Song titles namechecking London geographic locations

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Let's find as many of these as we can. "London" songs such as "London Calling" don't count:

The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset
The Jam: "A" Bomb In Wardour Street
The Clash: Guns Of Brixton
Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street
Madness: Primrose Hill
Madness: Victoria Gardens
Pet Shop Boys: King's Cross
The Pogues: Rainy Night In Soho
Squeeze: Piccadilly

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 19 October 2003 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

geir, you forgot your hero, peter gabriel.

― scott seward, Sunday, 19 October 2003 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

The Lords of the New Church: "Portobello"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 19 October 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

St Etienne - Ladbroke Grove

― dog latin, Sunday, 19 October 2003 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

The Clientele, entire recorded works

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 20 October 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

Ewan McColl, "Sweet Thames Flow Softly"
Gomez, "Whippin' Piccadilly"
possibly "2.55 Newbury" by the Montgolfier Brothers

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Monday, 20 October 2003 01:20 (twenty years ago) link

The Boo Radleys!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 20 October 2003 01:59 (twenty years ago) link

some Boo-titles (I was afraid to post before because I was worried that some of these were in Liverpool or elsewhere, but screw it, correct me if I'm wrong): "The Old Newsstand at Hamilton Square," "Upon 9th and Fairchild," "Fairfax Scene," "Blue Room in Archway"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 20 October 2003 02:06 (twenty years ago) link

oops, sorry, i can't read. you said london. forget about your hero peter gabriel.

― scott seward, Monday, 20 October 2003 02:39 (twenty years ago) link

Kinks "Holloway Jail"
Kinks "Denmark Street"
Pulp "Mile End"

― dave q, Monday, 20 October 2003 10:13 (twenty years ago) link

".... forget about your hero peter gabriel."

Apart from Sledge Hammersmith of course.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:34 (twenty years ago) link

Bahaha!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 20 October 2003 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

The Clash 'White Man In Hammersmith Palais'
The Pogues 'Misty Morning Albert Bridge'
Elvis Costello 'Chelsea Girl'
Suggs 'Camden Town'
Carter 'The Only Living Boy In New Cross'
Basement Jaxx 'I Live In Camberwell'
Basement Jaxx 'Camberwell Skies'
St Etienne 'Angel', 'Shad Thames'
Death In Vegas 'Lever Street'
Big Audio Dynamite 'Harrow Road'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:39 (twenty years ago) link

Captain Sensible- "Croydon"!!!!!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 20 October 2003 11:48 (twenty years ago) link

Not "London" as such, though, is it?

"Camden Town" by Suggs is the worst single ever made by anybody. Especially that bit where he goes "MADNESS in the air," you know, MADNESS in bold double underlined italics, you know I used to be in a group called MADNESS...

Otherwise there's "Finchley Central" by the New Vaudeville Band, "Portobello Road" by Cat Stevens and of course the immortal "Dick-A-Dum-Dum (King's Road)" by Des O'Connor. Or "Wimbledon Lawns" by Jo Durie. Or indeed "Sunny Goodge Street" by Donovan.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 20 October 2003 11:52 (twenty years ago) link

"Wellington goes to Waterloo", "To Wimbledon with love" and "Wimbledon sunset" by the Wombles. The latter is one of the loveliest most bittersweet pieces of music you'll ever hear.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

Elvis Costello - I Don't Wanna go to Chelsea
The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Nick Cave - Brompton Oratory

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:06 (twenty years ago) link

Anyway, as regards Peter Gabriel, didn't his Genesis do "The Battle Of Epping Forest"?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 20 October 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

Well, the last one is London. Hamilton Square is in Birkenhead (and "From The Bench At Belvedere" is a Wallasey reference), the other two are either fictional or US references, I suspect.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link

EPPING FOREST IS *NOT* IN LONDON!

― russell grant (robin carmody), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:24 (twenty years ago) link

Jon Bon Jovi: Midnight in Chelsea

― Keith Watson (kmw), Monday, 20 October 2003 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

Pet Shop Boys---West End Girls (or is that not specific enough?)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

Carter 'The Only Living Boy In New Cross'

they also did The Taking of Peckham 1-2-3

plus probably loads of others that I can't think of right now.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

Russell, but Bethnal Green is, right? "The Battle of Epping Forest" has some references to London sites within its lyrics...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Bethnal Green is in ancient Essex, but it was in the former LCC area, so I suppose it qualifies.

― russell grant (robin carmody), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Carter USM, "Twenty-Four Minutes to Tulse Hill"
Pogues, "White City"

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

London is not the only city in the world to have a West end. And definitely not the only city in the world to have subway stations :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

Gomez's song isn't about Piccadilly London. It's about a train journey between Manchester and Sheffield, so I assume it's Piccadilly Sataion, Manchester.
First line is: "Once upon a time, not too long ago,
We took a day out in Manchester"

― Sundance, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

Blur - For Tomorrow
Blur - Jubilee
Blur - London Loves (But doesn't count)

― MCH, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link

Hanoi Rocks - "Tooting Bec Wreck"
Phil Lynott - Solo in Soho
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

The Brian Auger Trinity - "Come Back To Croydon"

(it is technically a London borough)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

London is not the only city in the world to have a West end

Technically yes, but how many cities have a well-known neighborhood or region called the "West End"? London's the only one I can think of.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

For that matter, what other cities besides London have "tube stations" (that are called "tube stations")?

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

Rolling Stones, Play With Fire

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm. Is there a place in London called Play or Fire? :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

Earl Zinger 'I Don't Wanna Go To Hoxton'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

East 17 'Walthamstow' (album title not song title afaik)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:35 (twenty years ago) link

Play, Fire:

They're adjacent stations on the Bakerlilly Line, between Hobbs End and Shending Hook. They're also hospitals, nightclubs and the names of the two halves of Tower Bridge.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:36 (twenty years ago) link

Alabama 3 'Exile On Coldharbor Lane'
Eddy Grant 'Electric Avenue'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:37 (twenty years ago) link

Malcolm Mclaren 'Magic's Back (Theme from Ghosts Of Oxford Street)'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link

London You're A Lady - Pogues

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

Chelsea Morning by Fairport Convention

― Freedom Dupont, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

Brixton by Renegade Soundwave

― Freedom Dupont, Wednesday, 22 October 2003 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

Sabres Of Paradise 'Jacob Street (7am)', 'Chapel Street Market (9am)'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 13:01 (twenty years ago) link

My Life Story "Mornington Crescent"

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 22 October 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Rhonda Grove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEkW8TzmhNI

― saer, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link

lol that's round the corner from me. Nice track.

― mmmm, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link

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