Very first song I thought of from a Liverpool perspective
reason I hate it

Revolutionary Spirit - The Wild Swans

Which for me always summed up Liverpool in the title alone. great song too from yet another recently reformed band

Not on Spotty, which is the exact reason I hate the goddam thing.

PS. I take it we're referring to Bad Format Social Club here? Something I plan to go to but describing Doreen Allen as Eric's Doorgirl might be true but its playing her role in the Liverpool music scene down a bit imo

...London by The Smiths takes some beating.

I hear this song and think of Billy Liar actually getting on that train to Euston with Julie Christie.

It's genius refrain of " And do you think you've made the right decision this time ?" should resonate with anyone who's ever left home and moved to The Smoke.

( spotify link doesn't work btw )

the obvious London song: Waterloo sunset (The Kinks)

I hit the link and it opened spotify showed your list as a title but no songs came up. Not sure if it's my connection or whether everyone will have this problem.
'The leaving of Liverpool' - The Dubliners comes to mind. Played by my parents when I was young.

work out how to do it. The only option I can find is "save to playlist" but it won't let me do this to the shared playlist you started. I can see the playlist on the screen, but it is empty at the moment.

I tried to add Ferry Across the Mersey by the way, which is here.

http://open.spotify.com/track/2fZYYWPwT5WNAHYdVJf42X

But would add, for Liverpool,

Stanhope Street (or Children of the Ghetto) - The Real Thing
Streets of Kenny - Shack

and specially for Mr Du Noyer, you should have Wondrous Place - Billy Fury

there was a comment above with the playlist link fixed
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/please-help-what-are-best-songs-ab...

Can't think of any for Liverpool, but have added 4 for London:

Akala - This Is London
Wiley - Bow E3

(both of which adequately sum up modern "urban" living in the estates of London)

Nitin Sawhney - Days Of Fire (ft. Natty)

About the London bombings on the underground / bus services a couple of years ago.

Gene - London, Can You Wait?

A bit more oblique, but about death and regret in crazy London town.

Hope they help.

"Somehow I found myself down by the dockside
Thinking about the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhide"

http://blog.shelflife.com/2009/01/21/the-cherry-boys-kardomah-cafe/

Should've been a number one!

Great song from a great album.

London - Misty Morning, Albert Bridge by The Pogues

Dead End Street - The Kinks
Victoria Gardens - Madness

was originally going to be about Liverpool (Merseyside Sunset - about the fading Merseybeat scene) but then Ray Davies decided to make it about London instead. So you've got a nice little '2 for 1' there...

Livepool: The Bangles - Going down to Liverpool

London: Joe Jackson - Down to London

There appears to be a theme there...

...

Anyway, would like to add under London:

The Pogues - London Girl

May just be the best London song ever, apart from Waterloo Sunset.

The latest Madness album has some fantastic London songs (We Are London being one), The Clash have tons, and Jamie T follows in a similar vein.

"London You're a Lady" by the Pogues.

Ah London you're a lady
Laid out before my eyes
Your heart of gold it pulses
Between your scarred up thighs
Your eyes are full of sadness
Red busses skirt your hem
Your head-dress is a ring of lights
But I would not follow them
Your architects were madmen
Your builders sane but drunk
Among your faded jewels
Shine acid house and punk

You are a scarlet lady
Your streets run red with blood
Oh my darling they have used you
And covered you with mud
It was deep down in your womb my love
I drank my quart of sin
While chinamen played cards and draughts
And knocked back mickey finns

Your piss is like a river
Its scent is beer and gin
Your hell is in the summer
And you blossom in the spring
September is your purgatory
Christmas is your heaven
And when the stinking streets of summer
Are washed away by rain
At the dark end of a lonely street
That's where you lose your pain
'Tis then your eyes light up my love
And sparkle once again

"Almost Liverpool 8" which was originally released by John Peel's Dandelion imprint. It's a fantastic song.

But would like to add London Loves by Blur and, of course, The Liberty of Norton Folgate by Madness. For Liverpool, Maggie Mae by HJH and, um Frankie Goes to Hollywood's version of Born to run, which becomes about Liverpool with the hilarious 'late fer werch' intro.

I quite like London Town by Macca and Strange Town by The Jam, but my all time favourite London song has to be Wild West End by Dire Straits.

only a few days ago: Barry Andrews's Rossmore Road NW1 for a London Song.
To stick with streets, I'd have to go with HJH's Penny Lane.

'The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool' by Liverpool Scene (none more Livepool!), available on their 'Amazing Adventures Of...' CD

and...

(Getting It Straight In) 'Notting Hill Gate' by, of course, Quintessence, available on their 'Oceans Of Bliss' comp and 'In Blissful Company' CD.

No idea how to 'spotify' if, indeed, that is a verb at all (and after all the medieval warfare on the Rob F-ing F FAQ thread over piddling matters of grammar, I'm almost afraid to raise a neologismatic query...)

Kilburn & the Highroads – Billy Bentley (Promenades Himself in London)

... which doesn't seem to be on spotify, grrr

Does This Train Stop On Merseyside? - Amsterdam

Heart As Big As Liverpool - The Mighty Wah! (not on Spotify!)

Liverpool Lullaby - Our Cilla

Not that I'm sentimental or owt.

Liverpool 8

Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty. Easily the best London song of all time.

Down the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam
London Calling - The Clash

Hefner- We Love The City
The Smiths- London
The Clash- London Calling
The Kinks- Waterloo Sunset
Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street.

Du Noyer's "Liverpool" book does have an appendix that lists his "Top 100 Liverpool Songs" (or something to that effect), it might be worth taking a look at that if you haven't already.

by Corduroy. Chirpy, upbeat, simple.

Pretty much their entire catalogue is about London.

Rumble on Mersey Square South by Wimple Winch, played by Mr wylie on Kid Jensen's show many moons ago. I'd like to second Kardomah Cafe and add 'Piggy in the Middle Eight' by Cook Da Books with the immortal chorus 'Tocky on Tass'

left out because they're not available on Spotify ? Surely one or two you could get off a CD...