramones, Misfits, Television, the Patti Smith Group, Mink DeVille, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, The Voidoids, The Cramps, The B-52’s, Blondie, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Shirts, and Talking Heads. From the early 80’s until its later years, it would mainly become known for Hardcore punk with bands such as Agnostic Front, Murphy’s Law, U.S. Chaos, Cro-Mags, Warzone, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All, and Youth of Today becoming synonymous with the club.

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The Whisky a Go Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California.

The Whisky was a focus of the emerging New Wave, punk rock, and heavy metal movements in the late 1970s, and frequently presented local acts as diverse as Germs (which recorded its first album there), The Dogs, The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Runaways, Quiet Riot, Renegade, X, Van Halen, and of course, Mötley Crüe.

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Harrison has been up all night waiting for his friends who clearly aren’t coming and it’s so late that the sun is rising again. He wants to go to bed but he can’t because he still thinks they might turn up.

The name of the song comes from a street located high in the Hollywood Hills overlooking Sunset Boulevard where George Harrison rented a house at Blue Jay Way during August 1967. Blue Jay Way is in a hilly neighborhood north of Sunset Strip, in which almost all the streets are named after birds. The home affords panoramic views of Hollywood and much of the Los Angeles Basin.

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The song was originally a poem written by singer Jim Morrison about the street in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles, California where he lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson.
Although there are those who claim Morrison never settled into the house there, in spite of Pamela’s efforts to make him a home.

Their address was 8021 Rothdell Trail. According to LA Weekly, Morrison and Courson referred to Rothdell Trail as “Love Street” because they would sit on the balcony and watch countless hippies walk by.

The famous home:

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“Dirty Water” was released in 1965, when the Charles River became well known for its high level of pollutants. The river gained such notoriety that by 1955, Bernard DeVoto wrote in Harper’s Magazine that the Charles was “foul and noisome, polluted by offal and industrious wastes, scummy with oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water.”

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Ironically, although “Dirty Water” is beloved by the city of Boston and its sports fans, the Standells were from California.

Even more ironically, the song actually first became a hit in the state of Florida, first breaking out on WLOF in Orlando in January 1966.

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Refers to the strict curfew observed by Boston University co-eds at the time.

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The Charles River is an 80 mile (129 km) long river that flows in a northeasterly direction in eastern Massachusetts. From its source in Hopkinton, the river travels through 22 cities and towns until reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Boston.

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