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London Songs

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Mourne Kransky

17:02 / 24.07.03

Roxy Music's Do The Strand

Van Morrison (in Them days) Bring 'Em On In
Now, I went walkin' down by Queensway
When I met a friend of mine

There was a whole album with The Beatles' Abbey Road

and I believe Boz Scaggs was reminiscing about Summer in London with his (Tooting) Lido Shuffle

plus, obviously,
Pink Floyd's Cheapside of the Moon

grant

17:52 / 24.07.03

Was "Penny Lane" in London? Or was that Liverpool? I don't know.

There are scads of songs about Big Ben, if that's acceptable.

Damn, I used to know this Ramones-like band on mp3.com doing a song called "Tower Bridge," but I can't remember them at all and their page ain't turning up in a search. Ooo - they're on Google! The Medea Connection (has an mp3 of the song - check it out).

The Magnetic Fields – “All the Umbrellas in London” – although it’s practically cheating, since the song has squat to do with the city.

Ganesh

17:57 / 24.07.03

There's the "girl from Clapham" in Squeeze's 'Up the Junction'.

Baz Auckland

18:05 / 24.07.03

Even though I was listening to this song at the time, it never occured to me: Pulp - Mile End

Elvis Costello - I don't want to go to Chelsea
The Nips - Stavordale Road N5
The Popes - Holloway Boulevard

Kit-Cat Club

20:53 / 24.07.03

The Kinks, 'Big Black Smoke'

Stephen Tin Tin Duffy, 'London Girls' ('in Mummy's pearls...')

ONLY NICE THINGS

20:59 / 24.07.03

Xoc very rightly mentions the mighty "London Boys", but from the same period we have Bowie's "Maid of Bond Street". God, I love mid-to-late 60s Bowie...

Lilith Myth

21:03 / 24.07.03

How's about Frank Zappa's not-misogynistic-at-all stinker Dead Girls of London?

Axel Lambert

18:44 / 26.07.03

Pet shop boys: "London"

that

09:45 / 27.07.03

T.A.S.S. 'King's Cross Girl'

Old brown-eye is back

20:47 / 27.07.03

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Carter USM - The Only Living Boy in New Cross

Naked Flame

21:42 / 27.07.03

'The Serpentine Song' by me. which is cheating, I know.

'London's Burning.' The one you sang in the playground rather than the one by the Clash...

London by Blake. which is also cheating, I realise. Sort of.

telyn

22:06 / 28.07.03

Squarepusher: North Circular.

Any track with a title of one of the most horrible roads in the world has got to be worth a listen.

Brigade du jour

03:26 / 30.07.03

Can't believe Ganesh put all those Morrissey titles and forgot 'Dagenham Dave'.

Or is Dagenham in Essex?

Or is it just shit?

Surely it's time Billy Bragg did a song called "Barking Billy" to get his own back? Big rivalry in these East London/Essex border towns, you know.

Old brown-eye is back

09:16 / 30.07.03

Ian Dury gazumped both of them with Plaistow Patricia, I think you'll find.

Brigade du jour

20:52 / 30.07.03

Bless that man. I should have known he wouldn't let the side daaahn!

that

17:06 / 20.08.03

'Emit Remmus' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I heard it today and remembered this thread, so... It namechecks the Thames, Primrose Hill and Leicester Square. "London in the summertime..."

Baz Auckland

05:46 / 21.08.03

Faraway, So Close - U2

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