[Live and let live conservative]

The main theme? That's The Pretenders. "My City is gone" or something like that.

[Pukin Dog]

Chrissy Hynde- " My city was gone"

[theDentist]

"My City was Gone". The Pretenders. She hates Rush and wants him to stop using her song...

[Sir Gawain]

Mel Gibson's fault!

[BallyBill]

Yea, and she is thrilled that one of her songs is associated with Rush!! YeeHaa!!

[jdm]

I went back to Ohio
But my city was gone
There was no train station
There was no downtown
South howard had disappeared
All my favorite places
My city had been pulled down
Reduced to parking spaces
A, O, way to go Ohio
Well I went back to Ohio
But my family was gone
I stood on the back porch
There was nobody home
I was stunned and amazed
My childhood memories
Slowly swirled past
Like the wind through the trees
A, O, oh way to go Ohio
I went back to Ohio
But my pretty countryside
Had been paved down the middle
By a government that had no pride
The farms of Ohio
Had been replaced by shopping malls
And muzak filled the air
From Seneca to Cuyahoga falls
Said, A, O, oh way to go Ohio

[cynwoody]

Lyrics.

[jdm]

The real trivia question is:

What year did Rush start using this song as his opening theme?

1988
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
None of the above

[AnnaZ]

My City Was Gone -- one of my all-time fave Pretenders songs... it's so good, even my 6-year-old has it on his iPod playlist. (LOL)

[fish hawk]

Rush went back to Rio Linda
but the people were gone
nothin but peace and quiet
from the dusk till the dawn
I was dancing a little jig
on the living room floor
cause I didn't have to comment
or explain it anymore

Oh Rio Linda 
I have let you slip away
Oh Rio Linda
it's another good day..... and on and on.

[BluH2o]

Right before the Rush show starts, there's this beat to a song that plays. The beat is very good. I can't remember the artist though ...

OK ... why not e-mail Rush and pose the same question?

[Caramelgal]

Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders – “My City Was Gone”.

Actually I think Chrissy’s main gripe was she was not getting royalties that she thought she was entitled to. She's now happy to get the cash and donates it to PETA – her choice and more power to her for having the freedom to make that choice.

When there’s cash involved, they (including Chrissy) are all capitalists in the end.

And while “My City Was Gone” may be seen as anti-development, I like the song. I’ve seen some beautiful open spaces and farmland plowed under for mega malls and McMansions and I have to admit, it makes me a little sad.

Everywhere you go, from East Coast to West, North to South, Bible Belt to Sun Belt; it’s all the same; same housing developments, same Walmarts, Targets, Old Navys, Home Depots and Barnes and Nobles. The unique identity of small town America and the independent merchant is becoming extinct. I guess its progress and evidently what we want because that’s what we buy but I’m not sure it’s really for the better. That’s what I get from the song and that’s why I like it. I don’t think it’s anti capitalist as it is nostalgic.