London Songs

[D'wards]

Following on from the London films thread the long-awaited London songs thread.
To start, a great London song by a great London band

 

[domestos]

Bit obvious but anyway

 

[Puddy_Tat]

we haven't done this thread for a few years...

i'll start with

 

[zahir]

 

[zahir]

 

[Indeliblelink]

 

[Puddy_Tat]

King George Street (it's in Greenwich)

 

[hitmouse]

I think this is pretty much the only notable song ever to have been written about or by someone from London:

 

[zahir]

 

[hitmouse]

 

[D'wards]

A brilliant London song which is about a whole different town

 

[Puddy_Tat]

(about a chinese take away in chislehurst)

 

[mx wcfc]

Eastfield - 2nd Fastest Cycle Courier in London.....

 

[brogdale]

 

[ElizabethofYork]

 

[souljacker]

 

[rutabowa]

 

[souljacker]

I believe this one is actually Croydon. I'm led to believe that counts:

 

[Humberto]

Like the reference to past grimness.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I believe this one is actually Croydon. I'm led to believe that counts:

yes. although they have moved to sussex now.

the official video is mostly round kings cross before the international station and gentrification.

there's a lot of london saint etienne

mario's cafe, kentish town

 

[JimW]

Misty Morning Albert Bridge from the Pogues was a good 'un, and always liked Ewan MacColl's Sweet Thames Flow Softly too.

 

[Wilf]

Some very obvious Clash songs. Too obvious to mention except I just wanted to say I never liked the track London Calling (Unpopular Opinions thread>>>>>). Guns of Brixton however, is excellent.

 

[Humberto]

 

[Humberto]

sH X84

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Some very obvious Clash songs. Too obvious to mention except I just wanted to say I never liked the track London Calling (Unpopular Opinions thread>>>>>). Guns of Brixton however, is excellent.

'bankrobber' isn't specifically london, but the video is c. 1980 lewisham

big audio dynamite also have a few london songs - 'tighten up vol 88' (brixton), 'the battle of all saints road' and 'harrow road'

 

[Puddy_Tat]

one better day, madness



arlington house also gets a mention in the pogues' transmetropolitan

 

[Wilf]

'bankrobber' isn't specifically london, but the video is c. 1980 lewisham

big audio dynamite also have a few london songs - 'tighten up vol 88' (brixton), 'the battle of all saints road' and 'harrow road'

And beyond the London Calling album, the Clash had White Man in Hammersmith Palais, Capital Radio, Guns on The Roof (pretty sure the pigeon shooting was on a London roof!), London's Burning, Stay Free (London references). Probably lots of others.

Edit: including this one, that I'd never heard until 2 minutes ago:

 

[Steel Icarus]

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Five miles out of London on the Western Avenue but it's still in London really...

 

[surreybrowncap]