Musical and geographical offerings from GeoBlogs: a 365 blog project for 2026.
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An article co-written by Richard Florida. (PDF download)
Investigating Spotify, you will be able to find the playlists for all the host cities.
You can listen to the host city themes on this playlist. These are all "variations on a theme..." and not memorable...
As well as the theme, the playlists feature songs which are played in each of the stadia...
I love that the Toronto playlist has this track from Rush.
YYZ is the airport code for Toronto airport.
The rhythm is based on Morse Code.
Neil Peart remembers..
"The rhythm stuck in my head and I said, ‘Guys!’ So then, thematically we said, ‘We’ll let’s use that airport — so much a part of our lives in those days and after — let’s use that as a metaphor in a sense. Again, in a playful way. There was no sense of ‘Okay, this part is this part’ and all that. But there is a sense of bustling and coming and going and the grand emotion of that middle section of what airports can be. In our lives, airports were rich with symbolism. Departures and comings and goings; departures and arrivals. Separations and meetings. That was kind of woven into the song. The exotic nature of travel, too, and Alex’s guitar solo for sure too. He wove in that kind of eastern mode."