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Songs about London

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
edited August 2009 in Fun, Jokes & Captions
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks (might as well start with the best London song ever)

White Man in Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

In the City - The Jam

London Pride - Noel Coward

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - Old people in the pub during the War
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  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,849
    The Lambeth Walk - Various

    The Red Red Robin - Billy Cotton (well I think it's about SE London :o) )
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Streets of London Ralph McTell
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,993
    London Calling - The Clash
    Misty Morning, Albert Bridge - The Pogues
    London you're a Lady - The Pogues
    Pentonville - Babyshambles
    London Bridge - Big Audio Dynamite
    London Bye Ta Ta - David Bowie
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    edited August 2009
    Lon-don City - Caspa
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,993
    Up the Junction - Squeeze
    Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
    Only living boy in New Cross - Carter USM
    London - The Smiths
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,993
    A Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues
    Mile End - Pulp
    Guns of Brixton - The Clash
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,215
    The Taking Of Peckham 123 - Carter USM
    Twenty four minutes from Tulse Hill - Carter USM
    The Only Living Boy in New Cross - Carter USM
    London Girls - Chas and Dave
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    going on the song titles

    Rainy Night In Soho - Pogues
    London - Smiths
    London Can You Wait - Gene
    In To The Valley - The Skids
    London Bridge - Dogs
    West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
    London's Burning - The Clash
    Victoria - The Kinks / The Fall
    Squalor Victoria - The National
    Whippin' Picadilly - Gomez
    Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
    LDN - Lilly Allen
    Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis
    (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis C.
    A13, Trunk Road To THe Sea - Billy Bragg
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    London Boys - T Rex

    London Boys - David Bowie

    Werewolves of London - Warran Zevon
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,849
    Forgot - A nightingale sang in Berkely Square.

    Showing my age with that one.....
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  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    Waterloo sunset - The Kinks. If London ever has a "national" anthem, this must surely be it.
  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam

    Soho Strut - can't remember who did it though
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    From a Vauxhall Velox - Billy Bragg
    Plaistow Patricia - Ian Dury and the Blockheads
  • boogica
    boogica Posts: 2,321
    chelsea girl -simple minds.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    For tomorrow - Blur
    Up in heaven (not only here) - The Clash
    SE8 - Cinimo
    He's dead - Suede
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    edited August 2009
    Up the Junction - Squeeze

    Edit sorry stonemuse beat me to it. Toon never the less.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    There's a certain theme running which links the following 'songs': see if you can spot it.

    'Good Old Arsenal' ; Arsenal 1st. Team Squad

    'Ossie's Dream' (Spurs Are On Their way To Wembley) : Tottenham F.A Cup Squad

    Tottenham, Tottenham' : another Tottenham F.A Cup Squad


    'Viva El Fulham' : Tony Rees and the Cottagers

    'Chelsea' :Stamford Bridge

    That's right, they're all on an LP I bought March Jr. years ago at a car boot sale, Cool, eh?
  • StubleyAddick
    StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
    5 Minutes- Stranglers (about Nottin Hill)
    London Lady- Stranglers
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Finchley Central - The Temperance Seven
    Angel - Rod Stewart
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    The Bounds Green Grass of Home
    East End Girls and Theydon Bois
    Wherever I Lay My Hatton Cross
    Sexual Ealing
    (I Cant Get No) SatisfACTON
    The Only Way is Upminster
    Baker Street
    Black is Blackwall
    Nothing Compares to Euston

    etc
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  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    London Town- Bucks Fizz (serious, I've got the 12").
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited August 2009
    Revo-luton Rock
    The Ghosts of Cable Street - The Men They Couldn't Hang
    Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,143
    None of you ever heard The London Song by Ray Davies? Came out in the late 90's, it was pretty much his idea of a Waterloo Sunset for modern times. I recently got it off ITunes.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
    Mile End - Pulp
    London Is The Place For Me - Lord Kitchener
    Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
    Itchycoo Park - The Small Faces
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam
    The battle of Epping Forest - Genesis
    Chelsea Monday - Marillion
    Croydon - Captain Sensible
    Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 2,454
    Worked on a compilation cd of songs about London for Uncut a few months ago.

    The CD was given away with the May issue of the mag and this was the tracklisting we evedntually came up with :

    CHRIS DFFORD Up The Juction (new version by Chris, solo and acoustic)

    NOEL COWARD London Pride

    MADNESS NW5

    MARY LOU LORD Cold Kilburn Rain

    LORD KITCHENER London Is The Place For Me

    MEN THEY COULDN'T HANG Ghosts of Cable Street

    BILLIE HOLIDAY Foggy Day (In London Town)

    CHRIS T-T London Aquarium

    JESSE MALIN Hotel Columbia

    MAGNETIC FIELDS Swinging London

    CARBON/SILICON Acton Zulus

    PERALFISHERS London's In Love

    ROBYN HITCHCOCK Trams of Old London (my fave - glorious song)

    ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE Streets of London

    JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS Willesden to Cricklewood
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    This is London - Akala
  • JVL
    JVL Posts: 284
    Nothing Compares to Kew - Sinead O'Connor.

    Stone Penge - Spinal Tap.
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,418
    edited August 2009
    And God Created Brixton - Carter USM
    London - The Smiths
    Lullaby of London - The Pogues
    London Loves - Blur
    Londons Burning - The Clash
    Valley Floyd Road - The Covered End Choir
    Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis
    (I don't want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello
    Chelsea's Teardrop - Black Daniel
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Eastbourne Ladies, Kevin Coyne...London if you travel by Ryanair or easyjet, or are American, or organising the 2012 Olympics.

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