Music with a hill reference in the title....

[Graeme D]

Definitely one of the most bizarre yet informative threads on here!

[HalfManHalfTitanium]

Mountain City by Second Hand Wings (see http://www.lfest.co.uk/second-hand-wings/) is pretty good.

Astroid Boys' A48 Blues is rather magnificent. The purists out there will say that, strictly speaking, a UK trunk road is not a hill. But the A48 does pass many hills - and what the hell, the band is so great that they had to have a mention.

Oyster Band got a mention above I think? - but not their song "One Green Hill".

Whereas David Gray couldn't tell the bottle from the mountain top.

But my favourite hill-related song, the one that goes through my head when walking, has to be the Lemonheads.

Always had a roof above me
Always paid the rent
But I've never set foot inside a tent
Can't build a fire to save my life
I lied about being the outdoor type

I've never slept out underneath the stars,
The closest that I came to that was one time my car
Broke down for an hour in the suburbs at night
I lied about being the outdoor type

Too scared to let you know
You knew what you were looking for
I lied until I fit the bill
God bless the great indoors

I lied about being the outdoor type
I've never owned a sleeping bag, let alone a mountain bike

I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend
What if something's on TV and its never shown again?
It's just as well I'm not invited - I'm afraid of heights
I lied about being the outdoor type

[Sunset tripper]

Bunny West ~ Run to the Hills.

[Pastychomper]

I found myself singing "High on the Mountain Top" last week.

[nigheandonn]

My best unconscious choice was coming down all the endless shifty stuff on Great Gable, when I discovered that I was singing 'Solid as a rock'!

I heard a song on the radio recently that I'm sure mentioned Suilven and Scafell within a line or two of each other, but I can only remember that it was a cover of a song by someone more famous.

[Pointless Parasite]

An incredible piece of music, and one of my frequent 'earworms' when out on the hills:

Susanne Sundfør - Mountaineers (featuring John Grant)

[Billbobaggins]

Bunny West ~ Run to the Hills.

If ever there was a reason to never cover a classic song!

[Sunset tripper]

Just to keep you happy Bilbo.

[HalfManHalfTitanium]

A couple more

Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain - Mark Linkous' final sparkly flourish before his tragic death: I miss him every day

Rock the Catskills ("High-Five - more dead than alive! Rockin' the plastic like a man from the Catskills!)

And, these would have been hill reference songs, if it were not for an unfortunate slip of the pen by the songwriters. Now's the time to reconnect them with their mountainous references!

Mamore than a Feeling

You're so Vane

Leum Uilleim, It Was Really Nothing

[Caberfeidh]

On a horrific note, I was once snowed in at Bob Scott's with waist-deep snow, pine trees laden down with snow, deer wandering about eating the pine needles off the branches which had been shed due to an overload of snow, and I could not stop the Carpenters' tune running through my head - "Walking in a winter wonderland" God, I could have murdered somebody! https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=You+Tube+walking+in+a+winter+wonderland+the+Carpenters&view=detail&mid=B750A8CCDCE7D43E0456B750A8CCDCE7D43E0456&FORM=VIRE

[Billbobaggins]

Just to keep you happy Bilbo.

Haha thanks... proper music IMHO, although beautiful music is in the ear of the beholder or something like that

[jacob]

Try and find a song without a reference to either hills, mountains and valleys by the late great Townes van Zandt.