Must be loads?
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
A13 Trunk Road To The Sea - Billy Bragg
London's Burning - The Clash
London Can You Wait - Gene
London - The Smiths
Mile End - Pulp
London Bridge - Dogs
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
Rainy Night In Soho - The Pogues
Streets of London of course (who?)
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Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner.... (????)
Streets of London was Ralph McTell
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant / The Equals (not sure which)
Camden Town - Suggs
What was the Carter USM song about New Cross ?
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Bollywood to Battersea - Babyshambles
Carnaby Street - The Jam
Blue Room In Archway - The Boo Radleys
Chelsea Girl - Simple Minds
Chelsea Monday - Marillion
Chelsea Walk - Ocean Colour Scene
Didn't Bon Jovi have a song with Chelsea in the title - though this feres to the Chelsea Hotel in NY City
Dark Streets of London - The Pogues
Do the Strand - Roxy Music
Guns of Brixton - Clash
I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea - Elvis Costello
Lambeth Walk
London - The Smiths
Surprised at you AFKA!
BFR - some good ones there! Guns of Brixton, Elvis Costello, Simple Minds and esp. Wardour Street.
Another is LDN by Lily Allen.
The Only Living Boy in New Cross.
London Girl - The Pogues
London Bridge is falling down...
Lullaby of London - The Pogues
Misty Morning Albert Bridge - The Pogues
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
The Old Main Drag - The Pogues
Oranges & Lemons...
Seven Sisters Road - Dan Reed Network
Soho Square - Kirsty MacCall
Streets of London - Anti-Nowhere League
Up The Junction - Squeeze
London---I-Roy
London---Pet Shop Boys
The London Boys---David Bowie
London Bridge---Fergie
Evacuating London---Harry Gregson-Williams
London Rain---Heather Nova
London Girls---Tori Amos
London Lady---The Stranglers
One for Ketman:
Funky House London Style---DJ Phil
(sorry, did you say good? some may not be)
White Man in Hammersmith Palais - Clash
By the way those of you who don't know the Billy Bragg eulogy to the A13, here are the lyrics:
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the okay road that's the best
Go motorin' on the A13
If you're looking for a thrill that's new
Take in Fords, Dartford Tunnel and the river too
Go motorin' on the A13
It starts down in Wapping
There ain't no stopping
By-pass Barking and straight through Dagenham
Down to Grays Thurrock
And rather near Basildon
Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-On-Sea,
Chalkwell, Prittlewell
Southend's the end
If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness
Take the A road, the okay road that's the best
Go motorin' on the A13
Are they actually singing about London, anyone know?
Street Tuff - The Rebel MC ("is he a yankee ... No I'm a Londoner!")
AFKA: Thought "Ghost Town" was about Coventry. Don't let the video fool you.
It is.
And I heard somewhere recently that West End Girls is actually about Newcastle (Neil Tennant is a Geordie). The Pet Shop Boys did write a song called King's Cross, though.
I don't think you can beat Waterloo Sunset or Up the Junction, but there's also...
For Tomorrow - Blur
Born Slippy - Underworld
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello
I pulled my kerchief out of my pocket
Wiped my nose and said hello
I bought a tambourine at the millennium dome
It jangled 2000 times in a row
I caught a cold when I was way down south
Standing out in the heat
Now my eyes are all itchy
And I can't tell which way to walk down the street
I'm stumbling through the crosswalk
And I'm humming in the din
And when I get to the other side
I'm gonna jangle my tambourine again
I fished my microphone out of Regent's Canal
Heading from Little Venice to Greenwich
Dirty boy said let's make in love in the water
I said, No thanks, pal.
Went on dictating in my mic
I got no time for a dip cause I'm heading for my ship
I'm going down to the tunnel
Down to the leaky leaky tunnel
(Ewan MacColl)
I met my girl at Woolwich Pier beneath the big crane standing
And all the love I felt for her it passed all understanding
Took her sailing on the river, flow sweet river flow
London town was mine to give her, sweet Thames flow softly
Made the Thames into a crown, flow sweet river flow
Made a brooch of Silver town, sweet Thames flow softly
At London Yard I held her hand, at Blackwell Point I faced her
At the Isle of Dogs I kissed her mouth and tenderly embraced her
Heard the bells of Greenwich ringing, flow sweet river flow
All the time my heart was singing, sweet Thames flow softly
Limehouse Reach I gave her there, flow sweet river flow
As a ribbon for her hair, sweet Thames flow softly
From Shadwell Dock to Nine Elms Reach we cheek to cheek were dancing
A necklace made of London Bridge her beauty was enhancing
Kissed her once again at Wapping, flow sweet river flow
After that there was no stopping, sweet Thames flow softly
Richmond Park it was a ring, flow sweet river flow
I'd have given her anything, sweet Thames flow softly
From Rotherhithe to Putney Bridge my love I was declaring
And she from Kew to Isleworth her love for me was swearing
Love it set my heart a-burning, flow sweet river flow
Never saw the tide was turning, sweet Thames flow softly
Gave her Hampton Court to twist, flow sweet river flow
Into a bracelet for her wrist, sweet Thames flow softly
But now, alas, the tide has changed, my love she has gone from me
And winter's frost has touched my heart and put a blight upon me
Creeping fog is on the river, flow sweet river flow
Sun and moon and stars gone with her, sweet Thames flow softly
Swift the Thames runs to the sea, flow sweet river flow
Bearing ships and part of me, sweet Thames flow softly
or even.......
Strange Town-The Jam