Songs what reference the Northern Line, like

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sorry London-hatorz..

Ah, the Misery Line. It may be shit at times, and always seems to face 'planned engineering works' (sounds like an unreleased Aphex Twin album) but it's dead convenient and that, and I miss it now I'm on the Piccadilly.

Not only that, but you hear it in songs all the time.

I have already thought of a few but will start off with:

"Mornington Crescent" - Belle and Sebastian

"Archway People"
and
"London Belongs To Me" - Saint Etienne

"Take a tube to Camden Town, walk down Parkway and settle down."

― darren (darren), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

And for good measure, how about:

"London" - the Smiths

"Train heave on to Euston..." (well, one would imagine he'd head for the NL after disembarking from the Manchester-London train, were he to actually catch it)

― darren (darren), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

"Northern Line" by OPAL (first release under that name and not CLAY ALLISON, 12" from 1985) is probably not about it but it'd work on a mix or something right?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

"Love On The Northern Line" by Northern Line.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Saint Etienne again, Mario's Cafe, says something about Kentish Town. Squeeze, Up The Junction kind of mentions Clapham Common.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

i remember reading that clay allison/opal lived in london for a while, and the song definitely WAS about the tube line. where i read this .... hmmm. not sure. "bucketfull of brains" maybe?

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

ohh, cool to know that. where ARE my old bucketful of brainses? great 'zine...

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Nick Drake, Parasite:

Lifting the mask from from a local clown
Feeling down like him
Seeing the light in a station bar
And travelling far in sin
Sailing downstairs to the northern line
Watching the shine of the shoes
And hearing the trial of the people there
Who's to care if they lose.
And take a look you may see me on the ground
For I am the parasite of this town.

― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street

Them - from You Just Can't Win:
"You used to ride on buses
Take a tube to Camden Town..."
later: "You're up in Park Lane now
And I'm somewhere round the Tottenham Court Road."

― eyesteel (eyesteel), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:12 (twenty years ago)

In Camden Town, I'll meet you by the underground,
In Camden Town, we'll walk there as the sun goes down.

Fuck you, Suggs.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

Really dredging this one up from the fag-end of Britpop, but: Ed Ball- The Mill Hill Self-Hate Club.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:59 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there a Hanoi Rocks song with something about Tooting Bec or Tooting Broadway in it? Oh, this is terrible, my memory is gone and I can't remember.

― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:19 (twenty years ago)

basement jaxx - 'fly life' (brix radio edit)

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

My Life Story 'Angel' (from an album called Mornington Crescent, no less!)

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

pet shop boys 'kings cross'

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Madonna:

Northern Line, feels like I'm going to lose my mind
You just keep on pushing my love over the Northern Line

― jgwr, Friday, 2 June 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, let's get this old chestnut outta the way...

Boston - Morden A Feeling

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

"BALHAM - GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH" PEOPLE

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

OK, it's not a song as such, but even so...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

i think my dad has said "gateway to the south" on *every* *single* occasion that particular borough has come up in conversation.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

'london bridge is falling down'

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Frankie Vaughan and the Kaye Sisters: You've Gotta Have Something In The Bank, Frank

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Tavares: Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Engelbert - Les Bicyclettes De Belsize

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:11 (twenty years ago)

mark e smith's going back to ho(e)uston station

― mark h (mark h), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Terry Griffiths in "Snooker Loopy": "Brushes for me Barnet."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

The Clash- Bankrobber

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

Anything by Oval, natch!

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

Or anything by Colin Dale perhaps.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Underworld, Born Slippy:
And look at me your mom squatting pissed in/
A tube hole at Tottenham Court/
Road I just come out of the ship/
Talking to the most blonde I ever met./
Shouting/
Lager lager lager lager shouting/ etc.

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm ashamed of this one, but:

Marillion, "Kayleigh"

"Do you remember, loving on the floor in Belize Park"

― darren (darren), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Haha, that should be Belsize Park. We can do the 'songs that reference Central American republics' another time.

― darren (darren), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:51 (twenty years ago)

think soft machine had a song called 'belsize parked'.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

i think 'the drugs don't work' mentions old street.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:56 (twenty years ago)

The Kinks' "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion" surely makes mention of at least two or three stations on the NL. Leicester Square ?

― darren (darren), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Burial - Night Bus (for when the Northern Line's not running)

― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Saturday, 3 June 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Robyn Hitchcock, "52 Stations":

"There's fifty-two stations on the Northern Line
None of them is yours, one of them is mine"

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 3 June 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

"Take the tube to Archway"

Yummy Fur - Shoot The Ridiculant

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 3 June 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Fuck you, Suggs.

suggs hates you

― dell, Saturday, 26 July 2008 09:07 (seventeen years ago)

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