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Jub
08:58 / 24.07.03
Can any of you come up with songs that include parts of London in their lyrics?

Like Muswell Hillbilly and Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks, Camden Town by Madness, and so on.

Ideas?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
09:00 / 24.07.03
Clash, London Burning?
 
 
Sax
09:13 / 24.07.03
Rainy Night in Soho and Misty Morning, Albert Bridge, both by the Pogues for starters.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
09:15 / 24.07.03
Clash again, Guns Of Brixton
 
 
waxy dan
09:16 / 24.07.03
Dammit! I was just about to start a 'Cities Make Songs' thread!! Curses! Ah well, I might anyway.

Saint Etienne: 'London Belongs to Me' springs to mind.

Also:
Hobart Paving
Shower Science
Mario's Cafe (well... kinda)
Language Lab (pretty much the whole Finisterre album is a London soundtrack)
Girl VII

Loads more. In fact, they're the essential London group (IMO).

Loads of stuff by Underworld ('Born Slippy' and I think a load of the tracks on Dubnobasswithmyheadman).


Oh, and Stephane Grapelli: A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
09:17 / 24.07.03
A few St. Etienne tracks mention Camden, can't remember which ones at the mo'. Hobart Paving I think.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
09:19 / 24.07.03
Wow. Synchronised typing
 
 
Bill Posters
09:21 / 24.07.03
There wuz Carter USM, with Twenty Four Minutes to Tulse Hill, The Taking of Peckham 123, And God Created Brixton, and The Only Living Boy in New Cross... shedloads of songs about London by those 2, come to think of it.
 
 
waxy dan
09:22 / 24.07.03
Impressive stuff!!

... Now I have no choice but to put on my 200-strong St. Etienne track list. They have achieved complete sovereignty over my soul.

Damn! 'Like the Swallow'! I was hoping for an upbeat number...
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
09:26 / 24.07.03
Bloody Carter USM! Damn! Now there's a rave from the grave...
 
 
waxy dan
09:31 / 24.07.03
Off to kazaa that bad boy right now.

Is there no mention of London anywhere in "The Wall"?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
09:35 / 24.07.03
Half of the Blur catalog.
 
 
illmatic
10:01 / 24.07.03
"How's Life in London" by (wait for it) The London Posse.
 
 
waxy dan
10:11 / 24.07.03
'Groveley Road' - Saint Etienne.

... I'll stop now.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
10:58 / 24.07.03
The Old Main Drag - The Pogues
Werewolves of London (my current favourite song ever) - Warren Zevon

There'd be more, but I'm off for me lunch.
 
 
Mr Messy
11:00 / 24.07.03
London Girls by Chas and Dave
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:01 / 24.07.03
More than half of the Hefner catalogue. Pretty much the entirity of their We Love The City album (which you should all get).

"East London will never forgive
All my wrongdoings, but still it's the place where I live..."

(That's from 'Painting And Kissing'.)
 
 
Mr Messy
11:03 / 24.07.03
A sample of the wondrous lyrics from the aforementioned song.

London girls are the best in the world,
there ain't no doubt about it
if ya can't find a girl from London town,
you're better off a-doin' without it
they don't create when you come home late,
and you're crawlin' up the passage floor
and they wont muck about, yes, when you've gone out
with the geezer from the house next door.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
11:32 / 24.07.03
Here are a few more:

"Electric Avenue" Eddy Grant
"Baker Street"Gerry Rafferty
Bowie's "The London Boys" & his cover of Geo Gershwin’s "A Foggy Day in London Town"
The Clash "White Man In Hammersmith Palais"
Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park in Kate Bush "England, My Lionheart"
"Chelsea Morning" Joni Mitchell

and, being as I'm just about to head thither:
The celebrated Mr K
performs his feat on Saturday
at Bishopsgate in "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite" off Sergeant Pepper.

Must be millions more still...
 
 
illmatic
11:41 / 24.07.03
Can't believe that no one has mentioned "The Streets of London" by Ralph McTell" Did no one else have to do this in Music at school?
 
 
Punji Steak
12:19 / 24.07.03
Misfits - London Dungeon
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
12:20 / 24.07.03
Ian Dury's first band was called Kilburn and the High Roads
Mornington Crescent - My Life Story (do albums count?)
And if they do, what about Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Wombles theme tune
A-Bomb in Wardour St, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam
London Boys - T-Rex
London's Burning - The Closh

Lists are great.
 
 
Baz Auckland
13:07 / 24.07.03
More Pogues - Dark Streets of London, London Girl, Sick Bed of Cuchulian, Lullaby of London, White City, Boat Train, Streams of Whiskey, London You're a Lady, and Transmetropolitan all mention London too...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Brompton Oratory
 
 
Baz Auckland
13:08 / 24.07.03
Oh! and Spirit of the West - Home For a Rest
 
 
Ganesh
13:12 / 24.07.03
Morrissey's 'Picadilly Palare', 'Hairdresser on Fire' ("all arrround Slllloane Square..."), 'You're the one for me, Fatty' ("all over Battersea, some hope and some despair") and the album, 'Vauxhall and I'.
 
 
Shrug
13:32 / 24.07.03
Blur- Blue Jeans.


(bought them on the Portabello Rd. on a Saturday)

that is all.
 
 
Bear
14:05 / 24.07.03
Most of The Streets album, specially Brixton area...
 
 
deja_vroom
14:12 / 24.07.03
Caetano Veloso wrote a crappy lyric about London decades ago, but it doesn't mention parts of the city, it's just sky/fly/eye and so on ad nauseam...
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:21 / 24.07.03
Peckham Wry by the Different

West End Girls and King's Cross, both by the Pet Shop Boys. Here's what Neil Tennant had to say about my manor ...

"Only last night I found myself lost
By the station called King's Cross
Dead and wounded on either side
You know it's only a matter of time
I've been good and I've been bad
I've been guilty of hanging around

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee

So I went looking out today
For the one who got away
Murder walking round the block
Ending up in King's Cross
Good luck, bad luck waiting in a line
It takes more than the matter of time

Someone told me Monday, someone told me Saturday
Wait until tomorrow and there's still no way
Read it in a book or write it in a letter
Wake up in the morning and there's still no guarantee"
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:48 / 24.07.03
"Arlington Road" by those Camden boys Gallon Drunk.
"Put me on a boat to Lewisham" by the genius that is the Bert Shaft Orchestra.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:49 / 24.07.03
Oh, and the Wildhearts' "Greetings from Shitsville"-

"Come on over with something to do, baby
I need the company
Greetings now from shitsville, north west 3"
 
 
Bill Posters
14:56 / 24.07.03
How could I have forgotten that one?! Ta for the reminder.
 
 
invisible_al
15:21 / 24.07.03
"Put me on a boat to Lewisham" by the genius that is the Bert Shaft Orchestra.

I so need a copy of this now, a song mentioning my homeland that's unheard of .

And yeah Carter USM, songs that can be sung loudly in a Sarf Laaanden accent, classic.
"One of these days you'll get away from London town
Causing chaos and delay on the underground
I'll read your letter as I pass the time
Stuck in a tunnel on the Hammersmith and City Line"

Always makes me smile.
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
16:11 / 24.07.03
anything by Future Sound of London.
gary numan "london times" and tori amos "london girls"
 
 
Ganesh
16:45 / 24.07.03
Catatonia's 'Londinium'.

"London never sleeps, it just sucks
The life out of me
And the money from my pocket."
 
  

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