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I'm greatly enjoying Paul Du Noyer's "In the City - A Celebration of London Music". Not least because of the interesting annd eclectic list of 140 recommended tracks - music of and about London.
There are some odd choices. For instance I assume In the City is chosen instead of Down in the Tube Station at Midnight because it's the book title. However, the main joy of this kind of list is to compare and contrast with your own choices and it would be dull if there was nothing to disagree with.
So, anyway - what music evokes London for you?
I've started a spotify playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/gollywollypogs/playlist/0j45MFKq3QzdX65Sg3u...
with a selection of Mr Du Noyer's choices and added Al Stewart's Soho (Needless to Say) which takes me back to my wide-eyed teens when i spent a day doing the rounds with my very new (tax collector) husband and was taken for a new client by a dodgy doctor...
Please add your choices if you can and more importantly, tell us why right here.
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Can't spotify...
But I can share that staring at the tube map unleashes a blaring cacophony of pop music in my head, not all of it very logical:
Piccadilly Circus - # Pi-ii-ccadi-lly, I remember yeww # to the tune of Mississippi
Waterloo - Always ABBA, not Kinks.
Clapham Junction - Up the Junction, Squeeze
Just goes to show...
Like your style but much though I love the Abba track I would never associate it with London (cos of being Swedish and referring to a battle in Belgium - perhaps I'm too pedantic)!!
Here's a few to get you started...
My playlist for a London drive...
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Belle And Sebastian - Mornington Crescent
Billy Bragg - A13, Trunk Road to the sea
Blur - For Tomorrow
Blur - London Loves
Blur - Parklife
Bob Marley - Punky Reggae Party
Brian Setzer Orchestra - A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Bromheads Jacket - Poppy Bird
Catatonia - Londinium
The Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
The Clash - London's Burning
The Clash - London Calling
The Clash - Stay Free
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Reminisce, Pt. 2
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv You
Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street
Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
Faces - Debris
Faces - Richmond
Girls Aloud - Swinging London Town
Ian Dury - My Old Man
Ian Dury - Peter The Painter
Ian Dury - The Bus Driver's Prayer
Ian Dury - What a Waste!
Jam - 'A' Bomb In Wardour Street
Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Jamie T - Sheila
Jerry Rafferty - Baker Street
John Martyn - Primrose Hill
The Kinks - dead end street
The Kinks - dedicated follower of fashion
The Kinks - lola
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbilly
The Kinks - waterloo sunset
The Libertines - The Boy Looked at Johnny
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Lily Allen - LDN
Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me
Lyn Collins - A Foggy Day
Patrick Wolf - London
Pet Shop Boys - King's Cross
Pet Shop Boys - London
Pet Shop Boys - West End girls
The Pogues - Rainy Night In Soho
Pulp - Bar Italia
Pulp - Common People
Pulp - Mile End
The Rakes - 22 Grand Job
Ralph Mctell - Streets of London
The Real Tuesday Weld - On Lavender Hill
Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Roxy Music - Do The Strand
Saint Etienne - London Belongs To Me
Scritti Politti - Snow In the Sun
The Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Smiley Culture - Cockney Translation
The Smiths - London
Soft Cell - Bedsitter
Soul II Soul - Jazzie's Groove
Squeeze - Cool For Cats
Squeeze - Up The Junction
The Streets - Has It Come to This?
The Syn - 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
T. Rex - London Boys
Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
The Who - I Can See For Miles
Blimey!
That's a good list...
'Londinium' by Catatonia would be my choice.
I come alive, outside the M25...
I love London, I'm just getting too old for it...
it's a great
list but the traffics not that bad you could get to edinburgh with that last on the car stereo!
Wow!
Interesting list - some new things for me to investigate there - thank you. But as another poster said that must be quite some drive!
XTC - Towers of London
Pogues - Misty Morning Albert Bridge
Stranglers - London Lady
The Jam - Strange Town
Elvis Costello - London's Brilliant Parade
Wendy James - London's Brilliant
The Clash - City of the Dead
Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies
The London nobody knows
Just added a few songs to the Spotify playlist.
Joe Strummer's "Bhindi Bhagee" is perhaps the best evocation of cosmopolitan, multicultural London.
Two bands who manage to evoke a darker side of the city are Gallon Drunk and (yes!) Carter USM.
I've added the inevitable Madness (from the limited selection available).
Ron Goodwin's London Marathon theme stirs up deep feelings of civic pride.
Oooh
Thank you (and to others who've added to the spotify list. Lots of interesting looking things there. I'm fond of carter and that Bhindi Bhagee looks enticing.
How about...
The Pogues - The Dark Streets of London
Madness - One Better Day
Madness - almost anything off the last album, really
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - 2cv
The Smiths - Half a Person
Aswad - African Children
Frida Hyvönen - London
William Wordsworth - Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge
Possibly Parsons Green
by Fairport Convention
Dagenham Dave by Morrissey
Les Bicyclettes De Belsize by Engleburt Humperdinck
Let us not forget...
The Complete Works of Chas & Dave!
"You've got
to pick a pocket or two"
None more London
Artful Dodger Steve Marriott singing "Consider Yourself", written by ultra-Eastender Lionel Bart. http://tinyurl.com/mga4t2
For an anti London stance
try that wonderful northern trio The Passage, and their catchy ditty, 'Lon Don'.
Loudon Wainwright III
Primrose Hill
http://open.spotify.com/user/billyous2/playlist/2SyiyUM22v5EVT1kc8qDib