Good London songs

golfaddick

London Town - Wings

A-R-T-H-U-R

Squeeze - King George Street
Peyton Place
853-5937
Picadilly

Chris Difford - Battersea Boys

Jools Holland - Waterloo Bridge

UK Subs - Brixton

Joe Strummer -Willesden to Cricklewood

The Jam -Strange Town

The Members ~Sound of the suburbs

Ducks Deluxe -Rainy night in Kilburn

Ian Dury -What a Waste
- Reasons To Be Cheerful

Elvis Costello-New Amsterdam

Ullo John Gotta New Motor?
Je Suis un rock Star
Valley Floyd Road
Night bus to Dalston
New Amsterdam

donnyaddick

London - Sandy Denny / Thea Gilmore

donnyaddick

Chelsea Monday - Marillion

donnyaddick

England's Glory - The Macc Lads

MrOneLung

Once heard a song aboult a place called The Valley, Floyd Road,

Wheresmeticket

Knees Up Mother Brown.
Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner.
Roll out the Barrel.
Right Said Fred.
Cor Blimey Luvvaduck You Didn't Ought to Have Gorn and Done That.
I Love you, you Mug.

Wheresmeticket

Oh yeh, and
"Skunk?"

hawksmoor

From Willesden To Cricklewood by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros.

A-R-T-H-U-R

Wheresmeticket? said:

Knees Up Mother Brown.
Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner.
Roll out the Barrel.
Right Said Fred.
Cor Blimey Luvvaduck You Didn't Ought to Have Gorn and Done That.
I Love you, you Mug.

Aren't these just random Bob Hoskins/Vinnie Jones (the cockney welshman)/Michael Caine quotes?

lolwray

les bicyclettes de belsize ....englebert humperdinck

Wheresmeticket

A-R-T-H-U-R said:

Wheresmeticket? said:

Knees Up Mother Brown.
Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner.
Roll out the Barrel.
Right Said Fred.
Cor Blimey Luvvaduck You Didn't Ought to Have Gorn and Done That.
I Love you, you Mug.

Aren't these just random Bob Hoskins/Vinnie Jones (the cockney welshman)/Michael Caine quotes?

Bang to rights.

That's another one.

Wheresmeticket

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsIMVIWjlQ&feature=kp

seth plum

Portobello Shuffle the Pink fairies.

donnyaddick

Put out the lights - Oysterband
Holloway Girl - Marillion

Miserableoldgit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OLQ-h0GQJI&feature=kp

Miserableoldgit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c65nCtBvgTY&feature=kp

Miserableoldgit

http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-storyteller-mw0000036092

March51

Have we had 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' ?

AddicksAddict

March51 said:

Have we had 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' ?

I don't know who you had in your lifetime, but I've certainly not had him.

TelMc32

I was sure we'd had a thread not that long ago as I remembered putting Madness's Norton Folgate album...here it is...

http://www.charltonlife.com/discussion/comment/1551436#Comment_1551436

March51

AddicksAddict said:

March51 said:

Have we had 'Dedicated Follower of
Fashion' ?

I don't know who you had in your lifetime, but I've certainly not had him.

Ha! It was just another rumour then?

So now I'll go for Screaming Lord Sutch and 'Jack the Ripper' (a dedicated follower of slashing).

cashncarry

Take that to the Bank
Shalamar

thai malaysia addick

Finchley Central - Temperance Seven

thai malaysia addick

Valley Floyd Road

March51

Whoops, nearly forgot the London bus-spotters' song:

Flanders and Swann's 'Transport of Delight'......

.....The big six wheeler
Scarlet painted,
London Transport,
Diesel engine,
Ninety-seven horse power,
Omnibus.

Jarman

London town - KANO

cafcfan

Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon is good: it featured accompaniment by Mick Fleetwood and John McVie.
A London Thing by Scott Garcia

Oakster

one of my favourite bands - this is a gem, paints a picture of the London I remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GOVzy6Tzs&feature=kp